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Rh  marker in recognition of his life interest in preserving the natural beauties of Oregon highways.

Port Orford again has a newspaper, named, as was Curry county's first paper, the Port Orford Post. Managing editor is Frank Fay Eddy.

Rainier.—So far as available records indicate, the Rainier Review, Rainier's present newspaper, was the first launched in the town. Volume 1, No. 1 came off the press Friday, February 8, 1895. The publisher was W. H. Imus, who years later retired from journalism, became a prominent lawyer and business man of Kalama, Cowlitz county, Washington-and forgot all about the Review.

The first number was a five-column, eight-page edition, half of it printed at home, the other half the work of the American Typefounders ready-print plant in Portland. Subscription was $1.50 a year.

"The Review, (Mr. Imus said in a brief salutatory) is here for the benefit of Rainier, Columbia county-and W. H. Imus, Esq. We believe that a correct portrayal of Rainier's advantages as a business and manufacturing point will result in a marked development of this town . . . . Come in and let's shake hands. Respectfully, W. H. Imus."

Material ordinarily contained in a salutatory was reserved for a longer editorial in the next column, running, as did all the other editorials, without headings.

The Review (he said) has no apology to make for its existence. It hasn't come to fill any "long-felt want," nor for the philanthropic purpose of enlightening the people of this city and county. The publication of this Great Family Necessity was undertaken principally because the publisher thought there was money in it. No other consideration would have induced him to make this investment. But while the Review shall be published as a business enterprise, it shall have due regard for the fitness of things, and reject everything scandalous and sensational.

It shall always endeavor to be free to offer just criticism, to uphold the right and condemn the wrong. If there are any schemers who have jobs or schemes of questionable