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 Wash. (1905), and remained until 1911. A later editor was Ed Miller. S. C. Morton became editor and published in 1918 and continued at the helm until 1926, when he sold to Ira B. Hyde Jr. Mr. Morton was the first president of the Oregon Newspaper Conference, in 1919.

In 1891 the Mist circulation was reported at 800. The issue of August 14 of that year consisted of four pages. Advertising was carried on the first page. Several saloons carried advertising; and one of the confident liquor-dealers started his chatty ad by saying, "Do you drink? Of course you do."

The St. Helens Sentinel was established in 1926 by Lew Cates and J. M. Cummins. It was soon sold to E. E. Brodie, of Oregon City, who sold to Fred J. Tooze in 1927. In August 1929 Miss Jessica Longston and Miss L. Berenice Anderson (now Mrs. A. T. Brownlow) purchased the paper, which they still publish. In 1933 they purchased the Mist from Mr. Hyde and merged the two papers under the present name, Sentinel-Mist. Miss Longston is now president of the Mist Publishing Co., publisher of the paper. Both she and Miss Anderson received their previous newspaper training largely in Wenatchee, Wash.

The Sentinel-Mist (144) expressed the opinion that the paper is perhaps the only industry or business in Columbia county carried on continuously for more than 50 years.

Vernonia. —The Vernonia Eagle, founded by Paul Robinson, then publisher of the Aurora Observer, August 1, 1922, was not Vernonia's first newspaper. The Nehalem Journal, an independent weekly, issued Tuesdays, was launched at Vernonia in 1889 by Bynon & Braden, with Gus H. Bynon editor. Three years later it was edited by S. Charles Davis; then, in 1894, R. H. Mitchell ran the Journal as a Democratic weekly. The paper died in 1897.

The Sentinel, a People's Party weekly issued Thursdays, was launched by L. W. Vandyke in 1894 and ran four years.

The town ran along without newspapers until Mr. Robinson launched the Vernonia Eagle in 1922. He sold the paper in 1926 to Mark E. Moe, of Hood River, who sold it in 1930. The issue of June 27, 1930, appeared with the name of Ray D. Fisher in the masthead. Mr. Fisher had been a faculty member at Willamette, also a high school principal, but always had had a yen for journalism. Amplifying his journalism knowledge with a series of courses in the University of Oregon School of Journalism, he finally purchased the Washougal (Wash.) Record and after a time sold it to move to Vernonia, taking F. H. Veith with him from Washougal to handle the mechanical end. They sold the paper seven years later. The present publisher (1939) is Marvin Kamholz.

Clatskanie.—This little dairying community with the Indian name is, apparently, not much of a problem for a journalism his-