The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-23
bennett WILL Be
ASSISTANT STATE
BANK EXAMINER
POPULAR SECRETARY OF HAT.
T'EssURe NEWS CO. RESIGNS
TO ACCEPT BETTER POSITION.
ABILITY As NEWSPAPER
man HAS been NOTABLE
James r. Grove, Assistant City Editor
Of Memphis commerciaI-Appeal, viii
Succeed to Place on News Staff
Comes Here to Grow Up With South
Mississippi.

K, L. Bennett, secretary of the Hat
tiesbLrg News Company, Qnc.), for
more than two years a most efficient
member of The News city staff, has
resigned his position with this COM
pany to accept another as assistant
state bank examiner.
The resignation will take effect June
l, and on that day Mr.. Bennett will as
sumo his duties with the newly organ
lied branch in the regulation of Mis-
sissippi's financial institutions.
There are to be three assistant ex-
aminers in addition to the three ex-
aminers-in-chief, as created under the
new Kyle banking law.
Mr.. Benefits election by the examin-
ers and approval by the banking com.
missioners to one of these positions
was caused partly by the high mark
he made in the competitive examina-
tion recently held in Jackson for ex.
aminers in chief; partly because of his
long experience as a banker; and part
ly because of his unquestioned in
tegrity and devotion to whatever serv.
ice he undertakes.
Returns to Old Field.
In accepting this position Mr.. Ben.
nett returns to the field in which he
has spent most of his life Indeed, IL
was only little more than two years
ago that he left the banking field to
become associated with The News.
Coming into the newspaper game al
that time without previous training OF
experience, Mr.. Bennett caught the
idea of newspaper work with remark
able alacrity. He knew how to hum
the news; he knew story when he
found it and he knew how to tell it.
He did the greater part of the re
porting for this paper until recently
when he took charge of the books, and
his reports were uniformly fair ant
impartial.
To succeed Mr.. Bennett in his dua
capacity as secretary and reporter
The News has secured the services o.
James R. Grove, now connected will
the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Mr.
BENEFITS contemplated resignation
has been known to the managers o
The News for some weeks, affordinl
opportunity to secure the most capabl,
man available to succeed him. 1t Il
doubtful If one better adapted to the re
quirements of the position could hav,
been secured than Mr.. Grove.
Believes In South Mississippi.
Mr.. Grove Is graduate of Wander
bilt University. He has had sev
eral years experience in newspape
work and for the past tw
years has been connected with tn
CommercialAppeal, generally recoe
niged among the newspaper fraternit
as the Souths leading newspaper. A
member of that staff he has reporte
all kinds of news, and his accuracy
ability as a writer and eagerness t
get all the news in his territory hav
brought him rapid promotion, until h
is now assistant city editor of the ps
per.
Mr.. Grove is young man, and
leaving Memphis for Hattiesburg larg'
ly because he wants to grow up wit
South Mississippi. He believes in tn
future Of this section; he expects to r.
main here permanently and The New
considers itself fortunate in havin
been able to employ him.
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