St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1914-09-11
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For quality in drugs, go to
Currin's for Drugs.
/ Where shall | get my hair cut?
At Gilmore's barber shop. adv.
An electric massage, only one
in town. -Gilmore's barber shop.
adv.
Mrs. Ada Pennington has re-
turned from a very pleasant So
journ at Seaside.
Mrs. A. S. Scales is spending
a couple of weeks at her old
home at Toledo. Wash.
The Board of Underwriters
seem rather slow about making
a change in the rating of insur-
ance here.
School Supplies, Tablets, PEN
ellis, Erasers. etc. Largest and
most varied line in the city at
the st. Johns Pharmacy.
A slight fire occurred at the
woolen mills Wednesday MORN
ing, but was extinguished be-
fore it had gained much head
way.
N. G.. Randall of San Fran
cicso came up on the Beaver
Friday for a visit with his
father and sisters at 40 Reno
street.
During moulting season your
hens will lay if you feed them
Seneca Poultry Tonic and kill
the lice with Safety X lice pow
der. -Currin's for Drugs.
City Attorney Parker has in
stituted suit against the bonds
men on the Jersey street inn
provement to force them to make
necessary repairs or pay prop
er amount of indemnity.
We take this means of thank
ing our friends for their kind
ness and help during the sick
ness, death and burial of our
dear baby. Mr.. and Mrs. j. b.
King.
Homer Rundall. for the past
year athletic director and in
structor in Lick Academy, San
Francisco, left for Iowa to take a
principalship at Linden Of that
state, after a vacation spent in
st. Johns at the home of his
father. G. G. Randall.
Fred Porter of Ashland. Ore
gon. stopped off a day or two
last week with his old friend,
Ex-mayor Bredeson. while en-
route for visit to South Dakota.
Mr.. Porter and Mr.. Bredeson
are old time cronies, and the
visit was much enjoyed by
both.
M. G. Urban has agreed to ac-
cept the $500 offered by the city
| in settlement for land proposed
to be used by the city for street
purposes on st. Johns avenue.
This willremove all distractions
for the improvement OF this
street, and steps will undoubted-
lly be taken at the next meeting
of the city council to push the
work along.
We desire TO express our sin.
cere thanks and deep apprecia-
tion 10 the city officials and citi.
zens of st. Johns for their
hearty cooperation and earnest
support rendered toward the
Tournament held in this city
last Monday. II was only
through their aid and assistance
that the Tournament was the
success it proved to be. st.
Johns Fire Department, by c.
S. Currin, president.
DIR. Geo B. Hampton and wife
of Spokane were guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. +. w.
Valentine the first of the week.
the latter being Mrs. Valentines
sister. DIR. Hampton was at one
| time a business man of ST. Johns.
but for the past few years he
has been a practicing chiro-
practor at Spokane, where he
met with splendid success. He
has decided. however. to open
up offices in Portland and reside
there permanently.
The st. Johns ferry boat,
which was to have been removed
| from st. Johns 20 Vancouver for
the week, and substituted by q
| ferry boat from Goble. was not
tranfered. II was found by in
vestigation of Mayor Vincent
and Secretary of the Commercial
Club Hitler. who made a trip to
Goble, that the boat there was
wholly inadequate and untitled
for service here. The County
Commissioners were informed
of the fact and the change was
not made.
With the completion of the
first unit of Astoria's sea wall.
the unsightly tide fats in that
city will soon have vanished.
Eventually the sea wall will ex.
tend from Young's Bay to
Tongue Point. protecting the en-.
tire river front. Filling in be-
hind the wall will begin not later