The Toveri (Comrad), a Finnish paper at Astoria, has suspended publication of an English section, and again is circulated solely among the Finnish population. The English section was started in early October during a shipworkers’ strike. The editors of the Finnish paper contended that the English dailies in Astoria did not publish the strike news correctly.
Floyd D. Brown, for some time foreman of the Silverton Tribune, now at San Diego in the aviation department of the U. S. army, has been promoted to sergeant of the first-class. He was the first of the Silverton boys to enlist in the service at the time of the Mexican difficulty, and was transferred to the aviation department a year ago.
The Silverton Tribune and the Silverton Appeal have just installed new linotype machines—the Tribune a No. 5, and the Appeal a Model K. Both machines are busy and the appearance of each paper has been considerably improved.
Ben F. West, one of the pioneer printers of Marion county, now county assessor, has his eye on the secretary of state job to succeed Ben Olcott, and it is more than probable that he will be a candidate.
The Crook County Journal has established a good line of foreign advertising during the year by sending out a rate card with sworn circulation and other items of in
C. D. Babcock, formerly correspondent of the Oregonian at Salem
and otherwise known as a newspaper
man throughout the state, has been
appointed business manager of the
Insurance Economics society at Duluth, Minn., at a salary said to be between $4,000 and $5,000 a year. Mr.
Babcock was formerly corporation commissioner of Oregon and a member of the State Industrial Accident commission. He also was active in behalf of the Oregon Blue Sky law, several years ago.
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J. Willard Shaver, ex-reporter on the Oregonian, now with the Eighteenth Railway Engineers in France, is sporting editor of the Spiker, the only newspaper published by American troops on French soil. Shaver is a former University of Oregon man, and has developed into a ukelele player, according to recent ad vices from “over there.” 0—ii.
J. C. Savage, who two months ago suspended publication of the Coquille Herald, has been employed as timekeeper on the Hauser road contract, being built under the county bond issue plan. Mr. Savage
now resides in North Bend and visits
the print shops whenever he gets
lonesome.
terest, and by going out after the
business. Moi E. H. Flagg, publisher Warrenton
News,
a
of
the
weekly,
has
announced his candidacy for state senator from Clatsop county. Mr. Flagg has served in the state legis lature before. ioi
G. L. Drummond, editor of the Glendale News, may locate in Eu gene if he finds it possible to lease his plant in Glendale. During the last part of November he made a tour of Coos county. He also visit ed Eugene.
0 A. B. Shaver, at one time pub lisher of the Newberg Enterprise, has started a job"ofl‘ice in Salem, and announced a few days ago that he expects to establish an independ ent weekly paper in that city soon. He will equip his plant with a large cylinder press. ———o Claude Bristol, for several years city hall man for the Oregon Jour nal of Portland, is taking the ex aminations for service in the avia tion corps. __oi The Morning Astorian is install ing a new Goss Comet perfecting press which will soon be in opera tion.
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On December 6 the Bend Bulletin began volume two of its daily, which had been in existence exactly one year on that date. 27
