| Show E HO W allm u suitor DIES OF P NEU na AIN U 11 I 1 after d ila U fm FOUR 0 dh in ti 0 51 E ah 95 01 W lu ha mal C CA A E howard is dead to midy this announcement will mean much ilich but to a number of ultimate intimate friends this will come as a distinct shock sir ir howard leading a lonely and unobtrusive life was taken ill I 1 R bidsy nio I 1 developed and on oil wednesday his noved to lb tl e liob chefe aber e every I 1 1 I 1 H peterson of the richfield abid nurses could give e was bestowed ug has been in clake ek ck from deaths ws beckoning hand the y this week on oil busine i t and on oil thursday evening without ear car and retaining consciousness NOT j the te great beyond the entire grade acl t 1 monroe lonroe ter a splendid writer and a clever closed on account of oc i eagles it expected that school will reopen i iowa nigh unto GO years ago he two or three weeks and acquired a wonderful knowledge I 1 over the home garden products his love of flowers was his one cicat passion in ili life ind and this was the tie that bound him to a host of friends in ili richfield early in ili life lie he entered tile the printing trade and became an all expert compositor while at the case the desile to write grew upon him and in ili his early manhood lie he developed a style of writing that placed him in ili the class of bill nye and other american humorists he could coul d weave fanciful stories around local conditions and cliar char ackers that would chase gloom from a funeral away back in the early lie he came to utah securing a position with an all ogden paper as a compositor ills his genius for writing impelled him to try country journalism in ili utah and he came cam e to salina shortly after ills his arrival from iowa ile he founded the salina press and his humor wit and pathos won him instant recognition from the utah press ile he was correspondent for the tribune in ili those days of hectic politics politic sand mid anti mormon sentiment but in ili all his writings which v eie eagerly sought ought by tile alie tribune lie he steeled clear of anti mornion mormon stories stones ile he ciote descriptive matter of tile tho beauties of sevier that eagerly lead and which received much publicity ile he made a great s success of the salina press its wit and wisdom was known throughout the west and many of his grotesque fancies copied and reprinted by some of the biggest journals in america ile he was a keen observer of human character pid and could hurl a javelin albeit wonderfully disguised into the vitals of a man mail or measure claiming public attention no keener satirist ever edited a paper in ili utah than A E howard every eveny man mail woman and child in ili salina loved howard in ili 1904 lie ha moved his plant from salina to richfield and established the richfield sun he had been a lifelong life long democrat but it is said that certain pecuniary advantages were held out to filin him in a heated campaign after his entrance into richfield and lie he became an all advocate of republicans and republicanism the glittering prom aises held out to him did not materialize and his journalistic life here was a continuous struggle for ei existence stence his writings were misunderstood and his success was always a problem he continued the publication of 0 the sun until the present management sec secured tired the alie reaper plant when a close friendship materialized between the publishers of tile the two local papers and after a year howard suspended publication and accepted a position with the reaper and was assigned to the editorial work on oil the paper ho he suffered a partial paralysis of his left arm some time since when lie he slipped on oil the stairs leading to ills his room and since that time he was unable to work at it the case or do any of tile the mechanical mcchan iral work of the office however his genius for word painting stayed with him to the end and each week brought forth many clever things in the columns of the reaper ile he had an all extraordinary etra ordinary command of english and could make the mother tongue do almost anything he could take tho the crudest of correspondence or communication and dress it up in ili language and expression in 1 a I manner that would make its author won der when lie he tit the e author had written so well howard was a ge genius lilus but not many in n this community could really appreciate the keenness of his pen few writers could lam iam bast or praise as howard could and few had such a wonderful gift in concealing tile the barbed point of ridicule in such pleasing garb of choice language ile he knew words and their meaning As a man lie he could appreciate others and lie he was a worshipper wor shipper of his friends he was on ones enemy but his own A great lover of nature the birds the flowers the streams the meadows and the mountains all ministered keenly to his spirit he loved tile the free life in ili the open but circumstances kept him to the print shop when lie he should have been in ili the mountains worshipping wor shipping at the barine of nature howard is gone but ills his friends will always keep green the memory 0 of the man mail who had the heart ind and nature of an all unspoiled child who loved his friends and all that ills his friends loved no man in ili sevier has talked from week to week to so many people as has A E howard no man mail in sevier has said so many kind things of his neighbors howard has everdeen ever been ready to console with tile the bereaved when death came to a home lie he always had tile the best and kindest things to say of those who passed away lie he ordered more consolation to grieving souls than any roan mail in the community on oil the advent of a now new soul to this sphere when a souls course was I 1 inn un in ili sickness or soi row in ili joy and success howard chronicled from week to week the sadness and happiness of the community he gave bouquets of real flowers to the living said words of praise cherp words of praise were deserved and be bestowed beb towed flowers of rhetoric c 0 on tile the dead and made deaths blow lighter to those bereaved he has said words of reproof when lie he deemed such were merited but every person A to so reproved should remember that the newspaper man mail always knows more than lie he publishes and an lie he should be given credit for not n at saying things lie he could have said and aswell as for the many things lie he said of a helpful natuis he was not a pessimist but a booster in all things and ills his life touched more people than probably any other mans mails in ili this community in the past twenty five live years if every man mail woman and child of howard hobari has said kind things and helped to brighten their lives were to place but one flower upon ills his bier today lie he would sleep beneath a mountain of blossoms mr howard had no relatives in ili utah except ills his sister mrs A J weber of salt lake city she was notified of ills his death and gave instructions to have the funeral services ai ranged arranged in ili richfield explaining pla ining athali tha t his life in ili the west biad lad been spent in sevier and she was sure lie he would desire to be buried where his friends are judge jud e and mrs mra weber will arrive here today in ili the meantime the arrangements range ments for tile the funeral are in ili the hands of tile the immediate friends ot the deceased decca decea sd the Odd fellows fraternity of which order mr howard wa was a former member nie niber have set apart a burial spot and the funeral services servi ces will be in ili the second ward chapel tomorrow sunday afternoon at 3 the speakers will be judge H N hayes prof A J ashman and one of mr howards old friends from salina the music will be in ili charge of mr hood |
