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Rh bought the Western Oregon October 1, 1909, and changed the name to the Sentinel.

September 1, 1911, Elbert Bede, who had come from Minnesota, where he had had his journalistic baptism as printer and publisher, purchased the Sentinel, retaining his interest until 1936. He soon took as a partner J. W. Grant, who is now a publisher at Barron, Wisconsin.

Meanwhile the Leader was running along. At almost the moment when Mr. Bede bought the Sentinel Dean & Dryden purchased the Leader from W. C. Conner and a year later sold it to Bede & Grant, giving them an exclusive field.

Mr. Conner revived the defunct Leader in June, 1913. The Sentinel owners had discontinued use of the name as part of their title. February 18, 1914, J. D. Quillen purchased the Leader, but a short time later Conner was again owner. He sold the paper to W. H. Tyrrell of Iowa, June 2, 1915.

Bede now bought the interest of Grant in the Sentinel, and a short time later he and Tyrell formed a partnership, combining the Sentinel and the Leader. Bede had now purchased a Leader twice. Since then the Sentinel has held the field. Soon Bede became the sole owner. April 3, 1918, Elbert Smith became associated with Bede, and the partnership continued for several years, Mr. Smith, who had been appointed postmaster of Cottage Grove, became inactive on the paper. In 1936 the paper was sold to Judge Leonard S. Goddard, who had not long before retired from the supreme bench of the Philippine islands, and A. W. Shofstall, mechanical superintendent of the Sentinel. Mr. Goddard had gone to the islands with the American troops at the time of the Filipino insurrection, remained there to practice law, and was appointed to the judiciary of the islands. Since the fall of 1938 W. C. Martin has been publisher. Judge Goddard moved to California.

During the year the Leader was owned by Dean & Dryden, D. H. Talmadge, Salen philosopher, veteran editor and columnist, was editor for a time.

A Prohibition paper named the Cottage Grove Moderator, established in 1889, was listed in Ayer's Directory as having run for several years and achieved by 1896 a circulation of 700. H. W. Ross was listed as editor in the 1897 Ayer's.

Junction City.—Junction City's early journalism is shrouded in more or less haze. But there is no question that the Times, launched in 1891, had two predecessors. The first of these, listed in Ayer's Newspaper Directory for 1880, was the Republican, a weekly started (says Ayer's) in 1878 as a Republican paper, issued on Wednesdays. The founder was O. T. Porter, who also was the founder of the Harrisburg Nucleus in 1876. The Republican was a