Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-23
CHARLES D. REIMERs.

The Centerville Citizen in sympos-
ium of former citizens of that plaee
has the following, concerning Charles
D. R,imers:
1T always gives a newspaper man
| pleasure to note the success of mem
bers of the "profesh,' and especially
when that member is such worthy
one as the subject of this sketch,
Charles n. Reimers. MI. Reimers ana
the writer were SO intimately connect
ed both III business and social way
for two or three years, that this pleas
ure is all the greater In this instance.
Mr.. Rein;ers is SO we'll remembered in
Centerville as being connected with
the publication of the Daily Citizen
from its first issue in 1894, until 1896,
that anything that may be said of his
industry, close application to business
and earnestness in giving the patrons
of the paper the news of this comm,n-
ity and building up the paper in Its
infancy, is unnecessary. The object OF
this article is to tell what ne has been
doing since he left Centerville ten
years age.
"Mr. Reimers is native of Rock Is
land, ILL.,. a nephew of the famous lum-
herman, Wierhauser and a grandson OF
that other big lumberman in the trf-
cities. Denkman He was educated in
the public schools of Rock Island aud
the Iowa State university and North.
western university, and came to Cen.
terville well fitted for newspaper
work, in connection with ]. R. Day and
Geo. w. Needles, they inaugurated tle
Daily Citizen and he stayed with IL
during it's infancy and saw 1t well
started on the road to success. He
was then called to Ottumwa and given
the managing editorship of the Cour-
Ter where he remained over tbs.
years and then associated with "A. w
Lee purchased the Davenport Times,
the third paper of the tri-cities, and re-
NAMED with it three years, or long
enough to bring 1t up to first place i'll
the tri-cities. He then sold out and
went to Fort Worth, Texas, where he
purchased another third place paper,
the Telegram and commenced to build
it UP, until now he has the strongest
paper in circulation. news and editorial
support in the southwest. In fact he
owns and controls four papers: The
Fort Worth Telegram. daily and Sun
day; The Fort Worth Telegram, week.
| ly; The Texas Stoclman journal
weekly, and the Weekly Citizen. The
Telegram is what is making Reinlers
famous in the southwest, or rather he
is making it famous. He mas advanced
it to the top, and now las a CT EQUATION
of over 10000 copies, which is double
that of any other For Worth raper. IT.
| is printed in its own building of three
stories with $4,000 feet of floor space,
carries double the amount of classified
advertising Of any other Fort Worth
paper, running as high as seven pages
of this class of advertising in it's Sun
day editions. They have nearly 100
people on their pay roll which makes
a pull on their bank account of from
$4,000 to 100000 year. The Tele-
gram uses three cars of paper month
costing about $4,000 year. AS a
further mark of distinction for Mr..
Reimers and the push, energy and will
he puts into his business, after having
his plant nearly destroyed by fire on
the fourth day of last January, he new
er turned a hair. but went to work
with determination winch has made
for him success in every venture h.,
has entered and never missed an issue
of mis- paper, and had everything gong
in ship shape in his own building
again in four days"
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