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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1918
Page
2
The six cent car fare is now in force with only modest consolation. Public opinion is divided on the raise but Portland is seen as over inspected and over regulated. Too many laws incur costs in salaries and compliance. A commission is urged to remove detrimental regulations so the city can grow unhampered by arbitrary rules.
A message from the Oregon W C T U appeals to St Johns ministers to promote national prohibition. It notes the 65th Congress, calls for January 20 prayer services, and outlines a church union meeting at the Seventh Day Adventist church on January 24 with sessions 2 to 4:30 pm and 7:45 pm.
Five room cottage with modern conveniences near the river, paved street, a hire garage, and a corner 60 by 100 foot lot. Price 2500 dollars. Seller: W. Rogers at 202 N Jersey Street. The Jolly Steen club hosted Dr and Mrs A Vincent with 500 prizes won by Mr and Mrs L H Chambers and Prof and Mrs A Fry. refreshments served. attendees enjoyed the evening. For job printing needs, our office offers low prices and complete commercial printing services for St Johns.
A service flag will be unfurled on Thursday evening January 21 bearing stars for numerous former Central School students. Names listed include Theodore Bughee Byron Poff Russell Poff Marie Donaldson Ray Clark Benjamin Swan Hubert Martin Leon Sorber Donald Strickland Lowell Anderson John LaVillette Oren Lour Homer Plasket Fred Semalling Charley Dornsife Bravat Johnson Hiram Eatinger Euyrene Hiatt Roy Gagnon Bryant Kilkenny Ry Hawking Giordon Bellinger Wilbur Belinger Zelta Rice Chas Garlick Percy Smith Arthur Clark Geo Downey Harley Manning Cecil Magone Frank Gugbee Ivan Faber Bertil Sundstrom Alfred Tallman Baail Smith Kenneth Simmons Kindle Satterlee Earl Knowles Alan Rutherford William Moe Walter Pearson Armand Olin Rufus Galloway Graham Moxon Harold Davis Norman Nelson plus many others. If omissions exist, report to Principal D T Vantine or teachers.
N A Gee, professor of odd jobs, advertises services for house moving, roof repair and specialty, cement work, and general contracting at SOL N, Ivanhoe, with Col. contact. The excerpt also notes a conversation about national leaders and then discusses the Clark & Wilson Lumber Company’s plant in Linn ton, its capacity, payroll, and workforce changes over the past year.
The lodge adopts resolutions praising the wisdom and aid shown by the mother of Brother A. B. Seale. It notes the deep loss to relatives and community, offers sympathy, and urges copies of the resolutions be filed, published, and sent to the bereaved family. Committee members are A. W. Sarver, Fred Haskel, and W. J. Chaney.
Advertisement notes a fine house and lot at the corner of Fessenden and Willi Boulevard, once the Maple property, priced at 2150 with 500 cash and easy balance terms. The Red Cross Unit reports 27 attendees Wednesday, seeking more workers and hospital supply donations, while children knit Servian squares for warm blankets.
Officials from the Public Works Department met with a delegation of district property owners to weigh paving the unpaved section from the North Bank Railroad bridge to dis street. Two options were considered: an 18 foot street width or the full 40 foot width. Plans will be prepared for both, then property owners will decide. The half mile unpaved segment would complete the boulevard.
Mrs. 8. C. Cook hosted Tuesday afternoon in honor of her sister Mrs. Frank Holdman of Pendleton Oregon. About twenty guests attended including Mesdames Hollenbeck Learned Hope Learned Buoy Skell Katinger Carrol Tufts Stone Sterling Kemp Dunamore Weeks Kerr Holmes Magone Churchill Holdman Blew and Cook. Lunch was served in the alaza room. Mrs Holdman visited four weeks and returned to Pendleton Wednesday. The piece notes national labor shifts with 100 men leaving Western Copperage Company for service, women filling 25 percent of the 390 workforce, and wage gains boosting monthly payroll about 8000 amid plans to expand if labor improves.
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