A serious fire near the office of the Grants Pass Courier put the electric wires out of business and made it impossible to use the linotype machines during the first part of November. Editor A. E. Voorhies found it necessary to secure help from the Medford papers in getting out his paper.
George Dick blows the bugle down at Fort Stevens, where he is stationed with the Third company of the Coast Artillery. Last year he was mailing clerk of the Eugene Guard. Manly Fuller, formerly connected with the press room of this same paper, is also a member of the Third company.
D. C. Sanderson, editor and publisher of the Freewater Times, has been in poor health for several months and was forced to take a trip to Denver recently for treatment.
Francis Finneran, a journalism student of the University and formerly on the Eugene Guard and the Albany Herald, is another member of the Second company of the Oregon Coast Artillery stationed at Ft. Stevens.
Fred McNeil, for a number of years police court reporter on the
Oregon Journal, is now a member of the
Twenty-third
Engineers,
was among those receiving appoint
ments as first lieutenants in the in fantry at the first Presidio. The Bulletin has expressed a very great pride in Lieutenant Wodflen. ioi
Robert Osborn, formerly on the Crook County Journal staff, is a sophomore at Reed College, Port land, this year, and in addition to
being on the Reed College Quest staff is active in other student body
affairs. lo-ii
Ben E. Lampman sprang into fame again recently when his poem “The Fish Story” was bought and printed by the Saturday Evening Post. ii—o-i—
William E. Mahoney, marine ed itor of the Oregonian, a Spanish war veteran, is drilling weekly with one of the Home Guard companies. ii-°___.
. Miss Iley Nunn Cage is a new re porter on the Oregon Journal of Portland and is doing hotels and
sta
tioned at Camp Meade, Maryland. io M. H. Hyde, formerly of the La Grande Observer, is temporarily fill ing in on the copydesk of the Oregon Ian.
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Miss Ruth Pettigrew is a fresh man at the Oregon Agricultural College this winter. Miss Petti grew is the daughter of W. M. Pettigrew, editor of the Redmond Spokesman and has been assisting her father in the oflice previous to going to Corvallis. __°___ Fred A. Wodflen, formerly assoc iate editor of the Bend Bulletin,
general assignments.
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Walter R. May, assistant city ed itor of the Oregonian, is taking two special courses at Reed College dur ing his “off” hours.
