Show THE TIMES DAY THE PRINTING OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE TIMES FITTINGLY celebrated BY CITIZENS OF PAROWAN AND OTHER TOWNS wednesday afternoon at a large crowd of people estimated at between and residents of parowan carowan and other towns of the county congregated in front of the times office to celebrate the printing of the first issue of the first paper that hathas has ever been launched in parowan carowan Pa rowan the county seat of iron county the brass band under the leadership of prof leon L eckles was in at and dispensed pleasing and inspiring music after the first tune was played by the band master of ceremonies geo A mitchell made a short talk stating the object of the gathering and said that after a few prominent men had expressed themselves the first paper would be run off the press and auctioned off to the highest cash bidder addresses were made by mayor H D DB bayles ayles alex H rollo H J prin van buren and geo A mitchell the later gentleman displaying to the people a copy of the first issue of the deseret news and compared the growth of 0 the news from the date of its hirth with that of today to day and hoped that the times would show as great a growth in the same length of time the gentleman also showed a time worn greenback signed by joseph smi th jr and a confederacy 20 bill 0 owned wn and carefully preserved by wm win orton mr mitchell predicted many of the copies of the first issue of the parowan carowan times would be preserved as had the relies relics he had shown and that in years to come parowan carowan people would proudly display them at this point the electric power was turned on the press end and the first copy struck off which was immediately shown to the gathering and a call for bids made the first bid was 2 which was immediately followed by a bid of 5 and from that figure on the bidding was spirited until the sum of 31 was offered by F W pendleton who was acting for the city and to whom the copy was sold this closed the proceedings and after mr mitchell had given and invitation vi to all to come to a dance that evening in the opera house the band ja nd struck up a lively air and the cro crowd wd dispersed all feeling merry and pleased |