“At Superintendent Stableton's retirement reception, as reported in The Pantagraph on June 3, 1920, Horatio Bent said: I do not think I can better express the affection which prompted this occasion than relate a story which I heard not very long ago. I was told that two little girls saw you passing, and one said to the other, ‘There goes our Mr. Stableton.’
‘No,’ said the other, ‘he is not our Mr. Stableton – he is everybody’s Mr. Stableton.”’
