Milwaukie, Oregon, is again to have a newspaper, after ten years without a regular publication, according to recent announcement. George A. McArthur, lately of Spokane, and A. C. Sellers, until recently a member of the staff of the Mount Scott Herald, are to be the publishers of the new journal, which will be known as the North Clackamas News. This will be the fourth newspaper started in Milwaukie since 1850, when the old Western Star began publication. Successors of the Western Star, which was soon moved to Portland, were the Milwaukie Bee, started by Charles Ballard, who moved it to Sellwood, and the Appeal, conducted by Captain James Shaw. Since the Appeal plant was destroyed by fire in 1912, Milwaukie has been without a newspaper. Mr. McArthur moved his mechanical plant from Spokane.
Old-timers in the Oregon newspaper world were interested in a letter printed in Fred Lockley's column in the Oregon Journal from J. W. Redington, twenty years ago editor of the Heppner Gazette. Mr. Redington is now at a soldiers' home in California. The author of the old advertising signs which read "Subscribe for the Heppner Gazette. It's hell on horse thieves and hypocrites," seems to have preserved his sense of humor, for he asks to know, in his letter, "whether excavating rock oysters at Newport is an agricultural or a piscatorial pursuit, or is it mining?" And also, whether "digging clams is fishing or farming." Anyone wishing to get in touch with Mr. Redington can get his address from Mr. Lockley.
Curtis L. Beach, formerly a student in the School of Journalism of the University of Oregon, is associated with his father, F. W. Beach, in the publication of the Pacific Northwest Hotel News.
The marriage of Ernest Crockatt and Miss Therese Snyder took place in Portland March 7. Mr. Crockett is city editor of the Pendleton Tribune.
Charles Alexander, Sunday editor of the Albany Democrat, is winning recognition by his series of stories of wild life running in the Blue Book. Wilkie Nelson Collins, professor of rhetoric in the University of Oregon, recently sent a communication to the Oregon Daily Emerald, students' publication, calling attention to the series. "They have," he wrote, "so much unusual observation and incident and so real a style about them that it is a pity to miss the finest things any Oregonian has done yet for his state in the writing of stories."
S. C. Morton, publisher, has started constructing new quarters for his St. Helens Mist. The site is just across the street from the present quarters. The building will be 36×58 feet and will cost about $4000. It is hoped to have the structure completed this month. The shop will be 36×42, and a stock room and sales room 18×16 and Mr. Morton's office will be in the front end of the building. Later another story of office rooms or apartments will be added, in accordance with Mr. Morton's present plans.
The Banks Herald is soliciting letters from its subscribers telling of their likes and dislikes. their plans and hopes, the mistakes they have made, and other subjects of interest to readers. A special request is for a communication of about 300 words on "Who is the most useful citizen in your town?" The Herald ought to get some interesting copy out of these letters. Looks like an idea that could be adopted or adapts—just as one likes—in some other towns of the state.
March 24, the English classes of the Gilliam county high school issued the Condon Globe-Times, supplying the local news, editorial matter, feature stories and other matter that went into the paper. They have received many compliments upon the excellence of the issue. Getting out one of the March issues is an annual custom with the G. C. H. S.
