Cowles, Will E.

When he became editor of THE SAINT PETER JOURNAL in 1897, departing editor Horace Greeley Perry wrote, "Mr. W.E. Cowles has been a newspaperman always and the people here will find him a worthy representative in every avenue of enterprise. He is young, ambitious and an excellent writer. He comes highly recommended from his home in Stillwater, and we have no hesitancy in saying that he will conduct the most fearless and readable paper in the city after he is thoroughly acquainted in his new field." [Will's initial editorial comments set the tone of his career at the weekly paper: ] "The JOURNAL...