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Rh and remained through to December 1932, when his health gave way and he sold the paper to Harold Axford of the Oregon Journal, Portland, a former employee of the Bellingham (Wash.) Herald.

Maurice Nelson was the next publisher, succeeded in 1938 by A. R. McCall from Elgin.

During much of the period of his ownership of the Review, Mr. Veatch was assisted by Miss Anna Jerzyk, who took a furlough from the paper long enough to complete her college education, graduating from the University of Oregon school of journalism in 1928. The period of his ownership was marked by development of the mechanical facilities and the construction of a new building to house his plant. While publisher of the Review, Mr. Veatch was elected mayor of Rainier. He was recalled for extra-strict enforcement of liquor laws.

There is a difference of belief as to whether the old Review was the first newspaper published in Rainier. John A. Johnson, of the nearby community of Hudson, told Miss Jerzyk he thought he remembered an earlier publication than the one started by Mr. Imus. He could not recall the name nor the date.

"It being so long ago," said Mr. Johnson (140) "I had gotten that paper confused with the Review. When the paper to which I refer started publication they prefaced their introductory remarks with 'We can't come with a brass band' . . . This paper I think was Rainier's first newspaper. It came on the scene sometime between 1885 and 1892."

W. P. Ely's Review (started in 1905) carried almost the identical phrase about the brass band, saying, "We do not come with a brass band nor street parade." Perhaps it may be said, then, that Mr. Johnson's memory of early Rainier newspapers is somewhat like that of Publishers Imus and Mitchell, whose impressions have succumbed to the eroding hand of time. No Rainier paper earlier than 1895, at all events, lasted long enough to get a mention in Ayer's Newspaper Directory.

The Columbia River Pilot was put aboard at Rainier by C. W. Semmes and Edward R. Semmes in 1930. It was soon dropped for more profitable undertakings.

St. Helens.—Newspaper history of St. Helens is long chronologically but short in the matter of definite facts. In the far haze of nearly sixty years ago the clear fact stands out that the weekly Columbian, launched in 1880, was the first Columbia county publication. The founder was Major Enoch G. Adams, who published the paper in his home. (141). The paper ran for five years as a Friday weekly, then was changed to Thursday. It disappeared in 1886.

Meanwhile the old Oregon Mist, which has continued to the present, had been started by a man named Glendye. What has hap-