St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-08-03
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o the sea breeze at Seaside.
L The West Coast Laundry make.
S a specially of lace curtains.
Smoking is a pleasure if the Gig.
- ars are bought at Valentines.
Rough dry washing at &c PET
pound. West Coast Laundry.
Married, in st. Johns July Al.
John Mosler and Morning Dubois.
Try the "Par Excellence" the
champion SC cigar; made in St.
Johns.
Rooms for rent-no children. II.
Westlund, Richmond street, Point
View.
Try the ''Par Excellence" the
champion SC cigar: made in st.
Johns.
Smoke St Johns cigar-best roc
cigar on the market--the white
Crow"
Geo. G.. Carhart and family left
Tuesday for an outing of six weeks
at llwaCo, Wash.
The ST Johns Methodist Sunday
school picknicked at Hawthorne
park on Wednesday.
Protect your property from loss
by fire 10y insuring in only first class
companies. See the Peninsula Bank
I'm excavation TO the depth of
nine feet is being made for the Gee
Wo brick block Oh corner of Chica-
go and Jersey streets.
Owing to the special session of
the council Wednesday evening the
Commercial Club did not hold its
regular weekly meeting.
The ice cream social of the Con.
grcga,ional ladies ut the church
Wednesday evening was well at
tended and a neat sum realized.
Harry Mansfield has again turned
his mechanical mind into q practi-
cal channel aud a well made. sub. I.
stanlial mantel bed is the result.
We call attention To- the new al. |
OF the Price Fuel Co. in this issue. /.
Nothing like having good wood, /
but don forget TO order il in time.
Laurclwood lodge of Rebcckas
entertained Laurel lodge l. 90. 4.
at their hall Monday evening. Re.
frcshmcnts were served aud an en-.
joyable evening spent
Willis Moxon has rendered his
resignation as deputy postmaster,
aud J. \. Davis, for some time q
clerk IN the grocery store of Bon
ham X Curricr, has been appointed
to the position.
Dr. ]. 7. Frillcl aud wife, for
mcrly Miss Lena Parker, came up
from Nrcka. California yesterday,
To spend a month with Mr. aud Mrs.
T.. II. Parker. Gordon Parker ac-
companicd them home,
Jacob Decker, who conducts an
extensive meat packing plant at
Mason City, Iowa, and G., A. En-
cry, travelling passenger agent for
the New York Central, were the
guests of II, G.. Ogden Tuesday.
O. l.. Chapel returned Tuesday !
from a ten days hshing trip near
Washougal Besides his usual fish
stories Mr.. G. brings the inlorma-
tion for lssaZ Walton mariners OF
the naming Of place on the stream
as Chapel Falls a spot where
Chapel fell In the river and lost his
hat
X. NJ. Ferguson, the well known
photographer, recently closed Il
contract with the Portland Journal
for a series OF photographs IN Port
land and vicinity, As MIR. fergu-
sons work is of a high order, the
Journals half tone pictures to be-
printed viii be something out Of the
ordinary. ST. Johns, OF course,
will be duly illustrated. /
Those who think that Portland
il not going ahead at a rapid rate
should note the fact that the con
gestion OF freight at the Northern
Pacifce yards was so great last
"Wednesday that all freight offered
for shipment during the afternoon
was refused. The yards of the %,
X. * n. are greatly overtaXed and
much OF its freight il held on the
east side.
To facilitate the work on the
Pence electric line now building
from Portland to Linnton, permis
sion has been granted the builder,
10 place temporary track on the
St. Helens road so that a locomo
tive aud cars can be used 10 haul
the gravel, teams having been found
too slow and expensive. Trains
will only be run between II p. m.
and : a. m, so as not To irightcn
cams along the county road.
1t is said a half dozen steel bridges
will span the cut to be made ac, oss
the peninsula By the Portland &
Seattle railroad. The cut is neccs
STATED to go to grade in order to
connect with the two bridges now
building across the Columbia and
the Willamette. The excavation
will be 200 feet wide and from 20
to 90 feet deep. The bottom Of the