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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1914-12-11
Do Your Eyes Bother You

If you are subject to headache,
eyes ache or print runs together,
call at my Office an1 be ex-
amined. / use the most approx
ed methods in examining the
eyes, and ! guarantee all work
and material to be satisfactory.
In my practice of medicines
and surgery, all my prescrip-
tions are filled from pure fresh
drugs in my own private dis
pensary at a very reasonable
price. DIR. w. j. GIASTRAP,
Physician and Surgeon, ST.
Johns, Oregon; residence phone
Columbia 1876; Office phone Col
umbia 2S2.
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man passes another mans store and
notices he is doing a good business.
He feels he could do better at this
stand, goes to the agent and tells him
he will pay more rent for the place
at the expiration of the tenants lease
The tenant is ousted wrongfully
Agents and owners should be care
full about raising rents merely because
the tenant seems to be doing u good
business. The man who offers more for
the place often-is not able to do good
business at the same stand on account
of the nature OF his business or for
many other reasons. OFTEN the man who
Is forced to move out draws shop
ping center with him.
Il have known towns where we have
been forced to move our stores In this
way and as a result the entire shopping
center of the town was changed. In one
place the agent signed up man who
offered him more rent forsour place and
we were forced to move. We went into
the next block. Within two years the
entire business center of the city had
followed our store into that block and
the place we had been ousted from
actually stood vacant for IL months"
1t is the plan of the real estate ex-
change to have talks by men like Mr..
McCleery from time to time at the
weekly luncheons at the Newspaper
club, believing that the real estate men
will derive much benefit therefrom.
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Women, on the other hand, come
downtown and visit the stores-the
women's furnishing stores, the depart
ment stores, the groceries and so forth.
Therefore, where you find those stores
you will find the business center or
shopping section of a city. In locating
the business center of this city for
the determination of the site of Kress
new store on Second avenue we sta
toned men with a counting apparatus
on the different downtown corners to
see how many people passed
"On Norton's corner at Second ave-
nue. and Twentieth street that man
counted 1850 people passing there
in one day during business hours and
going but two directions, either up or
down Second avenue. That figure de-
termined the business center of Bir-
mingham and we located our store ac-
cordingly. We employ similar means
In many ways. For instance men with
these counting devices counted during
the business hours OF one day 10000
people entering our two stores during
the business hours of one day Now,
notice this OF those $4,000 people 21,-
600 entered the Second avenue store
and 5000 the Third avenue store.
THAT determines Second avenue as
the shopping center of Birmingham at
the present time. In this connection
there is a duty that real estate agents
owe a tenant that often is violated. A
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DIRT DEALERS
DAILY DOINGS
Tho big red card is on the jobl

Tho big red card Is on the job!
Through the agency of one of the
red placards furnished by the Birming-
ham Real Estate exchange to its men,
bers and offering a reward of SO to
anyone catching a person damaging or
stealing from a vacant house, a negro
plumbing thief was caught ON the
Southside last week.
The negro was noticed about the
place by disinterested party. The OBJ
server. however, had noticed the red
placard tackled on the house by the
curing club he held the negro thief at
the thief carted off to Jail. The cap
ward to be paid by the Real Estate ex-
change under their new system.
This move of the Real Estate ex-
change is expected to place complete
check on the vandalism of small boys
throwing rocks through windows OF
vacant houses and negro thieves who
rob vacant houses and stores of plumb
ing and similar material.
Bulletin No. 6 of the Birmingham
Real Estate exchange, issued last week,
is as follows:
The other day one of Birmingham s
big property owners was heard to re-
mark, that there was less real estate
talent among the agents of Birmingham
than any other city in the country!
We will not enter into any argument
here to disprove this statement or to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06

For the past several months I have
heard talk of business depression in Bir-
mingham,' said Fl. d. Williams, we'll
known real estate man. yesterday. with
offices in the Jefferson County Bank
building. But have been absolutely un-
able to find any signs of 1t myself.
My business has grown steadily for
the past three months. and for those three
months shows also a good increase over
the year previous. l have just closed a
deal on South Twentieth street. between
Avenues A and B, for a price OK $4,000
for a lot 20x100 feet Can you see any
thing like hard times in that
There Is some depression in other parts
of the state, owing to the cotton situa-
ton. but Birmingham has not been at
,fected to any appreciable extent as yet.
Things have been at an absolute stand
still at Montgomery. Selma and similar
towns. A friend of mine who Is a travel
ing salesman. a few days ago cams back
from an eight-days' trip through south
Alabama and without single order. The
men to whom he sold last year. instead,
were asking for extensions of their time
to pay.
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OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF
THE FALL OF TSINGTAU
GIVEN OUT BY JAPANESE

Toxic. November 11.--(Correspond-
ence of the Associated Press 1.-The
following detailed official account of
the storming of the German fortress
in Tsingtan was issued today. AS al
ready cabled the accounts show that
the Japanese soldiers brought 1t to be
known they would play with the same
-recklessness as seen at the assault on
Port Arthur.
ION November 6 the weather in Shan
Tung was superbly fine in the morn
ing, with bright moonlight in the even
ing" the report says. 1.-The besieging
army had arranged to occupy the third
position near the German fortress on
this night but a detachment of our
first line had already occupied the po-
sition in the course of the day and
commenced the preparatory work for
the final assault.
AT p. m. the commander of the
besieging army gave orders to push on
the work preparatory to the opening
of sudden charge. and on the COM
pletiton of the work to wait for fur
Their orders before commencing the
charge.
THE Germans destroyed the Taisich-
eng batteries In the front of Kiauchat
bay with explosives during the day
Moreover, the enemy stopped lombard
, ment at all other batteries. The be
sieging army observed an apparen
change in the enemy's defense lines a
this sudden turn of the situation.
Destroy Outer Trenches
1.-The left wing of our second center
which pressed on the central fortress
easily destroyed the first outer trenches
and wire entanglements of the centra
forts without resistance. Soon on
troops destroyed the wire entangle
ments in front of and inside the sec
ond outer trenches, successfully open
ing the way for the assault of tn
army.
"The commander. at once issued or
ders to the second central party t
storm the enemy's central fortresse
and at the same time ordered all 9th
er parties to carry out close recon
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show how much real ability exists
among our forces, but we do think that
this careless remark quoted above
should remind us that we are not doing
all we can to improve our talents and
increase our usefulness to our clients,
which means the increase of our earn
Ing capacity.
With this idea in view, your trustees
have decided to introduce from time to
time, at our weekly luncheons. talks
of educational value to the real estate
fraternity.
All of you agents who feel that you
have nothing else to learn, should of
course, stay away from these lunch
cons.
Those, however. who feel that none
of us are too old or too experienced to
learn something from the other fellow,
should certainly be on hand.
We will also have five minutes talk
from a prominent member of the Board
of Trade, on matter vitality affecting
the rental interests of Birmingham
1 am sending you several copies OF
the booster folder. You are requested to
enclose one of these in each of your
letters that you send out from your
office. If your supply runs out send
for more.
Would like to see the members take
a little more interest in the matter OF
listing property on the exchange
Send down some of your bargains. Per-
haps there is some one that is waiting
for just the piece of property that you
have listed. Let's try it.
What kind of success are you having
with your vandalism signs? j. l.
Yancey's office reports this morning
that through this sign negro was
caught on the Southside cutting out the
plumbing on a vacant house. Some
help. eh?
Listing of for sale property on the rea
estate exchange got we'll under way dur
| ing the week, something like 10 differen
pieces of property being listed.
| No deals were closed through the ex
change, but such transactions are expect
| ed now most any day. Big things are ex
pected by local real estate men from
| this new movement in the local real es
| tate world.
| The plan has been In operation in othe
cities for sometime, but started here onl!
about 10 days ago. By this system, an,
member of the exchange is privileged Z
| sell a piece of property after it is listed
the agent listing it, the real estate ex
change and the agent making the sale al
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Williams Says He Can Find
No Business Depression

But understand that the cotton stu
alton Is fast righting itself. and as soon
as 1t does l believe confidently that busi-
ness will boom. And 1 believe further
that the cotton situation will be cleared
up within two or three months. l under
stand that we consume about S,WO,Vo
bales in this country, and have been ship
ping the rest to Europe to be made into
the finished product and sent back to us.
Instead of that we will soon be making
all of our cotton into finished product and
sending our surplus to the lighting armies
of Europe.
.Other sections of the country where
the staple crops are something other than
cotton. understand. are in the midst of
prosperous conditions. They've sold their
crops, and as soon as we sell this cotton
crop we'll feel the same prosperity.
But conditions here in Birmingham are
fine, at least SO in my business. 1 do
not believe all of this business depres-
sion talk is justifiable. Within two or
three months, at the outside. I believe
the real estate market and business con-
ditions in general will be entirely nor
NAL"
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Williams Says Business Is Increasing;
. 125000 People Pass Corner In One Day
McCleery Shows How Shopping Center Of City
Was Located By Counting People On the Street

The talk of George McClerry, Biz
mingham manager of S. H. Kress and
company, before the Birmingham Real
Estate exchange at the.-weekly lunch
con Thursday has caused so much COM
ment that officials of the exchange
feel assured that the series of edu-
cational talks at the weekly lunch
cons, of which that of Mr.. McCIeerys
was the first. is going to prove big
success
Mr.. McCleery's talk hinged about the
text of what should be the duties of a
real estate agent to his tenant and In
cidentally how real estate values are
dependent upon the location of a city's
business center and what a citys bust
ness center is.
Mr.. McCleery gave some startling
figures in his short address. For in
stance, he illustrated how the Kress
company determine upon a location for
one of their stores.
"The value of site for store de-
ponds upon it's location in reference to
the shopping section of the city," he
said. THE business section Is deter
mined. not by men, but by the women,
who do the great percentage of city's
shopping Men come downtown. go to
their offices and only leave them to
go to some other mans office or to the
bank They only go to these places
when they have to.
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naissance of the enemy's position in the
front of their respective lines The
enemy in the lines other than at the
centres fortresses, however. were hold
ing their positions and began a strong
resistance with their machine guns.
AT 1880 a. M, November z, the de-
tachment of the second center, which
was commissioned to attack the central
fortress, carried out the charge on the
enemy with two companies of infantry
and a section of sappers and dashing
on the enemy's position succeeded in
occupying the important part of the
fertilization and in capturing about
200 Germans. ~
when the fertilization fell into our
hands the enemy's battery, which had
remained silent up to this time, sud
denly opened fire along all lines and
conferred their fire on the central fort
resses now In our hands Our detach-
ment which had just occupied the for
tincation last many killed and wound
ed in an instant by the enemy's she'll
ing But we undauntedly pushed on de-
FAINT of the enemy's fire and secured
THE occupation of the fortress
THE commanding officer of the sec
ond central detachment saw the adj
vantage of carrying out sudden at
tack on the astern fortresses of the
| Taitungcheng fort and believed In Its
unmistakable success. At Sis a. m. the
/ command of the whole army gave or
ders for an immediate charge on the
| fort. At 1870 a. m. the right wing OF the
second central detachment carried out
the charge on the eastern fortresses
Stubborn Resistance
1.-THE charge met stubborn resist
ance of the enemy, who poured show
err of bullets and shells, causing casul-
ties of over a hundred killed and
wounded to oNr troops. The detachment
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WEEKLY COTTON
GOODS REVIEW

New York, December 5.-Although cot
ton goods trading has been generally
quiet for the week some steps have been
taken to revise the prices OF goods to a
taris nearer the levels at which cot
ton is selling. Denims have been sold
at decline of 1411sc a pound from the
top for this year. but the sales have been
followed by a notice of withdrawal of
the goods through inability to secure
more dyestuffs than will be required In
filling orders in the next 60 days.
Wide sheetings were revised downward
21bc a yard on some leading numbers.
Sheetings, print cloths and convertibles
have been quiet with prices showing a
tendency to further ease
About 1000 bales of standard drills have
been sold for shipment to India at &c
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getting pro rata share of the commits |
sion.

getting pro rata share of the commits
sion.
'sBirmingham real estate is not effected
so far as my business is concerned by
the reported business depression" states
E.. J. Burns. 81 have closed several big
deals in the past two or three months.
by February ! 1 expect to see real
estate and every other business better
than it has been any time since 1907.
Inquiries have never been better than
right now in the real estate business.
BY February l confidence will be abso-
lutely restored, and that's all that's wrong
now. Real estate has not deprecated
in value at all.
"The prospects of this country for the
expectation of our products is what l base
my confidence on"
Enquiries are much better this week,
states Gus Pope, Jr. There has been lit
tie actual improvement in conditions but
better Inquiries always means better busi-
ness
The real estate men of Birmingham are
inclined to protest against the regional
bank charging a higher rate of interest
in the south than in other sections OF
the country.
"I think it is an outrage" said 4
L. Anglin of Anglin g. White. 1.-The south
has been chopping the wood and carrying
| the water for the past so years and it's
about time we are beginning to be treated
on an equal basis with other sections OF
| the country. The excuse that there was
danger of us borrwing too heavily Is
ridiculous. They control that
| IT am not competent to pass upon the
question: said Fl. d. Williams, but
have read about the matter in the news
papers and it looks like discrimination
to me. 1t lies within the discretionar,
powers of the regional bank of this sec
| ton to loan a man money or refuse
him, so they would have control over
how much the south borrowed without
charging from ] to IL per cent more
| interest so it looks to me-
| Many other real estate men expressed
| indignation over the matter, but stated
they were not sufficiently informed t.
be quoted
| Nearly all stated that they were under
| the impression that the amount Of money
| loaned to the south rested absolutely witt
| the discretion of the officials o.
| the regional bank and therefore coult
not understand why the excuse for thu
higher interest was reported as the dan
ger of the south overborrowing
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yard. reduction of lac from the las.
price paid Prints are dull and some lines
of colors have been withdrawn. Cling
hams are quiet
Fine and fancy cottons are being reor-
dered In very moderate lots and fine yard
mills need business. The duck markets
continue firm as a consequence or some
large domestic and foreign orders Mills
are curtailing production on cotton goods
in several directions. but in lieu of or
ders, other mills are being directed to
work en- stock goods because cotton is
cheap.
Prices continue nominal and Irregular
as follows: Print cloths 2S-inch 64xdO S.
cents; 64x60s, 2%c: ss-inch 64x6fs, $40
&c; brown sheetings, southern standards.
6i4@6lsc; denims. s-ounce, 12iac; tickings.
S-ounce. 12l5c: standard prints, size. staple
gin CHAINS, 64c; dress ginghams, 9Ac.
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Saldried Men Refuse
to Pay Honest Debts

as much as ever, and Yet In reality he is
harder to collect from than the man at
the head OF his own business.
Something should be done. I don't
know what. There is little recourse, L
guess, In law. Yet the money being held
by the man of salary is affecting dozens
of other men In all lines of business who
cannot pay their bills because he does
not pay his bills. These times are extra
ordinary. of course. We are not In the
midst of boom, but neither are we In
the midst OF depression. There is no
reason for the action Of many OF our
people. who through fright more than
anything else, are largely contributing to
the very thing they are dreading.
About the only remedy is to get them
to stop and think, for they must not real
lie the real effect OF their actions.
When ono man holds up payment on a
bill OF $50. say for example, he is prob
ably tieing up the settlement of 5000
worth of debts; for the man he owes can
not pay his debts, the third man cannot
pay his debts, thus affecting fourth
man, who cannot pay his, and so on and
on In an almost endless chain.
THE people Of this city and of this
country. believe, have plenty OF money.
What we need is to put 1t In circulation"
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was undated and securely took pos
session of the fortress at $40 q. m.
The commanding officer of the Sec
ond central detachment determined to
capture the enemy's fortresses in the
rear and with the sanction of the COM
mander of the whole army ordered de-
tachments to the Moltke. Bismarck and
Hits forts. The detachments bravely
advanced on the enemys forts In forced
march in the face of the enemy's fire
who sent showers of bullets and shells
The detaehments reached the foot of
Iltas heights at $3.50 a. IN.
THE detachment forming the right
section of the left wing. which adj
vanced on the northern fortresses OF
Hsiaokangshan with the object of
breaking up the trenches of the for
tification on the night of the 9Th aban-
doned the preparatory work, owing to
the racky condition of the soil, and see
Ing the swift development of the battle
in the direction of the central fortresses,
suddenly made charge on the enemy,
and took possession of the fort at $40
a. m. on the 7th."
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FOR SALE
Norwood Bungalow

lNOl WOVO OSAAlS 0AVV
$3250. 00-5-room bungalow, on shady
lot. Best Norwood neighborhood
This house was built for home,
and is one.
$4,000 Front Foot
Avenue D, between 10th and 10th
streets. 50x140. This is good rem
tai property, close to goth street.
Sidewalks and streets paved.
$650O.00 Highland avenue home, large
elevated lot. Seven rooms; large
porches. Price has been reduced
from $7500.OO to $6500.O0. Let us
show you this home.
For Sale or Trade
Norwood home. Will sell or trade for
vacant lots or farm lands.
Truck Farm
AZ acres, highly improved. Good g.
room house and outbuildings. Five
miles from Bessemer, on splendid
pike road.
TEMISQN6
. real ESrA1E 6lNSURANcE ~
x any ao~ sTRatT
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"One of the worst phases of the
present times In the refusal of sal
aired men to pay their honest
debts,'' said II. II. Morrison of the
Morrison Allison Real Estate COM
pnny. "This thing nlone il more
responsible for depressed business
conditions right now in Birming-
ham, 1 believe, than anything
else.
Il Know from my own experience and
from talking to other business men OF the
city that there are literally hundreds of
men in this city who are working on sal
aries and are making the same money
they made last winter this time. yet they
absolutely refuse to pay outstanding
debts. They are prompted either from
a motive of fear and wish to horde their
money for what they believe Is hard times
ahead or else they are merly taking
advantage of the situation to perform a
bit of rascality. 1 suppose the former
reasons is most responsible.
collections are bad and l think every
business man will admit II. And the
principal reason lies In tho brain of the
salaried man. There are men who are
affected by their business so that their
incomes have been greatly cut down. Not
so with the salaried man. He is making
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BARGAINS IN
FARMS AND CITY PROPERTY
Eor Sale and EXCHANGE

FARMS AND CITY PROPERTY
For Sale and Exchange
/ have some dandy farms now, both
small and large, for sale cheap, or will
exchange for good Birmingham prop
erty Get busy now and get you a
farm and quit following hard times.
Also have some fine war bargains in
city property for sale and exchange.
See me for bargains; can save you
money.
A. L. YORK
With
MALONE-McCONNELL CO.
2106 1st Ave. Phone 1888
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For Sale

Modern Groom bungalow, one block of
car line in West End. $2200.O0-
Good terms.
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rs acres in small town, 30 miles from
Birmingham with several railroads,
near state highway; with good
water mill on 1t. Only $1S00.00;
Terms
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Lot 50x114, two blocks OF the car
line; West End Sidewalks. $350.0O;
easy terms.
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Have client with $15,OO000 worth of
unincumbered Birmingham and sub
urban property, renting for $4,000
per month, that will exchange for
good farm of equal value, well To-
Gated.