St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1914-10-23
Local News.
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III IS better TO vote no on
good measure than TO vote yes
on a bad one.
Good times are still the motive
for leading headlines in many OF
the Eastern papers.
c. +. Lidberg has been who
quite i'll with the grip for q
week or so. is rapidly improving.
So far nobody has succeeded
in figuring out a lot of good that
will result from the European
war.
An auto bus now operates be-
tween Linnton and Portland in
competition with the United
Railways Company.
What has become of the old
fashioned skinny philosopher
who used to advise people to
laugh and grow fat?
Voters Rally will be held in
the city hall Thursday evening.
Oct. 29th. Good speaking. All
voters invited to attend.
Miss Margaret Cuttings of
Boulder, Colorado. is visiting at
the home of ID. G. Lewis. She
is a musician of rare ability.
Lee Germany has purchased
the interest of Harry Richtmyer
in the pressing and cleaning
business on South Jersey street.
Mrs. Lulu Brooks and Mrs.
Bertha Nelson were delegates to
the w. C. I. U. Convention at
The Dalles recently. They re-
port a splendid time.
The Western Cooperage Com
pany has taken out permit to
erect a dock on the site of their
proposed new plant near the dry
dock at a cost of $4,000.
S. L. Lloyd raised a sunflower
that measures 81 inches in cir
cumference and the stalk 12h
feet high. II may be seen at
Gillmore's real estate Office.
M. A. Bitgood, a former well
known business man of st.
Johns, but now engaged in the
real estate business in Portland,
was a pleasant caller at this
office Wednesday.
Judge Gatens of Portland
spoke at the library last evening
on work Of the Juvenile Court.
The address was under the
auspices of the North School
Parent Teachers association.
C. A. Keeney. eldest son of
Mrs. c. +. Lidberg. came up
from Newberg and made her q
short visit one day last week.
He is head manager of the
Spaulding Logging Company.
Dun and Bradstreet both take
an optimistic view of the future,
saying the present readjustment
along economical lines for both
consumption and production is
bound to have a healthy re-
action.
j. +. Gilmore. the genial real
estate man. presented this Office
Monday with some magnificent
chestnuts which were grown on
his property on North Hayes
street. They were large and
beautifully shaped. His two
six year old trees were well
loaded with chestnuts this year.
L. A. Cantrell discussed the
Prohibition question in the
Eagles Hall Tuesday evening
before a large audience. His
subject was Twelve Funda-
mental Fallacies of prohibition.
He is a pleasing speaker. and
his remarks were listened to at
tentively.
The u. s. Government is TAX
ing no chances on the introduc-
tion of contagious diseases as a
result of war conditions in Eu-
rope. Federal authorities along
the coast in the immigration.
revenue. sanitary, army and
navy departments are enforcing
rigid inspection. .--Ex.
At an election held in Rose
burg recently the voters of that
city authorized the issuance of
bonds to the amount of half a
million dollars with which to as
sist in the construction of a rail-
road from Roseburg to Coos Bay.
A railroad commission consisting
of ten business men Of the city
was provided for at the same
election.
fyou want your laundry work
done in the neatest. incest and
best possible manner. send it to
the local laundry. No effort is
spared to give the most perfect
satisfaction and deliveries are
made promptly. There is no
good reason why any laundry
work should go out of ST. Johns.
Portland laundries do no better
work. have no cheaper prices, nor
call for and deliver work with
more celebrity than the st. Johns
laundry. Why not aid in build