wheel of his automobile, touring the pleasure resorts of the state. He is being accompanied by Mrs. Gates and they make their home right in the car, which is equipped with a portable bed of Mr. Cates’ own invention.
D. A. Weir, of Denver, has purchased a half interest in the Silverton Tribune Publishing Company of Silverton and with Henry E. Brown will conduct the affairs of that business in the future. Mr. Brown and Mr. Weir were in Salem recently taking over the printing equipment of the Al Hill company of that city, and they also plan to install a model 15 linotype in the near future.
Coos Bay newspapermen send word that they are looking for ward to the time when the Oregon editors will hold their annual sessions there. L. J. Simpson will throw open this beautiful $100,0000 home at Shoreacres, where the two days’ sessions moy be held. The final banquet will be held in Marshfield. North Bend also will do a full share entertaining and there will be side trips of special interest.
Fred A. Woelfien, advertising manager of the Bend Bulletin, is among the Oregon newspapermen whose journalistic career will be interrupted by the war. His number, 810, was one of the lucky ones in the draft—besides which Mr. Woelfien has an application in for the reserve officers’ training camp. Floyd Westerfield, understudy to Mr. Woelfien, also has an application in for the training camp.
F. R. Reeves, for seven and one half years publisher of the Herald at Hermiston sold the paper late in June to M. D. O’Connell, whose first issue appeared July 7. Mr. Reeves has not yet announced his plans for the future. Mr. O’Connell is an experienced publisher, going to Hermiston from Richland, Washington. In his salutatory he expresses optimism, and a desire to cooperate in the upbuilding of the community, and announces the paper’s independent Republicanism in politics.
J. R. Hinman, Astoria newspaper man, has enlisted in the engineers’ corps of the Oregon national guard. Mr. Hinman for five years was city editor of the Morning Astorian, later buying the Lower Columbia at Astoria and operating it as an independent weekly.
Theodore Irvine of Independence, Oregon, who for the last five years has been identified with the newspaper business throughout the Northwest, has joined the local staff of The Oregonian and is covering the day police beat. Irvine served his apprenticeship at the case and for a time was publisher of the Tribune at Oakdale, Wash. He has worked on a number of small papers and on The Spokane Chronicle.
Roger W. Moe, a former University of Oregon student, is now publisher and editor of the Mosier Bulletin. Young Mr. Moe, who had his newspaper training in the office of his father, A. D. Moe, publisher of the Hood River Glacier, also holds about all the available offices in Mosier. He is city marshal, deputy sheriff, clerk of the school board and town clerk. When the editor is out of town official business of the mid-Columbia fruit town stops.
The boys on The Oregonian staff have welcomed a new member into their ranks, in the person of Rev. Carl Ghormley, pastor of the Rodney Avenue Christian Church, who is trying out on the copy desk to learn the business and fill in during the stringency of men occasioned by the war. Rev. Mr. Ghormley is a former University of Oregon man and is actively engaged in preaching. Like a good many others he links the pulpit and the press as agencies for good.
The Medford Mail Tribune adds to its typographical attractiveness and to its readability by eliminating the “position ad.” The advertisements in the Mail Tribune are “pyramided” from the lower right towards the upper left corners of the pages, and the result is the fine “open tops” so dear to the heart of the newspaper maker who appreciates a chance to play up his news
