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 HISTORY OF BEAYER COUNTY PAPERS. The Beaver Gazette. The "Beaver Gazette" was started June 8, 1813, being the same size as the "Crisis," and in appearance much the same. It was issued every Saturday at two dollars per year. Its motto was: "Free but not Licentious." It seems to have been the immediate predecessor of the "Western Argus." A copy of the paper is in existence dated Saturday April 4, 1818, of which the publisher was A. Logan, with the same motto. In this issue Mr. Logan has the fol- lowing : "Reports are in circulation that we will not give space in our paper to the communications of the party in opposition. This report is unfounded and we wish to let our readers hear all the arguments that can be brought forward on both sides of the great political question, which has not only rendered us political enemies, but even destroyed the blessings of social life." It is evident that politics were at fever heat then, though the country was in the era of peace and quiet under the adminis- tration of President Monroe. Mr. Logan was a prominent man in the county, and was clerk of Beaver council in 1816. He was appointed postmaster of Beaver April 24, 1832, and served imtil 1838, when he moved to Iowa where he died.