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Show History revisited 'little Clipper preceded current paper By DONETA GATHERUM In 1891 , Lamoni Call, developed a Bountiful-based newspaper he called "The Little Clipper." Originally, the idea was to base the local paper on clippings taken from other newspapers. The thought of a county newspaper gained support quickly and clippings clip-pings from other sources soon became be-came secondary to local news. Mr. Call advertised, "People are becoming be-coming interested and are sending articles from all parts of the county, coun-ty, so our paper will soon contain as much original matter as we have space for, and we will make room for more and more all the time, either by using smaller type or more paper." For three years, Mr. Call published pub-lished the "Clipper." In 1894 he 0 acquired a partner, John Stahle. ihe name of the paper changed from "The Little Clipper" to "The Davis County Clipper." Six years later, Lamoni Call decided de-cided to leave the newspaper business busi-ness and from this early time until the present, the Stahle family has been the motivational force behind "The Clipper," a paper that continues con-tinues to challenge residents of Davis County to "send in articles from all parts of the county." The first newspaper to be published pub-lished in northern Davis County was the "Kaysville Eagle." This publication lasted from 1893 until 1894 when William E. Smith, editor edi-tor and publisher, moved to American Amer-ican Fork. Other attempts at newspaper news-paper failed until 1911 when John S. White started a paper called "The Weekly Reflex." Kaysville businessmen, John R. Barnes, John R. Gailey and Henry H. Blood bought "The Reflex" in 1912 to keep a newspaper in their community. William Perry Epperson Epper-son and his son Clyde Ashley, experienced ex-perienced newspaper publishers, started operating "The Reflex" on April 1, 1912. "Newsy columns about every community, school news and reports re-ports of athletic events caused the subscriptions to "The Reflex" to grow over the next few years until nearly every home in Kaysville and Layton subscribed to this weekly newspaper. Management of the "Reflex" by the Epperson family continued until un-til Jan. 1, 1965 when John Stahle Jr. bought the paper. Adaptation and change has allowed the "Clipper" and the "Reflex" to survive in a most competitive com-petitive society. Today, the Clipper Clip-per Publishing Company still produces pro-duces a top-quality, local newspaper newspap-er that is enjoyed by people throughout Davis County and by many who have left Utah but want to "keep in touch with what is happening hap-pening at home." Starting with this issue, "The Clipper" will have a weekly feature fea-ture of information taken from "The Clipper" 90 years ago and "The Reflex" 74 years ago. 90 Years ago Friday, Jan. 7, 1896 in "The Davis County Clipper" Stephen Hales showed us some of the products of his camera the other day in the way of sterioptican views which we considered very interesting. Some of the views that were especially interesting were those showing ice-harvesting at Lagoon, Woods Cross cannery and the employees, J.C. Wood's residence resi-dence and family, W. O. Lee's room of Samoan relics, an Ogden apiary, scene in Ogden canyon. Bountiful Street Supervisor Day reported that there are 117 persons in Bountiful City of the right age to work poll tax and out of this number, 45 had worked on the county road and 67 on other streets in the city. A few persons had joined the militia and are exempt from working poll tax. The council agreed to pay the claim of John Stahle for publishing list of delinquent water tax payers, stationery, postage, four months service collecting water tax, making mak-ing sales, making and recording 31 tax calls, amounting to $57.60. 74 Years ago, Thursday, Jan. 1, 1914 in "The Weekly Reflex" The Death of Christopher Burton Bur-ton "Another Pioneer Crosses the Great Divide". The news of the death of Christopher Christ-opher Burton was a great shock to the people of Kaysville. He had been in town only an hour before the news was flashed over the telephone. tele-phone. He had been in the office of Brshop Henry H. Blood and had paid his tithing for the year, although the tithing had not yet become be-come due. The Bishop noticed that the hand that signed the check was more shaky than usual and remarked re-marked to Mr. Burton concerning the fact. He replied that it was of no consequence and leaving the office returned home. After going to his home he went to the feed lot to take care of his stock, which was the last seen of him in this life. Soon after he was found on the hay stack dead. Doctors Doc-tors Morton and Gleason were summoned by phone and on arriving arriv-ing found that death had come through apoplexy. Death had come to this good man while he was performing a service to the dumb animals which he owned. When death came it found him doing something useful, and through all his long life the grim reaper would not have come at any other time for Christopher Burton was always busy doing something. |
