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222 started in 1880 by Henry G. Guild, Oregon journalistic pioneer, and it has come down to the present, outlasting several competitors. Guild was a young fellow of 25 when he started the Appeal. Born in Illinois August 18, 1855$7$ he got his typographical baptism at Grinnell, Iowa, where he was "devil" on the Herald. Coming north to Oregon, he worked driving team for Col. T. R. Cornelius at the little town of that name. While there he began sending news items to the Hillsboro Independent, then published by H. B. Luce. After a few months Luce sent for Guild, in 1876, and gave him a general utility job. "I set type, kicked the jobber, ran off the papers, set up jobs, wrote locals, and did anything and everything else there is to be done in a country plant," he told Mr. Lockley.$8$

After a year with Luce, Guild went to Canyon City in 1877 and bought the Canyon City Times from Henry Gale. A year or so of that, and the Bannock Indian war called him from journalism. Returning from the wars, he sold the Times to J. M. Shepherd ("Old Shep"), who with his brother-in-law Delazon Smith had started the Albany Democrat in 1859. Guild then bought the Hillsboro Independent from his former employer Luce, but sold it back to him after a year and a half and went to Silverton, where he started the Appeal.

One of Guild's best friends in Silverton was the young Homer Davenport, who just lazied around, worked as little as possible, observed as much as he could, and drew, drew, drew all the time, finally justifying the confidence of his father, Storekeeper Timothy Davenport, that he would make a famous cartoonist. Homer's career with Hearst, "dollarmark plaid" cartoons of Mark Hanna, his international fame as the successor of the great Nast, his domestic unhappiness, and his death at 45, only a year after his father, are familiar history.

"You couldn't help liking Homer," Guild told Lockley,$9$ "no matter how much you felt that he ought to settle down and go to work. . . . . One day he came in and drew a most excellent cartoon of me and presented it to me with his compliments. Like most of the other Silverton people I set little or no value on Homer's cartoons, so I did not save it."

Meanwhile Guild was running the Appeal as an independent weekly newspaper, issued on Saturdays. After ten years he sold it to a recently acquired partner, Lou Adams, and Fred Warnock. In 1890 Fred Warnock was listed in Ayer's as the editor. A later editor was H. E. Browne, who ran it from 1904 to 1910, part of the time in partnership with his brother, Gilford D. Browne. In April, 191o, H. E. Hodges, an employee, bought the Appeal, running it until the present publisher of the paper, John T. Hoblitt, purchased it from him in 1915. After publishing small papers in Veneta and