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Rh Flagg at once installed a linotype and made the Globe-Times a six-and eight-page paper; the competing publications had usually been four pages.

In the beginning both papers had been printed on the old-time hand press. In 1906 the Times added a power press, which was takern over by the Globe-Times.

Mr. Flagg sold the Globe-Times to N. C. Westcott and W. H Ortman in 1921. Mr. Westcott, becoming sole owner in 1925, sold two years later to Lawrence E. Spraker and Burt C. Halsey. In 1928 Mr. Spraker acquired Mr. Halsey's interest and continued the paper alone until 1937, when he moved to Stayton. Present publisher (1939) is Stewart Hardie, with Genevieve Dunlop, Oregon journalism graduate, managing editor.

Arlington.—In June 1884, when Arlington was still known as Alkali, the first paper published in Gilliam county was published there. It was named the Riverside Enterprise, and the publisher was M. C. Harris. It was continued under the name Enterprise after the town had become known as Arlington. The paper was a weekly, issued Fridays. Loss of files and records makes the history of Gilliam county papers sketchy and vague. (168).

The Inland Times was started in Arlington in 1886 by Orville Tucker as a Republican weekly, issued Fridays. It absorbed the Enterprise late that year. (169)

Another little paper, the Arlington Town Talk, appeared in February 1889 and lasted until May 24 of the same year. Harry Hawson was editor. "It was rather a spicy sheet," says the history already quoted.

Arlington now becomes tied in with the history of Condon journalism. The Arlington Advocate, a Friday weekly, was launched by Jayne & Shutt, Nov. 11, 1890. The next March Sloan P. Shutt bought out his partner, A. A. Jayne, who had been the Advocate's editor, and removed the plant to Condon, where he started the Globe.

The Advocate's place was taken by the Record, a weekly founded by John A. Brown in January 1892. January 6 of the next year James M. Johns acquired the paper. October 10, 1895, W. A. Max well purchased the paper, giving way to the Record Publishing Com pany, with S. A. D. Gurley editor, January 1, 1900. July 28 of the same year Johns again acquired the paper, which he conducted as a 7-col. four-page all-home-print publication. J. F. Norvell was editor and publisher in 1908.

In April 1898 Robinson & Pound began publication of the Arlington Review, a five-column folio, which ran for about a year, when Pound, having acquired R. H. Robinson's interest, sold to W. A. Maxwell, publisher of the Record, who suspended the paper.

Another paper now comes into the picture—a new Arlington Advocate, published as a Monday weekly by R. H. Robinson, who