Next in the procession was the Linn County Review, established in 1893 as a Friday weekly. Le Masters (C. G.) & Cartwright (J. F.) were editors and the Review Publishing Co. (probably a group of local business men) publishers. The paper ran for four years, conducted by Cartwright in its last year.
The Bulletin was started as an independent, issued Thursdays, by A. P. Bettersworth Jr. as editor and publisher, in August 1901. It was an eight-page five-column paper and sold for $1.50 a year. Six years later Ira A. Phelps, who had been publisher of the Santiam News at Scio in 1899, took charge. The next publisher, M. D. Morgan, was to remain for 17 years. He later became publisher of the Siuslaw Oar at Florence. His successor was the veteran Sloan P. Shutt, who was nearing the end of his journalistic trail. In 1927 Guy Hughes, who for several years had published the Halfway Herald, took hold and remained for seven years, being succeeded by Hugh D. Mars, formerly of Jefferson, when overtaken by ill health. Mr. Hughes died in August 1938.
Brownsville.—George A. Dyson, newspaper pioneer, started the first paper ever published in Brownsville. This was the Brownsville Advertiser, which appeared in 1878, too late, apparently, to get a notice in Pettengill's newspaper directory of that year. It had disappeared before the data for Ayer's newspaper annual for 1881 were made up. Old-timers have little or no information about it.
Dr. John B. Horner, who later was for many years professor of history at Oregon State College, and George Blakely of Brownsville promoted the next paper, the Brownsville Banner, and H. Stine, founder of so many Oregon newspapers, started the Informant. All these were in the eighties, but information on them is vague.
To Homer Davenport, of Silverton, who was to become a world-famous cartoonist, goes the honor of suggesting to his friend Albert B. Cavender the idea of starting the Times, the newspaper which has come on down to the present. Cavender was working, at the time, on the new Woodburn Independent, just started by L. H. McMahan. Cavender came to Brownsville and, with A. S. McDonald, issued the first number of the Times in June 1889. McDonald was editor, and Cavender attended to the business and mechanical ends. There was a chuckle in the line carried across the first page, right under the title: "Devoted to the Interests of Brownsville and Vicinity, and the Editors' Pocket-Books." The pocket-books, incidentally, seem to have been fairly well filled out, since the paper, independent politically, ran up a circulation of 700 at $2 within a year, and a copy of No. 7 in volume 2 carried 13 columns of advertising out of 28 (the paper was a seven-column quarto).
George A. Dyson, who had started the first paper, carried a 2½-inch single-column ad on the first page for his hardware store, where he also did "repairing at short notice." The biggest ad in the paper, a
