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Show v. . : ' ' : ' : 1 Editor and Friemid Does in Salt lalke , George S. Bowers last week went to the Holy Cross hospital, a' Ver3p sick man, because of a malady he had .had for about three years. His case was incurable in-curable and he departed about 1 o'clock P. M. on Wednesday the 9th day of August, 1933. He was -born at Timber , Ridge, - Green County, Tennessee in 1865, and his parents were Christian and Mary A. Bowers. Educated at Tusculum College in East Term, and graduated with the' degree of Eachelor of Science. Taught school several years in ' Texas, and then came to Canyon City, Colorado, and later moved to Denver where he remained until he came to Utah. He married Miss Jennie Fox in Tenn. June 24, 1904, and in 1905 they moved to Duchesne, Utah where Mr. Bowers took up a homestead on the Blue Bench, which was under the Knight project, and' where they developed a profitable and a beautiful ranch. In 1905, they '"Moved to the town ' 6T Duchesne,' and made a beautiful and comfortable com-fortable home, and it is now one of the beauty spots in the city. Mr. Bowers has been active in all public and civic matters, locally, loc-ally, in the state and nationally. In 1923 he embarked into the newspaper business, which C. B. Cook of Myton, who later died, and then Mr. Bowers became the owner of the paper, which was then called the Duchesne Courier and successor to the Duchesne Record. In August 1931, : and for about ten months, the paper came under the management of J. P. May and the Uintah Basin Publishing Pub-lishing Co., and the name of the paper was changed, to the Uintah Basin . Record. But about April or May 1932, Mr., Bowers resumed, resum-ed, control, and management and has had control ever since as editor ed-itor ' and manager. ' These have been strenuous times in' editing and being responsible for v the life of a country paper, but, Mr. Bowers Bow-ers has been handling it in a way that has been a credit to his business bus-iness ability and, editorial sagacity sagac-ity ' of the paper. He has been in personal charge . and made a success of the paper when he has been in the poorest of ' health; and about three weeks ago - he took the initiative, and called a meeting of the Civic Clubs - of Eastern Utah at Heber to discuss the proposition of , changing the mail service from Price to Salt Lake City, through the Straw- : berry valley, and made an address there. He has had his ups and downs but has always strived for the betterment of constructive construct-ive criticism, and has done much for Duchesne and the -vicinity. The people here are bound to miss George Bowers in civic matters mat-ters and other ways; and the sympathy of the community goes out to Mrs. Bowers in her great sorrow. . Funeral services will be held at Duchesne Saturday, under the direction of Roy A. Schonlan. |