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366 went to Halsey and founded the Enterprise. He was succeeded at Coquille by P. C. Levar, of the old Coast Mail of Marshfield. Changes were now frequent. Competition, furnished by a new paper, the Sentinel, was making the going difficult for the old Herald.

The Sentinel, founded in January, 1905, by Orvil Dodge, Coos county journalist and historian, as an independent Friday weekly, was sold to J. C. Savage in 1909. He conducted the paper until 1913.

On January 1, 1913, Lew Cates, who already had purchased the Herald and was leasing it to P. C. Levar, bought a half interest in the Sentinel and became its editor and publisher, thus having virtual control of the field—which was without actual competition for the first time in about 18 years. After a year, however, Mr. Cates, who, as H. W. Young said (127) "was of a roving disposition," disposed of his interest in both papers.

The purchaser was H. W. Young, who continued for a time to maintain the Herald in the field under lease, first to Mr. Levar, who already had the lease from Cates, and then after Levar's death in 1915 to J. C. Savage, former editor and publisher of the Sentinel. The Herald was finally consolidated with the Sentinel under the Sentinel's name, Sept. 1, 1917, and its equipment was either sold or installed in the purchaser's office. One of the first achievements of the Young administration was the construction of a modern concrete home for the paper.

H. W. Young, the veteran publisher, who became the oldest newspaper man in service in Oregon, died in February, 1927, at the age of 79. The paper was then taken over by his son, H. A. Young, who had been acting as editor and publisher, and his daughter, Mrs. Marian Young Grimes, linotype operator.

The present publisher, born in Galva, Ill., May 8, 1879, spent three years at the U. S. military academy at West Point. He began his newspaper career as a printer on his father's paper at Independence, Kansas, receiving a "salary" of a dollar a week as printer's devil. Before going to Coquille, he worked for a time in the office of the Woodburn Independent with H. L. Gill. He can do everything that needs to be done in getting out a newspaper.

Another competing weekly newspaper was established in Coquille in August, 1928, by W. E. Hassler, who moved the nine-month-old Powers Patriot to Coquille and called it the Coos County Courier. He changed the name to the Oregon Coos District Courier to independent Democratic in and the politics from non-partisan 1932, Miss Anna Jerzyk, formerly news editor of the Rainier Re view, R. B. and R. V. Cummings, father and son, and B. M. and L. J. Kester, husband and wife, were later owners. The Kesters changed the name to the Tribune.

Still another Coquille publication, was the Coos County Farm