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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1914)
St. Helens Mist Founded 1881 ; : Umm4 Crwr rrw.r kr The MUt Publishing Company M. K Minn, Kiliior. Kiiivrv.l ''t maiivr January 10. ' Ihv ItUmal Nalnt llvli-ua On-gun ii.l.'l Hi WH of Mscvh Inl. 1x7 ' SOHHCMirTION RaTKS Oik yrt - $1.80 ! mouths - .75 AilvrrtliiK rale uiwl known on appll Cfeilon Ltk' notice Si ceula per Hi I County Official Paper Drother Hay lis of the Clatskanie Chief must have eaten something last week that disagreed with his jgettive organs to judge from the editorial he wrote concerning Clutskanie politics. For the bene fit of those who did not have the citron) pleasure of reading the iforesaid editorial we reprint it U full; 'Wiut Uthis silent, strong (?) undertow, that's akin to politics, fid which has begun to bud and Mossom bi early in the spring! 1 s the old St. Helens political i achine" oiling up hs sure as f jth; getting into line for the owing election falling back, as ti were, on to the old Democratic t:w lire for a revival of the old organization. Wonder if they think it will r ork again as in days of old? onder if they think that Uainier t-id Clatskanie have so soon for EJtten the bond question?" C'ear ly the sending out of scouts to CUtskanie to learn just where th9 softest spots are located, is a specimen of gall that is seldom rr.2t with. Moreover it would r am betUr for them to save ttair car fare. Clatskai ie can na more be worked into political channels by mere promises of tjme of the boodle. She will strer her vote like all honest, broad-minded people, in a wuy tr.it will benefit to Borne extent t a lower part of the counuy. As a matter of justice, the C.ef submits to its readers the c. ;.tion of why St. Helens should er rnally endeavor to grab every c:ee in sight. Why should the lower end of the county not be represented; and why should Vernonia not be recognized for aonaething? Surely these places f'zy as much taxes and are as rr.portant as the upper end of tha county, though they have naver been considered that way errrapt at times when their votes wo Jd amount to something. Hay. nay. it wont pan out. CLtJkanie has learned that there ii r.athing as uncertain as a pro mil given by the "old political" Iz-zh at St. Helens, and that it Is h'jh time Bhe steer her course In t lothet directu n " Cj it is written that no persons liv" 2 in or near St. Helens can er.l t the sacred confines of the ItLljcity down by the Delta Gar !i3 to talk politics or discuss an j 11: J that would be of interest a tht county in general. A wall :t been built around that city a high that it cannot be scaled ni the gates will not open ex :;t upon the giving of the rc;ar pass vord and no person '.l -jj than a resident of that ty will be entrusted with the ford. They have created a v.' I world by themselves; they ostracized the rest of the '-T.ty and would live alone, ex ' ri when they send another fifty rant of all county officers :m that city, which they have r.3 for the past 8 or 10 years. '.7a.' do not know who the ':ary was nor whom he re nted and for the purpose of : article, we do not care her it was a candidate for J, clerk, treasurer or repre tive. It makes no difference. fct that the majority of the :rs of the county for several ; have come from Clatskanie . that this end of the county . a readily supports a man t Clatskanie as though he 2 from St. Helens, Scappoose Zjble makes no difference, ds of the county will not . Up our esteemed brother in v.ild statements. However I may be the proposition of --fcT out from the city of ';anie of any candidate just Je he happens to live in this end of the county, is no far out of the ordinary and bo incompat ible with good political or busi- nem judgement that it is really funny instead of serious, expeci- aly ""der the circumstanced. Now if that kick' come from Itainier there would be more reason to it, for of all the pre- sent county officers, and for some years past, the office of Coroner is all that Rainier can boast while the present list of officers shows the Clerk, Sheriff, Kepre- sentative and Survevor tobe from - Clatskanie. Not so bad: four of the principle offices in the countv from one locality Hut enough of that political iwaciuie. ine main argument sei up in inai eaiiorial IS tnatl the balance of the county must! continue the bad felinir exist incr or, that has existed between ClatBkanie. Rainier and St. Helens. There may have been an Old ring' or Circle or Combine or whateve it may be culled, in St. Helens that tried to rule all politics, and perhaps met with soma degree of success. Hut for several years this has not been the case and with the infusion of new blood into the business and political world of St. Helens, there has been a very marked effort to bring avout such a feeling between the county seat and the other towns and communities of the county as would permit of a much more harmonious and concerted movement for a greater and better county. Such articles as that in the Chief will tend to keep up a bad feeling and we dont want it. The majority of the people are anxious for peace. We do not want the rest of the county to feel that we have a wall built around our city and that citizens from Clatskanie, whether they belong to the old ring or the new ring, are not welcome within our boundaries. We do not want to hog it all as is charged and if records are carefully scanned it will be easily seen that if there has been any "hogging" going on lately Clats kanie occupied most of the trough politically. Under the present direct primary and other popular laws of this great commonwealth it is the privilege of any voter. whether from St. Helens or Clatskanie to ask the voters of the county to support him for any office that he sees fit and just because he happens to be from St. Helens is no reason why he should not seek votes in Clatskanie. Just a suggestion to you brother that if you do nit like any of the candidates for office from this end of the county and feel like jumping on them through -the columns of your valuable paper, go after them; or if there ia any political ring or circle in St. Helens expose them. Give them the devil and we will back you up, but just because some fellow from St. Helens, whose identity is un known to us, comes down there and talks to the voters, dont jump all over poor old St. Helens for it and call us hogs and by such method keep glowing the old fires which are about ex tinguished between the various portions of the county. This week the Mist comes out as an all home print paper, with eight pages of reading matter and all printed at home. This change was found necessary by the increasing demand for space and we intend to give our sub scribers full value for their money. We are planning on a rpage where matters of public (concern shall be discussed and will Invite the people from all over the county to send in articles, signed, discussing any question of public importance. This will give to the people of the county a Public Korum as it were, where all may meet and exchange ideas and discuss mat ters. It is up to the public spirit ed citizens of the county to make this page in the Mist of consider able importance. We will do our part and only ask that you do yours by Bending in the arti cles. An eight page all home print paper in a small city like St. Helens is quite an undertak ing, but the Mist is willing to undertake anything that will tend to the UDbuildinor and bet- termentof the community. In this we asic the earnest co -oper ation of the public Dr. L. (I. Koss. the City and Countv Health Officer, has re commended that there be a gen 1 i m a.. c. ui-. CI HI j i coil u J uajr in iiciciid a ,Knh ..vU. .u ta... k - ,! n Th 'suggestion is a very timely one and should by all means carried into execution. ORDINANCE No To provije for the is-uance of bonds ' for the improvement of streets and lay-. ng 0f sewers in St. Helens. Oregon, ! ( and for the psym-nt of the cost of such improvements and laying of sewers by , installment The City of St. Helens duf a ordain as follows: Section I. Whenever the common council of the City of St. Helens, Ore gon, or other competent authority shall have proceeded to improve any street or streets or any port or parts thereof. or to lay an sewer within the corpor ate limits, and ahall have assessed the eoHt of such improvement or sewer to the proprty benfited thereby and liable therfor according to the provisions of the charter, it shall be lawful for the owner of any property so assessed for such improvement or sewer in then su-n of $25.00 or more, at anv time witbi.i thirty duys after notice of such assessment is first published, to Tile with the city re.-ordcr of said city a written application to pay ad a ae a menu, and such written application shall state that the applicant thereby waives all irregularis te.i and defects jurisdictional or otherwise in the pro ceedings to improve said street, or lay said sewer, and in the apportionment of the cost thereof. Said application shall contain a provision that the said applicaut and property own;r agrees to psy said assessment ' in ten annual installments, with interest on all in stallments at the same rate as that ex pressed in the bonds issued to pay for auch improvements or sewsr. Said ap plication shll also contain a statement by lots, b'ocks or other convenient de scription of the property of the appli cant assessed fur such improvement or sewer. No application as aforetaid shall be received or filed by the city recorder if the amount of auch assess ment with a-y previous assessment for street Improvement or sewer con struction against the said property and remaining unpaid ahall equal or exceed the valuation of said p.opert at ahown by the last tax roll of the county; pro vided, that application for such bond ing ahall be received by the city re corder in cases where the amount of the assessment, together with the pre vious assessments for street improve ments or aewera aga'nst the property, and remaining unpaid, snail exceed the valuation of said poperty as ahown by the la.t tax roll of the county, if the owner ahall, before making auch appli cation, pay in cash into th treasury of the city such excess of unpaid as sessments over the valuation aa shown by auch last tax roll. Section 2. The city recorder ahall keep all auch applications for bond ins in convenient form for examination. The applications received for each street improvement and cch aewer ahall be aeparate, and the recorder shall enter in a book kept for that pur pose, under aeparate heads, for each street improvement and each aewer, the date of filing of each application, the name of the applicant, the descrip tion of the property and the amount of the assessment aa shown in the applica tion. Section 3. After the expiration ot the time for filing applications for the paymunt of the assessments for Im provement of streets or Isying of sew ers by installments aa herein provided, the city recorder ahall enter in a dock et kept for that purpose, under separ ate bends for each street or sewer, by name or number, description of eact lot. or parceel of land, or other proper ty against which the assessment It made or which bears or ia chargeable for the cost of auch improvement o sewer, with the name of the owner a no the amount of the aisessment for which application to bond has been duly filed; the date of entry in eacf particular ease to be the same as the date of entry in the original lien dock et. Such docket ahsll at nd thereaftei as lien docket as for taxes sites d and levied in favor of the city and r r the amount of such unpaid assessment therein docketed, with interest on tht sarre at the rate of 6 per cent per an num against each lot or parcel of land or other ptnperty, until eurh asaess menta and Intereat are paid in the man ner hereinafter provided. All unpaid assessment and intereit thall be and remain a lien upon each lot or parrel of land or other property respectively in favor of the city, and auch lien ahall have priority over all other liena or in cumbrance whatsoever, except a Hun of general taxes. Section 4. When auch bord lien docket shall be made uo as he einbe- provided, as to the assessments of ' improvment of streets or laying of '". the "" ordinance au- th,,rize th isiUe of lu bon,,, in conven 'oVoo'n'rin uTT'Z ,oU amount lf the unp.id aiiP.8ment I for such street improvements and sew- Jcrsandfor which application to pay ! under the proviiions of this ordinance havj been filed as shown by said bond lien docket, and auch bonds shall by the terms thereof, mature in ten yesrs from the date theieof and be payable in UnitedS tates Gold Coin and bear in terest not to exceed 6 per cent per an. num, interest payable semi-annually. said interest to be evidenced by cou pons attached to aaid bonds, provided the right to tike up and cancel such bonds upon psyment of the fsce value thereof wtih the accrued interest to the date of cavmcnt. at any semi-an nual coupon period at or after the per iod of one year from the date of such bonds, shall be and ia hereby veatcd in the city, and the bonds shall be re deemed consecutively, by number, com mencing with the lowett outstanding number. Notice that certain bonds are to be taken up and cancelled aa afore said and that the interest thereon shall cease at the interest paying period next following shall be published in the city official newspaper not less than twice during the month preceding said semi-annual period, and after said semi-annual period, interest upon the bonds designated in scuh notice shall cease. Such bonds before issuance shall be signed by tie Mayor, couutersigned by the City Recorder and authenticated by the seal of the city attached there to, and shall be registered consecutive ly by number and denomination of each in a book and to be kept by tbe Record er and accessible to the Treasurer, and known and designated as the impiove ment bond register. Eacb of auch books, whether issued for thi im provement of streets or the laying of sewers, thall have distinctly and plain ly inscribed or printed on the face therof the register number and the words "Improvement Bond" with the name of the City of St. Helens. Such bonds shall be advertised for sale and sold for the highest Tice, obtainable, but not for less than par and accrued interest,and the proceeds therefor shall be paid by the purchaser to the Treai- urerof the City and the par value thereof shall be credited to the respec tive street improvement anj sewer funds for which aaid bonda are issued, and the accrued interest and premium accruing from the sale of said bonda shall be credited to the general fund of the city, the fund from which interest ia paid on street and sewer warrants or the improvment bond sinking fund, as the Council aball direct. Section 5. Thereafter there ahall be due and payable annually for ten succ essive years to the Treasurer of the city by the owner of each lot or parcel of land assessed for the improvement of any street or streets or part or parts thereof, or the laying of any aewer, whosd application to pay the cost of such improvement or sewer by install ments has been filed as herein provided, t.'n per ent of the coat of auch im provement or sewer, assessed against the property of such owner as appears by the bond lien docket, with the amount of one year's interest at not to exceed six per cent per annum on un paid assessments or installments. The first payment aforesaid shall be due and payable at the expiration of one year irom tne aate oi aaia asstssmem in the original lien docket, and subse quent payments kt the expiration or each year thereafter. Should auch jwncr or owners neglect or refuse to pay such sum or sums aforejaid as the inie shall become due and payable, for a period of twenty (20) days, then the whole amount of said installments remaining unpaid shall become due and payable and ahall be collected in the .ame manner and with the aame penal ties as delinquent street ' or sewer af- sessments are collected. It shall be the duty of the Recorder when the install ment and intereat payments on any ai sessment in the bond lien doe net are due, to make and deliver to the Treas urer of the city a copy of the docket, and the Treasurer shall thereupon make the proper extensions of installments snd interest on said bond in lien docket, nd notify the owner or ownera of pro perty that the installments aforesaid are due and payable, but a failure such owner or owners to receive such notice shall not be taken nor held to prevent the collection of installments or interest aa herein provided. Section 6. The Treasurer shall issue a receipt to the person psying such in stallments or interest and shall file du plicates of said receipts with the city recorder, and ahall make proper entriea of the same allowing the amount of each payment and the date thereof; provided, however, that at any time after issuance of such bond any owner at the time of any such lot, parcel of land or other propeity againat which such assessment is made and docketed may pay into the city treasury the whole amount of auch assessment for which such lien is docketed, together with the full amount of interest and costs accrued thereon to the date of payment, and upon producing to the City Recorder the receipt of the Treas urer (which receipt shall not only state the amount of such payment, but also s descirption of the lot, parcel of land or other property upon which such pay ment ia made), he shall enter ia such lien docket opposite the entry of the lien therein the amount of such pay ment and the date thereof. Section 7. The Treasurer shall keep an account of funds paid upon bonded improvements separate and apart from jther funds of the city, and the amount of ai'ch funds paid on account of in stallments and interest upon unpaid in stallments shall be placed to the credit of funds to be known and designated aa "Improvement Bond Sinking Fand," anj "Improvement Bond Interest Fund," respectively. The amount placed to the credit of the Improve ment Bond Sinking Fund shall from time to time, under the direction of the Council, be deposited in some relia ble bank, or be invested in or used for the purchase of Improvment Bonds of the city at par. In the purchase of Im provement Bonds, accrued interest thereon shall be paid out of the Im provement Bond Interest Fund ard all interest received by the Treasurer on account of coupons shall be placed to the credit of the Improvement Bond Interest Fund and interest due on Im provement Bonds shall be paid out of the Improvement Bond Interest Fund. Section 8. All bonds purchased by the city shall be held by the Treasurer as a sinking fund, and shall be deposit ed by direction of the Council when re quired for the redemption of bonds pre viously issued as they shall become due and payable. . Patronize the Ml y ami - FULL LXFORMATIOX BY ADDRESSLXG H. V. REED, Manager ;f05 McKay Building Section 9. Entries of payments of installments, interest and costs made under the provisions of this act shall be made in the Bond Lien Docket afore said as the same shall be received, with the date thereof, and such payments made and entered in said Lien Pocket shall be and operate aa a discharge of auch lien to the amount of auch pay ment, and from the date thereof. Section 10. No obligation incurred by the city by virtue of this ordinance shall be deemed or taken to be within or any part of the limitationa by law as to indebtedness. Section 11. At any time after the bonda which may be iasaed hereunder shall become payable, the city may re deem auch bonds, and to that end ahall redeem the aame consecutivly by num ber, commencing with the lowest out standing number of such bonds, and shall give notice of the readiness of ths city to redeem by publication in the city official newspaper once each week for three successive weeks, gnivig therein the number of the bonds which will be redeemed and the time at which ucb redemption will be made, and af ter aucb lime so fixed for redemption no interest shall accrue or become pay able on such bonda so notified for re demption. Section 12 And it is particularly ordained that the provisions of this ordinance shall be applicable as well to street improvements and sewer improvements already begun or com pleted, aa to future improvements, where the assessments and the appli cation! to pay in installments have been trade without conflict to any pro visions herein contained. Read the first time March 2nd, 1914. Read the aecond time March 9'h, 1914. Read the third time March 16th, 1914, and passed. Approved by the Mayor March 16th, 1914. A. W. MUELLER, Mayor. Attest: E. E. QUICK. City Recorder. Oregon Minimum Wage Lav Upheld. Salem, Or. Holding that It is with in the police power of the state to make such regulations, the supreme court has declared constitutional the minimum wage law and the 10-houi law, passed at the last session of the legislature. British Navy Estimates Grow. London. The British naval estim ates for 1914-15 amount to $257 750. 000, an increase ot $13,700,000 cvei last year. Mist Advertisers Are you etting more pay than you did last year? Are you reasonably sure of getting still more next year ? 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