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ST. Johns review THE REVIEW Job Print ing Department U one ef the very Best-not the hrjest-Mngoa. Thoroughly Modern. The Circulation of THE REVIEW in the Penin sula exceeds that of all other papers combined Advertisers, note this. Devoted to the Interests of the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Centor of the Northwest VOI,. i ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST it, 1905. NO. 40 000 OOOOOOCMDOCHDOOCMDOOO 0 800 OOOOOOOO Keep Your Eye on St. Johns CKXMDOOOOOOt " ' f , : ; f - ', , I 1 11 1 iwwiiiiiih in; DEC ID UCCTILO nnmui unr cm inr Mill nLuumn mtcimu. unuinflnuc. w, i r I II! How Do You Like the Weather? If you are not suited with it at home, come to our office while we figure our bill of Lumber for you. We have an office that suits all kinds of people at all times of the year. In cool days it's warm; in hot days it's cool. Do you suppose the lumber has anything to do with it? Hav you tried our lumber? If not, why not ? v Acme Lumber Co. Good Treatment. Good Lumber. Delivery." SOUTH St. Johns Lots for Sale Jktween the car line ami the boulevard overlooking the river and harbor, close to the Drydock and within n few minutes' walk of all the mills and factories now located in the humming, thriving and rap-idly-growing city of St. Johns, Portland's great manufacturing district. LOTS 50x1 00 FEET All clear. Hydrant water now on tract and will be piped to every lot as required. Title Guarantee & Trust Co. 6 uud 7 Chamber of Commerce Portland, Oregon Rogers ami Van Ilouten, SellhiK Agents, at Julius. Office at the end of the car Hue. St. i MIMMMMIHWT W. II. KINO, PrtMrt. M. L. HOLDROOK, Vlce-Pfcriikftt ST. JOHNS ABSTRACT & TRUST COMPANY Abstracts of Title carefully and accurately prepared. Charg Reasonable. Wce: Kini'a BuiNini, Jry St., St. John ( MULTNOMAH ELECTRICAL CO. Inc. ' DKALHK.S IN ELECTRICAL awl OAS SUPPLIES U IntUU Llghtlss sd row PUbU and rowir f ctor and Dynamo Haute atul Bctl wtrlM specialty , DOCK FINISHED. St. Johns' Public Dock First of lis Kind on River. People have been crying for a public dockand the city of St. Johns has built one of large size which will be put to frequent use. For some time the city of St. Johns has been figuring upon this dock proposition; and when the bonds were votea steps were promptly taken to erect a public dock of a size to care for all probable business. The result is that a dock which could not be duplicated for less than $3000 is now open for the public. In every way it i a public dock: there will be no charge for dockage: and any loat, large or small, has the right to make the landing. A little later, before the rainy season, & it is stated, a warehouse will le erected to protect goods uot immediately removed. In such an event if business shall be so great as to necessitate the services of a man every day there will have td be enough of a charge for goods cated for to compensate the man in charge: but, of course, that would be but just. There are two decks to the dock so that if the water be high or low or the boats be large or small no difficulty will be experienced. It is finely constructed, strong, durable aud convenient: in fact, there is no equal of it between Portland and Astoria. And the cost to the city was not great, J, W. Cone, for the convenience of having the old dock for his own lumber business, made the city of St. Johns a gift of the lumber used in the construction of the new dock. This brought the expense of the affair down to a mimmum figure, and allowed the city to put in a dock for about one-third of what the ordinary cost would have beeti, But for the public spirit shown by Mr. Cone the dock would have been but a very' common affair fcven if it bad ' been built at all: and he should receive the proper credit for his liberality, Bought ReaHy. E. F. Day, who recently bought the one-fourth block from Fred Valentine, has purchased block 25, where W. V. Jobes is now living. The consideration was somethiug over four thousand dollars. City Council Considers and incuts Concisely. Monday evening was held the regular semi-monthly meetiiu' of the city council with Mayor Kinir in the chnir. Couticilmcn present Messrs. liricc, Thompson, Lcggctt, Peterson, Miulquist, Shields. Iluilduig committee reported the house for fire apparatus practically completed. Street comniiUec.rcported that in the work of improving Gresham stiect from Mohawk to Adams streets condemnation proceedings must lie resorted to: nud it was decided that the city engineer should make necessary surveys mid report at next meeting. Ordinance 54 relating to jcdd!crs' aud hawkers' licenses was read the first, second (by title) aud third times and passed by a unanimous vote. Ordinance relating to occupa tion tax was read the first time. This was an intensely lonir affair. but full of interest to nil doing business in St. Johns. J. C. Scott npeared for the water company imd asked that proicr legislation be enacted to prevent parties soiling the wuter in the new reservoir. He stated that the com pany had been to great excuse to erect a suitable reservoir aud was about to erect a neat iron fence about the projerty with a desire to prevent any defiling of the water: aud the company now asked for an ordinance to create n jcua!ty for those caught trespassing upon the premises or tampering in any man ner with the purity of the water. The matter was laid over. The matter of the charges against Merjjtt Hanks nisirsbul, Fred Val entine, treasurer, and C. 1). lid wards, councilman, holding office illegally they not !etng proiHirty owners was brought up. It de- V(.ioK.-d that the two hrt-uatncd were proicrty-holders and the marshal was rcapjwiutcd aud con firmed. It was not considered necessary to re-confirm Mr. Valen tine. The 1M wards matter was dis cussed nt some length. In the opinion of Messrs. Mudquist, Peterson and Thompson, Mr. IM wards was uot a leinil mcinlK.r of the Inxly: while Messrs. Shields, liricc aud I.eggett maintained n contrary opinion. The latter-named declared that if Kdwards was uot a egal member they would approve of his beiuir deixsed nud no louder sitting with the council: and, in order to ascertain the standing they urged that n regular legal hearing hj had on the evening of Friday, August 1 1. This was agreed to by all present. - Attorney Greene, when asked his opinion, stated that he had jwr soually notified Mr. Edwards uud License for Milk Route Will Pound Prohibitive. There is nn article in ordinance 54 which needs fixing else a hard ship will be felt by many people. Wc refer to the hich license amounting to a prohibition -affixed to the selling of milk when the seller docs not own his cows. With a desire to nrotect those living and doing business in St, Johns the council has enacted an ordinance affixing n goodly license lee lor nil itinerant dealers in all lines of trade: included in this nre "milk men" or proprietors of milk J 4 4 1 IS !! St. Johns Park No. 2. routes. 1 lie tax on these is from one dollar it day up unless the dealers raise their own milk: then there is no fee. With its 2joo residents St. Johns is not in the class of farmini: or dairying districts. It is useless to try to think so: it would be futile to nssert that we can long produce enough milk for our own consump tion. Just how many cows nie around here is not known but it is a fact that many iienptu are now greatly inconvenienced because of a dearth of milk. It is difficult to secure nud many families are forced to walk ten or more blocks to secure enough to supply modest needs. Several men at various times have essayed to start a milk route in ht. Johns not with a view to harm those who now sell, but to accommodate those who now fre quently go without: but when the tax of a dollar a day is figured in the exiHMiso was found to be too great. Supiwse a man started 11 route with a patronage of 40 quarts to Degiu with. He would be forcei to udd to. each quart, or.sell for about ioc a quart to pay his one dollar they license. Probably he would agree to reduce the price as his trade increased: but it is stir- f -f If as prising now long lie would lie advertising n reduction. And there would be no opiositiou because of this high tax. When the big lumber mill shall be running there will w n big increase in the demand for milk: in fact, every week there is an increase with 110 visible menus of supplying the needs. A license of n dollar or two n mouth would oikiii the field uot only to one but to couietitive dealers thus making it possible to get milk conveniently at a decent figure. Those who are now patron izing home dealers would not desert those of whom they now buy: no home dealer would suffer but the sale of condensed milk, witli its accomjwiiyiiig impurities, would be decreased and the users would be the better for it. Tint Hi'.VH'.w believes that the city council of St. Johns, when it carefully considers the prohibitive features of the milkman's license lis attorney, Mr. McGnrry, that fee. will issue an aine-idmeut modi the matter was to be brought up at this meeting aud urged them to be present: that Mr. McCarry had made no definite answer nud that Mr. Kdwards had declared that it was a matter of no great interest to dm what was done. Mayor Kinir stated that it was Mr. Kdwards' desire to remove to a location near his busiue&s in Albiua -and that lis projK-rty here was sold for that reason: he neiieveu Mr. Jul wards did uot desire to remain upon the council, Salaries of city attorney aud city marshal were allowed. Adjourned to Friday evening, August 11. Excursionists Come. Trolley-car loads of visitors very frequently are brought to St. Johns on a tour of sight-seeing, aud the cars run very slowly through the city. Upon every hand are to be noted indications of progress and there is no doubt that the visitors are favorably impressed with what they see. Ihese trips frequently ead to investments and the locat ing here of the buyer. Healthy Increase. From the assessed valuation of St. Johns as given in the assessor's books last year it is learned that the valuation was at that time about $300,000, This year the just completed list shows a trifle more than $1,250,000 valuation which gives one an idea that Tint Rkvikw is conservative when it declares that the growth aud im provement of the city is wonderful, Keep Your Kye On St. Johns. fying the prices. The council desires to act for the good of the greatest number of its constituents and a rate of a couple of dollars a mouth will do much good. Not Much bickness. It has Ihxmi remarked by several people of St. Johns that there seemed to le a great number of cases of sickness here, and Tint KitviKW has made a special effort to look into the matter, It finds that it is the general opinion of the doctors that the health conditions are jerfcctly normal. There arc now no cases of typhoid fever in town as far as we can ascertain, but there nre a few instances of summer complaint. One doctor laid it to the fact that there are a great number of people out here from the east and the change of altitude, rather than any especially un healthy conditions, was the cause of it. One doctor warns the people that it is not just the !cst thing to bathe in the Willamette river, as it is so close to Portland that one is apt to get the effect of the impurities from that city. He says that in other parts of the state there is trouble resulting from the use of so-called Pasteurized milk, which, by the way, is treated with certain chemicals to disiufeqt it. In localities where ice is scarce, much of the meat is treated with saltpetre, the meat being embalmed, as it were. The saltpetre acts on the human system as it docs on the piece of meat; hence the trouble. Keep Your Kye On St. Johns. Lots 50x1 06 ft. With a 1 6-foot Alley back of each lot. $200 Prices: and Upwards Terms ". I $5 Down and $5 per month wT1ota7c lffiffi blocks iroiii car line ami 4 4 I Near the Great Weyerhauser Mill Site. Don't pay $350 and $.00 for building lots only 100 feet deep, aud without alleys, when you can get extra sized lots with 1 6-foot alleys, all high aud level, aud in the best locality in St. Johns for $200 aud upwards. Let us show you this property. We cau sell only the first fifty lots at these prjees. This is done to ad vertise the property. When these are sold prices will advance 25 per cent. Within one year, when the great Weyerhauser mill is in operation, these lots will be worth double the pres ent prices. St. Johns Land Co St. JoIlIlS I'o"e Union 3104 QregOll Unwell Office and Agency on the Ground. LUMBER CO TO Till? St. Johns Lumber Company For all kinds Common Lumber, KILN DRIED Flooring, Ceiling and Rustic. Sash, Doors, Aouldiugs and Columns. Yards and Mill Foot Burlington St. Phone East 594 J. J. KADDERLY Hardware Of all Kinds. Sole Agent for Universal Stoves and Ranges Do not (nil to see the Universal Steel Range before purchasing 141-143 First Street. Odd Fellows Building, Pofllwd, Oregon. Phone Main 1382 t t I t t t - t t I