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 BEAVER FALLS PAPERS. contract of securing 2,000 subscribers for the "Journal," and went to New Galilee with the first issue, where he secured the hotel keeper as the first subscriber. Mr. Fulkman continued his canvass of the county, making a very thorough one, and also acting as news editor of the "Journal." He completed the canvass the latter part of December 1890, actually securing the two thousand subscribers in one year and four months. He continued to edit the local part of the paper until April 20, 1891, when he severed his connection with the "Journal," sold his stock in the company to Geo. W. Pyle of New Galilee, and went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he started the "Ohio Home." Mr. Warrington became the sole owner in 1890 of the paper, conducting it until 1892, when it passed into the hands of J. H. Irons and Smith Curtis. In 1892-93, L. L. Carson started the "Daily Recorder," publishing it from the "Argus and Radical" office, which was short lived. In 1894 J. W. Carson and the Broadbent brothers purchased J. H. Irons' interest and the daily edition was discontinued. In 189.5, Smith Curtis started the Daily "Radical" in the "Journal" plant, but it too proved un- successful and passed out of existence. In the spring of 1896 a company of New Castle newspaper men bought out the plant and started the "Daily Republican," which was discontinued in September of the same year. J. W. Carson purchased the good will of the paper and con- tinued the weekly edition, which was changed in name to the "Review" in 1897. It has been successful and continues under Mr. Carson's management. John W. Carson was bom in Bloomfield, Jefferson county, O., April 30, 1857, of Scotch-Irish parentage. His father, James Carson, served in the British army for twelve years prior to coming to America in 1853. In the Civil War he entered an Ohio regiment in 1863, and served to the close of the war. He was in the govern-