Walter W. R. May, assistant city editor of the Oregonian, has returned from a six weeks’ tour of the central and middle west states as concert and booking manager for Maud Pow ell, celebrated international violinist. Mr. May took up the tour when H. Godfrey Turney, Mme. Powell ’s man ager, was called back to New York suddenly to arrange a Red Cross bene fit at Carnegie hall. On the tour Mr. May visited a number of newspapers in the larger cities between Omaha Chicago and St. Louis, including Min neapolis and St. Paul, and also spent some time conferring with officers of the national banks in the cities -named, gathering data for a series of ar ticles on banking problems which he has been asked to write for a bank ing publication. Mr. May was finan cial and business editor of the Spokes man-Review, of Spokane, Wash., prior to coming to Oregon six years ago, and he has since maintained an inter est in that direction. 0__ Gordon J. Taylor, editor of the Molalla Pioneer, published the follow ing sad but interesting bit in his issue of May 23:
CARD OF THANKS We desire to hereby express our gratitude to the friends and neighbors who have shown their sympathy by their many kindnesses and expressions of concern in our late bereavement caused by the early demise of our political ambition which passed away so sadly on May 17; and to those who assisted in the burial ceremony. There will be no flowers. THE Emroa
——o The Bend Bulletin, consistently quick to catch up all phases of war service and campaigning, has carried this policy into its fictional section and has abolished its “Destroying Angel” serial to nm Arthur Guy Empey’s “Over the Top.”
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Clark H. Williams, for a number of years railroad and financial editor and special assignment man on the Oregonian, recently accepted the man aging editorship of the Salt Lake Herald-Republican. Mr. Williams was one of the best known and capable
men in the newspaper game in this state, and the owners of the Salt Lake publication are to be congratulated upon securing his services. The Herald-Republican was recently pur
chased by the owners of the Salt Lake Telegram, an evening paper, but its publication as a morning paper will be continued under the same name, with Mr. Williams as managing ed itor. James H. McCool, who formerly
covered the city hall in Portland for the Oregon Journal, is another Oregon newspaper man now located at Salt Lake. He is automobile editor for the Tribune.
—-—0 Norman Writing, apprentice in the composing room of the Oregonian, has been accepted into the typographical union a little in advance of finishing his apprenticeship, on account of his plans for going to war in the near fu ture. Mr. Whiting wanted to be a full fledged printer before going to the front, so the union accommodated him.
He was highly efficient and a
chip off the old block, his father, “Dad” Whiting, being one of the star veterans of the Oregonian me
chanical staff, and incidentally one of the compositor-grammarians who every now and then can tell a copy reader a thing or two and get away with it. ——o A copy of the Fargo Leader, 9. non
partisan newspaper edited by Rex Lampman, former editor of the Gold 11111 News, has been received in Me?) ford, and it is a life sized sheet with
a few ink scratches that can be directly traced to the erratic and gifted poet of Asbestos.—Medford Sun. ___0i D. J. DuBruille is a member of the Albany Herald mechanical force. Conner & DuBruille for two years were editors and publishers of_ the semi-weekly Cottage Grove Leader.
