I wrote recently about stopping by the Daniels County Leader to introduce myself to the publisher, Burley Bowler, and meeting other employees of that great weekly newspaper.
Now comes word that Burley’s brother, Printer Bowler, also a newspaperman, died Monday in Missoula. I met Printer at least once, when he attended a gathering of the Butte Press Club in the company of the late Nathaniel Blumberg, a legendary dean of the UM School of Journalism.
The Montana Kaimin, UM’s student newspaper, has a good story on Printer’s life and legacy. Here’s one excerpt:
Bowler was born into an old newspaper family from Scobey, Montana. His grandfather, father and brother have all run the Daniels County Leader, a weekly in Scobey started in the mid 1920s.
“With a name like Printer you’ve got to come from a newspaper family,” UM journalism professor Dennis Swibold said.
