| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION of business acumen as evidenced by this item in an early issue if our subscribers increase in proportion to the increased size of our paper we propose to issue our first enlarged sheet more than twice the size of the former about the middle of November and thenceforth semi-monthly on the first and fifteenth of each month at 00 per annum payable in advance together with arrearages We cannot proceed with the News withoutlarge increase of subscribers and ready pay he penned yet all can pay who have grain beef pork cattle horses and such other articles as may be useful to the laborer though our friends who can procure cash will please remember we must have cash to pay for stock and oblige us accordingly It would be fruitless to endeavor to forecast the course of the News had Dr Richards been longer at its helm Never possessed of vigorous health and on occasion confined to his bed asresult of illness he was only 53 years of age when he died on March 11 1854 His legacy to the present-day state of Utah is the newspaper he conceived and nurtured and the descendants of his six children from which have comelong list of people noted for achievements in the fields of medicine science law and business ALEX ROLLO Iron County Record Born September 17 1867 Died September 1950 Installed in Hall of Fame at Salt Lake City 1962 He was seven years of age when his parents emigrated to the United States and to Utah He started setting type when he was 15 years old becamejourneyman printer at the age of 22 and then spent more than 60 years in the newspaper field half of them as publisher of the Iron County Record Though his given name was Alexander few referred to him by any other term than Alex Born in Dundee Scotland he wasson of William and Amanda Gowns Rollo who after migrating to Utah Territory 618 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
