I ST. JOHNS REVIEW r IT'S NOW UP.TO YOU J GET IN THE HABIT Ot advertlilng In The Review and you'll never regret It. tie (In t once and keep right at It To lubtcrUw for Th Review, AU.Ihe mwi white It li nwi If our motto. Call In and enroll I J Devoted to (he Interest of the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. 3 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1907. NO. 49 A VISIT TOTHE SCHOOLS A GOOD SOCIAL TIME Editor Takes a Day Off and Gets Acquainted with the Methods Used In Modern Instruction. (Continued from last week.) Mr. Williams then accompanied us to the old school building, so called, because it was finished lust year. If we remember correctly it was started three years ugo, when there were but three rooms built, and it was then too large, it was thought. The next year it was found necessary to add a couple more rooms, and an annex, last year another large addition was built and this spring the annex was moved to the cast of the building and is used as a dining room for the little ones who live too far from school to make it convenient to go home for lunch. Now, the rooms arc all well filled with bright, healthy, rugged, happy boys and girls, and could our honored president have been present at "assembly" last Thursday, he would have been "Delighted." There were about 490 in the bunch an! thiy filled to overflowing the assembly hall. This assembly hall is one of the brightest features of the edifice. It is a large hall on the first floor occupying ths center of the building and all the school rooms on this floor open into it. To the south side of the center of the hall is a stage raised nbout three feet above the level of the hall floor, from which literary, musical and oratorical pro grams are rendered at the pleasure of the school. In front of the stage and at the sides arc racks or hooks upon which are arranged Indian clubs for use in calisthenic exercises. The room is also supplied with dumb bclis for the same purpose, which arc kept in clo;cts oj ening into the hull. Professor Alderson, principal of this school an old instructor is in close touch with the instructors in Portland where he was employed for some 14 consecutive years before coming here, and has kept the school along the same lines us to methods mid course of study us ure in vogue there; so that pupils may go from, here there or come from there here and go into the classes of the grades to which they belong without a particle of confusion or embarrassment to either pupil or instructor. A very wise provision. Mr. Anderson very kindly showed us over the entire building, Mr. Williams being culled uwuy by other business, We visited every room, taking note ol the work being done, the methods used by the different Isntrttctors, and although the school year is just beginning, und the pupils have not yet really gotten down to solid work, there was nothing in the entire visit which would cause u feeling of cmbarrusHiiwiit to any one ot the instructors. The pupils are bright, the instructors ure far above the average in capabilities, in fact, we do not think u school in Portland can boast of a better corps of teuchcrs than we have here in St. Johns. They have been selected carefully, not on recoinmeutlution of friends, but upon the records they have made elsewhere, with the exception of two or three who have demonstrated by their first work here their capabilities, and severul who have been working here for years. St. Johns has occasion to congratulate herself ujkhi the fortu nate selection of her instructors, and should be very proud of the build ings in which they arc housed during the school hours. In the basement of this building, as in the hljli school, there is pluced a fine triple McPlicrsou bl tst furnace for heating the building. There is another thing we forgot to mention in connection with these furnaces, and that is, they are arranged so that when making the fire drill, the janitor can throw through the air passages into every room n cloud of suuke, nuking the alarm identical with a real fire. And, lest we forget to mention it, the first fire drill of this year occurred while we were visiting the school. We held the watch on the little ones aud they were just 2 minutes aud 10 seconds in clearing the building. This, without any previous drill or instruction except those who were here lost yeur remembering their drills made then. A few fire drills ami these little soldiers will march out through the smoke with the regular- goooooooooo Are you x 8 00000000000 0000 GOING VISITING? IF SO, SEE THE- Portland Suburban Express Company About Your Trunks and Baggage. Prompt and efficient service. Rates right. In formation for travelers at office of agent. Get onr rates before shipping. Call ns up. Phone Main 358, Portland office. C. W. STEARNS Phone Woodlawn 818. Agent at St. Johns. oooooooooooooo Big Channel Mining Company The mines of this company are located near Merlin, Joseph ine county, Oregon one of the richest placer districts in the state. S-ock for sale by W, H. KING or DANIEL CALKINS. LEROY H. SMITH A. CO. REAL ESTATE, EIRE, Uf E AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE Phone M 2025 Offices: Cochran Block, St. Johns 408 Abiugton Bldg., Portland The Rainy Season is Here. Cravenettes, Rain Coats and Overcoats made to your measure from $20 aud up. PUron A, Noc, Tailors. Next to Postoffice. THE CITY DADS IN SESSION Council Meets on Tuesday Evening and Transacts Its Usual Budget of Important Municipal Business GAS FRANCHISE HELD OVER FOR ONE WEEK A much lamer audience than usual withered in the council chamber Tuesday eveninir to hear that body's decision on several propositions that were expected to come up for action. The meeting was rather shorter than usual, and most of the time was taken up with street work. Roll call showed all members present but Councilman Autzcn, whoss absence was caused by a pressing business. engagement at Forest Grove. Minutes of previous meeting were read and approved. J. V. Wyvcl petitioned council tor permission to erect a woottsiicil at the rear ot the bt. Johns hotel for the use of the rooming house. Petition was granted provided said structure be covered, roof aud sides, with corrugated iron. Hickncr Brat, petitioned for permission to connect with sewer from his new building on Jersey street. They also usked for information concerning cost of same. Referred to street committee. Petition to imnrovc Portland boulevard. Charleston to Pesseiiden streets, was also referred to the street committee for tuvestiuation. A petition for an arc light at corner of Chicago and Modoc streets was referred to the water aud light committee. A communication from S. V. Davidor stated that the St. Johns Gas, Light aud Heat Co. would install meters free of charge to patrons in the event of their franchise being granted. The gas franchise was then taken up, but owing to the absence of Mr. Atit.en a vote was not taken, and the matter was continued for another week. The following bills were then read: Fire boys for work done in looking after the hose, etc., nt the recent fire, $16; Mr. Spraguc, for cleaning hose, $3.50; miscellaneous. $ 8 50, making n total of 1(29. On motion bills were allowed ns read. The water ami light committee reported favorably upon an nrc light being placed at corner of Hayes ami Tacoma streets. The Hartmau street improvement was taken up aud n resolution adopted to improve same by grade aud sidewalk. Gilbert street improvement by grade aud sidewalk was also adopted. Health and police committee was instructed to look after a pool of stagnant water on Crawford street caused by waste water from the Water Co.'s works nnd have same abated. Chief of police was also instruct ed to look after the sanitary condition of the James Muckle procrty near the water front. Building committee was instructed to have the vault in the recorder's office finished and a desk placed in said office. A resolution was adopted to improve Burlington street from Jersey to Kellogg by graveling ami sidewalk. ity aud precision of veteran soldiers on dress parade. Too much im portance cannot be attached to this drill, for it may mean the saving of scores of precious lives should the tlirc necessity ever come for instantly vacating the building. The pupils never know whether the alarm is real or just a drill, aud one instance Thursday showed that the heart of one boy was in the right place. In one of the rooms was a cripple aud when the alarm sounded and the children were in their ranks a lad stepped up to this little one aud offered to carry her down the stairs. His instructor told him it was not uec essary, but just the same it showed that our St. Johns boys are all right aud may be relied upon in an emergency. In this school Mr. Aldersou has adopted what he calls depart mcnt work. For instance, while the 7th, 8th and gth grades have regular teachers assigned to each of them, Miss Bailey teuches lang uage in the three rooms devoting two hours every forenoon to this work. When she leaves her room to attend to one of the others, that teacher relieves her. In this way Miss Clark teaches the three rooms geography. This year the schools have been supplied with sets of relief maps which materially aid the pupils not only to gain an idea of the geography of the country, but aids materially in illustrating the great movements recorded in history, giving the. pupils an under standing of the reasons for such movements which they could gain in no other way except by visiting the locations personally. While Misses Bailey and Clark are hear ing the classes in language aud geography, Mrs. Mabel Burghduff performs that duty in these three rooms in their mathematical stud ies. Two hours are devoted to this work in the forenoon aud one hour iu the afternoon. The roster of instructors for the Central school, as this one is offi cially termed, is as follows: Miss Bertha Lick, i-A; Miss Viola Pcd dicord, i-B; Miss May Haley, ad A; Miss Verne Fouuer, 2d-B; Miss Fannie Loller, 3d-A; Miss Mamie Adams, 3d-B and 4th-A; Miss Cainnette Haley, 4th-B; Miss Hat tie Brown, 5th-A; Miss Adelaide Beebe, 5th-B; Miss Merle Wooddy, 6U1-A; Mrs. Mabel Burghduff, 6th B and 7th-A; Miss Anna Clark, 7th and 8th-B; Miss Kdna Bailey, 9O1-A and B. By all these instruc tors except Miss Peddicord, who was absent and relieved by Mrs. Alderson, we were very graciously received, and the work in their various classes was explained. We are very pleased to note the degree of proficiency manifested by the Eupils in their different studies in oth the schools. We have not the space at this time to go into greater detail as to the different rooms and the studies under each instructor, but it shall be a part of our work to visit the different rooms in the future aud give the patrons of the school a clearer insight into the good work beidg done iu the school and endeavor to create that interest in the work which they deserve at their hands. Just here, however, vi: cannot pass a mention of the instructions iu free hand drawing being given by Miss Beebe. Here little ones are being taught to reproduce on paptr the outlines of the trunks and branches of trees, arc learning to distinguish the different kinds of trees by their habits of growth, their foliage and other characteristics; gaining, iu fact, n knowledge of the woods of Oregon that they would not be able to gain by years of ordinary obser vation of the woods themselves. From the trees they arc led 011 to the finished landscape. The health of the pupil is care fully guarded. He is not permitted to sit for hours without change of jositioii to relieve the tired muscles. I uui mere arc exercises 111 siaicti intervals which bring into play ' every muscle of the body, stlmula- .t . . it ling me circulation ami conducing to the health of the child, The method of transferring the pupils from one room to another or from the outside to the inside of the building, or vice versa, is system atic and calculated to cause the minimum of confusion. It is won derful, too, to note the precision with which the pupils march aud countermarch. They come down the stairs iu double file the girls on one side the boys on the other, meet iu the center of the assembly hall autl countermarch, the boys joining those of the opposite column and the girls joining the girls all turning and going to the respective play rooms or out of the door as they see fit. This is all done with the precision of regular soldiers to the time of the marches played upon the piano by some one of the teachers. We are proud of our schools, proud of the body of men and women who are engaged to manage aud operate our schools, proud of the boys and girls who compose classes and grades iu our schools. We are sure of one thing, if any patron of the school will go as we have done, visit the schools until he has gained a fair knowledge of the work leiug done there, he will not only be glad that he is a citizen of St. Johns, but that his child has such institutions to which he may be admitted. There would be less of fault finding, there would be praises iustead of censure showered upon the heads of the school board, there would be a wealth of friend ship between the parent aud the instructors aud life for both would be happier and better, Try it par ents. It is up to you. We know the instructors will meet you fairly, and we have no fear of the resul's. N. A. Gee has had a force of six men busily engaged all week in removing the old dry kiln at the St. Johus Lumber Co.'s mills. We understand this building will be converted into a modern machine and blacksmith shop, aud that the company will erect large drying sheds where the building formerly stood. Death of Rev. Alderson. Rev. Christopher Alderson, one of the pioneer ministers of the Ore gon conference of the M. H, church, was struck aud almost instantly killed by a freight train nt Albany Saturday morning. He lint) been visiting n daughter iu Albany anil had stnrtetl for the depot to board a train for Portland. On n high trestle he was overtaken by the freight ami his lifeless body tossed to the bed of the creek below. Mr. Aldersou was 82 years of age autl came to Oregon iu the mining duys, when fearlessness autl rugged strength counted for much, even with clergymen. Four years ago he came to Portland, attending the church at Siiuuyside. He is sur vived by his witlow, two sons autl three daughters. One son, W. C. Aldersou, is principal of the schools ut St. Johns, and the other, W. S. Alderson, lives at 173 Fast Seventh street, Portland. The schools here were dismissed iu order that the pupils aud teachers might attend the funeral, which took place at the Suuiiyside Methodist church at 2 p. in. Monday, All the in structors as well as most of the di rectors were present. Pay A Good Price. Last week a traveling artist made the rounds of St. Johns and talked some of our business men into taking space 011 a little folder which he got out. The advertisers were induced to take an inch and a half of space and one hundred fold ers for two dollars. There were about a do.en ads on the sheet autl the only thing of interest was u time table of the street car line autl the ferry. For the same price these advertisers could get 200 cards with the time tables on the back aud their advertisement on the reverse side at this office. It would 1m: much neater, give nearly three times the space and have 110 other ad on the same cartl. Twice the above price would secure 1000 cards. It pays to patronize home institutions, K. of P. Held Open Meeting and Entertained the Ladies Friday Evening. Nothing in The Paper. Frequently you pick up one of the local papers and after glancing at the headlines, wearily thrust it aside remarking "nothing iu the paper to day." Did you ever stop to think what the phrase means? It means that since the last issue no misfortune has befallen anyone iu the city, that no fire has wiped out a neighbor's worldly possessions; that the grim angel of death has not crossed the threshold of a friend; that no man driven by liquor, hatred or fear has taken the life of a fellow human; that no poor devil, haunted by the jast or the misdeeds of some other, has crossed the divide by his own hand. So the next time you pick up a paper that doesn't announce a tragedy, give a little think instead of grumbling because there is 110 news. Kxchauge, Friday evening the Knights of Pythias held an open meeting, and nil the members were instructed to bring their wives autl their friends. A goodly portion responded to the call autl the hall was comfortably filled with Pythians, their wives autl sweethearts. The more timid of the gentler sex cast many glances of apprehension around for fear the goat might make its appearance at any time, but this much ridden beast had bcn muzzled nnd locked up safely for the night. The prime object of the meeting was to organize a Ladies Temple of the Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Valentine had this part of the program iu charge, and before the evening was over had induced 23 of the Incites to enroll as charter members of the proposed new organization. To make the affair more enjoyable a short program was rendeted. J. II. Black acted us master of ceremonies iu his own inimical style. The first selection was a recitation by little Miss Weimer, in which she told of a city girl making n desperate effort to set n gentleman lieu. Mrs. Valentine (aside) told of n somewhat similar experience. Miss Hilda Uuger then sang a song that was nicely rendered. She has a sweet voice and bills fair to become quite n vocalist. Toastinnster Black then announced that he was going to call on a number of those present to make speeches, He likened the milliner iu which he intend ed calling the names out to lightning that there wns 110 telling on whom he would call to address the assemblage. When this announce ment was made several uf those present began to get awful thirsty and quietly sneaked out to the hydrant until the storm was over. Others tried to duck their heads under cover iu the hope that they would cscnjc the stroke of lightning. The remainder decided to face the music and either do or die. Dr. Vincent was the first victim, autl although rather startled by the shock, was game. He made 11 few pleasing remarks and sat down amid the applause of the audience. Rev. Young was next on the list. Somehow you can never catch a minister unawares. He is always ready for anything. Suit was in this cae. The reverend gentleman stated how pleased he was that the ladies had decided to organize an auxiliary society, autl toltl of the great contrast between the homely men autl the pretty women present. carl iNelson was next. Lnrl was nappy. rue presence ot the women tickled him immensely. Words would not come fast eiiouuh to express his pleasure iu seeing so many of the fair sex present. He toltl all the nice things lie could tiiiuk or ami even told a story of his brother Bill when he first rode the goat back in Colorado. W. C. Potter expressed his pleasure nt assisting iu organizing the K. of P. lodge aud was glatl that the ladies had become interested. At this juncture of the game, when the eyes of the lightning god were roving iu our direction, we deemed it advisable to visit the uute room, nut! to tlo it without delay. There was no room under our chair and we had pulled iu our neck until our chin was rubbing the llesh off our breast bone, but we didn't feel safe. A boll fur the other room was all that was left nnd we took it. There we met quite a few of the attendants who congratulated us upon our timely retteat. Through the open tloor we could hear the names of Rev. Nelson, Geo. M. Hall and others culled out, but were unable to hear what they hail to say for themselves. We did, however, hear the toastmaster announce that with the advent of the women free sccch would hereafter be 11 thing of the past, mid heard several murmur that they were usetl to that nt home. When the shaking was over and it had been announced that Miss Uuger would again favor the audience with another song we heard Postmaster Valentine mutter what sounded suspiciously like the Lord's prayer as he left the bunch around the hydrant. Refreshments were next iu order, autl the piles of good things put iu npearaiice was a sight for sore eyes, Nobody took a back 011 this occasion. An abundance of coffee, sandwiches, cake, etc., iu evidence, ami a good social time was enjoyed white the viands disappearing iu an amazing manner. The affair was a decided success, autl the Lady Pythians their new order under the most favorable circumstances. that Sunt was were Mart .'.I. L. MOI.HR00K C. I. HAIl.l-Y X St. Johns Land Co. The Largest and Oldest Real Estate Firm In St. Johns. East St. Johns . The center of the great development, now taking i place on the Peninsula. ; We have only a few business lots left on Columbia 1 Houlevard, which for a short time only will be sold at Z present prices Some fine residence lots still on sale. Choice manufacturing sites adjoining the (). R, & ;J N. railroad for sale on reasonable terms, Holbrook's Addition We have some choice lots in the vicinity of the new $20,000 school building now iu course of construe- ; tion. II Call at our office for prices and terms for either of ; these desirable tracts. St. Johns P'one Union 3104 QregOIl Clark & Wilson Lumber Co. UNNTON, OREGON Lumber Manufacturers PRICKS QUOTKD ON APPLICATION