Floyd V. Baxter Resigns After Twenty-Seven Years with Long-Bell

Floyd V. Baxter, general purchasing agent for the retail intere'.sts of the Lon[-I-lell Lumber Compiny, has tend-ered his resignation, to become effective July 1. He has been with thJcompany trventy-seven years and has held his pre-qent position ilnci 1uty, i0t5. He leaves to become actively engaged with his iath.er, S. W. Baxter, in the management rni &oanrion of the Baxter Lumber and Mercantile Company. -This company rvas organized in-1919 and norv opeiates eight retail yards in southrvestern Missouri and southeastern=Kansas. Heaclquarters are at Pittsburg, Kansas.

In announcing Mr. Baxter's resignation, J' H. Eol-esman, vice-president and general manager of the Long-8e11 retail interests, said:

"We are accepting Mr. Baxtet's resignation rvith profotrnd regret; but honor him in his clecision. We have watched him dcvelop from an inexperienced but rviiling boy into the solendid. finished and valuable business mar-r that he is and would that our close relations could continue for many years to come. But he is doing the right thing in going with his father to relieve him of some of the cares norv incumbent upon him. We commend Floyd for his decision and wish him every success. In the rvords of our leader, X4r. Long, our loss is a father's gain."

Mr. Baxter rvas born at Pittsburg, Kansas, April 19, 1884. He comes of a family of lumbermen. His father, S. W. Baxter, ou'ned and operated a yard. at Pittsburg for vears before he sold it to the Long-Bell company in 1882. Fo. yearr {ollorving, one or anothbr of the Ilaxter family rvas in charge. His father resigned as a division manager for the company in 1919 to attend to the business of the Baxter Lumber and Mercantile Company. It rvas but natural then, that Floyd Baxter should follorv in the footsteps of his father and uncles, altl-rough he says as a young man he rvanted to be a large-scale farmer until his wife prevailed upon him to think otherrvise and accept employment lvitir the Long-Bell company.

He went to Weir, Kansas, in the fall of 1901 as weigher at coal mine No. 18 of the Central Coal and Coke Company. In April, 1902, he married Miss Mary C. Poweil, daughter of Nlr. and Mrs. Thomas Pou,ell of Weir.

N{av 5, 1903, Mr. Baxter began his first work rvith LongBell, as assistant to his uncle, L. C. Baxter, then manager of the Pittsburg 1'ard. After three years there, he was promoted to managership of the yard at Nervkirk, Oklahoma, then to San Angelo, Texas, back again to Pittsburg and again to Newkirk. Flom 1909 to 1915 he was traveling relief manager for the company with headquarters at Columbup, Kalrsas, and July 12, 19t5, went to Kansas City to bect,nre purclrasing agent.

IIr. and Mrs. I3axter, and their daughter, Laura Marie, age i3 years, will make their home in Pittsburg after July 1.