| Show SOME SUCCEEDED MANY MORE DIDN fortime produced in that plantDavis County Argus withFarmington dateline He engaged in editorially denouncing The Weekly Reflex resulting incaustic rebuttal by editor White demeaning the former Farmington publisher as pestiferous person knocker mischief maker by nature and by training and canhelp it The last such Argus reflecting Farmington origin gave little space to local events Bearingmid-April 1912 dateline it was devoted extensively to the sinking of the unsinkable luxury liner Titanic in the frigid North Atlantic The Salt Lake City version of The Argus was soon thereafter taken over from Jakeman by Harry Wood and in 1916 ceased to exist Benjamin Cummings whose newspaper experience included stints in Logan and Salt Lake City became lessee publisher of the Reflex on September 1911 His four-plus months at the helm ended inbitter dispute Shelby and White reclaimed the paper forbrief time then disposed of it to Kaysville businessmen Henry Blood John Gailey and John Barnes On April 1912 the new proprietors leased it to William Epperson and his son Clyde both of whom would be long time members and officers of Utah State Press Association The Eppersons whose newspaper roots were in Colorado turned the Reflex intoprofitable venture and with their extended family were at the helm for 38 years though in partnership with Blood Gailey and Barnes William was also the guiding hand behind the founding of Inland Printing Company specialists in the production of cata logs and one of the statemajor commercial printing firms He died suddenly on December 31 1930 while attendingNew Years Eve celebration in Ogden and his son then took over management and publishing duties Clydedeath on September 16 1940 while onbusiness trip to New York City was also quite unexpected and placed Williamson-in-law Charles Saxton in the publisherchair He was in charge only three years before passing away December 20 1943 At that time Albert Epperson nephew of William and16-year staff member became the editor He and his wife Virginia eventu 65 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
