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About St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1905)
---- The Sign of the Progressive Storekeeper ! Is an HMSCTRIC SIGN, combined with the brilliant attractiveness and trade pull ing qualities of 1$ M-CTRIC MOHT IN SIDK Till? STORK The Advertising Value of Electric Light Is best shown In its increasing use by enterprising merchants in every line of business. Put Your Store to the Front Hy using KLKCTRIC LIGHT, and throw your less wide-awake competitor into the shadow. It Is a Business Proposition And we stand ready to prove to you the absolute economy cf KMiCTKIC LIGHT. Reduced Rates For Aletre Service Make the cost less than you think. T Call up Phone Kxchangc 13. We send rcprcscnta- T live. : Portland General Electric Co., Sovsnth and Alder Streati. A Few Thorns. Freddy fed the elephant Nuts, candy and nice fruit; And then tossed in a cigaret To see if that would suit. I 1 I I I When Freddy's broken bones and things Permit him to wear pants, He may go to a circus, but He II feed no elephants! Mrs. Cake, of Portland, gave a lawn party last week. Frosted, of course. "A Pastor Cured by Pc-ru-na," UNNTON laconics; Through a delay In the mall these Items, Intended for lat week's Issue of Tim Rrvirw, were received too late for Insertion. They are printed tills week because they arc of worth. Mr. Blackmail, of Stockton, California, Is here for two weeks, Mrs. Grant's sister, of Oakland Cal ifornia, Is visiting here. Mrs. Well Is back from the hospital and Is very much Improved. You don't need to keep your eye on Linn ton. It crows without watching. A. Hill, foreman of the Keystone Lumber Company, at Klntskanle, Is In I.innton, . r r..i... Tiie 1: aric it wiiwn l.llml)er.oInttlly say.sann(l. vureu 01 wnair ' wlll convert the old i.lanlninnlU Into a wc uuii i mini iu use 11. 1 lam mill. It Miss Walker has returned to British The Skamokawa Kagle says: (S THE I Portland and Suburban ;; f Express Company I - -""a) OUR FAITH (Operating cars over Portland Con solidated lines) Ra'.es Reasonable Service Prompt Bmkner Brothers t V 'i 1 V V Department Store All Goods Sold at Portland Prices! Mi'irlinndixi', including Dry flood it, tin Kith n tiiivo Murk of (Idim'iiiI iiiMiiM nun miiim'h, HiiiciMH'H, miniumc, iioiikii i iirniH IVfd, I'.lc In fuel iivoiylliiiij,'. Tliuir Price uro right. Don't wimtii your liniu piing to IWUmnl, hut roiiiii in mid kco our hlnck iiiul pi Iron. ling, is en regie to wear a wig." we surmosc the durued fool means en wiggle. It's nil right to yell "love your neighbors but to carry out the injunction may create lots of trouble in the family. An Oakland married man has eloped with n telephone girl. "Hello! Drop a nickel, please! Lines busy now! "Seaside Visitors Light-hearted" says the daily press. Also light headed, (the blondes.) Also light pursed everybody In these days of accidents on ex cursions about the only thing an excursionist uets free is n nice write up and n funeral. If u Chinaman was anything more he d be a human being. II lie was anything less he'd be nothing. What good is he anyway? A Colfax. Washington, man laughed so heartily last Saturday that he died. That must be what folks style "tickled to death." Dallas Itemi.er says that a local horse owner is building a "nobby stable for his stallion. h.vidently the stallion is not a "smooth" one. A real .scientist now declares that mosquitoes and whisky cause morel , We have made arrangements to transfer all frieght in the city mid at St. Johns when necessary by team nt reasonable rates. Columbia after sending a very pleasant two weeks with Mrs. urant Mrs. Crane, of San l'rnnclsco, who has been visiting h. W. Watts for the last month, left for home l'rlday Mr. Swcnscn and family, of Fulton, purchasers of the Westburg cottage, are now occupying their new home. The box factory Is furnishing the until yotl get our prices luuiDcr lor uic rciiooiiiousc. air. ivius- Do not move your iurniture (of course you are going to St Johns to live, Portland is moving tnai way; mail has the contract for building It. Work on the road Is going on nil the time. It will not be long before I.liiutou will have n good road all the way to Portland. I.lunton people will regret to learn that It. A. Alcorn and wife In the future will make their home In Ios Angeles, California. Mks Sadie Henderson, of Denver, Colorado, has gone to Portland, where she will Micud tlie remainder of her visit to this Ktnlc. Sunday last over loo I.inutonlaiis dis mounted from the uildniuht txissciiucr. 1,1 nn ton Is nlways well represented oil Miminys 111 rortlanil. C. II. Young, who recently occupied the place of night oiicrator here, lias accepted n position its chief telegraph operator al wallas City. The Misses Reynolds, of Carson, Wasliiiit'ton, arc v sitlnir Miss Ruby Wlllson. Mrs. Milircu, of rciinsylvania, is uic gucsi 01 air. nun airs, uoriiou Wlllson. Little girt to her mother: "Oh, inamuin, isn't I.lutitoii an exciting place to live?" "Why, my child?" "Just think, mamma, nix cows killed 011 the track since wc come already!' The Clark & Wilson I.umltct Comtxiny $ Remember The Big Department Store Corner .IciKoy Hlirot nud Mrondwiiy Ht. John, Orogon iino.uiiivn 1 11 1u11.1v inuiw f, i.uttliig up six houses below the trouble than anything else on earth, ravine. They arc already rented. The Where does woman, lovely woman, dcninnd for houses Is very great. People COItie ill? line iiviiii; icui jusi willing lor iioiiicb Ht'i iri.i.t nil tlllill. The other evening six Portland ucullc thost "Imhv iiiiMitintnrs" sluiwii at mvii out III their launch moored her near the fnlr U It the nroier thine? for ,,mc WM,lc lMC" visited our little . . !. .. .. M''rg. Swell from the steamer IMs.ilo iiiiii m ucciiue nun inn iiiuuili whs . , , ., mmlnst , , ,1P, , '.00XXX0OOOO00O0X00.00 OOCXHOC0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO M. J. Walsh Co., The well known ami Mpulur dealers in Klcctric and (ias Chandeliers, as well as Mantels, Orates mid Til iug, decline that of the many beautiful homes lieiug built in St, Johns they are furnishing eleven out of twelve of them. An Elegant Stock of Electrical Goods A sMAiulty of house wiling and gas piping. Get es timates fioiu them at their show looms and lie pleased, .'1 4 3 Washington Street, corner of Seventh, Portland. la kerosene lamp? "Keptiblicans Pavor Root!" shouts a Portland exchange. Of course they do: they've lcen root lug for Roosevelt several years and still consider him. Injured her ucccMitatliig the six re maining all night. Home Prom Outing. Marshal Merrill Hanks, George Lashhaugh, l?d I.egard nud Chris Hvcr notice how a girl will sihiihI 01hu.se returned on Monday from n seven weeks at 11 seasliore at 520 tier week ,s outing at bilver Lake, week for the ptirtmsc of accumulating Washington. They are rather lu bunch of nice mealy freckles? And highly cooked by the sun. but mi- then coiiMiuie seven bottles of iiouuce that they had a very flue Mtiggs' Pace Polisb to gel rid of time while gone. 'emf t t 4 t t V. SMITH J. I', I'OIM' SMITH & POFF, Drslrr lu FEED, HAY, LIME, CEMENT, SHINGLES LATH, OOAU P.TO. (V.I irli,r,r. at IVilUn.l I'lln-s I'lu. Ohi- Half I'crlihl Clisrfri I'ftHMft IWIItrrjr hI lin. I I'll.n Phono Union 3101 KT. JOHNS, 0UKQ0N t i ii St. Johns Sash and Door Co. A. I). McDONAlJ). ,UniMKer. Look over our stink of I Screen Doors and Windows 1 The woman who wears gloves from which every finger and thumb arc sticking through the ends doesn't npix.-ur half so "dressed tip" as the woman who cannot afford gloves but whose hands are clean. Does she? An Oakland man recently went to the fair to see if he could locate his wildcat, which had been stolen. We saw a mighty wild cat in the oriental building the other day when we lefusvtl to buy some of her Mull. Mitylie thal s the one. A Purest Oiovc man asks how to kill weevils in dried ens, Why not take each pea separntelv, tickle the weevil with 11 toothpick until he drops to the floor and then let an eight-iHiuud llatiron drop 011 him? We II wager that the weevil would soon 1k tlead. II. C. West, of the LaGuiude Observer, uveutly wrote a note to his wife he was tired of life and was to end it all: his body would Ik? found Itcsidc the !cautiful Grande Uoude, They hustled out after the stilt ami louuil it as lie Had said: there uixm the bank lay his Ixxly cold and limp in druudeiiuess! lie was dead drunk. Tills story might U' all right but we never Inifore heard of n iiewsiKi)er man who drunk! Nought in Oak Park. Prank Iloldmau, of Umatilla county, has purchased a lot in Oak Park addition Ho. 2, and will erect a home for his family at once. Mr. Iloldmau is a wheat farmer of Iuistern Oregon and has selected St. Johns for his home 011 account of our solubrious climate. And you will find exuollv what you want, us we eany all guides and sizes. . U-auty column hut a suggestion might not le niniss. Put Mime gasoline on the eyelashes and then ooocxxxxxxxxocKX "",v" , r ,"' , "'V '. ' ' . " isceuiiu or m uiey 11 ih; iignuT- s for the pimples a good draw shave will do effective work: so will a small mock plane, ur a coarM: grade of saiuljMper upplietl three times a day just after eating will be found to scare the jH.iky things away it is jK-rsistetl ui. I;vcls to Locate Here. W. I?. Swcngel, of Aurora, Ore gon, was in ht. Jolins the latter art of the week, accompanied by w.ivid Ktieck, of the same town. Mr. Swengle is anxious to become a resident of the city if he can make proier arrangements, and will go into business. Dog License. . . . r Aiieiiuou oi owners ot dogs is calletl to Section fi, of Ordinance 49, which is as 1 01 lows: "All dogs more than four mouths old found within the limits of the city of St. Johns without a license tag thereon are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and any per son or inhabitant of the city of St. Johns without first having paid the license letiutieil by tins ordinance and having the number thereof stamjMl or engraved thereon on the collar of such dog us herein One of our readers asks how to before provided, or who shall cauie have lighter eyelashes and how to or permit a collar and number to be remove pimples. This is not a Pt on a dog with intent to avoid Portland & Suburban Express Company W. R. STEARNS, Annagcr N. F. NOREN Real Estate I.otitln Arvldon' addition, North St. J0I1111. overlooking the river, U high and (tightly $J5" l'liic lot.joxioo, two hlockn from from the Iwnk . US CI10I1 vt corner lot on lloulcvanl 45u New jr-room house, close to car line, a nice home llou New tcti-room home, wood-filier plaster, hot nud cold water, nitent closet, full basement; lot joxluo, good location: (Itettcr He this). Price . .. . .ioo New vroom house, lot wxtiu, well Improved 800 New 6.room house, 10150x71, one Idock from station n) Sole aeciil for Title Ciiinrantce & Trust Co. Lota In Point View mjM $5 down tS Kr month. W. J.PEDDICORD REAL ESTATE fijoI.ot 50x1m. near ntntlon, nightly,! cash, h.ilniice easy, 6 ivr cent, fjjo It 50XHM, cloo 111; 5 cash, Instiilliiient. I . ..... 1 Mio i-rtxmi House lixis, small li.iru, a few hearing trees, lot joxlio. , tsi lloums 14X31. lot 75x1011. f55 3-room house, lot 5)xi8j; fijsj liintallineut. f)75 4'nxini house, lot 50x100, sightly, close to stntloii; adjoining lot may he had. fSoo 4.room houc, close In, lot doxijH. fyio 7.nKm house, good well, cistern and city water. Terms 011 pirt. 11050 5-rooni house, lnHervi; nice lawn, lot xoxioo. f Hiss 5-ioom houc, wood-filter; lot 50x1011, near station, f 1350 fi-nxim house, lot 50x10); line lo -' cutlou. Iltiulcviird. fi6i5 o.room house, river view, lot 50x100. filiss .S.nMiin house, near station, plenty of fniil. lot iooxIod: fine home. One 5-room house for rent, river view. Also 11 1 loom house, $350 Each IN- ST. JOHNS Is best expressed by our guaranty of 20 per cent increase in value of property during the coming year This guaranty provides that hi case the proper ty you purchase does not increase in value at least 20 per Cent 20 ier cent during one year from date of purchase we will refund your money with 6 JK.T cent interest This same gauranty we have been offering since we first undertook to get industries at St. Johns, something over three years back nud up to date no one has ever asked for his money back. Lots and Acreage on Installment Payments Hartman, Thompson & Powers 3 Chamber of Commerce, Portland, Or. O. L. CHAPEL, Agent at St. Johns. J'or the wry Ust und choicest 8 If You Had a Bank Account It Would Kncomanc thrift and economy, SMematie your business. (Jive you a permanent record of your business trans actions,' (5ive a nood impression to all with whom you have business relations; Ami jjive you more confidence in yourself. The Peninsula Bank payment of license therefor, shall, upon conviction for such offense before the municipal court, be subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more tlmu fifty dollars, or im prisoiimeut not less than five, nor more than twenty-fivo days." 1 im KuviiiW prints this section of the ordinance for the benefit of those owners of dogs who seem to have gotten the opinion that it is not necessary to have the license tntr f:mtitl,ii1 fn tit. ilmr flii'tmro In view of the fact that Portland should r.0,.,117,. n,U n ...... wtuvt-.! ivm ti iHtt1.11uv.un ik iiniT pfifr iirc oni-inn !.-. t ril. tit ,,n tlx 11 . " I f vvv I UUtte i?u ior "l'nriiiiri nav" m iiiiAr -. . .1 i t - j lUl. UU1 lll!IUZC. IllI 11 r..ii ; 1 . Lots in St. Johns These lotsoverlook Portland, the PortlauiT llarlmr and St. John llarlsir. They face the loo-foot Willamette lloulevanl. ami the liver view can never he obstructed. There uro oitlv fur of these lots left unsold. Rogers &VanHouten Phone Scott 3104. St. Johns Houses For Rent HY DANIEL BREChT ir YOU WAST A I10U8E CAM. ON ME Best Bargains in St. Johns. A IIN1S III.OCK. river view, onlv .... 2.w & HOI'S!., with hlwk of ground, mid plenty of fruit of all $ kinds, fine view of river, for 3,000 LOTS from $200 to $250 in South St. Jolins, ten jk?, cent t cash, balance at ?io jer month. t NORTH ST. JOHNS PKOIM.RTY at bargain prices und f 111 lurms 10 sun. I'INl. LOTS We also have fine lots at $200; $5 cash ; i' balance at $5 lcr month. I W. H. King Land Co., St. Johns.- I C0sKOOOOs0s0s00C :. 0 0400000K0X0 C0 ST. JOHNS, OREGON T'e George W. Cone ttsttstfsif4tftt4f44i.4i.44)m ! SHEPARD & TUFTS t t t t i Will sell you lots in North St. Johns, overlooking the river, near the Weyer haeuser mill site, for $300 per Lot, Ten per cent down, balance $10 per month. Inspect this property. Office in Peninsula Bank Building. Phone Scott 4061, Notary Iridic. Fire Insurance. I iimnpf-rnm vwu,Fjf : ..r. Would like to sav 25 per cent on your Fuel and you can do It. D. A. SMITH He's In Town Phone East 3035 fair, we submit the following. Modesty forbids us to declare that this is the U-st we've seen yet, privately, we think so. We need the money: hete's the yell: Willamette! Willamette! lXm't you hear us yell! Willamette! Willamette! Portland is the Belle! P-O-R-T Port of the sea: I.-A-N-I) I.attd of kIcc! Portland Roses! Oregon's Star! Cheer for Portland Hip! Hip! 'Rah! TllOKN, .Mail Schedule Mail airivr at St. lohiu at ?m a. m.. . . 1 1 an.i 1:15 . ui. dogs licensed. When the marshal finds a dog with no tag on the collar he will un pouuu u neuce. it you wish to avoid trouble for yourself, and dis r r cumiori ior your nog, ami annoy. ance ior tne olhcials, owners should see that each doc carries a collar and tax tag legally secured. l.cavc at lajij a, u., aud 4:50 p, tu. in the city as a resident Flooring, Ceiling, Rustic, And All Kinds of Building Material I'ruaipl ptTtry Quir.nlMd. UILL AT TOOT BUELU'Otom mrc. ST. JOHNS, CREQON W. M. KILLINGSWORTH THE PIONEER REAL ESTATE DEALER OF THE PENINSULA , . . The thiest lut of resideuc imin..rtv u the district, Walnut Park niT..rv it. ........ ... .? able home sites sru ..-..i.i 1... lines he has follpwe.1 in the st he ft " ' T most fav. W. M. KTLLINQSWOiiTH 003 Chamber of Commerce, Portland Business Rrm Dissolves. The roof-mintimr firm of Moe & Liark, alter a very busy career of a couple of months, has quit doing business as a firm. C. T. Moc will probably continue in the same busi ness while W. G. Clark is at present working for the government across the river. He is as vet tin- ileculeil as to which of the several will adopt but he intends to remain English i Walnut!; Trees!!; Now is the time to ! INVKSTIGATR ! We are special growers. The Best Soft-shell varieties, adapted to tW locality. Abundant bearers at early age. They thrive in Oregon. Big money can be made. Good invert' ment: small capital. Greatest oppor tunity in Northwest. We also carry a general nursery stock, Write for Frke descriptive catalog a treatise on Walnut culture. You need this. BROOKS & Walnut Nuncry, SONS, Carltoa, Onl : Uedoctownandbridsewotk without pain' Our,Sjt cpriectn platt work rn , ?.. ta. 8.' I" oouh comfortaNy. U?.Ut,,1 "oluUlr without pln. Ur.T i i n "PI" ' oW filUn "J crown WISE BROS. Dentists, KUint ButUia cor Third and Wh. 6U. Opencsxning.tUl, p. m. Sunj,,-, (rem , tot,. OrJjlo. aalaBB UK. W A WISK DR. T. p. WIS