The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-21


audience to wait until the final curtain
in order that the outcome of the play
may be understood, 1t might pc SAID mat
this epistle will not be understood by
ideas CLEANED from the beginning, taken
as follows. from the Oklahoma trade |
Review:
Hon L. A. Faubion, Ends justly |
popular chief executive is in the truest
sense of the term. man OF the people-
He came to Garfield county at the OPP
ening of the country to settlement, ana
like most of his countrymen ana renew
settlers. was not flying particularly hlgh
in a financial way. When times were
hard crops were poor. money very
scarce and extremely hard to command,
he stuck to his farm improving IL more
and more year after year. Wneh Inc
tide of affairs changed he had his hne
farm in condition to produce. He raised
a few good crops, when he accepted an
inviting offer to engage in mercantile
life in Enid. In the grocery ana pro-
duce business-in the wholesale ana re-
tail meat business,-in handing STOCK
as feeders shippers and butcher stun,
he has exercised the same calm, cooi
good business judgment when mas III
Variably brought him out a winner ne
has for the past three years concucleo
his business affairs so squarely and non
| orably that he was chosen mayor OF
Enid by his fellow townsmen, as d
| compliment to his good citizenship, tne
| highest degree of confidence IL was III
| their mower to bestoW 1t is a pleasure
for Mayor Faubion's friends to recall the
gradual steps of regular advancement
made by Ends chief executive ne
began business with partner IN
small, dark room, with but few hum
| dred dollars worth of goods he sooN
| assumed full control of the business ne
| very soon found his space too snali.
| additions of room after room were h1do0
| to keep pace with his growing patron
age until further expansion was prac-
| ticaIly impossible. Then the new puiiu-
ing now occupied by him became an az
solute necessity.
"A glance will show that TINS stole
lis in the trueSt sense metropolitan
business house The fixtures and 1ur-
lnishings are equal to those in the great
centers of trade. The store is proVlnsu
with a large roomy annex for the course
products.
"In addition to the regular stock OF
standard goods which Mr.. Faublon
carries in great profus1on, ne MAKES
speciality of a finer line or speclaltisS'
to supply a certain trade which ne mas
fostered by keeping the finest and
greatest variety of choicest del1eacles'
such as the best, pure white clover
honey, simon pure maple sugar, pickles
of the most varied assortment, pre-
served fruits, jellies, fancy cakes,
cookies and biscuits. The very pest
evaporated California fruits and select
canned goods, teas, coHees, spices, &c,
, ETC. and in fact everything to tempt
ioice the stomach of the most chronic
r and confirmed dyspeptics. He employees
about a dozen men and runs three de-
livery wagons.
There was a time, a dozen years age
or SO, when he wasn't known as mayor
Faubion. He was, to those VINO knew
him. Just plain Lew Fauploh. ina
i was in the days when he drove morse
car on the West Sixth avenue line pc.
: tween Sixth and kansas avenue anc
lAuburndale.
Z Day after day he leaned over the from
dashboard and urged the tree morse
q along. He hated to do 1t. lie knew
they were tired There was more thar
= the average measure OF tine fnllh .
- human kindness in Faublon ana II III
: had a tagged team ana the oay va We,
II hot he let the time schedule go by tn
& hoard and made his trips 10 SUIT IN
Conditions of the team. If the manage
r wanted anything else the boss up d
d the barn on Tenth street had 10 sem
fresh horses. There was one team,
n nair of white horses named Blaine an
e Logan. that Faubion was particularly
fond of. He never whipped then: l
er wasn't necessary. They were two OF Tn
l. most intelligent car horses that eve
l. stumbled along in the narrow trac
between the rails where the ties stuc
v nm and the dirt between was pounde
lg down until it was like corduro
Id road -
"a meant to stop and that two slgnaAed
~ go ahead All Faubion did was 10 MAI
- age the brake. If there was a big ioa
on the car and the horses were Worfle
Climbing the hills and there were son
OIL nretty steep hills on the line, FauDle
4 would stop the car, let the horses re
+ and puff awhile and II necessary
would get off and walk ana Woula =
les ouest the men passengers to plod up Il
ne hill also The horses were first VII
as Faubion and the public Afterwards. II
e. regular patrons of the line aldn con
iy main for they knew the justice OF 1t a
Faubion thought as much OF tho
two horses, although they didn't belof
to him. as Billings ever though OF Il
Dillon. F'aubion used to cache Le
>. ears Of corn and a cracker box full
ia | fresh grass at the END OF the me
Auburndale, for the horses Mhen tl'
.ct had a few minutes to stop Tne par
~ white horses stood the rigors of the Sc
TO- vice better than any of the other team
No. Along about the same time the a
nouncement came that the governing 1ts
the horse car company had been poug
III by the Electric people ana me hofs
ST. would be superseded by the trolley.
good many people didn't see any co
he Election between the two statemen
gh- Faubion was The Fellow Who l3ld-
saw an opportunity and he did not
it pass. -. 90 ;,
all the time he was thinking he khe
tie, tat there would be chances in t
ex- new country. He knew that the hor
car teams would be sold. He plann
M. it all in his mind. When the hors
were put I'D for sale at the street c
harm Faubion bought Blaine a
h OF Logan. A good many people mig
have thought that the horses that h
IL worked on the cars were worn o.
is fauDlOn knew Wndt thS' tffO - -
his horses were good for
le.' Then he bought a wagon. He stock
it with what he needed, hitched Blai
and Logan to the outfit and set G
ow across the country He made the r
TO into the strip and took up a claim
,ef1 !, fria eod with the