Show OY ARMSTRONG ORMER EDITOR w IN S. S l. l IS DEAD r en d s Here Learn of I Noted Publishers Publisher's Death I. I on Coast LeRoy cRoy floy Armstrong widely known o editor of the he a. a am lin n. n West twenty years ago died March 29 at his home hom in in Cal CaI t to word woid h ed b by friends in hi Salt bait Lake t liu 11 Mr Armstrong who was about J jears ears of age left Utah thirteen en rears ears ago for California to enter offices J off ices of the Universal Film as libra librarian ian and later erector rector of the rese research depart- depart ent ent a position he held until about I months ago when he re- re fred Credo red TJ The e history of journalism in Utah many is S many passages written by the of Mr Armstrong and his n ris Paul and Burl Armstrong th well wen known in Salt Lake as men and associated with ell father in his publishing ven- ven res bres AME ME ME HERE IN 1906 ji In 1906 Mr Armstrong Armstrong came to tolt mn lit lt It Lake from Lafayette Ind md to toI to I If the Intermountain Republican Wh jh him came his sons Paul and andun url un url and his three daughters and fG G. G Blunt who with Mr Arm- Arm rong had published the Lafayette kIll am ill Blunt was vas as business manager cube the Ithe Intermountain Republican When hen the Intermountain n consolidated with the Salt Lake terald erald as the Republican Herald r Armstron and his sons pur- pur ased aed Goodwins Goodwin's s Weekly and pub- pub shed lied h d that jo journal for two or 01 three ears als after which they went to Og- Og Hin 1912 and became associated Wi ith th J J. J U U. Eldredge Jr in publish publish- gland and editing the Ogden Exam Exam- Mr 11 Armstrong r. r rS From Ogden land Burl Armstrong on went to Cali- Cali rma ria a and entered the tee Un Universal ers l halos in the research and scenario h OLD RUSH to coming to Salt Lake in m Mr lr Armstrong had had- lived trough rough the adventurous gold rush to fo that terri terri- b bl in in Nevada going Ups an itinerant printer printer called called ramp printer In those days This with h two of Ms lis lisIs llin g he shar shared d Is and the s sime me known know to fam fame ast s- s td later tto iv ain in and Bret In Ch cago gO man le e was l r young newspaper ld and companion of Eugene F. F Fild mes Gordon Bennett the Chicago Mr 11 Armstrong ong mg was feam fea- fea the thening i m writer on the e H Herald and ning enIng Post Mr Armstrong i w iS survived by Holwood Hol Hoi Burl Armstrong Burl BUrl wood Paul Armstrong United ies internal revenue service San Sana a Mrs C. C o W. W Wilson Vilson of hv York Charlotte A Armstrong w Another daughter Ruth Haa JIan waria wa- wa disappeared in m and the ago n ria a several years arch for her became a a matter oi of and andul national interest interest-Bui 1 in m many following clues ul vain Y rt of the world IB FRIENDS PALLBEARERS RS last were held funeral services Iday in Hollywood at the HoUy- HoUy chapel and inter- inter i d cemetery nit nt was in the Hollywood conducted services were The vj Y v ithe Rev Rev Glenn R R. Phillips ps of Community church chuich Clover P Pallbearers were Sam T T. i nest est McGaffey Archie ecKie E E. Wilson and John imer iier mer Carr A A. The first four named r Sow fellow members of Mr Armong Arm Arm- the old Chicago Press club ong in y years ago go |