Author Topic: Monon Employees From Smithville - 1908  (Read 2397 times)

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Ron Marquardt

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Monon Employees From Smithville - 1908
« on: January 01, 2013, 12:56:07 pm »
I ran across this old Smithville News newspaper article this morning, courtesy of Martha Fox, and since it included so many Monon employee names, thought I would post it.  The names of some of our Monroe County members ancestors may be in there somewhere.  / Ron

PS, keep in mind that during this period the Monon was working on the "new Main Line" over the stone road, and the Smithville News spent a lot of time "blowing their own horn" in an effort to keep what traffic they could routed through Smithville.


  April 9, 1909

  Smithville News
  Success Of Smithville Boys

  This small community can boast of having put out a
  bunch of telegraph operators that deliver better "goods"
  than the average operators, and having gained high
  positions faster than operators that spent years in
  school and study.  For instance Ferd Lucas, Vernon
  Sheritts, Joe Davis, Miller Bennett, Geoger Bennett,
  George Stipp, Arthur Burkhart, Alfred Fox, Earl Burns,
  all of whom started in with a little practice in the
  Harrodsburg office. 

  Most of these boys had great difficulties in getting
  started, on account of financial means, but all of them
  have rapidly worked their way up to higher positions,
  and some have passed on to higher positions than
  telegraph operators.  Most Monon officials will tell you
  that the Smithville boys are "making good".