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Mr. H. Bailhache retired, and was suc- many years been recognized throughout
ceded by D. L. Phillips Esq. The pres- the State as the State organ of the Dement officers of the company are E. L. ocratic party of Illinois. It has
Baker, President; D. L. Phillips, Vice a wide circulation and influence, and
President; and J. D. Roper, Secretary. is in a prosperous condition. Judge J.
Mr. Roper is also the very efficient and W. Merritt, and E. L. Merritt, Esq., are
thorough going cashier of the institution editors, and Major Louis Souther, city
The company consists of E- L. Baker, editor. A first-class book and job office
D. L.-Phillips, John P. Baker and J. is connected with the establishment.
M. Culbertson Esq. The Journal is the The Register is furnished at $10 per
official state paper, is firm and consist- year for the Daily, and $2 for the
ent, republican in politics and is a very Weekly.
influential and live newspaper. E. L. THE MASONIC TROWEL.
Baker, and J. M. Culbertson are the Harman G. Reynolds, the editor and
political editors, Col. John P. Baker, present publisher of the Trowel, is one
General news and L. M. Snell Esq. of the oldest masons in the State, having
city editor. taken his degrees in Warsaw Lodge, in
The Journal book and job office is 1843. He was Grand Marshal of the
one of the finest in the State, and in the Grand Lodge in 1848, and was elected
entire appointments and completness, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge
has but few equals. A large sterotype and Chapter, and continued as
department is connected therewith, the Grand Secretary of the Lodge unwhole being under the direction of first til 1851. In 1868 he was elected
class and efficient workmen. The Jour- Grand Master, and held this position
nat is the state organ of the republican for two years. He remained Secretary
party, and ably fills that position. The of the Grand Chapter until 1869. He
terms are Daily $10, per year. Tri- assisted in the initiatory work of formWeekly $6. Weekly $2. ing the Grand Council of Royal and
ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER. Select Masters, and was the first Recorder
The Illinois State Register newspaper of that body. Mr. Reynolds has been
office was removed from Vandalia (then Master of three Lodges and High
the State capital) to Springfield, in 1836, Priest of three Chapters, and
shortly after the paper was first started, was first Commander of Elwood
Its proprietors, Messrs. Walters & Web- Commandery No. 6, of this city. All of
er, were State printers. On January 2, which positions he filled with credit to
1849, the first daily Register was issued himself and honor to the fraternity. He
by Charles H. Lanphier and Geo. Walk- also received, in Chicago, in 1854, the
er, Esqs., who had succeeded Walters & thirty-second degree of the Ancient
Weber. In January, 1858, Mr. Walker Scottish Rites, and the thirty-third in
dissolved his connection with the paper, Boston, in 1864. In 1858, he located in
and was succeeded by E. L. Conner, who this city, and established in 1862 the
purchased his share. In June, 1860, Mr. Mliasonic Trowel, with which paper he
Lanphier purchased Mr. Conner's inter- retained his connection until 1868. He
est and assumed entire control of the has always had the editorial control of
paper. In the fall of 1863 a stock com- its- columns, and his labors therein have
pany purchased the office, and under its redounded to the general welfare and
management the Register was conducted prosperity of the craft at large. By the
until January 1, 1865, when E. L. & J. D. fire on the night of the 22d of February,
Merritt, the present proprietors, pur- by which the Trowel,was destroyed, he
chased the office. The Register has for was stripped of every dollar of his earth-12