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Resignation of Robert E. Armstrong, Beacon Editor

March 26/1914
R. E. Armstrong resigns as editor and publisher of Beacon. Accepts position as Secretary-Treasurer of Board of Trade in Saint John. Valedictory. Resigns also as editor of St. Andrews Board to Trade.

Publisher’s Announcement
My acceptance of the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Trade of my native city of Saint John , necessitates the early severance of my relations with the Beacon as its editor and publisher, also the severance of my very agreeable relations with its many readers and with the people of Charlotte County generally.
            The task of making this announcement is far from being a pleasant one. When a man creates a paper, and give all that is in him during the best years of his life. To its development and maintenance, it becomes part of himself, and when he has lived with a people for many years, sharing their joys and sorrows and their ambitions, the pain of separation in such case is rendered very acute indeed.
            The years that I have lived with the people of Charlotte County have not been unpleasant ones—quite the reverse. They have brought to my door an abundance of wealth,--not the passing wealth of money which today is and tomorrow is not, but the greater wealth that comes from warm hearts and loving friends.
I wish to thank the people of Charlotte County (those at home and those abroad) also the summer residents, for their kindly consideration during the years for their many tokens of good feeling, and for the patronage which they have extended the paper. I have done what I could during my residence in Charlotte County to advance its interest, to develop its resources an to encourage is people. More I would have done had I been permitted. It is satisfaction to me to know that there is a prospect of an early materializing of one of the projects for which I had most strenuously labored.
            I wish to thank most heartily the patrons of the paper—the advertisers, the subscribers the world over, the correspondents,--all who in any way have contributed to its success. I would say too them that I hope before the middle of April to make a positive announcement a to the continuance of the paper. Much will depend upon the encouragement received from the business people of the Town.
            To my brethren of the press throughout Canada and the US, I will says that their companionship has been very dear to me. I do not intend to bid them farewell, for in the new field which I propose entering I will be brought very close to them, and will have to rely very largely upon their kindly support and their brotherly consideration and advice.
--R. E. Armstrong