| Show THE LURE OF NEWSPAPERING won at the polls met Rosenbaum on the street and after an exchange of words began an exchange of punches It didnend til policemen hauled the new Mayor to jail Rosenbaum had the last laugh His headline read LoganSlugger-Elect Our next Mayor arrested for assault and battery Known to contemporaries as Andy Rosenbaum may have carried the scars to the organizational meeting of UPA held in Lehi onlyfew days later on December 17th Apparently reacting toseries of reported conflicts -and perhaps to others unrecorded -Arthur Howard of the Salina Sun wrote This thing is becoming awful Nearly every newspaperman in the state during the past year has receivedterrible thrashing at the hands of viciously inclined bulldozers Arm yourselves brethren it looks as if remorseless Nemesis is hot on our trail Glanville had scarcely taken over editorial duties at the Wasatch Wave in Heber City before he penned an 1897 article which inflamed local citizen Witt The Wave reported Editor Glanville of the Wave was licked in the livery barn the first licking ever givenWave editor for publishing the news Then injocular vein this was appended Wantedfighting editor at this office One who stands six feet eleven inches in his stocking feet and tips the beam at 197 pounds fighting weight who can handle his fists feet gun orclub Glanville didnwait for many applicants -he turned the Wave back to its founder William Buys not long thereafter Reported the Silver City Star on September 1897 The Jjob of licking editors has recently become fashionable in Utah The last case to come to our notice was in Park Cityfew days ago when Editor Flahiff of the Utah Patriot and Matt Connelly of the Ontario Mine came forcibly together We would suggest that editors who live inbelligerent community makebreast plate of old plate-matter and wear it under their shirts Onlyfew weeks later the Star appended to its story the information that Flahiff the fat man from Arkansas has gone north to the Klondike Though such clashes became infrequent in the 20th century newsmen still paidprice for expressing their editorial 271 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
