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'ff,, totUty St. Johns is Call tag You It teconcl in number of Industries. It tevenlh In population. Cart to Portland every 16 min, Has navigable water on 3 sides. Hat finest gat and electricity. Hat two ttrong bankt. Hat five large tchool houtet. Has abundance of purett water. Hat hard turface streets. Hat cxtentive sewerage system. Hat fine, modern brick city hall. Hat payroll off 95.000 monthly. Ships monthly 2,000 cart freight. .All railroads hove access to it. Is gateway to Portland harbor. Climate ideal and healthful. St. . Johns is Galling You Hat seven churehta. Has a most promising future. Distinctively a manufacturing city Adjoint the city of Portland. Hat nearly 6,000 population. Hat.n public library. Taxable property, f-1,500.000. Hat large dry docks, taw mills Woolen mills, iron workt, Sjove 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.' ST. REVIEW Devoted to the Interests. Ol.th Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of (be Nortbweit VOL. to ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUI,Y to. 1914. NO. 33 JOHNS COUNCIL MEETS Matters of Importance Receive Attention All members were present at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday evening with the exception of Councilman Davis, who was still in Eastern Oregon. Mayor Vincent pre sided in his usual faultless style. A remonstrance signed by forty citizens protested against the acceptance of the proposed plat of the Cramer tract on Wil lamette boulevard on tho conten tion that it did not conform with the other streets. Tho plat was rejected. H. G. Benhnm nsucd lor Per- mission to erect a sign across 0f Mr. Fred Couch they prcBcnt'aml tho breath of local en flm. nldim-nllt nt. thn Homo fi terpriso had departed. tho sidewalk at the Home Gar age; 102 Smith avenue, which request was granted. V. W. Mason asked for and was granted 30 days' extension of time on tho improvement of Willamette boulevard between Burlington street and St. Johns avenue, the improvement having been a little overdue, owing to difficulty in securing material when needed. Bills nmounting to $,'187.50 were allowed. The new fire truck was ac- cepted and the paid, firemen ! placed on regular duty beginning . I 1 ? - ! . mo ioiiowing niunuiiK. Alderman Grnden suggested that the fountain on the city hall plot, which has been in disuse for some time past, be converted into a receptacle for holding (lowers, and asked that tho coun cil consider the proposition for a week. A fountain wns ordered in stalled at tho ferry landing. Engineer Burson stated that a Cortion of the sidewalk on Ivnn oo street wns in a dilapidated condition, and the-roconler was directed to notify tho property owners to placo same in proper repair. Tho subject of acquiring nn oil sprinkler was discussed, but no writton application for oil sprinkling having been received from property owners, no action was taken. Tho improvement of Willnm etto boulevard between Burling ton strcot and St. Johns avenue, and Burr street between Dawson street and Smith avenuo were accepted. Tho monthly reports of tho treasurer, recorder and chief of police, and the quarterly report of tho city recorder were read and accepted. An ordinance providing tho time and manner of improving Charleston street between Hayes and Willamette boulevard by Bidowalk and hard surface was passed, Aldermen Garlick and Graden voting in the negative, however, on the ground that the improvement was unnecessary. An ordinance compelling prop erty owners to cut down and re move weeds on their property wns passed, and the mayor and chief of police requested to select a man to have supervision of the checking up of same. The chief of police was direct ed to arrange so that all mem bers of the police force should have a vacation of ten days each. A Gentle Reminder Mrs. M. Rowman, 368 Fre mont street, aroused because of the ban that has been placed on tho wearing of X-ray skirts in public, calls the attention of Mayor Albee to what she terms impropriety in the dress of mere man. The gentle reminder to look close to home is the result of the mayor's crusade against so-called immodest habiliaments which some women prefer dur ing the hot summer days. Mrs. Bowman wants simple justice in behalf of her sex. She thinks the mayor, to speak frankly, has no right to single out woman folk in matters sartorial, and let the men out even offenders get off with-! a word 01 criticism.,"; x, "J V "i She declares that the police have plenty to do to prosecute their uress reforms at their own door without going out of their way to harrass or intimidate the gentler sex. Journal. House for Sale 827 N. Edison Street: 0 room house and mod ern all the way through. See owner. Blacksmith at Peninsula Iron Works. Handsome Stores Couch & Company, pioneer merchants, now nave one of the finest, most attractive and most convenient stores to be found in the entire Northwest. While the arrnngoment is not cntire'y completed, yet the effect is most pleasing to the eye. Couch & Company started in j business in St. Johns ten years ago. Tho start was made in a ; small way with various kinds of I goods in one modest store room. Today three commodious store swit t itttflt i umtntif t.fitii tnnf i frontline are none too large toi?.na.ma store and properly display the enormous quantity of goods on hnnd. Tho exterior of the build inn is most inviting. The glass front all along the front of the building nllords splendid disnlav. and under the skillful 1 niitimm mnnlnnlnflmi nn.1 nvriaf.tr nliilit v till um'vtii uii; tutu io mwot wwuu- tiful. White islhepredominnt - i in.. ti,,.mri,mii Tim utmm thnt formerly was the means of entering into tho stores have been done nwav with by lower ing the buildings to street level. The first department from Ivanhoe street is used exclusive ly for dry goods and ladies' wear ing apparel, including shoes. The next department is utilized for men's furnishings, and the third is the grocery department. Wide arch ways lead into all the departments in a straight line, making ingress and egress into each department one of easo and facility. Handy little places arc found near the arch ways for bargains of various natures. Tho basement is largo and com modious, and is well filled with excess goods of various varieties. The part of the basement design-community, with its necos ed especially for use of tho gro- pries and luxuries more cheap y, orv ImHirfmnnt is mii-nrislnrrlv,.n tie long .run, than COllId its cerv cool and pleasant, and eatables and perishnblo goods of any kind can there be kept in tho finest condition. Tho stores aro splen didly lighted by the high and Inure plate ulass in the front. ........ , Arrangements have been made for heating tho stores with n furnace in tho basement. Tho tiitjt tulitfk i ti (alt i ii iro r f 1m in. terior throughout is a thing of bcmitv and is most pleas nir. ! n w 1 Ti,n HtnrM nm nil inndo h of con- vonienco and attractiveness. No '- ---- - effort or expenso has boon spared In making tho combined stores up'to-dato in each and every particular. A iim.r nlrnvn m hn conv ms'" been erected over the roar of the J!"",er V10 . n i Ke?ernll5;i stocks, the arguments and facts dry goods department, upon "ttlo understood principles of aB presented aro incontroverti which will ho carried a lino of , morchandiz ng; tho object in ble.i ladles' apparel, and Mr. Couch , J'iow being to mako clear tho fact In mfdition to gathering tho says a portion of the balcony may i that it costa approximately the! (lntn contained in tho lltornturo Inter be utilized as a sowing , ,m whom Mm. Frni rwh nnd Miss Louise Couch will give , free sewing lessons in fancy work one attornoon ot each wcck. Both aro experts in fancy needle work, and such an innovation would no doubt be gratefully ap preciated by many of our young ladies who aro anxious to learn. A handy balcony has also been constructed a the rear of the men's furnishing department, which will be utilized for tho W ! A fine line of hats of all tho , latest designs and patterns have i men's furnishings of different kinds. Shelves and counters have been placed everywhere) where convenient. The stores aro certainly a great credit to St. Johns, and Couch & Com-1 pany are deserving of much praise for their enterprising spirit. Wants it Prohibited Editor Review: It does seem as if some method might be de vised whereby street speakers would be prohibited from heap ing abuse upon the church, the 'country and numerous individ uals. It is most annoying to ;have to pass along the main 1 street of the city at night and I hear a loud voiced speaker de 'nounce Christianity, the govern ment or the manufacturers. n It 1 1 free speecn is an ngni so long 01 omers. inu iuuii iiua u niurui right to publicly denounce whom soever he will without at least just cause. Probably if the city authorities would pass an or dinance prohibiting public speak ing upon the main streets of the city at least, those persons find ing it necessary to make a trip down the main streets in the evening will not be afflicted with being compelled to hear a lot of abuse. Citizen. niacins of trunks, valises, etcjciuo. no oegins wim uio .miinu-1 A NEW LIGHT On Fundamental Princi ples of Merchandising Dy David Powell. In a mnll city of western Nebraska, the incoming flood of catalogs and the outgoing flood of money orders had reached such proportions that the mer- became convinced that their commercial extinction wns near at hand. They saw their city dwindling in population and degenerating in appearance. They saw the young men of the ,J?wn striking out for the Inrger I .,, i ,. ... ... .1 , c,Ve.s. "u ey icit mat .me I spirit OI local prttlO Was UrOKCh i i i l. Very fortunately, however, i for the future wcllaro of that community there was ono man among them who still retained a spark of hone in his heart, lie organized the business interests 'f he city into a "got together'' club for the purpose of fanning the dying embers of home feel - lug iiuo a living name, u was out for everything thut promised to help the home town. But tho man who had brought the or ganization together could think , of nothing thnt would help tho old town so much as to get back some of the trade it had lost to mail order houses. Ho did not believe the lightly W'ilH IIUJJUIUHB, IIIIU I1U ruiusuu IU 'admit, even to himself, that, as a matter of dollars and cents the mail order houses could supply ... ,,. ,. n.i,n,.ni.nnili. lutiii iiii-iviiiiiiia. vjuiiouiiiiuiiii.y ho looked around for a man who had a natural gift for figures, who could tako a prico apart am show what made it go: who could meet farmers on their own ground and talk to them straight from tho shoulder without giv ing offense. The man selected for this work J,nu for many years been a fac- i i i "y cusi expoii, ami auur giv- B t o. matter a great deal or thoughtful consideration, he con cluded thnt the most effective way to convinco the consumer of i tho wisdom of patronizing home merchants would bo to put be- t foro mum in u i nun convinei g A t B,m?.10 "l ,lriful UJ' of tho different methods of yioaern mercn muizing, wneuier . from. tlie shelves of tho home centralized catalog houses of the large cities. This man's experience had fitted him to handle tho subject in an exceptionally intelligent manner, and tho subsequent suc cess of tho undertaking proved iiiuivuuiib m Hum uiu iiiKiiiv the soundness ot his theories. in mo meraiuro seni oui oy in',, nr i,ia ,..iiiiin,;nno- nnt . . . . a ... - "Ciurc 01 an arucio ana 101 owe i t ateR. hy step to the hands of the ultimate consumer throuch !b.oth mail order and regular channels or trade. 1 In proving the fact that tho large catalog concerns have no advantage over other merchants in buying their goods he suys: tirrll l.tAflaMH fllllf AMU LliU I1IU1ICIII JUVIUIJT, IlltlllU lacturing staple products, joys keener competition, if pos- t),eir families. Gradually a test sible, than any other line of busi-1 jnf, jabratory of a crudo sort was ness. It must sell its products I bujt up in the club, and here to the retailer at a price that ,nany an argument as to quality win rumrii uiu amuiieai iiruiiinr rrnni n wns sn t w . T in mn. possible that win permit a reasonable return on the money investment. Should a factory put a price on its product that would return to its stockholders more than a fair rato of interest, either its competitor would un dersell it, or new capital, of which there is always an abund ance seeking investment, would enter the field and would eventu ally bring the price of the article down to the point that would re turn to the stockholders a rate of interest satisfactory to in vestors in industrial securieties. In dwelling on this the purpose is to snow mat unaer tne present industrial conditions the selling price of a manufactured article is determined by its cost of pro duction. "Every modern factory now has a cost system which shows, to the fraction of a cent the cost of their product when it leaves the shipping room. It must be sold at a certain figure to pay a certain percentage of profit. It costs no more per case to manu facture the ten cases for little John Smith than it docs per case the thousand for the lamer buy er, and if both offer the same terms of payment they will be charged exactly the same price. The little John Smiths scattered over the country aro the takers of the bulk of the manufactured products of the country, and they are the ones the manufacturer has in mind when he puts the lowest possible price on his product. Smith his If in quoting John reeular price, n nHco 1 uiij kept down by keen competition. . ' : he is making only a minimum profit, how can he by any pos sibility, quote u lower one with out seriously affecting his divi dends. You know dividends aro what factories are run to make. "Many catalog houses lay great stress on their ability to sell an article at a low price be - cause thev 'own tlniir won fnc. lory.' Ib there any good reason1 'J0 power of clemo or us to believe that their fac tory can manufacture an article cheaper than any- other factory simply because they own it? Catalog houses owning factories, and factories using the tempt ing phrase, 'We sell direct to the consumer,' in ronlity have no advantage over the independent ' -n,..,,,,' relniler in so far as price is con in ou nil ho jiiv.u in tun- because their product, when it leaves the nianufnetur- t I i l i .i IllJt UUJKIl IIIIUIH, IIIUHL UU CIUUKUU to the selling department at ox - nctly tho same price if; would Im charged to an independent re tailer, were they themselves not in the retail business. So you see that the great stress laid on the tactory owning tcature the larger catalog houses is pure, plain, unnuutcratcu bun combo with a capital 'B.' " In explaining now such houses were able to occasionally quote low prices on standard goods of well known makes ho lias to say: "Catalog houses as well as other merchants often hnvc opportun ities to purchase reduced prices, what is known to tho tradfr as- 'job lots.'-,A' factory may discontinue the manufacture of a certain style, and having a large stock of that particular pattern on hand, will offer tho entire lot at cost or even less. While of course such merchan dise is of standard quality, it naturally must have lost its desirability in the eyes of the critical consumer, otherwise there would bo no reason for dis continuing the manufacture of it. With this exception, and tho oc casional opportunity they havo,cipics or Amor can penal codes of purchasing bankrupt factory or conditions. 1 here is scarcely and circulating It, this man also 1 iwnnt nmonffst tho farmors ns n mm tnuie missionary, Though he was strong for homo loniviimnnl rift 11 wnvM wnnr straight to the point 0 the farm er's nocketbook, and stood ready to show tho customer of tho mail order house that, mouth in and month out, he was actually losing money by not trading with the homo merchants. In his figures he left nothing IUUV W MIM WVIWtVKVtSWttW I W V u po8ta,,0 8tunu, or an express toll escaped his eye. He was up on brands and qualities in every n 8amj)e3 of foodstuffs from tho local store and made side by side comparisons of them in the farm kitchen with the foods bought from the mail order concern. The club was made a social center for the entire community, en-'especially for the farmers and sumer and the storekeeper were both taught to be judges of qual ity in almost all lines of goods. Today the mail order trade in that community is on the de cline, the catalog is on the run; business and residence real es tate in the city is slowly ad vancing in price; the old town lookB good to some of the high school boys, who are not so eager as were some of their immediate predecessors to shako the dust of the town from their feet, and the entire civic life of the com munity has experienced a decid ed change for the better. How Is Your Title? Have your abstracts made, con tinued or examined at the Peninsu' la Title, Abstract and Realty Co Accurate work. Reasonable fees. II. Henderson, manager, 311 North Jersey street Adv. NoW-th Ubtl.on your jMjr. The Death Penalty I have read and thoueht much . "i" subject ot capital pun ishmt'nt. Six times in mv life I have faced the responsibility of its infliction, holding within my own will decision concerning it, with power to suspend it or let it be imposed the power of life and death over its intended victim. Mv convictions concern- i ng it sue deep rooted and firmly established. I am opposed to it . -- . " " ix.. ...... c . . . iii r 111 iiny num. r.vury iiuur 01 my being, physical, mental and moral, revolts at t. Four times out of six I set aside the penalty and commuted the sentence to life imnrlHonmont. Tvvic.,, I l..f the bloody thing be done. - . I wns at the time governor of a great commonwealth. The law 'Provided for the death penalty, L'md sworn to enforce the law. uncv wiir ' mine, an attribute of the groat I office 1 held, a high and solemn power. But it was not mine to use at will, to arbitrarily exer Icise, or, indeed to exercise at ' nil, except for grave and public I reasons. I had no right to sus pend a law duly and solemnly enacted, simply because my own personal conviction did not ac -- col'd w th its mandate. My duty seemed to me to be amply do fin- imMiv .Itiuflnn Simmnl f Ml 11,... "' " , , 7 V. ""-, 1 f tl'e United States Supremo L'oun, in seniencing a prisoner ; a " :,...,, ",,;.:iJ ,, wlillnnn tl.n ,ttuf..tf . x nu iiuiiuii. viiii;ii uiu uiw attaches to your offense is one which my judgment does not ap prove; for I do not believe that capital punishment is the best means to enforce the observance of the law, or that, in tho pre sent state of society, it is neces sary for its protection. But 1 have no more right for that rea son to refuse to oboy the lnw, than you hnvo to resist it." In tho four cases in which I extended, clemency thoro- woro palliating circumstances thnt seemed to justify executivo mercy. In tho other two cases there was no fact or circum stance upon which to bnse such action, and I permitted the sen tence of tho court to bo carried ........It.. .. .!.!..!. It... I out. But to my dying day I shall not be able to acquit or justify tho law that imposed tho awful responsibility upon me. The death penalty is incon sistent with the highest prin- u iiiuuurii uiu ui riK'iin unit iiul'h not provide thnt penal laws shall be founded upon the principles of reformation and not on vindica tive justice. Capital punish- niinates! It rests wholly on tho ancient doctrine ot revenge an eye for an eye, a hand for a hand, a life for a life. It is out of harmony with tho spirit of tho age, in conflict with modern cul ture, and in contravention of every teaching of the religion; wo profess to live. It is a part of the old penal system of torture and of bodily mutiation a system that is founded on retribution. It bo longs to the days of the Inquisi tion, the wheel and tho rack, tho stake and the fagot; to tho haired and the furies of a time long gone, fittng only the iron hand of a Nero, the metallic soul of a Bismarck. Depending for its authority upon "what dead men have written in old books," it has no placo among tho just and solemn enactments of a free, enlightened and Christian people. Its deterrent quality lies only in the dread of death, the agony of execution, But neither of these is often present in the mind of tho murderer. Most murders are done iu pas sion, in such case there is present in the mind at the time i and in about half an hour thoy no thought of the penalty at all. came to the surface. Tho drown Eveir when the crime is pre- ing of his team is quite u loss meditated the perpetrator calcu- lates not upon detection and ap prehension, but upon- conceal ment and escape. It is the cer tainty of punishment and not its severity that deters. The more lightly the state re gards, and the more publicly it takes, the lives of its citizens, the more frequent, inhumun and terrible the punishment it in flicts, the greater the brutalizing effect upon the people. If the state would huve the citizen hold human life in high and holy regard, the state itself must also hold it sacred. The Eowerof suggestion and example y the state upon tho indivdual can hardly bo estimated. An English divine who had attended sixty-seven criminals through the final scenes of their dis solution testified. that. all but six Birthday Reception A reunion and birthday recep tion of Mr. John Curl was held at the home of his daucrhtc.. tn i V nuerson, aua uicn-'This monthly periodical is one moi d street, July 1st, 1914. 0f the finest, most helpful and c I . "'rlr. w.aa. tf,ve" 1,1 honor, interesting periodicals published of his 82d birthday. An elabor- i the state. It is all printed at two, cour.se dinner was ser- the penitentiary, and should ved, covers being laid for 2-1. 1 imvea wide circulation. It gives The home was beautifully decor-, tlio inside of prison life, the re nted in red, white and green i, forms needed, the hopes and as and a large birthday cake with pimtions of those incarcerated candles representing each year therein, and is something every t". lX.Z u Vr .U,L """".one should read. Send a dollar ,7 11 Le. luoie. aii atmress .ft. ,.' u, ,uL Ul.V' ."ecedlliff the dinner. Was giVdl by Mr. i mis l.iii'iiu is ii fin (in nmn i w across the plains by ox team n 1H17. He is an Indian War vet eran, having fought during the years ot iaoo and lBGtl. Ihorc are just three left out of a family of fourteen, these being John Curl, Miller Curl of The Dalles, and Martha More head of Montavilla. The follow ing relatives were present: Miller Curl. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Curl. Mrs. Martha Moin- iiuuu, ir. anu mis. .i. Aiiuer- son, Keep Anderson, Mr. audi it i -------- ----- Mrs. c. b. Huddleston, matron at the Salem penitentiary. Mrs. r a i i n ti ti i , . .... ;c l. w A " j "m" q " IUIU1LIHI, HITS. O. iJ. Jones, Monte Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Win, Bilyeu. Mrs. J. J. Tryon, Adeline Burkhearl, Mrs. .Claud Allen. Mrs. C. C liar- gV0, AITS. 1). I. JOllCS. Is Well As Ever Charles Tooley surprised his many friends Monday by appear ing on the streets and walking around with us much easo as any of tho other pedestrians. A week ago he was taken to tho Portland Sanitarium suffering irom a sovcro attack of rheuma tifltn. Ho had been in badshnpo with rhcumntism for the month or so previous, and had about decided to go to ono of tho hot springs for treatment, when ho was prevailed upon by a neigh bor to try the Portland Sani tarium. So hu waB convoyed thither, suffering the most ex cruciating torturo. After he had been there but 24 hours and the electric treatment applied, hu wiib able to walk around without the slightest pain. Ho stayed a week, and has not felt any pain since, and can walk around with thorough ease. Charley feels most grateful to the man agement of tho Sanitarium for effecting a cure in such a miracu lously short tine. Ho says the treatment ho was accorded there could not have been finer, and tho charges were surprisingly low. Ho advises all afflicted with rheumatism to try the Portland Sanitarium. Horses Drowned Jeff Davis mot with an unfor tunate loss Monday afternoon. His team of horses, which was engaged in hauling wood from the Whitwood hillside, was left standing in the roadway for a few moments while Mr. Davis' attention was directed else where, and they started oil' down the hill, their speed accelerating rapidly as they neared the bot tom of the hill, with the heavy wagon crowding thorn along, They turned down the roadway leading to the ferry slips, and they woro unable to stop their (light as they reached tho end of the slip, and team and wagon rushed out into tho water, which is quite dcop at tho slip, They sank almost immediately. the wagon drawing them under, to Mr. Davis. of them had themselves wit nessed executions. All scientific reflection and knowledge, all ex perience, all history, and all statistics aro against capital punishment as a deterrent of crime. There are fewer mur ders in stutes that do not inflict it than there are in those that do. Where the death penalty lias been abolished murders have not increased, and mobs nnd lynchings are less frequent. It is unrightful and inefficient- -an expiation, cruel, bloody and ineffectual. The modern mind repudiates it, the twentieth cen tury conscience sickens in con templation of it, and a christfan people ought not to inflict it. J. Frank Hanley in tho Ameri can Magazine, j How They-. View It The item below is taken from "Lend a Hand." which is nrint- cu m the Salem and iret it a year. You w ill iret vniir mnnnv'n u-nrlli nn,l The item shows how much sym pathy a parole breaker gets by the rest of the inmates: What a lot of noise some of these parole breakers make, violating their pledge. It would wring crocodile tears from the eyes of a potato to listen to some of their hard luck tales of woe. Why not cut out thnt whine? It gets you nothing- not even sym- pathy, for we all know that you r,,,!, wU III UMIIIlUt tU'll ti,0tigh you try to lay it on some ono olso. W U unw flmf vnu have hurt tho rest of us, and for that reason our sympathetic spigot, is closed tight. Wotolcr- tit 41 I'nil 1 Wirt n t iiirk iiiji i si i lim-miar wi.wnni i unvnumdrM II M vviill Inur vnin- iriviiinli tnwl saw wood. In other words, tako your medicine and shut up. Land Products Show It has been definitely decided thnt the commercial, industrial and development organizations of Oregon will hold a big Indus trial and Land Products Show in Portland from Oct. 20 to Nov. M, and tho Armory, together with ono or more temporary structures, has been selected us tho site. Mr. Louis W. Buckley, formerly of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, has been se lected to manage the big show. About80,000 square feet of space will be utilized and this will bu nearly equally divided between soil products and products of the workshop. About 12,000 square feet will bo used to show munic ipal and educational work. It is expected that the bust show ing of apples and other fruit ever mado in Oregon will bu found at this show. The trans portation companies have taken an active interest in it and prac tical co-operation will he render ed by the Portland Commercial Club, Portland Chamber of Com merce, The Portland Ad Club, the Retailers' Association, the Kotary Club and by tho press of rortlund and the state at large. Tho premium list for this laud show, which will ho issued in about ten days, will provide tor about $20,000 in cash and special prizes. In addition to tho prem iums, specially engraved di plomas will be given. It is ux pected that the states of Utah, Idaho and Washington will send land product exhibits and other wise participate in this great exposition. County and district exhibits aro particularly desired by the management, also a com plete showing of tho vnrious phases of the lumber industry of the Northwest. Tho man agers have opened goneral of fices at '108 Commercial Club Building. New TrucK a Dandy The now fire truck is practical ly completed and is ready for business. And it is a beauty, built for speed and endurance. It is something the city can well feel proud of. Tho mayor, four members of the city council and a few others were given a trial speed ride to East St. Johns just boforo the council convened 'iuesday evening, and thev were highly elated with the rapid time made. Tho way Chaffour Lctson cut the corners at somu of tho streets fairly made tho dads hold on their hats, rub their eyes and gasp. Ye editor was also on board and enjoyed tho trip- after the street corners had boon safely negotiated. The noise making apparatus of tho truck is enough to make a brass monkey jump out of tho way. Tho local garage is deserv ing of a great deal of credit for turning out such a fine piece of work, Tho paid firemen aro now on duty, and any lira that now breaks out is going to have, a hard time of it to effect much damage.