Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — Eighty-Six Years Old and Never Drank Nor Smoked. [ARTICLE]

Eighty-Six Years Old and Never Drank Nor Smoked.

John L. Turner, the aged bachelor who lives on bis 80-acre farm in Jordan township, went to Monon on tbe milk train Monday evening and expected to go from there to Francesville and Idaville on business. He was 86 years of age on Feb. 28th’ and is enjoying very good health, as might be supposed by the fact that he goes about and looks after his own business and travels at night as well as by day. Mr. Turner’s name will never appear as an endorsement of tbe life extending propensities of any brand of whisky, for he is and always has been a total abstainer from tbe use of both whisky and tobacco. He also abstains from eating pork and eats but little of other meats. He is a seventh day adventist in- practice and belief but says be has long ago given up hope of the adventists ever accomplishing any great growth in this country. Mr. Turner always has with him a tract with a very apt illustration that aims to inspire a person to Christian living and which he passes out wherever he goes.