Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1907 — HAMILTON TO PRACTICE LAW [ARTICLE]

HAMILTON TO PRACTICE LAW

Louis EL Hamilton, county school superintendent for the past ten years, will turn the office over to hid successor, Ernest Lamson, on next Wednesday, June 12, and will at once establish an office and engage in the practice of law. Mr. Hamilton has been reading law for several years and was admitted to the bar of Jasper county about two years ago. “I shall couple with what law practice I can acquire,” said the superintendent, ,“what side lines are necessary—insurance, abstracting, collections, etc., to keep the wolf from the door. I think my wide acquaintance in this and adjoining counties should help me to get a start in a profession T have for so many years been planning to follow.” Superintendent Hamilton has not decided in what building he will have his office, having several good locations in view.

Mr. Hamilton was a class-mate of the writer in the Rensselaer high school some sixteen or eigteen years ago, at a time when they had a mock United States Senate, which took the place generally allotted for Friday afternoon exercises, with the students of the high school representing the various states. He was one of the very ablest of the prepared speech makers and debateis in the school and at that time he always said he was going to be a lawyer. If it had not been that he was elected School Superintendent ten years ago it is certain many of these years would have been devoted to legal practice. He is yet a young man, a devoted worker, and has had lots of experience calculated to fit him for the law, and we therefore expect to some day hear him say that it was the best thing that ever happened to him when he was defeated for re election as County School Superintendent.