May-June, 1958 - Milwaukee Road Archive

FOR 47 YEARS, ONLY THE POTTERS.
Ruby Potter, ending her long employment
with the Road at Mason City on Mar. 31,
is pictured being presented with a wrist
watch from fellow employes by Engineer
Louis Walter, and a Silver Pass by Traveling
Engineer R. R. Replogle. Her retirement
brought to an end an unusual family
record of 47 years as chief clerk to master
mechanic-the first seven by her sister,
Mrs. E. J. Sullivan, and by Miss Potter since
1918. She started her service at Minneapol
is in 1913 and assumed the Mason
City post when her sister left the Road to
marry. (Mason City Globe-Gazette photo)
Margaret Zard is relieving at Assistant
Superintendent Dimmitt's office.
Mrs. Ramona Fridel is on a leave.
A son, Brian Daniel, was born to Ramona
and Leonard Fridel Mar. 6.
Word has been received at Mitchell
of the death of Paul Hasslinger in Los
Angeles Mar. 7. Paul was well known
here, having worked for many years as
yard clerk. He was the brother-in-law
of Henry Schirmer, retired switch foreman.
Mrs. Asmus Peterson, wife of machinist
helper at Mitchell, passed away
at home on Mar. 7, after a long illness.
Retired Engineer J. W. Bukmeier
passed away in a Sioux City hospital
Mar. 17, of a heart attack. He was a
veteran of World War 1.
Darrell Tollefson and Dean Goetsch
of the Mitchell roundhouse force left
Apr. 29 for Milwaukee, where they will
complete their machinist apprenticeships.
.Joe Goetze, former yard clerk at
Mitchell, has taken a position at Sheldon,
Ia., and is moving his family there.
A picture of the dismantling of the
Mitchell roundhouse, which appeared in
the M1tehell Daily Republic on Apr. 3,
showed De'VVayne Weiland dismantling
stalls 13 to 17.
MASON CITY AREA
Sophia P. McKillip, Correspondent
Office of DF&PA, Mason City
Bill Woodhouse, who worked on the
section at Mason City for Foreman J. A.
Viioonas during summer vacat-ions and
who is now a track sturin his third year
at Abilene Christian College in Abilene,
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