Volume 12 , Issue 3

December 1926 - Frisco Western Division

According to The Frisco Employes' Magazine, page 50, December, 1926, the Transportation Department, Western Division - Enid, written by Cambell and Campbell, reporters, were reporting on the Western Division for the towns along the Western Division of the Frisco Line.

Campbell and Campbell reported, "L. H. Harshey, draftsman on the western, has been appointed roadster on the central division, stationed at Hugo, Okla. Good luck, Lew.

"H. V. Yerby (Squeegee) comes from Ft. Smith to thee western division as 'transition' in the division engineers' office. Fel sure he will like the western."

A Sad Tale

Campbell & Campbell go on in the article to say, "This is dedicated to radio fans on this division and I must say we have lots of 'em:

"Here lies the remains of a radio fan, who is mourned by his many relations; he filled his gas tank while smoking hi pipe, and was picked up by twenty-one stations.

"On November 1 two Frisco veterans in the interest of 'The Small Town Advancement Society,' of which they constitute the official body, made a trip over the Avard sub-division. While the real purpose of their trip and their accomplishments have not yet been given to the public, it is known that they made a thorough investigation of social and business conditions with the object in view of writing an appropriate slogan for each town.

Their efforts were as follows:
* If you've a girl and gonna marry 'er, Remember livin's low in Carrier.

* 'Twill pay all men to move to Goltry, Who love to look on fairer poultry.

* Fair Helena needs no boostin', she's always on the top aroostin'.

* If you marry, don't be silly, but build a love nest at McWillie.

* If you would make a fortune farmin', success awaits all men at Carmen.

* The bathing beauties of Dacoma lead all the rest in Oklahoma.

* Hopeton, hope of all the hopeless -- Wineless, womanless, and dopeless.

There was an note to Mr Editor at the end of the piece that read, "The official body decline to submit their slogan for Avard, stating as their reason that Avard is on the main line of the Santa Fe while only on a Frisco branch line. Moreover, the literary merit of the Avard slogan is so far ahead of that of the others that its publication would be an injustice to the Frisco Lines. As a substitute slogan, they give the following cryptic words:

* Avard: Where we stayed over night and had breakfast.
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