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362 News, which became a weekly and still remains so. In 1930 C. T. Nunn took charge as editor and manager, in which position he continued to 1938, when W. K. and Bessie M. Brownlow took charge.

The Murray regime at Marshfield was ended in 1930, when Sheldon F. Sackett, who had become interested in the Salem Statesman, purchased the Times and installed C. J. Gillette, formerly of the Forest Grove News-Times, as editor-manager. In 1935, when Gillette took charge of the Examiner at Lakeview, Publisher Sackett went to Marshfield and took personal charge of his paper. His managing editor is William L. Baker, who carries on while Mr. Sackett is batting for Governor Sprague as publisher of the Oregon Statesman at Salem.

North Bend.—North Bend's newspaper history goes back only to 1903, when Chester R. Ingle founded the weekly Citizen, a Republican paper, 15×22, at $1.50 a year. He conducted it for three years, suspending in 190ó, the year after the Coos Bay Harbor began publication.

First publishers of the Harbor were C. M. Sain and C. H. Keith, who issued a Republican paper every Saturday. In 1908 the publishers were A. Whisnant, later of the Central Oregon Press at Bend, and Edgar McDaniel. Mr. Whisnant soon retired, but Mr. McDaniel has been at the helm ever since. The Harbor is usually an eight-page six-column paper. Indicative of the publisher's standing in his own office, as well as in his field at large, is the incident when his employees bought a page of space in the paper and without the knowledge of Mr. McDaniel filled it with a testimonial to their regard for him as a man, a publisher, and an employer.

An edgy little weekly called the Agitator changed its name to the Sunday Morning Bee, in 1915, and conducted by Frank B. Cameron, continued to keep things lively. Though the paper was praised by those who like their papers spicy, there was a good deal of criticism of the scandal dug up. One man distressed by something uncomplimentary tried to blow up the plant with a jugful of dynamite, but the fuse failed to light. Cameron died peacefully in 1927, and the plant was sold in the settlement of his estate.

Westernmost Missions, founded in 1925 and now published by Rev. L. A. LeMiller, is, as its name suggests, devoted to the promotion of church mission work.

North Bend had a daily paper for a time in 1904. This was the old Evening Post, which didn't live long enough to get into the current newspaper directories. Frank X. Hofer, publisher, was editing the four-page paper in September of that year, stretching about 200 words of telegraph to make a showing of world news. There was more or less going on, too, for the Japanese and the Russians were having their historic unpleasantness and Kuroki and Kuropat-