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208 named Thomas, who kept the paper only a few months. The paper was then again taken over by a group of business men, for whom H. A. Galloway conducted the paper a short time. They sold to E. E. Brodie February 7, 1908. Mr. Brodie had been, with A. E. Frost, publisher of the Courier, competing paper, of which we shall presently speak.

Mr. Brodie, a native of Oregon, was another of the long procession of newspapermen who included Astoria in his working itinerary. He went through high school there and for several years was a carrier on the Morning Astorian. In his own words (Oregon Exchanges, June 1918), "In the summers I learned to stick type, umpire baseball and ride on merry-go-rounds." After taking a few courses in the University of Oregon he got a $12-a-month job on the old Florence West. Eighteen months of that, and he was in the red when he left town. A stretch of typesetting on the Eugene Register, then back to Astoria, and thence in 1901 to Oregon City, where he took the news-editing job on the Enterprise.

Mr. Brodie published the first edition of the Morning Enterprise, daily, January 8, 1911, while the weekly continued under the old name Oregon City Enterprise. New brick quarters were erected orn the present site in 1919 and enlarged in 1927.

Mr. Brodie remained as publisher until January 1, 1935, when the paper was purchased from him by W. E. Tyler, F. T. Humphrey, George H. Brodie, and Charles F. Bollinger. Mr. Bollinger sold out his interest in June. Humphrey remained as editor, Tyler business manager, and George Brodie manager of the commercial printing department.

Edward E. Brodie, retiring owner, removed to San Francisco and associated himself with a leading advertising firm. After three years, however, he repurchased the paper and returned to Oregon City. Twice before Mr. Brodie had been away from his paper. One of these occasions was when, in 1921, the incoming Republican ad ministration sent him along the trail of John Barrett and William H. Hornibrook, also Oregon newspaper men, to be minister to Siam. The other was a three-year stay in Helsinki (Helsingfors), where President Hoover had sent him to be minister to Finland. He died widely mourned, of a heart attack in the state capitol at Salem, June 27, 1939.

Since 1879, under F. S. Dement's editorship, the Enterprise has been continuously Republican in politics

While Mr. Brodie was in Siam, the Enterprise was managed and edited by Hal E. Hoss, Mr. Brodie's associate in the Enterprise, who was one of Oregon's best-loved newspaper men. He served five terms as secretary-treasurer and two terms as president of the Oregon State Editorial Association, and when his untimely death occurred in February 1935 he was serving his second term as Oregon's secretary