St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1915-01-15
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johns Pharmacy.
II j. N. Cake of White Salmon
| WASH. is visiting friends in st
Johns this week.
Charles Cline of Woodland
WASH, visited at the home Of
S. A. Jones the first of the
week.
Mrs. E. A. Palmer of Sher.
wood and Mrs. Mowery were
the guests of Mrs. S. A. Jones
one day last week.
The local firemen were called
to a fire at University Park,
at 2:30 Wednesday night.
w. s. Jeans has all kinds of
wood for sale. If you need any,
call him up-Columbia 307.
The next card party of the
series given by the Pythian Sis
ters will be given next Thursday
evening, January 21st.
Mrs. Rawson's class at the
Baptist church will give a home
made candy social at Ormandy
Bros furniture store next Sat-
urday.
How is your wood supply?
Getting low? See w. S. Jeans
about it. He has all kinds of
wood for sale; phone Columbia
307.
Mrs. Elizabeth Byars fell
from a chair Wednesday at her
home at 729 North Edison street
and sustained a broken hip.
She is 79 years of age.
On Friday last Mrs. Parker
was called to Seattle to the
deathbed OF a sister who passed
away before her arrival. She
has the sympathy of her many
friends.
A contract has been awarded
by the Portland Council for the
laying of a concrete pavement
on East Fifty-eighth street from
East Lincoln to Division to
Cochran, Nutting & Co., of st.
Johns, for $4066.
Get in the contest and get a
prize. A little effort will do
the trick. A greater effort will
get you to the Panama Exposi-
tion at San Francisco with all
your expenses paid. Why not
try?
An exchange says this is the
time of the year when the wood
vendor will look you square in
the eye and tell you that he has
perfectly dry wood for sale, and
when it is delivered to your
residence you can almost wiring
water out of il.
A thief or thieves broke into
the Pastime Billiard parlors last
Friday night between the mid
night hour and daybreak and
stole about forty dollars in cash.
besides some valuable papers.
Entrance was effected through
the transom over the rear door.
The Ladies' Aid Of the first
Baptist church of st. Johns met
and elected officers for the new
year. as follows: President,
Mrs. Huston: vice president.
Mrs. Parker; secretary. Mrs.
Finch; treasurer. Mrs. X. Shaw.
The society is now prepared
to do all kinds of plain sewing
and quilting.
Some party broke into the
o. w. r. & N. Office at the foot
of Burlington street Wednesday
night, but Agent Harvey re-
ports nothing missing so far as
he has been able to ascertain. |
The windows were opened with
a jimmy and one broken out, and
a couple of doors were also
broken.
A most enjoyable time was
had at the Commercial club rooms
Wednesday evening. Ii was
the regular monthly meeting of
the club. but after the business
had been disposed of. a number
of the members and their ladies
had a delightful dance in the
Eagle Hall. for which excellent
music was furnished by Sneed's
orchestra. Other members en-
joyed themselves in card or pool
and billiard playing.
The Peninsula National Bank |
has presented a number of its |
patrons with handsome copies |
of "Oregon Laws Made Plain"
written by Hon. |. H. Van
Winkle, Attorney. Salem, Ore
gon. formerly Assistant At
torney General for the State of |
Oregon. Such laws as arise in
the every day lives of farmers.
business men and mechanics are
explained in this book in Ian
guage so plain that all can un-
derstand. The book is a handy
and valuable one.
The Progressive Study Club
met Thursday. January 7th. with
Mrs. A. w. Schafer, 908 Smith
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