Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1920 — LAFAYETTE JOURNAL-COURIER NOW IN NEW HOME [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE JOURNAL-COUR-IER NOW IN NEW HOME

The Lafayette Journal-Courier, Lafayette’s thriving morning and evening paper, is now at home ip its beautiful new building at the corner of Sixth and Ferry streets, and on Monday morning threw open its doors to the public. Hundreds of visitors inspected the plant during the day and late in the afternoon visiting newspaper men and women, to whom an especial invitation had been - extended, gathered at the plant for a tour of inspection. A lunch was served noon by Henry W. Marshall, editor and publisher, to the visiting correspondents at the Fowler hotel, and this was followed in the evening by a six o’clock dinner for the visiting editors,. of whom there were thirty present. L. H. Hamilton, editor of The Republican was in attendance, but F. E. Babcock, editor of the Democrat, was one of the thirty who sent regrets, Mr. Babcock being prevented from going by illness in his family. The dinner was served in the Walnut room of the Fowler. A sixcourse dinner was served after which Mr. Marshall spoke a few words of greeting and told his guests What he • had sought to accomplish in the community by'providing it with a high class newspaper and publishing plant. Several of those present at the dinner spoke, including George H. Healey, editor of the Frankfort CrescentThe plant of the Journal-Courier is perhaps the finest of any in the country for a city the size of Lafayette, and the citizens of that city have a right to feel proud of their newspaper and Mr. Marshall.