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298 three-column full-length display, was carried by O. P. Coshow & Co., of the Brownsville Real Estate Agency. The paper was all printed in Brownsville, in contrast with many of its contemporaries, whose papers were half "patent," printed by the old Palmer & Rey plant (later American Type Founders Company) at Portland.

Another of the ads was for the Oregonian Railway Co., C. N. Scott, receiver, which was running from Portland to Woodburn, Silverton, Brownsville, and Coburg on the "east side," and Dundee, Sheridan, Dallas, Monmouth, and Airlie on the west side of the river. An item in the news columns indicated that the woolen mills were using 300,000 pounds of wool a year.

Cavender, who attended to the press work, commented that the old Washington hand-press on which the Times was printed at that time, was "a wonderful machine for physical exercise."

Cavender became the sole owner of the paper in 1892. W. A. Calder, a school-teacher, had purchased McDonald's interests the previous year.

F. M. Brown bought an interest in the plant in 1894 and in 1906 purchased Cavender's interest and conducted the newspaper for many years. Other editors have been D. H. Talmadge, C. V. Averill, and Milo E. Taylor.

William H. Wheeler, who wound up a long career in journalism publisher of the Halsey Enterprise, was lessee and editor of the Brownsville Times from 1919 to 1921.

Mr. Talmadge became more widely known as an editorial-page columnist on the Oregonian for several years. He is recognized as one of the leading literary craftsmen in Oregon journalism.

Lebanon.—Lebanon's first paper, which has survived all competition for half a century, was named for a railroad train which has not survived—the Lebanon Express on the old Oregonian railway. The paper was started by J. H. Stine, founder of a good many Oregon newspapers, who had just come from Polk county, and its first issue came off the press March 5, 1887. Kirkpatrick (H. Y.) & Bugler were the publishers of the paper the next year.

Two years later George L. Alexander and Jack Adams started the Lebanon Advance, a People's party weekly, issued on Fridays. Both of these men had done newspaper work in Eugene. Mr. Alexander is the son of J. B. Alexander, one of the real pioneers of Oregon journalism, who had started Eugene's first paper, the News, in November 1856, and had also founded the Eugene Guard in 1867. Adams & Alexander continued the Advance for several years.

Finally, in 1897, the paper was combined with the Express, which had been conducted by H. Y. Kirkpatrick, under the title Express-Advance. Mr. Alexander was associated with Mr. Kirkpatrick in its publication and remained on the paper, which he edited for many