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268 Conoway like a hawk to keep him from making embarrassing changes in the Democratic editorials.

The paper lasted only six months, but it served to cut the journalistic eye teeth of the first president of the Oregon State Editorial Association.

The next paper in Independence was the Riverside, established by Quivey (G. W.) & Waller in 1879. It was an independent weekly, issued Fridays. It ran for five years.

The West Side, next in chronological order, and a namesake of a paper started at McMinnville in 1870, was to give his journalistic baptism to another considerable newspaper figure, Will H. Parry, founder of the Salem Capital Journal. The West Side was established by Parry in 1883 as an independent weekly, issued on Fridays. When Parry moved on to Corvallis in 1886 Will W. Brooks became editor and publisher, then (1888) E. C. Pentland, (1890) the anonymous Polk County Publishing Company. In 1891 the editor was J. R. N. Bell, who, like Pipes and Parry and Pentland, had been one of the founders of the state association, later becoming a loyal citizen of Corvallis. In 1893 Pentland was back as editor. In 1899 Editor J. W. Crawford made the paper Republican. The paper ran as a semi-weekly, the West Side Enterprise, in 1906, having been consolidated in 1905 with the Enterprise, which had been established by J. T. Ford in 1894. The paper later dropped the West Side part of the name.

The Enterprise had been established as a Democratic weekly, published Thursdays. Successive publishers up to 1905, when it consolidated with the West Side, were J. T. Ford (1894), Harry E. Wagoner (1897), Wagoner Bros. (1904), Walter Lyon (1905). In 1908 the consolidated paper, again known as the Enterprise, was back on the weekly schedule, with Charles E. Hicks issuing the paper on Thursday only. Z. C. Kimball, present owner, purchased the paper in 1920. A recent transfer gave the paper a new owner, Ralph H. Klitzing, formerly of the Oregon Statesman.

About that time another newspaper, which had been running in Independence, the weekly Monitor, since August 1, 1912, published by G. A. Hurley, suspended.

The Enterprise has had no competition since then.

Cottage Grove.—In less than half a century Cottage Grove has had a long succession of newspapers, editors and publishers, and many of the men engaged in Cottage Grove journalism have since become active and prominent on other publications and in other lines