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St. Johns Is Calling You 1 second in number of Industries. Is seventh in population. Can to Portland every 16 min. Has navigable water on 3 (idea. Has finest gas and electricity. Has two strong banks. Has five large school houses. Has abundance of purest water. Has hard surface streets. Has extensive sewerage system. Has fine, modern brick city hall. Has payroll of J95.00O monthly. Ships monthly 2,000 cars freight. AH railroads have access to it. Is gateway to Portland harbor. Climate ideal and healthful. St. Johns is Calling You Mas seven churches. Has a most promising future. Distinctively manufacturing city Adjoins the city of Portland. Has nearly 0,000 population. Has.a public library. Taxable property, H500.00Q. Has large dry docks, saw mills . Woolen mills, iron works, Stove works, asbestos factory, Ship building plant, Veneer and excelsior plant, Flour mill, planing mill, Box factory, and others. More industries coming. St. Johns is the place for YOU. I ST. JOHNS REVIEW Devoted to the Interests ot the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. io ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1914. NO. 25 COUNCIL MEETS Matters of Importance Receive Attention All members were present at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday evening, with Mayor Vincent presiding. A. G. Long tendered the use of a fire engine owned by his compam without charge. Action on the kindly offer was deferred until later in the evening, and then overlooked in dealing with other matters. A petition for a fire hydrant at the corner of Willamette boulevard and Baltimore streets was referred to the water and light committee with authority td act. Bids for hauling garbage were received, the St. Johns Express Co. offering to haul same at 50 cents per load, and Roy Wilcox offering to convoy this refuse to the city crematory for 75 cents tint trin. The former was awarded the contract. The city has been paying at the rate of $1.00 per load. Agnes Quarrio asked for per mission to construct a buttress in front of her property on "'il lamctto boulevard, and the re quest was referred to the city engineer. The reorganized lire depart ment tendered tho names of the officers elected by the company for confirmation by the council, as follows: LeeCormany, chief; ErlcF. Peterson, assistant chief; C. S. Currin, president; Boss Walker, secretary, and P. G. Gilmore, treasurer. Sama wore confirmed by tho council. Tho improvement of Hartman street, between Central avenue and Oswego atrcot.wns accepted. Tho petitioned for improve ment of Charleston street, be tweon Hayes and Willametto boulevard, was taken up and the engineer recommended that tho improvement should bo carried on to Jersey street, and not cut off at Hayes; Alderman Graden was also of tho same opinion. It was decided that the council should visit tho street and mako an investigation, and further action was delayed until next week. Tho following bids woro rc- ceived on tho improvement or Burr street between Smith avenue and Banks street: Andrew & Harrer, $3,642. 1G; M. T. Swan. $3,805.27; Cochran Nutting Co.. $3,431.37; J. Hahn. $31.51.70; V. W. Mason, $3,722.54. On tho improvement of Burr street between Smith avenue and Dawson street: Andrew & Harrer, $3,490.69; M. T. Swan, $3,725.49; Cochran Nutting Co.. $3,314.05; J. Hahn, $3,488.01; V. W. Mason, $3,980.42. Tho bids of Cochran Nutting Co. being the lowest on both improvements, they were awarded the contracts. Tho St. Johns Gas Company asked that their franchise bo amended so as to permit of the elimination of an office in St. Johns, offering in lieu thereof to arrange, for a pay ofijco in this city, possibly at one of the banks, and establish tho same rates for gas here as obtains in Portland, or a reduction of 25 cents per thousand feet. Tho city attorney was directed to draft an ordinance providing for such amendment. Bills amounting to $9GG.89. which included electricity and water bills for the past month, were allowed. Alderman Graden said ho )olifvpii it mitrht be a crood plan to dispose of the day police and have the paid firemen act as specials during the summer months at least. The chief of police, however, did not favor the plan, claiming that such ar rangement might complicate matters too greatly. It was de cided to lay the matteV over for another week. The chairman of the street committee was authorized to remedy defects in the roadway on Smith avenue between Fes senden and Bristol streets. The mayor called attention to the condition of Jersey street, stating that it was getting in bad condition. The city attor ney was directed to notify the Westrumite company and the bondsmen of the state of affairs, with a request that necessary repairs be made. L. A. Peterson desired the use of the foot of Alta street at the river front, offering to pay $2 per month as rental thereof, The offer was accepted. Lafferty's Bill For Government Ships Congressman Lafferty, as a mnmlinr of the imnortant Com mit ton nn Tntnrstnte nnd Foroitrn Commerce, has made a special study ot transportation, uotn uy land anu sea. "I fnvnr tint, nnlv tho Nntinnnl iv.ntinn nf ntir rnflwnvs. but likewise favor tho building and operation of ships uy the uov ernment," said Mr. Lafferty it n nnnnrli in Mm Hniisn Mnrch 11 1914. "Ono lino of those ships should ply between Alaska and the States. Others should carry our mails to foreign posts, at the same timo carrying passengers and freight." Mr. Lalforty has found that America pays ocean freights an nually amounting to the enor mous sum of $5550,000,000, or $3.50 per head of our population. Wo export annually two billion dollars worth of merchandise, and import a billion and a half. Tho freights are estimated at 10 per cent of tho total, thereby amounting to tho figures given. Mr. LaiTerty has calculated that tho United States could afford to build a licet of 200 American merchant ships to cost $4,000,000, each.or total of $800, 000,000, to handle this commerce. Should wo get only half of our own shipping, according to Mr. Lafferty's figures, the licet of 200 shins would pay for them selves in less than 12 years. Mr. Lalforty has introduced a bill providing for tho building of these ships, which he will urge upon tho attention of Con gress. In his speech in tho House, Mr. Lafferty further said: "A willing Congress will pro vido for a fleet of American mer chant ships, to bo owned nnd operated by tho Government, to carry our immense commerce upon the high seas. At a cost of $4,000,000 each, the Govern ment could build a fleet of 200 such merchant ships, the largest and the finest in tho world, suit able for carrying passengers, mail, and cargoes. The total cost would be only $800,000,000, just twice tho cost of building tho Panama Canal. Yet such a ileet would keep in America an nually $350,000,000, which now goes to the foreign steamship trust, provided wo carried all our ocean commerce, and it would keep in America annually $175,000,000 if we should carry only half our commerce. With such a Ileet. some of tho ships plying on the Atlantic and somo on the Pacific and somo circling the globe, an American citizen could travel at small cost and see tho world and its wonders. If such a Ileet should carry only half our commerce, and it would have the capacity for carrying it all, it would nevertheless nay for itself inside of 12 years, and this computation is made upon the basis of charging olf 10 per cent of the revenues received from passengers, mails, and freights each year for deprecia tion and repairs, and the pay ment of annual interest at 3 per cent on the cost of the ships until paid for." adv. Don't forget that our towns man D. C. Lewis is a candidate for Representative on tho Re publican ticket. He has lived in St. Johns for several years and is known to most of our citi zens as an active anu nustung centleman. That he would do anvthinc in his power if elected. Ifn nrK'nnpn thn Intflrnsts of this section is a foregone conclusion Wanted Tent and anpurten ances, size about 12x14. Ad dress 922 n. Kellogg; pnone Col. 591. adY. ilsssssssssssH RT sH Studying Motherhood The following was a paper read by Mrs. Kclley at the Mothers' meeting In the city hall Monday afternoon of last week, and is full of interest: "The young matron herself was ideal in her noise of man ner, in her wise leading of her children where she wanted them to go. and the children were sturdy nnd happy, yet very cnlm and even and well behaved. It was a joy to see them. After wc became acquainted, the mother told me that durinir the year previous to marriage she made svstematic and thorouch study of motherhood, and she was highly sntistied with re sults. I heard somo of the ladies tho ne ghborhood criticising her for huvintr studied that sub ject before marriage, but I think she was right." So a lady was saying at a mothers' meeting as she brought in her mito of now light" after a prolonged absence from home. All who think carefully, and can be touched by tho works of love, agree that motherhood is tho sweetest, tenderest most exalted state on earth. It is but rational to prepare for it, as one prepares for the ministry, for teaching; for a trade, for urtistlc expres sion; great and important as those all are. motherhood far outranks them all in importance. The study of motherhood not only has to do with preparation for that state, but looks on and on involves preparation for holping beginners in tho world to do thinirs. form habits, form characters, determine final des tiny. "Tho mother has full control of the child's life for seven mnortant years." What a sum of duties and opportunities aro to confront the mother in this short poriod of timo! As tho surgeon must have a long course of study and training in order to enable him to perform a critical operation in a few minutes, so, very consistently, tho mother who id, within tho seven yenrs, to do her most tol nir work in shuts nir a life destined for immortality, needs all tho light, all the specializing sho can command. She enn hardly begin too early. In contrast with the awesome- ncss somo women throw nbout all that pertains to coming mothorhood, also in contrast with tho rather coarao remarks somo other mako before young girls, to hear of a uriuo-to-uo taking un such a course of study seoms like, making motherhood a really serious, a really religious matter. , . It takes but a slimnse into n stock raisers' journal to show that those interested in the highest development of nnlmal life recocnizo tho fact that just so far as possible tho ru'c of chance is to bo overcome, and that of accurate knowledgo to take its place. When moral and spiritual conditions are also to bo devoiopeu with tno pnysicai life, it can be only rational for human mothers to glean all they can in the way of wisdom. If for any reason a young woman has neglected special preparation for her future pro fessionyes, profession before marriage, her first year there after may be wisely utilized in laying up a good supply of ex pert knowledge, laying rock foundations for building a home in tho broad senso of the word for the future nestlings a homo that has its center In her own heart, but which must expand to include all tho advantages she can learn how to provido. Tho mother must know the child's physical and mental characteristics thoroughly be fore she" can give it proper care. Motherly judgment is needed to strike the right balance, so that the young child may grow up proportional in its parts. By a curious relationship between mental and physical laws, habits of body affect the mind, and mental conditions nave to do with tho body. When these un favorable mental states do not cause positive illness, they al ways undermine the general health more or less, rendering the body a more easy prey to disease. On tho other hand, the consciousness that one is obey ing the laws of health tends to promote health. From analogy we may reason that a consciousness of self begins to stir in the infant mind almost from beginning. Cer tainly from tho time tho baby hand closes upon an object held out to it. During the first year the baby's sense of personality is exercised mainly in acts, of Advice to Old Maids All girls should marry when they can. There's naught more useful than a man. A husband has some faults, no doubt, and yet he's good to have about; and she who doesn't get a mate will wish sho had, soon or late. That girl is off her base, I fear, who plans to have a high career, who sidesteps vows and wedding rings to follow after abstract things. I know so many ancient maids who in professions, arts and trades have tried to cut a manlike swath, and old age finds them in the broth. A loneliness, us ot the tomu, cnsiirouus me spinsters in its gloom; the jim crow honors they have won thev'd so at seven cents a ton. their sun is sinking in the west, nnd they, unloved nnd uncares sod, must envy, aa they bleakly roam, tho girl with husband, hearth and home. Get married, then. Jemima, dear; don't fiddle with a cheap career, bclect a man who's true and good.wnose head is not composed of wood: a man who's sound in wind nnd limb, then round him up and mnrry him. Oh. rush him to the altar rail.uor heed his protest or his wail. "This is," you'll say whcnho'B been won, the best .lay's work I'vo ever Walt Mason. done."- - self conservation nnd self as sertion. A baby s probably the most helpless oi all unimnte things, nnu ovcry opportunity should bo given It to grow up to abio bodied manhood or womnnhood. Nothing that will retard its growth or tend to. increase its susceptibility to disease snouiu bo permitted to become a factor in its transition from infancy to youth. The average mother would undoubtedly doienu her self strenuously against tho charge thut sho was not giving her oiTspring tho advantage of everything which would nrove beneficial to it, , and yet, it sno resorts to tho uso of that most abominable of all abominntions, tho "Baby Pacifier." or"Mothor Comfort." as it is sometimes called, sho unquestionably is lessenintr its chances and fre quently endangers its life. Physicians and nurses who treat babies aro agreed that Pacifiers nro often tho direct cnuso of mnny ills. Sprue and Thrush, to sny nothingof chronic indigestion and other Ills equally detnmontal to tho littlo one, enn often be traced to tho use of a "Mother's Comfort." Tender buds of human ty nro constantly in danger from tho 'littlo foxes" to bo met with in tho realm of physical life. Sometimes, indeed, tho "littlo foxes" enter stealthily by way of tho body, and once establish ed, take possession of tho whole be inc. Tho "little fox" may be a neglected cold, impaired eye sight, an abnormnl growth in tho nostril. Tho mother is so busy with household duties that when tho child is out of her sight she believes tho child's cold is not serious. Ono of tho greatest dangers to which a baby is commonly ex posed is promiscuous kissing. Kissing may bo considered a minor detail in tho hygienic enro of a baby, but when tho risks aro studied scientifically, the subject can but appear extreme ly grave. It a child must be kissed, select tho forehead, never tho lins or the hands. A kiss on the hand may be as full a risk as one on the mouth, for countless times a day do the tiny fingers go to tho mouth. Tho ruin ot success or tnoiuturo is in tho hands of the child of todav. It is up to you who are entrusted with tho caro of littlo ones whose future you will be held largely accountable for. Why not give tho baby a chance? Lord, give tho mothers of the wor d More love to do their part: That love which reaches not alone The children made birth their own. But every childish heart: Make in their souls true mother hood. Which aims at universal good. Try our famous Rose Spray. ready for use; only 25 cents per gallon. Also a complete line of the various sprays, fumigators and insecticides, parasite des troyers, etc., for flowers, plants, fruits, vegetables and animals. At the St. Johns Pharmacy, ad Where shall I get my.haircut? At Gilmoro's barber shop. adv. West Side Notes Frcm the Linnton Lender. A social dance was given at the home of Lou Munson Satur day ovenintr. A number of St. Johns friends came over to the dnnce nnd a happy time was en joyed by all. Mrs. Frank Licthe, who has been in California attending her sick father the past month until his death, returned to her home in Whitwood Monday of last week. Mr. Harbin started the rock crusher again Monday with a full force of men. Ho has or ders ahead now for several thou sand tons, which will keep him busy for some months to come. Wiilard Shepard, our water works man who has been Whit wood's "Old Reliable" for the pnst seven years, took a trip up the valley Saturday of last week. The men at the irovernmont dock woro all discharged Monday except two. pending further or ders. They will probably be back again in a few days to re sume work. The old system of water works is now a thing of the past, and now tho customers of the old system will have to connect with the new one. A. Munson is building un ad dition to his smokehouse us tho old one was inadequate for tho large amount of business he had to do. Ho is looking forward to furnishing tho world and Scap pose with smoked fish. Tho hoso and cart house now under construction for tho fire men of Whitwuod will bo an up todale structure. It is a much needed addition to our city. W. S. Clark, the old reliable carpenter of Whitwood has just finished a garage at Linnton and is now engaged in roofing a couple of fine porches in Upper Whitwood. Billy Windlo of St. Johns had tho St. Johns end of tho ferry for n few days in the nbsence bf Georgo Hall, 'who was attend ing court as a juryman. Billy says ho thinks he can learn to nnndlo tho chain in a few days, and to holler out "all clearl"as good as Georgo Hall can. Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Evens of Whitwood Court aro receiving tho congratulations of their friends upon tho arrival of a son and heir May 5th. Mother and baby doing fine. Mr. Hanson, tho supervisor on the county road, is doing a lino piece of work by widening tho rack bo as to make it more convenient for the public who travel this wayward. North School Notes For weok ending May 1st, Melvin Gibson, Joe Mayes and Donald Lind, of 5th grade, had tho most stars to their credit. In the 6th grade Birgor Arm born. Clair Rogers, Lola York, Emil Minch. nnd Bertha Lcfilc- man made the best record. For week ending Mny 8th, Joe Mayes, Kenneth Catto, Hild Maplethorp, Melvin Gibson nnd Loyal Thurston received tho most credits, and in the 6th grade Donald Green, Birger Armborn, Bertha Leiiiemnn, Jes sie McNovin, Clair Rogers and Ward Roberts had the most credits. Christina Toole was quite ill last Monday. Tho tollowing boys would liko to have the children of St. Johns help keep tho library calendar uptodato with wild flowers: Dorsey Hill. Birger Armborn, Hugh Coffey and Donald Green. Defeated the Sunsets The Sunset ball club of Port land played a game of ball with the strong St. Johns Pharmacy club on the Hill grounds Sunday afternoon. Tho Sunsets were hopelessly outclassed all the way through, and tho locals had a picnic. In the first inning the sun began to Bet for the visitors, and they never has a chance to score. The team work of the locals was perfect, and they ran the bases with judgment and daring. The features of the game was the heavy batting of Pitcher Klum and the heavy stick work of the locals in gen eral. The scoro was 18 to 0 in favor of St. Johns. Next Sun day the locals will journey to Crystal Lake and play tho team of that Portland suburb, An Enjoyable Recital A very pleasing piano nnd vocal recital was given Inst Sat urday evening at the home of Mrs. L. A. Day, 1222 South Gresham street, by Mrs. Day's pupils, in tho presence of parents and friends. All the participants acquitted themselves admirably. Especially pleasing were songs by Miss Fny Went?, and recita tion uy unu Day. Tho follow ing is the program as rendered: Clayton's Grand Mnrch Gen eva Short. Piano duet- Lillian and Don aid Tooley. "Snow Man"- Edna Titus. German song Miss Katie Popp. "Merry Thoughts," reverie Lillian Tooley. Pilllld (lltit. .Inmim I'IhIpIwii- and Mrs. Day. Schottische Laura Titus. Snnir. "Our Hnusn Wnu II mills' - -'- - "".iv SSIIIHIV cd" Edna Titus. Piano duet- Lillian Tooley and Mrs. Day. "Dorothy." Old English Dance James Fletcher. Vocal solo, "Sing Me to Sleep" Miss Fny Went?.. IMnim ani "lliiumii'l I ""n ii i. mini Titus and Mrs. Day. Recitation Lulu Day. Piano duct. "Hunting Song" -Loyal Holmes and Mrs. Day. Black Hnu lc Willi . A nun Toole. Pinno duel, "Angels" Seron ado" Everettand Mrs. Day. "Remember Me" - Xleneva Short. , Piano duet, "A Happy End-ing"- Geneva Short and Mrs. uay. Schubert's Serenade- Everett Day. Piano duet, "II Trovatore" Fay Wentst and Mrs. Dav. "The Chimes"- Loyal Holmes. Vocal solo, "Just for Today" - Fay Wont?.. ill Purchase Fire TrucR St. Johns will again have a volunteer fire department and will ulso have two paid firemen, according to plans made at a spe cial meeting of the city council Saturday evening. The firemen, with tho exception of Ben Hoov er, assistant city engineer, re cently resigned because of tho lack or hotter equipment, and loft tho city without u fire de partment. Mayor Vincent ap pointed Bon Hoover, Leo Cor many. P. G. Gilmore. L. M. OI bus. Ross Walker. Eric Petorson nnd C. S. Currin as a committee of citizens to reorganize tho de partment. Tho motion of Coun cilman Davis, seconded by Coun cilman Garlick, that tho city en ter into an agreement with tho Richmond street unrairo to as semble on un automobile truck to bo purchased the nrescnt chemical and hose apparatus of tho department, the cost com plete to bo S2850. was carried by a vote of 5 to 1. Councilmen Davis, Garlick. Chadwick, Wald ref and Graden voted in favor of tho plan nnd Councilman Munson opposed it. Councilman Cornell was absent. After a discussion of tho needs of tho firo department, partici pated in by the councilmen and a number of resigned members of the department, the sugges tion ot the newly appointed com mitteo that tho city employ two paid firemen was moved by Councilmnn Waldrof and passed unanimously. It was decided that local men bo appointed to tho positions at salaries of SCO and $75 per month, respectively. Uno man will caro lor the ap paratus and tho other will act as janitor of tho city hall. The em ployment of a janitor at a salary of $50 per month will be done away with. The allowance by the city to tho lire department for incidental expenses will bo cut from $83 to $25 per month and tho city will secure the ser vices of two paid firemen to aid the volunteers at an additional expense of about $27 per month. Don't forget to bring in your news items. The more interest people take in sending in items, tho better tho paper will be. If you have a visitor at your homo let tho public know it. Your guest will appreciate montion of tho visit in the local paper. If you have a party or entertain ment at your home, jot down the fact together with names of those in attendance, and send to this office. Wo want all the news we can get, and the only way wo can get it is by tho aid of the local people. THE LIBRARY Interesting Notes for the Library Patrons Library hours: Afternoon- -12 to 5:30. i Evening 7 to 9. Sunday 2:30 to 5:30 for read ing only. A box of 80 fiction and 40 non fiction was received the first of the week. New charge copies: Mitchell Westwayu. NicholsonOtherwise Phylis. Portot Polyanna. There is a copy of each of these books on the regular shelves also. Now Books: Holding- -Camper's handbook. - Maeterlink Our Eternity. A very considerable extension of the essay on Death, which was published in 1011. Tho chapter headings aro: Our in justice to death; annihilation.; survival ot our consciousness; the theosophicnl hypothesis: tho neospiritunlistic thesis, appari tions: communications with tho dead; cross correspondence; re incarnation; fate of our con sciousness; two aspects of in finity ' our fate in those infinities. Kiis- Penl and presentation of tho home. By the author of Making an American, and How tho Other Half Lives. Considers. 1. Our sins in the past; 2, Our fight for the home; 3, Our plight in tho present; !, Our grip on tho to morrow. Sellers- Classics for the bar. Stories of the world's great jury trials and a compilation ol forsenic masterpiece. Train- Prisoners at tho bar. Sidelights on the adminstra tinn of criminal justice by tho assistant district attorney, New York county. Williams- Miracles of science:" Wonderfully interesting chap ters on such topics as The Origin of the World, Charting tho Uni verse, Banishing the Plagues, Working Wonders With a Top. A Note of Warning J. W. Brewer, snecial agent for tho State Immigration Com mission, has just returned from a careful survey of tho lands in cluded In tho urea recently olim- intaed from tho forest reserves in Central Oregon, and his re port to Stnto Immigration Agent C. C. Chapman carries with it a note of wnrning to intending sottlers on such lands. Already there Is a great number of home suckers in the eliminated dis trict, and it is expected thero will be more applicants than thero are claims. Of tho 236.680 acres actually open for entry, at least 182,000 acres aro non-tilnblo, leaving but 54,000 acres of a character which will support settlers. The elevation of a largo part of this section is from 4200 to 4500, and thero is danger of kill ing frost at all times in tho year, Distance irom tho rail road varies irom 7i toiuu miles, making it extremely difficult to get produce to mnrket. Pros nects for trrnzing nro fairly en couraging, and Mr. Brewer nil- v scs new settlors to turn their attention mainly to stock raising. Company Reorganizes Lee Cormany, who resigned as chief of the St. Johns Volunteer Fire Department, was Monday night reappointed chief of the reorganized department, at a meeting of tho citizens' commit tee of soven appointed by Mayor Vincent Saturday night, Eric F. Peterson, another member of tho committee, was appointed assistant chief, These two will bo employed as permanent fire men. The department was organized Monday night with the follow ing officers: C. S. Currin, presi dent; Ross Walker, secretary, and P. G. Gilmore. treasurer. Tho president, chief and as sistant chief will compose the board of governors, and tho department will consist of 25 members above tho age of 21. An electric massage, only ono , in town, Gilmoro's barber shop. advv