Watauga Democrat

WATAUGA BOY IS WINNER OF A BIG R. R. PROMOTION
F. G. Moody, Native of the Brushy Fork Section, Receives High Appointment Upon Retirement of Superior on Northern Pacific Lines. Has Served Company for Twenty-four Years.

Wataugans will be interested in a recent bulletin issued from the office of the General Mechanical Superintendent of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, St. Paul, Minn., which designates F. G. Moody as Master Car Builder, to succeed H. M. Robertson, who was retired under pension rules after more than forty years of continuous service with the company.

Mr. Moody is a son of the late F. G. Moody Sr., and was reared in the Brushy Fork section of this county. Almost a quarter of a century ago, while yet a mere lad, he turned his face westward and secured an humble position with the company which still employs him. The story of his success is comparable to the pages of one of Horatio Alger's novels, rather than to the incidents of every day life. Time after time he has been promoted to positions of higher salary and increased responsibility, and it is interesting to note that his appointment as Master Car Builder came exactly twenty-four years to a day from the time his name was first entered on the payrolls of the Northern Pacific.

When Mr. Moody assumes his new responsibilities as superintendent of the Saint Paul car shops, he will move his residence from Tacoma, Wash., where he has been located for several years.