Bobby Train, Shriners and Jack Rabbits

My cousin, Rex Cross, was right when he said the train consisted of one engine and two cars in his post "Hoe Down Time with the Wall Family". My memeory was not quite the same. I thought it was called the Bobby Train with just one engine and one car and ran from McCook to Yuma and back daily.

Rex has a keen sense of the musicians who marched up and down the streets, as mentioned in "Train Depot Memories". He remembers the Shriners and their uniforms. The caps looked like upside down red flower pots with a tassle on top, white shirts and red vests. (Let's have a big Hurrah! for Rex and his input to Haigler History.)

I don't remember the coyote hunts that Lillian Kruse mentioned, but a few years later, Jack Rabbit hunts were organized north of Haigler, one section at a time, closing towards the center. The emphasis was to try to get nature balanced out when one species over-populated. That was in the mid 50s when I went rabbit hunting. Seems like we had a truck load on one of the hunts.

SUBMITTED BY DALLAS ADAMS