| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION penned he turned his attention towide variety of subjects ranging from wheat livestock farming and highways to marriage and housekeeping His early editorials campaigned for competent teachers with good prompt pay and advocated they spend much of their leisure time resting up There was no objection he said to teachers going todance or indulging in other innocent amusement but he advocated they be in bed by 10 pm On one occasion Dr Richardtongue-in-cheek lead edito rial read in part As you are or should be always ready forlittle or nothing anything or everything according to circum stances we give youdish of suckertash sic from the old world askind of editorial and hope you will be edified and blessed in your meal afterlong fast Pages of the News frequently carried reference to new products -a timely subject indeed since the civilization Mormon emigrants had left behind was constantly offering new and better ways of living There was space devoted as well to do-it-yourself projects -most appropriate too inasmuch as almost everything wasdo-it-yourself project in this new land so far from other habitation Other articles discussed scientific matters andvariety of topics ranging from tanning and gardening to Church history and sermons The paper of course carried the day-to-day news of the area though the tendency was to somewhat play down the more tragic events which were part and parcel of frontier living Dr Richards wasman of many talents Massachusetts In his native where he was born June 24 1804 he had become bothdentist and what was then referred to as doctor of herbs It is noteworthy that his descendants have included many medical doctors The Richards Memorial Medical Foundation commemorates him and from it has come the Memorial Medical Center in Salt Lake City He wascousin of Brigham Young and was brought into the Latter-day Saints Church as an indirect result of this rela 616 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
