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Show SERVICES MONDAY FOR PIONEER DIXIE NEWSPAPERMAN Funeral services for Jos. W. Carpenter Car-penter who died in Las Vegas last W;ednesday, were held in the Lyceum at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Bishop F. G. Miles of the South ward presided. A mixed quartet sang "Rock of Ages." The opening prayer was offered of-fered by John Schmutz, Sr. A vocal solo was rendered by Leland Lam-oreaux. Lam-oreaux. Brigham Jarvis, Jr. was the first speaker. He said he had known Joseph Jo-seph Carpenter for many years and intimately the past 11 years. He was always fair-minded and has shown a great interest in the welfare and upbuilding of this community. David H. Morris said Joseph Carpenter Car-penter was a true pioneer He has seen St. George grow from a sagebrush-covered valley to what it is today. His father was a member of the Mormon battalion. In the early days he was a member mem-ber of the horticultural club, a club organized for the purpose of selecting select-ing fruit which would grow best in Dixie. A club house was built; for exhibition js syn ..V-.'. '"If ' ; had a' standing in St. George. hard life, enduring hardships of the early days of Dixie. Jos. T. Atkin, Sr. said that when his father came here in the '60's Joe was here with his parents, and that their acquaintance dated from pioneer days. Bishop F. G. Miles said he felt gratified that the remains were brought to St. George for burial beside be-side the bodies of his parents, to the valley where he spent practically all his life. A vocal duet was rendered by Mrs. Francis Grey and Mrs. Annie Whipple. Whip-ple. Closing prayer was by President Joseph K. Nicholes. Joseph W. Carpenter was born March 17, 1852 at Pottowattamie, Iowa. He came to Salt Lake with his parents when 12 years of age. The lived for a short time at Provo and Rockville and in 1866 came to St. George. (Continued on page 3) FUNERAL MONDAY FOR PIONEER DIXIE NEWSPAPERMAN (Continued from page 1) In 1875 he was married in St. George to Miss Annie Randall, formerly for-merly of Spanish Fork. Besides his widow he is survived by the following children: Mrs. Annie May Stringham: and Mrs. Louisa Zamaloa, of St. George; Mrs. Leah Hodget of Las Vegas, Mrs. Ethel Ed-gington, Ed-gington, Los Angeles, Edgar Carpenter, Carpen-ter, Riverside, Rudolph A. Carpenter Carpen-ter of Las Vegas, and twenty-one grand-children and three greatgrandchildren; great-grandchildren; three brothers, Wm. Carpenter of Lorenzo, Idaho, Alfred Carpenter, Bloomington, Brigham Carpenter, Berry Springs, and a sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Mamora Fawcett, Berry Springs. Joseph Carpenter was one of the pioneer newspaper men of Dixie. His first experience in printing was had in the fall of 1867 when at the age of 15 he learned that Samuel L. Adams, a blacksmith of St. George, had bought some old type in Salt Lake to use for babbit metal. met-al. He learned that Mr. Adams would trade the type metal for zinc, so he gathered up all the latter metal he could find and traded for the type. He then got wide one inch boards and bored holes nearly through them making compartments for the letters which were placed in alphabetical order. He set up mottoes, verses, etc., and printed them by impressing type on paper pa-per laid on a felt hat over a smooth board, using thin paint for ink. He worked in the printing office of Jos. E. Johnson who established the first newspaper in Dixie on January Jan-uary 22, 1868. On December 15 of the same year Mr. Carpenter issued the first number num-ber of the St. George Juvenile, size 5Vj by 7i inches, two columns to the page, with a subscription price of 75 cents for six months. This paper was printed on a hand-made wooden press, with a sliding bed and a double lever to raise and low-the low-the platen when the impression was taken. The St. George Juvenile was published pub-lished for one year, then the name was changed to the St. George Enterprise, En-terprise, which was published once a month. With the issue of August 14, 1874, Mr. Carpenter quit the newspaper business temporarily and worked with his father at broom-making broom-making and coopering, until his marriage in 1875. Soon after this he obtained a small hand printing press from Joseph Field of Beaver and did considerable commercial printing. Ke also worked at coopering coop-ering and in the printing office of Jos. E. Johnson. In the spring of 1878 John W. Young was appointed president of the southern Utah mission mis-sion ' and Mr. Carpenter was urged to start a paper under a new name. Consequently the St. George Union made its appearance on Jime 14. 1878 as a semi-monthly. He also published a small daily called the Evening Telegram in 1879. shortly after erecting a building of his own to house his printing plant. The daily was short-lived however. Many breaks occurred in the publication pub-lication of the Union due to the many difficulties with which the publisher had to contend. From 1880 to 1890 he published paper intermittently intermit-tently at Bloomington and St George. In the latter year he purchased pur-chased a new printing press on which the Union was printed m enlarged en-larged form. He continued its publication pub-lication until 1895 when the plant was purchased by James T. Jake-man. Jake-man. The equipment was taken back later by Mr. Carpenter and was in his possession at the time of his death. During the past 20 years or more he has worked at odd repair jobs, being a genius in the repair of watches, typewriters, etc. He established es-tablished a home in Las Vegas and alternated his residence between the two towns. He returned to St. George last winter and remained here until a month ago when he went to Las Vegas. |