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441 the paper ran along under successive editors—Roy S. Blodgett, F. E. Pierce, C. M. Snider (1916-1924), Clarence Anderson (to 1928). The next editor and publisher, Charles A. Adsit, changed the name back to the Sherman County News. In 1930 Anderson was back for a year, then Paul Robinson and A. R. McCall bought the paper. It was soon sold to Asa Richelderfer and acquired by Giles French in 1932. Mr. French combined it with the Sherman County Journal under the Journal name at Moro.

In 1905 (173) Sherman county had four newspapers—the Sherman County Observer at Moro, published by D. C. Ireland & Sons; the News, published at Wasco by J. W. Allen; the Journal at Grass Valley, published by W. I. Westerfield, and the Recorder, published in the little village of Kent by E. H. Brown. There was also a Catholic quarterly, the Oregon Messenger and Parishioners' Guide, published by Rev. M. J. Hickey from the office of the Wasco News.

Bend.—Bend, Oregon, was a small but ambitious village in Crook county when, as the center of a homestead and timber-claim region, it attracted the attention of Max Lueddemann, owner of one little paper at Shaniko and another at Antelope, in 1903. The result was the establishment of the Bend Bulletin as a weekly, though the weekly Deschutes Echo was running in a nearby hamlet.

The first issue appeared March 27, 1903, run off the inevitable hand-press in a log hut which had been the first schoolhouse in Bend. The original publisher never lived in Bend. Before coming to Oregon Mr. Lueddemann had been a lawyer in Georgia, coming west for his health. He thrived so well that forty years after his arrival in Oregon (1898) he is still a busy, enterprising business man in Port land, where he is in real estate.

The paper's first support was largely from the land notices which supplied the main income of so many early Oregon papers. The town, however, was beginning to be recognized as a lumbering and irrigation center. When the Bulletin was started the town consisted, principally, of the irrigation company office, a small sawmill, and a few scattered houses. Deschutes county was not to be organized until hardly more than a hamlet, 1916. The best the little community, could afford, in the judgment of the publisher, was a four-page five-column paper, with two of the four pages ready-print, sent in from Portland. The value of the first plant was about $1,000.

The first editor was Don P. Rea, who remained for only a few weeks and was succeeded by J. M. Lawrence, who was editor for two years and later (1910) a part owner. Charles D. Rowe was editor