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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1918)
I MUNICIPALDWNERSHIP OF TELEPItNE SYSTEM (Contlifueu i lirst page) Wellington " cciiiiioII would Ju ut thn foiindntloi street night rout PtoniB of the city I WUH nil thn fiu tun city couu ST. HELENS MIST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1918 ell made mo go lie. If 111) cuu CJIIIO lii and take flftieot of the street Mopped, In that pe matte- to the anil he couhln t right?" A lion says rof Htrmit committed HllXOtl HllggOKttnklllg It uiKlii. advisement. . MoI:tft hucoikIs tliu n. nt km, Motion (fries, Saxon "The mot committee has o rlKht to revokt." Wellington "it It In hcluc "oil, do you wish to nee the city council about anything?" Holt "No." wSx;;MurH?"lull",rf"rd' d Hlllhnrfnrfl "I.. . . on .1.,.! ,i. . " . K' ' thlk '" l'loa was to UlleV wii V M """J W0Ul" H,"t18 U" r.i-rari,M ,ls"t u r,K"t be-i(!hli,"I!:!;rr.r-"you - McDonald "I didn't order It that wity. 1 only ordered It put In." ""ii uo KIT. Olllck. Kncorilnrl it they will net at "n.. you understand iulw U. T It Is Zilshed " kin"0 wlt" the "' oi .t ilUnr od' more Im on allnvwnv iim n ... ... In it .... i.. . . 1. ' luI"- mcuonaiu I. .. .. ?' " ,0"ytive degrees, publish It" 1 It would IlKht the alloy way." .. One In an adjourned meeting and the other a meeting adjourned. Thlb Is really a continuation of the last night's meeting. 1 didn't understand we had any bills the other night, ana as I had other business to attend to, I mount for you people to stay here and talk things over. I couldn't sec any business, and with no discourt esy to anyone, I went, and I want to muke that right." Saxon "The city would like to have more than one bid." McDonald "To have Just the In dividual bid, don't look quite right. It don't look like business. We aren't duly bound to accept It." naxon "H we open that bid and we can't accept other built now He Is assured once. Allen "We vote! to be decu:! to the company. Wo thought the street would nolp open so grunted! permission to M (Wheeler. " Haxon "Htroei coiimilttoe look. Into It nnd take ji:tt action you sue' ni!riuiry." ) I mciionaid .- .....i,. Kxon-"You fi, chairman. You meeting ut the last sen Ion We have take what actloryou wish. Mr. I two ways of adjourning It Jem" omuii wnut elxe have you, Mr Kopordor, before the committees'" Quick "We have this bid here yet, nnd we have an ordinance." Haxon "Only ono bid?" Quick "That Is all I have, It hiiHii t been opened yet." Allen "llefore wo take nn il.lu particular buHlness, I would like to a statement roirardlnir h Tje Central Confectionery ( -ALWAYS 1 1 AS HOT M COLD DRINKS, ICE CREAM and 3DA FOUNTAI.N DELICACIES A BIG LINE OF CIGAIS, TOBACCOS, CONFECTIONERY I BOOKS and MAGAZINES T e Central Confectionery ROY A. STEWART, Proprietor We don't have to Haxon "It would be lust as eooii as published, It' would be public property." Chapman "We have two bids now. Mr. Saxon haa one and Mr. Quick has one." Quick "Uo you want to open It now?" 8axon-'No, band It to the chair man of committee." Same was handed to Chapman. Saxon "(Jive It to the recorder to open, that it what he is here for." Allen-i-"Hns anyone any objection to opening It?" No objection being made bids were opened by Quick. Diw-UHHion on I'lan of Dock Haxon "These are the plans, such as they are. What Is your Impres sion? There is one 60x60 feet and one 60x70 feet." Allen "Do you want to decide tonignt or think it over?'' more than (600.00." Saxon "The check to be for, $500.00 and then the bond to be giv en later." I Day "The certified check usuai ! ly accompanies the bid, to force the, party to enter into the contract or reimburse the city in case he doesn't,1 but the bond is to hold the city blameless relative to any accident. It would be for about $2600.00, at' least half." ! Saxon "What eUe have you got,' Mr. Recorder?" '. Wakesley "Mr. Mayor, before' you leave that talk, I have a man who will furnish those logs and If you want to get the floating dock started you can do so." j McDonald "Water Is high now,1 so I think we had better build the other dock." Saxon "The floating dock has nothing to do with that dock. What have you next there?" Quick "It Is an ordinance for the establishing of a city health oi flcer, bis remuneration and duties, and health laws, etc. I have also a copy of an ordinance an . amend ment.' Allen "This Is referring to this health. Portland has a late amend ment to their ordinance." Chapman "Let us hear what It says 7 ' Allen then reads amendment. WALDEN DILLARD HAS A NARROW ESCAPE j (Continued from pnje oie) jlng pretty much all along the line, Chaoman "We ran upper, tho'we moved again In trucks to Mont- blds tonight subject to an agreement i ,aucon- Here we were ,n 11 more than If they cannot submit bonds that lt ever Tlle Germans hated to go along : would be off.'' this sector and they put up some McDonald "A man does not feel l,craP' Tllls wag the first time that I like putting up money for bonds un til he knows they would accept his bid." Morton "Mr. Mayor and Council, ir. Alien win leu you and 4 can saw the ground really covered with dead 'Bosh and oome dead Americans, though few compared with the Bosh. At Montfaucon I had what might be called a somewhat narrow escaDe. We were shelled continuously dav GiyE US YOUR "luring thiooming year, and we will save vou nioncv. In iir stock f GROCERIES and DRY GOODS, SHOES and CLOTHING, you will find just the article you want mil at priil Phone 35 a little lower than elsewhere. A.T. KIBLAN (Houlton) St. Helens, Ore. Free and Prompt Delivery also state from my experience that1"" were Bnelle continuously oaj It Ik iiHiml in ranniu ...iiiui n night and bombed at nieht also. ciieck for at, least ten per cent of the j Two day8 he'0" we got there there contract price, the check to be for-'were flfteei engineers killed and felted to the city in case the con- tne '""owing day, nine, working on tractor does not go thead with the the road through 6ur dump. The work as per contract, and then a!flr8t day and nlSht there we, slept bond should be given which would! n "PUP" tentB. but when a Bhel. be for your safety." landed In the midst of our tents Allen "We ought to take lnto'wlllle the men were out at work, l consldaratlon what are we to do if decided that we had better move Into we acceDt these b ds. and I surnn "ul ,uor lan "an an rhev nre enlnr n riva n nmaihin. i hour later a shell burst " ' - - ... ...... ra else, Saxon "If we refuse these, we nave to re-advertise." half within a hundred feet of my tent, killing two horses, one officer and one enlisted man of an artillery outfit. That rtmnmiin "I mnko . mnin h-t'Bht we were shelled and bombed mui uuiuiug ui utiiiiue iiappenea to our dump; after that it was the same thing daily and nightly. ' we accept Mr. O'Connor's bid." McDonald "I will second It, with tjie understanding, provided we can make a legal contract so as to be sat isfactory." Saxon "All In favor say aye." Ayes carry it, there being no con trary noes. Saxon "Ayea have It.'' Haa Narorw Kscaite Luckly most of the. German shells were duds and did no damage, un less they scored a direct hit. I have timed the shells for hours at a tin. ' there and some nights we got as Alien yuiCK, just wnat wab""ul' ua "'" every mree or touri that?'' minutes. One night I was laying mi Quick "Provided that he furnish I bfid awnke, having been awakened by suitable bonds and that we can make i the whistle of the shells, and was an agreement and get a certified ' counting them (about one every tour check." minutes) most of which failed to ex- Saxon "It would be $5000.00 P'de, when all at once there was a bonds. He will have to put up a crash and dirt was thrown all over certified check for $600.00 to show . nlv bed and the shell cases (brass; that he wishes to faithfully perform 0' the roof rattled like they were this; when he puts up a bond, the a" falling In; there was one flash of check will be released. 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PORTLAND, OREGON HaPPy New Year Another year has come to a close and I wish again to thank my many friends for their patronage in the past, and hope that I may be able, in the larger quarters which I expect to occupy after February 1st, to serve them more efficiently in the future than I have in the past. I WISH FOR ALL A Happy and Prosperous NEW YEAR E. A. ROSS BANK BLDG. ST. HELENS " " - - " ! hnlmnf J ..,..l 1 1.1 ' , iioiiiicv uu auu wan uuibiuc JUUKiIlg . I but since the dugout didn't cave in, ; my pal and I climbed back in and ! slept the rest of the night. The next -morning ' we discovered the shell hole. Our dugout had two rooms. A bed room and a sitting room, each about five or six by eight feet. The only entrance was in thrugh the "sitting room." There was a wall of dirt about two feet thick and one row of empty boxea between the two rooms. It was possible to stand up right in the first room, but the floor of the bed room was about two or three feet higher than that of tlu former, thus it was only possible to stand on ones knees with his head bent In the bed room. The whole business was below the surface of the ground. The shell, a six inchor, ; entered the roof of the sitting room through the corner of the entrance and here the fuse was set off. It then went Into the wall between the two rooms and down under our bad not more than two feet from mv sli'e. Thanks to bad ammunition or good luck it failed to go off. The shel: probably went down eight or ten feet. : We had a direct hit on a pile of high j ammunition but the shell was a dud j also and failed to cause an explosion, ; and did no damage except to burst twd six Inch shells without exploding them. ! Had Work Aplenty ' Of course, I can't mention all the shelllngs and bamblngs now, but I'll soon be home to tell of them. We'va had a plenty of work both night and , day and we still have, but It's almost over. I expect three months will see us starting for a port. Well, when the Germans got out of range with us at Mountfaucon we were moved to Montigny and the war was over. ' But Uncle Sam is certainly taking no chanceq. We're shoving ammuni tion forward on the broad gauge now and real U. S. A. engines are i pulling the loads. Wish you all a very Merry Christ-; mas and Happy New Year and I'll ( be home soon after. We've flnu quarters here. Old German shacks, nnd they'ie dandies. Two other ser geants nnd myself live Is. a largi. , room in the center of a small build Ing. Cement walls on two sides. ' Real glass windows, good bnnko nnd mattresses, plenty of cnndles and oil lights, a good big flat topped Btove, real chairs, a circular sew for a grid dle and a good can for a coffee pot 1 and we hr.ve the best hot-cakes and coffee to be gotten In France. We heve a large looking-glass, and I've combed my hair for the first i time In over a month, but I haven't; i bathed since my bath In the shell ! hole which I mentioned in a previous j letter. It doesn't thaw out durinb I the day now. Plenty of Ice, but no ; ! skates. , ; Love to all. ! SQT. WALDEN DILLARD, I We Thank You for the liberal patronage you have given us since we have been in St. Helens. We have endeavored to merit such patronage by fair dealing and furnishing you with only the best of goods. We trust we will be favored with your continued , good will and patronage and wish you a Prosperous New Year. Larsen & Company Telephone No. 27 ' Free Delivery The People's Market IS THE PLACE YOU CAN ALWAYS SECURE The Best of fleats GROCERIES, FRUITS and VEGETABLES Give Us a Trial and be Convinced i The People's Market Phone 40 St. Helens, Oregon llfl 3W You can. do so by trading with us. On each purchase you save something which in the ag gregate amounts to a large amount. We Thank You For the liberal patronage you have given us dur ing this year. If you will favor us with such patronage during the coming year, we will treat you well, and, as stated, save you money on yout grocery bill. ROY & FREDERICKSEN Phone 42 GROCERS St. Helens, Oregon