March, 1955 - Milwaukee Road Archive

QU IZ answers
1. Flag stop to receive or discharge
passengers.
2. Trainmaster.
3. About 36 per cent.
4. Maryland, January, 1830.
5'. A signal at the entrance of a block
to govern trains entering that
block.
6. Train register.
7, Between 7 and 10 feet.
8. Yes, when operating conditions
warrant.
9. Union Tank Car Company.
10. The outer walls of the superstructure
paralleling the roadway.
father is Retired Machinist Owen Heenan of
Perry.
A son born Jan. 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Harve
Blaisdell J r. is a new grandson for Retired
Blacksmith Harve Blaisdell Sr.
C. J. Klein, agent at Portsmouth, and Mrs.
Klein welcomed a son on Jan. 17.
Agent Lyle McClintock and his wife are the
parents of a girl born early in February. The
baby was named Dana lone. Lyle is the agent
at Rembrandt.
When the Cub Scouts at Waukee were
studying railroading recenrly, they enjoyed a
talk given by A. C. Jacobs, retired agent. Mr.
Jacobs, who celebrated his 90th birthday recently,
is still alert and takes an interest in the
youngsters who pass his home going to school.
Since he takes his noon meal at the school
house, he has the self-appointed job of seeing
that the children cross the street in safety.
Conductor Francis Cox has had three additions
to his family lately. His youngest daughter
was married, thereby presenting him with
a new son-in-law, and his oldest daughter had
twin sons on Feb. 16. The babies are the sons
of Rev. and Mrs. Everett Hawbaker of Webster
City.
Hospital patients during recent weeks included
Mrs. 1. Miller, wife of the signal
maintainer at Jamaica, who underwent surgery
at the Jefferson Hospital. Retired Conductor
J. M. Reel was a surgical patient at Mercy
Hospital in Des Moines. Mrs. Charles Hunt,
wife of a Hiawatha engineer, was a patient
in the Perry hospital following a stroke.
Mrs. W. C. Mahaffa, wife of a Perry clerk
who is now in the Navy, will be confined to
the Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines for some
time, having sustained serious injuries in an
auto accident while en route from Perry to
Rockwell City to attend funeral services for
Mr. Mahaffa's mother. Also injured in the
accident with her were her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George Snyder of Perry. Mr. Snyder, a
B&B depattment foreman, was away from
work for more than a month. Mahaffa was
given leave to attend his mother's funeral.
He expects to be released from the Navy this
summer.
Relief Section Foreman Raymond Cross re­