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Rh of state. While secretary of the association Mr. Hoss developed the possibilities of that position to the full extent feasible for one not devoting his whole time to the work, and he was the last unpaid secretary, being succeeded in 1927 by Harris Ellsworth as the first field manager.

During Mr. Brodie's absence in Finland the Enterprise was edited by H. B. Cartlidge, a former editor of the McMinnville Telephone Register.

The twice-a-week Banner-Courier of Oregon City is the consolidation of the Clackamas County Banner and the Oregon City Courier, in 1920. The Oregon City Courier, which in turn had absorbed the Herald, was established as a Friday weekly, independent Democratic in politics, by I. LeMahieu in 1883. LeMahieu conducted the paper until 1894 when A. W. Chaney took hold. Chaney's regime lasted for several years; J. H. Westover was publisher in 1904. The next year he was succeeded by Shirley Buck and H. L. McCann, who in turn gave place to E. E. Brodie and A. E. Frost in 1906 (The Oregon City Enterprise publisher that year, according to Ayer's Directory, was H. A. Galloway, who had published several other newspapers, in the Middle West and Oregon.) W. A. Shewman Jr. was the publisher in 1909. Two years later M. J. Browne took hold and ran the paper until 1915, when E. R. Brown pur chased the paper. In 1917 C. W. Robey became publisher.

Meanwhile, in 1916, W. E. Hassler, who has founded several small newspapers in Oregon, established the Clackamas County Banner. A later publisher was J. C. Dimm, late of Springfield. This was merged with the Courier as the Banner-Courier in 1920, while Hal E. Hoss, who had become editor of the Banner, went over to the Morning Enterprise as managing editor for Mr. Brodie, and the consolidated paper was directed by Fred J. Tooze. Tooze and Earl C. Brownlee conducted the Banner-Courier in 1923, and in 1924 the paper was sold to E. A. Koen, late of the Polk County Observer at Dallas. Mr. Koen, experienced publisher, with his son E. P. Koen, who dropped studies in the University of Oregon at the end of his third year to plunge into active newspaper work, has been conductng the paper ever since.

The Herald, started in 1893 as a Friday Populist weekly, ran through to 1898, when it was taken over by the Courier and run for a time as the Courier-Herald. After a few years the Herald part of the name was dropped.

Other publications conducted at Oregon City have been the Press, a Republican semi-weekly, launched in 1896 by Maurice E. Bain, which was gone in two years; the Clackamas Post, a Germanlanguage newspaper, which ran during 1897, and the Labor Exchange Accountant, a labor paper conducted in 1896 and 1897 by A. J. and G. E. Kellogg.