The Pulaskian., 1916-11-03

A product of an Arkansas farm, Caughey E. Hayes, secretary and treasurer of the Hayes Grain and Commission Company, now seeks to elevate the standard of the Arkansas farm by practical means. Instead of offering advice about planting more foodstuffs and less cotton, Caughey Hayes tells the Arkansas producers to bring their surplus to market and they will receive a preference over grains produced in other States.
 Caughey Hayes did not spend much of his life on farm. but he was there long. enough to get good insight into its economic conditions, and to VOW that if he ever reached the end of his boyhood rainbow he was going to do much to relieve these conditions. And nearly every day he has the gratifica- tion of lending encouragement to grow feedstuffs, by paying some Arkansas shipper a little in advance of the mar ket, just because the grain was grown in Arkansas.
 There is a strain of good, old-fash- toned Methodism in Caughey Hayes, which is evident at the first meeting with him. Although son of Meth odist minister, there was never any thing about MT. Hayes to identify him as such, even in his boyhood days. Had there been, probably his entire life would have been different and Lit tie Rock would have been denied one of it's most progressive merchants of the energetic and pushing type.
 Born at Mineral Springs, in How ard county, MT. Hayes made an oeca- sional move, necessity, for under the rules of the Methodist church his ministerial father was transferred to a new charge at the end of each fourth year. When he reached school age MT. Hayes was a resident of Prescott, and there he secured his early educa- tion.
 The directing hand in MT. Hayes destiny took him from one Methodist household to another, and when still a lad he was taken into the family of his brother-in-law, Rev, James Thom- ae, one of the best known and most beloved of Arkansas ministers. For a time Mir. Hayes resided with the fam fly of Rev. Thomas, in Hot Springs, and then the minister was transferred to Little Rock. Caughey Hayes was brought along and entered the Little Rock High School, where he graduat- ed in due time. MT. Hayes then went to Hendrix College, in Conway.
 After few years in school, anxiety to enter into commercial career tri- umphed over the desire for diploma, and MT. Hayes left college and enter ed the employ of the T. H. Bunch Company. He started to work in the warehouses of this company in 1898, and worked his way up until he held a responsible position when he retired in 1905 to start business of his own
 In 1905 the Hayes-Shofner Grain Company was organized and incorpo rated The company was composed of Rev. James Thomas. Price Shofner and Caughey E. Hayes. This firm soon had four retail stores in Little Rock. and did the largest feed and grain business in the city. Price Shof- ner retired from the firm in a few years to enter into the practice of law.
 This firm name was changed to the Hayes-Thomas Grain Company, and is still operated as one of chain of stores The Hayes Grain and Commis sion Company was organized in 1910 to do an exclusive wholesale business, but soon having outgrown it's plant in East Little Rock it bought and moved into the Bunch Elevator in February, 1915. It has operated this plant for the past two years, with daily capac- ity of from IS to 20 cars. The eleva- tor is modernly equipped. and has