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See what Christmas did for members of the Oregon Journal family! A closed corporation for guarding secrets of the heart was disrupted the last day before Christmas when Miss Jeannette Wiggins, assistant in the conduct of the farm life section of the Journal appeared with a huge diamond solitaire in evidence of her bethothal to Lynn Davis (not Linnton Davies), who covers the railroad beat. That such a state of affairs existed had long been suspected by the friends of the young couple, who plan the big event for early April. Miss Mauna Loa Fallis, former student in the University School of Journalism, was only restrained from sharing the honors of the day because she was confined at home with an attack of tonsilitis. Miss Fallis expected to reveal her secret to her Journal co-workers coincidentally with Miss Wiggins. The lucky lad in the latter case is Wallace S. Wharton, city hall reporter. Miss Fallis is librarian. These young folk have not revealed the date for their wedding. The two romances are the first intra-office affairs, so far as the Journal is concerned, in a number of years and therefore elicit added interest.

The Gold Beach Reporter is providing and, as she is now taking nourishment the thriving lumber town of Brookings, and the neighboring community at Harbor, in the southern portion of Curry county, with a live newspaper service by adding to the Reporter a section under the heading "The Brookings Booster." O. W. Miller is handling the news of the Harbor section, while John Regan is the Brookings editor and is also business manager.

D. F. Dean, formerly publisber of the Halsey Enterprise and at different times of several other papers, is helping W. H. Wheeler, the present publisher of the paper, in the printing office.

The Gate City Journal, publisbed at Nyssa, was purchased recently from Win S. Brown and H, F. Brown by James A. Dement Jr. and Fred L. Sheets. Mr. Sheets was formerly lessee and publisher of the paper. "We shall not try to be a Portland Oregonian or a New York World," say the new salutatory, "but we will endeavor to fill our local field as thoroughly as they fill their larger field." owners in their

A daughter, who shaded the 10-pound mark on the doetor's scales, WAB bora to Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Swayze on Decem- ber 22. The neweomer is named Myracle. Daddy Swayze is on the Oregon Jour- nal copy desk, where he also finds time to write on pugilism as "Bob" and upon poetry as "Lionel Robert." oddly enough, was born on her mother's birthday anniversary. The Myraelo, Mrs. A. A. Wheeler, who with her hus- band, William H. Wheeler, publishes the Halsey Enterprise, has been stricken with paralysis in the left side and lies helpless in bed, but there are signs of returning mobility in the numbed parts

and regaining strength, there is hope of at least partial recovery. The Oregonian has started a Puget Sound news bureau, with James A. Wood, a widely-known newspaper man of the state of Washington, as its general rep- resentative. Mr. Wood's news and ser- vice bureau offices are in Seattle.

T. L. Dugger, veteran newspaperman, who sold the Seio Tribune after a quar- ter of a century as a publisher in Seio, is passing the winter with his daughter- in-law in Los Angeles. [ 23 ] Digitizcd by Google