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"Iilerltil Sotlnr S(; Johns IsCalltnYou Kom! In tiumWi ol Imluttrltt. It Mvcttth in population. .Car to Portland tery lb min. Hat navigable water on J tide. Hat (inert gat and electricity. Hat two ttiong bank. Hat five Urge tcliool lioutet. Hat abundance of putu! water. Hat hard luttaco tlreett. Hat extentive tewerape tyttem. Hat fine, modern brick city hall. Hat payroll of 93.000 monthly. Shipt monthly 2,000 cart freight. All railroad! hava acceit to it. It gateway to Portland haibor. Climate ideal and healthful. St. Johns isCalliug You Hat tevenchurchet. Hat a mott promising future. Ditlinclively a manufacturing ely Adjoint the city of Portland. Hat nearly 6.0UO population. Hat.a public library. Taxable property, Jf4.500.000. Hat large dry dockt, taw mill woolen mill, iron work. Stove work, aibeitot factory, Ship building plant, Veneer and excehior plant, Flour mill, planing mill. Box factory, and other. More Induttriet coming. St. John, it the place for YOU. ST. JOHNS REVIEW Dtrottd to lb Inttrerii ct tbt Ft aluiuU. Ibt MtBufacturln. Ctettr of lb Nertbwtit VOL. to ST. JOHNS, ORKOON, FRIDAY, AUGUST ,7 1914. NO. 17 COUNCIL MEETS Matters of Importance Receive Attention With the exception of Alder, man Cornell, ull members were present at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday eve nlng, with Mayor Vincent presid ing. Matt Rank uuthorized that his name be stricken from a remonstrance against the pro posed vacation of a portion of Pierce street, but no (leiinitc action was taken. A petition for an arc light at the intersection of Weyerhaeuser and Central avenues was re ferred to the water and light committee. Several remonstrances against payment in excess of fifty per cent of the assessed valuation in the improvement of Willamette boulevard between St. Johns avenue and Burlington street was lodged by property owners. The original petition for the im provement of this street was unearthed by the recorder, how ever, and ft was found that in all instances but one that the remonstrntors had signed waiv ers, agreeing to pay up to the full assessed value of their prop erties, and with tho exception of the one not signing the peti tion, tho remonstrances were unheeded, and tho other referred to the engineer and city attorney for recommendation. A communication from Wat son Eastman, president of the Western Cooperage Company, asked that work toward provid ing a roadway to their site bo pushed along as speedily as pos sible, as the company would soon bo needing tho roadway to haul construction supplies over. As no definite information could so far bo secured from tho Port of Portland Commission regard ing what thoy would do toward tho construction of tho roadway or their preference in regard to tho route of same, tho mayor and two others of his selection wore requested to interview the Commission the following day relative thereto and secure a definite understanding if pos sible. The matter of vacation of Pierco street afforded con siderable discussion, and it was finally decided to dolay action until tho Port of Portland Com mission had been interviewed and tho result made known at an adjourned meeting to bo held tho following evening Wednes day. A report of tho Chief of Polico for the month of July was read and accented. Councilman Davis of tho com mittee on leasing or selling the city dock stated that little pro gress had so far been made. , An ordinance declaring and assessing the cost of improving Willamette boulevard between St. Johns avenuo and Burlington street was passed. An ordinance creating a board of censorship and defining its duties was read and then held over for further additions or al terations. Alderman Munson called at tention to a menace existing on Burlington street in the shape of overhanging banks that are liable to topple over at any time and bury a child or two under neath, and the matter was re ferred to tho city attorney and engineer to notify the property owners to remedy same. The city attorney was directed to prepare his case so that pro ceedings could be taken toward enforcing the bondsmen to make necessary repairs on Jersey street. Upon motion of Alderman Munson the buildings and grounds committee was directed to investigate a condition near the city dock whereby danger from fire might be created by reason of sparks flying from the chimnej s of boat houses nearby communicating with sulnhur in storage at the city dock, some of which is scattered on the out side of the building. A W. C. T. U. picnic will be held at Columbia Park Friday. August 21st. Everybody invited to come. Bring your lunch, for it is to be a real old fashioned basket picnic. We will find a table long enough for all to eat at at one time a regular family dinner. We will remind you of this again next week. Come. mothers and children and young 1 I tl T- . people-ana an. ueporier. Mrs. Nancy Caples Mrs. Nancy Nowell Caples, an Oregon pioneer of 18-19, who died July 17 nt her home at St. Johns, where she had lived for nearly Co years, was born in Berwick Township, York county. Maine, November 5, 1829, nnd her ancestry was English and Scotch. She was taken by her parents to Michigan in 183G and to Missouri in 1815. The next year, at the ugo of 17 she was married to Dr. William Caples, a cousin of tho Into John F. Cnnles. a well known luwyer of Portland, and in May, 1849. with one child now Mrs. Jane Dodge of Woodburn, Oregon, the young couple Btnrtcd across the plains with an ox team and arrived at "Foster's," the first house this side of the Cascade Mountains located near the present town of Eagle Creek, Clackamas coun ty late in October. The first home of tho young couple, a ono room log cabin, was built on a donation land claim in Novem ber, 1849, on which a portion of the city of St. Johns now stands. When 12 years old Mrs. Caples united with the Methodist church, and was a charter mem ber of thb first Methodist church organized in St. Johns. She was tho mother of live children, thrco of whom survive her. as follows: Mrs. Jane Dodirc. Woodburn: Mrs. Oliver Hcmlow, Vnncouver, B.C.; Miss Elizabeth Caples, St. Johns. Tho death of Mrs. Caples came as a distinct shock to her family as well a3 to her friends. For a week previous to her death, while she had not been in tho best of health, yet she was steadily improving and bus in tended to go to Shcpard Springs for a few weeks, when she was stricken with paralysis. From tho time she received tho stroke until her death she was unable to speak, although alio made pathetic efforts to do so. Mrs. Caples was a woman of broad mind and at all times kent fully posted on nil tho leading events of the day. Her mind was bright nnd alert even up to tho time of her death. St. Johns had been her home for the past sixty-five years. and sho had seen it grow from a few straggling farm houses to its present sizo and import ance. Sho loved St. Johns and fully realized and appreciated its beauty and natural advan tages, and she watched its de velopment with a careful and approving eye as it advanced step by step. She possessed a marvelous memory nnd could recall with case many matters that tran spired in tho dim past. At heart she was charitably dis posed, but few knew of the dis pensations she made to relieve distress and aid the suffering and of the gifts sho made to a number of church institutions. Of a modest nnd somewhat re tiring dispositon the good that she done was seldom known even by her most intmate f r ends. Up to the hour when she was stricken with paralysis sho seemed to retain her lifelong good health to such a degree that she was able to walk around with little or no effort. As a wifo and mother sho was most affectionate, and her homo life was most beautiful. Those who knew her the best loved her the most, and if sho had an enemy or ill wisher any where it was not of her making. Mrs. Caples will be greatly missed in St. Johns where her figure had become familiar with most of the citizens who have lived here for any period of time. She was a constant reader of current events of local, state and national importance and could talk fluently upon any event of importance. And she looked after her large business inter ests in a careful and competent manner. Her death is epecially a great shock to her daughter, Miss Elizabeth, who has been her constant companion all her life, and the bond and communion between the two was sweet, en during and loving. Mrs. Albert E. Johnson, of 919 S. Edison street, entertained at luncheon on last Thursday for the Misses Lillian Wilson and Beulah Archer of Los Angeles, Cal.. and Miss Leah Walters. The Misses Wilson and Archer are the house guests of Miss Walters. Mrs. Johnson was as sisted in serving by her sister, Mss Ida Fassette. Note th Ubol on your sapor. THE CONSUMER Benefited by Loyalty to Home Institutions By David Powell. "The dollar spent at home To you again may chance to ronm." It Ib possible that the person who sends his money away from home does not stop to consider what elfcct his action may have upon the business conditions of his community and indirectly upon his own fortunes. It is a fact plainly evident and thor oughly demonstrated by the ex perience of any number or com munities throughout the land, that not only farm values, but tho price of farm products as well, depend Inrgely upon the proximity of a good market. If the residents of the country tributary to small cities insist on buying their supplies from out of town houses and travel ing agents, the community is deprived of business that legiti mately belongs to it. Thcmonoy thus spent Ib lost to that particu lar locality as a circulating medium nnd with the resultant decline of business begins the inevitable decline of community welfare and community values. When you decrease the business and population of your home town and surrounding country. your own homo in turn will be bound to suiter depreciation. Any policy which has a ten dency to injure your neighbor will in timo react, and you will have to bear your share of tho damage. It is n sound economic prin ciple to spend your money where you muKo it. unly in very rare cases is there any necessity or excuso for any ono sending away from the homo town for goods: tho local deal ers are able to buy just the samo goods as tho city morchnnta nt just as low prices, nnd if they do not happen to have the article called for in stock, they can al ways get it for a customer on short notice. Comment ng on tho death of the late Montgomery Ward, tho well known president of tho big mail order house that recently opened a Pacific Coast branch in Portland, the American Fair Trade magazino says: Mr. Ward leaves a fortune of twenty million dollars in his own name, and a business of soventy-fivo millions a year, built up at tho cxpenso of tho Bmall towns and villages oi tins great country, and not a cent of it ever gets back to help build up tho community from which it came. "The situation is suroly one of grcnt significance. It seems that but to read a list oi the country merchants who every year close their stores and aban don their business on account of the seductive infienco of the silent salesman' of the catalog house has gained in their com munities, would be sufllcent to establish beyond a doubt that every mail order purchase by a citizen is a direct and deadly blow at the prosperity of his own community. For practically every such commercial failure, a good home is disrupted and a sturdy, progressive family is scattered and lost to the com munity." President Wilson has spoken on this general lino more eloquently, perhaps, than any one before him. He said: "The vitality of America does not lie in New York, nor in Chi cago, nor in any other large city, no matter what its wealth or resources; it will not bo sap- ed by anything that happens in t. Louis; neither will it bo aifected by a Galveston flood or a San Francisco earthquake. The vitality of America lies in the brains, tho energies and enter prise of the people throughout the land. There dwells tho vital forces that are destined to make this the grandest country in Christendom. There is the wealth of America, and if America discourages locality the community the sell con tained town she will kill the nation." Suppose that everybody in your town and community were to send from home and purchase all their supplies. in a few months the ultimate result would ensue the closing of all the tine large stores in your town: a daily decrease In ponuia tion, and an enormous shrinkage in real estate values. Once this condition was established, just think how proud you would be when your friends visited you to show them a lot of little 'junk shops' with stocks which looked as if they had been placed on the shelves by a cyclone. Keep the good stores in your town busy. Make them better by boosting for them nnd push ing for home trade all you can, and be proud of your town in stead of ashamed of it. Any thing you can possibly do to in crease the volume of business done in your community is bound to react to your own in dividual benefit, because increas ed business volume means in creased property values which in turn means larger tax re turns, nnd the consequent bene fits which follow in every pro gressive community. Some people are of the pre judiced opinion that if they spend their money at home it simply goes to make oile of the local merchants a little richer, and would have absolutely no other results. They think that all movements to encourage a spirit of loyalty to home institu tions arc based on the purely selfish interests of the merchants promoting tho enmpnign, who want to gather all tho money in sight for their own individual bonefit. They are unable to sec that better business conditions in their town would in reality work just the .other way. Qnco tho word went abroad that theirs was a live home trade town, pro gressive nnd uptodatc merchants from all over tho country would soon locato thoro to share in the prosper ty created by a loyal devotion to tho spirit of homo pntronngo; thus creating new competition which could only tend to Iowor rather than in crease the profits of the mer chants who started the ball roll ing. No, the merchants of tho little towns and cities throughout the country aro not robbers. No, tho merchant? of tho littlo towns and cities throughout the coun try are not robbers. Thoy aro just plain, everyday American citizens, who, like tho rest ot us, want to make an honest com petency and givo und take a square deal from everybody. In summing up the evidence which has been gathered and which has formed the basis for this scries of articles, of which this is tho labt. it seems to the writer that five concise nnd potent reasons have been clearly established why it is profitable for the consumer to patronize their home merchnnts: F rst Considering quality. transportation charges, sorvico and terms, homo prices are as low. or lower, than catalog house prices; statements by such con cerns to the contrary notwith standing. Second- Homo morchnnts are in a position to, and do, render incomparably bettor service than distant houses. In buying from a homo merchant one may see the goods in person; discuss tho merits of the articlo and prices; readily exchange them if un satisfactory, and havo other Crivileges that aro not accorded y tho mail order houses. Third y the very nature oi things one may rely upon home merchants moro than upon dis tant concerns. This is becauso the home merchant meets his Satron face to face and HAS TO IAKE GOOD. Fourth The homo merchant is in a position to extend credit accommodations to his custom ers and is generous and courteous in doing so, This the mail order houses absolutely refuse to do under any circum stances. In this country where men and money are both busy, this matter of credit accommoda tion means much. The home merchant is the consumers' friend when he is in need; he is at least entitled to a square deal when one has cash to spend. Fifth The interests of coun try people and the merchants are identical, and self interest on the part of the consumer de mands that he patronize homo institutions. Thorough inves tigations will show that in by far the majority of cases local dealers can meet and beat mail order competition. If you arc dissatisfied at the place you are trading; if you want nice.fresh, clean groceries: if you want good service and accommodation: if you want to bo served as you would serve, it will pay you to call at Alex. S. Scales for groceries; 501 Fes- senden street; phone Colum bia 210. An Interesting Paper Interesting paper read by Mrs. Brannmnn nt Mothers' meeting last Monday on 'Opportunities ! for Doing Good, or The Value of Loving Service:" There ure so many opportun ities for doing good it would be impossible to say how we should meet these opportunities to help fellow man. It is the little things in life that count. Our Savior said: "For whosoever shall give a cup of cold water to drink, in my name because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you he shall not lose his reward." - Mark 9:41. Then again we arc commanded to love our neighbor as well as our selves, which is the true Chris tian spirit. If we fulfilled this command, how many opportun ities all around us everywhere wo would see where little deeds of loving service would count so much. It may be only n smile or per haps a kindly word fitly spoken. What volmues our faces say! Some spenk of love und kindness, some of anger and hatred, others of pride and rebellion nnd others still of selfishness. Wo can't help our faces talking, but we can make them say pleasant tilings. "Only n word in pity spoken. A word of comfort by love made sweet: But it canio as a balm to a heart half broken, And smoothed a pathway for bleeding feet. Only a word, but the heart that hoard it. Turned from the darkness and sought the sun, As a blossom docs when the wind has Btirred it, And loosened its petals one by one. Tho soul that sorrowed found pence, Believing that others share in n comrndo's pain, And long to lessen another's grieving, And tho heart that was wound ed grew strong again. Only u word! But know this, my brother: A word may bless, and a word may blight, May blot tho sun out of Heaven for another, Or lead him into God's own sweet light. Only a word! But the power in it, God and the angels nlone can know: To break a heart or by love to win it, To lift a life or to crush it low. Comrade mine, let us help each other, By words that strengthen and cheer nnd bless: The good that's done to a needy brother, God makes the measure of mun'a success." Eben E. Roxford. Did you give him a lift? He's a brother of man, And bearing about all tho bur den he can. Did you givo him a smile? Ho was downcast and blue. Andthesmile would have helped him to battle it through. Did you givo him your hand? He was slipping down hill, And the world, so I fancied, was using him ill. Did you give him a word? Did you show him the road, Or did you just let htm go on with his load? Do you know what it means to be losing the fight, When a lift just in timo might set everything right? Do you know what it means just a clasp of a hand, When a man's borne about all a man ought to stand? Did you ask what it was- why the quivering Hp? Why the naif suppressed sob, and the scalding tears drip? Were you brother of his when the time came of need? Did you offer to help him or didn't you heed? Dr. Brougher said in a sermon I heard recently: "Make your life count, do something; our lives have been given ub to he n some one. Don't say I have no place, but grasp tho opportunity that lies at your hand. An acorn is far more valuable than a diamond. Why? Because tho acorn has life it will grow, if planted, into an immenso oak tree, wnicn not only gives beauty, but a splendid shelter for man." In place of worrying. forget your troubles. Do liko Attractive Tor'Ghildren Suggestions on how to make the home more attractive to children: In building a home, better be gin with a large yard and a smnll house nnd remember that a small yard is better than none. Let the yard be for pluy us well as for beauty und ornament. Swings, teter boards, rings, bars, sand boxes, have the draw ing power of magnets for small children. For some plnythings let them have things they can make other things out of; for girls- old pieces of pretty cloth ; for boys they'll find tho junk if you'll let them. A "Bhnek" though rudely con structed, will serve well for a fort or un Indian cave. Let the boys make the shack themselves. A sewing cabinet may crowd tilings more objectionable out of a girl's life nnd may be a "stitch in time" in her behnlf. A work bench in the base ment may be the cause of de veloping a world famous architect- or add much to tho hap piness, usefulness and health of a plain man. An extra post near the clothes line pole will make an excellent stand for a horizontal bar. A bird house will early lead both girls and boys to cultivato the friendship of their feathered friends. The boys themselves can make the bird houses. A small wind mill is easily constructed and will always tell which way the wind blows. A boy without n Jack knife isn't n boy. Give him a chance to earn one. With a little encourmremcnt a girl will develop much pride in preparing the family dinner at certain intervals. Certain mechanical toys, dis criminatingly selected, may de velop ingenuity besides aliord ing play. Lead the child into seeing the financial returtiB to be obtained by growing garden truck for tho public mnrkct. Contributed. Mrs. Wiggs of tho cabbago patch- put them all down in tho farthest corner of your heart. shut down the lid good and tight, and set on it; then look around and see who you can help, and you will be surprised how rapidly your troubles will vunish and how insignificant they were. "No work is worth doing badly, and he who puts his best into every task that comes to him will surely out strip tho man who waits for a great opportunity beforo ho con descends to exert himself." We must "live 111 today." Man of us waste so much timo in dwelling on the past and also building impossible air castles for tho future, when we could spend that time so profitably now. An opportunity lost iB gone forever. Wo must grasp them as thoy come to us. Wo cannot help past experiences; thoy can servo only to improve our future, so why live in tho pnBt when we can accomp ish so much that is just waiting to be done It wo try to live up to this resolve, each day and each year will bo worth while. I liko that quotation which says: "Yesterday iH clear to me; to morrow dear to mo; hut beforo mo nnd under my hand is to ddy's task." "Count that day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done." Incorporation articles for the Sutherlin, Coos Bay & Eastern Railway havo been filed with tho Corporation Commissioner at Salem within tho past few days. According to tho papers tho incorporators expect to con struct a Une eastward to Boise, Idaho, and westward to Loos Bay. Twenty-seven miles of the line, toward Coos Bay, have been survoyod, the survey pene trating a splendid body of tim ber. Sutherlin people anticipate the early construction of two saw mills and a box factory, these industries to receive their supplies of material over the new road. Boys swimming in tho Col umbia river below Vancouver on the Washington side Sunday morning found tho body of Isaac Vernon Morris, 19 years old, who was drowned on July 4, while swimming in Columbia Slough. The body was found 15 miles from tho place the young men went down. Note tho Itbo) on your por, IHovv it Will Affect U. S. The disturbance of American business caused by tho European war need be only temporary, continuing until we have adjust ed our affairs to the new con ditions which have suddenly risen. When that adjustment I has been made, we shall doubt lless profit greatly by Europe's troubles, for this country will , be the largest available source of supply for food, clothing nnd (other commodities which will be ; needed by tho warring nations, whose home supply of these nee lessitics will be diminished by 1 . . r. the withdrawal of largo num bers of men from productive industry to engage in the des tructive industry of war. The measures essential to this adjustment ure rapidly being taken. Closing of stock ex changes has already checked the outflow of gold caused by the panicky dumping of American securities on the market by foreigners. Action taken by clearing houses for tho issue of certificates will safeguard busi ness ngainst any scarcity of cur reny for ordinary needs. Tho prompt action of the Treasury Department in providing for issue of emergency currency, und of Congress in relaxing the restrictions to such an extent that the volume of this currency muy reach a total of $1,000,000, 000, will provide an ample sup ply of paper money and may render use of certificates unnec essary. Steps are being taken to hasten completion of tho Fed eral Reserve Board and opening of Federal reserve banks. When this lias been done, tho new currency will come into perman ent circulation in sufficient vol ume for ordinary business and the emergency currency will bo retired us fast as it is found not to be in demand. Thus the tem porary inconvenienco to our domestic trade caused by the outbreak of war will soon bo overcome. We shall then bo in a good position to profit by the needs of our warring neighbors. Wo can supply their wants provided we can get ships to carry our goods. Non-contraband goods arc not subject to seizure nt sea, even when carried in ships of a belligerent, nnd in case any bel ligerent should ignoro Tho Haguu convention, we can se cure them against seizure by carrying them on American ships. The amendment to the Panama Canal act. now on its way through Congress, provides for a supply of ships under American register by repealing the requirement that foreign built ships must be five years old and must have American officers in order to como under our flag. Under this bill foreign ships tied up in American ports may be bought by Americnns anil with their foreign officers may come under the American flag and acquire the status of neutrals. Ownership fixes the nationality of a ship, and no bel ligrent could dispute tlo neutral ity of a ship Americanized in this manner. This bill provides an unex ampled opportunity for rostor tion of our merchant mnr'no. Should England and Gormauy come to blows, the claim to naval supremacy would soon be decid ed. Ships flying tho loser's flag would bo for sale cheap ton neu tral, and American capitalists could pick up bargains whereby one of the handicaps under which our mercliant marine has labored would be overcome. Owners of American built ships would protest at this cheap for eign competition, but their special, favored interest must yield to the general good. Wo could then ship American goods in American ships to all the world and ceaso paying freight to Europe. Attention of belligerents will bo so centered on fighting and their commerce will be beset with such perils as to bo neg lected until hostilities cease. American merchants will be able to improvo the occasion to enlargo our foreign trade with our newly acquired merchant marine. If we only improvo our opportunity, Europe may emergo from tho war to find us tho greatest commercial, as wo are already the greatest industrial and tho greatest agricultural, Nation in the world. Oregoninn. For Rent Seven room house, quarter acre of ground, ono block from car line; $10 per month. Apply to J. E. Hiller. I Secretary Commercial club, Hoi- I) rook building.