. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. iefClerk; Joseph E. Fields, Billing Clerk;Wayne V. Fuller, T. Lynn Arehey,George Chilcote and Ray Gutshall,Freight Clerks; H. E. Hanawalt, Fore-man of Warehouse; Roy Gillam andFred W. Fuller, Warehouse Men. Itmight be well to mention here thattwo shifting crews are located inMount Union, one day and one nightshift. The daily car record here isapproximately two hundred. A YardMaster, whcse name is .J. B. Phelan,has recently been sent here to lookafter this department. A Policeman,Mr. B. W. Anderson, resides in town,employed by the Rai
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. iefClerk; Joseph E. Fields, Billing Clerk;Wayne V. Fuller, T. Lynn Arehey,George Chilcote and Ray Gutshall,Freight Clerks; H. E. Hanawalt, Fore-man of Warehouse; Roy Gillam andFred W. Fuller, Warehouse Men. Itmight be well to mention here thattwo shifting crews are located inMount Union, one day and one nightshift. The daily car record here isapproximately two hundred. A YardMaster, whcse name is .J. B. Phelan,has recently been sent here to lookafter this department. A Policeman,Mr. B. W. Anderson, resides in town,employed by the Railroad Co. CurtisEherts, the faithful watchman at Street crossing, whose ser-vices to the Company and to the pub-lic life have been recognized for sev-eral years, continues to hold his posi-tion today as in the past. W. H. In-gram, Charles Clingler, John T. Nor-ton, Joseph Funk and Charles E. Hartare operators and reside in MountUnion. At the passenger station, which isunder the direction also of Charles , Agent, the Ticket Clerk is Watson Fuller, the Assistant Baggageman is William Hollenbaugh. RoyGillam attends to the carrying of themails, and Thornton Bechtel is Watch-iiian and Janitor. William Renninger is foreman ofthe track crew. Mr. Pechtel is also aforeman who resides in this place. THE TIE-TREATING PLANT :\Iciint Unions latest industry is theTie-Treating Plant, having been erect-ed during the last year by the Penn-sylvania Railroad Co., on their groundsnortheast of town, along the JuniataRiver. The purpose of this industryis to treat the ties used on the rail-road to creosote, the object of thisiDeing the preservation of the life ofthe ties. This is a complete industry,and its erection marks a specific addi-tion to the manufacturing interests ofMount Union. It was only a fewmonths ago, in fact, that this plantwas opened for work, having been in-spected by men of the Company whostand at the head along this line, andpronounced satisfactory. In fa
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