The Sun (Sheridan)

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The Sun
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Offices of the newspaper
Type Weekly newspaper
Founded1890
Ceased publication2014
Headquarters Sheridan, Oregon, United States
OCLC number 42972899

The Sun was the newspaper for Sheridan, Oregon, United States. The paper was published weekly on Wednesdays. The Sun served the West Yamhill Valley communities of Sheridan, Willamina, and Grand Ronde in Yamhill and Polk counties. [1]

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History

The Sheridan Sun was founded in 1890, [2] and was a weekly newspaper. [3] By 1892, the paper was published by H. G. Guild, [4] who was known as a "versatile and witty editor." He retired in 1897 and sold the Sheridan Sun to Chris Yates and B. F. McLaughlin. [5] A year later McLaughlin's wife Ida Finley McLaughlin fell out of a rowboat and drowned in Nestucca Bay. The couple had been married for four months. [6] [7] In 1900, Yates sold the paper to F. H Barnhart, [8] who died about two months later from a lung hemorrhage. [9] [10] By 1907, the paper was managed by B. F. Young. [11]

In 1908, O. D. Hamstreet purchased the newspaper after moving from Sheridan, Wyoming, where he had been editor of the Sheridan Enterprise. [12] Hamstreet sold the paper in 1929 to Steen M. Johnson. [13] In 1937, he sold the paper to Paul Launer and Miss Adelaide V. Lake, a former reporter at The Oregonian. [14] [15] Two years later the two sold The Sun to C. F. Brown, [16] former owner of Twin City News. [17] At some point Perry W. Willoughby became the owner. He sold the paper in 1945 to Dean Holmes. [18]

Holmes ran the paper for 17 years until selling it in 1963 to Ted M. Brammer, publisher of the Nyssa Gate City Journal, and William L. Bladine, publisher of the News-Register. [19] Over time the Bladine family became the sole owner and Phil Bladine sold The Sun in 1969 to Douglas K. Parker. [20] [21] Eagle Newspapers acquired the paper from Parker in 1978 [22] [23] and sold it to its publisher three years later. [24] The new owner was George Robertson. At the time the paper had 2,500 readers. [25] Decades later the newspaper was purchased by Clinton Vining in April 2008 and ceased in June 2014. [26]

References

  1. ↑ The Sun Archives. SmallTownPapers. Retrieved on March 18, 2008. Archived January 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ The Sun. Archived 2003-07-10 at the Wayback Machine Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. Retrieved on April 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Edward Gardner Jones, ed. (1894). The Oregonian's handbook of the Pacific Northwest. Oregonian Publishing Company. p.  258. sheridan oregon.
  4. ↑ "A Very "Deer" Story". The Capital Journal. September 3, 1892. p. 3.
  5. ↑ "Misfits". Albany Democrat. June 11, 1897. p. 4.
  6. ↑ "Sheridan, Aug. 16". The Capital Journal. August 16, 1898. pp. `.
  7. ↑ "In Watery Depths | Two Sad Tragedies On the Oregon Coast". Weekly Oregon Statesman. August 19, 1898. p. 2.
  8. ↑ "Notice". The Hood River Glacier. March 30, 1900. p. 2.
  9. ↑ "Well Known Editor Dead". The Eugene Guard. May 15, 1900. p. 4.
  10. ↑ "F. H. Barnhart Passes Away Suddenly | Hemorrhage of the Lungs Caused the Death of a Former Osborne Citizen Last Week". Osborne County News. Osborne, Kansas. May 24, 1900. p. 4.
  11. ↑ "Notice". Polk County Observer. Monmouth, Oregon. January 11, 1907. p. 4.
  12. ↑ Gaston, Joseph (1912). The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912. Vol. 3. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 47–48.
  13. ↑ "Sun at Sheridan Sold". The Oregonian. August 9, 1929. p. 16.
  14. ↑ "Publishing Field Claims Reporter | Adelaide V. Lake, Partner Buy Sheridan Sun". The Sunday Oregonian. January 3, 1937. p. 15.
  15. ↑ "Miss Lake, Launer Buy Sheridan Sun". The Oregon Daily Journal. January 1, 1937. p. 4.
  16. ↑ "Sheridan Sun Sold". Medford Mail Tribune. Associated Press. December 20, 1938. p. 8.
  17. ↑ "Sheridan Paper Changes Owners | Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Brown, Stanwood, Wash., Buyers". The Oregonian. December 20, 1938. p. 4.
  18. ↑ "Dean Holmes Family Moves". The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon. July 3, 1965. p. 3.
  19. ↑ "Sheridan Paper Changes Hands". The Oregon Daily Journal. November 19, 1963. p. 11.
  20. ↑ "Sun at Sheridan Changes Hands". The Oregon Statesman. May 2, 1969. p. 25.
  21. ↑ "Paper Sold At Sheridan". The Capital Journal. May 2, 1969. p. 2.
  22. ↑ Guggenheim, Alan (February 18, 1979). "Sheridan Sun equipment sold | Printing's past goes to auction". Statesman Journal. p. 1.
  23. ↑ Easterling, Jerry (1980-01-20). "The Eagle is soaring: Newspaper chain undergoes rapid growth in past decade". Statesman Journal. p. 66. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  24. ↑ Edstrom, Judy (August 15, 2012). "Eagle's 76 Years – our history – first installment". Eagle Newspapers Inc. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  25. ↑ Easterling, Jerry (February 7, 1982). "Sheridan publisher finds grassroots journalism humbling". Statesman Journal. p. 50.
  26. ↑ Amelia, Templeton (June 28, 2014). "The Sun Newspaper In Sheridan Closes After More Than 100 Years". Oregon Public Broadcasting . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2015.


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