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OREGON EXCHANGES No greater honor has ever been conferred upon a Portland newspaperman than that which came to Ben Hur Lampman from the national officers of the American Legion, after he had written his articles regarding the visit of Marshal Ferdinand Foch to Portland. In a telegram to the editor of the Oregonian Alton T. Roberts, chairman of the Legion’s reception committee, declared that Lampman’s articles were the finest written regarding Marshal Foch during his visit to this country.

“I think you ought to know that the American Legion reception committee were unanimously of the opinion this morning that the best story on the arrival of Marshal Foch in any city was printed in the Oregonian this morning,” said Mr.

For two weeks in October A. E. Scott, of the News-Times at Forest Grove, con

verted the weekly into a daily in the interests of the endowment campaign of Pacific University in an effort to raise $100,000 in Washington county. Forest Grove alone raised nearly half of the $100,000 in two weeks and the campaign throughout the county has been continued. The paper was a seven-column folio and was splendidly supported by the town’s

merchants. At the close of the two weeks

many subscribers asked that the daily be continued, but the nearness to Portland

and the small field to serve, it was decided. would not justify the expenditure of money and effort. With a battery of two linotypes the mechanical end of the News Times office handled the paper nicely,

Roberts in his telegram.

“We greatly

each day printing about eight columns of

appreciate the way your Mr. Lampman handled the coming of Marshal Foch

been in the game in Forest Grove for

to Portland. It is only right that you should know that this is the best thing

we have seen on the trip. Please under stand that I am thoroughly sincere in this recognition of excellent support of the American Legion in its entertainment of

our distinguished guest.”

local and editorial news.

Mr. Scott has

over eleven years and his paper won one of the fourth place prizes in the O. A. C. state-wide rural service contest last sum mer. —i-oii

The squibs written by Clark food for his paper, the Weston Leader, frequently find a place among the Literary Digesfs

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D. D. Mathews, of Roseburg, a former

“Topics of

the

Day.”

Recently

Mr.

Wood was quoted as follows: “The es teemed Lit. Dige. informs us that a silk

newspaper man who has been out of the game for the past two years, got back into harness again recently, long enough

purse has actually been made from a

to report the Brumfield trial for the

sow’s ear.

Oregon Journal and the United Press. Mr. Mathews was formerly city editor of the Roseburg Review, before its consoli dation with the Evening News, and now divides his interest between the auto mobile business and newspaper work for the Journal.

ear from a silk purse and we’ll all sit up

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Anne Shannon Monroe, Oregon news

paper woman who is now well known as an author and magazine writer, chose for the theme of a recent article in Good

Housekeeping the story of the work of Pendleton women

in

establishing

the

Umatilla County library. The article was headed “When Women Will.”

Now let science make a sow’s

and take notice.” ski

The Gate City Journal, published at Nyssa, blossoms out with six of its eight pages printed at home instead of four. Messrs. Sheets and Dement, the new publishers, are to be pardoned for

that first-page “toot from their own trombone,” for the paper is looking good. ~

Mrs. Edna S. Morrison, telegraph edi tor of the Pendleton East Oregonian, spent the third week in December at La Grande where she visited her mother, Mrs. Fred Schilke.

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