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Show r . . i 6 or . V : ' ;. - .- - .-- -- - . - '. - ... - - - ., ,.., 1 - (Continued from Page One.) brethren, among them the Prophet, . Llbertyja 7while , - , Of of 1839. ' . , sêason7s , ts - , - where-missionari- , es -- , .. ... . . annum. The projected newspaper hadn't found ILI 500 subscribers yet. - With the Octoter Issue, the story of the Missouri persecutions was con-eluded. The Saints had been reading the story for a year, so it was about time they got a change of editorial , - - '. Lord t The Times a i 2 m bu , - a r' ro leN , we were per- - Ire I mitted, through the blessings of an a kind Providence, again to ixsue I OC the paper, which has been published it until the present time without Inter- ruption notwithstanding two good , ng and mig'hty men have fallen while actink as editors (11 ) rx THE PROPHET TAKES OVER .,.. - iui new editor who replaced itwm was none other than Joseph,. r)r Smith himself. For his assistant, he I il chose one of his twelve apostles, John 'n V4 Briton who had Taylor, a 8.1 been born in Milnthorpe, England. "This paper commences my edi-- t, tonal career," Joseph Smith wrote on 1 March 1, 1842. "I alone stand respon-st sible for it, and shall do for all paper ir 1 henceforward-- I having am not responsible for the publica- i tion, or arrangement of the former . at la paper, the matter did not come under eic Thy supervision" (12) to Apparently the Prophet had a def-Inite reason for assuming editorship t , an of the Times and Seasons. In 1835, ot when the Church- - hk-- I ters in Kirtland, Ohio, a young man qt 131 by the name of Michael H. Chandler came through the town exhibiting five at Egyptian mummies which had beelll) ' d( bequeathed to him by an uncle who fr had dug them from a tomb and died while bringing them to Besides his mummies, Chandler ;p 4 ol SI had some - papyrus rolls, and these rolls caught the Prophet' attention. P He studied one of the rolls, Jotted tz down a few notes, and announced that . - - 110),--:- :- 1 1 dark-eye- .. . ' d i full-size- re . - - - - uar- t' T mL. , f -- ,, I it Si - I n k 1 S 1 I I , d re-thin- a I t vear-Whi- self in-it- tE i -- -- . - II I I . rn '1 . . Ea-ste- ' -, - - - - n - , . - semi-month- -- -- on - . - - ol -- to establishing a pa- per in the near future, and prepared to put their monthly on a ' basis. ly Prospects were bright at the end of that first year Withthe initial issue of the sec-- ond volume, advertisements appear- ecl on the back page of the Times and Not ' political ads or an Seasons. noo ncements from the proprietors, but ads that extolled the merits of such products as Bliss' Purgative Billioul Pills, Gridley's Salt Rheum Ointment, Dr. Vancouver's Powders, and Bliss' Imperial Syrup. The first rhange In management came at the ADeginning of the new year Ahen Ebenezer'Robinson turn- ed the editorship over to his partner , Don Carlos Smith, and went into the printing business exclusively. As his Smith took Robert B. associate, Thompson into the office, and on Jan. " discovered1, 1841, the Times and Seasons made i its appearance under the new editor- To substantiate his announce- ship. The advertisementotfE. Rob- - ment, he sent one-- of his disciples to inson, printer," and publisher was on an Egyptian language scholar in Phil- the back page. adelphia with the roll and his trans.'''. With the new combination running lation to verify IL The disciple the Times seemed to 'assume turned with'word that the scholar had anewliveliness, which improved a checked them and found the Prophet's bit with each succeeding issue translation to be correct When ha, took over theTimeS andi - on An unusual death chnotice appeared Aug 2 of that Seasons, Joseph Smith 'had completed points to the story of a wife passing his translation and was ready to pub.:. 1away while her husband was Aravel- - lish iL to theworldthroughthe 1 through thecountrypreaching Tditiin --of therimes,Accordingly,- lthe;I:the gospel. It read: new editor's first issue contained. oil Diedin this place July 16th Its front page a facsimile of one set Alice, consort of Oliver Olney, aged of hieroglyphics together with the 41 years. f Brother Olney is absent translation of it This facsimile was. from home and knows nothing of ' later reproduced in the New York the afflicting occurrence.- (10) Herald by its .enterprising editor, k Two weeks after this inotice, the James Gordon Bennett: Other Tunes used its first black column newspapers, among them the Dollir rotes to record the death of its edi-Weekly Bostonian and Boston Daily tor, Don Carlos Smith. The next num-- - Ledger, ran the strange looking her was similarly bedecked, this time."1,- facsimile and the explanation by the' L' in memory of Robert ,B. Thompson., Mormon' 'prophet. ,1 ,. ,,,, s,.,. With both editors dead within a ,t, Editor Smith ran another facsimile fortnight of each other Ebenezer Rob--- in the following issue and continued inson again took over the editorial his translation of the Book of Abrareins. On Jan. 15, 1842, Gustavus Hills ham. Others followed in subsequent became his assistant. One month later, issues. It made a novel "continued' Robinson wrote his yaledictory st orY Tod ay th ese trens at ions are which he ..brielly recounted the hue com iled in a book called "The Pearl p tory-o-fIn the summer of 1839, having a 4 (Continued on Page Seven) --war- d Hampshir-OTEnglankStot- , E as - and Seasons proprie- tors had set themselves up in the printing business, were looking for- - - I al - - - , , d circumstances the most per, adverse, possible- - The only place we could obtain wherein to put our press was an underground room in anold warehouse, without art3r floor, andalmost destitute of light-- here we succeeded t, nyhatung a few-copies of the paper, when disease, which we had contracted while la- boring in the damp room, brought us upon our sick beds. and we were-- compelled to suspend busin ess for several months; howevero in the middle of November THE FIRST- YEAR Thus concluded the first year of the ' Times and Seasons. In 12 months Nauvoo had evolved from a group of scattered houses - - -- and rswamps to a town that began --to tatte on proportions that promised a size- able city within a short time. Church members everywhere were regarding Nauvoo as the gathering place of the , - -- w, ":: diet. w t - 1 -- - . 1 . semi-monthl- y - Olt,- ( n , ful - - 1 , -- . - irll'e' 'lie' 14 'iname cam.' 1.1;m-- the - ,,.. Prophet, who said that Nauvoo meant-'13eautiplace" in Hebrevr.--- -' In September, the Times and Sea- - sons gave notice that it would begin publication with the second volume on Nov . 1. The sub- scription price was raised to $2 per - , remains ?f ,..: ' printing establish.: ment, had by the Church in Mis-sourl, which had 'been, saved from the ruins by beingburied in the',-earth, and after having Careftill, extrac' ted the polluted Beg 14cf1S-,- f sou,trt- frnyti, the press and type;1 1' - , - C;Smith ... master. ' - - C . . - -- TL few months previous emerged from; the confines of a Missouri prison, 'where I had been thrust,' together 1,1vith about.09.oLtaLbrethrel salP;14 ly because we would notrenounce' the religion of heaven, Brother 5. . - , jI 1,111eh, bvi, e by, like Ourselves ' no; were the better for having ever. i , .. or-- e the passed through scrutinizing name the By May of the town had deal an of we ungodly ,nob, issued. been changed from Commerce to Nau- - . a prospectus for publishing this pa- voo, with George W.Itobinson as post- - , under , I :. , - which real estate or pers:Onal property will be given for secUrity; Robinson and Stnith. (9)' Along with this notice the ikiblish- era indicated their desire to begin a paper devoted entirely to Pews. Five hundred subscribers were necessary, before publication could beginiiilow. i , , , 1 . - the-necessity - - Church Deportrrient ; . ers to an article published in the February number, from the High Council, expressing their disapprobation of all persons who have received monies on subscriptions for the Tunes and Seasons, and have not paid it over to the place where it was sent- We are compelled to state at thiS time, that there are several who have used our money without authority, and who, moreover do not manifest any particular anxi etyto pay it to us after haying the use of it for some time; this is therefore, to inform all such persons, that unless the money is forthcoming soon, we shall be under of publishing their names in the paper, and also of withholding the papers ordered by said persons. It is with great reluctance that-A- ve rnakethri announcement but our circumstances, and the nature of our business requires it; as it is impossible to sustain the press without -- : . , . Most editorials were on religious expounding the gospel, taking matters, Issue- with verbal attackers, which were numerous, and taking editorial at Missouri state officials for allowing the persecutions to go unheeded and the perpetrators to go unfunished. , Another regular occurrence in the of columns of the paper were reports Church conferences .held In different f the country, parts-Owere carrying tidings of the new numerous conreligion and gaining were held at conferences The means. (6) verts. central points and attracted members The threat to publish names of refrom nearby tovAls, plus large num- calcitrant agents must have effected of bers of the non members, many the desired result, as no further menthem just curious, others genuinely in- tion of the subject was made in subterested. issues, to sequent Purpose of the conferences was Another bane of the publishers in boost the morale of members besides those days was subscribers who didn't The reports gaining new convertS bother to pay postage on their letters, sent to the Times and Seasons by the probably thinking that, inasmuch as of traveling elders were usually full of the the letter contained their subscription the about progress news good money, the publisher should be only Lord's cause in their vicinity.' Oc- too glad to pay postage. In July the casionally, however, they told of op- appeared: - position encountered, like being run following Letters hgve been flooding the such other out of town post office of late, directed to us occurrence. The full minutes of each. the postage uniSaid; the with conference' were generally contained of which will be remailed pie part Times,-the in In the reports published for Washington. All letters Jo us, for, telling who opened4with prayer, what the future, will not receive attention ' songs were sung, who preached the the postage is PAID. unless closed who 'sermon, on what subject,. . Our subscription for one year is with praY'er, and bow many were bapone dollar in advance: a letter comes tized afterwards. requesting the paper for one year, THE COMMERCIAL SIDE the containing $1.; Postage 25 cents. In its purpose, religious Despite the course of three months the sec'limes needed money ond letter makes its appearance,-'-rfirst the and frequently, especially to the paper be directed to devoted was so or questing column a year, another post office: postage 25 cents. the mundane matter of money:- In a After a short time a paper gets misFebruary, 1840 the editors clipped and one number is missing; carried which Era York New the piece from the subscriber anxious to keep the read: volume complete, sends the third IMPORTANT TO EDITORS letter requesting the lost number: from extract an is The following letter the instructions recently addressedPostage-25-- c a few in comes 'United of the days lumbering along to all the postmasters be to -the General: stopped paper Postmaster requesting the States by "Postmasters may enclose money - at the office as he is about to moveinto the place: Postage 25 cents. In a letter to,a publisher of a new3next letter that comes has a The of a sUbscriPtibri the to pay paper silver dollar, to pay for the paper third person, and frank the letter, if for one year: excess of postage 75 written by himself." -r- - - centsHow doiyou think printers be will liberal This egulation can live? 0)-7- -, highly advantageous tO the Interest Political advertising made its first thereand of the newspaper press appearance in the Times and Seasons fore favorable to the general distri- of August, 1840 in the form of the folbutionraiblic- information.New , lowing, more an announcement- than York Era. (5) -num', adverti,sement: the with February Ref:tinning to Congress from Iowa wes Foriletegate her a list .of the paper's-agen- ts Augustus C. Dodge published. It included men in Illinois, York Massachu Pe'rtrisvivania;--NeFor Council frôni Lee County, setts, New Edward L. Johnson (8) North land South Carolina, Tennessee, who and agents," "traveling Carolina, Whether these men were member, claimed no state for their permanent abode. Almost all of the agents were of the Church, had the Church's stamp the Church's missionaries who were of -- approval on their candidacies, or for votes through preaching in -The States where they were just appealing the medium of the paper is 110t were agents.:- Apparently some of the brethren known. It is like Iy however- that ' been Church to the had weren't too prompt in remitting "approved" by they (Vince money received for subscrip- - officials, who were anxious to have tions. An appeal signed by the Church 'sympathetic public officers after their xperiences with hostile ones In Ohlo High 'Council was published in Febru- . . the tid Missouri. to send please agents ary, asking - Inoney A half year after their paper start- as soon as they received it. But the appeal, although backed by ;ed, Robinson and Smith decided it was the Church's authority didn't produce time to expand their enterprises, hence the desired results, so the editors re- the following notice which appeared - sorted methodIn inMay Wanted, Five Hundred dollars, to be May they wrote: : We are under-th- eprintnu-oa loan of six to twelve months, for sIty,oLInfoun1ng$OME of our read- pot-sho- l , , , Nctuvoo -- - - , . MAY 18, 194.0 . e 9' THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, , ... Commerce wasn't a healthy place to live in those early days, what with being reclaimed from a swamp. Deaths were an almost daily occurrence from obituaries "the fever." Twenty-fivwere contained in the December issue ' 1.:. - - . t,' , - ... -- . :;1 " .. . HIS ' - -- , ;1 - .- ' , . A - - . . . ,, '' I , - I |