Eureka Reporter | 1906-12-14 | Page 8 | Is the Youngest Editor

IS THE YOUNGEST EDITOR only nine years old yet he pub lishes a newspaper lexington ky the youngest ed aitor in the united states it not in world Is thomas overstreet da vis and he is nine years old he Is the son 0 R lee davis a newspaper man when school closed in june for the summer vacation young davis told his father he wanted to learn to set type ills father humored him and made arrangements at a local job office tor the boy to be given case to play with but the boy was deadly in earnest and every morning he would go to the shop and stick ape before his father knew that he had even learned the case be surprised him one day when he acme home to dinner by flashing a copy of the lex ington news which he had gotten out with his own hands writing the locals personals society setting the type and kicking off the paper on a small job press it contained news of the street upon which he hi ed the boy gets out the paper regularly it Is a two column folio it has sub scribers