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Both of Baker’s daily newspapers are enjoying a profitable patronage and are well sustaining their reputations among the leading newspapers of the state and as able supports to the progressive community in which they are published. The Morning Democrat, now entering upon its 48th year of publication, maintains the confidence of the people under the personal guidance of the owners, I. B. Bowen and George B. Small, who have conducted its destiny for over thirty-one years.

The Herald recently changed own

“Good

bye,

‘Tiz’;

curtains

for

‘Gets-it’ ”, carols the Astoria Eve ning Budget, gaily steping on the toes

of a widely advertised industry.

The

Budget has discoveded nature ’s own

corn cure growing in the marshes at the mouth of the Columbia. Listen: “Take a sound cranberry, cut it in two, place one half of the berry on the refractory corn, tie it on so that

who directed it for a period of about

six years following the ownership of B. E. Kennedy, who succeeded the pyrotechnic career of Leston Balliet, mining

“wild

cutter,”

during

the days before Oregon had a “blue sky” law. The Democrat and Herald are both united on a “keep up the advertising

rates” policy and are making it win, as they should in this day of high

prices on everything that goes into the

making

of

a

daily

over night, and lo! the next morning the corn has vanished.”

The Budget

further asserts, in the course of its almost poetic eulogy of the new corn

ership, Bruce Dennis and others suc ceeding Messrs. Powell and Tenny,

the

it will remain in the proper place

newspaper.

They work in harmony and there is no “cut throat” policy indulged in. “That the laborer is worthy of his

hire” is as applicable in this instance as in any other. It is rigidly ad hered to by the newspapers of this

city and makes for their continued prosperity.

—o David Foulkes, superintendent of the Oregonian, has received many in

quiries from newspaper publishers and mechanical superintendents for information on the work of the Lud low Typograph. The Oregonian was one of the first large papers to use

this new type making machine. Mr. Foulkes’ replies have been highly favorable. He maintains the machine is a time and expense saver, produces better looking results and conserves much floor space.

cure, that Astoria is probably the only place in the country where even

stray cranberries can be picked from the bushes in the springtime. 0 Inasmuch as so many of the Grants Pass school boys are expecting to secure work on the farms and in other lines where all day service is

required, the Daily Courier is exper iencing difficulty in keeping a full corps of carrier boys, and the paper is now putting on girls where boys are not available. One girl is now serving a regular route. The Western Union company is experiencing the same difficulty and they are adver tising for girl messengers; for Grants Pass service. —o David M. Morrison, editorial writer for the Portland Telegram, is making a tour of all ports of the United States and contributing a daily letter to the Telegram of his ﬁndings and investigations. He went ﬁrst to San Francisco and is now on his Way north up the Atlantic coast. He will continue as far north as Halifax. oi The editor of the Myrtle Point American has branched out and now issues the Powers Patriot, a news

paper issued from the American plant, but dealing wholly with items of in terest to the people of Powers and vicinity. 14