Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — 14-YEAR-OLD EDITOR [ARTICLE]

14-YEAR-OLD EDITOR

Mt. Ayr High School Pupil Publishes Rolling Prairie Record —Little Paper Grows. Rolling Prairie, Ind., July 4. —This village has the distinction of having the youngest newspaper editor in Indiana, if not in the United States. The editor is Lowell E. Noland, who will be fifteen years old July 15, and the paper he has founded and is now publishing is the Rolling Prairie Record, a weekly “published in the interests of Rolling Prairie and vicinity,” with a motto: “A better and bigger Rolling Prairie” printed under the heading. “I started the paper in order to earn money to pay my _ way through college and the big problem before me now is vriiat to do with it when school starts, as it requires more of my time than I can give to it while attending high sdhol. I expect to complete the high school course at Mt. Ayr, Ind., where I learned to set type in the Pilot office while attending school. My father,, who is now pastor of the M. E. church here, was formerly pastor of the Mt. Ayr church, and it was while we were living there that I became interested in the newspaper business.” Editor Noland is a son of Rev. D. E. Noland, who was pastor of the M. E. church at Lee a few yearn ago.