Nogales International

Praises Arizona's Senators And Congressmen

"We have reason to be proud of our two senators and our two congressmen in Washington... I don't think a state has better representation," said Wirt G. Bowman upon his return Saturday from a business trip to the nation's capital with Judge Gordon Farley, Louis Escalada and Andrew Bookas.

He was referring to Senators Carl Hayden and Ernest W. McFarland and Congressmen John R. Murdock and Richard F. Harless.

Near Edinburg, Va., the Nogales men visited the place where Mr. Bowman's father was born and they also visited his own birthplace at West Point, Miss., where he was born March 28, 1874.

On the way home, because of missing their train in Memphis, the Nogalians journeyed from Tennessee to Arizona via air.

Visit To West Point

Relative to Mr. Bowman's visit to West Point, Miss., the Daily Times of that city, in its issue of April 8th, contained the following:

"The feature of the regular Thursday noon luncheon of the

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local Rotary club was a brief talk by W. G. Bowman, native son, who left West Point in 1888, and who is now a leading citizen and member of the Rotary club at Nogales, Arizona. While here he was the guest of his boyhood playmate, E. B. Crom-well.
Mr. Bowman's father was the first local agent for the Mobile & Ohio railroad company in West Point, and was prominently identified with the movement to restore white supremacy in Mississippi in the years immediately following the Civil War.