MILTON F. AMRINE

MILTON F. AMRINE was born May 6, 1872, at Nokomis, IL. He came to Kansas with his parents in March, 1884, and was reared on a farm near Wilsey. When sixteen years old he began teaching school. He taught eight terms, meanwhile attending the State Normal at Emporia, and Baker University at Baldwin, Kan.

Mr. Amrine was principal of the Council Grove high school for two years. He went into the newspaper business as editor and manager of the Weekly Guard at Council Grove in the spring of 1898. He was a member of the Kansas legislature, house of representatives, in 1909, and later became pardon clerk in the office of ex-Governor W. R. Stubbs. He was superintendent of the State Reformatory at Hutchinson from August, 1910, to August, 1913. Returning to Council Grove, he resumed his newspaper work. The paper became a daily in November, 1915, and now Mr. Amrine publishes both a weekly and daily edition. In addition he owns the Lost Springs News, Herington Sun, and Dunlap Rustler, and publishes the Latimer Leader.

Mr. Amrine married Mabel Francis Chilcott in August, 1905. She was the editor of the Louisville Lyre. They are the parents of two girls, Dorothy and Mary. Mr. Amrine's parents are living. His father, Fred Amrine, born in 1836, was the son of an Illinois pioneer, and is a Union army veteran. His mother is a New Yorker, and daughter of a circuit-riding Methodist preacher.

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