JOSEPH W. HOWE

JOSEPH W. HOWE, of Abilene, is a part of the famous "newspaper administration" of Kansas. He is editor of the Dickinson County News. He was born on a farm in Saline county. He was graduated from Salina Normal University with a bachelor of arts degree. Later he taught school. In 1903 he went to Abilene and purchased the Dickinson County News.

J. W. Howe is a Democrat, and for many years has been writing politics for his own and many other papers over the state. His reputation grew along this line until 1912, when he was elected to the state senate from Dickinson and Clay counties. He was the only newspaper man in the senate, and his political stories during the 1913 and 1915 sessions of the upper house of the legislature attracted considerable attention. He also wrote feature articles for many of the larger dailies of the East, and after his appointment by Governor Hodges as secretary of the State Board of Control he gained no little reputation as an authority on matters pertaining to the management and conditions of the state's charitable and benevolent institutions.

For eight years he served as secretary of the Democratic State Editorial Association, and for six years was a member of the Abilene school board.

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