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 EARLY DEMOCRATIC PAPERS. 33 The Aurora Alex, R. Niblo of Brighton township, started the "Aurora" as the successor of the "Democratic "Watch- man," in March 1836. The first mention of the paper by its contemporaries, was in the "Argus" of May 25, 1836, which referred to the report of a Young Men's political meeting published in the "Aurora." There is no record of how long Mr. Niblo remained editor, but probably until the suspension of the paper in the fall of 1838. Mr. Niblo and hia brother John R. Niblo, were both printers, and the latter helped in the mechanical work on the "Aurora." They were the sons of John R. Niblo who came from Ireland and settled in Brighton township as a farmer. John R. Niblo, Jr., died in 1842. Alex. R. Niblo went west and in September 1857, was appointed postmaster at Newark, HI., and was killed in a railroad accident near Alliance, O., June 24, 1858. The "Aurora" was revived early in December 1838, with J. W. White of Massillon, O., as editor. The paper was enlarged and improved in appearance, and the new editor promised such improvements as would "revo- lutionize Beaver county." This expression did not tend to amity among the newspaper brethren, and the rivals of the "Aurora" were on the alert to trip up the new and audacious editor. The "Fallston Gazette" was now dead so that the "Aurora" was supreme journalistically in its party. The "Fallston Union," the Whig successor of the "Gazette," and the "Argus," were its competitors. The "Fallston Union" in referring to the new manage- ment said: "The Beaver 'Aurora' has again risen vmder new auspices. The editor and publisher is J. Washing-