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OCICy ST. JOHNS REVIEW, IT'S NOW UP TO YOU J GET IN THE HABIT j Toiabtcriba (or Th. Rivltw. j Ot advertUInz In Tlio Review and you'll nccr regret It. tit tin at once and keep right at It fAU.Ib mm HUM n U nwt u J ear motto. Call la and enroll f I 1 Devoted (o (he Interest of the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. 4 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1908. NO. 15 VALENTINE SOCIAL Pleasant Evening Spent in Social Manner. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the Chris tian church held n valentine social Thursday night of last week at the beautiful home of Mr. Miller, ou Polk street. There were about 40 present and a very jolly evening was spent in conversation and games. Then a delicious lunch was served and it was half past midnight before the youngsters could jar loose. The first game was n gum chew ing match. Each guest was furnished a stick of gum and in st rue ted to chew the good out of it and then from the watl, operated with two tooth picks, to build 1111 animal or other live object upon a curd furnished with the gum. Wc masticated our hunk of gum until it began to have a fuded out tuste niid thch began the construction of a grasshopper. Wc were ullowcd but 15 minutes to do the job nnd after wotkiug the grasshopper graft for about 13 minutes and being unable to nuke it hop, wc gave it a vicious j.ib or two and labeled it "un elephant." What was our surprise, when the judges had canvassed the efforts to find that wc were awarded first prize, 11 dainty heart shaped box of bon bons. II. E. i'urker seemed the cdTisolatiou prize. This is the first prize wc remember having won, consequently wc prize it very highly. The next game was called "A penny for your thoughts." Each one was given a penny and there were 20 different articles described which were to be found on the penny. Miss May jounson won first prize and George Royer re ceived the consolation prize. After staying just as long as wc could stand it we went home wish ing our genial host ull the good things that come to such fellows, among tltc rest a real nice, good little woman to take care of his bachelor quarters, and wc think, this wish will be realized one of these days, and then we will not do a thing to Mr. Miller. MORE FOOL REFORM Great Piece of Foolishness in Marine Legislation. The Railway and Marine News in a well written article under the ship builders. Instead of doing so, however, it is killing the United States Merchant Marine and unless the necessary legislative action is taken to prevent there will soon be no American ships doing business. The sections quoted by the News reads as follows: Section 348, entitled "Disabll- shores for different countries to pay for the service of these foreign ves sels which would better be paid to , our own people. The time will I come when this leakage will be felt j so severely that legislation will come to stop It; but the pity of it; all is that nothing but the dire ex- perience will teach our lawmakers. I debase or in any way injure the reputation or character of our cit izens wc are compelled to look upon that man as either n rogue or a fool, and the chances arc that he is both. Wntch the label on your paper. THAT ROCK CRUSHER Would Prove a Paying Propo sition for City GRADUATING CLASS OF THE ST. JOHNS GRAMMAR SCHOOL aaaaaaaaV Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafl W -IHIHriiXVHrlBHv n y TBI iH I :HV wMBA'Bl IMP, u kn KmtKtlU0WJMKXUM. 'SBaBBBBBBBB.aJ'iMIBaBBBBBBBBBW ''vK.aaft ViBHH lSLlBBliMenlaailiiiaaaaaaaaa mP9 Reading from left to right, top row Ryder Cormanv. Archie Smock. Vnlkvrln Larson. Ernest Crnnchlev. Klen ITntl imvnv. Until Punrii'lit. Second row Eva lidmondson, Catharine Coffyn, Earl Croucllley. Miss Edna liailey (teacher), Arkie Anderson. Jeaunette Onden, Alex. Kerr. third Row Iloyd Culp, rrincip.il Altlerson, Nell Whistler, Gertrude Ualdwin, Gertrude Negstatl. Ina Peterson. Iiottoin row I.cna Pinch, Jesse Altlerson, caption: "Upbuild the Merchant Marine" presents one of the biggest iileccs of foolishness in marine leg station wc know of. Of course it is easy to see the intention of the law which was to protect American toooooooot THE TROLLEY WAY Is the only way to secure Immediate delivery of your goods at the most reasonable of transportation rates. Therefore ring up the PORTLAND & SUBURBAN EXPRESS GO, Operating electric freight cars between St. Johns and Portland. We call for and check your trunks direct to destination. Turn your trunk checks and shipping receipts over to us and your goods will receive prompt attention We have teams connecting with cars at St. Johns and Portland. Get our rates before shipping. Special rates on car load lots. Experienced and courteous employes. Phoue Maiu 358, Portland office. Phoue Main A 3358. First and Flanders Streets. W. STEARNS Phone Woodlawu 818. Vgent at St. Office 105 E. Burlington street. oooo Johns. ities of Eoreigudiuilt Shins says: "It should be understood that lor-eigu-built vessels not registered, enrolled or licensed under the laws of the United States, although Wholly owned by citizens thereof, can not legally iintxrt goods, wares or merchandise from foreign ports and are not allowed in the coasting trade." Section 349 provides that: "On arrival from a foreign port undoc umented foreign-built vessels, If laden wltli goods, wares or mcr chaudi.se. may with their Opposed to Reform. be subject to forfeiture. R. S 2497. If in ballast only they be subject to a discriminating uageduty. R. S. Sec. 4319." This means that a foreign built vessel owned by an American com ing into an American port laden Is subject to confiscation by the gov ernment, while if the vessel was owned by a foreigner she could come in and unload without any but the regular tariff upon her. It looks as if our law makers were getting "fooler aud fooler" all the time. The result is that Americans are turning to every other avenue to employ their time and money but the Merchant Marine, and that branch of the public service is leing done by foreigners. Millions of dollars every year leave our Recently wc were talking to one of our prominent citizens in refer ence to some of the features of the coming campaign, some of the questions to be settled at that time. This gentleman remarked that he was sick nnd tired of this damned reform business, that there was too much hypocrisy in the reform movcTcnt, too many grafters in it. It Is just possible there may be cargoes some grafters mixed up in it, but Laundry Changes Hands. Sec. I we have never seen a baud of will horse thieves organizing "regula-ton-! tors" for the purpose of eradicat ing the horse thieves. That there may be some hypocrites among the reformers is not to be wondered at when we find them in the very highest places in the churches, among the most honored nnd hon orable business men, but that does not signify that all members ot the churches or that all business men are rogues and hypocrites. So long as there is rottenness and dishonesty in politics, in business, in the legislative and judicial sys tems of our nation, so long will there be a hearty welcome to all reformers whose object is to remove the same, aud when we hear men cursing tlie reformers and advocat ing that which tends to degrade, II. I). Whitman of Monmouth, Ore., recently purchased the West Const laundry and has moved his family to St. Johns. He took charge of the laundry this week aud is remodeling and refitting the plant so that it will do first class work. Mr. Whitman has had many years' experience In the laundry business nnd will be able to give our people first class service. He has 11 most admirable location and we predict for him abundant success when he once gets his plr.nt III full nlwrnttmi Tllu Iti n itirtvt estimable family aud we are to welcome them to our city. glad New Fire Alarm. Now, will you Ik good? There was n fire in the basement of the Portland Railway Light & Power Company building one day this week aud the heat started one of those peiiuy-iu-the-slot phonograph machines to the tunc of "Love me and the world is mine." This attracted some workmen who dis covered the fire and extinguished it. Had it not been for this ma chine the entire building might have been consumed. r KtUblithcd 1SS1 In New York City A. U N G E R MAKKR OF T1IK FAMOUS LA CADIZA, 10 cent and EL ROYAL, 5 cent Full line of Smokers Supplies Central Cigar Store, Next to Bank. Cigar ST. JOHNS BRICK CO. Manufacturers of Clay Brick and Pressed Brick. Plastering Sand on bands at all times. Orders solicited. H.HENDERSON 205 Jersey St Real Estate, Loans, Insurance Abstracts of Title Prepared. Accurate Work Guaranteed. Whitwood Court The grandest view in America ToSce Whitwood Court is to Buv Lots ... $100 to $300 Acre tracts 200 to 300 RICHARD SHEPARD & CO. 110 N. lercpv Street. St. Inline Orocrnn 1 he matter of securing rock for our streets is one of the most ser ious confronting us nt this time. We will need some this coming summer and the price that is being charged is prohibitive. The offer made last week to the city council by the Indiana company is the best by far that has been made yet and the fact that they have n plant in operation at Dallas, Polk county, where it can be inspected nnd n certain knowledge of the working of the crusher gained nt such n little expense makes this proposi tion one worm looking into. There is not the shadow of a doubt but the rock crusher will save enough to pay for itself many times in the next ten years if it is purchased aud put into operation. With a free ferry the rock crushed by the city rock crusher would bring the rock into the city nt n minimum. We could secure rock here nt n less price than Portland could with her convict labor. Steps should be taken nt once, too to secure n crusher for it will take something like Co to 90 days to install the same after beimr or dered nnd by that time we will be wanting to spread the rock ou our streets. We hope the committee who have this under ndvisement will recommend nt the next meet ing the immediate purchase of u crusher. THE FERRY QUESTION Company Should Receive All it Cost at Least made boat, This Will Aid Livestock Industry. The positive assurance that Swift & Company nnd other great packing companies will locate enor mous plants nt St. Johns will give nu impetus to the livestock Indus try ot nil this txHtiou of the United States. The location of these pack ing houses will ndd to the value of the holdings of every breeder and producer of cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry, nud the dairy products of Oregon will be trebled nud find n market in every part of the world. Wntch St. Johns grow this year. The ferry comnanv has their offer to the city for the James Johns, $18,002.7';. docs not include the npnroaches which represent some Stooo or f35oo more. This looks to n man who knows nothing nbout the mat ter to be n very high price, nnd from what we can learn the com pany has been to n great deal of expense more thnn they should have in the construction of the boat, which raised the figures con siderably higher thnn they would have been lmd everything worked smoothly. The company declares this is the expense of building the boat and putting her into commis sion nud that it does not include the labor of some of the members of the company for n number of months which they charge nothing for nud that no charge is made for the franchise either. Personally, we would like to sec the company get every dollar they put into the boat but we would not be In favor of giving any bonus for taking the boat off their hands for the reason that it is not yet ou n paying basis nud the company at this stage of the game would be doing exceedingly well to dispose of the boat at what it cost them. One thing Is certain wc must have n free ferry, nud we do not wish to have the city buy another boat in stead of this one nud operate it free thus putting this company out of business with the boat ou their hands. Hove Yon Registered ? Say, have you registered? If not, do so ns enrly ns possible. Register, whether you wish to vote or not. Perhaps nt the last mom ent you will wish to enst your vote. It will be little trouble to register now, but if you have to hunt up six freeholders to help you swear In your vote It will be n peck of trouble full measure, nud If you are late nbout it the polls may close before you have made the necessary swear. a r. a & r a a m. 1.. iiui.uKUUK u. i:. isaii.i:y 3 s St. Johns Land Co, The Largest and Oldest Real Estate Firm in St. Johns. East St. Johns The center of tltc great development now taking place on the Peninsula. We have only a few business lots left on Columbia Boulevard, which for a short time only will be sold at present prices. borne hue residence lots still ou sale. Choice manufacturing sites adjoining the O. railroad for sale ou reasonable terms. R. & N, Holbrook's Addition We have some choice lots in the vicinity of the new $20,000 school building now in course of construc tion. Call at our office for prices and terms for either of these desirable tracts. 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