The Creswell Chronicle has suspended publication and George H. Baxter, its former editor, will make the welkin ring down in the Gardiner country.
Rex Vincent, who was serving an apprenticeship with the Cottage Grove Sentinel, is now with the Roseburg Review, his family having taken up their residence at Roseburg.
J. R. Hinman, former publisher of the Astoria Columbian, a weekly newspaper, is now in the engineer’s service somewhere in France. The paper suspended publication a few months after its founder left.
Bert Bates, cartoonist and reporter of the Roseburg Evening News, owned by B. W. Bates and himself, is on his way to France in a hospital corps. Charles Stanton is in the Coast Artillery, formerly 4th company, from this city. The Evening News staff now consists of B. W. Bates, editor and owner, Dee Mathews, R. M. Wood and Miss Madge Miller.
Clifford Harrison, for several years marine man on the Oregon Journal, but more recently sporting editor of the Seattle Times, was united in marriage, Monday, March 4, with Miss Harriet Hewlett Marshall, Michigan, formerly Portland. The wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Travis. Mr. Travis was formerly news editor of the Journal and is now managing editor of the Times.
Newspapermen of Oregon evidently think that as long as they say who shall fill public offices they might as well select themselves for candidates. Among those already out, or about to come out, are G. J. Taylor, editor of the Molalla Pioneer, and Elbert Bede, editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel. The former will be a candidate for the house and the latter has his eyes on the senate.
Emil Schwab, formerly connected with the public service corporation in Astoria, is now with the Astoria Budget circulation department.
Henry N. Fowler, recently associate editor of the Bend Bulletin, is now stationed at the base hospital at Vancouver Barracks, where he is in charge of the pneumonia ward. In his spare time he is reporting for the Post Skirmisher.
E. E. Southard, editor of the Polk County Observer at Dallas, and Sheriff John W. Orr, of that county, had a personal encounter on the streets of Dallas, and Southard went down under a left to the shoulder and a right hook behind the ear delivered by the sheriff. Differences as to the patronage of the sheriff’s office are said to have been the cause of the trouble.
Telling a good story is a long suit with Sam Pattison, editor of the Heppner Herald, and he usually has a good one apropos to the occasion. Recently he called on Editor Crawford of the Gazette Times and found the latter engaged in the laborious task of lifting a double form from the press to the stone. With the remark that Craw ford was some man, he spilled the following:
“Reminds me of a little fellow I used to know in Indiana who did his farm work with a pair of oxen. This fellow wouldn’t tip the scales at more than ninety pounds but he felt just as big as if he weighed as much as you, Crawford.
“Well one day the little fellow was down by the barn with his yoke of oxen, when Buck, the long horned one, became incensed at something and pinned his horns, one on either side of the little fellow and just simply ‘nailed’ him to the barn wall. But the little farmer was equal to the occasion. Grabbing the ox, a horn in each hand, he yelled ‘Buck, d-- you, let go, don’t you know there is a man a hold of you!”
