Chrisman and Ridgefarm Newspapers Sold, 1964

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier April 2, 1964

Kents Sell Chrisman & Ridgefarm Newspapers

Newly-Formed Corporation Buys
Weekly Papers; New Editor Will
Assume Position Here April 20 

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Kent of Chrisman announced this week that they have sold their two newspapers, The Chrisman Weekly Courier and The Ridgefarm Republican, to a new corporation, known as Edgar-Vermilion County Publishers, Inc. The Corporation also owns and operates The Georgetown News, The Westville News, and The Catlin Courier.

The transaction was consummated Tuesday, March 31. but is retroactive to January 1st of this year. Mr. and Mrs. Kent have been operating the two newspapers for the new owners since the first of the year.

President of the new corporation is R. M. Hemphill, who is also the president of an Indiana corporation known as Vermilion Newspapers, Inc., which owns and operates The Dana News, The Cayuga Herald, and The Perrysville Herald in Vermillion county, Indiana.

Mr. Hemphill announced this week that George L. Stuckey will be the editor and general manager of The Chrisman Courier and The Ridgefarm Republican. Mr. Stuckey will assume his new position in Chrisman about April 20.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent have entered into a partnership with Mrs. Kent's mother, Mrs. Charles English, who owns and operates the English Nursing and Convalescent Home at Lebanon, Ind. The Kents plan to move to Lebanon after school is out in May.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent have owned and operated The Chrisman Courier for nearly 18 years, having purchased it in 1946 from the late Donald E. Bradley and the late Fayelle Livingston Bradley.

They have owned and operated The Ridgefarm Republican for nearly three and one-half years, having purchased it in the fall of 1960 from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Smith.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Kent are natives of Indiana. Mr. Kent was born and reared at Topeka, Ind., where his mother, Mrs. Rollin Kent, still resides. Mrs. Kent was born at Waveland, Ind., but was reared at Lebanon, where her mother still resides.

Mr. Kent started his newspaper career in 1936 at The Indianapolis Star while he was a student in Butler University at Indianapolis. He was graduated from Butler in 1938, and continued working at The Star until 1939. From 1939 until 1941 he was director of publicity in Indiana for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. From 1941 until 1943 he was assistant director of publicity for the AAA in Missouri. He resigned in 1943, and was employed for two years as editor of the Advertiser-News at Lexington, Mo., and the Evening Ledger at Mexico, Mo. In 1945 he became managing editor of The Lebanon Daily Reporter at Lebanon, Ind., where he was employed until purchasing The Chrisman Courier in the fall of 1946.

Mrs. Kent is a graduate of Lebanon High School and a graduate of the Indiana Central Business College at Indianapolis. She was employed in the Indiana office of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for three years. She has been co-publisher of THE COURIER since 1946.

Mr. and Mrs. Kent have two sons, Rollin Michael, who is a freshman in Butler University at Indianapolis, and Stephen Allen, who is a junior in Chrisman High School.