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 BEAVER PALLS PAPERS. 115 after which, he was in the employ of the "Christian Advocate" Pittsburg for eight years, the "Methodist Recorder" Pittsburg 18 months, and was foreman in the job office of Moore & Nesbit Pittsburg, for four years. He was married to Maggie Hale at Pittsburg in 1873, and has four children, his sons James and John being as- sociated with him in the printing business. Mr. Telford during his connection with the paper, has given more attention to the improvement of the mechanical depart- ment of the plant, than he has to editorial management. However, the paper has always been outspoken on matters of local and public importance, and also on party principles when the editor has found spare moments to devote along these lines, holding to the principles of the Eepublican party and opposed to bossism whether in the county or state management of party affairs. The principal public events in which the "Tribune" has taken an active part since becoming a daily, was the ardent advocacy in 1882-83 of a street railway between Beaver Falls and New Brighton, the effort to secure borough ownership of a public water works in Beaver Falls, and opposition to party management by Senator Quay. The equipment of the plant has grown from a very meagre one, to one of five presses and other machinery, a linotype and several hundred fonts of type in a building owned by the company. Wilson Stanley FuUsman was bom December 7, 1854, in Allegheny comity, Pa., his boyhood days being mostly spent on a farm. His education was secured in the public schools and the State Normal School Edinboro, Pa. He learned' the trade of printer at New Castle, Pa., with Wm. S. Black and with the "Courant" of that city, and wrote local news items during his connection with them. He returned to his home at Centreville, Pa., where he started the "Centreville Casket" in the spring of 1877, which had a fitful existence of two years. He