St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1905-01-13


Johns car line can't be beat. 1t /,
quite comfortable these cold morn
ings to sit i'll a heated car with YOU,
feet against a radiator, speeding
along at a twenty-five-mile- -an-houi
rate.
"A few days ago the big dredge
Columbia broke her truss rods and
channel chains and she is now w.
ing i'll the st. Johns dry dock for
repairs. Some time will be con-
stunned i'll fitting her up in working
order.
+. II. Bloomgreen, who works at
Cones mill, had his right foot badly
crushed last Saturday morning by
being run over by a part of the log
carrier machinery. lie was laid up
for few days, but is not seriously
injured.
On the drop curtain of the stage
in Bickner's hall w. ]. Peddicord's $
advertisement contains this prophe-
cy: "St. Johns population in
1910, 10000. " A very modest
prediction which promises to be
more than fulfilled.
The M. w. A. band gave an
outdoor concert last Sunday after
noon, in front of the schoolhouse.
1t proved most enjoyable affair.
and a large crowd attended. The
band boys are progressing finely,
and the music rendered was excel
lent.
Several carloads of machinery
for the st. Johns Shipbnilliup
plant are being unloaded this week. |
The freight bill OH the consignment
IS little over $1,000, which will give |
some conception Of the amount and |
1alue ot the machinery.
K. II. Beebe and 7. Trimble.
practical nachinests of Portland
iave opencd the St. Johns Machine
Works oil waterfront alongside of
he st. Johns saw mills. They
will build hydraulic wood.lffts.do
,lacksmlhing and all kinds of ma.
'hine repairing.
Well, its beautiful snow now.
|nt we don't need any poetry OH
t. We know that il mantlcs the
lack earth IN white: and we know
hat Il spufLlcs IN the brilliant sun
light; We know It's as pure rs the
oul Of child; but poetry about Il
'riyes the editor wild.
The school board Of this district
as engaged the two additional
tachcrs ncscssary. when the addi-
ions to the school building are
Miss Clara Ryan and
iiss Josephine Preston are the for
inatc young ladies who will I'll
he positions u, beginning of next
.rm.
Ropcrt Gray. the foundry man,
pushing work on his new build
X and will have Il enclosed in n
w days. Mr., Gray. for the pres
nj. will erect only n steel furnace.
lt later on will build large brick
irnacc some forty feet high. He /
Spects also TO build an office and I
ofcroom in connection with the ,
liant.
The Congregationalists have or s
lnized and steps are being taken q
erect church cdifice on Villa \
cite boulevard. Until a building c
completed, regular services will Y
, held IN Bickner's hall. The =.
dies of this denomination met az :
Ic residence OF Mrs. Houston !,
'ednesday and organized a ladies'
Il society. b
II YOU don't read THE RRvIEw 9
~ are missing a good deal of news !
local interest. We aim to dis q
iss local matters intelligently and
So To keep our readers posted on
ings both important and unim-
'rtant. II is a good paper To g
nd 10 your friends at a distance Y
ID by all means should be found ',
every household in our little = =
~, tc
About forty-hve members of the g
. Johns camps of Modern Wood
en- and Royal Neighbors attended ~ y,
Joint installation of officers with :,
rape Camp at Upchurch hall,
Monday evening, After SC
e installation ceremony refresh m
ents We're served and dancing in
Ilged in, and altogether a most Iii