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Rh the paper, and by 1882, when the partnership was dissolved, it had been built up to eight pages, selling at $2.50 a year. First one Snyder (George) and then the other (A. V. R.) took a turn as publisher.

Chronology brings us now to the origins of the present Telephone Register. This, as already indicated, goes back to little Lafayette, which was still the Yamhill county seat. In August 1881 W. M. Townsend and S. R. Frazier (Townsend & Frazier) founded the Oregon Register at Lafayette. Within two years Frazier had left the firm (he was later a city editor of the Oregonian and founder of the Seattle Press, the direct forerunner of the present Seattle Times) and Townsend carried on alone for two years.

Of the new Oregon Register the East Oregonian of Pendleton said, August 19:

"We have received the initial number of the Oregon Register, published at Lafayette by Messrs. Townsend and Frazier. We cannot speak very highly of its typographical appearance, but that can be improved. The senior member of the firm is the Hon. William Townsend, who made such a telling speech in Pendleton during the campaign last fall, and we predict he will make a success of it. It will be Democratic in politics."

Then the Westerfield Brothers (A. B. and W. I.) took hold for two years, succeeded in 1888 by Frank S. Harding, when they went to Lafayette to found the Yamhill County Ledger, started in 1889. So we leave Mr. Harding in charge of the Register while we go back and pick up the Telephone.

But there's another little paper that intervenes—the Daily Campaign.

McMinnville, apparently, always has been a good newspaper town. How many can recall, however, that it had two dailies in 1886, more than 50 years ago? Not at the same time, but in the same year.

Col. J. C. Cooper, always an active citizen, had a most enjoyable little excursion into journalism in 1886. It was in the midst of the Cleveland administration, and Cooper thought the Republicans needed a bit of printed stimulation if they were to get anywhere that year. So he started the Daily Campaign. And a breezy little publication it was. It was a four-page, five-column paper, with ready-printed (Palmer & Rey) inside, with the McMinnville news and political gossip on pages 1 and 4. Announcing that the purpose was to support the Republican party, the opening editorial said, in the last paragraph: "Hence the mission of the Daily Campaign is to urge every Republican in this county and state to do his duty at the polls." "Every Republican and everybody else in the county," the Campaign proclaimed, "should subscribe for the Campaign one week at least. . . . Mr. A. V. R. Snyder, the jolliest rustler and the best local editor