Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — MAN 70 YEARS YOUNG SKATES [ARTICLE]

MAN 70 YEARS YOUNG SKATES

Gay Old Boy Just Whirls Around -to Get an Appetite— Gets It, Too. Tacoma.—Clerks and others arriving late at their-offices have recently been giving an excuse that they have been watching an old man skate. As they reach a certain street they hear the whirr of rollers on the asphalt paving. Rounding a corner, they see a little old man, with long chin whiskers, sunken eyesockets, but very bright eyes, speeding along at a reckles rate.- His ball-bearing rollers he manipulates with the dexterity of a fourteen-year-old veteran. A reporter approached the septuagenarian skater and was received with suspicion. "Don’t get it into your head that I’m doing this to revive ice-skating.” he said. “This is a very healthy way of spending spare time. I get out here in the early morning and whirl around and have the finest appetite for breakfast you ever saw. And I'm nearly seventy. "I used to skate a lot in Holland The doctor says it’s a great thing for me, and I know it is, so that’s all there is to it” =