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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1909
Page
2
The St Johns Review announces monthly advertising rates of 1.90 per inch per month and a yearly subscription price of 1.00. The paper, published Fridays from 117 West Burlington Street, is entered at the St Johns post office as second class matter under the 1879 Act.
Fragments from a Portland era column discuss the horse and cattle sale drawing buyers nationwide, Oregon as a top market, and looming population growth. It also warns on quarantine enforcement, urging city action to prevent contagion spread, and notes a locally infamous horse named Dilly that raids poultry, highlighting quirky town lore.
The piece extols sunshine as best medicine in proper doses and urges daily outdoor activity, joint movement, temperate healthy eating, and breathing deeply. It emphasizes personal responsibility for cleanliness, tidiness of homes and yards, and pride in rental spaces as keys to urban beauty, noting parks and streets need citizen effort.
A workplace notice explains that choosing better stock over flimsy stock costs 50 cents less per job but yields a loyal customer. It emphasizes customer satisfaction as the true value and repeats the reasoning that long term loyalty beats short term gain.
Our Charges, As is customary, we will charge for card of thanks, sec, for resolutions of respect, $1.00, for notices of church or lodge entertainments, suppers, sociables, etc., where there are charges for admission, so per line, but where there are no charges for these events, we will break the rule and insert them free. We make this announcement so that our good friends may understand our rule in this respect.
Peninsula Tithe and Realty Co offers abstracting services with accurate work under manager H Henderson. Located in a cement block building on Jersey Street, Wooster, the firm promises reasonable fees and reliable title abstracts for St Johns area.
The report plat and survey describe land to be condemned to widen Buchanan Street between Willis Boulevard and a point 87.8 feet west from Dawson Street. It covers 40 feet along Willis, 27.6 feet north, 72.4 feet west, and 27.6 feet south to Buchanan, totaling about 0.8 square feet or 32 acres. Passed May 4 1909 and approved May 1909 by Mayor J. F. Perveice.
Ordinance 229 adopts the City Engineer report for condemning land to extend Richmond Street in St Johns Br ee. The plan uses Method No 2 starting at an iron pipe on Richmond Street, with a 47.8 ft line southward then east along Columb Boulevard, then west to the start, totaling 1607 square feet.
The item discusses a broad Prohibition era stance with references to Carrie Nation and a Seattle figure, plus criticism of meat markets in St. Jules. It notes a festival in June and the idea of moving a fountain, while highlighting a strong youth athlete named Habe Fuller and family. It comments on Oregon festival benefits and public notices.
Historical clippings show Bitgood & Cole touting quality meat and remedies, alongside early 1900s city ordinances on Portland Boulevard and Den Street grade. The text mixes merchant notices, rheumatism cures, and official acts, with mayoral signatures and May 1908 dates in St Johns Review publication.
The city of St Johns ordains the grade of Richmond Street from Willis Boulevard to Columbia Boulevard be established according to the profile prepared by the city engineer. The profile is filed with the city recorder, satisfactory, and adopted. Attest to mayor J F Hendricks and A M Bsson in 1909.
City of St Johns resolves to improve Portland Boulevard from Feasenden Street to Point View Addition. Plan includes grading, cement sidewalks on both sides, wood crosswalks, box gutters, a 900-foot 4 inch tiled drain, and central macadam strip 14 feet wide with two rock layers. Work supervised by city engineer. costs assessed by local improvement district No. 21 totaling 11,752.36.
Resolution from St Johns approves altering Pom senden street from Jersey street toward the Willamette river. City to condemn land strips on both sides, survey to be made, and land to be appropriated. Published in the St Johns Review May 7 and 14 1900 as booster notice for St Johns.
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