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     THE WAPELLO REPUBLICAN, published every Saturday, by L. W. Myers, editor and proprietor. Subscription price, $2.00 per year. THE REPUBLICAN is controlled by no ring, clique, or set; is fearless in its criticisms of public men and measures, and goes heartily for whatever secures the greatest good to the greatest number. It is the old established paper of the county, being in its fifteenth volume, and is largely devoted to home news and local interests.

     L. W. MYERS, editor and proprietor of the Wapello REPUBLICAN, was born in Wayne County, Indiana, July 15, 1830. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania. In the autumn of 1836 he emigrated with them to Mercer County, Illinois, where he lived on a farm until 1852, sharing with them the hardships, privations, and toils incident to the settlement of a new country. His book education was such as was taught in the log school houses of the times—except two years, 1848 and 1849, spent at Know College.

    In 1853 he became joint proprietor and editor of the Golden Age, published at New Boston, Illinois, and remained in that connection until the autumn of 1836, taking an active part in the anti-slavery struggle from the compromise of 1850 to the first triumph of the Republican Party in that state in 1856, by the election of Bissel Governor. He was a delegate to the first Republican State Convention held in Illinois, at Bloomington, June, 1856, wherein were Lincoln, Lovejoy, Yates, Browning, Washburn, and many others who have since played such conspicuous parts in state and national affairs. In June, 1854, he married Miss R. C. Prentiss, daughter of a pioneer settler of Rock Island County, and in pursuance of previous studies graduated at the Hygeio-Therapeutic College of New York City in the Spring of 1857.

    Following his newspaper proclivities, on the breaking out of the war he became a correspondent in the field, writing letters for the St. Louis Democrat, Cincinnati Times and Enquirer, and also for the Herald and Tribune, of New York; was agent of the Associated Press a year and a half at Cairo, Ill., and afterwards financial and commercial editor of the St. Louis Daily Dispatch for three years.

    In the spring of 1866 he purchased the Wapello REPUBLICAN of Dr. Jones, and took possession of the office April 3. The paper was then in its seventh volume. On taking possession he furnished it with new type, and shortly afterwards a job press, and it has since been the official organ of the county. It has not missed an issue during his administration of eight years, is always plucky, racy, and filled with local news, and bids fair for long life and usefulness.

    Mr. Myers early espoused the abolition of slavery in America, and has been an earnest and active republican. His idea is that rights inhere in human nature; that all are, or should be, equal before the law, regardless of race, sex, or other external condition, and labors to make the race of life fee and unobstructed to all. He believes in temperance, cleanliness, industry, economy, honesty, and brotherly love, and that all these, together with veneration for the Father of All, constitute godliness. He believes that the world is growing from comparative good to comparative better, and that finally peace, truth, and righteousness shall swallow up all opposition, and that happiness shall fill the whole earth, and in this faith he labors hopefully, and waits.