. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. etary, when the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That application for supplies shall be made to the convention in writing,with the names annexed of those who wish the supply, and that they shall become respon-ible to the minister for a sum not less than $4. * This convention also decided to hold an adjourned meeting, and it was held six monthslater at a church on General Nevilles farm, on Chartiers Creek. The Centennial of thisConvention was appropriately celebrated at the old church, Saturday, September 26, 1
. History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania and its centennial celebration,. etary, when the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That application for supplies shall be made to the convention in writing,with the names annexed of those who wish the supply, and that they shall become respon-ible to the minister for a sum not less than $4. * This convention also decided to hold an adjourned meeting, and it was held six monthslater at a church on General Nevilles farm, on Chartiers Creek. The Centennial of thisConvention was appropriately celebrated at the old church, Saturday, September 26, 1903. ?Quoted in History of Washington County, Creigh, pp. 237-238. History of Beaver County 449 gregations are still in existence, but those remaining will benoticed under the boroughs in which they are located. From the zeal shown in the building up of this large num-ber of churches, Protestant and Catholic, it will be seen thatthe people of Beaver County have not neglected their spiritualinterests while seeking to develop the material resources of CHAPTER XIIITHE PRESS The First Newspaper — News-letters — First Newspaper in English -—First English Daily — Journalistic Development in the UnitedStates — First Colonial Newspapers — First Religious Journals —Newspapers in Pennsylvania — Great Modern Newspaper Plants— Character of the American Press — History of the NewspaperPress of Beaver County. Here shall the Press the Peoples right maintain,Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,Pledged to Religion, Liberty and Law. Story, Motto of the Salem Register. The first newspaper, in the modern sense of that term, wasthe Frankfort Journal, published at Frankfort, Germany, byEgenolf Emmel, in 1615, one hundred and sixty-three yearsafter the introduction of printing from metal types. Long be-fore that manuscript news-sheets or news-letters, so-called, hadbeen issued to subscribers, and, in England, th
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