New St Johns Park Planned Along Scenic Riverfront
Portland plans a sixty acre St Johns park with rolling hills, a deep ravine, evergreens, and views across river lowlands to mountains. The boulevard system will provide multiple entrances including Meyers street and Seneca Brace Weyerhauser Reno and St Johns avenues. Facilities include two baseball fields tennis courts four regulation courts a field house and a woodland lake with a protected play area for children and open play for the broader community.
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St. Johns
Meyers Street
Seneca Street
Brace, Weyerhauser
Reno
John W. Peters
Bureau of Parks
Freedon
The Village Store’s Change Sparks Town Debate
Readers lament the altered village store with new stock and sleek style. The piece recalls the old hub from which social life and wit flowed, now replaced by modernity and money making.
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Prines
St Johns Chautauqua Opens In Big Brown Tent For Seven Days
The St Johns Chautauqua opens Sunday night in a big brown tent on Central school grounds with 2:30 and 8:00 p.m. sessions daily. Junior Chautauqua runs 9:30 to 11:30 each day under Miss Eva Dell Knapp. J L White of Spokane, new director, brings six summers on the Ellison White circuit and a seven day schedule across about 140 towns. Opening program features Bernell Ford the electrical beard. Local social notes include a Mary Carr birthday surprise and numerous community friends and events. Public notices mention large wool shipments, a Portland settlement center project, and harbor plans in San Francisco.
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St. Johns
Eva Dell Knapp
J. L. White
Spokane
White
Galveston
Texas
Arizona
California
Nevada
Utah
Tolaho
Oregon
Washington
Montana
Bernel! Ford
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C. P. Kayser
Florence Holmes
Canton
California University
Orient
Jersey Street
Fletcher
Kodak Film
Kodak
Currin’s
Nuxstone
Kolynos
Curin’s
Specia
Union
the Raincoat
St Jon
Messrs
Garley and Rogers
Acme Lumber Co
McGuire
Peninsula Lumber Co
Kenney
Western Cooperage
J. D. Webster
Portsmouth
Clatsop Creston
Columbia
Mary Carr
A. A. Amrein
East
Charleston Street
Carr
Gain
Lee Cormany
Prank Tarrant
Brice
LeRoy Crouchley
Lester Barton
Beckman
Robert Amrein
Eloise Fairchilds
Hattie Amrein
Wmn. Edmondson
Ruth Edmondson
John H, Bruns
Sisters
DesChutes County
Bruns
Gates
The
Evangelical Church
Methodist Churches of
Portland
Portland Settlement Center
Caruthers Street
Little Monarch
Wool Warehouse Co
Idaho
A. H. Lea
Western Wool Warehouse Hy
Grand High Priest
Bilyet
Peninsula Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
W. A. Carroll
Ray B. Walls
J. 5. Canny
F.S. Leftwich
San Francisco
Columbia Harbor
United States Engineer’s Office
Knit Nektirs
Rogers
Multnomah
Mae
Semenances Productions
Saute Merwin
Ea Moore
BO Cents
Johnson
Connant
S. Jersey St
Bing Cherries
St. Johns Undertaking Co
Thomas Grice
Jersey St
Portland Undertaking Co
Beckett
Kellogg Street
Lewis Caldwell
DiMidren
Burlington Street
Frank A. Rice
Peninsula Security CO
South Jersey St
Great Reductions
Portland Woolen Mills
Bank OF Commerce
Bank For Savings
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