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Wilms Moxok. 1?. w. vamwtink. MOXON-VALENTINE Co. Philadelphia Street, ST. JOHNS, OREGON. Bargains in Real Estate. Corner lot on Jersey street, close to center of business, - . . $2,000 Corner lot on Ivnnlioe street, - 1 200 Full block, 200x200, good house, fine well and plenty of fruit ; near O. R. & N. railroad and I'csscnden street, - . 5 000 Seven room house, five lots, 50x126, bam nnd chicken house, beautiful lawn, all kinds small fruits, in Oak Park an ideal su burban home, ... 3 200 House and four lots on Willamette Boulevard two comer lots ground all under cul tivation a fine site on the best residence street in St. Johns, - - . 2,300 A ten acre berry ranch at Canby, Oregon, to trade for St. Johns improved property. Lots in South St. Johns, $250; easy terms. Fire insurance, money to loan for building purposes. 1 POTTER & GOOLD I g Have a Complete Stock of S I Wabash - Screen - Doors AND 2 Adjustable Window Screens These goods are first class nnd prices are right. J5 r. L.nll 11 V. M I),.,'.,. 'PI....... ,V. ........ I.....,.- AK. 5 We solutely gunranteed. Fine Lawn Mowers, etc. Larue J Hardware just arrived. See t9. vou buy. A - I.... ... ..I. I....1... XI....! 1 1 & uompieie siock 01 i'ouury ixeuiug ana j Fencing, Garden Hose, and Tools of all kinds. ! v.uiui)iviv: muck ui l uuiiry veiling ami i.uwii "PATRONIZE ST. JOHNS AlERCHANTS !" 1 FREE! 30 Days Trial! FRE! The Greatest Household Convenience of tin Arc New Model Electric Flat-Iron Fill in coupon 11 nil mail to us inul y mi will revive free of c!i ir.;c nn ELECTRIC FLAT ikOX. RETURN POUTLAN'I) GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. Seventh inul A'der S.r-Mt, I'orthml, l'. Gentlemen ; Yon limy deliver to mc one Electric Flit Iron, which I nrec to try, nnd, if unsitisfnctory to 111c, to return to yon within 30 duys from date of delivery. If I do not return it at that time you may charge mine to my account at fa. 00. It is understood that no charge will !: mule for the iron if I return it within 30 days. Namk. Addkkss Portland General Electric Co. Seventh and Alder Streets, Telephone Exchange 13. PORTLAND. ORIKION HILLS ADDITION TEN LOTS At $500 Per Lot if Taken by June I. I will sell Ten Lots in Hill's Addition to St. Johns, and the choicest Lots in the city, If taken before the first eay of June. These lots are adjoin the business district and no better investment can be found. Terms to suit purchasers. P. HILL- Office at Residence, 618 North Jersey Street, St. Johns Residence and Business Lots There are several bargains advertised in this week's Review. Chicago Rooming House P. W. Hinman, Prop,. Good rooms from $ I a week up. Corner Chicago and Ivanhoe streets Saint Johni Oregon line of Grass Knives, assortment of Builders' i5 the new styles before J COUPON t 2 The 6. HEITKEHPER CO. Watchmaker, Jewelers, Silversmiths. Importer and Wholesale Dealers 286 ItarkM Stmt, Efts & PORTLAND. Local News. Election next Monday, June 4. Watch repairing a specialty at C. Marion Salisbury's. Let the Peninsula Hank write you a lire insurance policy. Airs. u. n. Aicvicker visited in Oregon City last Friday. The West Coast Laundry makes a specialty of lace curtains. Shall we have a good old Fourth of July celebration in St. Johns? I he band boys present a neot opjKiarance in their natty new uni forms. Try the "Par Excellence": the champion c chiar: made in St. Johns. The Misses Pratt, from Portland, were visiting Mrs. Frank Peterson on Sunday. Dressmaking at reasonable prices. Call at 418 Dayton. Point View. Mrs. G. Hucry. Chris Oihttsc is remodeling his Jersey street property adjoining Ed- monson s hardware store. Seven room house forsale on Rich mond street. Inquire at 525 Hruus- wick street, Point View. Aid. Walker is making extensive and attractive improvements 011 his residence on Fillmore street. lhisincss at the Steel Shipbuilding plant is brisk, compelling the com patiy to install several new piece! of machinery. With a week of sunshine there will be cherries galore, Along the water front there are many trees with ripe fruit. The Carnation Club gave n very wcll-palrouizcd and enjoyable dance in M. W. A. hall last Saturday evening the hist of the season. The longest cross street in St. Johns is Charleston. It extends clear across the euiusula from the Willamette to tile Columbia river. James W. Welch, president of the Astoria Chamber of Commerce, was 11 St. Johns visitor Tuesday with 11 view of purchasing real es tate. Fred Perkins and wife, of Caile ton, and Will Miller and daughter Gertrude, of South Portland, have been visiting Dr. and Mrs. E. W Rossiter. I Have tue nest lite iiiMirauce Hilicy to Ik: found in America: I'he Union Central Life. The nfest and best at a fair price. Come in and talk it over. W. 11. King. Do not forget that you can fur nish your house cheaper at H. F. Clark's new and second-hand store, 303 Jersey street, St. Johns, than at any other place. To rent two newly furnished lou'keeping suites; f7 and $8 each -ground lloor. Imiuire of h. V Robisou, 336 Hamilton street, near rench block. It doesn't pay to have your lifi insurance policy written by a trauger. Have it done here in Si ohus by a home num. I have th t eo-upauy in the world. W I. Kmg E. P. Toguiui Ins disposed of is confectionery stock to W. W laser and will retire from business in St. Johns. The Review regrets to sec the genial merchant move from the city. Tuesday's freight brought seven electric liat-irous ordered ny various persons in St. Johns. The new ay of ironing has come to .stay, and ere long these conveniences will be in every home in the city, Cashier Wood of the Peninsula Hank as a means of recreation whs in for the cultivation of roses and the smaller plants. lie has about twenty-five varieties of roses all in the highest state of cultivation. Some of the finest strawberries to be found anywhere arc being picked from many tracts adjoining the city. The berries are large, plump and sound, The standard price is three loxes for a quarter, with inferior fruit for less. A seat in the Cottage Grove Commercial Club costs 10, and the monthly dues $1. Until recently the membership fee was $20 and the monthly dues $2. It is safe to say Cottage Grove has a club made up of active and progressive citizens. After a month's acquaintance Richard Shepard and Daud Leader Wright last Monday found out that they were both members of the Twenty-second U. S. Infantry dur ing the Spanish-American war, participating in several engagements of the Santiago campaign. Mr. Shepard was severely wounded in one of the battles. A large force of men are engaged in sinking the caissons in the Colum bia river for the bridge of the north bank railroad. The caissons are sunk some 80 feet in the water. Air Is then pumped down into them to supply the workmen engaged in laying concrete, etc. The men la bor at the bottom ol the river with in the big steel frames where there is a pressure of air of 45 pounds to the inch. They work three hours per day in shifts of an hour and a half each, and are paid $5 for the three hours' work. Only those of rugged health can stand the im mense pressure of air, which fre quently causes paralysis of the lower limbs. Almost daily they emerge from their steel workhouse bleeding from the nose, mouth and ears, For best fire insurance see W. 11. King. Mrs. Ann Suitter left Suturday for the strawberry fields. Rev. E. E. McVicker went Eastern Oregon on Saturday. Rough dry washing at 6c er pound. West Coast Laundry. C. S. Thompson has gone to New England for n few months' visit. Try the "Par Excellence": the champion 5c cigar: made in St. Johns. We wash and iron oil flat work nt 25c ir dozen. West Coast Laundry. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. 1). A. Jackson of North St. Johns on Monday, May 28. The Methodist concert on Fridnv evening last, prepared by Mrs. Mice Learned, received high praise. W. Penny is engaged in building a residence on Charleston street for 1 raveling Agent Hordcnof the Port land Telegram. Tuesday afternoon List the Metho dist aid society met with Mrs. C. N. llrnnscli, and delicious refreshments were served. An insurance policy in a reliable company is as good as money in your pocket in case of loss ny lire. Ask the Peninsula Hank. Miss Minnie E. McClave has ren ted the St. Johns hotel and will im mediately begin to remodel it for a first-class rooming house. If you are in business and want to get out, or out and want to get in; if you have real estate for sale or wish to buy, see II. 0. Ogden, Review office. L. M. Metchcr, ex-governor of South Dakota, now a resident of Salem, was n Review caller yester day. Mr. Fletcher bus been a resi dent of Oregon for the last thhtecn years, and has no desite to return to the laud of tin; Russian thistle. The St. Johns Grocery Co. began on Wednesday of this week putting in it second floor in their salesroom and moving the office to the second lloor to secure more room on tlie t first floor. This will supply nearly a third more needed room to handle the trade. NEW ST. JOHNS HOTEL 3 The above cut is tint of th furnished in the northwest. The and most popular landlords west of lic reaches from coast to coast. caterer of extensive experience, has of Portland mid other olnts. The great praise by all who have been The material used in Liime's bread is the best and can't le better. Insure against fire lefore you have one with 1). C. Rogers, agent for the "old reliable" Phoenix of Loudon. On Friday Misses Jennie and Annie Steichett went to the ranch of Fred Hrown, near Salem, osten sibly to pick strawberries, but iu reality for n camping trip. On Saturday Mat Steichen followed and there they joined Nick Steichen. All these young ixople are sisters and brothers of Mrs, Fred Hrown. Swift & Co., the Chicago meat- packers, have begun the preliminary work looking towards tue improve ment of their immense tract of 1,700 acres 011 the eniusula opjosite St. Johns, Elliott & Scroppin arc now making the surveys, locating the corners, etc, The company has three miles of waterfront on Colum bia slough, The plans are exac ted iu a very short time. One need not l born with a veil or the gift of prophecy to fore see that lots between Fisk street iu University Park and Macrum ave nue 111 isortlieru inn on Dawson street which extends through the centre of that rapidly growing dis trict between the rivers 111 Portland, and now selling for $15 per front foot, will, within twenty years from today, sell for one thousand dollars per front foot. At a meeting of Laurel Lodge No. 186, I. O. O. F. at their hall Monday evening last T. J. Mouahau was brought before the bar of th': lodge just prior to the work iu the iuiatiatory degree and charges pre ferred against him by Noble Grand I'oote. Hefore Mr Mouahau had time to plead Hro. Poote stepjed forward and presented him with a handsome past grand collar 011 be half of the lodge. The presentation was u complete surprise to the re cipient, who accepted the gift with appropriate remarks. MEMORIAL DAY, io 1 appropriate services now under i. . . . .... .. ! Auspices of the (1. A U. Memorial Day was fittingly ob served by Compton Post and the citizens of St. Johns. The pro gram published last week was car ried out in detail. The exercises took place on the city hall tract, where a platform for the speakers and tlie monument marking "The Unknown Grave" had been erected. The parade was a feature of the program. With the band in the lend the school boys. Red Men, K. of P., I. O. O. F. and city officials made up the procession that escort ed Compton Post. The exercises were opened by prayer by Rev. Warren. Rev. Young delivered the oration of the day. His address was an eloquent one and listened to attentively by his nudience. JAMES TUFTS Dies til His Home After n Brief Illness. James Tufts died nt his this city at 8 o'clock last home in evening after a brief illness, resulting from a sttoke of paralysis. His age was 76 years. The funeral will take place tomorrow (Saturday) after- j noon nt 2 o'clock from the M. E. church, mid the interment will be! mode in Columbia cemetery. A 1 ...! I , . .1 , I w " .,. I wniuw ami two ciiiiuicu, .Mrs. wti-1 Mains, wife of Prof. Williams of the! Vancouver schools, and M. L Tufts, survive him. For S:i!e Cheap. One plunger pump, brass fitted with casing, caimcity 5,000 gallon hour : one 1 1 horse 110 wet motor for niter u.itiug current, and in ox-1 celleut condition. Call at St. Johns 1 Water Company's office or phone! East O.vj". 1'. H. Edlefsou, Suer- hitenduit. Ak yourgiocerfor Liiiue'sbread. J. B. NYE, Manager. Nev St Johns li d I, one of tut hoUl is under tin inauig incut of the Mississippi river, and whoe 1 lie grill room of the hotel under already attained a reputation for Sunday menus and those furnished private parlies are the subject of fortunate enough to pntrnui.e Manager Nye's well cquipcd holstery. Floyd Harrison, of Thcoiuii, has been a guest of Frank Thorudyke. Smoke a St. JoIiiik cigar laid 10c cigar on the market the "White Crow." New cars made their apitearauce on the St. Johns line Wednesday. The head car is 11 closed one with two compartments and the doors near the middle of the cur. The trailer is the regulation okmi sum mer car. It is to be IiohmI this train will Ik: continued during the summer. On Tuesday C. Noren ami three children arrived at the home of Mr. Noren's mother, Mrs Frank Peter sou. They came from California, and are Sun Francisco refugee, having lot all they possessed. Mr. Noren was very fortunate in secur ing a vell-wiying jxtsitiou in Port laud the next day after his arrival. I O. L. CliajK-'l , one of the first real estate men in St. Johns, has sold his business and will move to Ho ver, Wash., where he is largely in terested. SM.nking of bit. early excrieuces here he Mild: "I came down here when what is now Oak Park clid not have a street. The old steam motor made trips every two hours ami everybody thought it was good service. Did I do much i business? Well, not very much at the start. The first six mouths I was here I did not make my board. After a while things began to pick up. One Sunday I mjUI twenty four lots. After we secured the woolen mill things came easier for everybody and, by the way, Hen ry Smith was the first man to pay the amount of his subscription to secure the mill. The warmest time St. Johns ever saw was the night Tom Mouahau returned from Salem with the charter. J C. Croine made a speech, we had .1 big bonfire I and burned dry goods boxes and 'coal oil to give vent to our enthu .sia.sin. St. Johns is all right. Vou j will have to look a long time to find as good a place," A LETTER From the Alcmbers of the Cily Council of St. Johns. Editor Review: The pretended union of precincts 66 and 67 for a vote nt the coming June election on what is commonly known as the local option liquor law of '04 is an instructive example of the absolute unfairness of that law. At the late city election in St. Johns, April and. ninny of us desired to eliminate the "wet and dry" question, but our prohibition friends forced the issue and were beaten nearly two to one. It was n fair trial of strength nnd it was supposed that the beaten ones would take their defeat gracefully. iiui wiiiuu a mount a tciiiion was presented to the county clerk signed by sixty-one St. Johns voters, all of whose names appear on the poll nooks oi the St. Joints city election, declaring a union of precinct 67 (St. Johns) and precinct 66, which is not iu St. Johns nt all, but which is n part of the city of Portland, to try it all over again. It reminds one of the fable of the union of the wolf and the rabbit, with the wolf alone iu evidence after they had uarmouizcd. iot a single name trout precinct 66 is attached to that petition, and so it seems that the unionizing act was perfected by th strenuous exertions of our defeated prohibition friends of St. Johns alone. Had the high license tco pie of St. Johns been defeated at uie late city election and men re sulted to such methods to try to turn defeat into victory, the air would have been full of such ex pressions ns "trickery" and "dirty politics." Now as to themeritsof the matter we would say: St. Johns is almost surrounded by saloons, lief ore 11 license ordinance was passed the city was full or "blind pigs ' and "bootlegs," nil of which is well known to both the wet and dry element. Ten cents would by it round trip ticket iu several different directions where linuor could be had in abundance. I'he icstilt was that St. Johns was simply a dump- huudsouut and most clubotatelv J II. Ne, one of the best known acquaintance with the traveling pub the Mcwatdsiup 01 Paul Mueller, a its cuisine that attracts the epicure ing ground for the drunks who came here loaded with liquor mo cured at other place. It was diffi cult for the city off. iaU to control the Mtuution. Hut now that we have saloons, each paying a thou sand dollars a venr iu advance, run ning under n vciy stringent ordin ance, the "blind pigs" and "boot legs" have disapearcd, the saloons seem to recoguie their accoiiutabil ity to the public mid a more satis factory condition prevails. The abominable conditions that formerly made St. Johns ridiculous and a laughing stock for our neighbors have certainly been improved by high license. F, W. Valentine, Mayor. W. II. King, S. C. Norton, I E. Walker, W. W, Rawr, P. A. Hredeen, S. L. Dobie, W. L. Thorudyke, Recorder, S. II. Greene, City Attorney, G. M. Hall, Treasurer. St. Johns, Oregon, May 24, 1906. With his usual promptness to putroui.e home institutions M, I Holbrook has the honor of placing Order No. 1 for lumber at the new mill of the St. Johns Lumber Co, W. JOWER, Jower Hlock, .V, Jersey st. SPKCIALS FORTIUS WBI-K -i.v- Clilldreiis' Whife Dresses, Children's Aprons, Ladles Aprons. Sou Dux Utrfiiii ami coiiiihuv quality uud pristM. No troublu t show upoils, Pure Linseed Oil- We have it. Tope & England 'Decorators: Paints, Oils, and Glass and Wall PajK-r. Phoenix Pure Paints, Pioneer White Load Phone East 6,vt. French Hlock. St. Johns. DUILT BY W.C. ADAMS CONTRACTOR and BUILDER We now have with n it ciqwdile ielilciil iiti'liltiTt, anil h emi jmuiKf to iiitvaare mtiiivy to id I tlu-M u-o rienlie tit Imllil iHime. Shop Second Door West of Pnstoffcc ST. JOHNS - - OlflKION F. ,1. Koenier, CONTRACTOR AND liUHiDUIl 'lint- ttml HilleulhiH piiiiiialv I Ittclltxt H NlHtliMllMII. .ll Willi; law wild iimiIiiim um diHMlitk. . II. CiiMtk, fps Jitwy l. S. Walton. I'lioue Soil! Wii. t'nlmkity Itotk. Crook & Walton CONTRACTORS and MUILDI-RS. I'ku DntHit mi' I I'.stiuMtv Purtttaiwd. (inn nl JII,!iik iml KvpMlrutg. SImi It I'fkM'llllt'M Mi (, Hmr J !'. ST. JOHNS. OKI'.liOX. Your Horse Lame Take him to Godsey & Clark l:pert llorseshoers. Our NM.-ci,ilt is hoi M.luH-iug, nitil we guarantee our work. Proposals for Street Work Sealed pmmkisuK will tv ri-eulitsl ul tin ..lint ..( the Kxonlt-rul" the City ul St. Joluis, Oregon, June ly, (b, at 1 o riot k 11. 111., lur lite UiiiHovruieltt ol Cmvv lwrl lreet from the westerly line " I'lUsUii),: ktreet Iu tut- cileitv hue ol 4- leiu xttiet, tu the maimer oruvhietl he Ortlnuih e No. V. .ubject to tu Jiruvi kioiik 11I the chillier awl onljUMiwvk n( the City I St. lohiik, ami Um liiatw. KKcific.itioiiH anil vktiiiwtv ul ill eily engineer n flit at the oftUe uf thv City Kecorilur. lluu tinut he kindly lu tu-curditnee with timilnl blank which will U fur lliihi'il on alijitieattuit nt the ulilrw of the Hwiiriier ol tlx; city ui loJiH. ami Mill improvement niuai Ueoiii4etHi on or Ixiforv sixty iUy fniiii thw ilatu 0 Uttl iiiililieauou 01 noiue lor nropotui lor Mid work. No tiroixkMbi or bi'ls will lie conMiWreil unlet iicioniwnietl by it evrtifietl efaetk iKiyahlu to theonler uf the Mayor uf the City of St. Juhiih, certifieil by it rnnitotiki hlu hank, (or an amount iunl to tan iter cent of the aggregate troiu(i.U, I nc uki 10 ivjui tiny unit 1111 uni is hereby rvkurvetl. ny order ul inu my iimncti. W. I,. TiiokmivkiI, KcA'onlur of the City of Si. Julnig, l'nhliiiheil in the St. Johns Huviuw Jane, l, o unit 1 j, I'jO,