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TrlC ST. JOHNS REVIEW A. W. Marklc, Kdltor Published Friday of Each Week Subscription prloe $1.00 par yonr. Outside of Multnomah Cotuity $2.00 per year In advance. AiJnimsiNG IIatbs: 26 cents per Inch each Insertion, Locals 5 cent per line, wJniwura 2" cents. Speunl rates on yearly eon: tacts. Tint Ritvimv In Portland, OrcRon, as niatl matter of Uic second clnss under the Act of Con ,trcf of March 3, 1879. Sovonty-five cents a pound is what n Fortlandor paid for Ore con grown cherries in New York. Ten and a fourth is the prico at which the Salem Fruit union sold 24 carloads. and it was the general high price for Oregon cherries this season, except a lot sold by the Hood River Applegrowors Association at 10. The farmers it . no mo growing, tno consumer doos the paying and thrifty gen tlomcn somewhere in the circle got tho velvet.--Ex. Property owners and residents of the district between city boundary on tho north. Killings worth avenue on tho south, and from East 42nd street on tho East, and to tho west lino of Piedmont and Congress on tho west, will meet with represent auvesor the Portland Chy Plan ing Commission, in tho Wood t juwn Bcnooi on union avenue Wednesday evening, August zwn, at 0 o'clock, for the pur poso 01 recommending llmlta tlons or restrictions on the use or, tho height and urea of build. lugs horonfter to bo erected. Property owners should make it a point to attend. Ami. Ida Jcunnotto Evans uicu at her home, 120U Prince. ion street, 'luemJny August 12ih. or tuberculosis. Sho was aged w years. u monuis and D days. uuceaseu was uorn n w ucnn sin and came to St. Johns about thirteen years ago. Sho is stir vived by her husband. M. H Evans, and three sons, all of St. Johns, and tlirco daughters, one 01 wnom resides at St. Helens, onn 11 i-anchoi, Wisconsin, a'ld tho remaining one in St. Johns, riio funeral took place yo3terday afternoon at 2o'elnck from tho chapel of tho St. Johns untiertakinj? Co., Kov. Hurton conducting the services. Inter meut in Columbia cemetery. l allure to bring his store hovvh beroro prospective custom ars is tho reason why the local merchant fails to stop I ho mail order concern, says Kred P, Mann, probidont of tho North Dakota Kotail Dealers Assoeia tion, DevilB Lake. N. I). Mr. Mann nvc'St entcd trni In nnn tices and conditions in 100 cities ami towns, and found that in most of them the merchant fails to use his strongest weap on advertising. Editors of weeklies in Wisconsin hnvo organized a league to obtain foroign advertising. Their pur- sion took over the contract for tho building from the Grant Smith company two months ago. Regardless of reports to the contrary the subsidence of the elevator buildings has absolutely subsided, according to Engineer Boschke, due to the curative measures he employed When he took charge of tho work. To make sure, however, that thero will bo no further trouble with the operating house, ho ..plana to construct a "spread" founda tion beneath this building. Thero will be no necessity, it is said. in constructing a similar founda tion under tho storage bins. All of the sand between tho mat foundation and floor of the bins practical y has boon removed. thus relieving tho foundation of oil this unnecessary weight of approximately 27,000,000 pounds. John H. Btirgard, Hen Selling, A. II. Averill and F. C. Knapp, of the public dock commission, visited the St. Johns municitm terminal Tuesday to inspect tho clovators and piors and sheds under construction. They ex pressed satis) action 01 progress of tho work with the oxcoption of the construction of nier No. 2 and the extension of pier No. 1 for which Elliott & Scoggin have tho contract. Engineers complain that these contractor arc not proceeding with the driving or Piling as rapidly aa thoy should and efforts will bo made to have them facilitate tho work. The construction of the sheds for pier No. 1 for which tho J. M. Dougan company has the contract Is progressing rapidly as is the work of installing the battery of storngo tanks for vegetable oils and bulk molas ses. Work is also progressing on the construction of switching tracks for pier No. 2 and on the cafeteria building. Tho dock commissioners were greatly pleasud with the entire situation and predicted that if nothing Interferes with tho work tho elevators will bo ready for hand ling grain long beforothe end of tho present year. That a system of lightering ho installed in connection with tho operation of public docks in Portland to assist in loading and unloading froight was the decision Thursday of tho public dock commission. Chief En gincer Ilegardt, who brought tho matter hororo tho comm s sion, was directed to proeeoJ with plans and spucilications lor at least two largo barges which will ho used as lighters. League Hlan Evolved From All. Washlnfiton. Tho plan for a Icaguo of nations used as a basis of discus sion at Vcnmlllos was not any of tho drafts submitted by tho United States, Oroat Britain, Prance or Italy, but was i combination of alt of them, the sen ate foreign relations committee was told by David Hunter Miller, legal nlvlsor to tho Icaguo of nations com mission at Versailles. THE MARKET8 Portland Oats No. 3 whlto food, J5U.G0 a ton Parley Standard feed, $07 a 'ton. Com Whole, $78; cracked, $80. Hay Willamette valley timothy, $2S per ton, alfalfa, $:!0. IJuttcr Creamery, 63c per pound. Ki-rs Itanch, 48c per dozen. Poultry Hons, 20c; broilers, 24 30c Cattle Market steady; stfprs, best, HOT? 11.60; good to choice. $0ff!t.r,0; medium to good, $S.G09. IIosh Market steady; prime mixed, I9.60ffi20; medium mixed, $ I tiff 19.26; pigs, $18 18.50. Sheep Market .steady; prime Inmbs, $11.26012; fnlr to medium, $9 rfflO; yearlltms, $0Q8,C0; wethers, $7TJ7li0; ewos, $CJi7.C0, Five room modern homo, well located on carlino and hardsur face street. Prico few days SMRO. You pay SHOO cash, bul ance monthly. Four room house, fine river view, some fruit. My price $050; can arrange terms. I'iveroom house modern ex ccpt electric lights, with lot 00x100 ft; has fruit and berries. Lot alone worth tho money, nrico SIGGO: pay S2f0 cash. balance $10 monthly. This wont last' long. Four room bunalow. new semi modern, lino location, today ITirWlfl VniH siM.t... ...... .t.I.trk you ho oil then will be either transferred to tho storage lanus or delivered to mills and factories within the inner bar bor. Thu lighters also will bo lltmjl In llfliiilllttir iTimml (Vnt.vltf .,no. u....o "... llf'l. ' ""V MIIMIIIIJ, hVHUHl iviH1 V o7 "'u . ,ul or hotweon tho aliips and the Innor rV t vnnnt hniiun iiiAilnun t o . rt't i in m 9il iiiu iwuifi iiwuav iiiuiiwiii w memo onnrca win carry ire u Mil and tho St. .Ihnrermimd . ,,rICU ; lermS lf u'liorn nrmrlv nil tin lilir uliltiu ' engmred in tratiB-oceanie trade Five room modern home close r : " i.. i .1 will docK. They will bo so con in. sireuis improveu; price structed as to accommodate pfUO; terms. largo (MiantitlCS Of Vegetable O Klvn rnnm hniim?. n ilnnilv willi and molasscB that theso com 1 1..J acres of land close in, well modules may bo unloaded from located! nrico S2fi0(). Yon .nv ii i.i ii ,i i :":. . ". . . r iiiu aiupa ut me Hiimo time x&uu cash, halanco to suit. flU mm ft fill (nimi m liaimr 1111 . I tl I UVMIK Mil- I k.1 ft I Ill 114 mm, I... I mini. ft... ,lnnl,n tl U rOOIlt HOIIHO Willi 11-1 "HHVH MI'WII tllV lCIi 4 lit) UN I .... II I a .1 tiii mwl mnlnuM.ia tlmn u.lll l. nCTOH, WOII lOCaiOU, priCO auoui $ivu casu, uaianco to suit purchaser. J. btrong. hlkhorn, Wis,, is to promoto thoir own interest. If the volume of business is de termined as Mr. Mann suggests by tho advertising, who will do tho business in those towns ...I. ii. . ... l it wuuru uiu weoisiioH run chioiiy Secretary Strong's imported ad- vertisingY- O. A. C. Press Itnl letins. Hiram Khodes, 07, of G7 Princeton street, wns instantly Kinuti montiay auernoon in a 12 foot fall from a beam to the lower deck of a ship undor construction in tho Peninsula shipyards. Rhodes, who was a shipyard carpenter, was at work along the beam and, stp ping backward, ho lost his b 1. ance, falling to tho deck belpw, according to a report made to polio? headquarters, by Deputy anerui a. k, Lunsden. An at tempt was made to treat the in t.. i i.. ii . juriui iiutn in tno company's hoip't'tl nearby, but ho was uaai heroro tho arriva of at. tendanti of the Ambulance Sor vico company. Ollicials in the coroner oflico say death was accidental. It rosulted from a iraciurod skull. Ho is surviveo uy his wire. harbor, ospocially that consign od to local merchants, 'lho barges will havo a capacity of luu to buu tons. liids were ordered received for paving tho roadway of the bt. Johns municipal terminal. The engineor was directed to specify that bids will bo considered for bitulithie. bit- uminous, macadam, wood block, brick and concrete pavement. Iho commission will accent tho uiu lor tho pavement which is considered best for tho needs. A. C. Meyer, to whom tho commission recently awarded a contract for tho construction of a general ollice buildiiur at tho bt. Johns mun c nal tor minal for $10.8J15. informed tho commission that he had made a mistake in his proposal in leav ing out an item of S101U for iminting and asked to with .i ... i ii tiraw ma uiu. jus reouest was granted and Engineer Ilegardt was dirocted to construct the building by force account. Progress at Elevator Notice to the Public Completion of the 1.000,000 bushel grain olovator at tho St. Johns municipal terminal is fast apuroaching. All of the con creto work on tho storago bins is finished, tho track shed is completed and work is being rushed on the operating houso. As tho work progresses tho machinery is being placed so that by tho time the buildinir 4 r. . . I " conuirucuon is nnisheu tho machinory all will be instnllmi and tho elevator ready for opera. lion. George W. Itoschke, civil engineer, has personal charge of tho work in connection with Chief Enginneer Ilegardt, of tho public dock commission. All of the work is being done undor force account since the commis. we We wish to announce that nave moved into our new garage at 210 North Jersey Street, whete nn- neuer prepared than ever to take care ol all business itrotir line. All work entrusted to us will be given prompt ami careful ntleutiott As our new quarters are much more commodious than our Rich moml Street Garage we will be en l.l..liA ... auieu to turn out work with more dispatch, and will have plenty of room for storage of ears. We invite the public to inspect our new place of business. Woolley Bros. 216 North Jersty St. In fact I have anything that will suit your taste, for salo or exchange. Hotter see me. McKINNKY, 215 N. Jorsoy street. Phono Col. 2. NOTICK OF MEETING OF COUNTY HOARD OF EQUALIZATION. Notice is hereby uivon that on Monday, aeptomber 8, 1019, tho Hoard of Equalization of Multnomah County will attend at tho ollice of the County As sessor, at tho Court Houso in Portluud, and publicly examine tho assessment rolls for the year iviv. and correct all errors in valuation, description or quali ties ot mnds, lots or othor pro perty Obsessed by the County Assessor. And it shall be tho duty of persons interested to appear at the time and place appointed. If it shall appear to such Hoard of Equalization that thero are any lands or lots or other property assessed twice, or incorrect'y assessed as to description or quantity, and in tho name of a person or persons not tho owner thereof, nssessed under or beyond tho actual cash value thereof, sa d Hoard mav make proper correction of the same, if it shall appear to such l ii.-i. i i jioaru tout any land, lots or othor property assessable by tho Assessor are not assessed aueh Uoard snail assess tho same at tho full cash value thoreof. HENRY E. REED. County Assessor. Portland, Ore., August 15,15)19. Fine line ol Vogan's Candies ICE CREAM, SOFT DRINKS. CONFECTIONERY, BUTTER, HOME MADE PIES, BREAD AND PASTRY, LIGHT LUNCH-ES. - CM. IX WE AT HAVE. ARRIVED LAST At the point where we believe we have carried the merchan dising of high class Sporting uoods to perfection. For var ieiy, quality, and values we have never seen the equal of this event. It will bo well worth your while to come and see tho advantnge this salo affords. Byerle & Armstrong 420 North Jersey Street Seattle liny KiiBtern WiihIiImkioh timothy pur Ion; ulfnlfa, r.1.12. Mutter Croumory, COc per pound. Ituncli, ICJf 17c pur dozuli. Potutoea Yaklmn, $I0R12 pur tot. Poultry IIoiib, heavy tlri'snui!, 37c; IlKht, ft'lc; broiler, ilre.i8ml, .12c. Hokh Prlmo, riidO'isi muiHuni ti choleo, t'JiUGifJlM.fiO; iIk. IO.GOf(2i), 22.R0. I'nttlit Hunt Htuorti, 10.r.0(?J 11.25: hulfurH, rnlvua, 7.2C 1S.C0. Real Estate! McKINNEY'S BARGAINS L Central Location Thirteen years in the busi ness in St, Johns. List your Property with Us We Alnke Sales S. C. Cook 402 N. Jersey Street OKIt Main 7307 Kci.WomlUnn MOS Mount 9 A. M, tnSr.M. tvrnlnf I hy Appolntmtnl 20&.7-8 SWtlLAND IIIDG. rifth anil WothWiKtoit Street! Portland, Oregon 1 1HT IT dS- i '.-sad FLAGS We will Sell a, H00 Combi nation Flag Set, consisting of a 4x6 ft. flag, pole, cord and window bracket, for $2.75, while they last. Only 10 sets left. ST. JOHNS REVIEW 404 N. Jersey St. . H .! ".' . lift . tf. .if , it. i. ( M funerals' Donutlful gray or blaok adult aaiket, honrse, box, 2 nutoij embnlmlna nnd r(ln td aorvlot for . $75 MII.I.IJR 1'uiicrnl If ilwlrcd for 20, $30, 10, fCO. HlKhcr prlewl funeral in pro. xrtloti. We manufacture caikctt. IMy anUtntit. lleuutlftil funeral clmjiel. MILLER & TRACEY Main 2C0I Indspondent Funeral Dlmetort A 700S Wtithlnjtlon at Clla Slrrrl, llttwrin 20th and 2ht Slrttt, Wct Side ST. JOHNS BRANCH OFFICE W. A. ANDREWS, Representative a lii.i i -ah if i ii tptx rv iii.n...k i.i. ooo 6omJ)anijs JUL PENINSULA ELECTRIC CO. EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL Wireing, Fixtures, Auto Accessories Diamond Tires Storage Batteries Recharged and Repaired AGHNTS FOR Western Electric Sewing Machine Come in and get a demonstration of Electricity's latest Portable Sewing Machine. Phone Col. 977- 418 N. Jersey Street -your Dear Mary: Do you know some people don't like company? I do. The real reason they don't is they are not fixed for it, I think it is a shame that women who enjoy having their friends come to see them can't ask them just because,their houses are not properly furnished. They ought to just go to their husbands and tell them plainly how thoy suffer be-' cause they haven't got the furniture and rugs they need. That's what I'd do if Frank were not so good to me always. Your chum HELEN. " P. S. The one store for furniture and rugs is H. F. CLARK, the Furniture Man 400-402 S. Jersey St Store closes at 8 P, M. Saturdays, other days at 6:30 P. Al. BKSEmZ! DAVIS' BARGAINS Oppanlto Contml Solioo Ed. Monahan, Prop, BANK OF COMMERCE la trrowinir rauidly. Thov ron. dor nn up.to date service of real value to tnelr depositors, and Invite your account. 114 North Jersey street, adv. ' Columbia Garage 107 Pessenden Street Repairs, Fair Prices, Guaranteed Work, Storage, Oils, Gas, Tires; Tubes FRESH FROM THIS BAKERY a layer cake h a dream to behold arm a joy to taste. Light as a sun beam, with SIHur that simply can not be described, the cake will prove a royal treat. At your next affair order one and you'll make yourself lamous loryour spienum Hospitality We hut the buu Orders Uk for VtAliisJ Cikt Fenntag's Bakery and Delkatessea 1 1 5 Nerth Jersey Street Hudson & Stockum PAT'S g Barber Shop & 108 N. Jersey St EDMONDSON & CO. Plumbing, Heating & Tinning We Repair Alaaieum Ware ' rUoac Col. 92 807 S. Jersey S. Fouroom house on lot 50x106, street improvements in and paid, in direction of new Ter minal, St. Johns. Price $800; $50 cash, balance at $10 per month with 7 per cent interest. Four room house in central part of St. Johns, lot 60x130. tine itarden and plenty toi fruit. ThiB lot is worth close to the total price asked for the place. Price $925; $250 cash, balance $10 per month, 7 per cent interest. Fine riverview house with 11 rooms, with 8 or 10 fine.cherry trees; ought to be 20 bushels of fine cherries every year. This house is in good shape and could nut be built for $2500. Lot 50x100; can be bought today for $1600. Takes about $500 cah, . with balance on good terms. Best value I know of. The 6 bed rooms can be . rented to in dustrial wqrkers. on water tront Forty acres 5 milea from a good towns, on the main line of the S. P. Hy. in Douglas county, Oregon. Some of it has been in cultivation. All can be cultivated but about 2 acres. No rock. Want to trade for a house and lot and will nav cash difference. A. W. DAVIS. 208 N. JaraeV street Phona Col. 884. i