Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — H. Blaine Peacock to Graduate in Law Next Month. [ARTICLE]
H. Blaine Peacock to Graduate in Law Next Month.
Erastus Peacock of Remington, has been here for the past week or ten days visiting friends and assisting John M. Knapp in getting packed up to move back to New York state. While here he received a letter from his son, H. Blaine Peacock, who is taking a law course in the John B. Stetson University, at DeLand, Fla., containing among other things a report of the Prohibition Oratorical contest at the university on April 5, in which Blaine was one of the contestants and received a perfect score on memory and gestures, but was defeated on delivery, he making 85 per cent while his opponent made 87. The winner takes part in the state contest on April 16 at Rollins College. Blaine is taking a three-year course at the Stetson University and is completing it in two years, having made very high grades right along. He will graduate the letter part of next month, and Mr. Peacock expects to return to Florida in time for the graduation exercises. It is Blaine’s intention to enter some good law office in Florida for a year before engaging in busL ness for himself. His old Rensselaer friends will be pleased to learn of his success in
