St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-08-11
uNNTON lACONICS.

ing Mr.. and Mrs. kinsman.
Watch L.innton grow
Mrs. James and son of Portland
are visiting Will Alcorn and wife.
Mr.. Tricky is entertaining hi,
father and mother of Hannibal, Mo.
Church services will bc held in
the NJ. i. church next Sunday eve.
ming at o clock
Mrs. Stewart of Portsmouth and
Miss Sadie Henderson of Denver.
Col, are visiting Mrs. Hamilton.
Mrs. Williams and her son Ncrl
of Murray, Utah, are visiting the
Eatchels. Mr.. Williams is a sister
of Mr.. Eatchel.
James Alcorn, electrician for the
Oregon Water Power line at Gres-
ham, is here now. lie is the son
of r. "A. Alcorn.
Mrs. Altina Walgamoth of Enid
Okla. is visiting her brother K. \.
Alcorn. Mrs. Walgamoth will re-
main here one month.
Miss Esther Crowley and Miss
Katherine Johnson of Mauistce,
Mich. dined with Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. G.. Wilson last Thursday.
Mrs. Adolph Reiscr of Baker.
Neb., is visiting her brother, Chas.
Hoerger of I.innton. Mrs. Reiser
was one of the first settlers of this
place.
Mrs. Bell who has been suffering
with bronchitis, is little improved,
but is still very i'll. She is at the
Good Samaritan hospital in Port
land.
Mr.. Westburg is putting up o
house next TO the church, which he
and his wife will occupy. The have
sold their handsome 6vc-room cot
tage OIL the hill.
The new planning mill is nearing
completion. The machinery ar
rived Monday, and the men are at
work putting Il in place. This build
ing will make n large addition to the
plant.
Last Friday the Clark * Wilson
Lumber Co. cut an immense spruce
log measuring nine feet IN diameter
and % feet long, containing 3, 500
feet log measure and over 10, 600
feet board measure. IL took them
an hour and half To- cut il. This
Is the largest log ever cut at this
mill.
Nothing has ever been much more
welcome TO Linnton people than
Harris meat market. For years no
one could get meat unless they went
to Port land or procured II Of ,rav-
cling butcher, who only came twice
a week. Harris has ice for sale,
too, at very reasonable rates. This
is another great convenience.
Albert Wilson has been At work
with a gang OF men cleaning and
drying up the swamp at the foot OF
the canyon. All the dead trees and
underbrush have been done away
with. and beautiful little park IL
the result. Mr.. Wilson has spent a
great deal Of time studying up for
estry, and thoroughly understands
the art. He is a member of the
Clark * Wilson Lumber Co., and u
thorough woodsman.
Saturday nights dance was a
great success, There were over 20
couples present. splendid crowd.
They danced until the roosicrs
crowed, aud then wanted to dance
more. Quite number of young
people from ST. Johns and Portland
were present. The ice cream dis
appeared about O'Clock, and the
music stopped at AIS a. m. The
evening was cool enough to make
life enjoyable, and every one went
home satisfied that they had a good
time.
Linnton has lost both its opera.
tors during the great railroad strike.
The Northern Pacific sent man out
to attend to the railroads 5 interests
here. but has now decided to take
him away. Linnton needs an oper-
ator very much, seeing that there is
a population of considerably over
200, not including the numcio ious
farmers and residences in the imme-
diate vicinity. People wishing 10
take trains from here now never
know when to expect them some
thing which is very annoying.
The construction of the county
road is progressing rapidly. At
Lintonn they have taken the kinks
and twists out OF it, and have made
il wider aud level. One Of the two
bridges has been removed, and the
place between the spanning points
has been filled in with rock and dirt.
A large pipe runs under the road
now, which conveys the water from
the hills into the fields. The large
gulch at the ravine is slowly being
filled up. The county has gone to
some expense in building concrete
water way, which will allow the
water from the reservoir to pass
through.
Last Friday afternoon Verl Will
Jams celebrated his ninth birthday
with a surprise party. At ago all
the young folks of Linnton quietly
uathered In Mr. Eatchell s yard in