St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-08-03
Keep Your Eve On St. Johns.

FOR flne cigars 1t Will pay YOU t
call at Valentine S: opposite city hall
The material used III Lime.
bread is the best and can't be better
Furnished rooms with bath
everything new. 531 South Jersey
street.
Smoke st. Johns cigar-best roc
cigar on the market-the white
Crow"
First class and reliable insurance
companies only are represented by
the Peninsula Bank.
L. NJ. Knight and family have
moved to Dallas. They will be
greatly missed by their friends.
The telephone company is plac-
ing additional phones in the city.
This is bit of startling informa-
ton.
Insure against fire before you
have one with d. c. Rogers, agent
for the "old reliable" Phoenix of
London.
Contractor Koerner began the
work of laying the brick OH the
Holbrook block on Burlington street
last Monday.
An insurance policy in reliable
company is as sgood as money in your
pocket in case of loss by fire. Ask
the Peninsula Bank
Henry Smith and p. J. Peterson
tried their hand at catching craw
fish the first of the week. They
came home with about bushel OF
them.
Work OH the first pier of the new
bridge began last Monday. Alto.
gethcr there will he five piers. 1t
will be six months before any iron
will he needed for the bridge.
Parties were in town last Monday
with a view of building a large ho-
tel oil the water front for the ac-
,ommodation ot the numerous
workmcn now employed here.
w. a. Schroeder, an experienced |
ind highly recommended dancing |
.eacher, has made arrangements TO
,pen a dancing school in ST. Johns
Turing the coming fall and winter, |
opening September IS Particulars
will be given later.
Recorder Thorndyke last Mon.
lay received a check from Morris
Bros. OF Portland for StLt7s so,
eprcsen,ing the amount paid for
he city hall bonds. The price bid
or the bonds was siiI57.So. The
as added To the original bids rep.
esents tlie accumulated interest.
A 81. Johns man who took ad.
of his wife's absence at the
each To celebrate a little, only 10
&c caught with smell OH his
'reath that could he lii with a
match, says he is going 10 have q
ill introduced in the next legisla-
ure prohibiting the sale OF whisky
0 Irishmen and Indians.
The steam pump recently in
tailed by the water company at
heir pumping station on John
lreet is now in daily use. forcing
he water into the tanks and the
With two large boilers
1r supplying the power for the
jumps the local water system Is
ow well equipped for any emer-
ency that may arise,
In San Francisco plumbers are
20 a day, carpenters -
nd IS, brieklayers 81 and ss,
lasterers from Ss to $40, hodcar-
ers IS, painters IS. and debris
'orkers 81. so, To offset these big
ages the landlords have forced
.nts up to the highest notch, and
is almost impossible for a work
nan to secure a home for his family,
D great is. the demand for houses.
The half dozen dogs that infest
he business part Of the city and
iake il their business to run after
nd bark and snap at every street
ar, wagon or bicycle they see
hould be taken up by their owners
nd kept at home, There is moth
ng more annoying To a bicycle
ider than to have a half dozen ours
nmping around and barking at his
sometimes taking a
nap at his legs.
The work along the north bank
abroad is making rapid progress.
row of tents marks the route of
he road along the river, Every
ew miles one encounters gangs OF
vorkmen making the grade, Men,
Iorses, steam shoyels, rock drilling
nd blasting are to be seen every
ew miles up the Columbia. The
unnel at Cape Horn is about hall
way through the rock and is eX-
'ected to be complete in another
tx months.
If the county road OH this side Of
he Willamette could be put into as
.ood shape as the Linnton road it
would be of great benefit to St.
ohns and the entire peninsula. A
ner drive than the )ve route is
ot to be found IN the northwest.
With the road OH this side of the
liver in first class shape fully nine
enths of the travel now on the OPP
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