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 120 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. factories to earn money with which to go to school. After finishing a thorough commercial training^ he worked as a stenographer for the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & Chicago Railway Co. at Dennison, Ohio. It was during the financial panic of 1893 and 1894 that Mr. Beitch first entered the newspaper work. He came back to New Brighton and was engaged as a reporter on the "Beaver Falls Tribune." Soon after that he left the "Tribune" to engage in the publication of the "Beaver Falls Recorder" with L. L. Carson. Mr. Beitch was afterward employed in a reportorial capacity on the "Beaver Falls Republican," the "Argus and Radical," the "New Castle News," "The Ellwood City Motor," and the "New Brighton Daily News." In the spring of 1896 he went to Pittsburg and did extra work, writing special articles and covering general assignments on several of the Pittsburg dailies. His first regular position was on the Pittsburg "Daily News" in the capacity of a reporter. In two weeks he was made telegraph editor and six months later he was made city editor. He held that position for two years and then assumed the city editor- ship of the "Pittsburg Press" which position he still occupies. In 1902 he was registered as a student at law with Floy C. Jones of Kittanning, Pa. He was admitted tp the practice of law in September 1904. On November 10, 1904, he married Miss Evelyn McAdoo, of Bradford, Pa. He is a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of New Brighton. James B. Edgar, the son of John P. and Mary A. Edgar, was bom in New Brighton, Pa., April 10, 1872. He was educated in the public schools, and was employed in the drug business for five years, and is a qualified assistant. He enlisted at the outbreak of the Spanish- American War in Company B.. 10th Pennsylvania Volun- teer Infantry, and served with the regiment in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection