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 THE WESTERN ARGUS. 75 Daily X-Ray. On January 3, 1903, a charter was granted at Harris- burg, Pa., to the Eadical Printing Company of Beaver, Pa., capital $15,000; directors, D. A. Nelson, Joseph L. Holmes, E. S. Holt, Ira P. Mansfield, Smith Curtis, D. M. Twiford, Beaver; John H. Sturgeon, Beaver Palls; Hartford P. Brown, Eochester, and J. H. Hamilton, New Brighton. This company absorbed the "Argus and Eadical" establishment, buying its plant, name and good will. On Monday May 4, 1903, this company started a daily paper called "The Daily X-Eay," being Volume 1, Num- ber 1, and the "Argus and Eadical" was discontinued. The officers of the company were named in the paper as follows: President, Hartford P. Brown; Secretary, Milton J. Patterson; Treasurer, Joseph L. Holmes; Editor, Smith Curtis; Business Manager, P. L. Parker; Circulation Manager, J. H. Hamilton. From the initial number of the paper, the following extracts are taken, as indicating the reasons for the new paper's existence : "With this issue 'The Daily X-Eay' makes its initial bow to the public. In one sense it is a new paper, being tinder a new management and new name, but in another, it is an evolution from the weekly 'Argus and Eadical' whose lineal descent reaches, in unbroken succession, to the old 'Western Argus,' published in Beaver in 1818. " 'The Daily X-Eay' has no schemes to push, no friends to favor and no enemies to punish. It opens its columns to free discussion within reasonable limits. It wishes to treat aU persons, all orders, all sects, all parties