St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-07-13
Local News.

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Watch repairing a speciality at
c. Marion Salisbury's.
Furnished rooms with bath
everything new. SCI South Jersey
street.
Pascal Hill is making extensive
repairs on his Jersey street resi-
dence.
Phone Woodlawn % your orders
for slabwood. green or dry. Price
Fuel Co.
Miss Ollie Mullen of Portland
was a guest of Mrs. A. W. Markle
Tuesday.
We wash and iron all flat work
at 25c per dozen. West Coast
Laundry.
William Peterson of White Sal
mon, Wash, was St. Johns v.si-
tor last week.
A medal contest will be held at
Bickners' hall next Wednesday
evening, July rs. All are invited.
Rememberl You cannot buy
finer candies or cigars than the
goods Valentine sells in his neat
store.
What is il YOU want-Io in. or
4-foot slabwood? Give us your
order and we will fill it to your sat
isfaction. Price Fuel Co.
Fire may destroy YOUR home any
time. Are YOU protected against
partial or total loss II not, call
at the Peninsula Bank and learn
the small amount that will give YOU
protection.
The steel for the Holbrook block
arrived Wednesday. Because of
the delay in delivery the structural
iron progress OIL this building has
caused great Inconvenience to Con-
tractor koerncr.
II YOU have printing which YOU
want executed in neat and tasty
manner, bring IL to us. Good ma.
terial, stylish type and skillful
workmanship are at your disposal.
Prices are jus, right.
II. 5. Hewitt returned to ST.
Johns Saturday night from Lake
Point. Wash, where he has been
for several weeks working on a sum.
mer cottage that Contractor Koer-
ner has been building for NJ. l..
Holbrook.
A pretty little recital was given
at the home of Miss Amy Rowland
OF Modoc street last Friday even
ing. Vocal aud instrumental mu.
sic, yard decorated with Japanese
lanterns aud refreshments were
pleasant features. About fifty
guests were in attendance.
The recent hot weather played
havoc with the apple crop. Be
sides burning the leaves of the trees
the intense heat blistered the fruit
and is causing much of II to fall
from the trees, The terrific heat
was something ont OF the ordinary,
being within one degree OF the rec
ord since the weather bureau was
established in Portland in 1871.
One need not be born with a
veil or the gift OF prophecy To fore
see that lots between Fisk street IN
University Park aud Macrum ave
nue. in Northern hill on Dawson
street which extends through the
centre OF that rapidly growing dis
trict between the rivers in Portland,
and now selling for SIS per front
foot, will, within twenty years from
today. sell for one thousand dollars
per front foot.
Those who intend going to the
hop fields when the time comes to
pick hops will be interested to learn
that Conrad Krebs, one of the large
hop growers of Salem. says that the
price paid for picking hops will be
the same as year ago-sI hund-
red or so cents a box. The Krebs
yards at Independence will produce
l ,ooo, 900 pounds of hops. In the
entire state of Oregon 81 500 900
will be paid out to hop pickers this
year,
The frame OF the new pumping
station is up and the building will
be ready for use in a short time,
The building occupies a space AK
70 feet. The two large boilers are
in place. the smoke stack is up, but
the pumps have not yet arrived.
These are expected any day. IL
will be about three weeks before
the engine will be pumping water
into the tanks on the hill,
Judging by the present growth
of the city the school house, with
the present addition completed, will
not furnish sufficient room to ac-
commodate all the pupils who will
answer the bell at the beginning of
the fall term, September 18TH next
With the present improvements the
central school will have twelve
rooms and an assembly hall. ST,
Johns is growing fast, and it will
tax the ingenuity of the school
board to provide accommodations
for the throngs of juveniles who are
sure to seek entrance at the temple