Would Be Welcome
Portland. Ore, March 10. 1915.
To the citizens of St. Johns:
You are about to vote on the
question of consolidating the City
of Portland. That the step you
contemplate taking is regarded
generally as an important one
in the history of municipal ex
periences needs no argument.
ignations, but just know our
self and be known as plain citi
zens of one great city with a
high resolve to aid all in our
power to make the name of the
Rose Citv better known through
out the world. Then there will
be no petty jealousies and bitter
rivalries as otherwise come for
their reaping by our children
some distant day. No sectional
ism. then, hut union and brother
hood, as well as" business" in this
The trouble, you yourselves have commercial age. It is the long
undergone puts that feature of
the question beyond dispute.
The great expense and trouble,
the repeated efforts and the time
consumed by other cities m
taking this same step attests the
fact of its grave importance for
it touches mutually the municipal
well being of the cities affected.
In considering mutual advant
age 01 union i leei mat l am
warranted in predicting that,
owing to tne nigh order ol your
citizenship, your interest in ed
ucation, in public libraries, in
churches, in social advancement,
in fraternity spirit in fine, in
all the things that tend to the
betterment of mankind, so un
like foreign cities or the foreign
quarters of some of our own
there ure few, if any, of the
citizens of the Hose City who
will oppose your admission. The
advantages that will accrue to
us is evident. I shall, therefore.
take them for granted. What
suppressed cry of the spirit of
fraternity, so natural to our bet
ter natures.
Again. I maintain that sosim
Ele u thing as swinging the
oundary lino of the great city of
Portland around your munici
pality and including it forever
after within her corporate
I mits is destined to be
of almost incalculable advantage
to you commercially. Today
you have broad minded men to
manage your cities affairs, but
capital, ever wary, knows that
tomorrow, as it were, a mercu
rial populace may put in office
narrow men. men untrained to
business affairs, hostile to cap
ital and controlled by popular
prejudice. Capital demands
men and conditions more depend
able, big capital will never
knowingly put itself at the mer
cv of little men: and it general
ly knows. Bad as they are at'
times, conditions arc more stable
then are some of tho advantages in a large city. Remember large
for which you may look with
reasonable assurance? It is my
sincere conviction that you will
he affected very favorably in
most important civic advantages
as well as in social, commercial,
and even sentimental. As to
civic advantages, it is only rea
sonable that for a given term of
years your water system, your
fire system, your lighting, po
lie. street cleaning and sprink
ling will be cheaper and better.
Your school will lie enlarged in
their scope and your public li
brnries privileges increased.
"In Union their is strengtli."
and through all the years that
addage stands unimncached. In
union there is also reduction of
cost of administration of civic
affairs under well paid, expert
enccd and competent manage
mcnt, especially since all depart
mcnts have been taken out of
politics practically and run on
the modern plan of commission
form of government.
in anyone ho iooiisii us to con
tend that, if the City of Port
land with its 250,000 population
were subdivided into fifty cit
ics, each about tne sizo ot yours
and of an entirely separate en
tity, each operating under its
own charter, and officered by
fifty different sots of men, from
night watch to Mayor is any
one so fooliBh, I repeat, as to
contend that these fifty sepa
rate governments could be or
would be run with less expense
, and greater satisfaction than at
present? I deem it u sufficient
answer to say that of all tho re
torn) onercd, no one has over
had llio tomority to propose so
absurd experiment, so far as I
know. City government- how
to make it satisfactory to the
eftzoiiH and at the same time not
burdensome--has lonir been re
garded by writer on the subject
as the most difficult phase of
modern government presenting
itseit constantly to the Ameri
can people, ami tho reforms
thereof, that have been tried
are legion; but to cut up a large
City into a number of subdivi
sions for the purpose of render
ing their several governments
more satisfactorily and less bur
densome, as you can cut a state
into counties for tho convoni
ence of the peoplo of tho sev
era! sections made remote by
natural barriers as well as dis
tance, has never yet. I think.
been even suggested by tho most
visionary. Un tho contrary.
small cities are constantly and
everywhere merging into larger,
and uy a law just as natural as
that which causes drops of wat
or in close proximity to flow to
gether. Suburban towns merge
into a large city until tho city
soon becomo tho metropolis
Hrooklyn tunnelled and bridged
and merged, though sho was her
self sovoral times tho sizo of
cunitnl will in time control the
affairs of a small city or it will
not come to it. It is done at
first in sclfdcfcnse and later from
pardon the cxprcsssion
"pure cussedness." Vot the for-
meryou cannrt well blame it;
from the latter you mustprohib
it it by debarring it altogether or
by merging with n largo city
and making common cause with
the oppressed masses in such
cases. Do not. therofore.dccoivc
yourselves by thinking large
capital will ever invest nmong
you without sinister motives;
if so. it will be in a state of un
certainty and unrest so much of
its time that you will not receive
its full benefits and largest do
vclopmcnt.
1 stated at the beginning, of
this letter that the advuntnges
as I conceived them to bo which
will accrue to you by merging
with the great, and soon to bo
greater, city of Portland, are
not only civic, social and com
mercial, but Hcntimcntnl. I
know it may seem ridiculous to
some to think there are thoso
who believe in sentiment to the
extent of its being an advantage
in this and similar instances.
Thoso samo persons, however,
are not infrequently most sub
ject to its subtle influences.
Tell them a promoter has come
to your town from some obscure
hamlet up in Maine and they
will not listen to his proposition
nearly so readily as u no came
from tho great city of Chicago.
Ml I Mmon mii -on tit ti fr A I la a
mat a lecturer or teacher, or
preacher comes to them from
soino obscure and hilly portion
of "North Kurlinu" and they
will go to "scoff" even -though
they might have to "remain to
pray." Publish tho same tal
out from "Cultured HoBton" and
they will help to swell the and
ienco "to standing room only."
sentiment, then, biases many
people in their choice of location
and not a little in their invest
ments preferring, of course.
some well advertised and favor
ably known locations. We are
simply forced to recognize this
fact, a fact that is universal and
because of this regard for the
sentimental which appeals to
our pride and emotion from nl
most any angle of life. For the
benefit of the more sell sh I will
also say, remember all these
things tn tho sum total reflect
values upon real estate.
Again, soon you will want the
Lomm ss on form of irovernment.
and I trust it is a pardonable
suggestion that you avail your
selves of Portland's experience
instead of experimenting for
yourselves. You are destined
ere long to adopt that form of
government now so popular or
tall to tho rear in this forward
march of tho modern city. A
cross m the proper square on
future as well as today, not al
lowing ourselves perturbed by a
possible few ambitious CaeBars,
to whom history has long since
ascribed the saying: "I would
rather be first in a little Sibe
rian village than second in
Rome."
However, those really ambi
tious persons with purely selfish
aims are usually a negligible
quantity, fortunately. I do not
know one among you and I hope
we have none among the citi
zens of Portland who would
deny to you the many advan
tnges of a large city by some
seltish motive or ambition or
petty spite in barring your ad
mission.
Let us, then, elect to become
one people, one citizenship in
every noblo sense. We desire
not only to extend the glad
hand of welcome to all the citi
zens of St. Johns, but we want
our schools to bo yours, our
churches to be yours, our libra
ries and museums to be yours
and the parkB for ourselves and
our children to be your parks
for yourselves and your child
ren: and more, wo are waiting
to give you the purest, sweetest
cold water on earth to slake
your thirst as it hustens daily
down to your lips fresh from
its crystal fountain beneath the
eternal snows of far famed
Hood. And in the language of
the joyous, festive bather as he
sportively buffets tho billows of
old ocean on a hot summer day:
lilt CI lu VYUIUI O IIIIUI
With great respect W. J. Ped
dicord.
RESOLUTION
It is resolved by the City of
St. Johns:
That it deems it expedient
and necessary to improve North
Hayes street from the center
line of Philadelphia street to the
center line of Catlin street in
the City of St. Johns in the fol
lowing manner to wit:
By grading said portion of
street to grade or subgrade to
bo established and by laying a (i
foot cement walk and 12 foot
curb on both sides of said street.
with necessary 5 foot wood cross
walk and catch basins.
According to the plans and
specifications of tho city ongi
ncer on filo in the
nieittof said street is (4.305.00.
That the cost of said street be
assessed against the property
In said local assessment district as pro
vided uy tne cimrtcr ot tne city of bt.
Johns.
Adopted by the council this 23rd day
oi aiarcn, uuib.
A. 15. DUNSMORU.
Recorder,
Published In the St. Johns Review
March 26 and April 2, 191P.
NOTICE OF
CITY ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that in ac
cordancc with Ordinance No. 651
an election will be held on Monday
the 5U1 day of April, A. D. 1915
in the City of St. Johns, Oregon,
for the following purposes to-wit:
For the election of the following
named officers for the ensuing year,
viz: One Mayor, one City Recor
dcr, one City Attorney, one City
Treasurer, three Councilniun at
Large, two Councllmcn from the
First Ward, two Councihncn from
the Second ward, in tne manner
provided by law and the Charter of
the City of St. Johns,
And at said election there will be
submitted to the qualified electors
of said City for the approval or re
jeetion the following propositions
to-wit
"Shall Section XIX and XXX
ot tne dinner ot tne uity 01 est.
Johns be amended, fixing the date
of the next General Election to be
held on the first Monday in April,
1917, and biennially thereafter and
permitting all othcers elected or
holding olficc at the time of the
taking effect of this amendment, to
hold office for u period of two years
or until their successors arc elected
and qualified?"
Shall the people of the City of
St. Johns, incur a Municipal bon
ded indebtedness in the sum of One
Hundred and Thirty Thousand
Dollars ($130,000,00) for the pur
chase and extension of the Water
Plant of the St. Johns Water
Works mid Lighting Company?"
"Hint Ordinance No. 017, an
Ordinance creating n board of Cen,
sorship," regulating shows, the
atrcs, motion pictures, distribution
of literature, bill boards and adver
tising matter, and fixing a penalty
for the violating of this Ordinance,
passed by the Council on the 8th
day of September, 1014, be sub
milled to the legal voters for their
NEW MATERIALS
BEAUTIFUL ASA RAINBOW
ARE OUR NEW SPRING MA
TERIALS. JUST COME IN AND
SEE THEM. YOU WILL LIKE
THEM; YOU WILL BUY THEM.
WE ARE CAREFUL IN SE
LECTING OUR TRIMMINGS.
AND WE KNOW HOW TO HELP
YOU "MATGH" GOODS AND
TRIMMINGS SO THAT YOUR
COMPLETE COSTUME WILL BE
STYLISH AND HARMONIOUS.
WE NEED ONLY TO TELL
PUR GUSTOMERS THAT OUR
NEW GOODS ARE HERE.
THOSE WHO ARE NOT OUR
GUSTOMERS NEED ONLY TO
COME IN: THEY WILL BECOME
CUSTOMERS.
The Spring Liue of Dress Skirts just placed iu stock. The materials are the'
newest, the fit is perfect; they are Sewed with Silk, the prices $3.50 and $5.0O.
They arc bought for you, there are sonic fifty skirts and not more than two are
exactly alike.
BONHAM & CURRIER
City Recorder relative thereto, n "tv'J , "PE, ,mv
which said plans and spccifical ! ''c 1 llW,Axly
tions and estimates are satis
factory and are hereby approv
cd. Said improvements to be
made in accordance with the
charter and ordinances of the
city of St. JohnB. and under tho
supervision and direction of the
city engineer.
Hint tho cost of said improve
ment to be nssesscd us provided
by tho city charter upon the
property especially and partial
larly benefited thereby, and
which is hereby declared to bo
all of lots, parts of lots, blocks
and parcels of land between the
termini of such imnrovemcnts
abutting upon, adjacent or pro.x
imato to snid street, from tho
marginal lines of snid street
back to tho center of tho block
or blocks or tracts of land abut
ting thereon or proximato there
to.
That all tho property included
in said improvement district
aforesaid is hereby declared to
bo "Local Improvement District
No. 12-1,"
inni tne city engineers ns
Bossmont of tho probable total
cost of said improvement of said
street is $117(.r8.
1 hat the cost of said street to
be assessed against tho proper
ty in said local assessment dis
trict ns provided by tho charter
of tho City of St. Johns.
Adopted by the council this
23rd day of March. 1915.
A. E. DUNSMOKE,
Recorder.
Published in the St. Johns Re.
view March 26,and April 2,1915.
been
designated as polling places for said
election: lfirst Ward In the Lcc-
tore Room, at the Public Library.
Second Ward Iu the Council
Chamber at the City Hall.
The polls will be open at nine
(o) o'clock A. M., and will remain
open until seven (7) o'clock P. M.
oi said day.
Uy order of tne Council.
A. It. DUNSMORE,
Recorder of the City of St. Johns,
Oregon.
Published in the St. Johns Re
view, March 19-26 and April 2,
RESOLUTION
It U resolved by the City of St. Johns,
Portland. Other lariro suburbs your ballot and your oxporimen
did like wise until today there- tation is a closed incident, and
are over three hundred sixty live over after you stand an equul
........ .....1 n 21 I nlmm .....It
nijuiwu iiiuua hum suiuu uvu mil
lions of souls within tho limit of
tho "Greater Now York"- the
most powerful, tho most wealthy,
tho most influential city on the
American Continent. Our
1 1 .
neignoors on tno is'ortn of us
aro cheerfully expending five
hundred thousand dollars, and
we moro than double that Bum,
show with tho rest of us in tho
alfairs of a Great City where we
will labor together to keen the
Rose City such that will continue
an Honor to bo "second." It
was onco tho proud boast of a
Roman citizen that ho was a cit
izen of Rome, so may it bo yours
in tho futuro as it is ours todav
a proud boast that you aro citi
in order that wo may como near zona of tho far famed Roso city. ?
Every- ipur children will then rise up J
merging as possible.
wnere tins law is so wen recog
nized that tne burden of truth
lies with him who denies its ad
vantages. As to social advantages,! need
merely call your attontion to
tho fact that the sooner every
barrier of sectionalism is remov
ed the better for all concerned.
Tho cry of" No North, no South,
no East, no West, has Btrongly
tended to unify us and make us
one people with tho common
cause of n great republic. So,
let 113 merge and fratemizo and
know no Montnvilla, no Mount
Scott, no Lents, no St. Johns,
except for convenient local dos-
and call you blessed.
In conclusion, let mo say. I
am not one of those who think
that because others do not agree
with mo in their motives are
therefore selfish. I think thev
can do .so honestly and with just
ua uuiuisuc motives, wo nave
nil had occasion to "chanco
front" on some question or other
in tho past, and wo know that
wo wero just as sincere m tho
one attitude of mind as in tho
other. Let us then bo charita
ble and frank and consider the
important step now under ad-
viscment as to the best interest
of all concerned throughout tho
Omron:
1 hat it deems it expedient and neces.
wiry t o improve ivanlioc street
(rum the north side line ol Philadelphia
street to the Center line of Catlin
street in the city of St. Johns in the
lollowlnn manner, to wit:
uy Kraiiinir said portion of said street.
urade or sub-grade to be established and
uy laying a ts foot cement Side-walk and
U loot curu on botn sides of said Street.
wiiu necessary (.ross-walks and Catch
txtsius.
Work to be done according to the
plans and specifications of the city eniri
ueer on tile in the office of the
city recorder relative thereto.
wliicli said plans nud specifications
iui estimates are satisiuctorv and are
hereby approved. Said improvements
to be made in accordance with the
charter mid ordinances of the city of
bt. Johns, and uuder the supervision
ud direction of the city engiueer.
That the ccotof said improvement to be
assessed as provided b v
tally
and
y declared to be all of lots
parts of lots, blocks and parcels ol land
between the tenuiui of such improve
ments abutting upon, adiaceut or nrox.
imatc to said street, from the
marginal lines of said street back to the
center of the block or blocks or tracts of
land abutting thereon or proximate
thereto.
That all the Property included iu said
improvement district aforesaid is hercbt
dec la led to be Local Improvement
distrct No. 123.
That the city cncinccr's assessment of
the probable total cost of said improve-
SUAIMONS
In the Circuit Court of the State
of Oregon for Multnomah County.
J. A. Locke, Plaintiff, vs. Jessie
a. j.ockc, ueienuam.
To Jessie A. Locke, Defendant:
In the name of the State of Ore
gon, you are hereby required to
appear and answer the complaint
tiled against you in. the above en
titled Court and cause within six
weeks from the first publication of
this summons, to-wit: On or be
fore the 19th day of March, 1015
and if you fail to appear or answer,
for want thereof, the plaintiff will
apply to the court for the relief as
prayed for in this complaint, to-wit:
lor a decree dissolving the bonds
of matrimony heretofore and now
existing between plaintiff and de
fendant, ami for such other and
nirtiier renei us to tne court mav
seem equitable.
1 his summons is made and nub
fished pursuant to an order of the
Hon, Robert G. Morrow, presiding
juuge 01 tne above Court, sicued
aud entered on the 17th dav of
March, 1915.
GEuSLIN & SEVER,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
1036 Chamber of Commerce,
Portland, Oregou.
Date of first publication March
'9. I95; date of last publication
April 30, 1915,
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urlns la your job printing while
you think ot It, Doat wait until you
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An increase of Young Men's and Boys'
Clothing business justified an increase of Stock.
We are ready now to show you
the- new things. The materials
and workmanship are all high
class.
Nothing in our stock is classed
with sweat shop labor or shoddy
materials, but the merchandise is
bought with a view to a perman
ent trade and the constant return
of the buyer.
The Men's Toggery
BONHAM & CURRIER, Owners
L. E. ROSE, Manager
JOSEPH McCMESNEY, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Day A Night Office tn UcChwnty blk.
Ortforu
0. J. GATZAIYER
ATTQRNEY AT LAW
McDonald Building
ST. JOHNS . . OREGON
EDMOflDSON CO.
107 S, Jersey Strsat
THAD. T. PARKER
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Rooms 7 and 8
Holbrook DuildloR ST. JOHNS
DR. J. VINTON SCOTT
DENTIST
Office Hours 9-12 to 1:30-7
Sunday 9-11
Office Tbone Columbia 140
Resident Phone Columbia 274
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DORIC LODGE NO. 133
A. P. and A. M.
Meets the first and third
Weducsdayof each month
in iilctia-r's Hail, vtsl
tors welcome,
Chav A. Pry, W. M.
A, W, Davis, Secretary.
SI
a wm
DR. RAMBO
DENTIST
Thone Columbla'61
First Kitttonal Bank buildup.
ST.MHNS. OREGON.
L. E, GRAVES, M. D.
Piuslclan and Surgeon
Office Phone Columbia 10
Residence Phone Columbia 4
ST. JOHNS, OREGON
LAUREL LODGE
No. 186 I. O. O. T
prpmpUy at Portia priest or law.
ST. JOMNS, ORCCjON
MmU each Monday evening tn 0M T
lows hall at iio. A cordial welcome to
ail visiting brothers.
John J. Goodman, Noble Crand
A. M. Downey, Vice Grand
John Kjrtr s Bee. Sec.
Kill. Glc ndentsg, Pin. 8eC
H.V. CWik.Treu.
PERRY C. .STROUD
LAWYER
First National Dank Building
ST. JOHNS . .
OREGON
PENINSULA TITLE ABSTKACT & REALTY CO.
H. HENDERSON, Ma agar
402 N. Jaraay Stratt
Abstracts of Title Prepared
Titles Examined
Phone Columbia 255
Central Market!
20S S. Jarsay Straat
See us for the Choicest Gits of
the Best Meats Obtainable.
Orstar MU and randy Tnrfa Tftrftrsl
T. P. WAM, Proprietor.
REVIEW'S LEGAL BLANKS
The following list of legal blanks
are kept for sale at this office and
others will be added as the demand
arises;
Warranty deeds, Quit Claim
Deeds, Realty aud Chattel Mort
gages, batistactiou ot Mortgages,
Contracts for Sale of Realty, Bills
of Sale, I,eases.
HOLMES LODGE NO. 101
K MCNTS Or PYTHIAS
Meets every Friday night at
7:30 o'clock in BICKNER
Hall. Visitors always wel-
come.
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IN
Plumbing, Tinning
AND
Furnace Installing
Call up Clumbla 92
G, W. OVERSTREET
Plumbing and Gas
Fitting
Job work promptly attended to.
Phone Columbia 618
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We buy or sell St. Johns Property
McKINNEY & DAVIS
Real Estate
List your property with us If vou
desire to sell quickly
202 N. Jersey St. St. Johns
J. R. WEIMER
Transfer and Storage
We deliver vour troadt to and from
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