The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-09-01
TEXAS WOMAN MADE
MILLION DOLLARS
IN. EIGHT YEARS

Dallas, Tex, Aug. 30.-Financier,
philanthropist, business woman, club
woman, artist, ship manufacturer, oil
magnate and farmer is Mrs. G. P.
Adams, of Dallas, Texas, who has
achieved more financial and business
success than perhaps any other one
woman in America
And she says she achieved it by
sticking to the job" even though the
odds were against her 10 to 1.
A few thousand dollars left her by
her husband who died in March, 1910,
she swelled to more than million.
Before her husbands death she was
an artist and when he died she took
the helm and steered straight to sue
cess.
She owns the Liberty National
bank at Waco, Texas, capitalized at
$50, 1000 with surplus of 100000. Her
signature as vice-president of the
company is attached to bank notes
now in circulation.
She owns considerable stock in
many of Texas largest bank.
Many are her contributions amount
ing to thousands given to Texas insti-
tutions. Three boys are now being
educated in college at her expense.
She has plan Of buying homes for
employees, allowing them to pay as
they are able. No one with a worthy
plea appealing to her for help will go
unaided.
AS a business woman she is un-
equaled, owning the biggest fish and
oyster wholesale business in Texas.
She in fact controls the fish and oys-
ter market Of Texas and Oklahoma.
Her business enterprise is reflected in
many ways. In addition to retailing
fish and oysters in Dallas she retails
green truck, operating her own irri-
gated farm near Dallas. Around it
she has built village known as
Adamsville.
1t has store, postoffice, black
smith shop and other shops.
Dallas has profited considerably by
her work as club woman. Her chief
ambition in this connection is to aid
girls to reach high position in life
She has been the promoter and organ
izer Of the Dallas Woman's Forum,
and the Dallas Business Woman's Art
association. These organizations have
been organized to help girls and wom-
en- obtain an education in life's great
er branches.
'"The Kathleen" steamship, the
first one made by the Tarver Ship
building company of Beaumont, Tex
as, Of which Mrs. Adams is president,
now plies between Hawoii and Gulf
ports. The company expects to have
several more on the water in a few
months.
Mrs. Adams biggest enterprise is
oil. Her income from oil in the last
several years has amounted to al
most seven figures. She owns a con.
trolling interest in the Tarver Oil
company. The company operates
nearly hundred wells in Texas and
Louisiana fields.
/ And In connection with the oil bus
mess it has been proven that Mrs.
Adams is not superstitious. Thirteen
is said to be an unlucky number.
Mrs. Adams was born on the 18th
day of the month. On the 18th day
Of October, 1913, she set stakes for a
well, the 18th well of tract in the
Sour Lake field The we'll came in|
with 5000 barrels of oil per day.
The North Texas Transient COM
pany, railroad concern, has her
heading the list of its stockholders
IL has been rumored she will be on
the board Of directors.
j But decked in diamonds and a
plain every day dress, Mrs. Adams
sits from early in the morning until
late at night in her little retail fish
market on Main street, Dallas.
There she lives up to the creed ex-
pressed in her favorite verses:
Let me live in house by the side
of the road,