Hal M. White, city hall reporter for the Oregonian for several years past, has resigned from the staff to accept an important position in Portland’s city government as secretary to the mayor, and manager of the municipal auditorium. Mr. White possesses as extensive a knowledge of municipal government affairs as any man in Portland. Furthermore, he has earned the good will of all of the city officials as was evidenced in the fact that the council unanimously and without discussion confirmed him in the the position to which he had been appointed by Mayor Baker. Mr. White is a brother of Major George A. White, now with the American forces in France.
Gertrude P. Corbett, society editor of the Oregonian, was a member of a May day house party over the week end in Seattle, accompanying Mrs. Alice Benson Beach. The party was entertained at dinner in the Boulevard Inn Sunday evening, and the following evening they were guests of honor at a dinner party at the Tacoma hotel. Motor trips about the cities of Seattle and Tacoma were part of the diversions given in honor of the two Portland women, in which officers of the Canadian army and of Camp Lewis also were guests.
Spencer Best, several years ago reporter on the Portland Telegram and lately again a member of that staff,
is director of publicity for Colonel
Brice P. Disque, U. S. A., supervising
the Loyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen and the execution of the
has had three newspapers, one of them
a semi-weekly. All three papers have
type casting machines.
The Enterprise has a model 15 linotype and the
government ’s spruce output campaign in the Northwest. Best is the only
Post and Monitor have intertypes. The Post is the newest publication, being founded by C. T. Ecker, former publisher of the Monitor, and his for
civilian on the great staff of Colonel Disque in his extensive quarters in the Yeon building. __.._o.__.
o___ For two months past, Independence
The
Lawrence R. Wheeler, who with his
Monitor is carried on by Gus Hurley,
brother, J. E. Wheeler, owns the Portland Telegram, was married April 16 to Miss Shana Cumming, daughter of Dr. W. A. Cumming.
mer
foreman,
J.
T.
Currie.
who left his law practice to save the
Monitor outfit and subscription list from being abandoned. At the pres ent writing the Post has not yet re
Their honeymoon was spent on a trip
ceived a cylinder press, and press
to Puget Sound. Their new home will be on Portland Heights. -—o Ralph R. Cronise, of the Rogue River Courier, and correspondent to the Oregon Journal from Grants Pass, has taken a position on the reportorial staff of the Journal. 0 R. A. Bostad, machine operator—— and a good one—has left the Oregoni an for one of the artillery concen tration camps. 0? Edward Meyers, linotype operator,
work on the paper has been done in the office of the Observer in Dallas.
0 Lloyd Riches, a former owner of
the Stanfield Standard, is now ad vertising manager of the Oregon City Enterprise, having changed from his position with the weekly Oregonian. —-o James Olson, until recently city hall man for the Portland Journal, has jumped to the same job on the Oregonian, succeeding Hal M. White.
——o A son was born at Pendleton May 22 to Mr. and
changed from the Eugene Daily Guard to the Morning Register, of
Mrs. Jean P. Kil
patrick of Pilot Rock. Mr. Kilpatrick is editor of the Pilot Rock Record. 0__. John F. Egan of Denver is the new
that city.
automoblie Journal.
signed the duty of editing the society column.
editor
of
-izoi
Miss Frances Pugh, employed on the Brownsville Times, has been as
the Oregon
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