Herbert Hoover was a mining engineer, with no idea that he ever would be called upon to feed the Belgians or be president of the United States. Biographical sketches of the president do not state just where he was in May 1907, but probably he was in the Ural mountains of Russia.

Charles Curtis had just become a member of the United States senate, after several terms as congressman.

George V of Great Britain was Prince of Wales.

The present Prince of Wales was a schoolboy.

Benito Mussolini was running a Socialist newspaper at Trent, Italy, and constantly getting in trouble with the authorities.

Pius XI was a priest, serving as assistant to the prefect of the library at Milan.

John J. Pershing was a newly appointed brigadier general on duty in the Philippines.

Henry Ford was just getting his factory well established and preparing for quantity production.

Franklin Roosevelt was looking forward to his graduation from the law school of Columbia University.

Al Smith was a fledgling member of the lower house of the New York legislature.

John Garner was serving his third term in congress.

Newton D. Baker was city solicitor of Cleveland.

William G. McAdoo was building tunnels under the Hudson river.

Charles A. Lindbergh was a 5-year-old lad.

Rev. James Cannon Jr. was president of Blackstone College for Girls and editor of the Christian Advocate.

James J. Walker was attending the College of St. Francis Xavier.

Will Rogers was a vaudeville performer in New York City.

Ross Sterling was operating a string of feed stores at Saratoga, Humble and Dayton, and was living in Houston. He had not at that time become interested in oil.

Morris Sheppard was congressman from the first district of Texas. The only contemporary member from Texas who is still in the House was John Garner.

Tom Connally was district attorney of Falls County, and recalls that it was in May 1907 that he bought the lot on which his home now stands.

William H. Murray was a member of the constitutional convention in Oklahoma, helping to bring Oklahoma to statehood.

Guinn Williams was cashier of the City National Bank at Decatur and doing some mule trading on the side.

James V. Allred was a first grade schoolboy at Bowie. It was just about then, he recalls, that Montague county voted dry, but Bowie saloon men refused to close their places and in the clash which resulted, a peace officer was shot. Angered citizens formed a mob, stormed the saloon, hauled the whisky out and set it on fire. It made a tremendous blaze, Mr. Allred recalls. He also recalls his vast astonishment to see that whiskey would burn.

Akin, J.W. Jr. - was about to complete his first year's work in the public schools of Graham, and relieving the tedium of scholarly pursuits by such diversions as swimming, fishing, rabbit hunting, cob-fighting and the like.

Albritton, Leonard L. - was superintendent of transportation for the Oklahoma Railway company at Oklahoma City.

Allison, J.H. - of the Times was circulation manager of the Dispatch at Columbus, Ohio.

Arnold, C.Q. - was attending school.

Art, Joe - was leaving his home in Detroit to come to Texas, where he was first to work as a registered druggist at Fort Worth before locating in Wichita Falls in 1911. He says he left Detroit during a snow-storm.

Avis, Jake - was a school boy in 1907 and probably was dividing his time between his studies and helping on his father's ranch.

Bailey, C.E (Dr.) - was practicing dentistry in Miles, Texas.

Barnard, Jack C. - was time-keeper and paymaster for a mining company in the East Tennessee mountains and recalls the troubles that the 1907 panic was bringing to the mining country, with the men working only two or three days a week and being paid in script instead of cash.

Basham, C.E - was living at Vernon where he was cashier of the Waggoner National Bank and having his first experience with a "repression."

Bebb, Ed - was in the seventh grade of the Alice L. Barnard school in Chicago and, he writes, "feeling somewhat awed by an older friend who was working in a bank signing temporary bank-notes for use as currency in the 1907 panic."

Beck, Theo - was in Chicago, working as a decorator on St. Martin's church.

Beeman, W.O. - was at Dallas, completing his school career and not thinking about motor trucks, depressions, families or any of the other things that engage his attention now.

Beyer, C.M. (Rev) - was a traveling missionary for the Lutheran church, serving 13 communities in the Abilene region. Coming here in 1911, he is now the oldest Wichita Falls minister in point of service, and also the highest ranking in his denomination, being president of the Texas district of the Lutheran church.

Biggs, Jim - was in Sherman, engaged in the same business as at present and recalls the anxiety that the so-called bankers' panic of that year was causing.

Bonner, J.H.S. - recalls May 14, 1907, more distinctly than many, for it was his birthday. he doesn't say how old he was then, but he was attending school at Tyler.

Boone, T.R. "Dan" - was attending the University of Texas and earning his board by waiting on tables at B. Hall and doing his best, which wasn't good enough, to make a passing grade in English I.

Boswell, John - was living on a 640 acre ranch all of which is now in the city limits of Plainview. The only useful service he was rendering then was collecting cow chips for the family fuel supply.

Bounds, Charles L. (Rev) - was a student in the school of theology at Vanderbilt university.

Bowie, George D. - was living at Weatherford which has furnished Wichita Falls with so many good citizens, and was manager of the cotton mill there.

Bradley, T.A. - had just arrived in Altus, Okla., from the hills of Kentucky and was, so he says, beginning to get accustomed to wearing shoes.

Bratton, W.D. (Rev) - was a freshman at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. He had no idea then that he would ever live in Texas but adds that fate is often kinder than our dreams and that it has been so with him.

Britain, A.H. - was claim adjuster for the Santa Fe with his office at Cleburne and not yet making use of the law license which he had obtained earlier at Seymour, and which, after coming here in 1908 as Judge J.T. Montgomery's partner, he was to use in Wichita Falls.

Brown, Frank F. (Dr.) - was practicing dentistry in Bowie, with offices over S. Daube & Co.'s Dry goods store, and playing tennis for exercise.

Browning, Perry - was making a hand in the oil field, working for Contractor Bob Sanders.

Bruce, H.J. - was chief engineer on a one-mule double-shovel on his father's farm near Bells, Texas and says he thought that Republicans and pole-cats were of the same species.

Brumbalow, T.W. - was a lad on a farm near Leon Junction, Texas, having just finished the second grade, and was probably at work hoeing corn.

Buchanan, G.T. - was on his father's farm in Henry county, Tennessee, and helping to make the crop that enabled the family to move to Texas the following year.

Bullington, Orville - was city attorney and fire insurance agent at Munday, Texas. His letter doesn't say so, but he was a Democrat then.

Bundy, Bill - was agent for the Denver at Henrietta, but was to move to Wichita Falls later that same year.

Burnett, Tom - of Iowa Park was general manager of the 6666 Ranch on which part of the Burkburnett field was later to be developed.

Butts, John E. - was attending school in Weatherford, Texas, and already hearing some of the reports about Wichita Falls that prompted him to move here later.

Cassell, Jim - thinks that in May, 1907, he was helping to get the Horseshoe Lake baseball team organized for the season with the assistance of Clarence and Clifford Moore, Houston and Oran Simmons, Marcy Roberts, Lawrence Emmert, Homer Bennett, Don Roberts, Russell Woolridge, Frank Michael, Joe Stearns, Bob White and Bud Wheeler.

Castner, Chas. W. (Dr) - was attending medical school in Dallas and planning to work for a lumber company during that summer.

Carrigan, Joe B. - was a school boy, living then in the house which is now his home, going swimming in the tank in Huff's pasture and earning a dollar a month for driving neighbors' cows to and from the pasture, which is now Southland addition. His brother, A.H. Jr. "Pat" was one of the Times first carrier boys, using one of the family's horses, Hortense, to cover his route.

Cecil, O.B. - was manager of the Lufkin Foundry and Machine company and beginning to make plans for moving to Wichita Falls.

Chenault, N.B. - was farming in Lebanon, Tenn. He was to become a resident of Texas the following year.

Christensen, J.V.C.T. - was visiting his people in Copenhagen, Denmark. His home was at Nacogdoches where he had a machine shop.

Clark, C.H. - was in the farm implement business at Iowa Park and not yet interested in oil.

Cline, Walter - was rough-necking on a rotary rig near Galveston Bay and recalls that gauntlet gloves tied tightly near the elbows, wide hats draped with mosquito netting, thick hickory shirts and tough overalls were necessary equipment on account of the mosquitoes.

Coffey, C.J. - was in the hardware, furniture and undertaking business at Spencer, Neb., and recalls that when panic rules were adopted at the banks, one retired farmer insisted on withdrawing his balance of $950. So they paid him in silver and after carrying it around for a little while he was glad to bring it back and re-deposit it.

Collins, Bailey R. (Dr) - was practicing medicine at Haskell and entertaining ambitions to move to Wichita Falls.

Cone, Fred L. - was living on a Hunt county farm and doing about as much work as might have been expected of a 12-year-old boy.

Cook, W.W. (Judge) - was practicing law in Montague county.

Corbin, Bruce B. (Rev) - was enjoying a brief respite from his work as a missionary in British Burma. He and his family were living in a cottage on top of Thandung mountain, 5,000 feet above sea level, where they had gone to get away from the heat of the Burmese plains.

Collard, F.R. (Dr) - was stock farming in Robertson county and making arrangements to attend the University of Texas medical school the following September.

Connelly, Milo - was keeping books for the Binyon Transfer and Storage company in Fort Worth.

Couper, Fred T. - was in Oklahoma City, in charge of collections and credits for the International Harvester Co.

Covington, Sid A. - was employed by the Colorado and Southern Ry. and living at Trinidad.

Cox, P.B. - was principal of the Jacksboro high school and trying to arrange things so as to go to the University of Texas and study law.

Creighton, Frank - was manager of a mineral water company at Mineral Wells.

Crump, E.M. - was cashier of the First National bank at DeKalb, Texas, which had been organized by the stockholders of a Paris bank who wanted to handle the smaller community's larger loans.

Culbertson, J.W. - and Mrs. Culbertson were in California on their wedding trip. His home was in Pennsylvania, but he had already visited Wichita Falls and the Petrolia gas field in which he was later to become interested.

Cullum, L.H. - was finishing his junior year at the old Bryan High school at Dallas and thinks he was just a gangling long-legged youngster then.

Curd, P.B. - was presiding over a one-teacher school in Ellis county and prearing to enter East Texas Normal college.

Curlee, W.S. - was a teacher in the University trqaining school at Blooming Grove, Texas.

Dalton, W.L. "Bill" - was manager for the Oil Well Supply company at Robinson, Ill.

Daniel, Roy - was a sixth grade pupil at Jonesboro, Ark.

Daugherty, W.H. - was associated with his brother, Frank, in publishing the Wichita Herald whose plant was where The Times office now is.

Dawson, Arch - was trying to hold down his first job as school teacher at Burns City, wherever that is, at $25 per month. He recalls that the efficiency of a teacher in those days was measured by the number of whippings he administered and that as he and his principal had a score of only 26, they were not rated high.

Deaton, Leon - was living at 910 Eleventh street, attending high school and working on Saturdays for Morris & Farris, grocers.

DeMontel, E.C. - was a student at Ford's Academy at Austin, although his home was at Hondo, Medina county.

Donnell, Ben D. - had just arrived in Wichita Falls to assume his duties as city editor of the Daily Times.

Douglass, A.H. (Dr) - was working as assistant chemist in the U.S. experiment station at Columbia, Mo.

Duke, W.R. - was general yardmaster of the Rock Island at Caldwell, Kan.

DuVal, J.W. (Dr) - was living at 1508 Tenth street and driving a pair of ponies to the buggy in which he made his professional rounds. His professional card appeared in the first issue of the Daily Times.

Duncan, T.P. - was secretary and assistant manager of the Wichita mill.

Emmert, M.K. - was dairy farming on the Thornberry road. He is one of this paper's oldest readers, first becoming a subscriber of the Weekly Times in 1897.

Estes, Linton H. - was attending high school at Corpus Christi and "doing just as little as he could possibly could" to quote his statement of it.

Farris, I.A. - was engaged in the grocery business at the corner of Seventh and Indiana.

Featherston, C.H. - was postmaster and manager of a general merchandise store at Oriana, Texas.

Featherston, Solon R. - was living at Aspermont, Texas, where his family had just moved from the farm.

Felder, C.B. - was practicing law, running the telephone company, farming and raising cattle and taking some interest in civic and political matters in Wichita Falls, while hunting and fishing on the side.

Fell, A.H. - was a locomotive fireman on the Texas and New Orleans railroad. His home was in Jacksonville.

Fidler, Ralph S. - was on a visit to a beautiful ranch in Colorado. A very charming young woman also came to the ranch to visit about that time, and eventually became Mrs. Fidler.

Fillers, H.D. - was proud of the fact that he had just been elected principal of the high school at Celeste, Hunt county, after a year's teaching in Van Zandt county.

Fitzgerald, W.E. - was an attorney at Jacksboro and recalls that ist was possible for a lawyer to make more money then than it seems to be now.

Fletcher, John H. (Dr) - had been a resident of Wichita Falls from 1901 to 1905 but had left here and his letter doesn't say where he was in 1907.

Ford, H.S. - was in the grocery business at Holland, Bell county, selling 24 pounds of Arbuckle's coffee for a dollar, 50 pounds of flour for 95 cents, five gallons of kraut for six bits, with practically all business done on credit and the customer whose bill averaged $15 a month was eagerly sought.

Francis, C.I. - was attending Denton High school and, in the afternoons, delivering the Denton Record-Chronicle for which he was to work later as a reporter.

Fruechte, E.F. - was living on a farm in Adams county, Indiana, and, he says, thinking how much more pleasant it would be to be president of the United States, a railroad engineer or a circus clown than to be following a team down the corn rows.

Glover, M.H. (Dr) - was a student at Baylor university, preparing himself for a medical career. His home was at Paducah.

Gould, John (Dr) - was a cub reporter on ---- Statesman at Austin.

Grafton, N.DjF. (Dr) - was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Leonard, Texas.

Gray, D.G. - was wrestling with first-year Latin. he doesn't say where.

Gray, H.A. Jr. - was at work on the first job of his life, a five-story building at Texarkana. He was employed by a Chicago construction firm.

Gray, J. Will - was a freshman in the high school at Trinidad, Colo.

Greer, Ben F. - was serving as county and probate clerk at Fayetteville, Ark. being elected county judge the following year and later serving several Arkansas counties as county agent.

Greever, B.B. - was about to graduate from Vernon High school and planning to go to Eastman Business college at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Guest, J.C.A. (Dr) - was a comparative newcomer to Wichita Falls, having moved here in 1906, and --------------------------- 1503? Burnett, with -------------------.

------------------ - was a draftsman in a Chicago architect's office and was one of a squad of draftsmen who drew plans for the union passenger station at Kansas City.

Gwinn, R.V. - had come in from his farm at Allendale to work as city marshal for $50 a month, plus fees.

Harrell, J.T. - was assistant cashier of the Winfield State bank at Winfield, Iowa.

Hardin, J.G. - was farming his 1,000-acre farm near Burkburnett and participating in the task of organizing the First National bank of Burkburnett which he was to serve as president.

Hargett, J.S. - was credit man for a general store in Kingman, Kan., and, being then single, not worrying about the panic.

Harris, Harvey (Judge) - was in Ellis county on a farm between Waxahachie and Ennis, having just completed his first year as teacher at Ferris school house, otherwise known as "Dog Neck Academy."

Heydrick, L.C. - had just moved from Casey, Ill, to Tulsa where he was leasing lands in the Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw nations.

Heyman, J.A. (Dr) - was attending school in Junction, Texas, 60 miles from a railroad.

Hines, Harry - was assistant purchasing agent for Armour & Co. at Kansas City.

Hirschi, John - was farming in Wichita county and recalls that tractors, hard surfaced roads, high taxes, automobiles and airplanes were unknown then.

Huff, R.E. - was active president of the First National bank.

Howard, Arthur - was working in Ben Williams barber shop on Seventh street, and even then counted himself an old-timer, having lived here since 1880.

Howard, Lon - was living at Montague, Texas, and working as a rural mail carrier. He drove a team of mules to a buggy except when it rained and made the roads so muddy he had to go on horse-back.

Humphrey, Leslie - was a law student at the State university.

Hunt, J.C. - was running a grain elevator on Eighth street where the passenger station now stands.

Kilgore, John E. - was, so he states, more or less of a problem to the faculty of the Palestine High school, where he was to graduate that year.

Kimbrough, Josh (Dr) - was on a farm near Point, Rains county, and not worrying about the panic because he had plenty to eat. About that time, he records, his mother caught him, put shoes on him and started him to school, "thereby ruining a crackerjack good farmer."

King, A.W. - was employed by the Huey & Philp Hardware company at Dallas.

King, Bert - had just closed the term at a rural school in Erath county and gone to work for Swift & Co., at Fort Worth.

Kirby, C.C. - was a student at St. Basil's college, Waco.

Kintz, J. Earle - thinks he was fishing on the creek on his father's farm near Iowa Park and he remembers that the board sidewalks in Wichita Falls played havoc with a 6-year-old boy's bare feet when he came to town.

Langford, W. Smith - was runing a fruit and produce house, serving as agent for a bottling company and as agent for the Southern Express company at Newberry, S.C.

Lawler, George W. - was working at the Lawler barber shop, 708 Ohio, and was living at 505 Lamar, having moved here from Iowa Park the previous winter.

Lasky, Sol - was working in the overall department of Schmitz Schroeder Co., at St. Louis.

Lee, Q.B. (Dr) - was living at Munday which he says was then two days journey from Wichita Falls. He was studying medicine and already planning to make Wichita Falls his home.

Liepold, Eugene - was clerking in a general store at Fort Gipson, Indian Territory, and occasionally umpiring baseball games. He recalls that it was a tough town and that a six shooter was part of an umpire's standard equipment.

Lockhart, Ben - was in the general mercantile business at Formosa, Ark. 30 miles from a railroad.

McBroom, W.E. - was a schoolboy in southern Oklahoma and working as clerk in a store outside of school hours.

McCrory, Luke - was cashier of a bank at Eureka Springs, Ark.

McCutchen, W.U. - was attending school at Munday and working on the farm.

McFall, Julian - was attending school at Weatherford and says he was just a common country boy trying to do right.

McFarland, C.M. - was engaged in railroad work in Leesville, La., and thinking about buying a model N Ford, the first of which were then appearing.

McGregor, W.M. - was cashier of the First National bank.

McGown, G.C. - was in high school at Fort Worth and preparing to follow the threshing outfits that summer.

McKenney, S.D. (Dr) - was pastor of Grace Methodist church at Houston. He was not then married, but had, he recalls, been spoken for.

McMahon, J.L. - was an oil operator at Nowata, Okla., and doing an extensive leasing business.

Mackechney, L. (Dr) - was on a high class liner from New Orleans to New York happily oblivious of the fact that the panic was to hit the lumber business and his practice before long.

Maricle, O.P. - was delivering ice for the Wichita Ice company and making himself otherwise useful. His home was 403 Lamar.

Marrs, John P. - was city attorney at Colorado, Texas, and was, he says, a happy bachelor, though he had tried to marry a pretty school teacher.

Martin, P.A. (Judge) - was serving his first term here as district attorney with a famous murder csase occupying his attention just at that time.

Maxwell, J.L. - was employed in a hardware store in Wichita Falls.

Mendenhall, T.W. - was engeral manager of a well-shooting company at Lawrenceville, Kan.

Miller, -------ude - was a merchant at -----, owner of a nice brick building ------ of eight or 10 good farms, ----- president of a bank, mayor of -----own and local campaign manarge for C.N. Haskell and Schoo -----. When the panic hit, he had ---owing him from farmers, ---- he hasn't forgotten what a ---- it was.

Montgomery, --n - was about to ---- from Grayson college at -----wright, Texas, where the ------lady who became Mrs. Montgomery was also a student.

Morgan, --- - was attending school ----- a dollar a month for ----neighbors' cows to Huff's pasture every day.

Murchison, ---- -s was a Texas ranger, with headquarters at ----, with his duties taking him into every part of the state.

Myers, ----mond - was a grammar ----- student at Pittsburgh, Texas.

Myles, ---- E. - was field auditor for -- construction company which was building the Wichita Falls and ------western.

Mytinger, -- C. - was making arrangements to get a job in the office of the secretary of A. & M. ------- so he could get through that institution.

Nagel, Aug. J. - was connected with a wholesale house in Minneapolis and when it failed in the panic he came to Texas.

Naylor, H.J. - had just moved to Wichita Falls to work as bookkeeper for the Mayfield Lumber company and was among the Daily Times' first regular subscribers.

Nelson, Eithel Allen - was a student of violin at the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music.

Nelson, Walter (Mayor) - was a 4-year-old boy living at Stamford and he says, was probably asking his mother why he couldn't go barefooted.

Noble, Leonard - was toting water in his father's saw mill at San Augustine and when not doiing that was going fishig.

Noble, T.E. - was running a carriage in a saw mill at San Augustine.

Oates, M.B. - was attending the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Oechsner, John N. - was working for the Carpenter Electric company at 611 Eighth street.

Ogle, J.R. - was working for a player piano company at Garwood, N.J.

Oneal, Ben G. - was living in Stephens county and completing his legal education.

Page, Wilburn - was living in Sweetwater where his family had just moved and was probably expressing a 3-year-old sentiment regarding sand storms.

Park, J.E. - was attending college at Denton and recalls that he got a job painting a roof at $1.50 a day during commencement week and that in addition to getting his face blistered he had to break a date with his girl.

Parker, C.H. - was working on his father's farm near Denton. His father owned a grocer store and C.H. hated the grocery business and was firmly resolved never to engage in it.

Parker, W.L. (Dr) - was on his grandfather's farm at Munday and leading the simple life.

Parnell, L.D. (Dr) - was in medical school in Chicago.

Pattillo, A.D. (Dr) - was a medical student at Winnsboro and recalls that he sold his horse and buggy for $50 to finance the completion of his schooling.

Paulk, Kindel - was on a farm near Fargo, and enjoying himself riding calves, fishing and helping with the chores.

Perkins, J.J. - was living at Decatur and operating a chain of dry goods stores and becoming interested in the coal mining possibilities of Young county where he was later to be associated with J.A. Kemp and Frank Kell in that development.

Peterson, Ralph (Dr) - was a student in Tarkio college, Tarklo, Mo.

Pink, Louis - was was in the retail drug business in Indianapolis.

Pond, Ralph - had been a resident of Wichita Falls for about a month, the family having moved here from Missouri in April, 1907 to buy the Home Steam Laundry.

Powers, O.L. (Dr) - was pastor of the First Baptist church as Hidh Point, N.C., then known as the Grand Rapids of the South. He did not even know there was a Wichita Falls at that time, he says.

Prothro, A.R. (Dr) - was practicing dentistry at Granbury, in Hood county.

Rabinowitz, A. (Rev) - was an orthodox minister at Hamilton, Ohio.

Raley, Guy C. - was owner and publisher of the Bellevue Times at Bellevue, using a George Washington press and setting his own type.

Railey, J.E.H. - was publishing the Daily and Weekly Herald at Weatherford and running a job printing plant. He was a visitor at The Times plant the week before the Daily Times started.

Presson, A.K. - was attending Camden, Ark., High school.

Renfro, Howard was attendig school in Clinton, Mo. , having just moved there from Leesville, Mo.

Riesenberg, Sam - was in the cigar manufacturing business at Sherman.

Rigsby, G.D. - had been a resident of Wichita Falls for a few months, the family having purchased the 900-acre farm near Charlie.

Riley, Ed F. - was in the furniture business in Birmingham, Ala., and spending his spare time riding horseback and driving good horses.

Robbins, Horrace - was in charge of the transit department of the State National bank at Austin and recalls how, when the 1907 panic hit, depositors were not allowed to draw out over 10 per cent of their balances at a time.

Rogers, C.A. - was in college and entertaining an ambition to become a lawyer, but didn't.

Smith, Fred K. was working as meat cutter for G.W. Filgo and not yet launched upon his career as a peace officer.

Smock, Tom - was maager of the fruit jar factory at Coffeyville, Kan., and then as now in the employ of Ball brothers, who moved him to Wichita Falls when they established their plant here in 1913.

Simmons, Pat H. - was working for an Abilene dry goods company, as bookkeeper.

Smitham, V.R. - was attending school at Walnut Springs, Bosque county.

Rogers, Guy (Judge) - was at the school at Minter's chapel, Tarrant county, and farming on the side.

Sartin, B.D. (Judge) - was a barefooted country lad working in the corn and tobacco fields near Willow Shade, Ky., and attending a one-room school.

Shepherd, R.E. - was a bachelor farmer 25 miles north of Wichita Falls in the Big Pasture. He had four mules, a wagon and a plow and, he says, owed for all of them.

Snider, C.W. - was cashier of a country bank in Missouri at a salary of $125 monthly. A depression was on and the future looked gloomy, he recalls, but adds that the country came out of it all right and that this should be remembered just now.

Somerville, Wayne - was living at 1200 Ohio. On Saturdays he and Ralph Mathis picked strawberries on the Downing farm or went hunting and fishing with Jerome Stone.

Stampfli, Vic - was running the Cream bakery and serving as fire chief and trying to live down the fact that, when the first fire alarm sounded after he became chief, he went eight blocks to his home and got his helmet before answering the alarm and the house burned before he got there.

Stayton, Burton - was living at 905 Bluff and attending high school.

Stevenson, C.W. (Dr) - was attending the University at Austin and staying at B. hall.

Talbert, J. Wilkie - was living on a ranch near Amarillo but attending school in Lake Charles, La., during the school months.

Voelcker, Herbert - was a sophomore at A. & M. college and writing home for money and then finding that the banks wouldn't cash a check when it came.

Waggoner, Merle T. - was a sophomore in Wichita Falls High School.

Walker, Mark - was a bookkeeper in the First National bank.

Walsh, C.K. - was a student at Indiana university and also working as night clerk at a hotel to earn his expenses.

Williams, K.O. - was living at Bowie and traveling for a Chicago piano company in this territory.

Wilson, O.W. (Dr) - was a freshman in the medical department at Vanderbilt university.

Witcher, W.C. - was living in Dallas and engaged in putting on a real estate addition near Munger place.

Wood, Howard T. (Rev) - was living on a farm near Powersville, Ky.