Show DR MARKUS richfield sevier county and all southern utah will experience a great loss when dr M markus leaves this weekend to make his home and engage in the newspaper business at santa paula california while we all sense this loss to some extent already we will not fully realize the void that is left in our community until after this grand man of the press is definitely gone the numerous social affairs that are being held in his honor indicate the reluctance with which we ve see him preparing to leave our midst ferdinand erickson in his usual eloquent manner paid high tribute to the general esteem in which dr markus is held at the program and banquet given in his honor monday evening by the masonic lodge and order of eastern star with a number of the doctors close friends as invited guests one phrase was particularly outstanding any man who has lived and worked in a community as long and with as close contact to his fellows as dr markus has experienced and still can leave with as general benediction as is bestowed upon our distinguished and beloved citizen certainly must have lived an upright life and rendered an inestimable service to his community which makes him realize that he has not lived his life in vain no newspaper man ever lived in utah who was more widely and more favorably known than dr markus he published the richfield reaper for a little more than a decade and built it up until it was generally generall y recognized as the leading weekly in utah he has always worked harmoniously and constructively for the best interests of his community ho he has been a good neighbor standing for the better things of life broadminded a thorough gentleman and one of the most ardent friends of the public schools that we ever knew he is beloved by men vo ivo men and children alike we are certain that dr markus will carry with him the most fervent wishes of the community for success in his new home and the best that life has to offer him sevier countes coun tys loss will be cali fornias gain and we sincerely feel that there never will be another dr marans we know that his atch latch string will always be open to his utah friends who go to visit calibo california nia and we weare are equally certain that there will always be a warm welcome awaiting the doctor D 0 actor when w en he comes back to visit utah which he so dearly loves so we say to dr markus which is the german equivalent for the english expression so long the common phrase used by dr markus when he bids us a temporary adieu we know that we shall see him again soon and trust that it will v all be often |