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436 Locks by John H. Travis and Wallace Buchanan, it is now known as the Chronicle (1939).

A new Thursday weekly was started at Cascade Locks July 25, 1935. The name was the Mid-Columbian, and the publishers were Robert R. Stevenson, of the Skamania county (Wash.) Pioneer at Stevenson, managing editor; Paul D. Ratliff, publisher, and Bessie D. Ratliff, business manager. A seven-column eight-page paper, it carried as a slogan under the title on page 1: "The Dam Area's Independent Newspaper."

Better Fruit, a monthly devoted to the horticultural interests of Oregon and adjacent territory, was founded in Hood River in 1906. E. H. Shepard and E. A. France were editors, and Better Fruit Publishing Co. publisher in its first year. Later E. H. Shepard became sole editor. The magazine was moved to Portland in 1922. E. C. Potts succeeded Mr. Shepard as editor, and John L. Jerome became publisher.

Later, when Mr. Potts went to Business Chronicle in Seattle Mr. Jerome took over the editorship.

The Hood River County Sun, established in 1936 by John H. Travis, is a thriving county weekly.

Condon.—When moving into its new home, a stone building 25×66 feet, the Globe-Times, in a leading editorial March 22, 1930, observed that the newspaper was the town's oldest business institution.

The Globe, Condon's first paper, was launched in March 1891 by Sloan P. Shutt, who moved the plant of the Arlington Advocate over to the sister city. In February 1898 the paper passed to S. A. Pattison, who for four years had been the publisher of the Emmett (Idaho) Index and later was to publish the Heppner Herald. The paper was twice enlarged, finally, December 1, 1904, to a five-column quarto. The Globe in 1896 claimed a circulation of 975 at $1. Hartshorne & Meresse were publishers in 1909, by which time the paper had become independent Republican. H. A. Hartshorne was sole owner in 1910.

The Times was founded in 1900 as a Republican paper, issued Saturdays, by the Condon Publishing Company, with William Christie editor. Maurice Fitzmaurice acquired the paper in 1908 from Edward Curran, who had purchased it from Christie in December 1904.

The papers were consolidated in 1919. Announcing the merger under the ownership of George H. Flagg, Mr. Fitzmaurice wrote that "the burden of two papers was too much for the town." Mr.