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338 1902. This four-page paper, edited and published by G. A. Graves, continued under his direction until 19 10, when it was taken over by J. C. and M. T. Gregory. The next year the publisher was R M. Rounsteel, and for the next five years John T. Bell. Simon S. Dow was the last editor of the Enterprise, which was suspended in 1919.

John D. Burt, formerly of the Carlton Sentinel, and Don Woodman, formerly of the Yamhill Spokesman, established the Scribe in Newberg in 1931. Mr. Woodman withdrew from the publication in 1935 and is now (1939) on the Oregonian news staff. Mr. Burt later sold to Robert H. Harper and Paul D. Dent, present (1939) publishers. Both the Graphic and the Scribe are issued Thursdays.

Amity.—This town, McMinnville's small neighbor to the south, had three weekly newspapers in 1891, when journalism first came to the little town of 400. One of these was named the Popgun, and it ceased firing after a year or two. Editors and publishers were Long & Harvis. A second, also published on Friday, was the Oregon Blade, an "independent" publication edited and published by R. A. Harris. It lasted six years.

The most vigorous of the three was the Valley Times, a Thursday paper edited and published by G. A. Graves. It was independent in politics. In 1897 Mr. Graves was claiming 400 circulation at $1 a year. It was a four-page 15×22 "job." A later editor, noted in the newspaper directory of 1903, was Adolphus Rea. The town had declined to 292; the paper was still sticking to its 400 circulation claim. But the Times was dead in 1904.

Next came the Standard, which has come down through the years. The first issue, under the direction of W. C. DePew, later of Lebanon, came off the press April 8, 1910. The town had grown, and the paper now consisted of eight pages, for which the charge was $1.50 a year. Mr. DePew was Republican, and so was the Standard. C. G. LeMasters took the helm in 1912. H. J. Richter, present editor and publisher, took hold in 1917. The Standard had installed a Unitype in 1912, and Mr. Richter discarded this typesetting apparatus for regular use after it had set up the paper for 20 years.

Carlton.—The Carlton Herald, first newspaper in this Yamhill county town, was established in January 1901. After it perished, the Observer was launched by Herbert Graves in 1906, succeeded by the Sentinel, which, founded in March of that year by B. F. Munger, continued through under various owners until 193 1. Longest owner ship in the lifetime of the Sentinel was that of John D. Burt, who carried it on from 1923 to December 1931, when, with Don Wood man of the Yamhill Independent, he started the Weekly Scribe at Newberg. The paper was then suspended.

A second Herald was started in January 1929 by Dorland Kirk. A later editor, J. L. Hutchins, sold to John E. Black, formerly publisher of the Dayton Tribune, in January 1934. February 1, 1935,