Marie Therese Maloney were married on Thursday, June 1, at Marshfield, where Mr. Montgomery has been located for the last three years. He has been commercial superintendent of the Coos & Curry Telephone Company and vice-president of the Bank of Southwestern Oregon. Mr. Montgomery will probably soon be in active training as one of Uncle Sam’s fighting men, having sought a commission in the officers’ signal reserve corps.
Lieutenant Edgar E. Piper, son of E. B. Piper, managing editor of The Oregonian, is making a record as a sharpshooter at the Reserve Officers’ Training Camp, according to unofficial letters received in Portland. Young Piper made the regular army officers take notice when he persisted in hitting the bullseye nine times out of every ten shots every time he went out for a little practice. Piper has been commissioned second lieutenant in the regular army, as has Jerrold Owen. Piper before going to camp was general assignment reporter on The Oregonian and Owen did the court house run.
Notwithstandiing the fact four members of The Dalles Daily Chronicle force are men of conscriptional ages, the draft lottery left the Chronicle’s personnel intact. H. T. Hopkins, editor; Ben R. Lit fin, business manager; Allen G. Thurman, circulation manager, and Oscar Lange, make-up man, all possessed serial numbers. The “back office” member of the force is the only one of the four whose number was pulled out at Washing ton among the first 5,000 capsules, and Mr. Lange is down 242 places on the Wasco county list, whose quota is only 23. The three “front office” men would not even be in on a second draft.
The last few days has seen noticeable changes in the personnel of the news staff of the Eugene Morning Register. Miss Grace Edging ton, who, as announced in last month’s Exchanges, has been elected to a place in the journalism faculty of the University of Washington, has been succeeded as society editor and proofreader by Miss Norma Hendricks, of Eugene. For rest Peil, a student at the University of Oregon, who has been local reporter for several months, has gone home to Klamath Falls to await the call which will take the ambulance company to which he belongs, to France. He has been succeeded on the reportorial staff by Paul Farrington, a graduate of the Eugene high school.
The Heppner Herald, edited by S. A. Pattison, in commenting up on the recent successful session of the State Editorial Association, launches a boom for E. E. Brodie, for the last three years president of the association, for secretary of state, in these words: “As the lights began to flicker, and the engine bell began to clang, we thought of dear old Brodie, our past president, who has given his time, money, and his splendid ability, to make the association what it is today, and then, when the fare wells were said, came the thought to many an editorial mind—why not some political recognition for the newspaper fraternity of Oregon? Why not good old Brodie for Secretary of State next year? Why not? Boys, let’s buck Brodie in.”
Earl Goodwin, of the reportorial staff of The Oregonian, has been called into service with the Feld Hospital Unit, Enlisted Reserve Corps, of which he is a member. Goodwin’s entrance into the service is an epic. He is of slight build, and he passed a perfect physical examination except for weight. He was several pounds too light. He knew it, but wanted to get in. He made up the extra weight by drinking all the water he could hold just before he went before the examining surgeon and “got by.” He is built for sufficient weight to get him into the service, and he expects to get bona fide poundage as soon as he gets into regular training and eating on regular schedule. Goodwin is one of the “boys” who is always on his toes and like a high-spirited race horse, works off a couple of pounds of weight every day or so.
