The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-08-17
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
MONDAY, AUGUST II. 1923,
APPRECIATED FLATTERY.

Among the bright spots in our 40
years experience in the newspaper
game in eastern Washington has been
our relations with our brethren of the
fourth estate. Tie newspaper boys
nave always treated US kindly, over
| looking our shortcomings and lauding
the few virtues that we may possess.
We have found them a genial, sympa-
thetlc. kindly lot square and likeable
which is rule with the fraternity and
personal attractions which were so
strongly developed in the president as
to make him especially popular with
all newspaper men. Occasionally we
have lapsed so far as to get tangled
up in controversies with our fellow
editors, but those controversies have
grown out of political differences and
not upon any personal grounds. Those
clashes have been simply returning a
Roland for an Oliver and have never
left sting Many, very many, kind
and Auditory notices of our activities
and accomplishments in the journal
lst1c field have appeared in exchanges.
have come to us through private cor
respondence. but we have refrained
from reproducing tlose flattering
comments in papers of our own
through an ingrowing modesty, and
from feeling that through personal
regard the boys were overestimating
our merits But for once at least. and
at time when we are about to close
our associations with the publisheN
OF eastern Washington and to 60
hence from an immediate field that
We have covered for over a quarter
OF century, we will veil our modesty
and reproduce one of these kindly |
mentions Of our work which appeared |
as an editorial in the Monday issue OF |
the Wenatchee Daily World:
THE sale of the Oroville Gazette by |
Frank Dallam, ST.. and Frank Dallam
jr., is much more important event
than appears to the casual reader. 1t
means that the elder Dallam will
probably leave this part of the state.
where he has lived for about forty |
years. During all of that time ne has
been engaged in editing, publishing
and writing for various newspapers in
Spokane and the north central part Of
the state.
Whether located in what is now the
of the Inland Empire, in
The mining camps Of LOOMS or in
)roville, Frank Dallam was always an
lctive and energetic force in the COM G
nunity He belongs to the militant
style of pioneer editor who lad decid-
I'd views upon all subjects and did not I
hesitate to express them. Whether his t
Jews were the same as those OF the '
of the community, or not, he
lways had something Of interest to
ay.
1T is not too much to say that :.
frank Dallam published one of the
most interesting weekly newspapers
n the Pacific Northwest. In fact, if a
ote was taken among other news
apers published, the chances are that
he Oroville Gazette under his leader
hip. would stand first. |.
Every week he wrote columns and 7
olumns of local news besides from
III ee W lOuT VI eulUOTIdlS |
evoted to every live subject of inter-
st before the public, and every line
Il it was readable.
Frank Dallam's many friends be-
leve that he has always been fitted |
o conduct a newspaper in larger |
ield, and, although he is not a young
nan in years, he is not too old to
start over again in some city where
his talents and influence may have a
wider scope.
while no announcement has been
made as to what work Frank Dallam
md his son. Frank Dallam, Jr., may
engage in yet, it is a foregone conclu-
sion that they will not remain inactive
and it is safe prediction that they
will get back into the newspaper bus
ness before very long"