Mixes Pharmacy, Journalism

Walter D. Adams

Dallas Morning News
Sunday, 23 June 1940
Section 1, Page 12

Special to The News

FORNEY, Kaufman Co., Texas, June 22 – In point of service the oldest correspondent of The Dallas News, a member of the Texas Press Association for fifty years, publisher of the Texas Druggist, and recently the rebuilder of Forney after a tornado had wrecked the city, Walter D. Adams has a lot of dynamite packed in his small stature. His drug business here is one of the oldest mercantile establishments in the city.

Adams was born at Kemp, in Kaufman County, on the last day of 1872. In 1885 he started work for a newspaper at Kaufman. His pay for the first six months was a suit of clothes, for the next year $1 a month, and then $4 a month until he moved to Forney in 1888 at the big salary of $4 a week. It was in this year that he first became correspondent for the News, later to drop the work while he studied pharmacy. His present appointment is dated 1893.

Adams celebrated his golden anniversary as a member of the Texas Press Association at that body’s convention in Mineral Wells earlier this month.