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June, 1917 W. H. Hornibrook's Albany Democrat has recently moved into new and more convenient quarters.

L. E. (Dad) Whiting, one of the compositors of The Oregonian, recently purchased an automobile.

A. R. Slaymaker, formerly Oregon Journal artist, is doing vigorous work on the Times, Seattle.

Paul D. Murphy, formerly of Chicago and Minneapolis, is looking after courts for the Journal.

C. S. Jackson publisher of the Journal, is at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, recovering after a minor operation.

George Bertz, assistant sports editor on the Journal, is a father for the ﬁrst time, and the staff smoked on George junior.

W. H. Perkins, better known as "Cy" Perkins, has joined the Oregonian editorial staff as court reporter. He comes from Montana.

A. L. Fish, business manager of the Journal, is at the Presidio, San Francisco, training camp for reserve officers.

George Howell, veteran compositor of The Oregonian, has been elected secretary of the Multnomah Typographical Union to succeed D. O. Gallup.

Word from J. L. Travis, who went to the managing editor's chair at The Times, Seattle, from the news editor's desk on the Journal, is that he is happy in his new berth.

John Cochrane, formerly political reporter for The Oregonian, it is understood, is about to become a country newspaper publisher. He is inspecting several properties in the valley.

Miss Getta Wasserman, New York society correspondent for The Oregonian, has returned to Portland for the summer.

W. A. Dill, for a number of years attached to the Register at Eugene, and city editor of the Guard for the last year, has joined the copy desk staff of the Oregonian.

Ernest Bertz, editorial office boy for the Journal, designates himself as a "copy shagger," which seems at least to carry the distinction of originality.

William Smyth has been named assistant in the sporting department under Roscoe Fawcett, to succeed Harry Grayson, who has joined the marines.

Earl Murphy, lately a student in the Journalism School of the University of Oregon, has taken a combined desk and reporting position on the Oregon City Enterprise.

H. H. Palmer, founder and for 11181' editor of the Redmond Spokesman, was recently reported as having inherited a fortune of several hundred thousand dollars by the death of his mother in New York.

Frank P. Stewart, with the Standard, Anaconda, Mont., formerly on Salt Lake City staffs, visited the Journal on his way to the Presidio training camp, with a number of other Montana guardsmen.

Rex Lampman, who created somewhat of a furore with his "Once Over" column in the Oregon Journal, is now putting the same thing over on the front page of the Pittsburg Leader, published by Alexander P. Moore. He is a brother of Ben Hur Lampman, a member of the staff of the Oregonian. 11