| Show WILL J PANGUITCH mm PASSES hway enormous crowd attended funeral services held wednesday will J peters editor and publisher of the garfield county news in panguitch passed away monday morning after an illness which had started with influenza about a year ago and became threatening around the first of november southern utah has lost in bill a true and trusty friend one who has worked incessantly for advertising the scenic beauties of all of southern utah and especially bryce canyon lying at the doors of pan gu itch advocating road improvements assisting by pen purse and personal activity in all community and civic movements praising generously what he found good and criticising criticizing critic ising fearlessly persons and things that in his opinion ought to be different mr air peters was a natural booster out but never exaggerated the things he advocated to the detriment of things advocated by others this together with his wonderful disposition his hospitality which was generous to a fault his everlasting good humor which did mo bof t leave him even in the last hours of his life made him bre beloved loved in an enormous circle of people near and far had any proof been needed of it it was given at the funeral services which were held at the pan duitch second ward meeting house wednesday afternoon the hall was so crowded that not an inch of standing room was left and flowers be decked the bier in such profusion that the young ladies carrying them from the newspaper office to the nic meeting eting house were at a loss to know where to put them it was a leal community funeral bishop F G gardner presided and the invocation was offered by W W houston the first speaker was mayor J frank houston who extolled the activities of mr peters as city councilman and all round booster james sargent who was acquainted associated and intimately befriended with mr peters since 1891 with a voice trembling with emotion related some high points of his long acquaintance with bill he was followed by general manager H B waters of the telluride power co who feelingly spoke of the fine fa character bar acter traits of if the deceased mr peters having been a member of rocky mountain lodge no 11 F A M at tooele thoele dr AT markus of richfield gave a parting i eulogy in the double capacity of representing the tooele thoele lodge and the utah state press association of which mr air peters had been a director touching and consoling remarks then were made by stake president wm win J henderson and S A worthen counselor of the bishopric emphasized pha sized the decease ds generous and helpful attitude towards ward and stake which he said was so much the more remarkable as mr peters himself was not a member of the church closing remarks were made by bishop gardner james P cameron neighbor and intimate friend of mr peters offered the benediction music was furnished by the ward choir under direction of scott worthen a baritone solo by jaynes james sargent jr and a soprano solo by mrs airs lydia lassen members of the richfield masonic lodge representing their masonic brethren of tooele thoele acted as pall bearers they were lamar jensen frank pritchett leo martin H B waters and the editor an endless procession of automobiles followed the remains to the cemetery where bishop H B ipson dedicated the grave will J peters was nearly sixty eight years of age when he died he was born biorn in marysvale Marys vale kansas in in Ie december cember 1861 and spent his early manhood in theatrical work travel ing with the J G and E alma stutz co all over the western states occasionally he would drop his theatricals and stay for a while in in a city he be liked assisting newspaper editors in their work in this way he became acquainted with newspaper work and printing such extemporaneous intermezzos inter mezzos he had in several states among them texas oklahoma arizona and utah to panguitch mr peters came for the first time in 1891 with aith the stutz co A few years later he returned return to panguitch producing there the first moving picture ever shown in city somehow panguitch attracted him for in 1900 he came again and for two years managed the old panguitch progress then lie he left and his friends did not hear from him until he be opened a print shop and newspaper office in tooele thoele utah but the lure of panguitch and garfield county was too strong in 1920 he came again establishing the garfield county news which since then he has worked up to one of the best weekly papers in hi the state he also established a print shop excelled in equipment only by a very few country shops in the state while traveling in colorado in 1909 he met mrs mra eleanore francis a widow A short romance ensued and in august of that year mr peters and mrs francis were married and since then have lived in the happiest union mrs peters was the most faithful and devoted helper and assistant of her bill accompanying him on his trips working in the print shop running the typesetting machine and in addition to that doing her house work in the most splendid fashion mrs airs pete and one niece of the deceased mrs jem jean benedict of marysvale Marys vale kansas are the only survivors but those who sadly feel the departure of this sterling man number thousands |
