ST. JOHNS REVIEW
VOLUME 18
ST. JOHNS, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1922.
NUMBER 39
Three Children Drown
A 'most distressing accident oc
curred on Sunday evening when
Frnnk 'Alnx aged 9, Ted Alax 8,
and I'cter Alax 5, all sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Alax of Russell
street were drowned wlien their
father's car backed oil the St.
Johns ferry. Paul Mcsiri. a
To Boost tho 1925 Fair Ladies' Aid Had Charge I A Pleasing Program
The Atlantic-Pacific Highway
and Hydro-Electric Exposition
positively will be held in Port
land in 1925. This unqualified
statement was made by Mayor
linker, vice chairman of tho man
aging committee, in announcing
plans for an auto caravan which
The Community Sunday school
had an unusual attendance last
On Saturday evening a number
of tho piano pupils of Lola Mur
phy appeared in an excellent pro-
SrUml5J'rAin W1.C Ilcnstl. gram at her home studio. Those
friend of the family, was driving will leave Portland August 14 for
ine car since Alax nimsolt was I a tour of the state in the interest
not familiar with the gear shift.! of the fair. Franklin T. Grif
Alax had just purchased the car fitli, chairman of the managing
They were returning from a trip .committee, lias asked Mayor link
to Scappoose and were last on er to take full charge of the cam-
tho ferry at Wlntwood Court, 'paign to be waged in Portland
When they started to leave tho and throughout the state in the
Mr. McMahon, tho superintend
cut, back. Ho has had his vaca
tion so is ready to take up, tin
work again. Mr. Stadclman gave
a splendid talk at church service.
There was a good attendance.
The Ladies' Aid had charge of
the evening service. The entire
service was conducted by them,
even to passing the collection
box. Rev. Mrs. Jno. Handsakcr
r . . . .
icrrj.- Aicsgi apparently inrcw me
car into reverse instead of for
ward and it leaped back, crossed
tho guard chain and somersault
ed into the water. Mr. and Mrs.
Alax and Mcsgi camo clear of tho
car and were rescued through the
heroic efforts of Benj. liurtull
with tho assistance of others.
Bodies of two of the children
wcro recovered two hours later
by City Qrappler Brady. The
third body was found the follow
ing morning by Brady. Tho for
ry did not leave the slip after the
accident. The bargo Joseph II.
Thatcher helped raino tho auto
mobile and tho ilrcmeu of Engine
company 32, tho St. Johns police,
the ferry s crew and Patrolman
Ahern of tho harbor patrol par
ticipatcd in the search'' for the
bodies. The Alax family had
five children. Stella 12, and
John 11, had stayed at homo with
their grandmother. Frank 9,
who was drowned witli the oth
ers, had lost his leg last year un
dcr a switch cngino at tho foot of
Itusscll strcot. Alax is an cm
ployo in the Albcrs llouring mills.
The occupants of the railway
saloon car were startled by the
entrance of two masked men, one
Jnrgo.tho other small, armed with
useful looking revolvers. "Throw
up your hands," said tho big out
law; "wo'ro going to rob all the
gents and kiss all tho gals." "No,
pardncr," said tho smaller man,
gallantly, "we'll rob the gents,
but leave tho ladies alone."
"Mind your own business young
follow," snapped u woman pas
senger of uncertain age; "the
big man is robbing tho train, not
you I"
who took part were Helen Peter
son, Frieda Rahn, Anna tluerra,
Bernard Murphy, Orpha apd
Merle Fundcrburk, Eleanor ink,
Lillian Foster, Mary Aiihoury,
Marguerite Aiihoury and Alma
Markwart. An interesting feat
ure to the parents was the dem
onstration of what can be taught
a child of five in but three weeks.
f iMl.t f ti virilitiif it A llliiitim mi.
gave a splendid sermon which n!liweml n ,,U(..sti0ns perfectly
For Sale Two quart Fruit
Jars Cheap, Mrs. Bertha Mont
gomcry, Empire 0897.
interest of the Exposition and the
mayor has accepted the charge.
As the opening gun of the cam
paign he lias arranged for consist
of liO cars, carrying approximate
ly 150 persons, representing all
the civic orgauiations of the city.
The route will tako the I' air boos
ters through to tho central and
eastern parts of the state, return
ing along the Columbia river
highway. Included in tho cities
to be visited are Salem, Albany,
Corvallis, Eugene,' Roscburg,
Grants Pass, Medford, Ashland,
Klamath Falls, Bend, Princvillc,
Pendleton, Echo, Stanficld, Her-
niiston, Arlington, Moro, Wasco,
Tho Dalles, Moscr, Hood River,
and Cascade Locks. Stops will bo
made at Crater Lake, the Gorgo
hotel and many smaller towns of
tin state. Portland will he reach-
ed on the return' trip August 28.
The state fair board has boon in.
vited to join the caravan in tho
interest of this year's state fair.
Tlie primary purpose of the cara
van is to dispell all doubts con
cerning the holding of thu.Kxno
sition, Mayor Baker said. Re
ports from the finance committee
show a generous response from
Portland capital, insuring abun
dant backing for tho enterprise,
A I 1 I . ....
iiiu mayor declared, tiio cara
van will be equipped with a radio
outfit and news of progress of
the mitoists and tho receptions
given them will ho broadcast ov
or the state. It also is planned to
have an airplane act as advance
guard for the caravan.
and played and sang a little song
from memory. Honiara Murphy
sang the "Cookoo Clock," after
which Miss Murphy sang a group
of German, English and Italian
sontrs.
enjoyed. She was much pleased
with hc number of young people
that were there and said it was
the largest number she has Keen
this summer. Next Sunday Mr.
Stadclman will have charge of
the morning service and Mr. Gar
den will have charge of the even
ing service. His talk will be to
the young people, and as wo are
all young m heart at least, all
will be invited. His subject will
be, "The Three Rs of Success and Mrs. Louise Bingo of St. Louis,
the Three I.s of Failures." Ho is !Mo., is visiting her son, Mr. Geo.
making n very careful preparn-1 Binge, at 2JI0I Willamette boule
ration for this, and I am sure itivard. Mrs. Lautoino Belt and
will be very interesting and trust little daughter, Georgia, of
there will be a large number of .Wood River, 111., are also guests
young people present. "Blessed at Mr. Binges, Mrs. Belt being
are the Happiness Makers: bless-1 his nciee.
ed are they who know how to
shine on one's gloom with their
cheer. Henry Ward Beeeher.
Y. W. C. A. Note
Mra. J. M. Shaw left Tuesday
morning with sixteen girls for
Rock Creek camp. Most of the
girls will camp for one week, but
Mrs. Shaw will have charge of
camp for month of August. Any
girl wishing to go Tuesday, Aug.
8th, please call Mrs. F. A. Robert
son, Kmp. 1440, before that time.
The truck will leave Y. W. C.A.
building at 8:!!0 a.m. on Tuesday.
Thursday evening, July 27, the
Ladies' Aid of the Community
church held an ice cream social
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M.
B. Green, 810 N. Smith avenue.
A good time was enjoyed by all.
Wednesday afternoon, August 2,
the Aid held their business meet
ing at the home of the president,
Mrs. H. Campbell. 1215 S.lCollouir
street.
St. Johns 18 Years Ago
The Woman's Homo MiKttittiuirv
Society of the .Methodist church
win hold their regular monthly
lilcctinir at the hump of Mim. H.
S. Magone, 2181 Willamette boul
evard, Friday, Aug. II, beginning
at 2 o'clock. The topic for dis
cussion will be "Citv Enterprise
and Country Cooperation. A
special musical program has been
provided, alter winch there will
ne a stiver lea.
Rogers' Sale
Saves You Kale
Men's, Women's, Youths', Misses and Children's
TENNIS SHOES AT COST 85c, 90c, $1, $1.10, $1.25, $1.50 t
I PANAMA HATS
Mrs. A. II. Schwartz, and child
ren, George and Mildred, return
ed to St. Johns Snnrinr evening
from n visit with Mrs. Sehwartrs
parents, Mr and Mrs. Martin
iiontigt on their ranch near
Scholls. Oregon.
ATTENTION
Owing to unsettled situation of
COAL MINES we advise all coal
users to order their coal at once
for future delivery.
Prices are Low NOW
For Full Information Call
ST. JOHNS ICE WORKS
Phone Empirc.0084 1339 Lombard Street
Regular Values $l.G0, $2.G0, 3 f0
95c, $1.50, $2.50
Jazz Bow Knit Tics GOc Men's and Hoy's Leather Hells GOc
Dress Hose lGc, 2 Pair 25c Leather Work Cloves or Mitts GOc
Silk Hose GOc, 7fic, $1.00 All Starched Collars, 20c, 2 for HGc, II for . GOc
Boy's Suspenders 2Gc Arm Hands 10c, lGc, 25c and GOc
Men's Suspenders ,15c to 90c Soft Collar Dress Shirts. $1.25 up
Men's Handkerchiefs 10c, ft for 25c up Hoy's Dress Caps U5c, 05c
Canvas Gloves 15c, 2 Pair 25c ""Men's Dress Cnps 95e,51.25 up
Leather Imicc Gloves, Pair 25c Heavy Leather Leggings $1 85
Dress, Work and Men's and Boy's Dross and
HIKING PANTS WORK SHIRTS
MEN'S SOLID LEATHER jh A C t
ii DRESS SHOES $4.95
GOOD STUFF AT THE RIGHT PRICE
R O GE RS
THE RAINCOAT MAN
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES $3.00 PER YEAR
Leave yeur bonds, Jewelry, valuable papers,
etc. In our burglar and fireproof vault.
The Ideal place for your valuables when you
go on your vacation.
Peninsula Security Company
Choice
K
St. Johns Undertaking Co.
Thomas Grice, Manager
OfffM, Erpirt 0527 PHONES---Wkt, Empire 0299 208 N. Jersey St.
Groceries
A full line of the
choicest groceries
at most reasonable
prices, constantly
on hand. !
We give 5. & li. Green Trading
Stamps with All Purchases ;
L. Simmons & Co.
Quality Grocers
TI I HOUSE
Cleaning, Pressing,
Dyeing, Repairing
and Alterations
217 North Jersey Street
WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER
Telephone Empire 1399
H, A. MANNING, Prop.
Phone Empire 487 117 Philadelphia Street
MACK'S
Second hand Furniture Store
If you can't find what you want elsewhere, come to me. If
I haven't got it, I will get it. I carry FURNITURE, CAR
PETS, DISHES, COOKING UTENSILS, STOVES AND
RANGES. Ia fact, anything you wish in the Household Line.
Will Buy, Sell or Exchange Anything.
'orst
702 S. Jersey Street
PHONE KMPIRK 0860
Beautiful Ferns and Palms
Funeral Designs a Specialty
St. Johns Fuel Co.
515 Columbia Boulevard
Slab and Cordwood
Office Wildrose Shingle Co.
Phoue Col. 918
Repairing Has Dropped
I will half sole Shoes
at these prices:
Men's heavy lialf win fl.2fi
Men's light half wles 1.00
Ladies' heavy toll. , 1,00
Ladles' light shoes 75
Hoy's heavy butcu 1.00
Hoys' light solta 75
Girls' boles 75
Patching , 15c up
I use the best of leather that
money will buy. I have come to
stay and believe in living and let
you live,
C. C. HOPKINS
Boot and Shoe Maker
513 Columbia Blvd.
Near Filling Station.
Phoue Columbia 42
C. R. SEELEY
Painter, Paper Hanger and
Kalsominer
101 N. Olympia St., Cor. J, Charleston
DEARING'S
For Fine Chocolates
Ice Cream, Tobacco and Cigars
311 South Jertey Street
Dividend No. 2
Another Red Letter Day
July 1, 1922 was another
Red Letter Day for the
owners of our 7 Prior
Preference Stock.
Checks for thousands of
dollars were mailed out by
us to our Thrifty Customers
and Patrons in payment of
the Second Regular Quarterly
Dividend on their holdings
in this sound and attractive
security.
Consult our Investment
Department at once and get
on our Mailing LUt for Hie
Neil Dividend on October 1st .
This Stock Yields 7.3
Investment Department
Portland Railway
Light & Power Company
Room 6Q5 Electric Bldg.
Portland, Oregon
"Say ,7 With Ziower."
Choice Ferns at Reason
able Prices
Floral Designs of All
Kinds Artistically Arranged
SBtetrntt's Grcenhousem
814 and 816 N. Kellogg St.
Phone Umpire OI01.
Bring in your news items.
The following are items of in
terest taken from the first issue
of the St. Johns Review which be
gnu its existence Nov. 11, 1001, J.
II. Cromo being publisher. A re
view of the first numbers will up
pear from time to time:
City Olllcinls Mayor, Clins. A
Cook; Councilimvi T. J. Mona
hnn, Ouy Hcbce, W. II. Hamilton,
I has. D. Hughes nnd H. Ii. Hurl-
bert: recorder, V. Clark; mar
shnl, C. R. Organ.
Olllcers St. Johns Improvement
League President, Mrs. Ilattlo
Hrnseh; vice president, Mrs
Hello Smith; secretary. Mrs. L.
Johnson ; press correspondent,
Mr. Hettie Hlackburu.
There were three churches M.
Kvangelioal and Seventh Day
tiventist. The population was
estimated at 1000.
There wore eight teachers and
one principal of schools. School
ing facilities inadequate and it
was necessary to alternate a large
number of pupils, giving each a
half day's time.
( The Portland Woolen Mills
just completed and machinery
being installed.
Among the local business con
cerns represented in the Review
of that date: West Coast Laun
dry, Hlliotfs Pharmacy, W. II.
King, really; Ricknor Hros., gen.
indsu; Anderson & Allen, bakery
I J. Koenier, contractor: A. H.
Wilson, jeweler; Mrs. 1 D. Jack
son, millinery; Wintllc & W indie,
meat market,' KdmondHon Co.,
plumbing; (leo. W. ('one Lumber
Co.; .St. Johns Lumber' Co., A. S.
Douglass & .Sons props.; W. J.
Peddicord, realty; (I II. Vanllou
ten, really; Dr. K, W. Rossiter,
Dr. T. T Taggart, Dr. Mary Mac
Lachlan; Crook & Walton, con
tractors; Goodrich & Goodrich.
architects; Smith & Donally,
meat market; I). C. Rogers, real
estate; Couch & Co., gen. indue;
. i). Moo A: bon, painters; IV.
tih-son & .Smith, flour and feed;
W. A. Kdgcrton, grocer.
Mr. .Scott, manauei' of Iliu .St.
Johns Water and Light. Co.,
states that the company propones
erecting a larger reservoir next
Spring.
Wednesday evening the organ
iation of tho .St. Johns Commer
cial Association was effected. The
ollicers elected were II. King,
president : R. .Sliemml. viee nresi.
dent, and T. J. Mou'iliau, treas.
Hid lino three story block, cor-
ner Jersey and Hroadwav. is ran.
idly nearing completion. The
ground floor, consisting of fdiir
excellent store rooms, has Itoit
lci.sed, and will be occupied nu
follows: W. A. I'iderton, tho gro
cer; Mr. Muck tho corner with
clothing' and furnishing good,lhe
middle store on Rroadway by
Rhepard & Tufts, real etato,nd
the postollice. Mr. Muck will put
in a stock of hardware in tiio
next Ntore on Droadway (now
Philadelphia street). The awmul
and third Honrs will be occupied
and fitted up in elegant style by
the Hotel Rich and conducted by
Mrs. Rich of the St. Johns Hotel.
The building cost about $7t"00
and will be known as t lib Coch
ran liluilc.
Kd. L. Stockton has accepted u
position in W. II. King's ronl os-'
tate ofllce.
S. I. Ogden of North St. Johns
states that work continues boring
r -l
ior on nun prospecis aro eiieour- ,
aging.
C. W. Potter, formerly ono of
the owners of the Linntou mill, )a
building a line residence on his
lots in SI. Johns Park.
MULTNOMAH
Tl I I3AT.H13
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 51-1
ANITA STEWART in
"A QIMCSTION OV HONOR"
First National.
.Saturday, August flh--
DOROTHY DALTON in
"TDK CRIMSON CIIAL
LUNCH" Paramount. One
of her good ones.
Sunday and Monday, Aug. (i-7
Paramount presents
"The Green Temptation"
Featuring Hetty Conipaon,
Theo. ICosInf and Hamilton.
We believe you will suy thitf
was one of the best pictures
you've seen.
Tuesday and Wednes., Aug, b'-U
LLOYD HUGHES In
"HO.MKSIM'N FOLKS"
First National. A six ruul
comedy drama by Tho. II.
I lice; a good one, AImi .
"Leather Pushers" No. 4.
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 10-1. I ,
HOPE HAMPTON In
"STAR Dl'ST" Filial Nh-tioiial.
WHEN YOUR NERVES
GET ON THE OUTSIDE
Uncle Ben Says:
"Any healthy in
tellect, Nevvy, can
see that beauty
which was once
skin deep, today is
only knee high."
Health Talks by-DR. II. 0. BROWN, I). C.
When your nerves gel on the ooUidu of
of your clothe!, as Klbtrt Hubbard tm to
say, you arc a nuisance to yourself ami
your friends. The victim of a uurvouti
breakdown usually complaints of weikuu(
In every organ of his body, but the weak
ness invariably includes the Moiunch and
usually .seems centered there.
The chiropractor make his muilysU of
the spine and taking u typical cau here Ik
what he usually finds, though no two en
are exactiy alike. There is nerve prewir
on the spinal nerves to liver and kiduuys,
to the lungs quite often, and almost always
to tho Htomaeh and stomach re
gion, affecting what w known as
tho solar plexus. Ry ebiroprac
tic spinal adjustments these
nerves are frowl and tho atlVctcd
organs begin to function normal
ly. The body is rebuilt , the nei v
ousucsH disappears.
In tho Midst of a Second
Breakdown
"When I turned to chiroprac
tic I was in the midst' of my sec
ond nervous breakdown. I was
much reduced in Hcah, despond
ent and my digestion was very
had. Under tho chiropractic spi
nal adjustments Nature began to
restoro order. Today I am feol
ing fine and heavier than ever be
fore. I have great faith in chin
practic." Rov. Omor Porter,
Williams, Indiana.
YOUR IIKALTII CAN'T START
before you telephone for an ap
pointment and make it today.
HEALTH FOLLOWS
CHIROPRACTIC CORRECTS
PRESSURE ON SPINAL
NERVES IN DISEASES Of
THE FOLLOWING OROANS:
urin
mm
THROAT
A ARMi
I iwcn
AV STOMACH
W SPLEEN
Y KIDNEYS
DOWELS
X APPENDIX
V BLADDER
Splru1cfflumL0h'lRUMS$
The lower nerve
underthe magnify
ino glass is pinched
0y a misaligned joint,
pinched nerves cannot
transmit healthful
impulses. chiroprac'
ticadjustino re
moves the pressure,
the upper nerve is
FREEASNATUREIhTENDS.
H. O. BROWN, D. C.
CHIROPRACTOR
Cor. Dwlght and Lombard Sts. Phone Umpire 0278
Hours: t 5 P. M. or by Appointment