Otto J. Ballhorn, city editor of the La Grande Observer, was the victim of an attack of tuberculosis, dying at his home in Woodland, Washington, Sunday, October 7. Ballhorn was 28 years of age and had been in the newspaper game for some time. While in College he was the editor for two years of the O. A. C. Barometer, going from there to La Grande where he took up the position of B. W. Stanfield, at Stanfield. “Quiet, gentlemanly, capable, Mr. Ballhorn made many friends here,” said the Observer, “and they and the staff greatly regret his death.”
Because of a defective right eye, and because there are no left handed guns, Merlin Batley, a graduate of the journalism department in 1916, is still doing good work on the Times of Twin Falls, Idaho. He made several attempts to enlist in various branches of the service but was hindered each time by his right eye. Word comes to us that he is planning to make the leap into the sea of matrimony sometime around Thanksgiving time.
Women ’s War Work is the name of a new department appearing daily with pictures on the woman’s page of the Oregon Journal, in which are chronicled activities of women both at home and abroad, who are working for their countries. The department is the only one of its kind this side of Chicago and is edited by Miss Vella Winner.
D. H. Talmadge of Salem is in charge of the Enterprise at Halsey, W. A. Priaulx being compelled by ill health to take a change. Mr. Priaulx is working on a ranch near Centralia, Washington, hoping that the outdoor life will restore him to his former vigor.
George Palmer Putnam, publisher of the Bend Bulletin, has been in the east the past two months. He is planning a trip south to Florida for his health.
The Cottage Grove Sentinel has just passed its twenty-eighth birthday anniversary.
John P. O’Hara, who recently resigned from the University of Oregon faculty after four years of service in the department of history, has gone back to the editorship of the Catholic Sentinel of Portland, the oldest Catholic paper in the Northwest. Mr. O’Hara first became associated with the Sentinel shortly after his graduation from college and remained with the paper until his appiontment to the University of Oregon, with the exception of a year spent in study at the University of Paris.
The Portland American, successor to the Deutsche Zeitung, has suspended publication as a daily and in the future will appear as a weekly paper in the German language. The management will, in accordance with the new “trading with the enemy” act, supply to the Portland postmaster English translations of all matter pertaining directly or indirectly to the war.
The Holeproof Hosiery company recently received the following letter: “Dear sir, pleas mail me a sample of your one-inch hose for cemical fire engine and lowest prices on 300 ft. lots Hosiery that would stand the cemical test.” It certainly pays to advertise. ——Corvallis Gazette-Times.
The newspapers of Grants Pass, Ashland and Medford are advocates of the collection and preservation of pioneer relics, facts and stories relating to their part of the state and are aiding the city libraries in obtaining all available data.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lucas announce the marriage of their daughter, Bernice Lucas, a graduate of the University of Oregon school of journalism, to Mr. William S. Dinwiddie in September.
Mary Newlin is the new reporter for the La Grande Evening Observer. She fills the vacancy left by the resignation of Ernestine Slitzinger.
Several rumors lately have it that W. H. Hornibrook of Albany has aspirations with Salem as a base.
