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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Rev. J.M. Ormond Writes About Life in Dallas, Texas, Jan. 27, 1922

Finds Plenty of Gas and the Water Hot. . . Former Pastor of First Church Here Writes of His New Location in Texas

Rev. J.M. Ormond, former pastor of First Methodist Church south, in this city, who recently went to the Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Tex., to take charge of a department in that big institution, tells this newspaper something of his new home in a recent letter. Mr. Ormond says:

“I have visited Texas before coming in December to live, and was in some respects prepared for what I have found, but the most outstanding characteristic of this people here is the robustness of outlook and energy. Dallas is called “The Young Man’s City.” It has every appearance of such a place. There is big business, large undertakings in everything, a hopeful outlook for the future. The rapidity of growth is remarkable. The Chamber of commerce announces that there are 178,000 people here within and just in suburban territory of the city. There are some sections of the business territory which remind one more of New York than any other Southern city I have visited. Many buildings mount up skyward until the street is similar to the canon. The University is out on the north side, just in the suburb, but five or six miles from the shopping district of the city. We have access to the street cars, but I have purchased a Ford sedan which serves our purpose more acceptably than does the street car.

“Our water and gas come from Oklahoma. We have no trouble with gas pressure; gas is plentiful in Texas everywhere I have been—and almost all the people here heat their homes with it. The water comes to us hot enough for a red-hot bath, so that we do not need instantaneous heaters, etc., for that purpose on our street. I am told, however, in most places they do not use these heaters in addition.”

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Jan. 27, 1922

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