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 It is filled with useful things largely pertaining to the resources of Tillamook county. We wish it success." It failed, however, and was gone in two years.

Garibaldi.—Journalism in this little Tillamook county town began in March 1923, when M. D. O'Connell established the weekly Garibaldi News. Mr. O'Connell continued as editor and publisher until 1928, when Fred C. Baker, veteran retired editor of the Tillamook Headlight, and A. M. Byrd, another veteran printer-editor, teamed up to publish the paper. Mr. Baker's health, however, was failing, and the next year the paper was directed by Mr. Byrd and his son, W. A. Byrd, who continued in charge for several years. In 1935 Ed. T. Pierson purchased the paper and rechristened it the Garibaldi-Rockaway News, the next year changing it again to the more inclusive title North Tillamook County News.

Cloverdale.—Journalistic history in the little Tillamook town of Cloverdale appears to cover a period of 16 years, from 1905 to 1921. The Cloverdale Courier, issued Fridays, was started by the optimistic Merle D. Nelson in 1905 as a non-political paper. In 1906 the paper passed to the hands of C. E. Trombley, better known in connection is with the Tillamook Herald. He moved to the county seat in 1908, when the paper was taken over by A. E. Hill. Hill's successor running the Courier was Frank Taylor, now an Albany commercial printer, who, with the homestead notices mostly all printed, folded the paper up in 1917 and went away and left it. The next year the plant was used by Rev. R. Y. Blalock to start the Nestucca Valley Enterprise. This paper lasted less than a year, and Cloverdale's jaunt into journalism was finished.

(When the foregoing lines were written, they were true, and Cloverdale had no newspaper. James T. Young and Carol H. Young, however, moved into the field in midsummer 1938 with the Nestucca Valley News, weekly. The News won the Sigma Delta Chi award for the best small country weekly in 1939.)

Bay City.—J. S. Dellinger, veteran Clatsop county publisher, started the first newspaper, the weekly Tribune, in this little town in 1 89 1, conducting it for two years before he moved to Astoria to begin a long career there. It was suspended on his departure from Bay City.

The town had no more newspapers until 1910, but two years later two publications were contesting the field. The News was started in 1910 by R. H. Miller as a Republican paper issued on Fri days. A four-page four-column paper, 15×22, it kept up the struggle at $1.50 a subscriber until 1913. The Examiner, also a Friday Republican paper of the same size, was started in 1911 by Herbert W. Conger. Ayer's in 1914 lists E. L. Merritt and M. A. Hamilton as editors and publishers. Two years later Elbridge C. Smith was in charge, and he changed the paper's politics to independent. By this