Show EDGAR FERNANDO HARMSTON DEAD AU ROOSEVELT From Prom Page Pane One f the board hoard He lIe never failed in ina a after ter years to tend lend his support anti and influence m rn 1911 there was was wasa la a hard fight on all between h kyon and 1 Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt yell for the th location of or the high school building He lIe was just getting well o of typhoid but was as still in bed bel He saw what was needed and against advice of doctors and friends he got up and went into the fight Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt won out ont by seven votes When the city of Roosevelt lt was incorporated he was vas el elected mayor a and ll he served servell well and faithfully Politically Harmston was wa a Re Re- publican He was was a great reat a admirer r of Theodore Roosevelt In 1912 he he bolted the oil all party parly and went with Teddy But the one c campaign was enough for him He b got sot b ick ck into the old party and in that l iary ariy lie he was a power For years h he lie was county chairman Could have hav hold the Job jo as QS long as he wanted it bu but ill m health forced him to r r. One item Hem under the head stead of surveying surveying sur sur- we neglected to mention mention- the famous meridian tho the boundary line between bet Uintah and ana Wasatch counties t. t Years ears ago trouble arose between Uintah and Wasatch over the collection of taxA taxes Harmston was employed by Uintah commissioners to locate locate- the lin Un tins 5 His son Craig yesterday told the writer that the records of tile the U. U S. S S land office will show that the line established by hI his father Is m correct Later a a. dispute arose between the land office and the geological survey Edg Edgar r Fernando Harmston was born near Princeton in Mercer county Missouri February 24 1864 While he was a small boy his parents parents parents par par- moved to the southern part of Iowa Another nother family ramify the Cumber- Cumber ledges moved from Ind Indiana ana and lo located located located lo- lo about three miles mlles from the Ed Harmston and Mary ledge Cumber fell in love and ana were were married December 21 1884 Eight children children all all of whom are living living liv liv- ing c came mo to bless that union They are Craig Mellette Floyd Albert Alb Eugene Theodore all of Roosevelt Mrs Hazel San Jose Call CaUl and Miss Mildred Harmston or or- Roosevelt now in Fresno California Not since he lie got up out of a sick sickbed sickbed bed b d in 1911 to fight for the location of the high school has Ed Harmston been in good health In 1919 he suf suf suffered suffered feted a stroke of paralysis which affected h his s vo vocal al organs and optical optical opU- opU cal nerves In n 1920 he was stricken strick strick- en with flu fiu For a long time he W was almost blind but so soon all his sight c came me back In 1522 1922 he suffered the sec secand second and ond stroke During these three years years- he was just able to get about It was ryas hard for him to talk F Four r or five days ago his condition became became be be- came so bad that he lie was forced togo to togo togo go to 10 bed and never got up again The third stroke deprived him of or speech and sight Monday y morning last ast he lost consciousness ss Ho He never knew w when grim grini death stole into the room and laid a bony hand upon him V That was in the middle of Tuesday afternoon I o |