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82 illegible. The old courthouse has been razed and is to be replaced with a new structure.

Linfield College, McMinnville, announced in January, that the new women's dormitory will be known as the Jane C. Failing Hall, in honor of Mrs. James F. Failing. The Failing famliy has been interested in the college since its inception and have contributed generously to its support.

A marine biology laboratory is to be established by the University of Oregon at the south entrance of Coos Bay, known as the Coos Head Park reservation. The government will grant eighty acres. The laboratory will be administered by the school of science of the state system of higher education, under the direction of Dr. E. L. Packard. T. J. Starker, professor of history at Oregon State College, Corvallis, is gathering information on trees of Oregon, which are notable for their age size, or historical association.

Esther Ann Hill Morgan, Independence, is one of four people in the United States receiving pensions from the War of 1812. Her father was John Hill, a private in the New York militia.

A LETTER from Dr. E. T. Hodge in the Oregonian, February 15, 1936, suggests that the ground surrounding the old blast furnace at Oswego be made into a state park. In the same paper is an editorial giving a brief account of the first efforts at iron manufacturing in Oregon.

“Peacock Spit—Remnant of the Columbia Bar," by Lawrence Barber, in the Oregonian, February 9, 1936, tells of early navigators along the Oregon coast and of the engineering projects at the mouth of the Columbia River.

The memory of Mart Frain and his trading ventures with the Klamath Indians have been revived by the finding of beads and trinkets in Klamath burial pits. An article on Frain, with his portrait, is published in the Oregon Journal, February 2, 1936.

Articles in the Oregonian and the Oregon Journal, February 23, 1936, sketch the history of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, Portland, which reached its forty-fifth anniversary February 24, 1936. Some of the rare books and incunabula belonging to the Library Association of Portland are described by Douglas McKean in the Oregon Journal, December 15, 1935.

A sketch of Joseph H. Sherar and his activity as a road and bridge builder, by Donald von Borstel, is in the Oregonian, February 16, 1936.

The story of the introduction of China pheasants into Oregon by O. N. Denny, is told by Lester Halpin, in the Oregonian, December 1, 1935.

A history of the old Portland Academy that flourished from 1889 to 1916, by Wallace S. Wharton, is given in the Oregon Journal, December 22, 1935.

The Evening Astorian Budget, February 24, 1936, has a historical section containing accounts of important episodes in the history of Astoria and Clatsop County, with interesting illustrations from old prints.

"Printers Ink also Pioneered," by Frank Tierney in the Oregon Journal, December 1, 1935, is a history of the Oregon state printing department.

Dr. Dexter Merriam Keezer, president of Reed College, Portland,