The Astoria Evening Budget celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday on October 6. In his anniversary editorial J. E. Gratke says that “the Evening Budget can look backward over these twenty-five years without any regrets. It will move forward with a hopeful heart and willing hands in the future.” In honor of the day the management of the Budget entertained the entire staff of thirty-six at a banquet. Among those present were: John E. Gratke, publisher; William F. Gratke, mechanical foreman; Irving J. Kern, editor; Ed. C. Lapping, news editor; George Turina, pressman; Royal Karinen, job printer; Miss Mamie Johnson, linotype operator; Miss Ann Malagamba, linotype operator;
Miss Hattie Brown, bookkeeper; Emil Schab, circulation manager. In
honor of the
occasion,
Emil
Schab, circulation manager, presented each of the Gratke brothers with a watch fob, the pendant of which was a gold linotype mat suit ably engraved.
__o__ The members of the editorial staffs of the Oregon Journal, Oregon ian, Telegram, News and Spectator of Portland were given an enjoyable complimentary party by Richard W. Childs, manager of Hotel Portland,
Monday evening, September 24. About 75 gathered in the assembly room for an evening of music, danc ing and sociability. Mr. Childs was assisted in entertaining by Elbert S. Robe, assistant manager, and Mrs. Robe. A feature of the evening
“The Making of a Newspaper,” a motion picture taken in the Ore gonian plant, was shown recently at Peoples theater in Portland, and forever immortalizes on the screen some of the well-known- faces of the ofiice. The picture followed the making of a newspaper from the logging operations preliminary to the making of wood pulp, through the paper mills, and out on the streets and to the breakfast table. Parts of the picture were extremely interesting as to detail, while others, such as the editorial detail, were passed over hurriedly, apparently on
the theory that there was so much detail in the editorial work that at best only a little of it could be photographed.
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io—— ' Joseph Patterson, formerly a re porter and field correspondent of the Oregonian, who for the last year has been with the American Ambulance Corps in France, expects to_be in Portland for a brief visit this winter. Mr. Patterson has served out three enlistments in France, and has seen action in the battle of the Somme and other his toric battles of the war. His last work has been with the front lines. He sailed October 13 for the United States for a rest. He has been offer ed a commission in the aviation sec
tion, but for the present declined it in order not to break up the ambu
lance organization of his section which at the time was just entering the front line work.
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was the reading of a number of his poems by Anthony Euwer, the Hood
correspondent
River poet, who was introduced by
“the greatest newspaper poetpwlm
H. E. Thomas, city editor of the Oregonian. The serving of refresh ments rounded pleasure.
out
the
evening’s
__o____ Addison Bennett, the well-known special staff writer of the Portland Oregonian,
accompanied
the
party
of Baker stockmen on their tour of central Oregon, attending the local stock meetings.—Lake County Ex aminer.
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“Jack” Seed, Journal artist, had a lot of fun fishing down Tillamook way on his vacation.
Dean
Collins,
who,
as Colliers"
recently
-put it, is
ever paddled _a canoe up and down the Eugene mill race”, has resigned from the local staff of the Oregon ian to_ become publicity director of
the Film Supply company in Port land. Mr. Collins also continues to be publicity representative of the
Strand theater. He will devote some of his time to offering original work in the magazine field.
Miss
—o Vivian Browne,
daughter
of Henry Browne, editor of the Silverton Tribune, is now the Silver
ton correspondent for the Oregon Statesman. 17
