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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1918
Page
1
A plea to end excessive Portland regulation and inspections on construction. The author argues removing permits and inspections would speed growth, fix inflated building costs, and trust tradesmen to meet sanitary and safety standards with fines for violations. Proposes empowering St Johns with less red tape while preserving basic safeguards.
Local Red Cross Auxiliary reports completed items including red shirts six dozen, pajamas six pairs, shoulder wraps one dozen, bandages six and a half dozen, arm slings one dozen, convalescent coats half dozen, head bands five, sweaters eighteen, socks thirteen pairs, wristlets eight pairs. Donations listed from Miss Minnie Krauehle and others.
Over the past two weeks, St Johns issued numerous building permits. Projects include residences, shops, and a power house with values from 25 to 10 000 dollars, reflecting substantial construction activity across multiple blocks.
Formal announcement from Amity Standard notes the engagement of Hortense Ingalls of Salem and Portland connected with Willamette University to Paul Manning of Stanford University. The couple began their romance in college and plan a Spring wedding pending Washington orders for Manning.
Large crowd from St Johns and Portland witnessed the Sunday afternoon launch of the Biloxi, second wooden steamer by the Grant Smith Porter Guthrie yard for the U S Shipping Board. The event featured music, patriotic ceremony, and rapid prep for another hull as workers readied the ways for the next launch amid Army and Navy presence.
A wartime pageant describes the launch of a ship from St Johns Yard on a February Sunday. The crowd watches the Hough designed vessel take shape with long logs from distant hills, steel bolts, and a wooden hull, as riverside cheers rise and whistles blow.
A Tuesday night crash on St Johns route at Buffalo and Greely streets left two people seriously hurt and several with minor injuries. M McVay 80 driver of one car and Mrs Mike 85 from Yale street sustained serious and critical injuries, with McVay fracturing a leg and possible internal injuries and Mrs Mike taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in unconscious condition.
The St. Johane Phonowraph Exchange at Chicago and Jersey Streets will be replaced by a 22 by 26 foot building. It will provide spacious quarters for Frank Gasser and his growing Stradivara machines and Emerson records stock. Gasser is a steady Review advertiser with expected business growth.
James John High School reports cafeteria service downtime for class work days. Students vote to join the Junior Red Cross. The Hiak Klatawa club held a hike to MacCleay Park and presented a large 80 star service flag. Listed are club officers and a long roster of Hink Rietans boys.
The Commissioner of Public Docks invites sealed bids by 1 a m March for Pier 1 at St Johns Terminal a 1200 foot structure split into two story and one story sections on pile foundations with galvanized iron superstructure a 180 foot wide shed and 27 and 14 foot platforms to provide trackage facilities A concrete firewall plus 1150 feet of walls along the dock and equipment including a ten ton Barlow marine elevator ramps and power ramps Also advertised are 100 two wheel and 24 four wheel cargo trucks rain trucks and 12 scales at Pittsburg Street dock.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the United Evangelical church hosted a social in the church auditorium for Washington's Birthday Friday February 22. Attendees enjoyed an entertaining program then moved to the basement for games. Favors shaped like hatchets, actually handles of red white and blue fans, were given with refreshments. Participants reported a thoroughly enjoyable event and look forward to future activities.
Currin's shop showcases lunch kits vacuum bottles and fillers in a display likely drawing shoppers seeking practical meal gear and travel containers. The spread highlights everyday essentials appealing to workers students and families planning meals on the go.
A long list from St Johns names residents who enlisted in Uncle Sam's service and are at various training camps. The roster includes Taylor Whitmore Athill Irvine Dean Knowles Karl Knowles Theodore Bughee H. Bryan Poff Armand Olin Claude Harris Russell Poff Chas jarlick Don Donaldson Glenn Haskell Ray Clark Benajah Swan Hubert Martin Leon Sorber Donald Strickland Lowell Anderson and many others.
Naval enlistment is reopened at the U S Naval Training Camp in Seattle for ages 14 to 35. Recruits receive about four months of instruction at a camp praised for its advantages near the University of Washington on Lake Washington and Lake Union. The U S Princeton supports ship training, and the camp is being expanded to accommodate more recruits.
Amid coal scarcity public schools close and church unions meet to save fuel while breweries burn vast coal supplies for beer. Sugar limits are urged yet large volumes support beer production across many states.
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