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ST. John You Should Patronize The Home lner. It mean helping bt.Iuhiis nml tlii means n better city 1' yow work with THE ST. JOHNS REVIEW review Advertise In The Review Its circulation is genu ine niul it covers the Held. Its better thnu n dnily in the field. IT WILL REPAY YOU Devoted (o the Interests ol the Peninsula, tlio Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. 2 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST t;, 1906. NO. 43 Eat Your Sunday Dinner! GETTING AT Till? The New St. Johns Hotel J. B. NYE, Manager We have all the delicacies of the season prepared for the epi curean taste by one of the most competent chefs. Our prices are reasonable. SASH GLAZING DOORS WE CARRY "ODD" SASH IN STOCK Columns Spindles Brackets Lime and Cement Paints Oils Glass St. Johns "D." Redwood Gutter ST. JOHNS SASH AND DOOR CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PHONR SCOTT 4063 SIKGUI St. Johns Market N. H. SUITTER Contractor and Builder Designs and Estimates Furnished, nud nil con struction guaranteed to please (lie most partic ular. 217 Mohiftk Street ST. JOHNS, OREGON Residence of W. L. Thorndykt. St. Johns, built by me from my ownplans. K. PONM'.I.LV, VtortUtor 'The House of Quality" We tnkc .special care to buy only the choicest, Government Inspected Meatsso leave its your order for u Prime Rib Roast or anything In the meat line. Phone Scolt 4062 113 Jersey Street WANTED I La.ly AMiitant. Niliht office: 1'hoiie Woodlawn JJJ 1J 0ugoM. Dr. S. C. COOK Resident Undertaker nd Embalmer I'ouipment and work guaranteed ujual to any on the coast. No. J03 Jersey street, in Clark' fund I ture tore, St. Johns. The cltireus of St. John to know wc have a milk route In thU citv. l'nre milk delivered ut your door for it a month. Additional quarts ui 7c. ORDERS TOR BUTTERMILK Tatun Thursdavs anil Saturdays, de livercd I'ridays and Mondays: loo a gallon, Send orders to M.W.GATTONsrJi.J'o'S, If you have REAL ESTATE for sale and want to buy in St. Johns or surrounding country See H. G. OGDEN Have complete list of property for sale, fnr barcraius. Review office St. Johns. Too (Much For Our Money is the Story Going Round, If a statement made Inst Satur day by n well known citi.en is true, it will be well for everyone in ht. Johns to sit up nud take notice. It is to the effect that one of the con ductors on the St Johns car line, wishing to relieve the inconvenience the St. Johns patrons are subjected to in order to travel to and from PACKING PLANT Will Soon He a Veritable Hive of Industry. The indications are that in a very shott time hundreds of skilled me chanics mid laborers will find em ployment in the construction of the Immense packing plant projected by Swift & Co. east of the city on Co lumbia slough. The engineers have been busy for the past fortnight perfecting plans for beginning the Portland, reported to his superior Work, nml contractors are now esti- that more cars on the St. Johns ! mating on filling in 2,000,000 cu line would relieve the congestion 1 1)10 V'ds of earth. This filling rep and facilitate the transaction of I resents only the preliminary work, business for till concerned. j 1 1C llirKc dredges on the river will imagine the surprise of the rail-1 employed dredging n channel In road man when the answer came ! fllc S,0"K'1 1( enable the ocean go back to him that the street car "K vessels to hind at the docks. comnanv did not intend to make I intensive docks will also bo limit, St. Johns Land Co. PHONE UNION 3104 any improvements m the service, "because they wcte already giving the ix'ople too long n ride for five cents and we don't care to have them build up out there." If this rumor is correct Metis should be taken at once to correct the misapprehension of the official giving the Information. St. Johns 'requiring thousands of piles ami dock timbers. As soon as a sulfa I bio landing place is made for. the I river and ocean craft the packing j plant will begin, Including abba 1 loirs, cold .storage rooms, engine I rooms, loc plant, glue factory, fer tilizer rooms and cattle sheds. These buildings will be placed at UNLUCKY 13, mid her people are patient etiouiih. dillctcnt points on the 1,700 acres During the heated spell not 11 com-1 witel by the packers. I o reach plaint was made because the old iieni uiauy ini es if sale tracks will winter cars were pressed into ser- l' I I"11"' engineers in vice. People sweated anJ siiiILmI. charge of the work say the plant If they did not enjoy the smells, will be as modem and uptndntc as The own Milliliter cum were pressed iy ' ' u. iiiiwi wi into service to carry people out to nearly two years will De retpiir- the Oaks where they could be whip-! ' 10 complete tlte plant. sawed out of a few coins. Later, 1 when the rains begin and a few of , these oncii cars me nut on the St. Johns line for the convenience of the company, nobody will tnmiuer. 1 Hut when the patrons of the Hue beyond Piedmont, esjwclally the St. Johns cnplc, are compelled to wait I at both ends long enough for two 1 cars to fill up, mid then are told that they are getting too much for their money, it is rubbing it in. St. , Johns ami her people have been pretty good to the railroad and it behooves the company to rooipro-1 cate. Dogged the Postofflcc It lias been difficult at times dur ing the past two weeks for the resi dents of the city to say positively 1 Expenses up with revenues. Just where the dog pound is located. Many had an idea it was at hiur Thirteen Inaccuracies Told on the Thlrleculh Day of the .Mouth. 1 Editor Review; For the iiubllea tio'n of a paragraph containing the largest ossihlc number of lies, I wish to call the attention of your render to an aitlcle in the Portland Tclegratii of date 'of August 13. There were thirteen inaccuracies, or, to be more frank, lies, In the article about St. Johns. I licicwith note the article in ticMiou with the number of lies iifhxcd to each , one of them: "Saloon list grows. St. Johns to , have two new ones. (Lie No. 1) Two new buildings are being erected in St. Johns for saloons (lie No. a) moils' barn, but by the number of and when these are filled the main canines in and about the jxistoffice street of the town will show six sa (iiite a few thought a change of lo-' loon signs (lie No. 3) in 11 couple cation had liecu made. A bob-1 of blocks, nud twenty-five real to talled shepard dog had a sleeping tnte dealers. (Lie No. ..) A y cat- place in the doorway for a couple of ago the town had no saloons, ami days. Everybody Meppcd over its niuulciKil expensvH were low, the him, supposing his owner was in- recorder and marshal (lie No. 5 side. Then a black and tan curled the city has 110 marshal but a imiIIcc himself in a corner and suapticd at officer) receiving the only salaries any one disturbing his slumbers, (lie No. 6) and the recorder but Hesides the horde of (lores nud Jf.io a month. Since the saloons dawgs following their owners to the , have been admitted at the rate of postofhee were the juveniles with one a mouth (lie No. 7) and iooo small puppies in their arms. Then have been receives I from each, the there was the rotntst female Willi town e.Kiise.s have jutujKHl lo keep her "ittle tootsy wootsy" under her ; pace with the new income (lie No. arm pushing her way through the a. ) The recorder lfiis a salary of crowd. Oh, it was a dog-gone $ 1000 a year and nu assistant (he shame the way those dogs curried No. 9)1 the city engineer hut two on. 'assistants, (lie always lias had them), the town advertising has juniMl to ten cents m line (lie No. , m. iniul columns of it are run 'liar- weekly (lie No. 11), two volunteer 4 4 4 4) ' 4 4t 4 4 4 -I 4 J 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 V 4t 4 44 4 Si 4' 4 4 4 l 4 t 4' 4 4 4 4' 41 4' 4' 4' 41 4' V 4 41 4' JI u 4 4 4 4 4' 4 4 4' 41 4 41 41 4' 4 41 4' 4 4r 41 4t 4, 4 4' 41 4' 41 4' 4 4 4' I 4 41 4 4 4 4 4,' 41 4' 4i if 4 41 41 41 4i 4i 4k 4 4' 4 41 4. 4.1 4l 4 4 41 4 4' 4 4 4 4' 4 4' 4- 4 4 4 4 St. Johns The Comisig City. With 75 blocks of sired improvement un der wtty with . new brick business blocks under construction with new business and utiiuumcturiiiK enterprises coining every week and finally and greatest of all, with the adjunct of tlte SWIhT PACKING COM PANY the great future of St. Johns is assured. We have for ' sale choice business hits on Jersey street lots that will within a year front now be worth twice what we can sell theni for now. Holbrook's Addition. Choice Residence District. Lots 50.x 106 feet with iCi-foot alleys. Prices, 5300 and upwards ; $5 00 down ami S5.00 per mouth. No shanties in this addition. A building restriction clause in each contract from now on. liefore fall these lots will be ' with 5500 nud upwards. We have the largest general list of any firm In the city. St. Johns Land Co., St. Johns ''I""'" '"" Oregon U it uecessa ry I :x pen sc. Acute nttneks of colic and rhoea come 011 without warning and cmpm,!, orwini.ed mid uniformed prompt reuei must no tmiuiiiwi. xo. 13), and a tollev court in There is no necessity of incurring siitutwl with dailv seMions. ( Lie the expense of a physician's iervice j;,,, t)t" if Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera ami , 'I'liere swnu i0 m u Imd htreuk Diarrhoea Remedy is ut baud. A f "vidlow" komewlmro. It elotw dose of this remedy will relieve the , uk if the nearby pajwrs should patient neiore a oocior conm ur-ijj tj,t. inith or come soinewliuro rive, it lias never neon Known tietir it. W. L. T horiidyke. fail, even in the most dangerous cases and should be without it. Jackson's Pharmacy. severe ami 110 family Eor sale by To Wafer Users. City Recorder, St. Johns. I i Bsckner Brothers Department Store 5 All Goods Sold at Portland Prices! Notice. All persons knowing theimulvc indebted to the firm of McKcon & iTIiorudyku or R. W. .McKeou are Water used through hose for 1 requested to call and settle Any sprinkling yards or sidewalks or one having bills aguiunt the above washing jHirches or windows must ' parties will please prusont them for be paid for in advance, and usel 1 payment. only between the Hours ot 5 aim a. in. and 5 and 9 p. 111. It must not be used for sprinkling streets. Aiivmit. iiviiuf vntir rfintrnrv to these rules,' or wasteful!)-, will be ; with casing, capacity 5,000 gallons ci..,t off ...iiiumt furiiu.r iintip. si. i hour i one is-horso power motor niiitk W 1.4W4 .. 1 - t . Johns Waterworks and Lighting! Un alternating current, and in ex For Sale Cheap, One plunger pump, bras fitted I OtMMltf, Kup a laiyu htitck of (itmund .Mniidiaiiduu, uieludiiitf Dry ( HootM and .Shoo. (lioeuiiiM. Ilardwaiit. Ilou.u I'um IViil, Ktc. In fact uvoiytliiiiK. Thuir Priuw niu riKlit. lloii't wiikto your timu gan to Poitlaud, hut coiao in and eu our stock and pricoii. Remember The Big Department Store Comer Jor-soy Stiuet and Hrondway 8t. JohtiH, Oregon i 5 4 'i I Co., P. II. Edlefson, Superintendent. For Rent For $12.50, a 6-room modern house 011 Richmond street, 3 blocks north of school house. Apply to Shop ard, Dobie & Peterson, colled condition. Cull ut St. Johns Water Company's office or phone East 6397. P. II. Edlofsiii, Suior-iiiteudeut. Women Wanted To work in basket factory. Apply at Portland Manufacturing Co., St. Johns. PLANT AN AD. IN THE ST. JOHNS REVIEW AND WATCH YOUR BUSINESS GROW lt Wanted. Hand ironers at the West Coast l -J 'Laundry. Apply at once. Keep Your Eye O-i St. Johns (Y'''' f JW f TTV All PIfPrr f 9 Reasonable Rates Quick Service Q I " PORTLAND and SUBURBAN EXPRESS CO. 1 aw.Mg5j.