When publication resumed, the Cottage Grove and Lemati Echo-Leader shortened its name, and was stylized only as The Leader.
[3] Thorp died in February 1897 and the paper was taken over by L. F. Wooley, who changed the name back to the Leader.
Two years later the owners bought the Bohemia Nugget, originally established as the Messenger in 1897, and absorbed it into the Leader.
[5] Bede acquired full-ownership of the Cottage Grove Sentinel in October 1915 after buying out Tyrrell.
[6] He operated the paper for a quarter-century until he sold his ownership stake in 1936 to Judge Leonard S. Godard, who was a former associate justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
[14] George Stanley Turnbull (1939), History of Oregon Newspapers, Binford & Mort, Wikidata Q56862211