Merle R. Chessman, who has been with the East Oregonian at Pendleton
for the past eight and a half years, resigned May 8 to become executive secretary of the Umatilla County Patriotic Service league, which han
Excnsncns
Milton Werschkul, for sixteen years a member of the art staff of the Ore gonian, has resigned to take up sim ilar work with the Evening Telegram
in Portland. Mr. Werschkul is suc ceeding J. A. Haelen, formerly of the
dles all war work drives, and in ad
art staff of the Evening Telegram.
dition has taken over the state and
Mr. Werschkul is one of the most ver
national
defense work.
Mr.
Chess
satile art men in the city.
Besides
and took a position as telegraph ed
being an artist of originality and abil ity, he won a reputation among the editorial men as being quick to get
itor on the East Oregonian the fol
the point, was an expert camera man
lowing August. He held this position for a year when he took the city editorship, which he has held ever
who filled many a breach when the photographers were crowded, and he also possesses a “nose for news.” 0
man was graduated from the Univer sity of Oregon in the spring of 1909,
since.
Mr.
Chessman will
continue
to make Pendleton his home for the present. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. o R. W. Sawyer, editor of the Bend Bulletin, was called east in March by the death of his father. Mr. Sawyer passed three weeks in his old home
in Bangor, Maine, and in New York, where he visited George Palmer Put nam, publisher of the Bulletin, who is now connected with the United States department of justice. ___0__ Mrs. H. T. Hopkins, wife of the editor of The Dalles Chronicle, passed away recently after a short illness. She was a daughter of Judge and Mrs. A. S. Bennett and had been married to Mr. Hopkins but little more than a year. The husband and an infant daughter survive her. 0 H. E. Brown, who for the past four years has been editor and pub lisher of the Silverton Tribune, sold
his interests in -the paper May 3 to Ralph Prescott of Le Roy, Minnesota.
Mr. Brown expects to remain in Sil verton during the summer. o____ Mr. Brookings, who has been hand ling city news on the Capital Journal,
resigned his position recently, and in the future will work at the Charles K. Spaulding logging mill.
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Miss Nona Lawler, society editor of the Oregon Journal, recently spent a week in Seattle with friends during
which time she visited Camp Lewis. 19
James Olson, until recently city hall man for the Oregon Journal, has
jumped to the same job on the Ore gonian, succeeding Hal M. White. Mr. Olson came up a few months ago from Los Angeles, where he broke into the reporting end of the game after hav ing had considerable experience with other branches of the business in Portland and elsewhere. 0____ A. L. Page, who has been employed as printer on the Hood River News for the past ten years, has retired from the printing business and taken charge of his apple ranch located about eight miles from Hood River, in the Pine Grove district. 0 Mrs. Clarence W. Tebault, wife of C. W. Tebault, formerly on the Jour nal, and greatly beloved by all who knew her, passed away March 22 after
a short illness. She was burried at Albany, the home of her parents. Besides her husband, she left a year old son. 0 Harlan Hoffman, who has been employed as apprentice in the com posing room of the Oregon Statesman,
has returned to his home near Salem, where he will farm during the summer months. am
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. have made their home the past two months, Portland, where Mr. join the staff of the nal.
Brownlee, who in Albany for have left for Brownlee will Portland Jour
