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St. Johns Is Calling You 1 second In number of Industries. Is seventh In population. Cars to Portland every 16 mln. Has navigable water on 3 sides. Has finest gas and electricity. Has two strong banks. Has five large school houses. I las abundance of purest water. Has hard surface streets. Has extensive sewerage system. Has fine, modern brick city hall. Has payroll off 93.000 monthly. Ships monthly 2,000 cars freight. All railroads have access to it. Is gateway to Portland harbor. Climate ideal and healthful. St. Johns is Calling You Has seven churches. Has a most promising future. Distinctively a manufacturing city Adjoins the city of Portland. I las nearly 6,000 population. Has n public library. Tnxoble property, H500.000. I las large dry docks, saw mills Woolen mills, iron works, Stove works, asbestos factory, Ship building plant, Veneer and excelsior plant, Flour mill, planing mill, Dox factory, and others. More industries coming. St. Johns is the place for YOU. ST. JOHNS REVIEW Devoted to the Interest! of the Penlmula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOI,. IO ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DKCHMBKR 12. 1913. NO. .s "HIGH JINKS" Hold Sway at the Com mercial Club Tito "Live Wires" of the Com mercial Club were responsible for the moqt divertimr. pleasur able and interesting gathering that the Club has over exper ienced. It took place in the Club rooms Monday evening, and was in the form of a "got to gether" meeting. It was the first time that "high jinks" had held sway, and the largo com pany present were immensely pleased with the entertainment provided. The first event was a boxing match between Ralph Murkwnrt and Owen Martin, of three rounds duration. The young sters went at it hammer and tongs from bell to bell. There was no let up until the bout was completed. The large gloves used prevented the little fellows from hurting one another, but they furnished lots of amuse ment for the spectators, who en couraged them to do their best. The bout ended with honors even and with both opponents ready for more of it, in spite of their respiration being considerably quickened by the healthful ex ercise. F. W. Coffyn and Leon Peter son rendered a couple of pleasing musical selections that were heartily encored. Mr. Coffyn presided at the piano, and Mr. Peterson played the violin. St. Johns has few, if any, better musicians than those two, and their renditions were highly ap preciated. A pie eating contest furnished the most amusement of any event of the evening. Ralph Markwart, Dennio Nichols, Lloyd and Owen Martin participated. Four custard pies with frosting about throe lingers high were spread on tho lloor and the four lads with their hands securely tied behind their backs were told to make way with them. The gyrations, contortions and the squirming around that was nec essary to consume the pies were most laughable. The Jnds emerg ed from tho conflict with noses and faces plastered all over with custard and frosting, and enough pie found its way to tho inner man to allay pio hunger for a week or more, or so it seemed to tho interested observer. Ralph Markwart proved to bo tho most expert pio consumer, and won first prize, with Dennio Nichols, second. Lowell Anderson and Russell Poff boxed four fast and furious rounds, with Poff getting the best of it in tho first half, and Anderson evening things up in the last two rounds. The lads were well matched,, and showed not a little skill in tho mnnly art. P. G. Gilmoro acted as referee in a most able and sat isfactory manner. Ralph Markwart and Owen Martin indulged in a wrestling bout, but they were so evenly matched that it was diffiicult to determine which was the better lad. Ralph Markwart also enter tained the audience with an Irish jig dance that was adeptly ex ecuted. Lowell Anderson and Willis Cowles put on a wrestling match that was full of ginger and a tug of war all the way through. Cowles proved to be the better wrestler, with two falls to his credit. . H. M. Fassett.- tho popular local singer and bashful member of the Bachelor club, sang two solos that 'pleased the listeners immensely. The most scientific event of the evening was a two and one- half round boxing match between Druggist C. C. Currin and Councilman S. G. Wright. All the arts and wiles of the fistic world were brought into full play The famed skill of McCoy and Corbett faded into oblivion in comparison to the skill demon strated by our two townsmen. It is true that Currin was a trifle " over weight, and was somewhat handicapped by the surplus llesh. yet he was as agile as a cat, and soma of the blows he started would have done credit to the kick of a mule or a bolt of light ning. He agitated the air to such a considerable extent that it became difficult for him to get his breath fast enough, and for want thereof, was compelled to forego the pleasure of hnish ng the third round, City Dad A Splendid Attraction The people of St. Johns will be presented with a rare treat on Friday evening, December 10th, at 8:15 o'clock, at the St. Johns skating rink, by the Web ber Juvenile Orchestra of Port land. Some of the St. Johns people have been after this bunch of musical "kids" for some time, and their dream has at last came true. Did some one say "a bunch of musical kids?" Well, I guess yes. Each of these youngsters tire masters on three and four different instruments, and are not only sight readers, but transposers as well. With a repertoire of over five hundred pieces to select from, they will keep you intrested from the start of tho concert to tho finish. The only thing that will not please you is the fact that the long evening's program will prove to puss too quickly. But waitl Best of all: For the first time presented to the pub lic tho largest and most complete banjo chorus ever presented on the American stage. From tho first strains in the big march to. those sweet strains of all those dear old songs that never die, such as Suwance River. Old Kentucky Home and Old Blnck Joe. unto the latest turkey trot and tango, it will prove to be n series of "I just can't make my feet behave." And then comes those pulls at your heart strings from those dear old melodies. and then the smiles and thrills from the light, breezy strains from tho turkey trot and the tangos. Those youngsters will soon start on an extended concert tour through the United States, so this is your chance to onjoy all these good things they have to oiler. The little soloist will make you feel glad you arc alive with her selections accompanied by the entiro orchestra. This splendid entertainment will bo given under the auspices of the St. Johns Commercial Club. Prices to this attraction have ranged as high as ono dol lar, but tho Club has secured a special rate of 2f cents for all. Scat sale commences Monday at Currin's for Drugs, and at box office Friday evening. adv. Wright was in tho pink of con dition, and gyrated around the ring like a two year old colt. By his marvelous quickness he kept out of harm's way, ami was getting stronger every minute. All tho blows and tactics known to modern or ancient history in tho fistic arena, and a few that wore never known before, wero introduced and brought in to nlnv. Nothing as classy as this event has ever previously hap pened on the Pacific Coast. Had Currin trained down a trifle be fore enter nir tho ring, thoro is not the slightest doubt in the world but that they would still be making passes at one another, they enjoyed it so mucti. Councilman Wright and At torney P. C. Stroud afforded much amusement and entertain ment in u wrestling bout. Wright claimed that Stroud held his big toe so that he couldn't do anything, but tho referee de cided that lie would have to grin and bear such inconvenienco in the wrestling game. Smock and McFarland gave a spirited exhibition of the boxing came, and Ross Walker and P. G. Gilmore took a turn at wrestling. Sandwiches, pickles, coffee, etc.. were at the disposal of the all in abundant supply, while each was given a corncob pipe with a generous supply of smok iner tobacco. The event was hugely enjoyed, and a spirit of good fellowship was manitesieci to a considerable degree. The "Live Wires" are certainly to be comrratu ated upon the splen did success attained, and it is the fond hone of all that they will duplicate their efforts in the near future. We understand that J. E. Hillerand P. H. Edlef- sen are going into training for a wrestling match in anticipa tion of a like event occurring soon. The first spadeful of dirt on .Tnoksnn County's new hichwav over the Siskiyous was turned last week by Samuel Hill, the nnrwl trnnri-rnads exnerL The work of grading the 13 miles of mountain road has been under taken by a Tacoma firm of con tractors at a contract price of $107,000 and will, as far as possible, be completed during this winter in order to have a settled roadbed ready for sur facing early in the spring. Do Your Shopping Early To the Editor: I want to beg space in your valuable paper for an appeal to the public on a mat ter of much more importance than many as yet think. It is the matter of early holi day shopping. There are very few who have not heard this appeal from many sources before, but many, very many, have not been moved by it as they should. As Labor Commissioner, charg ed with the protection as far as possible of the workers of Ore gon, I add my voice to the ap peal to everyone to shop early. Do your shopping early in the month, early in tho week, early in tho day. Observe all three of thest important points and you will do justice and mercy that will be appreciated by thou sands of overworked saleswomen nnd salesmen, and by thousands more who realize the importance of such action. Shot) early and in broad day light. Don't ullow yourself to linger with the thoughtless throng after the evening shadows begin to fall. Do this and the fervent "God bless you" will spring from the hearts of tens of thousands of shop-girls ready (o collapse lrom the lntigue oi the day of the hardest kind of work. Have you any idea of the work of both brain and body of the average saleswoman, particuariy in the city or larger town 1 daro say you have not -not one in fifty of you. On their feet all day, running hither nnd thither, harassed by the whim and often by the robuko of all classes of men and women in all Btnges of nervous tension. A more fatigu ing occupation is unknown. Think of it, please, and lend your reasonable assistance, by forming habits that will add just as little as possible to the general strain. It is at these rush seasons when the incontivo is greatest to break tho law governing hours of employment. And this is natural. Merchants strivo to pleaso their patrons and to ac commodate the public in every way. burely the public, also, has some responsibility. If tho law is violated, those charged with its enforcement must net or be justly censured. From every conceivable view point the appeal for early shop ping is of vital merit, and I urge upon one and all the im portance of co-operation both in their personal nets, and in help ing by verbal appeal, to secure tho most general observance of so worthy a principle O. P. HOFF, State Labor Commissioner. To Aid Unemployed To tho editor: Wo wish to ask your kind co-operation in a movement to connect our unem ployed with a job. There are undoubtedly many residents of your county who could use the services of a good hand this win ter, and there are many idlo men in Portland and other cities in this state who would be glad to have a place. If you will bo kind enough to run this letter and attached in formation blank in a few issues of your paper our plan will bo called to the attention of those needing a hand. Any requests for labor made to our office will at once bo taken up with those who are hunting for employment. Assuring you that your co operation will be greatly ap preciated, I am, yours very truly, Oswald West, Governor. Name . Address Nearest railroad station or steamboat landing Number of men or women needed Character of work offered Wages to be paid With or without board or lodging How long service, if they prove satis factory, will likely be needed This blank to be filled out and mailed to the Governor's Office, Salem. Oregon, that it may be brought to the attention of those seeking employment. A line of typewriter ribbons. both narrow and wide, has just been received at the Review office: 50c each. Also carbon paper at two sheets for five cents. Keep Them at Home A child will get an education in the street, and may learn some useful things, but it de pends very much on the child what the lessons are. The use less and vicious predominate, and everything attracts the child to ibis class of learning, because ! I .. 1 .1 .... evil IS HU uiuxuii iinu aiaiunu While we cannot keep tho child from contact with evil at all times, wo should do the best we can to counteract the influence, and to keen the plastic mind full of better things. The good les sons arc better learned at home or in the school room. The night school of tho street never yet made good, pure men and women. In every household there is always enough to keep the child healthfully busy tor a part of the time at least. If pains are taken to make the work at tractive, nnd to impress on the vountr mind the fact that re sponsibilities for certain tasks must lie assumed by each one, they will be assumed witli less friction as the child becomes older. They can be taught to make play of many little helps, but should be made responsible for the efficacy of the play. Little hands can lift little loads and make the big ones lighter for the stronger shoulders, and the children thus kept off the street may be learning useful lcssoiiB. Many times it is the parent. rather than the child, who needs correction and training. A wise parent puts herself in the child's place, now and then. The view point is different. Try praiBing tho little ones for what they want to accomplish, whether it has failed or not. Nothing encourages more than encouragement and praise. Lead the baby rather than drive it, and give tho child "more kisses than cuffs. Everything is new and strange to the dawning in telligence, and many things are mysteries to even our own minds. Wo all mnko mistakes, and when the litllo hands fail of accomplishment, help them to overcome their helplessness. The Work of Woman Oregon Agricultural College, Corvullis. Oregon, Dec. 10. The fact that so much more has been done to ameliorate the labor conditions of man than those of woman, is clovorly shown by n story in tho Oregon Countryman entitled. "Eliminate tho Drud gery of Housework." "Should our great grandmothers return they would bo perfectly familiar with women's methods of doing housework. They could wash and iron by hand, just ns they used to wash and iron. But if our great grandfathers should return with them they would bo completely lost among tho thou sands of mechanical devices now used to savo man's time nnd energy. Men have filled their own world with machinery. They realize that nothing is too great or too small to be done with machinery, from removing mountains with electricity to cleaning a straw hat. In this day of electricity it should be considered a misde meanor to wash and iron by hand, because washing and iron- inir machines are made cheaply enouch for tho housewife to own them. Washing by hand is so hard that no woman should be allowed to do it, whether she be housewife or servant. Always it is drudgery, in the winter it invites pneumonia. If the following directions are observed, boiling clothes is not necessary when washed with the machine : blice live bars of Nap tha soap into a two gallon jar. Cover with water and let stand one day. Then use an egg beat er to cut tho undissolved slices to pieces. Let them stand for another day, when the soap solu tion will have become a jelly. By using soap thus prepared it is necessary to put the clothes into the cylinder but once be fore rinsing, whicli saves time and diminishes the gas, water or electricity bill." Merchants, Take Notice The St. Johns Volunteer Fire Department hereby wishes to serve notico that that the de partment will not be responsible for any bills unless a requisition has first been secured. Leo Cor many, Chief. An Interesting Paper Paper read by Miss Nellie M. Stevens at the recent Mothers' meeting in the city hall : Let us begin with the children. Happy boys and girls mnko hap py men and women. Wo are urg ed to keep the children happy by surrounding them with condi tions that are conducive to hap piness. Many mothers dread a stormy day because the children are so troublesome on these days. Tho philosophy of it is simple enough. All children are charged with a superabundance of energy, and they must have some way to work it off. They can't help it.. Exercise is a law of growth. They must grow by turning and twisting, tumbling and jump ing. They are shut up tight on a stormy day, nnd they will turn the house upside down, or worse if they have nothing else to do. A little boy was given an air gun on New Years. The next day was stormy. Tho little fel low wrote in his diary: "Snowed all day couldn't shoot." "Jan. 3. Snowed all day, nothing do ing with the air gun." "Jan. -1. - Still snowing: shot grandma." He just had to do something; The playground we hear so much of today is not merely a spot where boys ami girls can be dumped to keep them happy and out of mischief. Nor is it simply a breathing place in a crowded district, giving children by charity what every child ought to receive by right. All thcbc the playground is, but it is something infinitely more, and of greater significance. Tho playground movement of today is a strand in the broad new conception of education the education which involves not only information, but preparation for life. Wo are coming to re gard the brain not as an en- cyclopaadia but as a tool, 'I ho test of its efficiency is whether it meets the daily problems of lifo keenly and Htmoly. To lie clear headed and clean hearted is to be educated. To think straight and to act straight through childhood is to build noble manhood and womanhood. There is no magic charm in mathematics for its own sake, but if it is so taught that a child is trained to mental accuracy, if ho learns that no slip shod work can stand, that to mnko a single mistake is to spoil it all then he learns a lesson that every one needs to know. The new methods tiro all at-1 tempts to get tho child roady to be efficient in his own individual life. Play is meant to serve him somewhat mentally, much more physically, most of all spiritually. Tho children under the care of an efficient teacher go Into tho forest to learn lessons from naturo study. Theso linos especially appeal to tho child. "I once knew all the birds that came and nestled in our or chard trees. For every flowor I had a name. My friends wero woodchucks, toads and bees. I know whero thoy thrived in yonder glen, what leaves would soothe a stone bruised toe. Oh, I was very learned thon- but that was long ago. I knew the spot ui)on tho hill whero checker ber ries could, bo found; I know tho rushes near the mill where pick erel lay that weighed a pound; 1 know tho woods, tho very tree, whero led the saucy, poaching crow; and all the woods and crows knew me; but that was very long ago." Tho playground teaches with joy some of the same lessons that books teach less agreeably. The carelessly batted ball does not reach its goal any more than the carelessly done sum reaches its answer. There nre a hundred games that repeat to the child, "You've got to do it just right, or you'll fail," and that is a big lesson. There are a score of games that teach observation and deduction, just as scientific books do. Then there are the lessons learned by all team work, the lessons of fair play, of co operation, of downing little whims for the sako of the com mon aim. In good play cheating is dealt with ruthlessly The playground is democratic. Only excellence excels, and tho ono who plays best is the hero. Tho better muscle responds to the swiftly moving brain, the higher tho honor. It has been truly said that every triumph England has gained in her great imperial march was fought out and pre pared for on the fields of Eton and Rugby, so important is play in training for self restraint, application, accuracy. Team work means law, order and self government. Theso are good An Ancient Arrow Head Albany, Ore., Dec. 0. That arrow heads wero used hundreds of years ago, probably by races earlier than the Indians, is in dicated by the appearance of an nrrow head found 150 feet below the surface of the ground at St. Johns, Oregon. The point was found in June, 1908, by Alvin W. Marks, then of Portland, but now of Oakland, Cnl., and recently was given to J. C. Crawford, an archaeologist of this city, who is conducting an investigation with eminent geo logical authorities to ascertain its age. Tho arrow head was found while a well was being bored for the Harris Ice Works, at St. Johns. This well is 170 feet deep. The soil in which the well was bored is a sand formation for 150 feet and then river gravel for 20 feet. The arrow point was brought up among tho first ..........i I. ...... ..i.i i.. it... ......r.... Kiuvl-i mullein, m uiu mil liiv;.-. The nrrow head is much larger than the average points found in Oregon now tint which were made by the fore-fathers of the present day Indians. It is also of much poorer workmanship. These two lacts indicate its an tiquity. In his large archaeo logical collection, which is es pecially rich in Indians relics, Mr. Crawford has hundreds of arrow points which were found on gravel burs or in Indian mounds and graves, but none of them tire like this one, which evidently is the product of tin older race than the Indians. Tho point shows no sign what ever of erosion, which fact would destroy any theory that it might have been carried to the place it was found in recent years by water under ground. So far as Mr. Crawford has been able to ascertain tho land at the place where it was found has not been filled in by overflow from the river in years at all recent, for he has learned that tho place has not been under water at all for J17 yoasr at least, and possibly longer than that. So it must have lain boncnth tho surface of the ground for many hundreds of yours. Mr. Crawford wrote to the Smithsonian Institution at Wash ington, D. C, regarding it. but the institution could not give positive information regarding tho geological formation of that particular locality. Ho is taking tho matter up with tho in structors in geology at tho Uni versity of Urogon and Oregon Agricultural College, in an en deavor to ascertain how long this nrrow point was under ground. bunday's Orogonian. How to Succeed Keep going, always doing. Remember that wishing, dream ing, intending, murmuring, talk ing, sighing nnd repining are all Idle and profitless employments. Why follow thorn? Success is only attained by a persistent ellort. Try to bo something in tho world bosidos a knocker or fault finder, and you will bo some thing. Aim at oxcollonce and excellence will be attained. This is tho groat secret of success and eminence. "I cannot do it" never accomplished anything. "I will try"has wrought won ders. Doos any wish to reach the goal, iiavo ideals high and reach upward, not downward. Contributed. Building Permits No. 50 To Joseph Kline to erect a dwelling on Mohawk street, corner of Hendricks ave nue; cost $75. No. 51 - To M. Mackoy to erect a dwelling on Burr street be tween Hudson and Smith avenue; cost $500. No. 52 To M. J. Kelly to erect a dwelling on Central ave nue between Oswego and Mo hawk streets; cost $800. qualities in boy and girl, in man and woman they are superb. We can hardly over estimate tho value of the lessons children learn from each other without knowing it, in a well directed playground. Do you get FULL WEIGHT and QUALITY in your house hold drugs? Better get them here and be assured of tho best. Currins for Drugs, udv. COUNCIL MEETS Matters of Importance Receive Attention With tho exception of Council man Martin, all members were present at tho regular meeting of the city council Tuesday even ing, with Mayor Bredoson pre siding. A communication from the St. Johns Water Company stated that fire hydrants had been in stalled at the intersection of Polk and Seneca nnd Polk and Hudson streets, as per order of Council. A communication from At torney Geo. J. Perkins stated that an etl'ort had been made to have the Willamette boulevard case now pending in the Supreme Court advanced on the docket; that the consent of the Court had been obtained, but tho de fense finally demurred contend ing that they wanted to argue the case orally instead of by brief; that taking its regular place on the Supreme Court docket, the case would in nil probability not be hoard beforo next June or July. Upon At torney's Gatzmyor's suggestion Hint moral suasion be brought to hear upon the parties interosted in defending the suit, Council men Garlick and Wright wero unpointed a committee In inter view them nnd try nnd arrange to have the case submitted by brief, and consequently advanc ed on the. docket. T. A. Glover, M. F. Joyce, Sherman Cochran and T. I). Condon applied for renewal of liquor license beginning January 1st, and was referred to the liquor license committee. M. J. Carson's application for a liquor license on Altti street by amendment of ordinances was reported unfavorably upon l)y tho liquor license committee. Mr. Carson made a plea for fur ther consideration, and tho mut ter was finally laid on the table. - G. L. Perrine and others com plained of the unfiiirnoriM and unjustnoss of the citizens in general paying for removal of garbage from the gnrhago cans along the principal stroota, con tending that tho proporly kept clean by Virtue of tho cnni being placed whero they are should near the cost of removal. Tho Health and Police and Street Committeos wero instructed to investigate the nature of tho garbage that is being deposited in the cans. A resolution directing tho city engineor to prepare tho nucos sary plans and specifications for the improvement of Willnmutto boulovard between Burlington street and St. Johns avonuu by comout sidownlks, 18 foot curbs and standard concrete paving was adopted. Attornoy Gatzmyor advisad against adopting any of tho proposed mothods of submitting tho park question to tho votors whicli ho had been requested to pass his opinion upon, believing it to bo tho safer plan for tho City Council to select tho situs and then put it up to tha votors for thoir approval or rejection. G. L. Perrino told of tho plan of tho citizens of Ward No. 2 to hold a mass mooting at tho city hall Wednosday evening for tho purposo of selecting a park situ favorable to tho residents of that portion of tho city, and acW visod tho rosidonUt of tho First Ward to do likewise. Tho following bills wero allow ed and ordored paid: O. J. Gatz myor. paper, $1.25; Currins for Drugs, library paste, 25c; Edgar Auhaurie, threo hours' work on streot, 95c; George Skaar, stroot work and inspecting, 12 days, $3!1.50; St. Johns Planing Mill, lumber, 45c: Edmondson Co., supplies, $1.15; St. Johns Hard ware Co., supplies, $2.30; W. S. Jcans.one day's work withtoam, $5; BertOlin, streot work and in specting, $12.50; making a total $0.;J5. Piano and Violin Lessons 50c an Hour Violin pupils will have advajia tage of playing with Piano and vice versa. Mr. and Mrs. J. E, Stine, 711 W. Johns t. Currin Says: 'Tho ona REST gift is a Kodak. Kodaks, and Brownies, $1.00 and up. adv.