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^ A mtSJ fop Charles G. Morea editor ,find. publisher of - the Sea, Coast Echo, !?? .Bay- St. Louis, who di$T-suct< ?cjenly ;? Friday ?? morning at his hom?, Nvas sai<l this -morning at 7:30 o'clock &t vOur- Lady of the ...-? Gulf Catholic ? Church find final services, were held ! yQt the church at 11 o?clock with,! Rev. A. J. Gmelch 'officiating Services we>fc also. conducted by tha Pere? Le Due Council, Knights jf 'tfolu mbjs, at-tKe 'home last night. '^JPaTlbt^ were John Dambrino, John M<9ftpe, S. L, Elliott, all on' the f^rcq\.of jpie ; Echo; W. J. Gex, -vice-president Sj of-1- the' Merchants Bank of ?^hicfe.Mr.tiiyioreau was. -president, Joe Burrow* and'-A. G. Fnyro.,
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BY NANNIE-MAYES CRUMP
Fifty years ago Charles G. Moreau established The Sea Coast Echo Kt tiay St. Louis, Mississippi, and throughout that 50 years he has continued not only as owner but as editor of that same newspaper. Now on the occasion of the celebration of th? Golden Jubilee of the life of the pa -per, the entire community pays tribute to Mr. Moreau as editor, publisher, friend, and citizen.
Charlie Moreau as he is known in the newspaper world of the state, is more intensively interested in tho weekly publication of his paper than in his many other financial adventures, seeing in his paper more than just a source of income, since to him. the aim of a newspaper is first and foremost that of service to hir. community. The kindly consideration with which he meets every problem of his weekly issue, from the brief-?**t item to the largasi story, is indicative of his	appreciation of
the value of news to the daily life of his community. The Echo is truly a paper of the people of the community and this is due entirely to Mr. Moreau?s conception of what a paper should do for the people whom it raacnes. Trie compelling- pntosopijv. $f his life is bound up with this intrinsic newspaper service and tho Cumulative success of The Echo i.; the result of that intensification of purpose in the following of an ideal.
Few newspapermen in Mississippi have more surely merited the title. Qf dean of publishers and editors than has Mr. Moreau. Although he gid not establish his own paper until (January 1892, he began his newspaper career as a local correspondent in Bay St. Louis two or three years earlier, when he served several nationally known newspapers feature writer, particularly of sports events on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This fcarly interest in the world of sports has been conducive to a sympathetic appreciation of sports activities thru-out hig period as owner of his own paper, and oftimes he is found on the local sidelines, not only as a fan but as an expert who knows the game and with an eye to ?touching VP" the sports stories which appear, in the; columns of The Echo.
As a newsgatherer Mr. Moreau has no superior. He knows everyone in his community, their families and relatives, and he is keenly alive to all the multitudinous happenings which affect them. He has a ?nose for ews,? in the language of the news-aper world, and his tenacious memory puts away little, things here and
there unte^me right rhofngtrr amves to use them to catalogue the news which they herald, _______________________
The writing of editorials is perhaps Mr. Moreau?s greatest delight in his chosen profession. He has acquired through a long life of dealing with the public a philosophy compounded of humanity, politics, business and culture which fit him especially well to express his opinions of the scene about him, and his editorials glow with the reflection of the many themes which run together to form his well rounded im* pressions.
Mr. Moreau has made a financial success in the little city which he delights to call his home, but the ground work of his financial structure has had its foundation in The Sea Coast Echo. In order to house
?	his paper in its own home he constructed the Echo building on Front street, overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Bay of St. Louis which he loves so well. It is interesting to state as an historical fact that The Echo was the first newspaper in the entire state of Mississippi to own its building, but it has been the forerunner of many other similarly owned edifices in the years following the lead taken by Mr. Moreau in this particular building field. The Echo
g,. building which houses the paper and the job printing business on the low--er floor in half of the structure, contains space for a store adjoining on
!? the street floor and a large office
?	space on the second floor. *? The adventure has proved a financial success.
A tribute was paid to The Echo building some years ago when Colonel R. H. Henry of the Jackson Clar-ion-Ledger visited in Bay St. Louis, and was so impressed by the paper owning its own building that he returned to Jackson to build the second paper-owned building to housa his own paper.
Next to his newspaper, Mr. Moreau is more devoted from a business standpoint to the Merchants Bank and Trust Company, of which he was an organizer and director, and of which he is at present president, a position of trust and honor which he has held for some years, sharing with his associates in the success of the undertaking.