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Show FORMER SENATOR. 74, SWIMS EVERY DAY PES MOINES. Ia.. Aug. 4 General Lafayette Young, former United Statea aenator, although past 74 years of age, la an enthusiastic swimmer. General Young has returned from a vacation pent at Spirit Lake, la., where with hla two granddaughters, Virginia and Marjorle Merrick of Orleans. N. T., aged 14 and 17 respectively, he went swimming every day. "Why, I feel many yeara younger aa result of my awlma, he declared, adding add-ing that he did not learn to awun until un-til y nearly 60 years of age. The granddaughter, who are expert swimmer, have hopes of teaching their granether oomf fancy $nrnit9 eirtf dlvea when he returns In August. General Young le owner of the Dee Moines Capital and father of Lafayette Young, Jr., editor of the paper. He gained nation-wide attention for hla patriotic work during the world war. He la one of the most widely known newspaper publishers In the country. |