Felix Mitchell, dean of the Journal's employees, who has been a copy director in the composing room for a couple of years, has yielded to the charms of the sea and her mermaids, and has gone to his seaside home for the summer. Mr. Mitchell will spend much time "flivvering" on the beach.
W. H. Warren, for the last four years private secretary to Mayor Albee, has returned to the staff of The Oregonian as general assignment reporter. Mr. Warren was city hall reporter before entering Mr. Albee's office at the time Portland changed from councilmanic to commission form of government.
Frank W. Barton, recently a member of The Oregonian local room, but now at American Lake with the Eighth Company, Army Engineers, was a visitor last week. He obtained a pass of 48 hours and came down to see the bright lights once again He expects to be in France in another month or two.
Arthur Kaylor, formerly night editor of the Morning Enterprise, of Oregon City, has been made second lieutenant in the officers' reserve corps, and is stationed at the Presidio, waiting orders. Cecil W. Koffman, formerly cashier of the same paper, is a member of the officers' reserve training camp at the Presidio.
Charles H. Jones, editor of the Oregon Teachers' Monthly, is a member of the Salem city council and is one of the main sponsors for the children's playgrounds in the Capital City. The playground is patronized by hundreds of chmildren and largely through Mr. Jones' efforts a number of improvements have been made there this year.
Marcus W. Holling, son of M. W. Holling, chief machinist of The Ore gonian composing room, has recently been advanced to chief petty officer aboard one of the vessels in the United States navy. Holling enlisted in 1914, prior to that time being interested in the Oregon Naval Militia and for a time a member of it. He is an all-around machinist and worked his way up the ladder from the bottom.
Henry M. Hanzen, Portland Telegram correspondent at Salem, who has been appointed private secretary to United States Senator Charles L. McNary, expects to remain in Salem until fall, when he will go to Washington with Senator McNary. He remains connected with the Telegram at Salem. His successor has not yet been selected.
Two new faces have recently appeared on the reporting staff of the Eugene Guard. B. W. Talcott, a veteran newspaperman, lately from Ashland, where he conducted a job printing plant, and Miss Clytie Hall, a senior in the school of journalism, who until a few weeks ago was a reporter on the Spring field Twice-a-Week News, are the late additions.
M. J. Brown, editor of the Corvallis Courier, is spending his annual vacation in Alaska this sum mer. "To pass the long evenings," he announced in his paper, "he will write Alaskan stories for an eastern syndicate of newspapers—stories of the unusual, the odd spots." During Mr. Brown's absence, the Courier's editorial chair is filled by F. W. Holmes.
Charles P. Ford, copy reader of The Oregonian, who served with Battery A, Field Artillery, Oregon National Guard, is another member of that staff who will be called when the guard units are all sworn into the federal service. Ford has held his place on the desk ever since returning farom the border, squeezing in a night or two of drill every now and then.
Horace E. Thomas, city editor of The Oregonian, has gone to Southern Oregon, near Yachats, on a vacation fishing trip. Shad. O. Krantz, widely known about town as the "plutocratic" reporter because he is the railroad and bank beat man, has started on a tour of the east. He expects to visit New York and see a few of "the boys" with whom he hobnobbed as a cub.
Lew A. Cates, editor and publisher successively of the Coquille Sentinel, the Cottage Grove Sentinel and the Polk County Observer, is spending the summer at the
