Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — Monon Shop Additions. [ARTICLE]

Monon Shop Additions.

If the present plans of the managements of the Monon railroad are carried out, extensive additions will be made to the shops in Lafayette next spring, it has been decided to increase the output of seven locomotives overhauled and reconstructed each month, to ten a month, and possibly more. To accomplish this it will be neo ssary to build a new machine shop. Other departments will be much enlarged. At present five hundred men are employed at the shops and this force is not large enough to do the work absolutely required the rollingstock in conditiou for service. Since newly engaged employes for train service have been obliged'to serve as fireman before becoming engineers, company is now employing engineers whom it does not [require to serve as firemen’s term. Never before have conditions been so prosperous as at present. More b ihines-s is being done than ever before, and mora trains are being o, er.ited. z The Majestic Manufacturing Co., ofßt. Louis Mo., will have a man al Warner Bro., store all next week who will show you how to bake biscuits blow fop and bottom in three minutes. Don't miss this chance ot seeing the great cooking wonder. Twenty-two cents a dozen for eg 's ad of nett week. At tha new poultry home. J. O. ( line Biscuits bi'el right in three minutes every !ty next week at our store.* Warrerßroa.