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Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
Washington County, R. I.
 HoPKINToN
DipIonss for Class Advanced to Wet.
 erly High schooI-A Thrifty Rat Probate Matters.

The monthly meeting Of the school committee was held Monday morning at the home of the clerk in Hope Valley with all members and Supt. Henry J. Wheeler present. Bills we're ordered paid to the amount of $32.50. On account of the change In the high
 schools of the town. by which the course is shortened from three years to two, the class which would have been graduated as seniors next June passed Into the senior class in Westerly High was deemed best to give them diplo- mas representing the work done in the local schools. Also as the ninth grade
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
WEEKAPAUG

Robert ". Smithers and family are moving to the new bungalow which they recently built ons Spruce street, Westerly.
 Leon V. 6iiven kiiie6 6 raccoon cn6 day this week that weighed ten pounds. Raccoons are rarely seen in this section.
 MT and Mrs George H. Moves were callers in North Stonineton, Saturday.
 Everett Macquade. who is attend inr f.gh school in Westerly, spent the week end at his home here.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06

Fuller of Mansfield called on Mrs. M. Cushman. Monday.
 Mrs. Angeline Baldwin has returned to her home, after visiting several weeks at her daughters, Mrs. John Dcycung's, in Terryville.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
Bryan Postraster.., l.

President Wilson's appointment of a Bryan man as Postmaster at Lin-' cpin. Nebraska, may be taken as evil dence that the entente cordiale still exists. Boston Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06

But would hesitate long before recommending it as the right thing for other farmers.
 This particular season. for example, had small area devoted mostly to early potatoes. It was in the main
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
viIla Luck.

Our idea of a lucky Villa general is one who comes to Texas and gets ar rested.-Dallas News.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
Sometimes apparently. Yes.

Sometimes most enphatiealIy. No. Nor can any living farmer among my neighbors seem to tell. when spraying time comes on, whether the
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
All Will Be Eoraiven.

; If Carranza substitutes baseball
 for bull fights he will go long way
 to justifying American faith in him. Dispatch.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06
BORDEAUX MIXTURE IN GROWING POTATOES

answer, that particular season, is gc- ing to be yes or no.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06

was abolished and the pupils in that grade last year have passed into the high school. certificates are to be given them. The documents were signed Monday by the committee.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-06

But We have bugs and rot, just the same, even in our small patches. We have to fight them Just the same, though over smaller areas. as the big growers And generally we use sim liar methods and treatment. so far as we can.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

The statement appearing in
the Review last week wherein
il stated that insurance rates ID
st. Johns are ten per cent below
that at University Park and
Lents. has been challenged by
one Of our citizens. who claims
that he sold insurance in Univer-
sity at a lower rate than in st.
Johns. Our information came
from j. N. McCune, secretary
Of the Board Of Underwriters.
who has given permission TO
use his name in the statement.
He says that the basic rate of
insurance for University Park
from Van Houten street north 20
ST Johns city limits. is 90 cents
per hundred; that Lents is the
same. and that 40 cents is the
basic rate in st. Johns If this
information is wrong, our state
ment was wrong also. But there
is no higher authority on the
subject than Mr.. McCune. It
is possible. however. that varia-
tions from the basic rate are per-
mitted in some eases where fire
protection is unusually good.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12
Quaint Argument

your comments on my lettef OF
the 9th inst. allow me TO say
yes. | place the worth of a man
at the price some one will pay
for his skill and time. All cities
that have adopted the Commits
sion form of government are
paying large salaries for the sole
purpose of attracting men or wo.
men of rare ability. and they
seem to get them. The new
idea in city government is to
adopt the same methods of man
agement that other large cor
porations employ. that is demand
ability and be willing to pay for
il.
If Portland should only offer
$1,000 a year salary for a Mayor
what grade of ability would she
likely get?
Come TO think Of il we would
get the name Portland if we
merge and will the Review kind
ly tell us why the Woolen Mill
the FIGURING Mill and the Veneer
factory. three of our principal
industries prefix the word Port
land 10 their names? Yes. we
would get the name Portland
and perhaps that might induce
some of the captains of industry
that own the industries here to
come out and take up their resi-
dence among us.
Schools. You said that | said
the Portland schools were con.
solidating. Beg your pardon |
did not say so. But | will say
right now that when Portland
and st. Johns are merged into
one school district that TO the
excellent schools we now have
will be added infinitely more
complete trade school so that
some parents living here will be
relieved of the expense of send
ing their children to the Portland
trades school and pay a tuition
fee as they do now.
You recommend that | "Jine"
the commercial club and help
boost. | will say that the COM
mercial club is working in its
own way and | in mine. and
my associates have been work.
ing for the last three years TO
bring about a consolidation of
the two cities and when we sue
ceed. which will be the first week
in July next. we will have done
more for the advancement of
this lower peninsula than all
other agencies combined. We
will have gotten conditions
changed so much for the better
that there will then be some
ting to boost. The commercial
club can then affiliate with like
bodies. with similar interests,
and get more results from the |
of 500 than they |
,an from the expenditure of 81, . |
300 now. When boosting their |
town they would not need to
stop and explain where it is.
Much is said about Albina in
discussing this question. Albi-
la was incorporated Feb. 4. 1889,
md included part of what is
low st, Johns. Was merged
With Portland July. 1891. Was
n existence about "a years.
lot in debt $50. for Parks.
don't know whether they got
my parks or not. Was in debt
so. 900 for boulevards and
streets and was $40, 600 in debt
or current expenses and her
warrants was said to be worth
IS cents on the dollar What sur
'rises me is that Portland ac-
epted Albina at all in her bank
upt condition Albina was mer-
ed with Portland just as the
'anic of 1892 struck the country.
The best of men could only
ret $l.00 a day in the logging (
amps, and shaved shingles
old for So cents a thousand.
ortland a city of 40. people.
that time GA years ago) after
ssuming an Albina debt OIL
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

One thing the people Of st.
Johns should let sink deep down
into their minds is the fact that
conditions here are just as we
make them. If they are bad.
il is our own fault and we have il
in our power 10 apply the rem
edy. But If we merge with
Portland we have no power what
ever over local conditions. They
will be governed entirely by the
Commission of Portland, no men,
her of which possibly has ever
seen st. Johns and may never do
so. is IL not better TO have q
government by our own people
neighbors and friends who we
see every day and to whom we
can come with conditions that
need remedying. than take them
To the Portland Commission
where IL almost takes a passport
to gain entrance? Suppose a
crosswalk, a fire hydrant. or
are light Is needed or sidewalk
repaired. how would il be done
after merging? One citizen. IL
he took il upon himself TO report
same TO the Commission, would
naturally get scant recognition.
as but slight attention can
necessarily be given TO individ-
ual complaints. So a delegation
would be necessary. and even
delegations can only have audi
ence with the Commission at
certain times. AT best the
matter would only be turned over
to the Portland engineering de-
partment. and probably some
attention would be given the
complaint, and more probably
would not. In ST. Johns now
all that is necessary is TO call
attention of the council. either
individually, or seyerally. to the
matter, and immediate action
is secured. Why hand your
government over TO men you have
never seen and who have only a
most superficial knowledge of
our conditions at best2 Can't
we trust our friends and fellow
men to do what is right? We of
st. Johns might be likened 10
one large family, and what is
good for one is almost sure TO be
good for all. But if we merge
with Portland. we are then only
one family in conjunction with
fifty others just as large. What
might then be good for one of
these combined families would
not be good for all. owing to
local conditions. but the
government must make laws
that appear best for the majOri-
ity. Hence what might be good
for the majority might be wrong
for us. Let us not take the
chance. But let us be free men
rather than subservient to the
whims or caprices of any other
except our really
own. Why be a vassal when
you can as we'll be independent?
Surely we are able to govern
ourselves. If we cannot we
ought to emigrate to Russia,
where we might feel more at |
home. Let us keep St. Johns a
free, unrestricted and indepen-
lent city. The people of Port
and will have far more respect |
for us if we do so. Ask them
md see.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

According to Mr.. Cooks theo
| ry the school board. though com
posed of our best citizens. il
worth the salary they receive
nothing; that if Mr.. Cook wins
out as councilman that 50 pei
week is what he is worth. Now
would either the school board ol
Mr.. Cook be worth more if they
were paid $4,000 yearly? II
they were doing the best they
knew now, they couldn't do bet
ter If they were paid more.
MIR. Cook asks about three OF
our principal industries with the
prefix Portland to their titles. in
which he includes the Touring
mills as one of the three. Now
the word Jobes. prefix TO the
milling company. may be the
Dutch or Irish for Portland, but
it is not likely. AS to the Port.
land Manufacturing Company
and Portland Woolen Mills-they
located here before st. Johns
was hardly out of the cradle, and
Portland was prefxed to give
some idea of locality. probably.
or just because it sounded rath-
er well TO the owners. Mr.. Cook
presumably wants TO infer that
it was because st. Johns might
some time be a part of Portland.
and then the name need not be
changed. But then there is the
Boston Bakery here. Ii is
scarcely conceivable that the
proprietor ever anticipated that
we would some day merge with
Boston. Then there is Mr.. Hin
man. who built a rooming house
and called it Chicago, not be-
cause he ever expected that st.
Johns and Chicago would at
some time become united, but
probably because he became so
incensed at the i'll treatment
Portland accorded st. Johns
when it was a portion thereof
that he named his house some-
thing as far removed as possi-
BILE. Then he may have named
it in honor of Chicago street. 1t
doesn't matter so much whether
the captains of industry" live
here, just so they keep their in
1ustries running full capacity
will do. although they would be
welcomed as residents.
When you said the schools
we're consolidating. after telling
IF other Portland concerns con-
iolidating. the natural inference
was that you were referring al
80 to Portland schools rather
han those of New York or in
he New England states.
Do YOU not know that a num-
Der of st. Johns folks are now
attending the trade schools of
Portland and are not paying one |
.ent for tuition-only car fare?
Well. it is a fact. and no one in |
i. Johns is barred from doing |
he same.
1t is too bad that you have
pent three years of your liie in !
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

$40, 600 and in the throes of the
worst panic this country has
ever known could not have been
expected to extend water mains
all over a territory about 6 miles
long most of which was brush or
farms. In 1898 the Legislature
amended the charter of Portland
by changing the northern boun-
Diary line so as TO exclude part
of University Park. Portsmouth
and st. Johns, you say because
they were treated so lily. Then
why did that part of Univer-
sity Park and Portsmouth make
haste to vote themselves into
Portland? Why did they not
cope into st. Johns?-S. c.
Cook.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

attempting to tear down what
the Commercial club is endeav-
oring to build up. Surely the
business men and large property
owners are in a better position
to Judge Of the merits of merg.
ing. and they are almost solidly
against it. That $l00' would do
more for st. Johns after merg-
ing than $1,000 without merging
is sheerest nonsense; in fact, il
would be the reverse. People
who want to find st. Johns ex-
perience no difficulty in doing so
now. but undoubtedly would
were it nothing but Portland's
most remote suburb. which mer-
ging would cause il TO be.
Are you not a little unjust re-
garding Albina's former condi-
tion? Why do you state il got
in debt $50,0 900 for parks" f" and
then say you don't know wheth-
er they got parks or not? You
know that unless they got parks
they could not get in debt for
them. We believe you also know
that Columbia park was what
Albina went in debt for and that
il was for $40.0 900 instead of
$50, 600. and you dare not say il
was not good investment.
You also know that the $50, 600
for street improvement was a
debt upon the property owners
and not the city, and that the
property benefited is held for
payment and not the city. and
that Portland never paid a cent
of this $50, 900, if that is the
right amount. The $40, 900 for
current expenses debt is disput-
ed by former residents of Abb
ma.
Because there was a panic in
1893 was no reason why Albina
should have TO wait nine or ten
years before getting a reduction
in water rates.
Old residents tell us that ST.
Johns severed itself from Port
land. and that University and
Portsmouth. did not secede. as
you state. and that conditions
were so intolerable here that
the Legislature was prevailed
upon by reason of Portland's i'll
of st. Johns to pass a
special act allowing it to tear
itself away from Portland and it
lost no time in doing so.
Certainly it would have been
far better for Portsmouth and
University had they united with
st. Johns rather than Portland. |
Perhaps Mr.. Cook can tell us
why Albina never got any indus
tries worth while after it merged |
with Portland while st. Johns got |
all she has today after she cut |
oose from Portland. Ed
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12
ORDINANCE NO. 647

All OTulildilCt OubHllbbiilk w 1hS
Legal Voters of the City of St.
Johns an Amendment to Sec
tion XXX and xxx of an Act
Entitled "An Act to lncorpor-
ate the City of st. Johns, Mutt
nomah County, Oregon. and
Providing a Charter Therefor,
and to Repeal All Acts or
Parts of Acts in Conflict
Herewith"
Enacted and adopted by the
people of st. Johns. Multnomah
County. Oregon. in the year
1907 under the provisions of Sec.
tion ii of Article TX of the Con-
stttution Of the State Of Oregon.
giving to the legal voters of ev-
cry city and town the right to
enact or amend their municipal
charters. subject to the Consti-
tuition and Criminal Laws of the
State Of Oregon: and providing
an appropriate ballot title there
for. 10 be placed upon the official
ballot to be voted at the election
to be held on the 9th day of
April, 1915: and directing the
recorder of the City of st. Johns
to mail copy of the said amend
ment TO each of the legal voters
of the City of st. Johns, as is
provided by law. charter and or
dinances of said city.
1t is ordained by the City of
st. Johns that.
Whereas a Resolution was du-
ly. regularly and legally adopted
by the council of said city on
the 4th day of March. 1915, di-
recting that Sections xxx and
xxx of the City. Charter of ST.
Johns be submitted to the legal
voters of said city for amend
ment; now, therefore,
Sections xxx and XXX of
an Act to incorporate the City of
st. Johns. MultnOmah County,
Oregon. and providing a charter
and to repeal all acts
or parts of acts in conflict there
with. adopted by the people of
the City of st. Johns in the year
1907. be submitted to the legal
voters of the City of st. Johns
for their adoption or rejection
at the general election to be held
April 5th. 1915. and that said
Section xxx and xxx be
amended so as to read as follows. |
10 wit:
Section xxx.
Every person elected to Office |
n the City of st. Johns at the
line that this amendment to the
charter shall be adopted and
axe effect shall continue to hold |
'ffice for a period of two years
lext following the election adop-
ing this amendment. except one
councilman in each ward who re-
the highest number of
'oters shall hold office for a
period of four years from the
Idoption of this amendment.
Section xxx.
There shall be general elect
on held in the City of st. Johns.
oregon. on the first Monday in
april. 1917. and bi-ennially there
fter for the election of a May
r for a term of two years; for
he election of a Recorder for a
erm of two years; for the elec-
ion of a Treasurer for a term of
wo years; for the election of a
'ity Attorney for a term of two
ears; for the election of three
ouncilmen-at-large. except as
rovided by Section X of the
harter providing for the redis-
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS

hereby announce myself as
an Independent candidate for
the office of city treasurer TO be
voted for at the election to be
held April 9th. 1915. Mrs. j.
Nj. Shaw.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12
Proposals for Street Work

Sealed proposals will be received at the
office of the Recorder OF the City of St.
Johns until March I6, 1915, at 8o'clock
p. m, for the improvement of Oswego
street, from the North line of Columbia
boulevard to the South line OF Smith Ave.
in the manner provided by Ordinance
No, 642, subject to the provisions of the
Charter and Ordinances of the City of
ST Johns, and estimate of the city engi-
neer, on hle.
Engineers estimate is S3,050.3S.
Bids must be strictly in accordance
with printed blanks, which will be furn-
ished on application at the Office of the
Recorder of the City of St. Johns. And
said improvement must be completed on
or before 90 days from the date of the
last publication OF this notice.
No proposals OF bids will be considered
unless accompanied by certified check
payable to the order of the Mayor OF the
City of ST. Johns certified by respon-
sible bank for an amount equal to ten
per cent. of the aggregate proposal.
The right TO reject any and all bids is
hereby reserved.
By order of the City Council.
A. +. DUNSMORE,
Recorder.
Published in the St. Johns Review on
II. A..
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

Cheaper City Taxes" is the
leading argument used by the
mergerites in their so-called
reasons why merging should
take place. The tax statements
OF this year show that there is
just one half mill difference
between the Portland city tax
and the 81. Johns city tax the
latter having the highest. But
because the mill rate is trine
lower In Portland il does not
mean that taxes are higher i'm
St. Johns than in Portland.
County Assessor Reed states
that the assessed valuation of
land In St. Johns is less than i'm
Portland. Thus, for instance, a
lot in South ST Johns is assessed
at $l75. while a lot Just across
the railroad cut on the Portland
side is assessed at S225 on the
same sized lot. Thus il will be
seen. taking the valuation into
consideration, that Portland
taxes are really much higher
than in St. Johns. City taxes
are, however. governed by local
conditions. The city tax of st.
Johns this year is the result. in
the main. of unusual conditions.
In comparing the taxes of ST
Johns and Portland there is
much 10 be considered. In the
first place il must bee understood
that POrtland's bonded indebted
ness is 500 per capita. while the
bonded Indebtedness of ST. Johns
rs about Sl5 per capita. I'm street
improvements the people of
Portland are compelled 10 pay up
To and over 100 per cent assess
ed valuation. while i'm most cases
the general fund of the city of st.
Johns takes care of the cost
where improvements cost over
80 per cent of the assessed valua-
tion. Also in Portland the pro-
perty owners are assessed for
Engineer services ON street
work, while i'm st. Johns MOI
charge is made Tor the services
of the engineering force. These
two items, which save the prop
erty owners considerable, are
included in the s mill city tax,
and which Portland does not
have To provide for i'm its "a mill
tax. Then there is the Cooper
age roadway built by the city, !
which is responsible for about |
IL mills of the s mills tax. The |
fire truck, deficit ON the city |
dock interest, and better lighted
streets than Portland, are re-
sponsible for another generous |
portion of the s mill tax. Then |
once in a while some property |
owner will resist his street
assessment on some technicality
and cost the city a kopec or two
in showing him i'm the courts
that he should pay for the work. |
BY selling the city dock taxes
could be reduced considerably, |
and the irony of it is that the
man who was largely responsible
for the city constructing the
dock and higher taxes, is out
with the statement that cheap
er city taxes would obtain \
through merger. There will be |
no roadway to build next year,
so the mill rate and the
taxes will undoubtedly be lower !
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

tricting of'St. Johns. for period
of two years. and two councilmen
from each Ward TO hold Office for
a period ofsfour years, except at
the ell ection adopting this amend
ment one councilman from each
ward receiving the highest num-
ber Of votes shall hold office for
a period Of four years. and one
councilman from each Ward re-
ceiving thePnext highest number
Of votes shall hold Office for
two years; and at the first elec-
tion held after the adoption of
this amendment one councilman
from each ward shall be elected
to hold ofiice,forl a period OF four
years.
That the amendments TO Sec-s
tion xxx and xxx be given q
ballot title upon the official bal
lot as follows:
"Shall Sections xxx and
xxx OF the city charter be
amended that officers elected at
the time of the taking effect of
this amendment shall hold Office
until the next general election?
and that the next general elec-
tion be held on the first Monday
in April. 1917. and bi-ennially
thereafter. and repeating all acts
and parts of acts in conflict
with said amendment.
( Ne. Hos'
That the City Recorder is
hereby required and authorized
to prepare the proposed amend
ments to the charter, and cause
he same to be printed and mail
a copy of said amendments to
each of the legal voters of the
City of st. Johns. as provided by
ordinance No. PA of said city.
Passed by the council this the
9th day of March. 1915.
Approved by the Mayor of the
city of ST. Johns this the 10th
day of March. 1915.
A. w. VINCENT.
Mayor.
Attest: A. L. DUNSMORE.
Recorder.
Published in the st Johns Re-
view March IL. 1915.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

next year IL the merger does not
takes place, than will obtain
Portland.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

A few special deals on Graph
ophones. Ii will pay you to look
into them if you are at all inter-
ested. You cannot equal these
prices elsewhere. Terms to
suit at the st. Johns Pharmacy.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-03-12

Watches" made over into
"Time-pieces" at reasonable
rates at Rogers, 800 N. Jersey
street.