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246 owner, has been, most of the time, in personal charge. C. A. Riddle, of Riddle, Oakland, Roseburg and other points, an experienced printer and editor, was associated with Mr. Reed in the editing and management for a time. The present (1939) managing editor is Lila Babbitt.

Glendale.—S. P. Shutt was the founder, in 1902, of the Glendale News, one of many papers he either founded or edited durinig his lifetime of newspaper work in the Northwest, mostly in Ore gon. The paper was launched in 1902 as an independent weekly, issued Fridays. Later editors were William E. Homme (1907), J. L. Campbell (1908-24), Carl P. Cloud (1924), Howard F. Griffin (1925). In 1926 the paper was purchased by C. J. Shorb, of Mac's Printing Company, Gold Hill, who made it a member of his chain of weeklies and changed the name to the Log. After 1930 the paper had a succession of editors. For the last year the editor has been Wallace G. Iverson.

Myrtle Creek.—Charles W. Rice retired in June, 1937, a few months before this was written, after 31 years' continuous publication of the same Friday weekly paper, the Mail, a record equaled by few publishers in the history of Oregon. The paper was founded in 1903 by H. A. Williams, who sold the next year to Lew L. McKenney. In 1906 Mr. Rice purchased the paper, which was Republican and has so remained, under his ownership. The next publisher, A. K. Lulay, formerly published the Siuslaw Region at Florence and later for a time was in charge of the mechanical department of the Stayton Mail. Mr. Rice died in Pasadena, California, where he was run down by a hit-and-run driver, in February 1938. The present (1939) publisher is Claude Riddle.

Medford.—"Newest town in southern Oregon, is an important station on the railway. . . likely to become an important shipping-point. In the winter of 1883-4 about forty wooden buildings were put up, and foundations of a brick building of considerable size laid." Walling's History of Jackson, Douglas, Curry and Coos Counties, page 375.

Medford's journalism history and, in fact, its history in general, begins in old Jacksonville. Jacksonville goes right back to the fifties, and Jacksonville's first newspaper, the old Table Rock Sentinel, back to 1855.

Jacksonville was an early southern Oregon metropolis. Situated near a rich mining region and having the advantage of location on the route to California, it grew from trading post to a consider-