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Star Tribune
Minneapolis, MN
Tuesday, January 13, 1931


              ROE G. CHASE, EDITOR, DIES
              
              Brother of Former State Auditor
               Succumbs After Prolonged Ill Health
               
              ROE G. CHASE, editor of the Anoka Herald 27 years,
            and a brother of RAY P. CHASE, former state auditor,
            died Monday evening at his home in Anoka. He had been
            in ill health several years, having never completely
            recovered from an attack of influenza in 1918, and a
            recent return of the same illness was responsible for
            his death. He would have been 53 Friday.
              Mr. CHASE was born in Anoka, received his public
            school education there, and attended the University
            of Minnesota. In 1903 he purchased the Anoka Herald
            and edited that publication up until the time of his
            death. He had an active interest in state politics
            and his paper always served as an organ of conserva-
            tive Republicanism, but he never was a candidate for
            public office. He was a delegate to numerous state
            conventions of the Republican party.
              He was commissioned a major in the home guard dur-
            ing the World war after he tried to enlist without
            success, because of his age, in the regular army.
            When forest fires swept the Moose Lake area in 1918,
            he led a detachment of the home guard in fighting the
            flames and at that time contracted influenza.
              He wrote on matters of public interest for a number
            of newspapers, published some fiction and poetry, and
            was the author of "With the Colors," a book recounting
            the work of Anoka soldiers in the World war. On the
            editorial page of the Herald he printed a weekly rhyme
            under the caption "Tom Talks" and never deviated from
            this custom during the entire time he edited the paper.
            That earned him the title of the "Bard of Rum River."
              Mr. CHASE was very active in the recent political
            campaign on behalf of his brother, RAY CHASE, who was
            defeated as Republican candidate for governor. He was
            a nephew of Judge ARTHUR E. GIDDINGS of Anoka county
            district court.
              He was married in 1917 to CHRISTABELLE ABLITT of
            St. Paul, and is survived by his wife, his mother,
            Mrs. C. E. CHASE, and two brothers, ROSS W. and RAY P.
            CHASE, all of Anoka. Funeral services have not yet
            been arranged.
            
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