FORMER WARREN COUNTY EDITOR DIES IN CALIFORNIA:
E. J. Clarke who a few years ago gave up the editorship of the Roseville Times-Citizen to make his home in California died last Monday morning at a hospital in Fullerton, Calif. following an operation which he had underwent several days before. Mr. Clarke was past 70 years of age and was one of the pioneer newspaper men of Warren County going to Monmouth from Macomb. Ill. with his parents when he was 13 years of age. He assisted his father in the publication of a local newspaper. During his residence in Monmouth, he was connected in various capacities with the Second Evening Gazette, the Daily Atlas and the Daily Review. For a short time, he edited a daily known as the Evening Hour. His last newspaper experience was with the Roseville Times-Citizen, which he edited for a number of years.
Mr. Clarke was twice married, his first wife being Ella N. Killian of Ft. Wayne, Ind., who died in 1885. His second wife, Miss Harriet Kettering of Monmouth survives him along with one daughter, Elizabeth Clarke, and two sisters, Mrs. E. C. Means and Miss Bessie Clarke, all living in California. Funeral services for the deceased were held in Fullerton, Calif. and the remains interred in the cemetery there.
FORMER WARREN COUNTY EDITOR DIES IN CALIFORNIA:
E. J. Clarke who a few years ago gave up the editorship of the Roseville Times-Citizen to make his home in California died last Monday morning at a hospital in Fullerton, Calif. following an operation which he had underwent several days before. Mr. Clarke was past 70 years of age and was one of the pioneer newspaper men of Warren County going to Monmouth from Macomb. Ill. with his parents when he was 13 years of age. He assisted his father in the publication of a local newspaper. During his residence in Monmouth, he was connected in various capacities with the Second Evening Gazette, the Daily Atlas and the Daily Review. For a short time, he edited a daily known as the Evening Hour. His last newspaper experience was with the Roseville Times-Citizen, which he edited for a number of years.
Mr. Clarke was twice married, his first wife being Ella N. Killian of Ft. Wayne, Ind., who died in 1885. His second wife, Miss Harriet Kettering of Monmouth survives him along with one daughter, Elizabeth Clarke, and two sisters, Mrs. E. C. Means and Miss Bessie Clarke, all living in California. Funeral services for the deceased were held in Fullerton, Calif. and the remains interred in the cemetery there.
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