Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1909 — Seventy-Eight Years of Age And Still In the Harness. [ARTICLE]

Seventy-Eight Years of Age And Still In the Harness.

► TDday, Dec. 10th, James W. McEwen Is 78 years of age, and for the past 64 years of this time he has been engaged In the newspaper business. He Is still in the harness and every vfreek gets out his paper, the Democratic Sentinel, by setting his own type and running his press. The Democratic Sentinel has always been a true exponent of undeflled democracy and while the editor may have had some independent notions about some of the fancies that the party has followed in recent years he has always ran a straight out party organ a true exponent of undeflled democracy and while the editor may have feraon and Jackson.”