All Over Oregon
John Cochran, one of the best known political reporters in the state, has returned to the local staff of the Oregonian, after an absence of about four and a half years. He has been deputy clerk of Multnomah county, chief clerk of the state
R. S. Huston, formerly editor of the Florence Pilot and Gardiner Index, who suffered nervous prostration last February, has completed 8 nature cure of his own devising' and is back at a desk in_ the ofiice
of the Eugene Register, succeeding
senate and variously otherwise en gaged during the interim. He is temporarily assigned to the court
Miss Grace Edgington. Mr. Huston went into the mountains above Mapleton and put in six months:
house run for the Oregonian. W. H. Perkins, erstwhile court reporter, has fallen heir to the day police
peeling
chittim
bark.
When
he
started he could carry only 15 pounds. When he quit he was car
run, and Ted Irvine, formerly day
rying 150 pounds over a mountain.
police reporter, has been called in as
trail twice a day.
general
examination for the officers’ reserve training camp and was declared physically perfect, but was disqual
assignment
man.
Frank
Bartholemew, general assignment man since he joined the stafl' several months ago,
has
become
assistant
sporting editor under James Rich ardson, who is acting sporting ed itor in the absence of Roscoe Faw cett, who is at the second oflicers’
training camp at the Presidio, William Smyth, assistant sporting editor, has resigned to resume his work with the sporting goods de partment of the Honeyman Hard ware company. -Moi-i
Claiming that the English lang uage papcrs in Astoria were decided ly prejudiced and colored news so that it appeared favorable to the capitalist
class, the
Toveri
(The
Comrad), a Finnish newspaper for 10 years, has started to publish an English section. The action came about during the ship workers ’ strike on the lower Columbia river. The Toveri is the largest Finnish daily in the west. —-—o Miss Ethel Tooze, formerly a journalism student, now an instruct or in the public schools of Roseburg,
is writing s ccial articles for Oregonian. uring the summer acted as correspondent for that per while she was spending vacation in
the she pa her
Newport. 0
James
McCool,
formerly of the
Journal staff, and later private sec retary to Commissioner Daly, is now automobile editor of the Salt Lake Telegram. 16
He passed an~
ified by the loss of several teeth Mr. Huston was a first lieutenant in the Second Oregon in the Phil ippines, and was later captain of what is now the third company of the Oregon Coast Artillery. Moi
Harold Young, a graduate of the department and an instructor in the high school at Pendleton, believes that newspapers are far more profi
table as a high school publication than are magazines, and so he has changed the Pendleton high school publication, the “Lantern,” into a small newspaper. “ I would like,” said he, “to see the number of high school newspapers increase in Oregon, as I think they are certainly more satisfactory.” __0__ Lair H. Gregory, general assign ment man and political reporter of the Oregonian, has become auto mobile editor, succeeding Chester Moores, who has been appointed sec retary to Governor James Withy combe.
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E. E. Southard, formerly in the mechanical department of the Ore gon Journal, purchased the Polk County Observer September 1, from Lew A. Oates. ioi John L. Travis, managing editor of the Times, formerly news editor of the Journal, hung his coat on the old peg for a couple of hours last
week.
