JOHN HENRY JONES, ST. JOE PAYMASTER |
John Henry Jones, for thirty-three years timekeeper and paymaster of the St. Joseph Lead Company, this week handed in his resignation, and will hereafter devote his entire time to his big rice plantation at Hazen, Arkansas.
Mr. Jones has probably paid out more millions of dollars in wages to workingmen than any other man in the State, and his genial smile and handclasp will be missed by the great army of employees who wend their way to the pay office where they have in all these years been certain to find sympathy, cheer and encouragement from their friend Jones and every man who has come in contact with Mr. Jones has known him as a big hearted, sympathetic friend who while loyal to every interest of his employers, managed to preserve an atmosphere of cordialty between himself and those whom he served for the Company.
Mr. Jones came to Bonne Terre a few years previous to the time the Desloge Lead Company was absorbed by St. Joe. Having the advantage of college training, supplemented by the business training in the time office of such a master mind as Firmin Desloge, who is well-known for his firm, rigid and vigorous policies, and that training further developed by work under the diplomac, humane and business like policies of C. B. Parsons, Gus Setz and F. P. Graves, it is not remarkable that Mr. Jones has been an invaluable man to the Company during the years past.
No man on the job knew as many laboring men or had their respect and confidence to the extent of that enjoyed by Mr. Jones.
Being a man of exemplary habits and modest living Mr. Jones accumulated his savings, and some years ago bought a big rice plantation in Arkansas. This plantation he has developed until it is now on a very profitable basis, we understand, and he will hereafter devote his entire time to further development of the plantation.
Thus Bonne Terre will lose one of her best citizens and while all will miss his broad smile and hearty handclasp, it will be the "boys" in the mines who will miss him the most, for his long acquaintance, by his help in time of distress and words and acts of sympathy in time of trouble, he was regarded by the "boys" as a never failing friend.