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THE WESTERN STAR. In February 1899, Mr. Porter resigned and David L. Mc- Nees a skilled newspaper man was appointed as his suc- cessor. Mr. McNees was born January 4, 1866, at Jacks- villa, Butler county, Pa., the son of John M. and Mary E. McNees. He was educated in the public schools, the Prospect Academy, the West Sunbury Academy, and Allegheny College Meadville, g'raduating from the latter in June 1892, with the degre>e of A. B., having spent six months of his senior year in Great Britain as the repre- sentative of a commercial house of Washington, D. 0. In college he was on the staff of the college paper, and served continuously as news and literary editor. After graduation he traveled three months in the Northwest, then came to Beaver county, and was employed on the staff of the "Star" as New Brighton reporter until 1898, in the meantime acting as special correspondent for several Pittsburg and Philadelphia papers. He was secretary of the New Brighton Board of Health from the fall of 1895 to August 1, 1898. On January 9, 1895, he was married to Miss Ada Irene McEwen, of Mercer, Pa. The "Star" has had a number of bright representa- tives in the different towns, but we have been able to obtain sketches of but few. Among the younger re- porters is Samuel G. Kennedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Kennedy, New Brighton, who entered the newspaper busi- ness on the Pittsburg "Gazette" in the summer of 1901, working there during his summer vacation from college. The next summer he was on the "Chronicle-Telegraph," doing general assignment work. The following summer he engaged with the "Beaver Times" as Beaver and court reporter, remaining there until September 1904, when he entered upon work with the "Star." In addition to his other duties, he is the Beaver county representative of the Associated Press, the Publishers' Press, the "New York World," "Sun," "American and Journal," the "Philadelphia North American," "Press," "Public