St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-06-08
Local News.

too high.
How is your wood pile' And il
is June, too.
Let the Peninsula Bank write you
a fire insurance policy.
Watch repairing a specially at
c. Marion Salisbury's.
Dressmaking done by Carrie
Wood, 6I5 North Ivanhoe street.
Saws filed at the new repair shop.
Carpenters tools sharpened at Brun-
son, the grinders.
A marriage license was issued
Tuesday last to Bowen c. Ward
and Maud Maedon of St. Johns.
The ladies of the First Baptist
church of St. Johns will serve re-
freshments on the Fourth of July.
Now that the election is over let
every resident of St. Johns plan for
a rousing celebration OH the Fourth
of July.
The dance of the hremen at NJ.
w. A. hall last Saturday evening
was a well.attended and very Ell
joyable affair.
The ladies of the Evangelical
church furnished lunches in the tent
on the St Johns Hotel lot on cleo
ton day. The booth was we'll pat
ronized.
Electric light poles are being
placed on several streets in South
St. Johns. Many handsome resi-
dences are being erected in this part
of the city.
Over sixty years ago George Gay
erected, near Wheatland, the first
brick house in Oregon, and in 1883
c. X. Shaw erected grist and
lumber mill at Eola.
DO not forget that you can fur
nish your house cheaper at II. +.
Clark's new aud secondhand store,
so3 Jersey street, St. Johns, than
at any other place.
The Review office has just printed
"A lot of "For Sale" and For
Rent" cards that are large enough
and plain enough to sell or rent any
piece Of property anywhere.
Stove length slabwood at $s.2s a
load and I-foot slab at 81. so per
cord. inside of Ca,lin. Stewart, vii.
lis Boulevard and Tyler streets
Phone your order to Woodlawn az. |
have the best life insurance
policy to be found in America.
The Union Central Life. The
safest and best-at fair price. |
Come in and talk Il over. W. II.
King
John Poff left las, evening for a
visit with his mother at his old |
home at Stanberry, Mo. This is
Mr.. Pof's first trip east in twenty
years. He expected to be absent
six weeks.
Last Saturday the ST. Johns Ship
building Co. shipped light draft
stern wheel steamer 10 Alaska,
where il will navigate the waters of
the Yukon river. The boat was
shipped north in sections. which
will be put together on its arrival.
X. NJ. Ferguson has been taking
many photographs OF the mills along
the water front. The work is OF a
high class aud just the thing to
send TO that eastern friend who
wishes to note how things look in
ST. Johns. Several photographs
are shown in the window OF ID. c.
Rogers real estate Office.
DIR. Chas. T.. McChesney, former
ly Indian agent al the Rosebud
agency in South Dakota, but now
Indian inspector OF all the agencies,
was a guest of Chief of Police
Bredeson last Tuesday. The local
policeman was in the government
employ eight years under Major
Mechesney. and they enjoyed a
pleasant visit discussing the events
of years ago.
The receipts of the St. Johns ferry
from March g to May I, 1906, were
S3I4.3S. which goes to show that
Manager Brink is enjoying a fine
patronage. Two and a halt per
cent of the above amount was paid
into the city treasury Tuesday last
The outlook for an increased busi-
ness at the ferry is very fattering.
The payment of the above percent
age was guaranteed by the company
at the time the franchise was gran
ted.
Willis Moxon was one of the
clerks of election, and it was up to
him to inject little humor into the
tired crowd Tuesday night. twas
along about midnight when the
tally on the prohibition had been
see-sawing back and forth and finally
came to tie. Everything had
been as still as death for AN hour.
All were wondering what the next
ballot would show. Suddenly Moxon
raised his hand and shouted Stop
Then turning to a friend asked:
"Will you please go down to my
house and ask my wife to pack my
clothes ,"