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OREGON EXCHANGES he was called, was wounded in the civil war and this injury caused him to be er ratic and irresponsible in his statements.

Supreme Judge on the bench of Oregon’.

He was assisted in his work by his wife, a very estimable woman who had the

highest tribunal. One of the lodge mem bers, Mr. Powell (father of W. H. Powell, the Portland attorney), never to my knowledge, missed a meeting of the lodge,

esteem of the entire community.

walking over Bunker Hill

Adams

became so abusive in his language that the Muckle Brothers, Charles and James, de cided to finance a new paper and secured

road

from

Pittsburg, leading his horse, with a box of eggs packed on each side, and driving back the next day.

the services of a man named Glendye who ONLY PAPER IN Trmsa Couxrrss was the first editor and manager of the Mist. He was ucceeded by a Mr. Ayres,

The Mist while I conducted it was the

who in turn was succeeded by Charles

only paper in Columbia, Cowlitz and

Meserve, one of the cleanest, best and most unselfish men I ever met. Mr.

Meserve came to Portland while I was at work as a compositor on the Oregonian and upon the recommendation of James McGowan, foreman of that paper who I

understand is still an employe of that paper, secured my services as foreman and general assistant and together we worked for the upbuilding of Columbia county and the extension of the business

Wahkiakum counties, and the St. Helens

attorneys shared with those of Portland the legal business of the counties. To wander in the field of personal reminiscences would take too much of your space therefore I will get back to my more immediate subject.

Mr. Meserve repurchased the Mist from me and I moved to other fields, return ing to St. Helens in 1904, and bought out

a man named Gabbert, who had allowed and influence of the paper. the paper and the plant to sink to the MESERVE Racnxrnr Dncaasno

Charles

Meserve

afterward

married

Louise, daughter of W. H. Conyers, of Clatskanie, and about one year ago he

was laid to rest by her side in the Clats kanie cemetery. I was the next proprietor of the Mist and of all the nearly forty years I have spent as a country newspaperinan in Oregon, I look back upon those as the

happiest. I was married there to Ella Morrison, and my oldest son, George, new editor of the Prineville Central Oregonian,

lowest level in its history. You may know just what that means when I tell you that I found the forms on the bed of the old hand press so rusted that it was a hard matter to pry them off. I think it is not self praise to say that I raised the paper from its fallen estate and made it again a factor in the growth of the community. By its influence, aided materially by the people of the Yankton Grange and other granges of the county, the County Fair

Board was established and I was honored by being made Columbia county’s repre

was born there in the house now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Emerson E. Quick. In material matters, St. Helens has im proved wonderfully since those days, but I venture to assert that in the quality of the citizenship it has not advanced nor will it.

sentative in charge of its exhibits at the Lewis and Clarke fair.

There was a Masonic lodge, and its membership included such men as George W. McBride, afterwards Secretary of

present management, I am glad to admit. is bigger and better than ever. My wish for my old paper, on its anni versary day, is that it may keep just a little ahead of the community in which it is published.

State for Oregon and later United States Senator from Oregon; Thomas A. Mc Bride, then district attorney and now

Fame AGAIN Ssrms Then came the Mc('ormick boom and I again sold out, leaving my son George as manager of the paper, which, under the


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