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Highland Queens and soda the told me the following among others:
   
1.) "Curley" Hanrick now has charge of George's locomotive maintenance and does a splendid job of it. But before he could get Curley he had to get rid of Wells, husband of Whittier's former secretary, who had charge of it and was no good, and furthermore came to work drunk periodically. However Brownie and Slim Collar, the C-B service men, kept giving Wells a build-up to George. Also Whittier put heat on George in Wells' behalf. George came to the conclusion that Mrs. W. was handing out favor to her husband's proponents, and in fact attempted to put George under obligation one day but he turned her down. Finally he fired Wells after seeing the light and having Barrell point out he was no earthly good as a maintainer.

2.) Good as "Curley" has been on his job, George has had his troubles with him too because of Curley's private life. Curley has a wife and four or five kids and he had trouble with his wife so she went home with the kids and left him. So Curley got fooling around with some Polish woman in the Refrigerator Dept. George tried to get the wife to come back and she did finally. It lasted about a week and they had a fight and she left him again. So Curley moved out to a little cottage he had in the country and took the Polish woman in to live with him. Finally it got so scandalous George told him either he would live with his wife again and fire out the Polish woman or be fired himself. So the wife came back and they having been living together amicably for over a year. and Curley was able to settle with the other woman for $100 which George gave him