DECEMBER 1951 - Milwaukee Road Archive

ex-tension was built from Mobridge and was
the first car foreman there. In 1914 he was
transferred, as car foreman of the old Jaw
Bone line, to Lewistown where he lived for
30 years. Following his retirement the family
located on the Coast. Mrs. Retallick was the
first president of Lewistown Chapter of the
Women's Club.
SEATTLE LOCAL FREIGHT OFFICE
Elizabeth Gosha, Correspondent
Myrtle Kruse, counter clerk in the cashier's
office, was transferred to the telegraph and
signal department in the White Building
Nov. 7. Ollive Swift is filling the position
vacated by Myrtle. .
Chief Car Clerk Mary Webb suffered a
fractured ankle in a fall Nov. 11. She spent
several days in Providence Hospital and at
this writing is still confined to her home.
During her absence Danny Cartwright has
been filling her position.
Herb Carpenter, cashier at the local freight
prior to his retirement in 1942, paid us a
visit recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert RobertS returned reo
cently from a .month's vacation in the East.
They went by train as .far as Albany, N. Y,
where they were met by friends from Worcester,
Mass., and the party took a motor
trip to points in eastern Canada and enjoyed
the fall beauty of the New England States.
En route home they stopped in Iowa and
lllinois. Bert is perishable freight inspector
and Genevieve is a clerk in the local office.
Fred W. Rasmussen, retired chief clerk,
and Mrs. Rasmussen returned to Seattle the
Jatter part of November after spending five
weeks in the South. They motored to San
Diego, Calif., where they were joined by
Mr. Rasmussen's sister, Mrs. Ole Gundersen
of Wrangell, Alaska, who accompanied them
to Buckhorn Mineral Wells near Mesa, Ariz.
After a shorr sojourn at the springs they
traveled through the Southwest and Mexico,
returning home by way of California.
In California the Rasmussens called on
some former Milwaukee employes how Jiving'
in that state. C. E. Coburn, who retired in
1937, is now located at Long Beach; Charles
Ganty, former clerk in the local freight, lives
in San Bernadino; and George Loomis, who
was chief clerk in the engineering department
in Seattle and Tacoma prior to his
retirement, now owns an apartment house
in Oakland. They all asked to be remembered
to Milwaukee friends..
TACOMA
R. A. Grummel, Correspondent
Agent, Tacoma
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