M. J. Brown, editor of the Benton
George F. Stoney, formerly copy reader on the Oregonian and some years ago attached to the Spokane Spokesman-Review and the Times at Wallace, Idaho, has arrived safely .t in England with a division of the Canadian army. Mr. Stoney, who is slightly over the army age, suc ceeded in getting into the Canadian
County Courier, who has sold his in terest in that paper to his partner, A. E. Frost, will leave the paper next month. Mr. Brown has represented an eastern syndicate of newspapers in travel letters for ten years past
and had expected to go to France in April, but on account of the strict censorship he had to abandon the trip. He then arranged for a trip to south America and had applied for passports, but because of the fact that there are no re schedules on steamers for the south ports and the probability that all boats will be taken off and replaced with sail ing vessels, he has had to abandon this trip also. He is undecided as to what he will do after leaving the Courier but hopes to get into some war activity work.
and British service in a special class several months ago and since his arrival in England has been trans ferred to a branch soon to see service
in France.
Mr. Stoney was able to
visit his family in Ireland after his arrival abroad. He had not seen them for a number of years. He is now attached to the Canadian forestry
camp, depot base, and hopes soon to be with the artillery.
0 Guy Downs, for a number of years
in the ad alley and on the machines, moi.
and later floorman and assistant in
making up, has transferred his af
Perseverance and a willingness to do things won a substantial promotion for Ralph S. Reubin on March 18. From copy boy to general assignment
fections from the Oregonian to the Journal, where he has been made
night foreman.
Mr. Downs, besides
learning every department of work in
reporter on the Oregonian staff was
the composing room, has spent con siderable spare time on the copy desk of the Oregonian, learning how to edit news, write heads and do re-write work. It is presumed that he is grooming himself for the ownership of a small town daily or possibly a country weekly. 0 Word was received in Dallas May 11 that H. W. Brune, former editor
the promotion. About fifteen months ago, Ralph, while a student at Lincoln High school in Portland, began as copy boy for the Oregonian, working a few hours a day after school hours. He soon fell heir to the position of head office boy, with two boys under him, and worked from 5:30 p. m. to 1:30 a. m., getting no more than six hours of sleep each day and studying very little. In the latter part of January, Mr.
of the Polk County Observer, and who was commissioned a lieutenant in one
of the officers’ training camps in California last year, has been on sick leave for some time and is at present at the home of relatives in Idaho. After receiving his commission Mr. Brune was assigned to the heavy ar tillery, but became ill shortly after wards and has since been unfit for service.—Oregon Statesman.
Reuben was graduated from Lincoln and was awarded with an increase in salary and position. _i°__.
The
fact
that
the Grants Pass
Courier is using women carriers was
made a front page feature in the
for the past eight months, has gone
Oregonian. The Corvallis Gazette Tirnes remarks that there is nothing new about that at all, that women have always made the best news car
to Portland to accept another position.
ners.
oi
Elmer Warburton, who has been foreman of the Polk County Observer
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