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Rh Ayer's for 1916 lists the Press, a weekly published by the Press Publishing Company, as the only Milwaukie publication. In the 1921 Ayer's the field appeared as empty again. The Review, already mentioned, came along in 1921.

Molalla.—Molalla was another of the many Oregon towns whose journalism followed the railroad. When it was known that Molalla was going to be on the line, Gordon J. Taylor looked up the field and three months before train service began, the weekly Pioneer was issued—March 7, 1913.

During the World war, when Mr. Taylor went overseas as an entertainer, his son Walter J. Taylor conducted the paper. Mr. Taylor served several terms in the legislature. In 1930 he sold to J. Vila Blake, who gave way the next year to C. L. Ireland, oldtime editor and printer, who learned his newspaper craft from his father, D. C. Ireland, one of the real pioneers of Oregon journalism. Mr. Ireland had been publisher of the Sherman County Observer at Moro. C. L. Ireland is an ex-president of the Oregon Editorial Association, which he headed in 1906.

Estacada.—Estacada's first newspaper was the weekly Progress, founded in 1908 by E. S. Womer. It was a four-page paper, 18×21. He ran the paper for several years, until in 1911 G. E. LaFollette took charge as editor and doubled the size of the Progress. Nina B. Ecker was editor in 1914, followed by R. M. Standish, under whom the name was changed to the Eastern Clackamas News. Upton H. Gibbs, former Episcopal clergyman, took hold in 1918, remaining until 1924, when Miss Leila C. Howe became editor for the Estacada Publishing Company. One of her associates in the publishing concern was Elliott Stewart, printing veteran of Washington and Alaska experience. Succeeding her as editor, W. A. Heylman took hold in 1928. Next year came L. D. Meade as editor, publisher, manager. Mr. Meade is still in charge.

Washington county journalism, of course, goes back to 1848, when the rather irregular Oregon American and Evangelical Unionist was started at Tualatin Plains, near the present Hillsboro. Even if we ignore that rather odd publication as a real newspaper, there is still the Oregonian, which was actually started in Washington county, for the county of Multnomah was not carved from Washington and Clackamas until four years after the Oregonian had made its bow, December 4, 1850. The new county, incidentally, was formed over the vigorous opposition of the Whig Oregonian, which regarded