Charles E. Gaumer, died Sunday morning in a hospital in Palatka, Florida, following an operation. The death was totally unexpected.

    He was born in Marseilles, Ohio, November 18, 1876, the oldest son of Dr. T. M. and Eliza Cone Gaumer, both deceased. He was married to Miss Lettie Landis Sept. 7, 1898, who survives with three children, Edmund Gaumer of Cleveland, Ohio; Miss Robin Gaumer, of East Palatka, Florida, and Mrs. Lois Ross, who with her husband , Harvey Ross, and three children, also reside at East Palatka. He is survived by one brother Bruce R. Gaumer, publisher of the Union County Journal, Marysville, Ohio.

    In his boyhood days, Mr. Gaumer resided in Adamsville in the property now occupied by Ira Thomas.

    Mr. Gaumer took over the editorship of the Champaign Democrat, in Urbana at the death of his father, in 1893. In 1898 he purchased the Monticello, Ill., Bulletin, later purchasing the Middletown, Ohio Evening Signal, which he sold after twelve years ownership. He returned to Urbana, where he was editor of the Urbana Daily Democrat and Citizen, being associated with his brother, Frank C. Gaumer. He also held editorial positions on the Zanesville Times Recorder and the Marion Star under the ownership of President Harding. For the past six years he has resided in Florida, near East Palatka, where he had purchased real estate in the rich St. Johns River valley.

    Funeral services and burial will be in Urbana, but the time of the services will not be set until the arrival of the body from Florida.

    The deceased was a nephew of Mrs. Hannah Buker of Adamsville.