The Winslow mail., 1923-09-21
MAIL PUBLISHING COMPANY
Sam w. Proctor, Editor and Manager
WINSLOW MAIL
(by r, III. TOWnS)

The WinsloW Mail was originally
established in 1887 in a building on
Front Street by a Mr.. Corey. His
successors were Mr.. Buck, Mr.. James
Wallace, and F. F. Flickinger The
original paper was two sheet, four
column affair, printed on jobber.
The Mail has been under its present
administration since August, 1922,
when Mr. Proctor purchased the in
terests of L. V. Root, the plant at
that time consi ting of a number one
Model Linotype machine, a Diamond
press, and forty cases of type.
Sam w. Proctor, under whose sole
ownership and management the busi-
ness is conducted was born Feb
ruary 21, 1879, in Gallatin County,
Illinois, his father being a Methodist
Minister Mr.. Proctor received his
high school education in Illinois and
afterward entered employment at a
steamboat clerk. He also practiced
pharmacy for quite awhile He en-
tered railroad work at Danville, IL
linois, in 1898, and started as Fire
man at Decatur, Illinois. Mr.. Proc
tor came to the Santa Fe as Fireman
in 1905 and was promoted to Engin-
eer in 1908 Mr.. Proctor served as
local Chairman of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Fireman and Engineers,
and later as Chairman of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. He
was elected to the Arizona State Le-
gislature in 1915 and served two
years. He was Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives of this
State in 1917. Mr.. Proctor was ap:
pointed Secretary of the Arizona
State Corporation Commission in 1917
He returned to the Santa Fe Railway
in 1920 and resigned in 1921, and
then managed Cooperative Store
here until August 1922, when he took
over the Winslow Mail. He was ap-
pointed a member of the Northern
Arizona Normal Board of Education
on March 1st, of this year and at
present is Secretary of the Demo-
cratic Central Committee for Navajo
County. Mr.. Proctor is a Rotarian
and prominent fraternal man.
Charles F. Thomas, Foreman of
the Mechanical Department, came to
the Mail August 27, 1928, from the
Coconino Sun, at Flagstaff, Arizona,
where he also worked in the
Mechanical Department. Prior to
this time he was connected with the
Prescott Evening Courier and the
Prescott Journal Miner, at Prescott,
Arizona. Mr. Thomas has had nine
teen years experience in the printing
business and in country newspaper
work and is thoroughly familiar with
every phase of the game" He holds
eight United States Patent inventions
along mechanical lines, three of which
are inventions of Labor Saving Print
ing Devices.
Lester B. Sutcliffe is City Editor
and has been connected with the Mail
since June 80, of this year Mr. SUIT
cliffe is native of Kansas and was
educated in Kansas and Colorado.
He is graduate of the School of
Journalism, University of Colorado.
Henry Acosta, in charge of machine
work is an experienced Linotype
operator and has had twenty years
experience in printing. He was
formerly connected with the Ell Paso
Printing Company, at Ell Paso, Texas,
one of the largest printing concerns
in that city, and also with the former
firm of Albright & Anderson at AL
buquerque, New Mexico, and who
were the leading printers in that
city. Henry Lopez fioorman, has
been with the paper for the past
three months and has had eight
years experience as printer He
has specialized on floor work.
The present equipment of the Mail
Publishing Company includes a bat
terry of two type setting machines;
two platen presses, one Chandler &
Price 12x18, and one Chandler &
Price 8x12; one Cranston Drum
Cylinder Press capable of taking
four pages, six columns, at one i'm
preston; a modern equipped folder
that can handle all work in a shop
of this size; a Boston Wire Stitcher:
80 inch Gem Paper Cutter; and one
of the most complete equipments of
type for display ads and Job work
in this section of the state, including
plentiful supply in each of the
more popular faces and groups of
modern Typography.
The entire shop is electrically
operated throughout and since taking
over the business Mr.. Proctor has
added a forty-foot extension to the
building, put in an entire new front
with full sized display windows, and
including the last word in modern
electrical lighting and fixtures. The
location of the plant is at 212 West
Second and the phone number is II.