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A HENDERSON AVENUE HOUSE
The big chief, Mr. J. L. Adkins, has
his hands full right now. He has or
dered a general clean-up, and the ,.men
are going to it—everybody working and
helping to clean and beautify the place,
and it is hoped to have everything in
perfect cleanliness in a very short while.
The Southern Power Company seems
to be getting along very well without the
Tallassee Power. We are not carrying
the load for the Southern Power Com
pany now as we did some time back.
I suppose they have plenty of water, as
well as we.
A telegram came, January 26, notify
ing Mr. J. L. Adkins that Ernest Killion
would report for duty as switchboard
operator February 1. Mr. Killion is a
fine young man of Fort Mill, S. C.
Miss Ruby Hart, the Badin Tribune
stenographer, who has been boarding at
the Mountain Club with Mr. Thomas
Morgan, has moved to Badin.
Sunday, January 25, Fred Childers
and F. L. Gamble visited friends and
relatives in South Carolina.
Mr. Joe Nims has resigned his posi
tion at the Narrows, and has moved to
Fort Mill, S. C.,;
Electric Shop Notes
A retort by “Roxy’" to a previous
gibe which appeared in this column:
“ Tis with sadness that I think of the
poor guy who is worrying about my
bank account, and that dry feeling. He
should worry, as his papa tree has
ceased to bear that luscious fruit that
maketh the wine that gaveth him that
long-lost look from the desert sands of
Sahara.”
We have the radiators in the shop
now, if we can only get the steam. Why
do they always wait until the coldest
weather and we have the deepest snow
to cut the boiler capacity in the middle?
Two more motors installed in the Car
bon Plant the past month, and two the
month before. Seems to indicate that
the Plant is still growing, and we in
the shop like to see it. ,,
Mr. V. L. Rockfield received a tele
gram a few days ago notifying him of
the death of his sister, in New York.
Our sympathy, Roxy, Old Boy.
We are still wondering where Mr. Z.
B. Robinson is working now—whether
at the Narrows Power House, the Plant,
or Badin Hospital. “Daddy, now you
know—just a girl.”
We are real glad to have Mr. R. L.
Kelly back in the shop after motor
curves. He keeps us all busy.. Those
curves must be rather shy.
, Mr. B. L. Smith, of Mr. C. E. Gra
ham’s crew, is away for a few days,
he and his wife having motored to their
parents.
We are glad to have Mr. C. E. Graham
and his crew back from the Narrows
Power House.
We are once more almost up with the
armature winding, thanks to Mr. With
row.
Rotary Station Notes
B. J. May—Mr. Talbot, there's a
brush leaking.
Talbot—Brush leaking?
May—Sure! don’t you see the fire
coming out of it?
When it comes to bad eyelids, Dick
Hardin “Jest ain’t nowhere.” Daniels
couldn’t go it either, so he passed it on
-to Avant for a calf colored cap.
We are constantly besieged by would-
be wild catters, for the loan of our new
copper cooling coils for pi*eserving confi
by an old and tried method.
Fatty Corbett—I have a new inamo
rata.
McCall—How do you play it?
J. A. Fagg broke the monotony of
-Badin by taking a trip to Salisbury,
the twenty-fourth.
R. A. Bunn says it’s just as bad: The
high cost of loving balances the high
cost of living.
R. C. Walters, one of our first janitors,
is back on his old job in Building 35
again.
Dippy Drye celebrated the first snow
by coming out in his ice cream trousers.
Rex Kelly says he is going to be a
rich farmer, and get married.
Claude Mask says he is drinking milk
to improve his complexion.
Plant Construction
Mr. Trexler seems to have the 'phone
system in pretty good shape, and is
spending most of his time right now
trying to fix up the lights in Building
No. 30; that is, when he doesn’t have to
stop to work on the fire alarm signal.
He says, “It would be mighty nice if he
could find a light in the signal booth in
50 just once when he went there to do
some work.”
Construction work in the plant site
seems to consist mostly of installations
for experimental work these days. Since
Mr. Graham’s return from the Narrows
Power House, he has been pretty busy on
that sort of stuff.
The line gang sctaiAs to have every
thing tied up pretty well. The recent
sleet we had made very little trouble
for us, and there was someone right on
hand to fix the one or two little jobs
that did show up.
Mr. Kendall is glad to be through
with his “drainage” job at the Narrows.
It was a mean job, but he stuck to it,
and got it done just in time. The day
after he finished, bad weather set in.