Show S D perry retires 41 t 14 AK A t upper photo dad perry today upon rf retirement ti after 63 years in in newspaper field photo at left S 1 I perry when he began his career as a printer in 1887 S D perry publisher of the morgan county news since e 1921 retires from the newspaper field this week after rounding out 63 years in the printing and publishing business mr air perry or dad perry as he is known ot his hundreds of friends where he has published newspapers and the newspaper fraternity of utah and elsewhere came to utah in in 1925 i and purchased the summit county bee at Coal coalville Co alville vilIe and the morgan county IN news he and his two sons kenneth D and walter D perry have published these two newspapers since that time and have been instrumental instrument al in promoting the welfare of morgan and coalville Co alville in all worthwhile activities tivi ties transfer in ownership of the morgan county news became effective march 1 I to albert W epperson as publisher and his wife virginia U epperson as business manager the summit county bee is retained by the perrys always prominent wherever he rever he operated newspapers dad perry was born bom october 13 at bushnell ill he was educated in the public schools of bushnell and was a student at western normal school in bushnell from to ile he became an apprentice to the printers t ers trade in bushnell in iron 1883 abild and became a journeyman printer in I 1 1887 ile he married grace P sutherland of bushnell in 1890 and eight sons and daughters blessed this union mrs airs perry died in in 1939 mr air perry married evelyn stevenson of bushnell she and mr perry reside in morgan mr perry served as editor and owner of the red bud ill democrat from 1802 to 1893 1803 was publisher of the sunday morning paper in east st louis ill in 1893 was editor and publisher of the packwood review packwood iowa from 1890 to 1904 1004 ile he established the gillett news at gillett wyo in 1004 and was its editor and publisher until 1912 he purchased the crook county monitor in sundance wyo in luio 1910 I 1 and moved from gillett to sundance in 1913 he has also published county papers in nevada iowa missouri missour minnesota and indiana mr air perry in addition to his publishing activities took an active ti part in community life he served s erve d as clerk of the board of education of gillett from 1905 to 1912 he was a member of the wyoming state legislature from 1913 to 1915 was a member of the knights of u eagles and yeoman |