The Stamford Leader (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 92, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1926 Page: 2 of 8
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MBTTfJiBER 7. lWT-
STAimmn
About Gins and Watermains
.‘AMyK.v
And Insurance And The Rates
And Key Rates May Increase
they say when it starts next time.
They, assert that the Smith gin fire
could have been extinguished with
The, Leader has been solicited to
q*terthe lists to secure some larger
■Mina for the gin section of Stamford.
One enthusiastic person, not gin inan,
on the subject says the present
streams of water to be gotten out of
power and more volume of xva-
more
ter. This seems to be the opinion
among some of the firemen.
There is always two aides to every
question, so The Leader repiN** ta
tive went over to see Mayor T. A.
Upshaw, who admitted that the situa-
tion would be better with larger
mains, but at this particular time the
city’s exchecquer was tunning rather
low and he hardly saw where it is
possible for the work to start soon,
at least.
"It will be the hopa of The Kansas Cky SoMbfta. Mi*
sour/-Kansas-Texas and Cotton Kelt combination, wham
duly authorised, to form a strictly Soutkwostera ay***m»
and to put forth ever increasing •Sorts to meet adequatoly
CHAIRMAN or THU BOARD
3k KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY CD
thm growing transportation requiremei
Now comes
wasm
dAzm&gs*
CHASKWHITCHEAD. Pm
MBSOURhKANSAS-TEXAS IUL.
School faculty, with her mother and
amaTI nephew, Marvin Guffin, spent
tbs summer in Palacios with her bro-
ther, who is pastpr of the Methodist
•Church there.
Mr. add Mrs. J. P. Astin left Snt-
ordny morning for Austin where they
wrfll stay a few days before visiting
a i. M~.MMU~-■*** win »»MO. ra. »amesJKE ***.
were, n«JU owurray. *
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mSm
m
W*
both said to be on dead ends, will not
drop a weed. We rather think that
la a statement that may stand dis-
counting a little, for cash, perhaps.
Mot that does not’ stop the clamoT
«f the gin men for larger mains and
■Mrs water with more power. This
is all brought about the -fact that
Mm Swift Gin people
horn down that way, and the only
mason more of the property was not
raved was because there w*s not
enough volume of water, and not
enough power behind what volume
they had, so the fire boys could not
_**ve the building, is the—complaint ih a financial way.
way want the heavier mains, tod, but
we must all remember that improve-
ments cost money, no matter if they
do save money, and to buy anything1
with a low treasury balance some-
times brings on the embarrassing days
We are sure the matter will have
J. S. Smith & Son gin and up goes J due and proper threshing at the pro-
tbe same complaint. They want that j per season, aqd we felt that both
four indh main taken up and at leastTsides of the question should he pre-
• six or eight inch set ,of mains put sented so the taxpayers could see for
down so they may dash out the fire,1 themselves how it is.
CHEVROLET CARS
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Preparing facilities for manufac-
turing 1,000 more cars per day in
1927, the Chevrolet Motor Company
ia proceeding rapidly with additions
to its plant and equipment in the
m.f •
United States.
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■'Wvv
These additions are being made
under the $10.0(»0,000 expansion pro-
* ' '
gram announced recently by W. S.
Knudsen, president and general
manager of the company.
» ..Chevrolet factories at Cincinnati,
Janesville and St. Louis will be ex-
tensively enlarged under the pro-
gram. Fisher body plants at these
cities are to be augmented, provid-
ing manufacturing facilities fOT
/... 750,000 closed bodies and 250,000
open models. A proportionate in-
crease in employees will follow the
completion of these plant" additions.
CROP CONDITIONS
The following has been sent out by
The Southland Life Insurance Co., of
Dallas, and speaks for itself:
In general, business conditions in
the state are in very good shape and
only await the marketing of cotton.
A test conducted by the Southland
Life in August showed business condi-
tions as measured by the barometer
of life insurance sales to be better
than those of last year.
Crop estimates: -»
Crop
Percent of
Normal
Same Time
Last Year
A LETTER FROM HOME
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By Douglas Malloch.
If you k«sw of the trips that we make
to the desk
In the hope of a letter from home,:
Then you woudn’t think travel was
so “picturesque,"
To the fellows whose job is to roam,
You would manage to find on your
busiest day
Just a moment to drop ue a line,
You would write us n letter, if only
to say
That the children are healthy and
fi*e*_
if you knew of the Maaee that 1
bother the clerk—» .
“Are you certain there isn’t a
thing?”— y
If you knew how it-keartened a fel-
low to work
the miirTn the morning should
IT
bring
Just a
note from the wife, Just a
.......scrawl from the kids,
If you knew how we thrill with de-
lirht.
Though the housework is heavy,
though something forbids,-
Still I think you would manage to
write.
If you knew how it feel* to get into
a town,
To a town and a lonely hotel,
There to mingle with strangers, to
meet with a frown.
And to meet disappointment as well,
If you knew what it means to lose
order and sale
And then to sonte new town to roam,
I know you would see, when we a'Sked
for our malL.
There was always a letter from
home.
JOHNNY IN OVERALLS
T HONOR FRESNEL LOREE, whose plan to nsso-
A-s elate The Kansas City Southern, the Missouri-
Kansas-Texns, and the St. Louis Southwestern rail-
way lines into a system designed to adeqnateiy serve
state Commerce' Commission, has been hailed as “the
world’s most masterful genius in the field of trans-
portation."
The removal of the Loree fondly from Illinois to
New Jersey, the graduation of the ; oung man from
ning of Ills rHrt*er as a rodmun wif't ill*; surveying
corps of an Eastern railroad, becoming successively
a transitman and law student, a cons ruction foreman
on a railroad project In Texas, assb rant engineer of
a railroad division, sui<erintendent, the.deviser of a
system of accounting later adopted on -.11 railroads by
order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the
Inventor of railroad signal appliances to promote
safety, a champion of reduced grades nn 1 mollified
curves as economic factors in the movement of travel
and tonnage, general manager of the great Pennsyl-
vania railroad system, and ot^the age of 42 years in
full control of the Baltimore & Ohio, ihe oldest rail
road In America, are high lights 1 n't he eventful Career
of L. F. Loree, the man whose foresight upd courage
have wrought the transportation triumvirate which
now attracts national attention to the pulsating uud
(By « Waff Corraspowtont) V~-:-
productive trade building empire te the 8oulhwiit
The complete rehabilitation of tbe B. k O., followed
hy a similar application of bl* practlcml methods to
the Rock Island, brought L. V. Lore* In 1U00. whra
48 years of age, with nls remarkable knowledge, ex-
tended experience and solid itnumiol support,to Tho
Kansas City Southern railway property, which turned
from decline to development under Ids magic touch.
The association of the Port Arthar Route, the Knty
and the Colton Belt Into n strictly Southwestern Syn-
tern tv. tn brief, the Lores- plan to serve t b*rt_vnto
territory extending roughly fr»w the Mississippi River
to the Rocky Mountains, arpl from the Gulf of Mexico
to Memphis. 8t. Louis and Katutes City, an ares rap-
idly growing In population and wealth, and In all
forms of agricultural, Industrial, commercial, educa-
tional and social activities.
The personal attributes of L F. Loree, the prac-
tical railroad builder, reflect his fearlessness when
he thinks he Is right: his ceaseless, tireless applica-
tion to the task before him; his ability to snalyra
situations and apply proper remedies when needed;
Ids patience with and consideration for othera; his
interest in educational and civic advancement; his
practical and unostentatious philanthropies, and his
ability to inspire and claim the genuine loyalty be so
generous!.' gives.
Cotton
Vegetable?
Rice
Grass
^ Street Sermons ,
The first of a series of street
preachings to be conducted by the
pastors of the several churches of
Stamford was held Saturday after-
noon at 4 o’clock in front of the! First
State Bank. Rev. R. A. Stewart, pas-
(A Tribute to Labor)
By Judge L. N. Cooper
I have sailed the ocean’s proud d
main, _
*70 percent 65 percent j In u vessel swift and free,
*120 percent So percent 11 have stood on the deck of a daun-
tless ship,
Far out in the open sea;
I saw there men and maidens fair,
’Mid lights of banquet halls,
And the one who held my heart that
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NOTICE Was Johnny in overalls.
85' percept SO ’’percent
150 percent 70 percent
•Decrease from condition last month.
Jones County reported conditions
to be excellent.
Notice is hereby given that under
the provisions of Articles 5667 and
5868 of the Revised Statutes of Tex-
as we will proceed to sell twenty (20)
days after publication of this notice
at Hedberg Garage in the city of
tor of St. John Methodist church, did , Staiyifor<t, Texas one (1) Ford Road-
the preaching. His. sermon was brief
though pithy and listened to intently
by a large audience.
Every Saturday afternoon at 4
o'clock weather permitting preaching
will be conducted at that spot with a
rotation of ministers of the several lo-
cal churches.
The scheme is a good one. Church-
men have come to learn that many
ster, serial number 6149546, belonging
to J. M. Ware, Fort Worth, Texas.
Stored at Hedberg Garage on January
14, 1926 and upon which there are
charges on account ^storage and ne-
cessary repairs and material of $168.-
97.
Said sale to be held twenty (20)
days from date of publication of this
notice at Hedberg Garage, town of
not at,end church and Hkci Stamford, county of Jones between the
John Wesley the ministers are going hourg of ten (10> a. m. and iour (4)
out into the byways and hedges and
“compelling them to come in.”
Great Many Peple Moving In
Taking Advantages of Schools
A great many people are moving
into Stamford and starting their chil-
dren to school,
are known far and wide as good—of
p. m. to the highest bidder for cash.
—Hedberg Garage, G. II. Haynes,
Manager. 88-3t-T
the very best—and that is what
Made Trip to Abilene
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. McDonald and
children made a visit to Abilene last
Stamford schools priday afternoon, returning Saturday
morning. The trip was made per
.motor. They attended the Abilene
brings the people here. Stamford j Notary Club dinner which took place
will have the nine months school all Friday evening at 7:30. There was
right. No doubt about that. Let the a number of Stamford Rotarians to
people keep moving right in and take ( be present, but the rain that came on
advantage of the good schools at ]aU,r in the afternoon at the time they
Stamford. j planned to go, broke up .that part of
--rihe program. ... ,
Telephone Company Not Moved Yet | - i
*Oie new building for the Telephone
Company is completed, but the com-\
party has not moved in just yet. The
reason for not moving in ir that the
cables have not yet arrived, so they
cannot get the wiring all done. When
they get ready to start business down
there, four blocks frojn the old of-
fice, it will be done so easily and
quickly that the public will not' even
be aware of it at all
The Leader ha? another letter from
N. S. Holland, who sends lis a copy of
The New York Mirror (picture sec-
tion ) also a copy ,of The New York
"Graphic, v These papers seem to be
devoted almost entirely, to the details
■of the funeral of Rudolph Valentino,
putting in P(da Negri for good mea-
sure.
The Way We Like Them;
Nearly Al) Are Like This
Plainview, Texas
Sept. 1, 1926
Stamford Leader:
Stamford, Texas, •/ '
My former address was . Stamford
Motor Route A. Please send my pa-
per to Plainview, Texas, Route 2, Box
If
We Can’t get along without the
‘‘best paper” from “The Best in the
West."—Dock Calloway.
Fred Hardin who has oe-n in
Stamford for several years in the
printing trade, has gone to Austin,
where he will engage in the busi-
ness, we learn. Fred is a goo^l
printer, and for some time was on
the Stamford Leader force. The
Leader has Miss Louise Hardin,
sister of Fred, one of the Lind
otypers, where she is doifeg nicely
Fred went to Austin with hi? broth-
er, B. C. Hardin, and wife who were
here visiting the mother \ of B. C.,
Mrs. Emma Hardin, a Woman who
has raised a huge family of girls'and
boys, all of whom art doing well.
I anchored in a foreign port,
Where grapevine blossoms blow,
I heard the sweep of golden notes,
Through the parquet aisles below;
I saw the flash of jewels rare,
At opera and balls,
And the handsome man I saw in
• France,
Was Johnny in overalls.
I sought the great metropolis,
’Mid a monarch’s jubilee, ,
For there and then proud noblemen,
In resplendent lace would be;
I haunted palace, inn and cot,
And found within her walls,
That the noblest son of England old
Was Johnny in overalls.
’Neath cooling shades of linden.tree{
Or along the boulevard,
Where trellised vine and garden
.green, ., ^ , ...-j,. '
Throw shadows on the sward;
Or in. the city's crowded street,
Or terpsichorean ball.
The bravest boy in The Fatherlaod
Was Johnny in overalls.
I stood beneath the cloudless skies,
In dimpled summer bays,
And heard the song of the gondo-
lier,
As he harped his love and lays;
I sat beneath the mellow light,
That on rich marble falls,
And the best of all fair Italy^
Was Johnny in overalls.
I touched upon another shore,
Where the golden sunlight beams,
And saw the sea and river meet,
Where the star-light ever gleams;
I saw the roili-wheel’s graceful
/ turns,
And watched the water-fali3, .
And the joy of the land of Bobbie
Bums,
Was Johnny in overalls.
I stood where golden censers swung,
‘Twas on glad Easter day,
I heard the great cathedra) chart,
As it died in the~Uisles tfrtav;
I watched the surge of glint and
throng,
And knewwhate'er befalls,
No fairer flower in Ireland .grew,
Than Johnny in overalls^ '
A banner starred and” Spangled
float*,
Above the ~ hum and din,.
And there it's lofty folds protect,
Full many a million men;
And though at tines tha way grows
rough,
And the fearful soul appallsi
That banner will forever wdv#t
With lenity in ovoriHa.
TOB A EDSON, .president of The
•s Kansas Citv flout hern Railway
Company, ralseofilihself from com-
parative obscurity to a position of
prominence In the transportation
industry.
As a tribute to the name and fame
of Mr. Edson it Is admitted that
his rise to the*, presidency of the
Tort Arthur Route was duo to his
indomitable energy, together with
Ms ability to win and hold the re-
Sf>eet of ids feliow workers.
The descendant of n farmer and
railroad agent, Job A. Edson was
born In Ohio. February 14. 1S54. His
education was obtained in the pub-
lic schools, and at an early age lie
accepted n position ns telegraph op-
erator with the Lnke Shore Railroad
Company nnd remained with the
road from 18C7 to 1872. •
Mr. Edson was next with the
Union Pacific Railroad Company ns
operator, train dispatcher nnd train
master, remaining there until 1886.
when he became train dispatcher
for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad Company. He next
became division superintendent of
the Missouri Pacific, and then in
succession he was superintendent,
general superintendent and vlce-
president of the Cotton Belt Route,
where he. remained until 1899, tbe
year he became general manager of
The Kunras City Southern. After
serving three years in this capacity
Mr. Edson accepted the position of
general manager of the Denver &
Rio Grande Railroad Company,
where he remained until September,
1904, when he became general man-
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton Railroad Company, from
which position he was catIM to the
presidency of The Kansas City
Southern in May, 1905. During hi*
more than twenty years In this po-
sition of responsibility. Mr. Edson
ha* had the satisfaction of seeing
tho Port Arthur Route develop Into
oue of tho mutt Important artel'll
af transportation In tbe country.
' Cherishing th comradeships
formed during his versatile career
from a humble position to tho pln-
NELSON WHITE-
^-4 HEAD Is a Kuiv jiri'duct. He
ha* spent priu-ticully his entire life
in K■ i: v territory and in JmiIv wn-
)C'>. lie w..s born ,n Print :on. .JV
rude, in ISTS and *><)urated in ti e
public schools. His fatiior wtt« a
railroad man. and Inter removed tu
Cairo where young \\ liitetieml lir-t
entered railroad service ns a mes-
senger hoy In the local freight offne
of tlie St. Louis 'Southwestern Itnlt-
way Co., he then being ,.u!y It vents
old. The family shortly ufterwaH
rcihoved to Texas, mil in ■ istif,
young Whitehead lieg»q bt« long
service with the Knty.-. fjrst -as tf
stenographer. ~~~—e———-d—-*—
Pet ween that time and’1898 be
served consecutively ns stenogra-
pher. clerk nnd chief clerk in the
freight and ticket Offices. He suh-
seqttently served ns clerk In the su-
perfitendent's offices tit Sinlfhvllle
and Denison. Texas, and then trans-
ferred to the general freight office
at Dallas. In 1900 he transferred to
the office of the general attorney In
Texas ns n stenographer and clerk
and In. 1902 came to St. Lmtls ns a
stenographer and clerk in the office
of the general counsel.
In 190,» Mr. IV Mtehead win* trans-
ferred to the NeW York office as
assistant secretary of the company
and remained in New York until
1913 where he served consec'utlveiv
;ts nsslstnnt secretary, secretary,
secretary nnd treasurer.
In 1913, following Mr. 'SchafTs
election as president, Mr. White-
bend enme to St. Louis ns assistant
to tho president. In 1914 he wns
advanced to the, Vi^e-presldency and
served In this ehjiaelty unTlI the be-
ginning of the receivership In mm,
when he was appointed assistant to
the receiver. In 1918, during the
period of government control of the
Knty. Mr. Whitehead served ns gen-
erht manager of the lines north of
Red River. In Mtrrrh. tmn. Tie .....
made Federal Manager of the Mlis
sonrl-Kansnx-Terns system Hnvi jmd
remained In this capacity until the
end of government control. He was
then selected ns Chief Operating
Officer for tbe Receiver, which po-
sition be occupied until the reor-
ganisation of the Katy In 1922, when
he, was made executive vice-presi-
dent He succeeded to the pres!-
dency of the Mlaaourl-Kgnaaa-Ty.
^r^S^amtpaar Mar X m
TVv.NIKT. I VTHFGROVE, pre»»-
A-v «i«-rir i.f r«> st. Louis South-
western llullwa) Lines, established
tils first .contact with the trnnepor-
I",.: n * lit*) it try a* a barefoot hoy
trttdglr ; be*-. • ::n ox-dr.iwn wagon
lie;,ling Ci.jton to market and sup-
plies on the return trip between
Greenville and Jefferson, Texas, a
^distance of Oi miles.
From the public schools lh the
northeast Tex** town of Greenville,
where he was horn-in May, 1871, the
' "'!*/ ntan destined to become the
J*oud of „a great transportation ays-
p in attended n preparatory Institute
end Vanderbilt University R» Ten-
nessee. In IbirtJ he was Admitted
to the practice of law at Greenville.
""’I "a? employed a« local attorney
for the Cotton Belt Route—his first
a-itve assort nr ion-with* (be railroad
he now directs with energy and
vision. > ,
In 1901 Mr. rpthegrove located
In Dallas, Texas, as assistant gen-
eral attorney, and In I9l6be became
general solicitor for tbe St. Louis
Southwestern Railwsy system with
headquarters in St. Louis.
frora Ihe inception of his con-
tact with the .Cotton Belt Route, Mr.
I pthegrove studied the problems of
all departments and familiarised
pittiself with methods of construc-
tion. operation, trends of traffic
and various other activities of rail-
road management. So broad was
his general knowledge of the rail-
rmid snd so sincere his efforts to
develop the property and the terri-
inry It serves, that Mr. L’pthegruve
was the unanimous choice of the
hoard of directors for president of
in aTcK "Jg ” T"CanCJ °CCWnd
. * J1® tri> wait Ion of the barefoot boy
trudging beside the ox wugon to the
tall, win- Tetnn who now heads the
otton Beit Route, has left a lasting
.hip'CHBlun upoa eoeh tnemher of
satlonM hUcSJS,Uc
England sneestor,, whoh*^, 5te
slonnrieit aitd prominent educators In
up th. family trae,
clean llrlni. education sndnSra-
ment hate graced tbe Uptheffroe*
boms dwk truly —
mao.
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