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Rh continuing for two years. The Oakland Owl followed. D. E. (Dave) Vernon, who founded this paper April 6, 1899, was the actual ancestor of the present Oakland Tribune. He carried the paper for many years, once selling to W. C. Black, then buying it back. The name was changed to the Advance, and so it was in April 1919, when Claude A. Riddle, who before 1918 had been publishing the Riddle Tribune, moved to Oakland, leaving the field to Carl P. Cloud with his Enterprise. Riddle changed the name Advance to Tribune. He sold to Don Carlos Boyd, who after a few months sold to Rev. R. A. Hutchinson, Congregational minister, well known in the Northwest (1920).

Mr. Hutchinson was succeeded in 1921 by the present owners. Albert Lea Mallery and his wife, Olive S. Mallery, who had arrived less than a year before from Minnesota, Mr. Mallery's native state, where he had edited the Alexandria Post-News. In 1925 the Mallerys left Oakland, and for six years the paper was run by Clyde S. Shaw, formerly of the University Press, Eugene, and his sons, Barney and Dudley, together with Mrs. Shaw. Mr. Mallery returned in 1931 and since then has conducted the paper, assisted by Mrs. Mallery.

In 1924 and 1925, while at Oakland, Mallery served as president of the Oregon State Editorial Association.

Drain.—This little Douglas County town, former seat of a state normal school, has had several newspapers, pone of which, until the present Drain Enterprise, endured. The Drain Echo seems to have been the first of Drain's newspapers. The founder of this Friday weekly was E. W. Kuykendall. Two years later he was succeeded as editor-publisher by J. M. McCollum, who in turn was followed in 1888 by E. P. Thorp, who founded the Cottage Grove Leader in 1899 and printed it in his Drain office for three months before installing a plant in Cottage Grove. Thorp continued the Echo at Drain until 1895, when he moved to Cottage Grove and combined the Cottage Grove and Drain papers as the Echo-Leader. Mr. Thorp died in 1897, and the Echo was suspended. The Drain Press followed, conducted by Edwin Rhodes, but it was discontinued in 1898.

Miss Laura E. Jones started the North Douglas Watchman, a Thursday weekly, in Drain in 1898. She continued in charge until 1900, when she sold to Benton Mires and Herman Miller. This paper was discontinued in 1901, to be followed by the Nonpareil, edited and published by A. T. Fetter. Later publishers of the Nonpareil were F. H. and E. A. Rogers, Sloan P. Shutt, C. L. Parker.

Drain's present paper, the Enterprise, was started May 4, 1922, by W. A. Priaulx. now of Chiloquin. Three years later the present publisher, H. R. Young, purchased the paper. Mrs. Young is his linotype operator.