St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-01-01

N. A. Gee has been i'll for th
past few weeks.
Mrs. Chas. Asper is spending
a few weeks in Seattle.
Several holdups of ladies il
st. Johns have been reporte,
during the past week.
Rev. A. M. Williams will
preach at the First Trust anC
Savings Bank building Sunda,
at ii A. M.
Will party who took umbrella
with brown wooden handle from
High School Christmas night
please leave at Mems Toggery
Currins for Drugs are Civ.
ing out handsome and useful
weather charts that cannot help
but be appreciated by all who
are so fortunate as to secure
one.
Continuous shows New Years
Day and Sunday at the Multno.
nah, from 2:30 to IL. Special
programs. The Manager of the
Multnomah Theatre announces
that he has improved his heat
ing system and patrons will find
the house warm and comfort
able hereafter.
The Washington State build
ing at the Panama Exposition
is completed and was dedicated
on December End at a ball given
by the State Commission. The
Washington building is the sec
ond state building on the
grounds to be dedicated and is
one of the most beautiful and
imposing. Get in the contest
and see il.
One thousand tons of plants
from the Imperial Department
of Agriculture, Tokyo, arrived
from Japan on November % on
the docks of the Panama Ex-
position. This shipment is to
be used TO beautify the garden
surrounding the Japanese pavil-
ion. There also arrived with
this shipment $50 tons of ex-
hibits for the Palace of Liberal
Arts and Manufactures. This
is the fourth large consignment
from Japan to the exposition.
Get in the contest.
Dear Mr.. Editor: Are the
boys Of st. Johns slow, or is il
the style for the young ladies TO
ask them to go home with them?
Perhaps the boys here don't like
the nice girls. | am worried;
will you please answer in the
next issue of the paper?-A
Worried Girl.
The above we refer to the
young men of st. Johns for their
consideration and to devise some
means of keeping the girls from
worrying. Ed.
The city authorizes have quite
an army of men at work cutting
wood on the Cation tract in the
northern part of the city. Mr..
Cation is paid $l.25 per cord
for the wood and the men re-
ceive one dollar a cord for cut.
ting. II will be sold on the
ground for about $3.50 per cord.
.he 25c per cord profit going TO
lefray expense of measuring,
md overseeing the work. II
appears that little difficulty will
De experienced in disposing of
he wood, as the schools, city
lall and other institutions will
absorb considerable, while a
of private citizens have
expressed a willingness to take
/ portion of il. Almost one
men are now at work.
The fact that they are willing TO
,ut wood at one dollar per cord
s evidence that the work is
BADLY needed. Councilmen j.
". Davis. II. M. Waldref and
ieo. w. Munson have the cut
ing in charge. being the COM
nittee appointed TO look after
his work. The dads are to be
congratulated upon thus reliev-
ng the unemployed question to
quite large extent. We UNDER
itand there are about 80 acres
# wood to cut in all.
The business mems delega-
ion from Multnomah county
has been holding sessions twice
! week for a month trying TO
nap out a retrenchment pro-
yram that shall cut off at least a
million dollars. They find them
elves besieged by all the boards
md commissions and expert
,odies that have been created in
he past to hold their soft jobs
md even demands for new sine
.ures and new appropriations.
fhe Multnomah business men in
he house and senate this time
ieem not to be the regulation A.
3. ID. delegation. but are hew-
ng out stiff program that once
)ut on the skids will be hard to
intercept. Five important con-
bills TO cut out at
east a million dollars of fixed
,harges are being framed and