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Mattresses $1 .00 DOWN, 50c A WEEK Any Mnttrcss in the store' will be sent to your Jiome for $i.oo, balance can be paid 50c Weekly. Our Mattresses are all jnadc specially to our order by a very responsible manufacturer and they arc strictly as represented. St. Johns Combination Mattress is made bf two heavy layers of felt with clean dry excelsior between nnd covered with a special "Crescent" 40 lb. Felt Mattress, a good quality of cotton built up of separate batts, covered with art lick . $8.00 Crown 45 lb. Felt Mattress of staple cotton, care fully built up, guaranteed Columbia 50 lb. Felt Mattress, very best quality , long fiber cotton, made into nine batts, covered with extra hcavy'striped tick, 30 nights free trial, $16.50 Dreamland Silk Floss, 35 lb. Mattress of very best pure Java Silk Floss Felted in one solid batt, guaranteed not to lump .'. . . .$i8.O0 Ormandy Bros FURNITURE Spring Time " r - - - - ' Arc you getting busy with that garden of yours Spray your Trees with Soluble Sulphur, we have ft. 'Everything in the Garden Tool Line. Seeds at Moder ate Prices. For Saturday and Mon. Only LOOK! FREE!! A Sample Can of Jap-a-Lac. Ask for it S & H sPeclal $3.18 Stamps Reg 90c Bird Cage, Special . 68c Wall Paper Remnants Below Cost Wednesday Is Double Stamp Day with all Cash Purchases ST. JOHNS HARDWAlliir. mm- fi M -mw m m m m -mw m mm THAT GOOD COAL KNOWN AS HIAWATHA COAL The Cost that will not Slack, high In Fuel Value and the best prepared. The hard Utah Fuel without a fault. ALSO MONARCH COAL A Clean, Soothes Coal, with lest Ashes than other Coals, because it's all Coal, no Slate, no Clinkers. Is guaranteed to give you more heat for a dollar than any similar coal at equal price,. $6.50 per Ton UDJiEFSIJX lUBt, CO. Um Orders t Wittr Company Office ST. JOHNS, OREGON Proposals for Street Work Sealed proposals will he received at the office of the Recorder of the City of St. Johns until March 16, 1916, at 8 o'clock p. m., (or the improvement of Oswego strtet, from the North line of. Columbia boulevard to the South line of Smith Ave. in the manner provided br Ordinance No. 642, subject to the provisions of the Charter and Ordinances of the City of StJohns,and estimate of the, city engi neer, on file. Engineer's estimate is 3,060.33. Bids must be strictly in accordance with printed blanks, which will be furn ished on application at the office of the Recorder of the City of St. Johns. And said improvement must be completed on .or before 60 days from the date of the 'last pablicatlon of this notice. No proposals or bids will be considered unless accompanied by a certified check payable to the order of the Mayor of the City of St. Johns certified by a respon sible beak to? an amount equal to tea per ceat. of the aggregate proposal. 'Te right to reject any and all bids is hereby, reserved. By Oftier of the City Council. . is A. E. DUNSMORK, Recorder. " Published la the St. fohas Review oa f February 36, March 5 and 12, 1915. strong tick $5.50 not to lump, $11.00 CASH OR CREDIT Reg. 75c 6 Bottle Wire Milk Carriers, Special..'.. .58c Reg. $1.00 26 In. Pruning Shears . with Wood Handles, Special. .. . . v 78c Reg. $3.75 Rubber Tire Velocipede, ' mm m, mm' mm m mm m wmm mm -mm- u Captured Ninth Prize Solon Bugbeo won the weekly prize of the Lauthera' World's Fair Contest for the week end ing Tuesday evening, which consisted of a cold meat fork. The prize for next week will be a silver jelly spoon. Lauthers' special for the first week in March will be 25,000 votes for every ton of coal sold by conteut ants, and 20.000 votes for every ton of coal sold direct to the consumer. The total vote to icjate is as follows: Solon Bugbee - - 19G.015 Mrs. A. M. Purkanilo - 159.575 Genevieve Aldrich - 106,261 Mrs. Elsie Knowles - 40,585 Garnet Beam - - 31.9Q5 Valkyrie Larson - - 31.575 Lucy Buckles - - 23.165 Beulah Waters - - 21,050 Olive Zimmerman - 20 Roy Clark - - 20,' A party was given at the home oi Aiirea xanman, mt .s. njjyes street last Saturday .evening. Games and music were indulged in and a fine sumoer wa a nerved. A couple of flashlight picture's were taken of th or owd. A jolly fine time was had b' all. mi . . . 17! i nnsp nrpsonr -u'nro mi bqpb vi da and Hazel Evans, Vh la tvnd veiva Bean, Frances tamun. Mareraret Pearson. Mvrt le Mc Donald. Etta Lunn; Mess rs. AV mA Tnllmnn Alft-n1 T forV5n HaVA n?rlnrtn Tfuln Clrnr nnchv. Alf Thompson. Ben Durrir l.Leon somer ana L,ee ork. Auto for hire by day, ho ar or trip, at very reasonable l "ates. Good opportunity for parti ss of four or less to make a trip into the country at a low price. H. M. Waldref,609 Fessenden sti Phone Columbia 206, lat th label on your paper. Local News. SAN-TOX. Send.in your .news items. , "THE MASTER KEY, 'A ' ': Havo you. registered yet? If I1UL, IVIIJ HUH ...1... .9 ' E. S. Wricht of Cook. Wash., spent Sunday and Monday with his family here. Eliza N. Walthart is having ;a pretty residence on South Ivan hoe street erected. '. Holmes' L6dge, Knights of Py thias, are adding a nuniber of new members to the Order right. along, and much interest is tak en in the organization. Sundav afternoon and evening Miss Maud Bates will sing at the Multnomah. Hear her and see the three reel feature booked by the management for that day only. Miss Emma L. Somers, assist ant at the city recorder's ofllce, has been on the sick liBt for sometime. During her nbsonce Albert Wrinkle is serving in her Btead. i ; Don't miss the special .show Saturday night at the 'Multno mah, arranged by Mrs. EfTie Beam. Four good vaudeville numbers and five reels of pic tures. Manv a man has given him self credit for being n great re former when the, truth is that ho is so narrow between the eyes that he can see only one side of any question. Governor Wvthccimbo has is sued a proclamation setting aside Friday, March 12. as "Canned Salmon Day," "and urging the people of the state to use as much as possible of that food on that day. Give a man a morris chair filled with fldfn pillows in' a theatre and ho will remain wide nwakc. Give him a hard wooden seat in an uncomfortable straight backed pew" in church nnd he will proceed to go to sleep. -Ex. It is stated that in the Willam ette Valley many farmers nre plowing up clover1 fields, and oven clearing up urusn lanuB, for the nurnoBC of increasing their wheat acreage, indicating that the coming Benson -will see the biggest grain crop over turned out In Western Orogon. A Mr. A. J. McQueen of Fes senden street, may bo :l crtndi dato for Citjf Recorder. Ho is said Jo be strong with the' labor element, and, is mu'ch In fjworo'f merging St.- Johns with .Fprt- Innd. Politically no, is nitepub Heap but If ho runs will, do. soon the Independent tlckct.-rCon-tributcd. A trail from tho Columbia to tho summit of Lnrch Mountain is to be built by -the co-operation of tho Portlnnd Ad. Club, the Progressive Business Men's Club tho Mnznmas and other civic organizations. It will not bq availablo for automobiles, but will make it easy to climb tho mountain on foot or horseback. P. G. Gilmoro has resigned the position of steward of tho Moose Club, but will continue as secre tary of the Lodge L. O. 0. M. 1509. "Pete" looks after tho sick and directs any needs of distressed members. 'Ho will bo located at i s nlaCo of bus! ness, 108 and 110 Philadelphia street.and will continue to carry on the high standard of barber- ing as he has in tho past 5 years. "Pete" says he haalOnewmem- bors to. bo initiated lhursdny night, March 4th, A popular sodiety woman an nounced a "white elephant par ty." Every guest was to bring something she could not find any use for and yet was too good to throw away. Tho party would have been a great success but for the unlooked-for development which broke it up, Eleven of the nineteen women brought their husbands. New York Globe. Miss Helen Dunbar celebrated her third birthday with a party at her home on Mohawk strpet, Feb. 12th. Those present were: JameB aid Frank Chancy, Orma and Harold Seal, Margaret Lew is. Hubie Heming. Frank Mitchell. Margaret. Billie.James B., Robert and Donald Ormap- dv. Mesdames Chaney. Grjss well. Gace. Ormandv. Mitchell. Etheridge, Dunbar and little Helep uunnar. The St. Johns Union of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, held a Frances E.Willard Memorial Service at the County Headquarters in rortianu, lues dav In connection with a memo rial for the deceased members of the local Union. Program was as follows: bong bv audi ence: scripture reading and prayer by Mrs. b. Kerr; uuet, Mrs. J. C, Brooks, Mrs, J. V. .Scott; Song by the audience lemorial service, for the follow ing deceased members ot our o enl union Mr. J. T. Brooks, Mrs. Badger, Mrs. Stafford, Mrs. Overstreet, Mrs. Bellinger; Solo by Mrs. Falkenburg, Prayer by Mis. J. C. Scott; Paper on the life of Miss Willard by Mrs. J. C. Scott; song by the audience. Reporter. "THE MASTER KEY." Picture framing doae nt Portland pnecs at H. F. Clark's, the furni ture man. Adv. Finest line of chocolates in the 'city. Lbwney7s;oilti' specialty. uieat.-, donna irnarmacy. jWaht to JRerit-4d room, modern house-,' bungalow ' 'style, all on first floor, not far from school house. Call up Col. 239. "Watches" made, over into "Time-nieces'' at 'reasonable rates at Rogers', 309 N. Jersey street'.' ' All the latest Uance Records, Hcsith'tidnsv Fox 'Trots, One Step?, etc., at the St. Johns Fnarmacy: urapnopnone ueai- crs. Duck Eggs , for I Hatching. laying strain, Runnor; $2 per Rogers, 715 N. Fishers best White Indian setting. F.'Bl SorfecaSt. Johns.. Did you read the editorial in Sunday's Oregonjan on the new novel JNo.13 Washington square by Scott? Tho book mny bo ind at the St. Johns Library. Mrs. F. G. Gillmoro will lend the Library Study fllub Mondny evening. The subject is the Unity bf Life. Thtf book on which the lessons tare based, is Rntionnl Living by Henry Churchill King. "LoSt Mining papers of G. W. Roberts and homestead papers of James S. Roberts, between ferry landing and Jersey Street, about one year ago. Finder )lcnso leave at real estate office of W. H. King. If any h'uih, cannot be loyal to hn town In which ho lives he ought to move to where tho sur- undings are.. harmonious; and ho doesnt" seem ' inclined to take tho step himself, tho neigh bors ought to insist upon it.- -Ex Tho danco given by tho Bachel or-Club irt tliQskating rink, last Friday ovening was said to bo one or tho most cnjoynbloovcnts tiold in St. Johns for n long time. Everybody enjoyed themselves immensely. ! . HaVo'vou seen tho first epis odes of tho MMaBter Key" now being showmat tho Multnomah on Mondays and. Tuesdnyp? If not, start , next Monday. .You can rend tho Bynqifsis and go on with tho Btory atiBtaa if you had seen it. It's a thriller. Tho Inmnn-Poulsen Logging Company's camp- Svcst of KcIbo on Coal wcok Yosumed oper ations Monday, after a shutdown since tho first of tjio year. As hmidlv as ilUs'Blble'a full crow wifibo.put on.. When running ht capneity ,thq c.anip .employes nbout 150 men. Tho S. P. I.''cViBt"ian Sundny schnol class held'their monthly business mooting nt tho homo of Stanley Koou Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. 1915. Our business was attended to and we adjourned nnd spent tho romninder of the evening in a social time. Light refroRhmDntH were served. Come nnd bring Bomo one" is ,pur motto. Reporter. Tho man who is a candidate for local odico and at tho same time votes to mergo with Port land nlust havo a' strango idea ot the eternal mness oi things. a.e . t t a t It would bo iko tho boy hunt ing a job and praying that he would not get it. In substance ho asks tho neonlo to vote for him to tret a certain position and at tho samn time ho votes to do away with tho position entirely. Such incongruity and inconsist ency is most remarkable. So far. I understand, no candidates with Hiic!h weird ideas havo an nounced their candidacy, but I I have learned that such contem plate running. Contributed. 1 The following item taken from Monday's Oregoninn relative to tho closing of tho session of the Lecislature. should effectually refute any argument to tho effect that Representative D. C. Lewis is in favor of destroying St. Johns, even if he did mtro duco and father tho merger bill: "Before the final adjournment whllo tho House was in recess Ronresentative Lewis of St. Johns, mounted tho Speaker's rostrum anc invited every mem ber of the House to visit "tho beat city in tho State of Oregon St. Johnd." He was greeted with almost unanimous accept ance. Mrs. Charles Bredeson de- lichtfully entertained the Pro crreaslve Study club Thursday. Feb. 18, at her home oq East Buchanan street. The first hours of the afternoon were given over to a short business session and the studv of Cooper work's was finished. Mrs. Schafer told the story of "The Spy after which the ladies were given an oppor tunity to write poetry. Many excellent verses were written. The iudces awarded Mrs. Gees linthe prize. Miss Eileen Barry, Mis Inez Peterson and Mrs Keeler furnished some very good music. Little Miss Nora Gees- Hn recited, a piece. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Carter. 1600 Newell street, March 4, at which time the election of otlicers wil take place. Not the label on yew paper, "THE MASTER KEY." For City Treasurer O. E. Learned. adv. Little Helen Dunbar has been on tho sick list' this week. See Dr. W. J. Gilstrap for correctly fitted glasses. Subject for Christian Science ecturo Sunday: Uhnst Jesus. For Sale Big invalid's wheel chair. Call 917 North Jersey street, St. Johns. For Sale. Boat house, cheap, or will trade for a good cow. nquirc at this office. For Sale Range in first class condition, with hot water coil. See Roy Wilcox about it. Found A lady's nendnnt In St. Johns. Heltkemper's Cigar Factory, 151 Porter street. Mam 2263. Wanted, housework-Well ex perienced. Age 24. 1215 E. Charleston street, St. Johns, Oregon. Miss Mmnio Teskc. Mrs. Codv of Portland and Mrs. Edith Shepherdson of Kel so, Wash., were tho guests of Mrs. E. S. Wright the first ot the week. Rev. H. F. Johns the recently elected pastor of tho Christian church will speak his first ser mon, April 4th, 1915. He will make his home in St. Johns. Entrlish services in the Luth eran church near Wall street on Sunday. The Ladies Aid soci ety meets on Wednesday with Mrs. S. Lorvik on Syracuse street, Portland. Wrisrht'8 Dancing Academy. $35 given away in pennant dance next Wednesday evening, March 3d. Size of pennant 12x30. Ev- cry onenuenuing wm get. a pen nnnt free. No ndvance in prices of admission. The regular Mothers' meotln 5 of the W. C. T. U. will be hel at tho Library Monday nftcrnoon at 2:30. Subject, "The Moving Show," paper by Mrs. J. C. Brooks. Everybody welcome. Secretary. Congregational Church Sun- day School at 10 a. m. ; preach ing nt 11 by Kev. I nomas, pas tor; subject, "An Enemy in Dis guise;" Christian Endeavor at 6:80 p. m., with reports from Stnto convention by Misses Frances Miller and Ruth Wilson. Tho Christian Church cavo a farewell party to Mrs. Duncan and her two sons, Earl and El mer. Mondny evening, lhcy oft for southern uaiuornin tno 23rd. Wo all miBB them as they were prominent workers in Hub community: Roportor. Louisa Lott, candidate in tho Multnomnh Piano Contest has tickets for sale at Currin'8 drug store nnd Roe's Confectionery. Beforo going to the show buy tickets at either of these places and help her win tho firgt prize, uuv A surtlriBo nnrtv was given on Glndva Palmer nst Saturday at- tcmoon in honor of hor 15th birthday She received msny presents and tho good wishes of her friends. Those present were Mnrgaret Dolan.Unrmen uogers, Lillian Gatton, Laveono Moor, Eillen Berry, Catherine Roycr, Bentr co Lucier. Bertha Loeliel mann. Vetar Croley. A building permit has been issued to C. L. Holmes to erect an 8 room dwelling on Fessen den street near Oawego street to cost S2500. Mr. Holmes is taking advantage of tho present low n rices of building materia and is at tho sifmo timo giving emn byment to his neighbors. The work will nearly all be done by day labor and will all be done by local men. Tomorrow night will be Re boknh night at the Multnomah Theatre. Mrs. Eifie Beam has arranged for the following pro cram: Margaret O'Connor Wll lumsen. songs: Mary Burley. songs; Dick Perrino, Trombone soloist; and Mr. Wilson Rogers, one of Portland's leading bari tones. Also you will Beo a first clasa picture program of five reels. Admission 10 cents. Dr. L. E. Brous and Miss Ab b e Graves were united in mar riage at 8 o'clock Monduy even incr at 675 Tillamook street. Port land. Tho groom is a rising young physician located at Ra nier. and was also a prominent member of the Bachelor Ulub o St. Johns. The bride is the sis terof Dr.L.E.Graves of this city and an accomplished and charm ing young lady. The best wishes of their many St. Johns friends accompany the happy young couple to their homo at Rainier. Commencing March 1, seven tons of acclimated seed corn wil be distributed among farmers in the territory served by tho O W. R. & N. railroad by C, L Smith, the company's farmer. It is the intention to see that each farmer receives enough seed to plant at least two acres which will enable him to prove to his own satisfaction that it can be made a success. The high price of wheat making im possible theuse of that grain for stock feed, a greater acreage of corn will be planted next Bnring than ever before and es pecial efforts will be made to preserve the fodder to take the place of hay in feeding cattle. Security of Home PENINSULA NATIONAL BANK 40 ON AO O SAVINGS SAFETY DEPOSIT PKTJtR AUTZUN, President John N. EnutrsitN, Cashier Pertinent Questions To the Voters Sf St. Johns: Will some kind reader inform tho pd6rer clnss of property own ers now long it will be before, (if wo go into Portland, ;tho lenlth inspector compels the owners to connect up to tho sow er or a cesspool at a heavy cost to tho hard working property owner. Tho plumbing union will havo to do all of tho work at a prico not less than $6 per dny. Their day's work consists of 8 lours from tho tlmo they leave the shop, and, sometimes they nre not particular about taking nil tho tools they want, and may mnko two or thrco trips bnck to tho shop every day. In reality they sometimes do about three or four hours work a day that some working men could do in nenrly half tho time. Tho ma terial they use is charged about our timca ita.actual cost. There are many moro little Items of ex pense to bo considered. As the Humble Petition" rends, "heed our petition, dear Portland, and the glory shall all be tliino nnu tho misery ours lorovermorc. There is another small Item: This will bo called tho North End. and tho dumping grounds for all of tho undesirables that they wIbIi to remove from their midst.as they cleaned out Fourth street some few years ago, and scattered them to their humble burgs that was clean and pros porous, as our city is today. 1 be ieve every city official is Bin ccro in its welfare. Wo are got ting our streets improved at a cost of 20 per cont less than tho city of Portland, according .to our contractors' own statements. What did wo havo when wo wanted to go into Portland be fore? Wo did not havo any streets or sidowalks that our children could go to school on. I am sneaking of Ward No. 2. What water service did wo havo? One inch mnin to supply 23 or 25 families. What tiro protection did wo havo? None. Whnt have wo trot today? Wo havo sidowalks fairly good all over tho city and with the petitions be foro tho council tho streets and sidowalks will mostly all bo cood. We havo a Parent-Teach cr'a Association that is doing great work. We have a fire de- partment, a good fire truck. Our high school and its teams comneto with other high schoo teams. Will these continue when wo go into Portland? What about our streets to tho water front, and what kind of a ferry service did we havo? An old ferry that cost you 5 cents to get across. Compare those con ditiona with the present, and then reason out will our city continue as it has if we go into Portland, any more than nny of tho others that havo merged, or murdered themselves for tho sake of being called that glorious name Portland C.R. Chadwlck Candidate for re-election Second Ward Councilman. Tho street cleaning brigade was busy today, and the main streets look tho better for it. Found On Fessenden atreet. Package of photographs. Own er may havo Bamo by calling at this offico and paying for this ad. Christian Brothers' Business College will play the St. Johns Fire denartment team a game o hnnket ball in the rink tomor row, Saturday, evening, begin ning at 8 o'clock. Admission 15 cents. Jitney danco after tho game. The Sunday School department of tho W. C, T. U. will give a nrocram and ten cent tea Wed nesday. March 8, at the M. E. Church, beginning at 2:30 p. m, finvon Sunday Schools havo unit nd in this service. The proceeds will be used to purchase pledge cards for the use ot tno Sunday schools in tho temperance work, and Happiness will be the portion of the young couple who begin saving from the start. The Pcnlnsuln National Bank opens joint accounts for lnisbnmls and wives under the terms of which either can withdraw money in case of necessity. You should ccrtainally open one. Then you'll both be inter ested in seeing it grow. o VAULTS FOR RENT F. C. Knait, Vice President S, I,. DODtK, Assistant Cashier First Baptist Church Sunday School, 10 a.m. Church Service, 11 a. m. Young peo ple's meeting. 6:30 p. m. Church Service, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday evening, the book of Philippinns will bo the sub ject for study. The books of tho New Testnment are being taken up consecutively. Every one should know their iiiuie. All who wIbIi to tnko advantage of this, come to the Baptist Church Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Thursday evening nt o'clock tho pastor will talk on Christian Science at the Chris tian Church. Everyone invited. E. P. Borden, pastor. To Sell or Exchange I havo some choice unincum bered property in Sheridan, Yamhill county, Oregon, that I wish to sell or exchange for desirable property in St. Johns. Sheridan is in the Willamette Valley, fifty-soven miles south west of Portland, it la a thriv ing town of 1500 people, has n mo8t excellent surrounding farm ing community, has largo dairy intereats, extensivo lumbering Intcrcats and thousands of acres nenrby have been plnnted to fruit which Is just coming into bearing. For further informa tion, call on DR. W. J. GIL- STRAP. First National Bank bldg., St. Johns, Oregon. More High School Items The cholco of one play from tho score olfered is rapidly nar rowing down to two or threo so thnt tho Senior Class will proba- b y be ablo toannouncoitschoico within a week. Although no definito dato has as yet been set for tho play. It will bo present ed nbout April 15th. Tho Clasa Is determined to put on n play well worth while, muking it something thnt overy one will, be glad to have attended. Tho H. S. is much regretting tho loss of MiBB Loulso Twining, teacher of Domestic Science, who hna recently been elected to tho domestic department of tho Franklin hiirh achool. Misa Twining has done most efficient work in eatabliahing this work in Jamea John 11. S. nnd has mado it moat pleasing also to tho girls. Miss LaMont has been appointed as the new teacher of cooking. Tho Bachelor Club hoys put llr C. V,. Itrnus. who became a benedict Tuesday evening, thru tho tho paces that inevitably aro inflicted upon any bachelor that deserts from tho ranks. A big auto was secured and during tho wedding ceremony at 675 Tilla mook atreet, Portland. Tho Bachelors quietly surrounded the house. After unsuccessfully maneuvering around for about two hours tho bridegroom was captured, hustled in the car and rapidly brought to St. Johns. He was harnessed up to a hand cart and a billy goat of malodor ous scent and whiskers of an cient vintage was placed on tho vehicle. Tho hapless bridegroom was paraded around the princi pal streets led by Perrine's mar velous trombone nnd a pair of cymbals that split tho atmos- Eliere at every slam. Placards earing the inscriptions "Who's tho Goat?" and "Marriage is the Goat Getter," were adorn ments of the cart. The victim was allowed to seek his mate at about the eleventh hour, after bearing his torture as only a true Bachelor could. The Chriatian Sunday school had 167 children in attendance last Sunday. Mrs. Esson spoko morning and evening. Next Sunday Rev.Hawkins wjll speak.