Show OO FIRST EDITOR OF CHRONICLE CHRONICLE CHRON CHRON- ICLE KILLED IN SALT LAKE Last week Norman B. B Dresser the first editor of oC the Chronicle was killed killed killed kill kill- ed in Salt Salt Lake Lake City while walking to his home by being hit by a street streetcar streetcar streetcar car 3 as he ho was walking on the tracks Mr Dresser was slightly deaf and may not have heard the tho approaching car which hurled him against a telephone telephone telephone tel tel- ephone pole and ho he died an hour later lat lat- er Norman B. B Dresser was about 76 years of age l-I l He was a veteran in having had his first experience with one in Canada Then years yearS yearS' later he had a in Rock Springs Wyoming at about abou the time some some miners miners' with minds inflamed inflamed in In- flamed named throw threw four Chinese into their own burning houses and cremated them alive live alive costing Uncle Sam a pretty indemnity and long diplomatic parleys He ran a paper In Bingham for COl a brief time About 1910 he started the Millard County Chronicle and up upstairs upstairs upstairs stairs we have his first Issue The country was poor to or and Mr Dresser JH had d a hard ahard time of it Old timers will rem remember that he and E. E Eugene Gardner bathed it In a little shack all by Its lon lonesome ome in n front of where the Bonneville Lumber Co is now located There Pegasus chomped the bit and and chafed for action an and l erudition erudition erudition tion yearned for or further knowledge Dresser passed through many trials here tried farming took tool up newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper work again in Patt Park City then r in California Much lluch of oC newspaper work in hi done on a machine whose limit is 30 ems hence 30 Is spoken of as the end and when a newspaper man dies his linotype is draped with crepe and andIn andin il In newspaper parlance we say Its THIRTY f for r Dresser signifying he he has completed his course coarse reached hi his his- end We Ve mourn for lor Dresser who strove hard against many odds unappreciated ted and laboring against grinding poverty May he get his recognition where a kindly judgment weighs intent as well as accomplishment accomplish accomplish- ment ment- ment for we often ollen fall far lar short in execution of what intent would wish Vale Val Vale in pace I |