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THE BEAVER TIMES. 133 Nothing movement he met the combined strength of the ablest and best men of the coimty, most of whom were his personal friends, but he hewed to the mark and continued on his way. In his controversies with the "Argus and Radical," and the influence that backed it, he was fully in his element, and laid on the scourge until the blood fairly ran. But tmder this apparent bitterness of spirit, this flaying of political enemies, there was a warm nature that attracted friends by the hundreds, and made the "Old Man of the Times" popular in the county. Mr. Weyand is perhaps the longest in newspaper work of any one in Western Pennsylvania. He is the oldest ia service as an editor in Beaver county, having served as such eight years on the "Argus" and twenty-sLx years on the "Times." Next to him is F. S. Reader of the "Beaver Valley News," who is completing his thirty-first year as editor of that paper, the longest in continuous service on one paper, of any editor ever in the county. Mr. Weyand's chief assistant in conducting the paper, was his son Henry S. Weyand, who was bom in Beaver and educated in the common school and college in that town. At the age of 16 he went into the "Argus" office to learn the trade, imder the foremanship of Maj. John B. Butler. After leaving the "Argus" worked on the "New Castle Journal," when it was owned and edited by Hon. David Sankey. Afterwards he worked in the job office of McCallister, Jackson and McEwen, Pittsburg, until the advent of the "Times," when he went to work on it as a compositor with John Tallon as foreman. Upon Mr. Tallon's retirement he took charge of the mechanical department of the "Times," with Frank Tallon, James Grove, H. A. Sutherland, George Walters, D. S. Mc- Connel, D. S. Grifirn, D. E. Weyand, John Stewart, Will Diven, Bert Fogg and John Caughey as compositors and apprentices at various times. In 1889 he left the