Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1919 — PERRY GWIN GOING UP. [ARTICLE]

PERRY GWIN GOING UP.

Perry Gwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin, of this city, is to become manager of the Sinclair Refining Co., at Elkhart. . It will be good news to Mr. Gwin’s parents, other relatives and friends to know that he is makfollowing is taken from the Elkhart Truth of December 10: Improvements to cost be tween 130,000 and $40,000 are to be built *next spring by the Sinclair Refining company at ite plant near the, foot of State street. The structure, for which the plans have been prepared, will consist of a. large warehouse, an office building and a garage. The warehouse is much needed, as evidenced by the fact that the company now has here about nine carloads of lubricating oil which cannot be stored in the present warehouse because it is already crowded*. . , Announcement of the company s plans for the extensive improvement was coincident w T ith the statement that, effective today, A. F. Gwin is to be manager of the company’s business in the Elkhart district^—which includes the territory Within a forty-mile radius of this city. > Mr. Gwin succeeds H. C. Wright, who has been manager here for two years and who has been promoted to assistant sales manager, with headquarters in the company s division office in Chicago. Mr. Wright, with his wife and child, will go to Chicago in a week or ten days. Mr. Gwin, since coming here last January, when he was discharged from the motor transport service of the army, has been one of the two sales agents connected with the EIK hart office.. Prior to the world war he was an employe of the Pearce oil interest in Mexico, and was a witness to many stirring and gruesome incidents during the various “revolutions” in that distrought country.