Numerous friends of Earl Goodwin, assistant sporting editor of the Oregon Journal, have been urging him to run for the Republican nomination for constable of Multnomah county. Goodwin has maintained the strictest neutrality. He is a member of about all the organizations in the county to which he is eligible, and exceedingly popular with his friends, who believe he would make a good candidate. He has been announced as a prospective candidate in a number of periodicals, both of local and general circulation.
Forrest Baker, foreman of the mechanical department of the Pendleton East Oregonian, has returned after a visit to Portland. Alf M. Rhoads, better known as “Dusty,” and former compositor-press man on the staff of the North Clackamas Reporter, has joined his former employer, W . E. Hassler, at Gold Beach on the Reporter there.
The reporting division of the Port land News staff has been shifted around considerably recently. Howard H. Mc Gowan, who has been covering the police station, is now at the courthouse. August Leidigkeit exchanged places with him. Marian Sibley, who has been at the fed eral court for the past year, is writing special stories. Several Umatilla county papers ap peared in the holiday dress of special editions at Christmas. Among the Christmas editions was that of the Helix Advocate, of which the cover was an attractive one done in colors, from the original by Norman Rockwell. During the interval that J. H. Hulett of the Beaverton Review was laid up with blood poisoning in his hand, his daughter, Lutina Hulett, only thirteen years of age, had charge of the paper and set up all the news on the linotype. Mr. Hulett believes that Lutina is the youngest regular linotype operator in the state. Delbert Hale, apprentice compositor on the Central Oregonian, is editor of the ('rm)k01li(lfl, the annual of Crook county high school. Hale, who is a senior in high school, has ambitions to become a jounialist and is identified with all pub lication activities of his school. VVhile working about his country home in Vancouver, Wash. , E. W . Jorgenson, managing editor of the Portland News, stepped on a nail. After bathing and wrapping his foot, he went back to work. Shortly after, Jorgenson stepped on another nail. Then he went to a doctor. Henry Stewart, Eugene realty dealer, is the author of an interesting feature in the Eugene Evening Guard. Under the pseudonym “Hi Henry,” he writes each day a rhymed comment on the news in the previous day's paper, giving to it all a dash of humor that occasion ally becomes satire. Mr. Stewart is not a newspaper man, but has amused him self for many years with jingles, and his daily feature is proving attractive. Miss Esther M. Stricker, a junior at University of Oregon, spent her pm Christmas vacation !in {Portland asa volunteer in the Goodfellow department of the Portland Telegram. She did the buying of toys and other gifts for hun dreds of girls to whom the Goodfellows acted as Santa Claus, and supervised the allotment when packages were made up for the destitute kiddies. The Good fellow department of the Telegram, with the contribution of more than $1,300 by the Goodfellows of Oregon, provided toys and Christmas goodies for more than 1,100 destitute children. More than 1,000 others, whose names were gathered by the Goodfellow department, were provided with toys and other things by Goodfel lows, who, as groups and individuals, played Santa Claus. J. S. Davis, advertising manager of the Central Oregon Press, lately took a ten day vacation to Spokane, Vllashingtou, where his parents live. [35]
