Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1914 — Editor Simons Has Retired From White County Democrat. [ARTICLE]

Editor Simons Has Retired From White County Democrat.

J. P. Simonis, for some twenty years the editor of the White County Democrat, has severed his connection with the paper and Charles L. Foster has succeeded him as editor and will also be the active business manager. Abram C. Clarke, who was associated with Mr. Simons, is the president of the Demo-crat-Journal-Observer Co., but on account of poor health and advancing years will not work much of the time Mr. Foster has been in the newspaper business for ten years, having purchased The Idaville Observer in 1904. In the fall of 1912 he purchased the Monticello Evening Journal and that paper and The Observer and The White County Democrat were combined and incorporated. The papers have been improved under the direction of the new management, but the splendid moral tone and the vigilance for right can not be improved. Mr. Simons, who retires, leaves as his warm friends all the newspapermen of this section of Indiana, and the influence for the square deal in journalism will 'be felt by all who have had The White County Democrat as an exchange during his many years as editor. It is to be hoped that his honorable course has been rewarded by business success and that he is able to retire with a competence sufficient to provide for himself and family the rest of his life. In the business affairs of life men come and go and their arrival or their passing is scarcely noticed, but the withdrawal of Brvtlier Simons from newspaper editorial work will be regretted by all readers of that paper.