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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
2
An anonymous correspondent questions why a governor should hold pardoning, committing, and paroling powers. It argues that a governor cannot deeply study crimes as juries do and questions replacing juries with executive mercy. The piece contends that trials are costly and time consuming, and if juries err, the governor’s sole judgment would seem equally fallible.
Thanksgiving Day services closed with a union meeting of St Johns churches at United Evangelical. Rev W B Ingull preached a sermon praising national providence and a rising public moral sentiment. The crowd heard calls for optimism, faith, and gratitude toward leaders and a Christian President, Mayor, and Secretary of State, amid reminders of recent disasters.
Ad highlights low prices on Evergreen butter at 65 cents per roll and various pork and beef cuts. It emphasizes no tickets or gimmicks, promising meat cheaper than any other market and urging shoppers to buy directly without offers. The fragmentary text lists items like prime rib, bacon, ham, sausage, shoulder roasts, and various beef cuts with stray prices and notes on sugar cured and smoked products.
The city of St Johns approves an ordinance establishing a street grade change on Willamette Boulevard from the north side of Burlington Street to the south side of St Johns Avenue. It lists center elevations at key intersections, cites publication and notice, and records the mayor and city recorder signatures. It also includes notice of cost of improvement for Burlington Street from Jersey Street to Central Avenue and the related assessments and entry in the city liens docket.
The city levies an assessment for improving Polk Street from north of Feswerton to east of St Johns Heights. The total assessment amounts to 85 045.75 with interest, payable at the city recenter. Delinquent after December 13, 1918, and if unpaid by January 2, 2014, collection actions follow. Published in St Johns Review December 6 1913.
George Imboden urges St Johns readers to subscribe to The Review at fifty cents per year to grow the paper’s list, with arrears accepted and one year prepaid. The issue promotes a farmers education short course at Corvallis Oregon led by H. M. Tennant, covering agriculture, horticulture, dairying, and more, with no tuition and low rail rates.
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