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JhD! TOHInIn PPVIPW r r our motto. Call In .nd enroll J MB ' T T T 01 4rrtlilnf In THIS Pare f f V flBf J nd jroi'llnirtr rtrrtlll. De 5 tn-m-1fit-n.-1T.-nnnilt ."WE I latonctndketprlhtt II I ; . Devoted to (he lntcrct, ol the PfaljSSjj the Manufacturing Center of the Nortliweit afwttviwHMHiMi. V0L" 6 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, 4r!DAY, OCTOBER iwi. NQ 50 I l I - A I ' ' i II1C . Ten Vears Experience Following is an article from subscriber and friend of the Review, living in Clearfield, Pa., and tells the experience of ten years of nn ncxatioii. As it 'deals with acttin experience nnd not with theory, i lesson might well be drawn there from: lit . M .a. "i sec oy me kcvicw that some of your citizens arc anxious to be annexed to the city of Portland, and having visited your beautiful city a couple of times, and therefore knowing your situation, I thought a few points from one who had ten years of annexation experience inigm uo ot some bcticut to your people, uur city is the capital of me county and was originally situ ntcd and incorporated on the cast side of the river. Later the west shq began to populate. Working men found laud cheaper for homes nnd finally the west side became of ' some importance. A separate in corporation was established against the wishes of some who favored an nexation rntlfcr thntt to incorporate. For 17 years the new city got along nicely, but dissatisfaction arose. Men were defeated for office, others were not satisfied with the progress tlic city was making and believed in union mere would be more strength, that the cities would ni vnucc more rapidly under one gov eminent than two. bo upon vote annexation took place ten years ago. lie great bulk of the wen It ana nearly nil tuc industries were located on the cast side, mid it was argued that this side was discrim natihg. against ns in the way lactones, etc, wiitcn would be rc moved after annexation. The rc suit is after about ten years ex per icucc: Our knitting machine factory is snui down ludcnuitcly and our one machine shop burned down auc! will not be rebuilt. Hut we gnlnet! due Ice rrenm manufacturing plant which employs three hands during " the summer. This Is the only thing in the way ot an industry that w have secured since annexation ten years ago. Why? Because the tnonlcd men had their capital in vested on the cast side, and that Is where, they wanted all industries 'Another argument advanced was that we would have to pay less taxes. But the fact is we pay just about one-third more. The school ore no better than they were, yet we pay almost double for running expenses of same. The cast side is made up of three wards, while the west side has but one ward. There fore, when we did get an arc light it was placed where the east side wanted it, and it was the same with street improvement. Just where the wealthy class wnntct ligiits and street improvement so that they might be an aid in auto Ing or driving was where they were placed, ana uot where we wanted them. If we want anything doue now we have to go and beg the other three wards If it pleases them. Before annexation, when we wanted anything doue we doue it, We have gained the privilege of living in a larger city, but in my opinion, tue price is too high tor such luxury. Your experience will likely be about the eame as ours. Now any thiug you want you can get if you can pay for it. After you annex you will have to ask for It and then liavc.to get a majority of the alder men to favor it before you can get It..-, Judging from our own experience, I would advise holding fast to your own city government and attend to your own business,- and not employ others' Jo attend to it for you, un less you, feel that you are incompe tent, jo. transact and manage your own business, in that case, you surely need a guardian. Portland proper would make no special effort to .build up your end of the city nor send you industries that they can keep above, And why should , they? Even in your own little city would you be as anxious to send an industry to the far eastern limits as you would be to establish it along your immediate water front? -Human nature is pretty much the same the world over. We are all anxious to help ourselves first and let the other fellow get what is left. Many claim the larger the city the easier the government. This is a mistake, as can be readily proven by reading the history of New York, Philadelphia and Chi cago. The larger the city grows the more difficult and serious be comes the problem of government. iTbey become more corrupt and sub ject to the rule o'f selfish and dis honest bosses exerting an evil in fluence upon state and nation. We find congested population breeding poverty, crime and disease, the jails and charitable institutions overflow ing, and children contaminated by their environments, growing up to become loafers and criminals. In closiug, permit me to again say, let well enough alone, and all working together, iii a few years you will huvc the very finest city on the entire Pacific coast. Govern yourselves and don't forget that home rule is the best. You know your wants and requirements much better than people living elsewhere, unless you feel incompetent to man age your own oustness. it so, an nex to Portland and you will get just what you deserve as little a3 possible." Mr. ilurlbert Declines A Theatrical Success Editor Review: After reading your lengthy ctlitorial, comment lug on annexation from my point of view, I have decided it proper to let the readers of votir valuable paper know why 1 do not accept your proposition and fight annexa tion, and save the sum of money you figure will be lost in the crush ed rock account if St. Johns should be annexed to Portland. The rea son I do not accept is first you will find on rending the contract Mr. Neasc has with the city for crush ing rock, that he can cease to fur nish rock at any time, nnd if he suouiu ao so that an the city can do is to take over the crusher and operate it. To be sure, a $1500 bond lias been put up as a forfeit to the city. From your statement one would inter that the contract A Splendid Lecture All members " of Laurel Lodge. I. O. O. F. and-other Odd Fellows in this city JMoiulay night, who were not in attendance at the hall, missed one of the most intcrcstiiig and entertaining; lectures it has ever been .the good fortune of the writer to enjoy, ! Dr. Ambrose H. Johnson of Hassalo Lodge, Port land, illustrated the storv of his reccut trip to Euronc with a series of splendid stcrcopticon views. The Dr. is not n brilliant orator, but in excellent English he told an nti dience of about n hundred members of the "cliniu gang" more nboiit the conditions,- high nnd low. in I 1.11 ... .. .. 1.1 1.. i-.. 1: . .. .. 1 nnrv. inn nrmtiKviiirn uriiiln .nil. rlcht ,u 0ly P.r?.v,u?u annexation lop u.i?e,y po miinica city 11 inc world, vy. :, , ; , nml Place, mil if Mr. Neasc found it c uccinrcci, not,cxccptiiig I'ekln or 1 , " .,, , . , . nnu unprofitable to furnish rock at the Hong Kong, China. There starvn-, J"f 11 illio113 ot "ars lmye been !." .1- 1 . ... I.I... 1 .,.. ....... .. robbed Of tllPIIl Uf fill. 1llitrnr0t price mcniionca. nc can nt tne sntnes 1 uu uhu unuicucc loucn cuiows . The Willumbia Band Theatrical was a most successful event, both as to the manner of the playing of our young people and the financial end of the enterprise. The M. W. A. nan was pncitcd to tne limit, even the standing room being crowded with appreciative and enthusiastic visitors; thus showing that the icarts of our citizens arc in the place relative to our persevering industrious bunch of baud boys, rPl tllAtMA nf tllA nlAtl in rt story of a big express robberv that i""c ' c is ,u.r mailing It to St. Johns every uny inc year. These great w 1 iiiMiun ..a ii.. 1 1 nil inu n ttim nii..i ... . h. was sunnosctl in Iwve orrtimtl In rwuwm m mc price you I""3 " wi.n mini, ns uiey Til! tint a. Tnliit M nr. fitf 1 1 1 tttlfnln quoted so per yd.) until he bus were? during the feudal times nnd nnd frstivhlli. r.rn. r . I l.wirtnr for clough to offset the bond, then every inch of space within the tinCo. Imlmo mi.ii.vi. i iinnr.itmr "trow P tne contract, lint you great walls have b with Mm. Mnrru. .. m.l.m.. nml lw.- will find Mr. Neasc a businessman, cnic for the inmates. So rigid V I 1 1 m . . I . 1. .. f I . lilt . I eomrititiffltiinii..1 witl. tin. wMnW n"d nc can furnish rock at the M" economy in nuiiuing the cities nrcttv dnniTlitPr T.num A t.rti,t P"ce niciitioncd to the citizens of H'c streets are criminally nar detective appears on the scene in PV,011"8 " WUI mnkc " difference the imncrsonntlon f n denf tutiti-. I L nini n me name on the check Is ,t....i.,., . r. - . .1.: oi. jonns. rort and. Urction. On w u u - . . 'M ... . .1 I - .1. ccivc the entire household. The ii . .. ! reK expert in tiic crowucu every c ay like vlunrlntw mu r i.rn i fi oiucc ot tne city enginctT at Port- I'omaiiu sueets iiuring the ennri tn ...ni... i .i..f ,a i mini, i was i II lortiicti niai me dual-1 1'.uunen iu me ko.sc uar iva icluhm s!.- tliitikn 1. rn.n.nt l.-nr. ' Of TOCk Oil which yOU qllOtcd AbOtlt 35 JH.T CCItt of tllC population nn.1 l..,t..lr..- i..r wl.i... in tt. mnrt. paid by I'ortlniKl. was the "? iu icra, aiiuuioncicMiy so: lor -o I 1. 1.1... . ., . Mm r t.mu. ....... ..It ... . ,.. ficnt nu of her mother and oh iiu i V"5" lUKK "eicus mm . v. uiuna iiarciy utnr .....1 .....li ti,.i. ti fnr i.iu same quality as the Uclc In 'i"cc cuougii 10 Keep soul am " . " lti, , ' .. , .,, I,- I ! U.UV.MD, Ullll Will WUIIBIIIIllI UIIV I V""V ".., ,1)1 lllll.iv iiiniiiiiwcn nmount of wear, while the rock does uot. In Naples the deaths from the hills back of Portland is ' starvation average five tier dnv furnished much cheaper. So we tbroughout the year, and yet there will have rock nt as good n figure nrc ""ne i the most beautiful iml as we do now. aces nnd some of the richest tK-ople I am sorry I did not carry mv P' ,,n,y surrounded by this abject argument on the wafer prices out poverty. The doctor explains this at n greater length, for I notice you enigma by stating that Italy taxes attempt to make it appear that the everything for the maintenance o amounts I mentioned saved were the army and navy in a vain at not correct. You sav that accord- tempt to live liku Germany. France iug to the books of the St. Johns and England: while the productions Water Company that n great num- f the country1!! barely support alaccs world has ever built and filled with the costliest silks, precious stones, paintings and statuary. lie showed us the great Roman roads btiilt by the Cresars for the transportation of troops and which arc as solid to day as they were 2000 years ago. lie showed us the house where Ca'sarthc Great lived and where he was nssassinatcd, even briueintr . . . . . . - j . " n orick trom the pavement near the house, which the saudaled foot of the great Roman mny nt some time Banquet a Success The banquet and entertainment given in the M. Ii. church Inst Frl. day night was nu unqualified suc cess. The crowd was lnrirc. tlin decorations were fine, the music? excellent, the speaking interesting unci entertaining and the refresh ments elegant. The new parsonage received much attention. Many of Interesting Services have pressed. The writer with the guests inspected it closely from many others was ncrtn ttcd to 11. mnr 10 rooi iwound it to be sub spectit. It is much like tcrrn-cotta stnntlnl, well finished, well ap and docs not have the anncarancc pointed and n most desirable habi- of being so indestructible. tation in every way. All the modern He showed us the birthnlace 0f conveniences arc nt hand nnd It the poet Virgil, where Dante rc- wns difficult to discover where any Italvtlmii nnv.of ti n,,, l,n,t innrn,nccivcd his inspiration when he improvement con ti be inndc. Kcv. in their whole lives, and some of tttnftl Mrrn (trmr UnnAa The most intctcstiuir tart of Ills 1 .n.,lnll.tcI "escribing the buildings, storv beenti nt Nnt,ln ti.n ..mE n'lnrs. the paintings, the stat- " . O 4 I. .1. ! . - 4. I. utwiiiiuiiiii:. v urn: inn "There his insniration when Uc improvement could be made. wrote Paradise Lost and also St. Saudifcr and family certainly have parish attended Peter's at Rome, the Vatican, n ionic that they enn well feel 1 Services ore 1 The mission at St. Clement's Church opened on Inst morning nt 10:30 nnd has been at tended by constantly iucrcasing numbers. flic subjects treated arc: is a Life After Dcntli." "Death," "The Sacrament of Pen ance or Confession," "The Use of Articles of Devotion," "Hell," "Judgment," "The Means of Sal vation," "The Messed Virgin," etc. A special mission for the children was conducted Sunday afternoon and the two following days. Prac tically all of the children proud of. After the reception at the parson- held three thnoo n day, at 5:30 a. m. 8 a. 111. and also parson int h i,.i. .. fllTI fill. (fll.iuttf t .....I - . . j ...w.... "X" i " "'cr Kcttenhofen extends w.....v... limit nit lull It .1 Ul II1C I mr,l n I .. ..! 1 - I.. .. t.... 1. 1 1 i r ..... "'" luviiuuuu v.iiuiv.11 nun inL-wiiivu ii icnsi mat was n tlcllght to the eve ntmellr. Ing, dainty and wholesome. A number of pretty girls looked nfter the wants of the banqueters. micr uie inner tunti had rc and royalty to build these trrcnt . . . , . painces and nil them with these beauties, which neither satisfy linn gcr nor warm the bodv. Surelv been utilised to ! lllcrc is n "ckoning awaiting those ccived his full meed of nttenllon, 5 rJ.,i,i who. inns oppress their brethren. "icsi oc inc nc that Hinds" was "Ii"" .-! I I. ...!,, i. . ., . ii ...ii. I... lit. t. ..I.... . w mm ii will oc n SCCI1C Hint Will """B "Jf l"K wiiuii. JllllgC i, fit. make Lazarus and the rich ttinn I'.ssoii then responded to the toast r, n( ... iook iikc ao cents. -ur vuy s iiitercsi in t ic lirect on '""i urn iiium; iiiiiu ve or 31X ... .." . . . I . .. - .. .... . feet !n width, while thu I.I.rl, u-nll 1VY 1 longhts stotxl out proml- 01 tuc new rarsonagc." This was make them nnnear even ..nrrnvV.,.r ' in the mind of the writer as .... 7 . ,., ,,.,,l .... ..,,.. ii.w liwni iiuuiui au llllllllllliy unfortunate condition, she really falls in love with him. Rail field consumed with jealousy attempts to kill the deaf mute, and failing, cm ploys a detective in an effort to fast en the crime of the robbery upon him, but this also tails. The tie iioumcut, in whicli. the supposedly deaf mute, to the astonishment of all, speaks out charging Rndfield with his crime, is superlatively amusing, especially when the detect ivc tells him that he has the abso lute proof ngaiust him, Miss Laura appreciating the herself in remarks has the absolute proof on me, too. 1 he entire cast of characters was most faithfully reproduced and we have heard nothing but praise from all who were there. It is hoped the young people will repeat the position she finds -cr of houkot pay only JJii.oo pcr a national existence on n plane with rks- "Yes and he ycar' but 'ou forKet to add that a Switzland, Holland or Helglum. nmof on me loo" ,,ouse Portland with the tunic The royal families tux every pro- number of faucets would only cost o. oo, you must nave neglected your study of ratio and proportion if you claim only one in eleven would be .1 .7 . . . . imccr hi me Kingdom to the very mm pitico. i ney lie awake iiUMits cogitating over new schemes to in crease the taxation. The only in gress nnd egress to and from these cities is through iron gates nnd . I - - 1 - - ..... - i - w IB T1 I a I . t tp I l I I In I.... 1. I a 1 play In the near future so that '"e'""! "J ' uie reductions i men- m nuuugu iiou gutea nuu at tioned, for you know that if one is these gates are tax gatherers who ........ .... .v .. r- a .ii in l ti.tu .nuu.. ...n i,n.. n. nn. ociiciiicd an win uc. w iimv ii iinaiiinw t iiwii mi stated mat the Portland Mann facturiug Co. and the Portland woolen Mill Co. came here before St. Johns WAS. I happen to have been a resident of St. Johns at that time and this section ivns known ns S. W. Rogers of this city has St. Johns, but was n t)nrt of the received the intelligence that he countv when the former comnanv i t r.-..A. i.. . . .... " inu oven nwarucu uri pruc m mc located here, but had beeu an in sweet pea photographic contest cornorated cltv three vears when portuuity to sec nnd hear it. Local Man Wins Out i .. " r coneci inu irom everyone, A young tauy taKing n cake to a ir lend out side the city is taxed. The pauper .selling matches ut n penny a box ou the street is taxed, even when not enough is made to feed the vendor. Little babes in their moth er's arms starve to death while nursing at their breasts, because of the mother's lack of food. The degradation, ignorance, vlleness and filthy life of the people is ou a par the entire nation is certainly pleas- iug. Mrs. will Reeves ot Mont- pelier, Ind., secured secoud prize; Mrs. C. Richard of Reedsburg, Wis., third? Mrs, R. II. McLuen be annexed to Portland, therefore, ..,!...! -A..T Iff . I . . f Guthrie Center, la., fourth: Miss IS, McMahill of Cherry vale, Kansas, fifth prize. The first prize was 5 cash. Mrs. A. J. Teeling, MisS 'hurman and Mrs. Fred Babcock, all of this city, received honorable mention and a bottle of upon exhibits presented. i i i n..i in o f - r t. - . " i f.i .it . . iciti uy ram Kiegcr oc -o. oi oau the latter comnanv came. Willi llieir poverty. These narrow Fraticisco. The contest was a ua-f vow. xrr. Editor. If t.restlo-t. un streets are reeking with the effluvia tional one and exhibits were re- necessary THEN it must be now, K "a, and beast alike, The odors celyed trom all parts of the Uulted nnd some of our own cltv officials are sickening to an American. Doz States. The local photographs think so and think that annexation ens of these poor creatures sleep as . 1 . f I f A T A A 1 f A I - I . . . . I I AAl t A . were on exuiumoii ni inc xoriu w 1 heln make our taxes 1 chter. nesi uiey can in one sma room on Hank Pharmacy during the sweet Let me o note from a sneech mnde a mat ou the floor recardlessof size. pea exhibiuon mere the pasi sum by Cotincilmau Davis ut a meeting sex or condition. They often pos mer. That St Johns should present of the Portland nnd St. Tohns An. scss but one garment thev have tin the best exhibit in competition with hexation club last week. He said Q" their backs nnd when it becomes that the reason the council did not infested with vermin as to be provide a sinking fund was because come unbearable, they wash it in they knew (meaning the council) s'"e the room and flit from window that sooner or later the city would to window of those tenements like gnosis, ciau in ine roue mother nature gave them, while their other garment is dryiug. In the fields the women are often yoked up with the cow or donkey to assist in the work. Do you wonder that every Italian who can by any means pro cure his passage to America comes here? What anguish must fill the hearts of those who, after they nave readied tins ncaveu on earth, as compared with the home they leit, are turned back to the hor rors of the life they have fled be cause, perchance, they have not enough of the god of this world to admit them into this'land, The doctor's recital of their trick ery and the chicanery they practice in order to relieve the American ot his money was certainly amusing. Some of them are not without their wit, however. The doctor visited Mount Vesuvius and when near the top, another member of the paity ahead of the doctor looked over the verge of the crater into the boiling lava below, aud in an nwe struck manner remarked: "It looks like hell." -The guide turned to an as sistant beside him and said: "It beats the world how these Ameri cans travel, as though he had taken earnestly the traveler's com parison of the interior of Vesuvius to the Devil's future home, The doctor visited Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice in all, the con unions were much the same, Direst of poverty, starvation, aud all around the richest of dwellings, The following clipping from the Appeal to Reason has been handed us for republication as food for re flection on the part of the Socialists in St. Johns: In your investments remember that the big towns will absorb the small ones, by means of lectnc lines and larger stores, just as the big factories have absorbed le smaller ones. Should collec tive ownership of railroads come, it will tend to build up small places and tear down the larger ones, as the facilities for shipping will then be as well for small places as large ones, while the high prices of the cities will drive factory cites to the cheaper, small places. thought it as well uot to add the additional tax, but let Portland help take care of the bond debt. To sum it all up from my point of view, Mr. Editor, and although I know vou. like mvself. want to perfume do what is best, by aunexation there, would be the saving already mentioned in cheaper water, cheaper gas, cueaper insurance, ana i am quite sure cheaper ROCK, 10R WE WOULD WITHOUT DOUBT GET A FREE FERRY IN THE NEAR FUTURE WHICH WOULD REDUCE THE COST OF ROCK THE AMOUNT NOW CHARGED FOR FERRAGE. Looking at your proposition from this standpoint, I refuse to accept and am still in the fight for annexa tion and tP benefit the greatest number of our citizens. E. C. Hurlbert. delivered In his usual interesting blVuhe AltatauK and happy style. Attorney Gcoige )Icasc(, lo mwwor nil lim, as to have delivered mi 0 him through the , iiitiiv.-vi mil nun iiiiieu nwny uy the sudden death of his sister-in-law, Dr. Tiniuis. J. R. Kinder snug a pleasing solo in n fault less miinner nnd Prof. C. II. tor- ... - - iruyeu tins vice, oppression, pov erty, degrndntion, death: The first was that it was a miracle that this tropical laud was not depopulated uy cuoiera, yenow fever or the bu bonic plague, induced bv the filthv habits of the people. They cer- I5ovtl responded to the toast: "The tniuly need New Orleans' remedy Public Schools in Relation to a a Ben Butler. The other was that Progressive Church," which con it is incomprehensible that there is taiucd much food for thought. W. uot nn insurrection that would wipe Hollenbcck rendered nu interest- out tlic oppressor and divide the '"K statement from the board of spoils mm nove been wrested from trustees, nuu u. u. utiribert, ns the poor. Thnt such will be the president of the bonrd of trustees, tnte of these cities in the near future " a tew appropriate remarks, pre there is little doubt. It will not seutetl the parsonage keys to the always be possible to keep even pnsior, these poor, ignorant beggars down. r. W. T. Kerr acted in the lite recent events in Portugal are capacity of toastmastcr. for which but the straw showing which way oflice he Is splendidly fitted. After the wind is blowing, and the light another selection by the choir, bene- breeze there will erelong become nctioti was pronounced by Dr. tne tievnsiatiug whirlwind, w h c h crr. will sweep the old world, nnd should be n warning to our own great country, for in n lesser degree crowd was most congenial nnd all uie Kockiellers, Morgans, Hi lis and were more than wttislied wi'.li the 1 he proceedings nil through passed off in admirable style. The Geo. W. Cone, who erected and The Lane County Apple Show, to be held at Eugene October 20, 21 and 22, under the auspices of the merchants and the' Commercial Club of that city, promises to make operated a saw mill on the site of a fine showing of Willamette Valley the St. Johns lumber mills in 1903, and which afterward burned down, has again become a resident of St. ohns, having, in connection with his son-in-law, B. L. Yost, leased the Butts house on Willamette boulevard. Mr. Cone has many old friends here -who will be glad to welcome him back to St. Johns. apples. A long list of prizes has been arranged aud there is no fee for entries, of which there will un doubtedly be a large number, Lane county is growing apples that would be hard to beat anywhere, and the visitor to Eugene on the above dates will see these Valley beauties in their perfection. IT f A . iinrntnaiis are working the same work here the crowned heads, the 1 a . a ropes nt koiiiu nun the iiionev 'J... A . kings 01 Europe have done so com pletely there. A whole page of the Review would not serve to display nil that Dr. Johnson gave us in the tiearlv iwo hours recital. His word pic tures were vivid, Impressive, eu tertuiniug, hlsstereopticou presented ivnjg pictures of the lands made minortal by such writers os Pitt torch, Livy, Tacitus, Juvenile, Herodotus. XtMiopliou aud Cuisar. and brought freshly to the mind the old days when the records made by these great men were the delight 01 every spare moment. Dr. John son has earned nnd richly deserves the unbounded gratitude of every istcner to his delightful and in structivc lecture. One of the boys. Building Permits No. uo lo L. Vanduzcn to repair dwelling 011 Oswego street letwceu Willis boulevard aud Hud- sou street; cost $400. No. Id 1 -To St. Tohns Plnnlntr Mill Co. to erect lumber shed ou Pittsburg street between Bradford aud Crawford, cost $200. No. 142 To J, J. Karr to erect dwelling on Seneca street between Newton and Buchanan; cost 5800. No. 143 To N, A. Gee to re pair building ou Burlington street between Ivauhoe and Hayes, for F. W. Valentine; cost $80. No. 144 - To A. Ziuk to repair welling ou North Leonard be tween Holbrook and Weyerhaeuser avenues; cost $75. No. 145 Toll. E.Wagoner to erect dwelling 011 Willis boulevard between Holbrook and St. Johns avenues; cost $750. No. 146 To W. K. Deal to erect dwelling 011 Swcusou street between Oswego and Charleston; cost 5500. Dr. Edith Tiniuis was instantly killed wheti her auto collided with a street car in Portland last Friday evening. Her standing was high in the medical world aud she possess ed a most beautiful character. She was a sister of Mrs. Geo. J. Per kins and had many warm friends in St. Johns, 0 Born To Mr. and Mrs. LeeFor tuue, Thursday, Oct, 13, a son. I entertainment provided. Food for Thought Here nre n few of the things that will be more or less ttlfucted by nuiiexntioii. It might be well to give them all consideration and tie tcrtuiue just how each would fare: .Street lighting Street improvements Prosjiectlve improvements City sewers City water City docks Police protection Fire protection Taxation City government Free ferry City funds School funds Bonded iiidubtedutxss Franchises Building ordinances Law anil order Transportation Shipping charges Building inspectors Health inspectors Council representation High school Identity Possibilities Realty values Publicity Free mail delivery Population Revenues Revenues spent Banks Retail business City contract work let to parties in tt. jouus or elsewhere Saloon regulation and revenues. to all the ncntilc of St. Johns to attend the mission during the remaining days and es pecially to the non-Catholics for the second week of the mission, which has been arranged for the snccinl benefit of the non-Cathollcs of St. Johns. An opportunity will be given to everyone to learn .some thing of Catholic doctrine nnd lice nt first hand. Obviouslv. not everything taught by the Cutholic untirch can be treated In one week, other will be utiestious nut through the ogencv of the "question box." These question- will be answered briefly before the lecture every evening, nnd if anv one should desire additional infor mation, the Fathers will be pleased to answer nil mtcstions to those cnlling at the parish residence. uu Sunday evening the subject will be "Perseverance:" on Mondnv night, "Is there 11 God;" Tuesday, "Is the Bible the Rule of Fnlth;" Wednesday, "The True Church;" Thursday, "Confession:" and Frl. day night "The Holv Eucharist riic.se lectures will be found most Interesting and instructive, heinir tlesigiiwl to help those who nre seriously inquiring for the truth concerning the religion founded by Jesus Christ. Nothing will le Mid to hurt the feelings of nuy one, being merely expositions of Hie teaching of the Catholic Church. Hi a matter of such grave iui parlance us the question: "What is the True Church," nml where is it to be found, along with kindred questions, every man who sin cerely desirous of saving his oul will naturally take nu interval in and try as far ns ttotwible to follow n series of lectures such ns the ones to be delivered nt this mission. Look nlivc maul You aresnuud. iug your youth making money. Are you spending the money as you make It? A hoar old age awaits you. Be shielded against the chill ing blasts. The First National Bank will shield you. $ $ made by compounding inturwU every six mouths. it Are you going to have your suit or overcoat dyed. If so, lut us do it for you. Ladiuti' and moils' clothing dyed blue, black pr brown. Satisfaction guaranteed. St. Johns Clonnlng, Pressing & Dy'viug Works, uext door to Priticess 1 lieatre. C.C. Cttrrin left with us a day or two ago nu apple of the Wolf River variety which was sent him from Hood River. It weighs 10 ounces and measures 15 inches in circum ference. Certainly a boauty. ' Mrs. Andrew Wilson of Iude- iKiudoucc has been vUitiug at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. A. Simmons, 532 Oswego street, for the past week. She is much de lighted with our beautiful little city. Since the "auuexers" claim that we are sure to be annexed to Port- laud, would it not be well to take steps toward organizing a good push club here. All other suburbs of Portland have found it neces sary- to organize such clubs to aid in getting some of the improve ments each district is entitled to. Almost any daily rortiaud paper you pick up contains mention of where one club or the other is hav ing it out with the city council in getting necessary and delayed im provement for the district repre sented by the club. It seems to be the only way, and yet their efforts are generally futile. But there is nothing like being prepared, aud in order to "hold up our end" plans for a push club should begin to de velop, Mrs. E. Rose, Mrs. Lottie Shaw, Mrs. A. Collins and Lewis Sim mons were chosen as delegate to the Baptist State Convention, which met in Portland Oct. 18-21, in the White Temple. Contentment of mind, peace, happiness conies to the mau who adds to his account in the bank. Have you begun? The First Na tional Batik will help you by com pounding ititerest every six mouths. it 0 G. D. Eatinger Is looking after the interests of the Nyssa Oil & Gas Co. in Malheur county, and is making arrangements to begin drill ing operations. F. W. Coffyn took charge of the Journal delivery routes last Satur day,