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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
2
A 1908 St Johns issue laments juvenile roaming at night and urges strict Sunday laws. It cites Portland physician Dr Homer Keeney and supports U of O appropriation while urging parental and city council action to protect youth from saloons and pools.
The letter cites Mayor Couch defending reduced youth age for entertainment and urges closing harmful venues. Edits condemn saloons and gaming halls as moral threats, urge stricter laws, and note bids to operate a local ferry and job programs while warning subscribers about upcoming subscription policies.
Free Library advocate Miss Fox county superintendent visited St Johns on Wednesday praising the library as a shared resource with Portland. Card holders can borrow from Portland and request books sent here weekly, challenging the notion the library serves only a few. Strong local leaders back the effort, stressing broad benefit and access to science and arts volumes.
Joseph A. Wilson of Hood River visited last Saturday returning among old friends. He has lived in Hood River for 25 years and helped transform a small stream into a robust water system powering homes and industry. His supporters once urged guardianship as his ideas grew bold.
One of his intimate friends recalls Joe calling himself a fool, yet he pushed his plan to completion. He now supplies power to the Hood River flour mills and to the O. R. & N. railroad for all their engines, plus numerous smaller users, with water left to serve double the amount.
A Friday evening called meeting of the Commercial club drew visitors from University Park Piedmont and other peninsula areas. Delegations discussed forming a general executive committee with delegates from all peninsula groups to push a petition to the city council for a free ferry and improved street and car service. Perkins was named secretary to liaise with other organizations until the next regular meeting.
Mrs. Losey of the Home Bakery wed a Topeka baker in a Sunday ceremony at the bride’s son’s home 415 Oswego Street. The groom plans to join forces in business here. Also noted is the Portland wedding of Edward Petersen and Estella Wood with plans to reside at 8479 East Thirteenth Street after a Tacoma visit.
The city council supported using idle residents of St Johns for timber cutting and street cleanup under the city engineer and Capt Bredeson. They also planned installation of the Jame and funding for a drinking fountain for horses and beautification near the city hall. Adjourned.
No. 129 grants AS Gaines to build a residence on lot 15 in Bruns wick addition fronting Brunswick between Nicklin and Fessenden. Value listed as $1000. No. 130 approves 1908 6 to Thom as Scales to build a residence on lot 9 in Merinco addition fronting Newton street. Value listed as $6. No. 131 notes to Lehigh Hammer to erect a building between Nicklin and Hart man.
Daniel Nettleton of the Portland Sanitarium will speak in Bickner Hall Sunday at 2 50 p m on the awful evils of the liquor era. Free admission with a collection to support the committee. A separate note mentions a druggist Johns dying of pneumonia last moon.
In a letter to the editor K C Conch argues against blaming city officials for recent break ins by Point View youths. He defends the skating rink and pool room ordinance and proposes a Portland council petition to bar St Johns youths from Sunday pool rooms or skating rinks.
A mother recalls her sick baby with measles and bronchitis improving after using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. After visiting eight stores and failing to find the remedy, a clerk recommended it and the child recovered. For sale by St Johns Drug Store.
Notice to advertisers states copy for changes must reach the office by Wednesday at 3 p.m. to insure publication. Remember this deadline and save the printer.
The 1908 meeting of St Johns Oregon council adopts plans to improve Polk Street from Willamette Boulevard to St Johns Heights with paving sidewalks grading and related work. Costs assessed to benefitted lots within two feet of street edges. Notice to be published. remonstrances due 15 days after first notice. Larson and Halvorsen dissolve partnership with Jacob Halvorsen to collect accounts and pay bills in St Johns Oregon.
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