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Oregon Exchanges "Jim" Rintoul, who covered beats for Portland newspapers eight years ago, is back again and doing court-house for the Journal. He was in Salt Lake City the greater part of his absence.

Employes of the Oregonian subscirbed for $11,000 worth of the Liberty Loan bonds, through the office, The Oregonian arranged for the bonds and the employes will pay on installments.

The Prineville Enterprise, successor to the Prineville News, has been Isunched by A. M. Byrd, who believes that there is "a field in Crook county for two local newspapers."

E, N. Blythe, for a decade ss sistant news editor under Paul Kelty, has resigned from the Oregonian and joined the editorial staff of The Oregon Journal. Herbert J. Campbell, an Oregon alumnus, has succeeded Mr. Blythe,

George Stoney, copy reader of The Oregonian, and Dean Collins, reporter and "colyumist," have recently been in Good Samaritan Hospital, Mr. Stoney for an operation and Mr. Collins to recover from a nervous and stomach attack.

E. S. (Tige) Reynolds, cartoonist, Gertrude Corbett, society editer, and Edith Knight Holmes, club editor of The Oregonian, have contributed of their talents in the recent Red Cross drive in Portland.

Miss Evelyn (Peggy) Curtis, reporter for several years on The Oregonian and for 2 time motionpicture editor, has gone to New York, in response to a call from one of the moving picture publicity agencies, Whether she will take up the work will depend on her influence with her mother, who is insistent upon her completing a college course.

The two Scio papers, the Tribune and the News, have joined forces. T. L, Dugger, editor of the Tribune, has bought the News from L. W. Charles. The consolidated paper will be known as the Tribune.

The Astoria Evening Budget has moved to a new and more central location after nearly a quarter of a century, in one stand, The Budget has installed a Duplex web perfecting press in its mechanical department.

Miss Louise H. Allen, who graduated from the Oregon school of Journalism with the class of 1917, has accepted a position on the reporting staff of the Tacoma Ledger, one of the leading daily newspapers of the state of Washington.

Stuart Blythe, who aspires to be known in the newspaper field, other then just as the son of his father, Sam, has gone from the Journal's assignment staff to work with George Creel on the government's official "Bulletin." "Stew" promised to come back after the war.

H, Sherman Mitchell, a staff member of the Astoria Evening Budget, will edit the Anchorage (Alaska) Times until October 1. Arthur Bringdale and BR, O. Scott, formerly linotype operators of the Morning Astorian, are also with the northern paper.

W. H. Walton, formerly editor and owner of the Hood River News, but for the last five years in the employ of the Pacific Power and Light Company, as returned to the newspaper game, and ts now editing the Baker Herald. C. C. Powell, part owner and editor of the Herald for the last six years, is now trying his hand in the business department. Mr. Walton sold the News to the Bennett Brothers, after building it up from a "hick" weekly.