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About St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1906)
A s ' t r BE SURE AND ORDER YOUR WOOD IN TIME 1 Orders are coming in so rapidly that you can not expect to have yours filled in time for your winter's supply if you wait until the rush is on. We Are Prepared To furnish either short or 4-foot lengths, dry or green. This wood comes from the St. John Lumber Co.'s Miff PRICE FUEL CO. Phone Woodlawn 22. J L HEATING STOVES t 14 We have our line of Heaters on the floor. There & J are no better coal heaters made than our "Niagara Oak Hot Blast," Oak Home and Oak Home, Jr. Kk The combustion in the Oak Hot Mast is absolutely Jl5 t perfect. Let us explain it to you. Our a Pacific Redwood and Cheerful Wood j? Heaters arc the best ever. Sec them before buying. Customers buying our Niagara Ranges arc all satis- & fied. We sell HARDWARE. 4 I POTTER&GOOLD f Kk TII15 HARDWARE MF,N ANOTHER FREE OFFER Have You An Electric Flat Iron ? If you care for CONVKNICNCII, COMPORT,. MI-ALTM, ECONOMY In your household; if you care to he up-to-date, pro gressive, you will use tin F.lcctric Flat Iron. By filling in the contrail below, you will receive one of our I1LECTRIC PLAT IRONS, under conditions which ought to at tract you. STYLE NO. I. Regular household. Ci-lb Flat Iron. STYLE NO. 2.-Nickel-phited 3.II1. Smoothing Iron for dainty work. The Iron will he delivered promptly upon receipt of cou pon, without expense to you. CUT OUT COUPON. l'URTI.ANDOI'.NI'.KAl. HI.I'.CTKIC COMl'ANV, . Seventh ami Alder St., Poitlitml, Or. Gentlemen: You may deliver to me one Hlrctrlc 1'litt Iron, Style No. .. . , which I ngrcc to try, ami li unnntUfoctory.to return to you within 30 day from date of delivery. If I do not return It nt that time you may churgc the Mine to my account at f-l.oo. It U under Mood that no charge will be made for the Iron if I return 11 within 30 day. Namk AddreM .... PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Seventh and Alder Streets, Telephone Exchange IJ. PORTLAND, OREGON HILLS ADDITION Most desirable bus iness and residence lots in St. Johns.' Terms to suit purchasers. P. HILL- Office at Residence, 618 North Jersey Street, St. Johns H. HENDERSON joS i-a Jersey Street ST. JOHNS, OREGON Notary Public and Conveyancer. Choice business and residence property iu all parts of the city. Superintendant St. Johns Branch of the American Hospital Association. Local News. Most of the hop pickers have re turned. Let the Peninsula Bank write you n fire insurance policy. Ifor the latest in fall millinery cal nt 107 Tacoma street. Watch repairing n specialty at C. Marion Salisbury's. Charlie Fortune has been dan gcrously ill the past week. G. A. Rice will soon move his family to St. Johns Heights. Mount Hood Yeast, made in St. Johns, has no equal. Try it. Try the "Par F.xccllence" : the champion 5c dear: made in St. Johns. Have you tried your luck fishing for black bass ? Fine strings are taken from the river daily. Are you going to paint ? Buy of the Katltleriv Transfer Co. nt whole sale prices. All colors and tints. For Sale Half block, central lo cation, price $2,200; or will sell a quarter. Inquire 205 N. hdisou St. Miss Anna Swengel departed for Dallns college on Monday, where she will remain throughout the term. Remember! You cannot buy finer candies or cigars than the goods Valentine sells iu his neat store. The family of Isaiah Suittcr linv taken taken up their residence i the "old Shields house" iu Point View. An insurance policy iu n rcliabl company is as good as money in your tKcket in case of loss by fire. Ask e Peninsula Bank N. A. Gee, after 11 couple weeks of illness, is able to be about again and tlie city will once more move along with its accustomed vigor. The following marriage licenses were issued last Thursday: 15. V. Garlick, St. Johns, mid Minnie B. Garlick; A. M. Ksson, St. Johns, and 1511a McKiuuic. Miss Kiln Peterson, sister of Miss niia Swengel, has just arrived from Broken Bow. Neb., and is making her home with V. 15. Swengel and family. Miss Sena Madison won the prie which was given to the best walt.er at the dancing school held last Sat urday evening. The prize was a mud painted ornament. Merman Knapp mid wife and lit tle son Bob, from I.ovelaud. Col,, were guests at the Thorudyke home iiesdny evening. Mr. Kuapp ex- ccts to locate in Oregon. Of nil the hogs that is 11 hog the big hog who tries to occupy a whole seat iu a street car is the most hog gish hog that grunts. Big hog who Ives nt Columbia Park please no tice. There will be no services nt the Methodist church next Sunday, ns large portion of the congregation will sojourn for the day at the M. h. conference now being held at Suiiuyside. Work 011 the Holbrook block 011 rsey street is being pushed rapidly forward. At the present rate of irogress it ought to be ready for oc cupancy 111 another week. Coos Bay seems to be the mccca of quite n number of St. John peo ple. If there is a better place lor a ionic or investment than the penin sula The Review would like to print the name of it. The paradise is al ways a little farther away. Portland is facing a fuel famine and indications jraint to a great scarcity of wood and coal the com ing winter. Prices are rising rap idly and already dealers arc two weeks behind iu their orders. Shortage of cars from local interior poin s is given as the cause of the threatened famine. A garduer near Springfield has sprung a new one on the galnewar- deti. lie has issued a notice to the gaiuewardcu to abate a nuisance, consisting of the invasion of his gar den patch by China pheasants in such numbers that they are de stroying his entire crop, and unless the nuisance is removed he will de stroy it with whatever implements are necessary. In last week's article concerning the banquet given in honor of the prominent speakers at the school entertainment, credit was given the wrong party for the splendid spread. Dan Williamson, steward of the New St. Johns Hotel had entire charge of the affair. His brains it was that concocted the many pleasing and palatable courses that disappeared with so much ease nud relish into the apertures ready for their reception. The chef acted un der his personal supervision, and to Dan belongs all the honor and praise. Ten dollars down and ten cents a day are the terms on which Univer sity Park lots are sold. University Park lots are selling right along while others stand still, because University Park has the largest payroll on the peninsula, be cause it has null Kim water, a university which brings a cultured class, a liquor restriction which ex cludes saloons, Portland public schools, and first and foremost it believes that a steady growth and good morals pay best in the long run. Francis I. McKenna is the selling agent for University Park lots. 1 Old papers for sale at this office Reliable insurance at the lowest rates at the Peninsula Dank. For fine cigars it will pay you to call at Valcutlne s: opposite city hall The material used in Linne'! bread is the best and can't be better. Advertise St. Johns by sending 1 ne Keview to your friends in th Fast. Smoke a St. Johns cigar best toe cigar on the market the "White Crow." Indian summer I Squaw winter ought to be due in a couple of weeks. We wash and iron all flat work at 25c per dozen. West Coast Laundry. John Poff has improved his Bur lington street residence in an attrac tive manner. Fall millinery in the latest stvles and below Portland prices at 107 Tacoma street. First class and reliable insurance companies only nre represented by the Peninsula Batik. Private boarding house, home comforts, 'home cooking. Apply 403, West John street. Potter & Goold had an expert nt tucir place 01 hiisuicss lust Sat urday demonstrating thesuneriorltv ot Hcntlt iV .Milliean s tuints. Nu merous property holders in this vi cinity enn testify us to the excel lence of this line of paints. The chief of police has begun crusade against the use of the sid walks nud streets as 11 dumping grouuii tor ireiglil, waste painir, I.I. ... . ... . .. 1 1 nionisu, swill, eic. itoiii now on your Uncle Charles proposes to se that the ordinance is obeyed. The St. Johns Lumber Co. Mil continues to add to its immense plant. Scarcely a week goes by that an additional building is not erected or up to date machinery in stalled. In n very slum time thi mill will be the largest on the river. A. Quiidersou and family returned 1 uesdny last from a three weeks trip to the hop fields near Brooks. While they did well financially thc found the business had many draw hacksund inconveniences. The ac commodations, water, etc., were Nor, nud the avaricious hop man adopted trust methods in the liar- ..i. - r .1. . r 1 .t f vvsuiiK m uic loiiuii. mon 01 ine beverage of King Ciutiihriuus. The turners that be and the board of health seem to have overlooked the pile of charred debris 011 the site of Mallberg's More on Jersey street, mention of which was made in last week's paper. Suppose this lle of rubbish rulnmcd the back yam 01 tue residence 01 some ixior levin Would the neiuhbors net after him ? Would the board of health order it removed ? Would the police want to know why it was there t r.eho answers : Would they ? P. S. The cleanup is lin er way. A very enjoyable surprise patty was given iu I101101 of Mrs. Sophia Cole last week. It was Mrs. Cole's seventy-eighth anniversary of her birth, ami she was more than ilcnscd witli the honor conferred UK)ii her by her friends. The cycli ng was pleasantly sent in social way, mid elegant telresiimeiits were served. Many useful and orna mental presents were received by the hostess. Mrs. Cole is very sprightly for one of her years, and ids fair to see many more anni versaries come and go. A party of Pemisylvaiiiaus com- iKised of II 11. Markle, wife, two daughters, Misses Mary and Gussie, and a little relative, knthcriuc Tozer, also Allen Murray and laughter, Miss Dolly, nrrived iu St. Johns Monday evening. They came to the northwest to cscatie the rigorous Pennsylvania winter, and it is their intention to remain here. Mr. Markle visited this section iu the spring and became so mpressed with its climate and txs sibilitics that he decided to move his family here. The second half of the 1005 taxes are now due mid if not paid before next Monday, OcioIkt i, will be come delinquent. 10 per cent will be added as penalty, and it will also le subject to interest charges. The state laws of Oregon provide that one half of the amount of taxes may be paid before the first Mon day iu April, and the second half efore the first Monday in October. This year the first Monday iu Octo ber falls 011 the first of the month, so there remains only one day for the taxpayers to visit the court house if they do not want the pen alty and interest added to their taxes, The boys and girls of the public schools who have crown asters and potatoes under the auspices of the Multnomah County Teachers' Pro gress Club will exhibit the result of their lalors at the city hall, Port land, tomorrow (Saturday), Sept. 9. The school teachers will hold the first meeting of the club and lend assistance to the exhibition. l present the asters are iu full bloom and the young misses are ex pected to make a fine display at to morrow's exhibition. Some of the boys report phenomenal success in the cultivation of potatoes, and nu merous fine exhibits will le made. Handsome prizes will be awarded the winners. The exhibits will probably remain in the hall for sev eral days that the public may sec the result of the efforts of the pupils. . Ask your grocer for Linnc's bread. Have you laid in your supply of wood for winter's use. Next Monday, Oct. 1. the China pheasant season opens The West Coast Laundry makes a specialty of lace curtains. Smoking is a pleasure if the cig ars are nought at Valentine's. Kough dry washing at Cc per iKwim. west coast I.aundry. Lots of ducks nud ireese flvimr. I.... . . '. . . n' urn very lime water in the sloughs Try the "Par Kxccllence": tin champion curar: made in St. Johns. Smoke n St. Johns cigar best 10c cigar on the market the "White Crow." v.01. 10111 u lover is nursing a se vere cold and a badly inflamed throat. Save your money on millinery bv netting 11 oeiow city prices at 107 lacoma street. The price of lumber has been ad- yanccd f 2 per thousand within the last two weeks. T. I I. Hoover contemplates a trip to the Coos Bay country to investi gate the claims made for it. Petite Prunes for sale at C. X. Brnusch's. One cent per pound. Hast end of Burlington street. Protect your property from loss by fire by insuring in only first class companies. See the Peninsula Hank Insure against fire before you nave one with I). C. Rogers, agent lorthc "old reliable" Phoenix o Loudon. Several parties from this citv will leave .Monday for the urn iu fields 111 the valley and try nud scenic 11 few China pheasants. On account of the raise iu th price of lumber the cost of several street improvements will be eoiislt ernlily iuctcased, w. n. noutiimayd, painter, paper hanger and decorator, has plenty of 100(1 wall 1 Kiiicr iu Mock nt 708 W. Richmond stieet, St. Johns. 0. W. Cochran of Grand Rapids. .Minn., arrived iu ht. John Sum av ast, and will endeavor to .sln.il the fall and winter ruins with the iuten tion of becoming a ttvrmaittnl test- lent. D.iwsou street from Northern Hill to Portsmouth is showing great hit- iioveuieiit ly reason of the widen- ng ot the street. The Peninsti la Feed and Fuel Co. have the con tract. Fire may destroy your home iiuv lime. Aiu you protected nuniust uitinlor total loss? If not, call at the Peninsula Bank mid learn the small amount that will give you protect inn. Fanner Liindruiu, from across the river, was iu town with a load of fine apples. lie left several sam ites ot the fruit at this office. Ap )leexerts are invited to inspect the lruit mid uive it a name. S.1111 Cochran has leased several hundred acres of .slough and marsh laud below the city for 11 shooting ground. His trusty duck aiiuihilii- tor has been proerly lubricated nud the slaughter will begin next Mou- ay. The fifty-fourth annual confer ence of the Oregon MethiMlist I?pis- copal church convened Tuesday Suiiuyside. I he meetings are icld in a large tent with 11 seating capacity of 3,500 coplc. The tent slighted by electricity. It is the first time iu thehistoryof the chinch America that a couteieiice has teen held in 11 tent. Tacoma street 011 the top of the till received a good cleaning by the wind oi Monday. About a wagon load of waste pajier and other rub bish was taken up by the gentle zephyrs nud distributed iu front of the hiuiiuehs houses on the west side Jersey .street. "Whose business. is it to see that refuse of all kinds is not diimjK.Kl in the streets ?" was a iticstiou that was asked liy many. If the ordinance had been complied with in regard to the aire of rub bish no one would have had com- laiut to make. The bov who wishes to become the owner of one of the finest of miniature wagons should iuscct the show window of Potter & Goold'h hardware store. They will find a reproduction of the celebrated Stu- ebaker wagon that will be given ) the boy receiving the highest number of votes. Votes are worth five cents each. The proceeds of the contest will Ihj donated to the Congregational church building fund, Young America has until Monday, Oct. a. to do his hustling. 1 he contest closes 011 that date. President I. 15. Richardson of the 5cR-ctic Business University was iu the city Wednesday in the interest f the Night School to be conducted in St. Johns this winter. He de sires to meet the young people 011 "hursday afternoon and evening of next week 4 to 9 p. m. President Richardson is a man of much ex perience, and requires me uigiiesi standard of work. He places his students iu the best positions. He will be assisted by Prof. A. A. Welch. His Portland office is 435, Worcester building. The people of St. Johns should take much interest this school. J hose interested should write President Richardson at once, and be sure to meet him next week when he comes to our city. Ben Htir will soon be in St. John. The first caisson on the new rail road bridge was launched last Mon day. '1 he man who did not advertise has gone out of business. A logical sequence. J. S. Downey is painting and otherwise improving his property on naves street. L. A. Boland, representing the Salem Statesman, was a visitor in the city on Wednesday. Wanted- A good girl to help at house work. A good home. In quire at 120 N. Jersey street. For Rent Small house one block from Jersey street iu center of city. Call at St. Johns Grocery Co. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational church will serve a chicken pie dinner October lOth. Hereafter the meetings of the Commercial Club will be called to order at 7:30 instead of 8 o'clock. Mrs. Barclay of near Silvertoit has been spending the past couple of weeks among friends iu the city. Buy nil the paint you want at cost of the Kiuiderly Transfer Co. Thev are closing it out at wholesale prices The Hpworth League of the M church will hold an invitation social in the M. W. A. halt uex ednesdny evening. An increased business has mad t necessary for the St. Johns Stee Ship Building Co. to build a sul stautial addition to its nltcady large workshop. MM 1'oiirteen tons ot salmon iu one net was one of the catches made near Celito Falls last week. There is some pleasure ih fishing when they come like that. Hx-Oov. Fletcher of South Da kota wilt begin the election of 11 handsome tesideiioe 011 Willamette boulevard next week. F. . Koer ne r has the contract. Win. Moilensoii of Mt. Angel was 11 visitor 111 ht. John I uesdiiv Mr. M. has considerable nrniicrlv iu . . . . inisciiy nun is making arrange ments to improve- the same. Mrs. Rich, formeilv pioprietiess 01 theM. Johns Hotel, has built a handsome residence at the comer of Kellogg mid Cntliu street, and is again n 1 evident of the city. J. M. P111II of Des.Moiues, Iowa, was a visitor iu our city Tuesday. Mr. Prall conducted 11 tinning and plumbing shop in Iowa, and he was sizing the city up with 11 view of lo eating. 1 he excursion of the St. John boosters to the state fair at Salem is beat ing ft nit. During the week many people fioni the capital have been iu the city with 11 view of iu vesting. "The Hover" will make regular trips every .Satutday and .Sunday ictwccu Liuntoii and St. Johns. I he boat will leave Liuntoii at 0 p, 111. Saturdays and o a. 111. Sundays for St. Johns. It is said that the happiest 1110 ments of a woikiug man's life are between the time when he is awak cued iu the morning and the latest MsihIc moment he can iiermit him self to lie iu bed. I'he ctew of the steamer Geo. W F.lder, now lying at the dry dock, went 011 11 strike last Monday for 11 weekly pay day. They were un successful nud their places wete filled with others. I'he news stand that was to be 011 the Peninsula Hank comer was sold Wednesday afternoon by the chief if ixdice at public auction. After spirited bidding contest between M. V. Jackson and P. J. Peterson the latter secured the outfit for t 13, this addtd foi advertising. Good Paint Used Right LOOKS RIGHT Tope 8c England Decorators: French Block. St. lohns. Central Bar. The Columbia Kugiuccriug Woikk of Portland is seeking a location iu St. Johns for their large steel cast ing plant Portland's congested water front, high taxes and the oug haul to traiuiMirtatiou itoiuts for many ot the Industrie theie will eventually be the cause of n hum her of them locating 011 the lower eiiiiihula. On account of the steadily in creasing demand lor their cigars, particularly the White Crow, P. J Peterson He Co. have been obliged to seek larger quarters for their fac tory, and in the near future will move into a socially constructed building on ivaiihoe Mreet. With increased floor space they will be able to work 25 men. Siicccsk to the popular cigar makers. Although the chemical engine was ordered returned to the dealers ly the city council it is still iu the engine house 011 ivaiihoe street. Let s see ! Isn't this the same ma chine that the agent represented to the council there was such a great Icutaud for and that it was only by the merest accident that he was able to secure the double-barreled squirt gun for this city ? After puttying up the holes nud piiimce .stoning down the humps and ridges and then saudpaeriiig the entire job, Contractor Gee has been putting a coat of outside var nish 011 the roadway of Chicago street during the past few days. It had leen suggested to the good un titled contractor that he furnish hand painted hitching posts for each lot, place kinging birds iu the trees and engage laudsca)e gardeners to arrange the dirt on the grounds about the residences, but he was unable to do so 011 account of u luck of funds. Sut. Cociiuan, Prop. Tit si. (Nviro.v, Mgr. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigar s. Cochran Block, St. Johns. Oregon DUILT DY W. C. ADAMS CONTRACTOR and BUILDER WV mow have with in ii c.mIiIv resident nrclilUrt. und enn jrnitige lo lulv.uue mono In id I Hush.' vt dcslii' to IhiiM Ihwiv. Shop Second Door of I'o.sloff.cc West ST. .101 INS OIJIiOON F. J. Koerner, CONTRACTOR AMD BUII.DRIl I'litum ami fiMwifli'itlliiiM i4lv CumUlnM 011 MpidleatioH. All work dime with iihmIhhm nud dUwlh LOTS $112.50 Ten er cent cuitli down nud $5.00 k.t mouth for IniIiiiicv. Itefthteuca lota, biikiueiM lot nud factory site for Mile prices rea sonable. Houses for Rent and those who nw lumo to lellt Hilt do Well by leaving them with Canright & Barker Cochran Mock, St. John. HILL & EWALD Contractors and Builders UNNTON, - ORHdON St. John l'lioiiu sum l.iuuUm Ittone Jdatu 16 ROAD OIL Absolutely IlllVC Dust less Streets dol. jour plotted ii'tilitioii'. rrlet". n .iviiMhle. PORTLAND UOM) OILING CO 4)5 HllKKMK K Hi II. IMS... Well Digging. Any one wishing to have a well dug on short notice and iu a good, substantial manner should cull on or address GnoKC.it RoiilNSON, St. Johns, Oregon. XT J&Ml