St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1922-12-22

Seattle was here from Saturday
until Monday as the guest of
Mrs. Clark on Fessenden street.
The basket ball season will
open in st. Johns Friday evening
at the skating rink, the Bachelor
club playing Peninsula Park.
The new pews for the Pioneer
Methodist church are now being
put in place. II is regretted that
the delay in shipment prevented
having the pews in place at the
dedication services.
Raymond Christman of Mon
roe, Washington, arrived in st.
Johns on Thursday evening and
will spend the Christmas holi-
days with his sister, Mrs. viii
Hyde on Olympia street
j. j. Blew, who has been
spending the winter in Califor-
MIA, came to Portland on Tues
day and is the guest of his son
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. II. A.
Blew, 1902 Oswego street. Mr..
Blew says he came back TO Ore.
gon 60 get away from the rain.
Mrs. Bessie Ncsbitt, sister of
j. NJ. Shaw, who has been spend
ing the last few months with her
brother and family on lvanhoe
street, has returned 90 Seattle 90
be with her son and his family.
Geo. Skclls came home from
q. A. G. and Carrie Skells came
home from her school at lrrigon
to attend the funeral Of their
grandfather. Carrie returned
Sunday but George remained for
the holiday vacation.
Invitations have been out some
weeks for Ye Mcrrie TymeB'
Annual Christmas Dance. This
affair is To be held at Cotillion
Hall, December 2Sth, with Oar
by's orchestra. Tickets may be
secured from any of the club
members. The Patrons and Pa
tronesses are as follows; Mr.. and
Mrs. A. w. Davis, DR.. aud Mrs.
b. +. IIusson, Mr.. and Mrs. Shcr
man Cochran, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Il. Fletcher, Mr.. and Mrs. $. A
Mulkey, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Sim.
mons, Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ
Tower. The committee in charge
il as follows: Miss Airline Shaw,
Miss Alice Wrinkle, Miss Mar
garet Dickio, Mrs. Hazel Eng
zell, Miss Marie Brcdesen, Miss
Donalda MacGregor, Miss Ruth
MacGregor, Miss Clara Nelson.
George l.. Hines Of the His
torical society of Oregon gave an
interesting talk on the early his
tory of Oregon at the Y. w. G..
A. on Sunday afternoon follow
ing a song by the Community
church choir and n short talk on
the WOman's Protective Division
by Mrs. G.. Is. Nickerson. But 10
an interested group of listeners
who fingered after the meeting,
Mr.. Hines related the interest
ing story of his first Christmas
in Oregon many years ago when
with his father, mother and sis
ter he had just crossed the plains
to this state. The family" he
said, twas in almost destitute
circumstances when they arrived
and there was not food for him
self and his father, but only
enough for his mother and the
smaller Children, but they were
established in an old cabin and
through the efforts of a neigh
Dor were furnished with food
and some clothing At Christmas
time he had no stockings to hang
up for Santa Claus 10 fill but
with a mothers inventive genius,
stocking was made from an old
coat sleeve and hung beside one
of his mothers which had been
mended for Helen, his sister,
No child in this or any other city
this Christmas will be more over
joyed with the most expensive
toy received and probably not
nearly as much as was Mr.. Hines
and his sister, Helen, when they
found that in her stocking was
a doughnut doll and an apple
that was all, but that was enough
for them. They had a real
Christms.