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220 Multnomah Record. In August, 1905, Timothy Brownhill purchased the paper, enlarged the plant, and changed the name to the Beaver State Herald. He sold to H. A. Darnall in 1908, and Darnall continued publication until August, 1911, when he moved plant and paper to Lents, in Portland, where publication soon was suspended.

Multnomah.—The Multnomah Community Press, lately shortened to Press, member of the Jeffries chain of papers published at the neighboring towns of Multnomah, Aloha, Tigard, and Beaverton, has been running along since 1921, when it was founded by R. P. Conger, with Katherine Shaw as editor. A prior paper, locally owned, called the Citizen, suspended shortly after the advent of the Community Press.

Aurora.— Someone would have to do it, of course, so Herbert L. Gill, veteran Oregon publisher, christened an Aurora publication the Borealis. Mr. Gill started the Borealis in 1900 as a Saturday weekly. By 1905 he had associated with him H. A. Snyder. In 1906 Sigward Nelson was editing and publishing the paper, and it had faded from the journalistic sky by 1908.

In 1911 Mr. Gill started the Observer in Aurora, his second in the same town, and the Observer has come down to the present. Successive publishers have been Albert E. Adams, 1912; N. C. Westcott, 1912-1922; Paul Robinson, 1922-1927; George E. Knapp, 1927-1930; Paul Hendrix, 1930; Eddy P. Michell, 1931; J. L. Hutchens and Martell Hutchens, 1939.

The Borealis, however, was not Aurora's first publication, for the town had had one-third interest in another paper, known as the Three Sisters, which supplied the news needs of Aurora, Barlow, and Canby, from 1890 to 1894. Maurice E. Bain was the publisher. Advertising came from the three sister-towns and also from Oregon City. One interesting little ad that recalled old times was noted in the issue of Thursday, March 8, 1894; it was a two-column reminder for "Ripans Tabules. 'One gives relief.' Headaches, Dyspepsia, Indigestion." If you recall reading this ad in your favorite newspaper, you can qualify as an old-timer.

But the Three Sisters went the way of the Borealis, and the Observer is alone in the field.

Mount Angel.—This little college town was without a newspaper until 1915, although the town was the seat of a thriving little Catholic college. The first number of the Mount Angel Times came off