Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1920 — SUCCESS MARKS M’CRAY CAREER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SUCCESS MARKS M’CRAY CAREER

UFE OF G. O. P. NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR DISTINGUISHED BY ACHIEVEMENT. APPLIES BUSINESS METHODS ■ Making a success of whatever he undertakes la one of the. distinguishing features of Warren T. McCray's, career. He entered business on his twenty-first birthday and began on that day ,to study business principles, with the result that his first venture in business was a complete success. That first venture was In the grocery business. It was established in Mr. McCray’s home town at Kentland and it required long hours, hard work and jt strong determination to overcome difficulties, but the young business man steered a straight course, applying business methods in the conduct of his trade and it was not long before the grocery was a prosperous concern. Born on Farm. . Mr. McCray was' born on a farm near Brook, in Newton county, in 1846. When he was old enough for school his parents moved to Kentland

In order that ho might attend the public school of the town. Ho complated the grade school course and graduated with honors from the Kentland high school in 1882. Dur ing his high school days he had been working before and after school hours, and at nights, in his father’s bank. When he finished his high school studies he was offered the position of bookkeeper in the bank, which he accepted. He remained in . the bank in that capacity until his twenty-first birthday, when he bought a half-Interest in a grocery business, his friend Willis Kirkpatrick, going in as a partner. Wont In Grain Business. Later Mr. McCray acquired an interest in a grain business which demanded all of his time and he disposed of his grocery holdings. He worked energetically at the .grain trade and the business expanded rapidly until the firm, of which he was the head, grew to be known as the largest handlers of cash grain in the state. Mr. McCray remained the active head of this business until 1919 when he sold the major portion of his interest In addition to his grain business Mr. McCray had given much attention to practical farming and bo spent track time in building up his form lands Into one of the finest stock and grain forms in the country. Farms on Business Basie. F Hfo farm is conducted on modern h win rar methods and they have

graved noUbly gnooesofal. Mr. MoCray is a lovsr offtne, pure-bred cat- ' th and hie herd of Herefords on the * Orchard Lake stock farm is rated as one of the best in the country. From a small beginning he has built up a ' fnra-brod cattle industry that has astonished the ' The Republican nominee is greatly lorad and admired by his friends and associates and his policy of never hesitating to go out of his way in order to render justice and fairness to Ms fellow-men has won him hundreds of friends. He employs a large number of workmen on his farm and has always had the moot pleasant relattens with Ms men. He has long been an employer of labor and has norar had any labor trouble of any kind. Ho has pensioned old employes who hare been in Ms service many, years and every year he entertains Ms help at a Mg picnic. interacted In Church Work. Mr. McCray has always had a very close Interest In church and Sundayschool wort: and for nine years he, superintendent of the SundaySchool of .the First Presbyterilp church of Kentland. He has been a member of the board of trustees M that church for twenty years and is one of the leaders tn the congregar The splendid success achieved by Mr. MoOray in the management of Ms personal affairs convinced Ms friend* Mat the man who had demonstrated such ability as a manager and veo? tfra would be just the man needed to handle the big problems the state of Indiana win be called upon to sobra M the coming years sad he was yeJ"*** “ “ wMv ws lav* .

WARREN T H'CRAY