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THE UTAH NEWSPAPER HALL OF FAME servation one week: "Labor Day will be generally observed in Tintic by laboring." On another occasion, he penned, tongue-in-cheek: "Dr. Bailey and Henry Elmore returned last night from a week's fishing trip and are making all sorts of excuses for not serving a fish dinner to their friends. Some of the fish were so large that the men were pulled into the stream and came near being devoured by the leviathans." For a few years after the Record's founding, the masthead of one of Eureka's two newspapers continued to bear the name of Charles P. Diehl. By the turn of the century, though, Charles disposed of the Democrat and it, along with the Juab County Republican, was eventually melded into the still-existent Eureka Reporter. Charles and Henry later newspapered in Burley, Shoshone and Oakley, Idaho and founded one of the predecessor publications of today's Twin Falls Times-News. Though Henry would sink his roots in Idaho and prosper as a builder of grain elevators, Charles briefly returned to Utah to edit the Bingham Press, eventually earning a doctorate in chemistry and becoming a Californian. While cosmetic manufacturing was his livelihood, he's also remembered for perfecting the homogenization of peanut butter, for discoveries in the mining of pearlite and for devising a mechanical beet-digger. Isaac was married on December 31, 1894 to Nellie House, who before her death on August 23, 1937 would teach in Tintic School District classrooms for over 30 years. Though they had no children, they took into their home two of the three small sons of Charles after their mother's untimely death. The boys, Rolland and Leon, grew to manhood in the Diehl home. The third son, Charles Elmo, was raised by the House family in Nebraska, but at age 16 came to Utah where he, too, lived with the Diehls. Eventually he earned an engineering degree from the University of Utah, where classmates remember his talented piano playing. During his 'teen years he worked at the Record as a Linotype operator. Always active in the Utah Press Association, Ike served three times as vice president - in 1903, 1904 and 1912. He was 479 |