No greater honor has ever been conferred upon a Portland newspaperman than that which came to Ben Hur Lampman from the national officers of the American Legion, after he had written his articles regarding the visit of Marshal Ferdinand Foch to Portland. In a telegram to the editor of the Oregonian Alton T. Roberts, chairman of the Legion’s reception committee, declared that Lampman’s articles were the finest written regarding Marshal Foch during his visit to this country.
“I think you ought to know that the American Legion reception committee were unanimously of the opinion this morning that the best story on the arrival of Marshal Foch in any city was printed in the Oregonian this morning,” said Mr.
For two weeks in October A. E. Scott, of the News-Times at Forest Grove, con
verted the weekly into a daily in the interests of the endowment campaign of Pacific University in an effort to raise $100,000 in Washington county. Forest Grove alone raised nearly half of the $100,000 in two weeks and the campaign throughout the county has been continued. The paper was a seven-column folio and was splendidly supported by the town’s
merchants. At the close of the two weeks
many subscribers asked that the daily be
continued, but the nearness to Portland
and the small field to serve, it was decided. would not justify the expenditure of money and effort. With a battery of two linotypes the mechanical end of the News Times office handled the paper nicely,
Roberts in his telegram.
“We greatly
each day printing about eight columns of
appreciate the way your Mr. Lampman handled the coming of Marshal Foch
been in the game in Forest Grove for
to Portland. It is only right that you should know that this is the best thing
we have seen on the trip. Please under stand that I am thoroughly sincere in this recognition of excellent support of the American Legion in its entertainment of
our distinguished guest.”
local and editorial news.
Mr. Scott has
over eleven years and his paper won one of the fourth place prizes in the O. A. C. state-wide rural service contest last sum mer. —i-oii
The squibs written by Clark food for his paper, the Weston Leader, frequently find a place among the Literary Digesfs
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D. D. Mathews, of Roseburg, a former
“Topics of
the
Day.”
Recently
Mr.
Wood was quoted as follows: “The es teemed Lit. Dige. informs us that a silk
newspaper man who has been out of the game for the past two years, got back into harness again recently, long enough
purse has actually been made from a
to report the Brumfield trial for the
sow’s ear.
Oregon Journal and the United Press. Mr. Mathews was formerly city editor of the Roseburg Review, before its consoli dation with the Evening News, and now divides his interest between the auto mobile business and newspaper work for the Journal.
ear from a silk purse and we’ll all sit up
i-~
Anne Shannon Monroe, Oregon news
paper woman who is now well known as an author and magazine writer, chose for the theme of a recent article in Good
Housekeeping the story of the work of Pendleton women
in
establishing
the
Umatilla County library. The article was headed “When Women Will.”
Now let science make a sow’s
and take notice.” ski
The Gate City Journal, published at Nyssa, blossoms out with six of its eight pages printed at home instead of four. Messrs. Sheets and Dement, the new publishers, are to be pardoned for
that first-page “toot from their own trombone,” for the paper is looking good. ~
Mrs. Edna S. Morrison, telegraph edi tor of the Pendleton East Oregonian, spent the third week in December at La Grande where she visited her mother, Mrs. Fred Schilke.
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