Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — Says “Uncle Jimmy” Had a Close Call Back In 1864. [ARTICLE]

Says “Uncle Jimmy” Had a Close Call Back In 1864.

Fowler Republican-Leader. Last Friday was Jim McEwen’s seventy-eighth birthday, For fiftyfour years he has been engaged in printing. The most of that time he has printed a pure, undefiled, unwashed and nevertire democratic newspaper. After the defeat of McClellan in 1864 he wa§ unable to print a paper for four weeks. But the crack in his head unitefl in time and he nailed “no-surrender” tp the mizzen mast and—At present he is publishing the Rensselaer Democrat.