St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1908-04-10
Local News.

Ihe Peach sisters.
Bring in your job printing.
Opening ball game tomorrow.
Watch the label on your paper.
There is so much bad in the best of
| us
And so much good in the worst of us
That il is not charitable in any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Mason & Urban our hollow block
makers have secured the contract
to furnish blocks for fine s., 600
residence in Rose City Park.
Burnett, who will pitch the open
ing game for Albina tomorrow
against the Apostles, comes highly
recommended. He was with Wat
erloo in the Iowa league and has
mean breaking curve and speed.
Weed will attend to the receiving
for Albina.
Earle ID. Walker has opened an
other cigar stand in front Of Ma
COON saloon and will operate both
stands. Earl is successful cigar
dealer and keeps a fine line Of
cigars, tobaccos, pipes and smokers
supplies on hand. He also carries
fine line of box candies.
Miss Stella Camping was down
from Camas, Wash, where she is
teaching school and spent Sunday
with the home folks. She made
the trip OH the North Bank road.
When trains run more frequently
as they will when the road is COM
pleted and in good order, 1t will
be possible for her to leave her
school Friday evening aud return
Monday morning.
b. 4. Legge,t has succeeded in
getting the commissioners TO i'm
prove Richmond street down to the
city dock. This street is the old
county road and Mr.. Leggett has
been working with the commission
ers for long time to get them to
have this work done. They in
structed our genial Roadmaster
Simmons to do this work soon as
possible aud work was commenced
Tuesday.
DR.. Ben l.. Norden, candidate
for county coroner, visited st.
Johns this week in the interest Of
his candidacy for the republican
nomination. DR.. Norden was born
in Portland 81 years ago and is a
practising physician in his home
city. He met many Of his old
friends who feel confident Of his
election, rs they feel that the time
has arrived when the coroner S
Office should be filled by ply
sician.
w. b. Evans, who has been EN-.
ployed in the cordage works In
Portland, met with very painful
accident Wednesday Of last week. |
While at work steel bar weighing
several hundred pounds dropped
upon the great toe Of his left foot
and mashed all OF Il off that came
under the bar. Brother Evans is
obliged to 60 with a fiat wheel
since, aud II is great inconven-
fence. We know how II Is ard he
has our sympathy.
Mr.. Griffiths with ID. r. Norton,
met with quite a painful accident
last week. He, with others, was
the piano in Biekner's hall
from the floor to the stage, aud In
some unaccountable manner the
piano was allowed to topple over on
him. 1t preserved the piano from
injury but II was rather hard on
Mr.. Griffiths aud laid him up for
several days. II this would hap
pen to some Of the piano contor-
tionists we have been compelled to
listen to 1t would be a blessing to
humanity, but to come to an indus
lrious young man like Mr.. Griffiths
seems the irony Of fate. We are
glad to see him out at his post of
duty again, however. You couldn't
keep some people down II you put
a house on them.
Some one or more, and we think
il is more, persons, who have no
regard for the seventh command
ment nor yet for the laws of the
land and Of the city have been in
the habit of entering the banquet
hall of the Odd Fellows lodge and
stealing all they could put their
hands on that is good to eat. At
the recent basket social they stole
two or three or more baskets, and
Monday night of this week they
went into the banquet hall after
the guests had departed and car
ried off large number of oranges.
some pies, lot of cake and other
eatables which did not belong to
them. Such contemplate sneak
thieves should be taken over a bar
rel face down, their anatomies cul-
tivated with leather strap until
they would be compelled to eat
standing for month.
]. f. Brink. of St. Johns. who
is we'll known here, was in the city
the first of the week in company
with c. A. Monroe and l.. p. Bran
stetter of Ferndaie, Cal, and are
over the field with the idea
of moving their bottliug and can