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poured since the new method of grading
went into effect.
From
the first to the
fifteenth of
January,
here is the way
the batting
average
stood by rooms:
Metal
Carbon
production consumption
Copper
34
34
28
36
28
26
26
26
34
28
32
36
32
36
32
The line-up is as follows:
Dave Swag-
erty, chief umpire; Leland Greenlee,
night umpire. Coaches—Jack West and
Starkey Burns, daylight shift; Claude
Tipton and Big Tate, 3 to 11; I. T. (Paw
Paw) Fisher and B. D. Maulden, grave
yard. Batteries (head potmen)—Room
26, L. P. Garland, Boyd Martin, and
H. C. Hightower; Room 28, Odis (John
L.) Sullivan, Monroe Evans, and Geo.
Phife; Room 32, L. H. Stepp, T. T. John
son. and Norman Harding; Room 34,
Sam Russell, Ed. Hill, and Jesse Cross;
Room 36, Walter Ellis, V. C. Howard,
and Sandy Welch.
Special mention should be made of the
head potmen in room 34 for taking the
honors on the metal production and car
bon consumption. The head potmen of
rooms 26 and 28 are also to be com
mended for their good work in keeping
the copper down. At the time of going
to press, 28 is a half point lower than
26; but the fellows in 26 declare they
will be the lowest by the end of the
month.
Sections 3 and 4 in room 26, and sec
tions 2 and 3 in room 28 are below the
red line, and the meter readers on these
sections are now declaring that in the
near future their section will not even
be on the copper charts. If it can be
done, those fellows will do it.
A lot of fellows are afraid of catching
the “Flu,” and would do or take any
thing to prevent it; and it is to these
fellows that we suggest this treatment.
One of the fellows working in the pot
rooms was recently taken with the Flu,
and immediately sent for a doctor, who
of course pre.scribed for him; but in some
unexplainable way the fellow got the
doctor’s medicine mixed, and took a bot
tle of hair tonic instead, and it was not
until after he was pronounced well and
sound that he found out his mistake.
He declares it did the work, but was
awful to take.
Mr. Coffman, of the Reclamation De
partment, sure believes in doing his duty
and carrying out orders. His depart
ment is to keep the place clean, picking
up all material, assorting it, and return
ing it back to the several departments
that can make use of it. Up until re
cently he has been cleaning up between
the pot rooms, and taking everything
that was not nailed down, until Mr.
Parks happened to take a look over his
scrap pile on the other side of the carbon
plant, and there found about everything
used in a pot room except a pot puncher;
and being afraid that one of these might
happen to be on the outside of one of the
rooms when one of Mr. Coffman’s men
was there cleaning up, and be taken, he
issued orders that the space between the
buildings be exempted from Mr. Coff
man’s list.
A bunch of fellows were talking about
how things were when they were boys,
and after Marshal Davis thought he had
won by telling that their farm was on
such a steep hill that one had to dig a
hole in the hill before a dog could sit
down to bark; Andy Mason had to make
him take a back seat when he told about
eating his first biscuits. Andy says h6
was raised in the backwoods, where the
chief food was cornbread, and he had
never seen any biscuits until one day
his mother took him to town to see some
kinfolks, and they took dinner there. On
the table they had both cornbread and
biscuits, and passed both to Andy, who
took his cornbread, splitting it and plac
ing a biscuit in between, making a sand
wich. The bunch voted that the dog be
longed to Andy.
Pender Hunter, meter reader on sec-
t'on 3 in room 26, took a trip to the
mountains of Western North Carolina
recently, and returned in a much lighter
mood than when he left here. Pender
is praising the qualities of the spring
water up there, but has failed to men
tion whether the “Mountain Dew” is
holding its own way back up thar in
the mountains.
It has been suggested that the Com
pany build Henry Jenkins a tool room
to keep his shovels in, so he will dis
continue using the ore tanks for this
purpose, as .sometimes they won’t come
thru the ore valve very well, and he
has to call outside help to get them out.
The fellows are beginning to get hip
to the fact that Friday is ladies’ day
in the pot rooms, and .some of their
wives are wondering why they want to
work in a collar and tie on that day.
We notice in the papers that the cow
punchers are forming an as.sociation out
West. We wonder whether a pot punch
er would Iw eligible for membership in
the association.
BADIN BULLETIN
We would like to suggest that the men
in the pot room and rod room report all
marriages and births, so that we could
fill another page.
Electrical News Items
The Machine Shop has now lots of
nice new lights in the roof, and nice new
switches on the walls. It will really be
a pretty nice place when we get our
collection of motors and starters cleaned
up and moved out. Speaking of motors,
Mr. Smith can hardly wait for us to get
the motors over to his new Store Room-
He wants us to be sure and get them
over there before the crane rail get®
moved off the floor, so he can use that
to slide them on. Someone told him the
other day that the crane was being
up. He didn’t stop for breath once on
his way over, but when he got there
was relieved to find that the door "'as
locked, and that it was all a mistake.
The Electrical Repair Department
almost into its new home in Building 1®'
“1917” Extension. It looks like businc'®
this time; but it has been a long haf“
pull. 1917 was spent in expectancy,
in the erection of the steel work. 1®^*
was spent pretty much in watchful "'a'*
ing. but finished up with a roof.
has produced a floor, and we hope
produce some of the results that h*'*
been going to happen “when we get
the New Shop.”
At the fire the other night, it would''^^
have been so funny to see Farmer
down on his knees, his face about ^
inches from the floor, pointing an emP^
and unattached hose nozzle into a
of .smoke, while the hose, which had
unscrewed from the nozzle, squirted
his back, if he hadn't kept shouting
the fools that were supposed to be
ing after that other hose to squirt
fire, and let up on him. ^
Talbot says the only reason for P
ting the new fire siren up on
25, was to get it out of Building 19- .j
we are talking about the new siren
a subject we hate to start on), p)
8uggestel that it would do very " ^ '
call the firemen with in case of * 'J. .^,1 .
or a banquet or the like; but he “
know about for a fire on a I
night, at 3.00 a. m. |
It is rumored that Messrs. |
Gomo are rather pleased with ^ j
ity as sleuths. Recently they
an innocent looking sparrow ha»'l^*
ing the amperes out of the c»rcul**^
on the Fall# transtnission line. i*
know so much about that, but