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Mr. Fildes was educated in the public schools of Florida and Oklahoma and early in life took up the vocation that was destined to be his life work. In the newspaper field he has met with marked suc- cess and is recognized today as one of the most aggressive and capable young publishers in the state. The Gazette has been a success since its first issue and has met with ever increasing favor from readers and advertisers.
In July, 1919, Mr. Fildes was married in Chicago to Miss Virginia Shelby, member of a well known Chicago family. They reside in Mistletoe Heights.
During the war Mr. Fildes was a member of the Nineteenth Infantry and was transferred to the Officers' Training School at Camp McArthur just before the signing of the armistice and received his discharge there.
Intensely interested in civic affairs and ever ready to aid in any movement for the betterment of Fort Worth or Texas as a whole, Mr. Fildes is an active member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and the West Texas Chamber of Com- merce.
ILLIAM E. EASTERWOOD, JR., general manager of the Wichita Co-Operative Sup- ply Company, came to Wichita Falls in September, 1920, and on November 6th or- ganized the above mentioned company and was elected to the position of general manager.
Mr. Easterwood is a native Texan and was born at Hearne in 1883. IIe is a son of W. E. Easterwood, well known Dallas banker.
He was educated in the schools at Wills Point and has followed various lines of business, traveling for several years for the Van Camp Packing Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. He also conducted a brok- crage business and was connected with the Folger Tea and Coffee Company at Fort Worth for a year. During the war Mr. Easterwood was a buyer for the supply department of the United States Marine Corps.
Mr. Easterwood was married to Miss Parasoll, of Washington, D. C.
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An enterprising and energetic business man, Mr. Easterwood was an enthusiastic booster for Wichita Falls.
C. PAGE, owner of the A. C. Page Oil Well Supplies, Wichita Falls, Texas, with branch establishments at Iowa Park, Burkburnett, Vernon, Graham and Breckenridge, is per- haps the largest oil well supply man in Texas and from his six centers supplies the need of both heavy and light equipment of every type that one of the largest and richest oil territories of the world is calling for. While for some years Texas has had a handsome oil ouput, it was not until the coming in of her northwestern and western wells that she rapidly attained one of the foremost places among Uncle Sam's oil producers. These new fields are among the largest in the world, ranking with the world-famed fields of Mexico and Russia. Mr. Page and his company are supplying this fruitful territory with perhaps more of its equipment than is any other one organization. His business was estab- lished in 1918, and retains from fifteen to thirty employees.
Missouri was the native state of Mr. Page. He was born on a farm in Henry County, moved to Kansas City in 1890, a bashful country boy, and started selling newspapers. where, owing to his hustling ability, he attracted the attention of the big city dailies. He entered city politics in 1900, and was a public officer of some kind for fifteen years. His friends, who are many in Kansas City, are not surprised to learn about his success in the oil country, as his early history was full of deeds with plenty of nerve and hustling ability.
The new era that has come to the West had brought rapid growth and advancement to that section; towns that a few years ago were hamlets have now a metropolitan look and aspect. Streets are being paved, civic movement of gigantic sizes for that section of the state are every where afoot, and the West which was always big is leading in the doing of big things. And yet this development, as big as it is, as attractive as it is, still is only in its beginning, the oil resources of those terri- tories have hardly yet been more than tapped; the future is immense, the tomorrow is bigger than the today. In the immense activities that call for sup- plies for the doing of this work and for continually maintaining the work as done, Mr. Page will have an attractive part.
1. LEVY, dealer in wholesale cigars, 1001-3 Jones Street, Fort Worth, and vice presi- dent of the Casey-Swasey Cigar Company, has been engaged in the cigar business in this state for the past ten years. He has become a cigar connoisseur of the first class and carries his business beyond the bounds of our own state. The Casey-Swasey Cigar Company was organized in 1885 and at the present time Mr. Sam Levy is president and general manager of the concern. The company is the state distributor for Y. B., Lovera, Melba, Ruskin, Jim Hogg, Dolly Madison and a number of other cigars of a like quality and at the present time covers four states-Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisi- ana and Texas. It has thirty persons in its employ and is one of the largest wholesale cigar distributors in this part of the state.
A native born citizen of Texas D. A. Levy is a son of Sam Levy, who came to this country in 1872.
When a small boy his parents moved to Fort Worth and his early education was secured there. He grad- uated from the public schools of Fort Worth and then attended the Groff College, of New York, after which he returned to his adopted city. He began his busi- ness career as a bookkeeper with the Casey-Swasey Cigar Company and in 1915 was made vice president of that concern. He has retained that position since that time and at the present time is well known throughout the state for his activity in the tobacco line of business. He has not confined his business efforts to this field alone but at the present time is a director of the National Bank of Commerce of Fort Worth . He has also taken an active interest in other lines and has always manifested a lively interest in civic affairs of Forth Worth and other North Texas cities.
In October, 1917, Mr. Levy enlisted in the Army. assigned to Camp Bowie he was commissioned from ranks to second lieutenant in August, 1918, and was discharged in April, 1919.
In fraternal orders Mr. Levy is affiliated with the Masons, being of the thirty second degree member Moslah Shrine and also has membership in the Elks. Rivercrest Country Club and Forth Worth Club. He has taken an active interest in the affairs of these organizations and has ever been loyal to their cause.
M. LOFFLAND is president and general manager of the Fort Worth Drilling Tool Company, at Jesamine and Main Street, manufacturers of high grade oil well drilling tools and equipment. The company was organized in March, 1920, other officers being: B. E. Byrne. vice president; Chas. Clapp, secretary and treasurer. and E. K. Okey, assistant secretary-treasurer. The plant now occupies five buildings and covers four acres of ground. The National Supply Company handles practically all the surplus of the company. Seventy-five men are employed in the shops. Plans have been made for the erection of a three-story office building and the company also expects to pro- vide quarters for an emergency hospital for its en- płoyes. The plant is entirely new and is said to be one of the most complete and up-to-date factories for the manufactures of drilling tools to be found in the United States.
Mr. Loffland is a native of Ohio and was born in the Southwestern portion of the state in November 6, 1878, a son of William and India (Hart) Loffland. He attended the public schools and also attended Marietta College for two years before entering the commercial world. After leaving school he learned the machinists trade and worked at it until the out- break of the Spanish-Amreican War enlisted in the Ordnance department of the army and served until the war was over. At the end of the war he removed to Woodsfield, Ohio, and became connected with a large machine shop which later he and his brother. T. S. Loffland purchased. At the end of thirteen years they reorganized the company which became the Loffland Brothers Company. In 1919 Mr. Loff- land removed to Fort Worth and organized the pres- ent company.
In 1909 Mr. Loffland was married at Woodsfield. Ohio, to Mrs. Florence Carroll. They have two children, John aged eleven and Thomas six years of age. Mrs. Loffland has two children Miss Margue- rite and Othneal Carroll.
Mr. Loffland is a thirty-second degree Mason, an
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Elk and a member of the Fort Worth Club and the Rivercrest Country Club and also several clubs in Ohio. He is a consistent booster for Fort Worth, 2-lieving the city to be the logical industrial center of the Southwest.
OE M. COLLINS, real estate and investment broker, head of the Collins Investment Company, 31316 Main Street, came to Fort Worth in July, 1895, from Citrenelle, Ala- Łama, and during the past quarter of a century has been actively connected with the business and politi- cal life of the Panther City.
A native of Alabama, Mr. Collins was at Citren- elle, June 6, 1876. His parents were John H. and Annie E (Byrd) Collins, both members of prominent Alabama families. His father was a merchant at Citrenelle for a nuniber of years prior to his death.
After leaving the public schools Mr. Collins came to Fort Worth and was connected with the Fort Worth China Company, remaining with this concern from 1895 to 1903. He was then identified with the American Bridge Company and later bookkeeper for the Homan Plumbing Company from 1904 to 1907. After serving as cashier for the city water works, he engaged in farming for a year and then became the first purchasing agent for the city of Fort Worth. He was chief deputy tax collector of Tarrant County for a while and then elected district clerk, serving the people faithfully and efficiently for four years. In 1918 he began his present busi- ress, handling Fort Worth real estate and loans on city and farm property. An extensive business is being developed in this line and plans are being formulated to extend the activities of the company into other fields.
With large personal holdings, Mr. Collins is actively interested in the oil industry in addition to his real estate and loan business. He has an inter- est in over 300,000 acres of leases in the Texas oil fields.
Mr. Collins is a Knight Templar, a member of Moslah Temple Shrine and also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Woodmen of the World, Knights of Pythias. He maintains membership in the Glen Garden Country Club and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
Proving his faith in the future of Fort Worth by his investments herc, Mr. Collins expects the city to continue to grow and expand and take its right- ful place as one of the commercial and railroad centers of the Southwest.
R ICHARD EARLE BARR, well known Fort Worth druggist, has averaged a store a year since entering business for himself in 1914 and now owns a seven unit chain of well equipped stores distributed throughout the city. Drug Store No. 1, 1301 Evans Avenue, is housed in a new building owned by Mr. Barr and is the prettiest and most up-to-date drug store in that part of Fort Worth. Time was when a drug store was a dispensary and nothing more-just a place to have a prescription filled; but like most modern drug stores, Mr. Barr's stores are much more. In addition to dispensary departments second to none, they cater in many ways to the pleasure and con- venience as well as necessity of patrons. Attractive cases display high class drug and toilet sundries, perfumes, candies, cigars, etc., and at up-to-date,
sanitary fountains customers may have their desires in the way of cold drinks and ices filled. That satisfied customers mean increased business is fully demonstrated by Mr. Barr's stores. Mr. Barr came to Fort Worth over a score of years ago, entering the employ of H. W. Williams & Company. Each year of the twenty-one years he was with them he made a stepping stone to higher things and today is the owner of a whole chain of stores.
Mr. Barr was born in Butler County, Kentucky, on September 22, 1876. His father was a Kentucky physician, who, lured by the land of rolling prairies, emigrated to Texas many years ago with his wife, Mesia Willis Barr, locating at Rhome, Texas, where Dr. Barr became prominent as a physician and druggist. After completing grammar and high school in Rhome, Mr. Barr attended Baylor Uni- versity at Waco. In 1903, a quintet of years after reaching Fort Worth, he chose in marriage Miss Minnie Royster, daughter of J. W. Royster, owner of large farming interests in Wise County, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have no children.
Few successful business men eschew all fraternal association and Mr. Barr is no exception to this rule. He is a popular member of the Knights of Pythias and his business club connections include the Tarrant County Retail Druggists' Association, of which he is secretary and treasurer.
AMES O. SANDERS, resident of Fort Worth for more than a score of years, with his partner, Marvin C. Anderson, bought, in 1920, the oldest drug store in Fort Worth, established in 1885 by N. E. Grammer, recently de- ceased. Mr. Sanders was associated with Mr. Gram- mer for ten years and then, eleven years after leav- ing this connection bought the store in which he had spent ten years. The Anderson & Sanders drug store is located at 100 Main Street and carries a full line of highest grade drugs, sundries, surgical dressings and supplies, in fact carries a large line of surgical supplies, trusses, elastic stockings, etc. Nine employees, including two registered druggists, are needed to take care of the ever increasing busi- ness of the firm. Mr. Sanders has been in the drug business for a score and a half of years, eleven of which he spent in the service of Sharp & Dohme, pharmaceutical manufacturers of Baltimore, Md. In becoming a druggist Mr. Sanders followed in the footsteps of his father, H. S. Sanders, who also was a druggist. As Mr. Sanders expressed it he "was just raised in a drug store."
Mr. Sanders' father was a Mississippian, which is also Mr. Sanders' native state. He was born in Carrollton, Miss., on September 8, 1873. Mr. Sanders' father, H. S., entered the drug business in Texas while James O. was quite young, but is now retired. His mother. Jeannie Gay Sanders, although born in England was rearcd m the United States, her child- hood home being in New Orleans, La.
On coming to Texas, Mr. Sanders' parents chose Paris as their home where their son finished his education. From Paris Mr. Sanders went to Green- ville, Texas, thence to Fort Worth in 1899. In 1916 he married Miss Leona Fabian, they are the parents of two children, James O., Jr., and Elizabeth. The family reside at 1928 Hurley Avenue.
Mr. Sanders is a Mason, Arlington Blue Lodge, and his name is on the rosters of the Rotary Club and Retail Druggists' Asociation.
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OHN W. ATWOOD, manager of the Dallas branch of the Buick Motor Co., distributors of Buick automobiles, Young and Browder streets, has given more of his time to the good roads movement in the last few years than many men have given in their lifetime. Dallas County and Texas will never be able to repay him for his efforts along this line and it should never be forgotten that he was the strong arm behind the movement which culminated in Dallas County vot- ing six and a half million dollars for permanent roads which, at the time it was voted, was the lar- gest single bond issue for roads ever voted by a single county in America. As president of the Dal- las Automobile Club he was one of the 3 men that seeured the routing of the Bankhead Highway thru this state. He was chairman of both bond issues that was voted to build the Dallas county portion of the road from Dallas to Fort Worth. His activities along this line will always be of great benefit to his adopted state.
During the late world war no man was more ac- tive than Mr. Atwood in the support of patriotic ac- tion for the government. In each of the Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives he had charge of furnish- ing automobiles to the committees and devoted his full time for a week or more to the cause on each of the drives.
As manager of the Buick branch, Mr. Atwood handles probably more business in the automobile line than any other distributor in the South. His activities cover 143 counties with seventy-five dealers. He handles all the accounts of these dealers which means a tremendous volume of business with such a popular car as the Buick. His building houses the general offices and parts departments and is manned by forty-two employees.
Mr. Atwood was born in Andalusia, Ill., November 20, 1871, son of Edwin Wallace and Mary Louise Wells Atwood. He was educated in the public schools there. He started his career as an office boy with the John Deere Plow Co. in 1888 in Council Bluffs. He was there five years and then went to Sioux Falls, S. D., where he was manager of an imple- ment business. He was then sales manager of Parlin and Orendorf Company of Omaha, Neb., for three years. In 1901 he went with the Racine Wagon and Carriage Company as their manager in Minne- apolis In 1901 he returned to Omaha as sales man- ager for the Moline Plow Co. and came to Texas in 1908 to represent the Thomas B. Jeffery Automo- bile Co.
For two years he had the Rambler automobile agency in Texas but in 1910 he became the assist- ant manager of the Buick Company with head- quarters in Dallas. He was made manager in 1911. For the last ten years he has represented that con- eern here and his success has been unusual as at- tested by the large number of dealers and the great number of sales made.
He was married to Miss Elizabeth Anderson, of Iowa, in 1901. To the union have come three chil- dren, Elizabeth, Virginia and John W., Jr. They make their home at 3820 Miramar street.
Mr. Atwood is a director in the Chamber of Com- merce and the Dallas Automobile Club and a mem- ber of the Dallas Country Club, Dallas Auto Trades Association and the Dallas Auto Country Club. He is always found working for Dallas and Texas.
E ROY R. MUNGER, president and man. ager of the Munger Automobile Company. Cadillac distributors for the State, con. ducts probably the largest automobile bus :- ness in the South if not in the United States. With a capital stock of $750,000 the company is doing an annual business of over two million dollars. Covering the State of Texas with branches at Wichita Falls and San Antonio, this organization is acknow !. edged as one of the most successful that ever entered this line of industry. There have been few times in recent years when the Munger company had a new car on its floor and usually it is many cars behind due to the wonderful selling organization and the tremendous popularity of the Cadillac car. It is a well known fact that the Munger company gives super service to its owners and dealers. Following a recent fire at its plant here, the Cadillac factory was kept running over time to make up a special parts order which was rushed to Dallas in record time so that no Cadillac owner would be delayed for want of parts.
The company's building faces 100 feet on Com- merce street and 125 feet on Main street, three stories high giving better than sixty thousand square feet of floor space. Mr. Munger and his associates, J. R. Bower and E. T. Green, are putting in one of the most elaborate show rooms in the country at a cost of $30,000. It is finished in black walnut with rookwood and tile floor.
In the service and parts departments and the sales division, ninety persons are employed.
Mr. Munger is a native Texan having been born in Limestone County, September 4, 1878, son of S. I. and Trudie Terrell Munger. The family moved to Dallas in 1888 where Roy Munger was educated. When he finished his education he went with the Continental Gin Co., and left there in 1908 when he had advanced to cashier. He ran a ranch for two years and then in 1907 returned to Dallas and took the Cadillac agency.
In 1900 he married Miss Fay Wilson, daughter of J. B. Wilson, Dallas capitalist. They have two chil- dren, Le Roy R. Jr. and Jack. They make their home at 4309 Gaston avenue and have one of the prettiest in Dallas.
Mr. Munger is an energetic Dallasite and is always working for its future. He is an active member of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers Association, Dallas Auto Dealers Association and other civic organizations. He is a member of the City Club and the Dallas Country Club and is af- filiated with the First Baptist Church.
SI TEPHEN GIRARD DAVIS, president of the S. G. Davis Motor Car Co., Dallas, Texas, is the successful head of a successful firm doing an annual business approximately $1,000,000, distributing Oldsmobile passenger cars and trueks over a territory which embraces the whole of North Texas and constitutes the field of operation for about thirty prosperous retail dealers.
The gradation of progress in world eivilization might well be based upon the changing modes of transportation. The past has brought to light some stupendous revolutions in the world of locomotion. What the future will bring forth can only be left to conjecture, but it is safe to expect even more start- ling developments. Just to the extent that industry itself "lives, moves and has her being" in trans- portation, world eivilization owes its progress to
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the men who study transportation problems and offer their solutions. No small degree of credit . due those who understand the proper distribu- ton of these facilities and who educate the populace to an intelligent use of the facilities provided. A firm of this type is the S. G. Davis Motor Car Co. Incorporated in 1918 with a capital stock of $100,000 the firm now employs twenty-five or thirty salesmen and others. to say nothing of the thirty or more retail dealers in North Texas. With John O. Whar- ton, vice president and J. H. Jefferson, secretary- treasurer, Mr. Davis maintains an efficient force of employees.
S. G. Davis was born in Grandville County, North Carolina, October 5, 1867, and as a boy received his education in the North Carolina public schools. At the age of fifteen he began his business career as a clerk in the establishment of Geo. W. Davis, of Arcola, N. C. At twenty-five he was traveling as a salesman for T. D. Stokes & Co., wholesale hat dealers, with all the Southern States as a theatre of operations. In the year 1900 he established the S. G. Davis Hat Co. in Dallas, and it is for his suc- cess in the wholesale hat business that he is best known in Texas, having done an annual business of three-fourths of a million dollars. He sold his in- terests in the hat business in 1916 to engage in the automobile industry.
His commercial attainments are rivalled only by his social attainments. Mr. Davis is active in the Elks Club, the City Club, Dallas Country Club, Dal- las Auto Club, Dallas Athletic Club, Lions Club, Dallas Auto Country Club, is a member of the Dallas Lodge A. F. & A. M., Scottish Rite and Hella Temple Shrine. He is president of the Dallas Auto Trades Association, and is prominent in the activi- ties of the Retail Credit Men's Association, the Dal- las Wholesalers' Association and the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Davis is also affiliated with the City Temple, Presbyterian.
ILLIAM MORRISS, agent for the Hudson and Essex cars at 1017 Elm Street, has been a successful automobile dealer in Dal- las for ten years. The success which has marked his industry is well illustrated by the volume of business done in 1919, which amounted to $2,000,000.
Mr. Morriss came to Dallas in 1907 as a repre- sentative of F. S. Bowser and Company of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. After three years he entered the automobile business, handling the Velie car until 1913. At that time he became the agent for the Chalmers and Packard cars, continuing with this agency until he took over the Hudson and Essex. To carry on the extensive trade in these cars Mr. Morriss has in his employ ninety-four men. A three story building, fifty by two hundred feet, is occu- pied by the sales rooms, repair depot and service station.
In Williamson County, Texas, on June 18, 1885, William Morriss was born to W. W. and Alice King Morriss. Mr. Morriss received his elementary edu- cation in the public schools of his county; he re- ceived his A. B. degree from A. & M. College in 1905. In Lampasas in 1910 he was married to Miss Daisy Williamson. They are the parents of two children.
The name of Mr. Morriss appears upon the rolls of the social clubs of the city, Dallas Country Club, Dallas Athletic Club, and the City Club. He is also
a Mason. Mr. Morriss' activity in the automobile world is indicated by the position that he holds with the automobile associations. He is vice-presi- dent of the Dallas Auto Trades Association and director of the Texas Automobile Dealers' Associa- tion.
BOYD KEITH, president of the Keith-Pat- terson Motor Co., of which W. R. Patterson is vice-president, established this business in June, 1919. At their former location, 2100 Commerce Street, they occupied a floor space of 18,000 square feet, being distributors for Lexington, Gardner and Republic trucks for North Texas, which includes some of the richest oil fields in the world, whose development would have been next to impos- sible without the motor truck. The success of this organization has been assured since its beginning and they have just moved into their new two-story building where they have a floor space of 45,000 square feet, affording show rooms, service depart- ment and offices. The entire second floor is given over to the shops. They keep six traveling repre- sentatives and have a force of about thirty-five em- ployees.
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