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THE MOHNING ASTOKIAN, ASTOHIA.' OREGON.
Prominent Business and Commercial
Interests of the City of Astoria. ::
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CHARLES ROGERS & SON,
Druggists.
Astoria is the home of some very
attractive stores which are a credit
to the city ami compare favor
ably in stock and appointments
with those of the larger cities
of the Northwest and prominent
among these is the drug store at
459 Commercial street established by
Charles Rogers, 18 years ago, whose
stock embraces a full and complete
line of patent medicines, toilet ar
ticles, purses and handbags, station
ery, post cards, and the usual sun
dries found in a complete drug store.
A specialty is made of Hall's Juniper
Kidney Cure, White Oak Liniment,
Deadshot Corn Cure, Rogers' Quinine
Hair Tonic, Rogers' Universal Blood
Purifier, and Rogers' Itch Lotion
which are manufactured by the firm
and are largely sold at wholesale
throughout the western sections of
Oregon and Washington.
By fair deailng and courteous at
tention to every patron Mr. Rogers
has won a place of prominence in
Astoria's business world and has been
ably assisted by his son, C Lawrence
Rogers, who was recently admitted
as a partner. Both members of the
firm are well thought of in Astoria
and are doing their share to advance
the community's best interests.
salesmanship and strict attention to
the affairs of the establishment. He
employs six men and keeps an auto
mobile and delivery wagon to dis
tribute the goods throughout the
city.
The business was established 15
years ago by the father of the present
proprietor and for the past two years
has been conducted by Rudolph
Roentgen, who is a good manager
and a careful business man.
T. F. LAURIN,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist
T. F. Laurin, proprietor of the
Eagle and Owl drug stores at 351
Bond and 549 Commercial streets, re
spectively, is a popular Finlander who
has resided in Astoria 20 years and
is a manufacturing pharmacist of
ability doing a large wholesale and
retail business. He carries a com
plete line of drugs, toilet articles,
patent and proprietary preparations
and sundries of the drug trade in his
two stores and the prescription de
partments are conducted along mod
ern lines. Two years ago Mr. Laurin
was elected police commissioner for
a term of six years and he is an;
active worker in the Chamber of
Commerce and a prominent member
of the Brotherhood of Finlanders, of
the Irving Club, and of the Elks, For
esters, and Modern Woodmen.
ASTORIA SODA WORKS.
J. H. Duncan, proprietor of this
establishment came here 27 years
ago, and as a boy was employed to
wash bottles in the soda works he
now owns. After many years of hard
work and economy he loaned his sav
ings to his employer on a mortgage
on the establishment and six years
ago he was enabled to purchase the
business and improve the plant to j
such an extent that orders came in
rapidly from towns as far away as
Goble, Woods, and Seaside. He
bottles and manufactures all kinds of
carbonated beverages, and is agent
for the famous Bromo-Hygeia Na
tural Mineral Water, and makes a
large percentage of the soda water
sold in Astoria.
Mr. Duncan is also agent for the
Lippert gasoline engines for launches,
varying in size from three to 50 horse
power, and that the merit of this
engine is appreciated in this vicinity
is evidenced by the fact that he has
sold 16 this year to fishermen and
others.
CHARLES V. BROWN,
Dealer in Boots and Shoes.
This elegantly fitted up store at 525
Commercial street, is well known to
the public and the company does a big
wholesale business in Clatsop and
Pacific counties and a large retail
trade in Astoria. The stock is one
of the most complete on the coast
and has been selected with special
consideration for the local demands,
the shoes embracing not only the finest
makes of Hannan's, but rough grades
for loggers and the stock of rubbers
is large and varied. A specialty is
made of repair work, modern machin
ery being used in this department and
the services of six men are employed
in the store of which Randall Reed
is head salesman.
The business was conducted under
the name of Peterson & Brown until
the first of the year when C. V.
Brown acquired his patrner's interest
Mr. Brown came to Astoria from
Port Townsend 15 years ago and has
won a place in the front rank of
Astoria's many successful merchants.
ROBINSON FURNITURE STORE,
J. J. Robinson carries at 590 and
592 Commercial street, a comprehen
sive stock of household goods and
home furnishings o! every description
and of the latest styles and modern
designs, including carpets, bedding,
stoves, matting, window shades, cur
tains, rugs, linoleum, blankets, and
cooking utensils. The store is con
ducted along modern lines, and Mr.
Robinson aims to give prompt service
and full value to his customers. He
established the business nine years
years ago in a modest way
and now has a large modern
store ad a prosperous trade as al
most everything required to fit up a
home in the most comfortable and
attractive manner is carried in his
stock.
shipyard six years. Itc has turned
out some of the best launches and
steamboats known to these waters,
including the Klectro, Altoona, Re
liable, Aurora, Fox, Lottie, Vanguard.
Sylph, Hen llur, Taku Jack, Chilkoot,
Patrol, Elf, Robert Baron, and many
others, besides innumerable rowboals
and fishing smacks used extensively
by fishermen. His modern shop,
equipped with electric power, occupies
550 feet of river front at the foot ol
Fourth street where he has every
facility and modern device known to
the shipbuilding trade. He employs a
large force of men and orders are
sent to him from along the Pacific
Coast from Alaska to Mexico where
boats of his building have established
for him an excellent reputation.
BADOLLET & CO, GROCERS.
A representative of the grocery
line in Astoria is the house of
Badollet & Company whose store at
Ninth and Commercial streets is
among the largest here, and though
established only a few months ago,
by its attractive display windows,
favorable location, and neat appear
ance immediately attracted the favor
able comment of the community and
a big trade has resulted. The store is
eminently suited for the large stock
of staple and fancy groceries carried,
high grade teas and coffees being
special features, and their "J. P. B.
brand of coffee is growing in favor.
The members of the firm are J. P.
Badollet, T. S. Trullinger and Miss
D. Badollet, the management being
left in the hands of the two first
named, who combine qualities of en
terprise and business capacity that is
certain to win them a place among
the most successful establishments of
the Greater Astoria.
WOODFIELD'S ART STORE.
Five or six years ago Frank Wood
field established his art store at 510
Bond street and it has won a reputa
tion as the place where the best pic
ture frames are made, and where pic
tures and art novelties of every de
scription may be obtained. A feature
of the business is the manufacture
and wholesaling of souvenir postals
of local views in the northwestern
cities of which is carred a most ex
tensive line, as well as photographic
views of features of interest in this
vicinity.
Mr. Woodficld is endowed with
unusually good taste, and has every
facility for framing all kinds of pic
tures in the most artistic manner,
and his printing and developing es
tablishment is well patronized by
amateur photographers for whose
benefit he carries a varied stock of
all requirements in photo supplies.
Mr. Woodficld has resided here 20
years and his stock has helped to
render attractive many Astoria homes.
BON TON MILLINERY. STORE.
The well stocked millinery store
conducted by Mrs. Georgia Penning
ton under the above title, is located
at 483 Bond street, and the attractive
arrangement of sylishly trimmed hats
would render it a credit to a much
larger city. Mrs. Pennington, who
has had 12 years' experience in mil
linery establishments in St. Joseph
and other large cities, came to As
toria three seasons ago and opened
her present establishment and has
met with complete recognition of her
ability and she makes it a point to
keep her stock up to the standards of
the best establishments in the east.
She has secured the trade from As
toria's most fastidious dressers and
won success in the face of keen com
petition and has given Astoria a mil
linery store equal in stock and ap
pointments to any in Oregon.
upon to furnish refreshments at all
the swellcst functions in Astoria, as
he has maintained a high standard
during his business career here and
has endeavored to give his patrons
the best in quality and service equal
in every particular to that obtainable
in the great cities of the United
States.
T. C. BEIL, PHOTOGRAPHER.
The studio at 583 Commercial
street is the oldest in the city, having
been established in 1886, and 10 years
ago was purchased by Mr. Bell whose
work is as good as any done in
Astoria, though his prices are low
and he caters to the plain people who
arc prompt to pay. He probably docs
more developing and printing for
amateurs than any other studio in
Astoria, and his stamp pictures are
especially popular. Mr. Bell was born
in Stratford-on-Avon, the home of
Shakspere, but has resided in As
toria many years and prior to his
purchase of his present business was
employed at the Crowe studio. That
he understands his art is evidenced
by the fact that those who have had
their photographs taken once by him
generally return when they want
similar work.
OCCIDENT HOTEL.
This hotel which was established
nearly 40 years ago is one of the most
famous in the Northwest and is in
many respects the most attractive in
the city, its central location at the
corner of Tenth and Bond streets
placing it in the heart of the business
section and rendering it an especially
desirable place for transients who
have business with the downtown
houses. Its cuisine is excellent and
the table is supplied with all season
able edibles which arc selected daily
from the best which the markets of
Astoria and Clatsop county afford.
C. S. Wright is the proprietor and
his son, C. R. Wright, is manager,
and they have entertained some of
the greatest men in America at the
Occident, General Grant and his wife
having stopped at the hotel while on
their famous trip around the world,
and other guests include General
Sherman, John D. Rockefeller, Henry
Ward Beccher and General Miles.
& Co. In 1902 he was elected county
Judge and has filled that ollice credit
ably ever since. Although not a
graduate of law school Judge Trcn
chard is well versed in the law, and
has acquired a broad education
through his own reading and study,
lie comes of a family who have never
taken humble positions in the com
munity, mid he has risen in spite of
iiitmy obstacles, and is one of the
most respected citizen of Astoria.
JUDGE J. Q. A. BOWLBY.
Astoria can boast of no more suc
cessful or astute attorney and busi
ness man that Judge J. Q. A. Bowlby,
president of the Astoria Savings Bank
ami one of the leading citiens, Horn
in New York in August, 1843, Judge
llovvlby moved with his parents first
to Ohio, then to Indiana, and in 1852
crossed the plaint in a wagon drawn
by oxen. His parents located near
Portland on a donation land claim,
and he attended the county schools
in Washington county, finishing at
the university at Forest Grove, where
he graduated in 1867 with the degree
of A. B. He then studied in law
ollices for a brief period until he was
appointed deputy inspector of cus
toms at Astoria, n position he tilled
several years, studying law at odd
times, and in 1873 was admitted to
the bar, and elected county judge the
same year, lie served in that capa
city eight years, has since been direc
tor on the board of education for sev
eral terms and for 10 years was presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce.
Judge llovvlby is a shrewd business
man and an attorney of marked ability
and learning, and has acquired a con
siderable property interest here by
meritorious, conservative investments,
lie is president of the Odd Fellows'
Land & Building Association, and the
Masonic Laud & Building Associa
tion, and is a prominent member of
buth lodges as well as the United
Workmen.
DR. HENRY L. HENDERSON.
Dr, Henderson was born in Clay
county, Missouri, in 1857, and ob
tained his early education in district
schools, entering the University of
Missouri in 1875. He was obliged to
CHRISTENSEN & CO., MEATS.
The firm composed of II. W. Chris
tensen and N. Nyman conduct one of
the best wholesale and retail meat
markets in Astoria at 518 Commercial
street and operate the only slaughter
house in the city, slaughtering all
their own cattle and hogs and selling
to dealers in Astoria and vicinity.
Mr. Christensen, who is one of the
most experienced butchers of this
vicinity, has been engaged in this
business for nearly 30 years and his
success is due to business-like man
agement of his affairs, and strict at
tention to business. His partner, N.
Nyman, devotes his entire time to the
wholesale and retail department, and
having handled meats for 22 years
is able to furnish his customers with
the best. He endeavors to give per
fect satisfaction to all who come inte
the store and has rendered the place
popular with the trade, and built up
one of the largest businesses in this
line in the State.
leave college at the end of his junior
Those who have visited the hotel ex- year but later finished his course and
press' themselves as delighted with .'attended the Eclectic Medical Insti-
CROWN BOTTLING WORKS.
This house, located at 538 Duane
street, doessall the bottling of the
North Pacific Brewery's beer sold in
R. M. GASTON,
Harness and Farming Implements.
This establishment at 105 Four
teenth street was opened about seven
years ago as a feed and sale stable
and Mr. Gaston has gradually extend
ed his trade to wagons, buggies, and
farming implements and machinery,
A specialty is made of the manufac
ture and repair of all kinds of harness
and of the Studebaker and the
Mitchell, Lewis, Staver & Co. vehicles
and the house probably carries a
larger and more complete stock of
farming implements than any other
house in this vicinity. Mr. Gaston
has a thorough knowledge of farm
ing implements best for this section
and he gives his customers the full
benefit of his knowledge and exper
ture and sell all kinds of carbonated ! j" and h" )uilt P !W
beverages, soda water, etc. The busi- j JS through Western Oregon
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Rudolph Boentgen who has been con
nected with the establishment since
boyhood, and is familiar with all its
features and well known to the retail
ers in the district. He does the trav
eling for the house, himself, and has
built up a big business through good
R. M. LEATHERS,
Shipbuilder.
R. M. Leathers has been establish
ed in Astoria as a shipbuilder for 26
years, and came here from San Fran
cisco where he had served in the Reid
CARLSON BROTHERS.
Wholesale Liquor Dealers.
This house was established by J. L.
Carlson 21 years ago and from its
inception has been a success and
probably does as large a business as
any similar house in any city of this
size in the Northwest. A specialty is
made of the wholesale business and
the trade of the firm is extensive
throughout Western Oregon and
Washington, their office being at 103
Twelfth street, and warehouse on
Bond street.
All the leading brands of whiskies,
brandies, wines, beers, cordials, ton
ics, mineral and lithia waters, cigars,
etc., received direct from the produc
ers are offered to the trade at prices
that permit of a handsome profit, and
the firm are sole distributers of
Cream Pure Rye Whiskey, Morvillc
AAA Bourbon, Carlsons Special
XXXX, McGibbon's Bourbon, and
Italian-Swiss Colony Wines. The firm
is composed of J. L. Carlson and his
brother Otto E., who was taken into
the partnership about seven years
ago. They are considered as among
the most experienced men in this line
of business in the Northwest, and
own the Sunnyside and "Our Corner"
saloons where the liquors and cigars
sold are the best procurable.
the service and accommodations. Hav
ing spent 30 years in Astoria as pro
prietor of this popular resort, C. S,
Wright is one of the ablest enter
tainers and best posted men in regard
to the history of the country to be
found in the Northwest, and he is a
firm believer in Astoria's future great
ness.
HON. C. J. TRENCHARD, i
County Judge.
Judge Trenchard was born in As
toria in June, 1853, his father being
the first physician in the community
and a member of the first State Legis
lature of Oregon. He attended the
public schools until he was was 14,
when the death of his father , threw
the burden of the support of the fam
ily upon his shoulders, and he went
to work in the lumber mills and log
ging camps of the vicinity until he
was 19 when he worked in Wcstport
for a few years, returning in 1876 to
open a store n Astoria. When, a
short time after, his stock was de
stroyed by fire he worked as a book
keeper until, in 1882, he was elected
county clerk, a position to which he
was re-elected for four additional
terms indicating the efficient manner
in which he had conducted the affairs
of the office. In 1890 he declined to
serve again and in July of that year
was made agent for the Wells-Fargo
Express Company, and the wholesale
commission house of Meyer, Wilson
tute of v. iiu'tunati, trom wincn lie
graduated in 1882 with the degree of
M. I), lie engaged in the practice of
medicine in the cat for a few years
and took post graduate courses at
the American Medical College of St.
Louis, and the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York, where
he acquired a knowledge of medicine
and surgery that have placed him in
the ranks of the leading practitioners
of the State. He came to Astoria in
1897 and has served two terms as city
physician and as state health officer for
the port of Astoria, He is ex presi
dent of the Missouri State Eclectic
Mcdical Association and the Oregon
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view uraduaiing there in 1884, In
1886 lie visited Europe und MmlieU in
hospitals, spending the greater part
of his time in Vienna studying medi
cine and surgery and since his return
to Astoria he has visited New York
and Chicago several limes to take
special courses in those cities. Dr.
Fulton has held the posiilon of sur
geon of St. Mary's Hospital for 25
years, is surgeon for the A. & C,
Railroad, and ex-president of the
Oregon Stale Medical Society, and in
I9ti4 organized the Clatsop County
Medical Society whose membership
include every doctor in the county,
of which organization he was presi
dent last year, He li president of the
F. 11. W. Co,, which owns Hie Page
building, and it one of the three mem
bers of I he Chamber of Commerce
committee to Investigate and develop
the natural gat and oil resources in
litis vicinity and is one of the leading
spirits of the Clatsop Fuel Company,
DR. W. C. LOGAN, DENTIST.
Dr. W. C. Logan was born' in As
toria in 1862 and attended the local
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tended the Agricultural College at
Corvalli. He was obliged to leave
in the middle of his second year and
went to work in the canneries in
Astoria, and at the carpenter's trade
for about three year, and later served v
a three year' apprenticeship in the
ollice of Mick & Shaw the Astoria
dentist, and then went to Alaska to
work in the caiinerie in order to get
money to go to school again. In 1888
lie went to Philadelphia and took a
three years' course in the Philadelphia
Denial School from which he gradu
ated March, 1901, with the degree of
I). I). S. On die first of April he re
turned to Astoria and opened an office
for the practice of dentistry. Dr.
Logan ha taken a lively interest in
the development of Astoria and i an
active member of the Chamber of
Commerce, and two year ago was
rlceied to represent the second ward
in the city council, where he ha been
active in the prosecution of measures
to improve the condition of the
streets, ami has rxerted hi best ef
fort to have the seawall bill passed,
believing that a seawall will prove of
itumcaMirahlc value to the city. He
is a charter niembrr of the Irving
Club ami a member of the Masonic
Order, Knight of Pythia and Order
of Elk. He is the owner of the
Logan building a well as a consider
able number of vacant lot through
out the city, and few men have taken
a more vigorous part in the up
building of the city than ha Dr.
Logan.
SHERMAN TRANSFER CO.
Henry Sherman, proprietor of the
Sherman Transfer Company, with
stables at 433 Commercial street, pur
chased the business about 14 years
ago, and by close personal attention
and honorable dealing has built up a
large business, In addition to a fine
State Eleetic Medical Association, ;,,t of buggies, carriage and coaches
and is prominent in other medical so-! which the company rent, they operate
cictics and in several fraternal organ- .jx express wagons and four trucks to
izatious. His ollices in the Astoria ' lau heavy good. Experienced driv
Savings Bank building arc furnished ers arc employed, and prompt and
with every accessory required in hi ; efficient service is the rule of the
profession and his standing is high iujeompany in all departments, and th
this community. 'entire equipment being modern and
jWC painted presents a very good ap-
DR. J. A. FULTON. .pearancc on the road. The stable is
Dr. Fulton was born in Iowa and, especially popular witn Astoria people
who board horses there, where theyf
removed with his parents to Pawnee
City, Nebraska, while very young and
received his early education at the
Pawnee City high school studying
medicine at the Northwestern Medi
cal College, now known as Ensworth
Medical College, at St. Joseph. He
graduated from that institution in
1881 and two years later went to New
York where he took a course in Bell-
receive the best of care under the
supervision of Mr. Sherman, one of
the most experienced horsemen in the
city, who is keeping pace with As
toria's regular and substantial growth
by conducting his establishment to
supply the best possible service in
transfer, heavy hauling and general
livery.
HOEFLER'S CANDY STORE.
In the confectionery establishment
of H. R. Hoefler at 543 Commercial
street, Astoria has one of the finest
houses of the kind on the coast. The
ice cream parlors where patrons are
served at little tastefully arranged
tables, are fitted up prettily with
flowers and palms. The soda foun
tain built especially for Mr. Hoefler,
is one of the attractive features of the
place, while the well polished glass
show cases filled with chocolates and
bonbons of all shapes, sizes and
flavors add to the general neatness
and attractiveness of the place. Mr.
Hoefler, who has been in the busi
ness 10 years, makes all ' his own
candies which are the best to be had
in this part of the State, and these and
ice cream manufactured by him is
sold to stores and individuals in all
parts of the county.
Mr, Hoefler is invariably called
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