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 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. i[ajor Irons remaiiK>d a few months on the jjaper, and then returned to the "Genius of Liberty," where he died June 30, 1850. Mr. Denling-er then returned to the "Star." He had some amusing experiences dviring his career as editor. He had a subscriber out in Brighton township whose constant boast was, that he always supported the public press, even if he never paid it a cent. He was far in arrears with Mr. Denlinger, and one day brought in a couple of bushels of potatoes, when potatoes were hardly worth throwing away, and had them credited to his account; but before he left tovn, he managed to borrow enough mone.y from Mr. Denlinger to cover the potatoes two or three times over. Other editors had an intimate monetary acquaintance with the same old subscriber. On the incoming of the Polk administration in 1845, a well known Democrat was an applicant for the Beaver postofRee, and shortl.v after his papers had been filed at Washington, some of the wags in his own party, got up and forwarded to the old gentleman a bogus commission, and forthwith he commenced fitting up in elaborate style, suitable quarters for the postoffice. Editor Denlinger who boarded with him, kindly suggested that he had better not be in too much of a hurry, as there might be some humbug in the commission he had received, where- upon the irate old gentleman instantly retorted: "Pay me that board bill you owe me, and there'll be no humbug in that." On the seventh of January 1848, Dr. R. B. Barker, formerly of the "Beaver River Gazette," purchased a half interest in the paper and became the senior editor. How long he remained is not Ivnown, but it was certainly not a very long time, perhaps a few months. Associated with him was P. B. Conn, a practical printer, who was the business manager of the paper. He was a well known printer, a lieaver county man, and in later years was one of the most prominent newspaper men in