SMITH HUMPHREY Smith Humphrey is the senior partner in the Humphrey-Elefson Battery Company, conducting an auto repair and battery shop. He is a western man by birth, training and preference and his life is actuated by the spirit of progress and enterprise which has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of this great and growing section of the country. He was born in Kosoma, Oklahoma, while his education was largely acquired in the schools of Fort Smith and in the State University of Arkansas. When his student days were over he became identified with the Merchants National Bank and later embarked in business on his own account. Mr. Humphrey established his present business in 1914 in partnership with Sidney Collier, who died in 1917. The beginning was very small, but the patronage of the firm has steadily grown until the enterprise has become one of very substantial success. The company now occupies seven thousand, five hundred square feet of floor space. It deals in automobile accessories, tires, batteries and does all sorts of repairing on motor cars. It operates service cars and employs fifteen people. When the war was declared Mr. Humphrey joined the regular army, continuing therewith for a few months, after which he was transferred to the shipping board in Philadelphia and spent about two years in that city, remaining there for some time after the war was over. At this time he faced the problem of a complete collapse of his business upon going to the front and, therefore, took George Elefson into partnership, leaving the business in his charge. Mr. Elefson was formerly proprietor of the Smoke Shop on Sixth and Garrison streets in Fort Smith. With his return to Fort Smith, Mr. Humphrey resumed active connection with the business, which is today one of the important commercial enterprises of the city. Mr. Humphrey is a young man who has a reputation for doing things. In a word he accomplishes what he undertakes and when obstacles and difficulties seem to bar his path he overcomes these by persistent effort and resolute will, ultimately reaching his objective. He is well known as a member of the Tire Dealers Association, also of the Auto Dealers Association and of the Business Men’s Club and his support and cooperation can at all times be counted upon to further plans and measures for public benefit.