Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 252, 5 August 1919 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919

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True Stories of Successful Women By Edith MorUrty

Little do the men throughout the: country, who receive checks or orders from the Bryan Machine Company el sued In a large. Arm hand C. Marshall, think that C. Marshall Is a diminutive black-haired miss of but twenty-three summers. And even those men who know her full name, address their communications to Mr. Cecil Marshall. The firm should really be called the Marshall Machine Company, for It was this very young woman who M the company on its feet and made ft the profitable and nationally known concern that Is now is. Cecil was the second child In a large family of eight. Her parents 6poke no English and had very little money and though they tried to send Cecil through high school they found months when two of her sisters became ill and she had to stay home to care for them. She never returned to high school, but started to business school the next year and after completing the required course she was sent to Mr. Bryan, who wanted a stenographer. Cecil was a poor speller, not altogether neat either in her work or in her dress and very inexperienced. With tfiese drawbacks she started in on her business career at the age of sixteen with a salary of six dollars a week. , Cecil was quick to realize her shortcomings and she had scarcely worked a month before she started to improve in every way. She studied spelling and she went to work early and stayed late in order to practice up on her typing. Her own appearance improved wonderfully and she claims that was the hardest part of uer work. To dress neatly and becomingly upon her small salary was the biggest problem she met, but she mastered that as she did others and today she modestly admits that she dresses better and on less money than do many women, and all who meet her would surely agree with her. especially upon the first part. When Cecil started working for the Bryan Company it was a young and struggling concern. Mr. Bryan was Just starting out for himself in the business which he had learned from working in a large and well established firm dealing with the same king of thing. It was far from what one considers a woman's business, being all about gears and stopcocks and gauges and the like. When Cecil had been there a year, Mr. Bryan decided that if he wanted ', any business he would have to go out and get It himself. .so after a conference with her left for a short trip. Then and there C. Marshall entered the business world in earnest. She became office manager on Mr. Bryan's absence and since be only came into the office on Saturday noon when everybody else had left and remained in the city until Sunday night, when he left on another trip, C. Marshall was office manager for two whole years except on Saturday afternoons nnd Sundays. During that time she took the place four people. She was office man.ger, stenographer, purchasing agent, ' complaint department and city salesman in one. The business grew to such proportions that it became a phy-

A Chance to LiveBy Zoe Beckley

A LITTLE LIGHT Weeks passed, with situation beginning to grow desperate. With so much walking, Bernard's shoes wore out. Annie noticed them one night after he had gone exhaustedly to sleep, and cried over them. The soles of both were worn clean through, making a pathetic contrast to the carefully polished uppers. She looked at his other clothes. There were the heart-stabbing sign3 of poverty the frayed cuffs and trousers, the shirt faded from innumerable washings, the broken collar, the shine of the coat at elbow and shoulder. The next day Annie went out and pawned the locket and chain Bernle had bought her from his first pool winnings. She rolled up ten dollars of the twelve she had got on it and stuck it under his dinner plate with a note that said: "Shoo and shirt money! Yes, darllnt, I'm still a honest woman! I saved it outen my past allowance!" She thought the ilny Jest would help keep things cheery. Bernard hugged her, keeping his face from view. "I'm going to get something tomor r Y

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sical Impossibility for one nineteen-year-old miss to handle the office end herself, and one salesman could scarcely cover one state. Within eight months after Mr Bryan left the road he had hired twenty salesmen and the force in the 6hoD had been increased to three times its size. Cecil, who had learned bookkeeping by herself, was relieved of her duties as stenographer, city salesman and complaint department, but was made head bookkeeper and purchasing aeent for the entire concern. Her salary had risen to six times its orig lnal size. Then the Bryan Machine company faced a crisis. Mr. Bryan had been letting his end of the business Blide and everything looked pretty bad. It was C. Marshall who put the company on Its feet. She got credit for them which tided them over and she put all of her own savings into the concern. It was then that she was made secretary and treasurer of the concern, and it was not long before her money whin she had invested in the company had doubled. She re-invested and became one of the leading stockholders. Today she is but twenty-three. She earns a salary which would satisfy a great many men twice her size, and she is secretary-treasurer and general manager of a growing business which nets her an income of considerable size aside from her salary. Mr. Bryan rarely makes a move without consulting her, and although she has many assistants and has little of the routine work to do which she had in her first few years, she is still ready to write a letter, take a dictation, answer a phone, add up a column of figures, or sell one of her old customers a gauge when the occasion demands it. C. Marshall, however, is soon to retire as general manager of the Bryan Machine company only to accept the position as general household manager of a little bungalow for two, but that is another story. She will, howerver, continue her duties as secretary and treasurer of the machine company. row," he said later, his Jaw set hard "It may not be as good as before, but I'll land something or or well, I'll land it, that's all!" Bills were piling up. The rent was overdue. Annie talked to the groceryman and to the collector. Both of them looked at her anxious young face with something of sympathy in their eyes, and promised to "wait a little." She had a new silk dress that she had scarcely worn. She took that to the man to whom her locket was pledged. He held it to the light, felt of it, creased the fabric, wet it with his thumb and finger and shook it at arm's length, reflectively. "Three and a half," he said briefly, looking at Annie over steel-rimmed spectacles. A thin woman waiting by the coun ter with a clumsily wrapped bundle nudged her and murmured behind her hand, "Ask for more; he'll give It!' But Annie couldn't. The dark, illsmelling shop repelled her. She long ed to get out and home to her sleeping baby lest something might have hap pened him in her absence. She waited nervously for the slow pawnbroker to

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spluttered and ink diluted with vinegar, took the money he gave and hur ried from the place. The thin woman looked after her sympathetically. ' Mebbe she ll learn by and by," she said to another shawled "cus tomer. "Hope to Gawd Bhe don't!" said the latter. They, poor sodden victims of poverty and rapacity, had both learned. That evening Bernl came home with a Job. It was a position as shipping clerk In a chemical house something like Slmm's and the wage was fourteen "to start" Annie hugged him and skipped around the little living room. The baby woke and his mother grabbed him in her anas. "Your dad's splendid. Robsie! Go tell him congratulations!" And she stuffed the infant lato Bernle's arms, so that the pudgy wee body hid both their faces from eacn other. "It's a rotten Job, Nan, and you are such a wonder!" said Bernard Incoherently. Annie, understanding well his tribute, countered cheerily: "What have I got to do with it? I wouldn't know how to "clerkship' or 'shlpclerk' if my life depended on it! Now, sir let us dine!" (To be continued.) Camden, 0. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eikenberry, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Eikenberry and Mrs. L. O. McShane are enjoying a two weeks' auto trip , to Iowa. They will visit relatives at Burlington and other cities Howard Pattlson has bought the Huffman property on North Lafayette street and will soon occupy it. Ray Simpson, editor of the Preble County News, will move into the house j vacated by Mr. Pattlson Mrs. Glen! Jefferson, of Hamilton, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Eva Wall Mr. and ; Mrs. J. W. Kenworthy were Camden j visitors Friday The Ladies of the ir..i li . i i . i . . I ivieiuuuiBi ccurcu gave a social in Sizelove's corner Saturday evening. . . Rev. Mr. Goer and family will spend a ten days' vacation at Miami Valley Chautauqua t Frnklin, Ohio. Mrs. Gertrude Wycoff and sister of Dayton were entertained at dinner by Miss Carrie Bell.... Miss Helen Clark is visiting her uncle George Rlner and family near West Elkton.. Frank White ia home again after a short business trip Dr. W. A. Scott of St. John, Mich., who recently returned from ten months' service overseas, is visiting his father, J. P. Scott, and brother, Howard Scott Mr. and Mrs. Stevens and family of Liberty spent Saturday with Mrs. Stevens' sister, Mrs. Clarence Phares S. L. Yochum and family spent a pleasant week with home folks in Highland county Merrill Fry and wife, Charles Neff and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wetler left for Tra verse City, Michigan, Saturday even ing for a week's outing Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dauser will spend several weeks in Minneapolis, Minn., and neighboring cities J. E. Randall and wife, T. G. Shuey and Mrs. Shuey, Dr. M.j S. Green and wife, and Mr. and Mrs. McKinley of Cincinnati, O., leave Wednesday for Cable, Wisconsin, to enjoy their annual vacation. Miss Wright and Miss Ruth Wright of Oxford, O., visited their grandfather, John Wright, several days last weeL Mr. and Mrs. Tel Pheanis and daughter, Tulma of Sowervllle, O., spent Sunday with Mrs. Pheanis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lamb Misses Ruth Freitag, Marjorle Duvall and Mary Duvall are home after a six weeks' normal course at Athens State Normal S. N. Stubbs of West Elkton was a Camden visitor Saturday.. ..Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith, Mrs. Sarah Graham of Hamilton and Mrs. Clara Fouracre and daughter, Helen, of Philadelphia were Sunday guests of T. E. Davis and wife and daughter, Mrs. Nellie Graham Miss Stiegleman has returned from a pleasant trip to Chautauqua, New York. Committee to Complete Plans For Old Settlers Day The committee to arrange for the Old Settlers' picnic to be held at Centerville the third week in August will complete arrangements for the event at a meeting to be held Tuesday evening. Tentative plans have been made at previous meetings, but it was not possible to obtain a complete list of speakers before this time. An unusually interesting program is planned, according to members of the committee, and it is planned to make the picnic an after-war event. Australian manufacturers are making pressed steel water pipe twentyeight feet long by thirty inches internal diameter at a plant in Bombay. CO, Stim RtwrtMtwta

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