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Show ' DESERET l.i TUESDAY JUNE NEWS n 1920 ramie it r 'I IP1 fCotlnued from par on V' ) Q Cannon via formally npolntd lifid in April, editor of Th N baa held Uil position mnc lhal llin. Esrlj Editor AIo Manse". In th year of Th N arlla( ne-- m to have been j any (her do aparially eppolnlad bualnra luanoaer. ill editor lln In charge of chi branch of th enterprise arid calling for whatever atUoc thry inlht need. for a time mwoclat-- d Joaeph Cain with Kllaa ifnlih; Albert Earring-to- n and Grorg Q. Cannon lo acted aa bualne manaaera while they were editor, and Brigham Young, Jr., aa elated above, waa once a a Delated with t. Georg Q Cannon in th bualneaa William hhlre and George It. Heed aaalated Albert Carrington, and William H. 1erkea. acted aa to Oeorge Q. Qinnon for a con alderable period. Th late Preet. Angua U. Cannon waa one of fh firat bualne manager aa aaparat and apart from the editor. Other bualneaa manager, alnce David O. Calder, hav been T. K. Taylor, Oeorge C. Lambert, Abraham If. Can-noJOHN NICHOLSON John A'. Evan Horace O Whit ney. and Ellaa H. Woodruff. Mr. Tay . lor aarved In th early 80; Mr. Lam a bert aeveral year In the and Mr. Kvana from th death of Abraham H. Cannon In 1888, until the close of 1111, Mr. Whitney became bualneaa manager, Jan. 1, 1882. by appointment of Preat. Lorenio Snow and continued In unbroken aervice of more them If year, hla administration being ever badly prngreeetvt And.aucceeeful. V He retired from, th position In April of thla year and waa aurreeded by Kllaa S. Woodruff, the Incumbent. In addition to the editors and bus!-b- e managers there are many other nan who names stand out because of their early or long extended with Th News Soon after the first number waa Issued David H. Cannon, now president of the Bt Oeorge Temple, became an employee and was the first "devli on the paper. Joseph Bull, who came to ba known aa "th father of the compoa-- Ing room," having taught a host 01 later employees th printer's trade, entered service with the paper In 11(2 and for many year. In fact practically all th remainder of hla Ilf he waa identified with the establishment In various capacities Not only did h work within th plant Itself but he waa entrusted with many important JOHN A. EVANS. mission to th east and to th coast to purchase stock a or or equipment, to sell advertising, otherwise to represent the Interests of the paper. Even before (2 A. C. Brower became foreman. Those 1SS1 him In were James Bond, James- - MeKnight-anGeorge Hales. Bamuel Robert James A. Thompson, John E. Evans, John Priestley, Robert Aveson and Henry McEwan were other early day foremen. Richard Matthews was one of the earlv pressM men. Cannon passed a Angua large part of hla life in the service of The News, though not of the original force. Alfred Smith, who lived for years in the Fourteenth ward, waa one of the early employees of the bindery, although John B. Kelly was its first foreman, when the bindery waa established In 1852. Veterans Still In Service. It is interesting to note that eight men who still are with The News entered its service more than 40 fears ago and most of them have been In its employtcontinuously since then, except for temporary absences from the City, as for example when they have gone on missions for the Church. Walter J. Lewis, who for years was manager of the Deseret Book store , first became associated with The . MODAITL News more than (0 years ,ag&. Hs has been in the book publishing business ever since that time, though for printing mechanical plant,In athposition mida period he left The News and was he has held for years. seventies Oeorge Buckle, forman with the George Q. Cannon A fions dle of the bindery, and S. H. Harrow, company, well kijown publishing firm. superintendent of the mechanical deWhen this concern waa taken over by Mr. to The New The News 18 years or so ago, Mr. Lew- -, partment,Tlrstcame went to the press room Is came with It, and until the recent Buckle to the bindery. A little later Anconsolidation of the Deseret News then force, and Book Store and the Deseret Sunday drew Is Cowan Joined the of the Job a valued member still Bchool Union Book store he was manHla brother. Will printing staff. ager of the former. Col. John be-Q. Cowan, in devil room became press Cannon, the present editor, even 1878; he is now forman of the fore he entered the service of The April, room, Charles Abbott who still New as printers "devil was engaged press active in the composing room. Joinfor a time in delivering papers to is News force in 1881. The late subscribers. Riding his pony, ha dis- ed The Pearson- was with the mechanitributed th first issue ' of th dally Henry lor more than Jv cal of department section over a to subscribers large th western part of the city. Bishop year Other OMUmer Joaeph Tingey, foreman of the Job in printing plant, came to The News business force J. T. oi the present 1872. Though apprenticed to the Dunbar ia the veteran. The late worked for a composing room he room Young was telegraph editor forbut soon short ttmo In the press and continued in aervwent Into the other department and about 20 years Jamea H. ice until hlS final lllnes after working his way up as a type Anderson was formerly city edjtor and wtter eras placed in charge of the Job HT HBParis Mil I incry Company joins with commercial and industrial Salt Lake in congratulating The Deseret Evening' News on the advent of its 70lh Birthday. nt u . nt BRIGHAM YOUNG, JR. Since the inception of this store, 23 years ago, The Paris Ads have regularlyappeared in in the columns of the News. JOHN JAQUKS to; I J i aseo-elati- May lime bind closer ouras-- socialion, and the years to come ' only enlarge your field for usefulness and service to the community. -- on THOMAS E. TAYLOR. GEORGE CL LAMBERT Pa-clf- lo "Athene Quality and Price are Dependable ng d Si. :tr- ' ' A deep source of gratification to ,, ELIAS & WOODRUFF was with the paper for long period. Elder Orson F. Whitney also waa city The late editor for time in the 70 B. F. Cummings for number of years was eastern representative of The News, with headquarters In Chicago was associatand New York. He aiso ed with the editorial staff during vaThe late John E. Hanrious period numsen was city editor for quite He was succeeded by ber of year well George E. Carpenter, now Mlsa known local theatre manager. Josephine Spencer waa for a long time society editor. Isaac Russell, now in New York Journalism, was formerly with this paper. Other still living who have been associated with The News in one or another of its departments are the Robert Aveson, Charles following: Denny, Thomas H. Robert David McRae. Horace' K. Cummicgs. Brigham R Young, George Margette, Alexander C. Cowan, David C. Calder, Rodney Badger, William Grimsdell, ' Fergus J should he this seventieth anniversary of The Deseret News. The determined efforts of a few men a print-- ; Ing press carted across the desert by ox team and The Deseret Evening News was hprn June 1, 1830. "'Both sentiment and respect prompt our sincerest congratulations to this early newspaper of the west. Efficient Public Sen ice. .4 ( the people of Utah Utah Power & Light Co. ON BROADWAY BETWEEN MAIN r i) - -- vr 'v y WX v S850 V? , J.-M- Al-fal- es W r 'V E. LEROY BOURNE Coalter, Frank J. Cannon, Joseph BuU (Burdette), and Mr Rosin C. Lamlater date, Martha bert; and of Horne Tingey, Annie Park Midgley and Dr. Mattie Hughes Cannon these women having been called, by President Yonng to learn the printer's trade and after their work with The New some of them Were compositor on The Woman's Exponent, of which Mr Emmeline B. Wells was for so long editor.. Some in the foregoing list entered the employ of The Deseret half pentury ago. News more than There are of course many others who have worked with th paper In more recent years and who hav gone out into business fey themselves or hav left newspapering and entered other lines of activity. Among the old timers not heretofore mentioned in this article and who have departed from this life, the following are recalled: L. O. Littlefield, Oscar Lyon S. A. Kenner, J. M. Cowley,' Theodore Smith, Robert McEwan, John E. Calllster, George J. Taylor, George Reynold Alexander McMaster, Hugh Wataon, Emmett D. Mousley, William Grimsdell, Sr., John W. Taylor, Thomas McIntyre, Benjamin Judaon, William C. Graham. There are others whose names are not at the moment recalled but whose contribution to the growth and success of The News is non th less appreciated an esteemed. Growth jin . Advertising. In the firat issue of Th Deseret News there were only two tiny adone of a blacksmith vertisement and1 another of a surgeon dentist, who in addition to hkndilng the usual branchch of the 'profession promised also to cur the scurvy. Total figures for tb first year's advertising are not at th moment available, but it ia doubtful that they exceeded a few core or hundreds of inches at most. Something of comparison may be gleaned from the fact that the total for 1812 was 248.281 Inches. N amber on Payroll. 1 920 ' Growth Incorporated panys name-plat- e in the comis a slogan known al over the intermountain west which instinctively suggests confidence and dependability and bigness. Older than the State of Utah turns memoryback to undaunted. Pion eer days trhen ; an ported the first two or three organs across the plains. Now Pianos and Players come in vast numbers; on occasion, orders having been placed for several hundred. Sixty years ago A little one room store. Now a foor space of 40,000 square feet. Imagine a room 14 feet wide and running back half a mile. This gives some conception of the vastness of a store that is devoted wholly to music the largest of its kind in this part of the country. . From the four men who were designated by President Brigham Young to get out th first Issue of The News tack in 18(8. the payroll of th establishment has grown to Include about 1(8 persons This Is th regular list and does not Include many correspondent agents end other wh receive occasional checks for service rendered. . A 6 STATE h - u ft Li , I if- V f f e O |