| Show SOME SUCCEEDED MANY MORE DIDN scene It was the Bingham Bulletin established June 1891 with Ed Watts as editor He would publish what the Provo Enguirer labelled sprightly young journalistic venture until December 25 1895 when Watts ill health forced him to sell to Graham Inhumorous recollection Graham said became editor publisher and sole proprietor without payingdollar down and with nowhere to get one While inreckless moodmet the then owner of the Bulletin who offered to sell it to me on time as he was ill and wantedchange of climate City dailies were circulated every morning about 10clock making the field forskinny weekly seem bare asgoose pasture No wonder this young man is feeling unwell thought Graham nevertheless lasted until 1905 and was succeeded by Frank Tierney who had no Bingham office but operated from Salt Lake CityJudge building Meanwhile the Bingham Press was begun by Holman in 1908 and by early 1912 had merged with the Bulle tin The resultant Press-Bulletin was published in Bingham Canyon with Charles Diehl as editor-manager In rather rapid succession Traughber Masters Kram er Phil Goldwater and Walter Adams ascended the publisherchair the latter returning to the Bingham Bulletin name on April 28 1927 Seven months elapsed before he sold to Howard Jarvis on November 30 1927 In 1934 the paper was acquired by Howard Barrows and on June 1936 by Leland Burress Barrows would later become publisher of the Midvale Sentinel In September 1946 Burress sold the Bulletin to his shop foreman John Adamek and his wife Gladys Born in Clopodia Bohemia Adamek came to Olathe Kansas as2-year old child and when in his teens learned Linotype operation and studied at the Chicago School of Printing But he had no formal journalistic training which was the role filled by Gladys Kansas City native and secretarial school graduate The Adameks would move the paper to West Jordan when the expansion of Kennecottopen pit mining forced Bingham Canyon to be abandoned astown site The Adameks too supervised the Bulletindemise on June 23 1961 57 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
