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 THE WESTESN ARGUS. 59 During the editorship of Mr, Henry, there were some printers who are pleasantly remembered by old news- paper men and citizens. John Truesdale, a faithful and efficient printer afterwards was associated with the ""Iowa State Register." Matthew Light and David Light, who also worked for Mr. Weyand, both died of consumption in. early manhood, Michael Weyand was apprentice and journeyman under Mr. Henry, and when he got into the business for himself, frequently helped at the case, and set his editorials in type without writ- ing them. Other printers were Benjamin Churchhill and Joseph Wilson, and doubtless some others whose names cannot now be recalled. Among the apprentices with Mr. Weyand was James (Kit) Carson, who was killed ia the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War. Another was Joseph L. Anderson, who afterwards was foreman of the "Radical" under Col. Quay. The best known printer of the day perhaps, was John B. Early, who was foreman for both Mr. Henry and Mr. Weyand. In the days when Mr. Henry was in the height of his work, Beaver was a greatly different place from that of today. With a population of about 300, there were 7 or 8 licensed hotels, with breweries, etc., that afforded liquid refreshment to all comers. Militia trainings were great features, and "review day" was the day of all days at the county seat, bringing together hundreds of uni- formed and non-unifonned people, to be inspected by gaily dressed officers, on richly caparisoned steeds. All the feuds of the year had to be settled with the fist on that day, and numerous were the scraps going on almost continuously. The venders of spruce beer, the hotel bars and the sellers of quarter sections of gingerbread, would reap a rich harvest by nightfall, and would be loaded down with the Spanish and Mexican quarters, and other coin of the realm. Because of its quietude outside of special times of excitement, the strict religious senti-