Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — Monon Does Away With Its Master Car Builder at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Monon Does Away With Its Master Car Builder at Lafayette.

The Monon railroad company has posted notice in the Monon sh6ps at Lafayette to the effect the office of master car builder is abolished and that in the future the car department will be under the supervision of John Gill, superintendent of motive power. John Neary will continue to act as general foreman of the car department. The new order became effective August loth. Charles W. Coller, who has been master car builder in the Lafayette shops since { June, 1888, has been granted a 90-days leave of absence and upon his return he will be given another position.