H. C. STICHER

H C. STICHER was born October 6, 1876, at Neosho Falls, Kan. At the age of eleven he moved with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sticher, to Yates Center, Kan., where the father was to serve as county attorney of Woodson county, and afterward to be honored by an election as state representative.

H. C. Sticher received his education in the schools of Yates Center and at the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. He entered the printing office of the Yates Center News when he was seventeen years of age, as devil, and remained with the firm of Trueblood & Stephenson for six years, becoming one of the partners in the last year. Mr. Sticher has successfully edited and owned the Neosho Falls Post, the Alma Signal, and owned a half interest in the Belleville Telescope with A. Q. Miller. He was private secretary to Congressman R. R. Rees, of the fifth district, two sessions of Congress, and then resigned to purchase the Osage City Public Opinion of Maurice Crowther; later also purchasing the Osage City Free Press of Chas. Barnes, both of which papers he now owns and is the active editor.

Mr. Sticher is secretary of the Osage City Commercial Club, also secretary of the Trades' Extension Committee. He has been active in newspaper work and in politics for the past twenty years. In 1907-'08 he was treasurer, in 1909-'10 vice president, and in 1911 president of the Kansas State Editorial Association.

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