Local and Personal Items from 1925

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Howard Courant
October 2, 1925

Here are a couple of extracted items that might be of interest to someone.

Forty years ago F. A. Faxon of Kansas City, travelled through sourthern Kansas on horseback selling drugs.   He only carried a small valise case of samples, and he regularly visited Howard in the early seventies.  Later the railroads carried the representatives of his house and still later the automobile.  The head wholesale house grew, spread out and in the fifty years has undergone many changes.  Now the firm is Faxon-Gallegher Co., and one day recently the traveling salesman for this territory, C. D. ("Doc") Hatfield, of Wichita, who has been sixteen years with the house, made his trip to Howard in a big motor van carrying more than a ton of samples in the entire line of drugs and drug sundries.  The big motor vehicle is made by the Studebaker Corporation, cost $6,000 and carried $1,600 worth of samples.  It is the first one of four such vehicles the firm will soon have on the road, all fine luxurious affairs as big as a a city street car.  Mr. Frank Shook, chaffeur had mechanical charge of the aforesaid car, and "Doc" Harfield was its proud conductor.  It was truly a down to the minute outfit.


The Courant this week received by parcel post a box of beautiful, large yellow southern persimmons.  They were postmarked Yellow Pine, Alabama, but the lid of the box was partly broken away and the sender's name was missing from the superscription.   But we are safe in presuming they were sent by one of our friend-subscribers, Mr. Thomas D. Thompson, who has been reading the Courant for fifteen or twenty years, but who was never in Howard, and we never met the editor.  We never knew what moved him to subscribe, nor what has held him on our list so ong, but we sure appreciate his loyality, patience, and now the compliment of his little gift.  Hope he'll come and see us sometime.