Elevator bids sought for $800000 to $900000 grain plant
The Commission of Public Docks invites sealed proposals by April 9 for a reinforced concrete grain elevator at St Johns Municipal Terminal. Plans cost 50 dollars, 5 percent certified check required. The plant includes operating house, track shed, storage annex, gallery belt conveyors, cupola, and multiple elevators across tall concrete structures.
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Commission of Public Docks
Stark Street
St. Johns Municipal Terminal
Sach
Many Office Seekers Rally in 1918 Oregon Campaign
The Sellwood Bee notes a crowded field for the 1918 elections with filing through April 12. Candidates include Republican long-term rivals R. N. Stanfield and others, Democrats Will Eing and Judge Samuel White, plus Oswald West and Harvey G. Starkweather, among many for statewide and county offices.
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Sellwood Bee
United States
R. N. Stanfield
Will St. Eing
Samuel White
Oswald West
B. Huston
C. L. McNary
Ben Olcott
Gus CG. Moser
Portland
J. E. Anderson
Dalles
Withycombe
Geo. J. Cameron
Harvey G
Wm. A. Dalziel
Hoff
Justee
Supreme Court
Public Instruction
Labor and Public Service
Circuit Court
Robt
C. Wright
A. W. Orton
Arthur I. Moulton
John BE
Owen
Ibly Wilson T. Hume
KR. R. Giltner
N. McArthur
A. W. Lafferty
Multnoman
John Gill
Sanderson Reed
Multnomah and
Clackamas
H. A. Lewis
Multnomah County
Multnomah
K. Kubli
Beveridge
Hurlbert
Peterson
Expert horticulturist offers spraying and pruning services
L C Fones, an expert horticulturist with fifteen years experience and ex county fruit inspector of Malt County, lists spraying and pruning services. Phone Call 106. Send in your news items.
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L. C. Fones
St Johns to field shipyard league baseball team
St Johns will form an honest to goodness baseball club in the new Shipbuilders League. Eight yard teams including Grant Smith Porter and Foundation Company will compete with crackerjack talent from local shipyards. A six team inter-yard league will select the first team squad with tryouts and practice set this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Johns
Ship Builders
Aes
Shipbuilders
Northwest
Foundation Company
Aby Cason
Northwest Steel Company
Clayton Sharpe
Supples Ballin Company
H. A. Ballin
Grant Smith Porter
Ausman
Cornfoot
William Dowell
Columbia City-St. Helens
C. Hojer
Standifer- Clarkson
Jack Mitchell
Manaer
Columbia River Company
Og Doty
Grant Smith-Porter Company
Grant Smith
Grant Smith-Porter Yards
J. H. White
American Association
C. W. Miller
University of Oregon
William Barham
Vancouver Star
Corean
Athetic
University of Michigan
Carl Kessinger
Faulghan
W. E. Peterson
Manila
Kasota Launched as Third Portland Vessel of Fleet
The Kasota, the third of five wooden steamers contracted by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, floated at 1 10 PM in Portland. Miss Norma Hauser sponsored the launch in a ceremony attended by EFC officials J B Morris and J H Ward and experts on wooden hulls and propulsion. Representatives from the American Register, Captain Frederick C Lang, Gail B Whitney, and A H Bryant observed the event.
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Emergency Fleet Corporation
Portland
Norma Hauser
E. V. Hauser
Grant Smith-Porter Ship Company
J. B. Morris
Oregon
J. H. Ward
American Register of
Frederick C. Lang
New York
Society
Pacific Coast Surveyor
Gail B. B. Whitney
Washington
A. H. Bryant
Tuning and Voicing Expert Puts Quality First
An ad lists piano tuners J. L. Wall at 601 Buchanan with phone Columbia 569 and services including tuning voicing and action regulation. Currin endorses the expert work and guarantees. Alarm clocks advertised from $1.25 to 7.00 in price.
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J. L. Wall
Buchanan
Columbia
Currin
Rather Be a Booster Imitations of a Cheerful Motto
A fragmented verse extols positive support over tearing others down. It contrasts boosting a brother’s labors with predicting his downfall and favors hopeful language and self-improvement over cynicism. The piece uses playful rhymes to promote a constructive attitude.
Doings of the W T U Meeting on War Time Aid
Weather kept attendance to thirteen yet the W T U meeting remained lively. The group continues support for the Red Cross with quilts and knitted items and promotes temperance as a civic duty.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Red Cross
City to stage bathing-suit model tryouts at City Hall
Commissioner Kellaher announces plans to test proposed bathing suits for the coming season at City Hall. He will judge modesty levels and may invite clubwomen and city reporters to observe. Trials could involve swimming-tank dives to base decisions on fact over fashion while weighing cloth costs.
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Dan Kellaher
Alo
Kellaher
Judeb
Oregonian
Help Yourself and the Community Via Local Sales Pitch
Community appeal urges readers to board Boe ship yard rockers and notes bed sales at Bt Johns Furniture Co. Easy terms offered. Supeh kits vacuum bottles and fillers advertised at Currin's.
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Bt. Johns Furniture Co
Currin’s
Foremen dine at Multnomah Hotel pledging wartime effort
About 130 day foremen of Grant Smith Porter Ship Co. dined at the Multnomah Hotel host Eric Hauser, pledging all profits from construction of thirty ships to patriotic wartime needs. Speakers urged the do or die spirit of patriotism and full energy toward shipbuilding.
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Grant Smith-Porter-Guthrie Ship Company
Multnomah Hotel
Eric V. Hauser
The
Oregonian
America
Iray
William T. Foster
Reed Col Seme
J. B. Kerr
Edgar B. Piper
Art Henning
RK. A.dart
C. W. Ausman
Soldiers Report Comforted in France and Local Socials Note
Corporal Arthur W. Irvine writes from France praising warm bunks and steel cots as the 162nd Infantry rests. He details German prisoners’ wishes for victory and the sense of purpose in wartime work. In town, Knights and Ladies of Security hosted a social with eighteen candidates and a goat ride. Red leads in a two week membership contest as spectators await the next round.
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Difeatey
France
Arthur W. Irvine
Company K
162Nd Infantry
Oreen
Ja. J. Holevine
Leavitt Street
Orenon
Knights and Ladies of Security
St Johns Honor Roll of Enlistees in Uncle Sam's Service
A lengthy list from St Johns names residents who have enlisted and are stationed at various training camps. The roster includes Taylor Whitmore Athill Irvine Dean Knowles Earl Knowles Theodore Bugbee H Bryan Poff Armand Olin Claude Harris Russell Poff Galloway Garlick Donaldson Haskell Clark Swan Martin Willett Thompson Lear Davis Trowbridge Larson Rutherford Plaskett Brandenberg Welsh Bowe Heath Mayer Somalling Bogus Johnson Eatinger Simmons Teale Hiatt Walker Jensen Hawkins Ward Satterlee Bailings Rice Nieil Truman Whitney Reynolds Cunningham Smith Whitney Clark Fox Hughes Downey Edwards Willikwon Isbell Moxon Fassett Manning Carroll Marsh Ward Sundstrum Weiser Johns
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St. Johns
Uncle Sam
Taylor M. Whitmore
Athill W. Irvine
Dean H. Knowles
Earl H. Knowles
Theodore Bugbee
H. Bryan Poff
Armand Olin
Claude BE. Harris
Russell Poff
R. P. Galloway
Chas
E. Garlick
Marie Donaldson
Glenn Haskell
Ray Clark
Benajah Z. Swan
Hubert Martin
Leon Sorber
Donald Strickland
Lowell Anderson
John la. Willett
Frank L. Thompson
Oron Lear
Hal J. Davis
Donald N. Trowbridge
Bert Larson
Alan Rutherford
Homer Plaskett
Henry Brandenberg
Jd. W. Welsh
David Bowe
Clyde Heath
Walter Mayer
Fred Somalling
John Bogus
Ernest Johnson
Hiram Eatinger
Kenneth Simmons
Thornton Teale
Eugene Hiatt
Dave Walker
August
War Literature Arrives at St Johns Library New Titles
The St Johns library announces new war era books on the front rack. Titles include Buswell Ambulance No 10 and Personal letters from the front, Dawson Carry On, Liebnecht Militaria, Why Men Fight, Over the Top, The First Hundred Thousand, All In It and many others. Readers are urged to browse the new shelf near the door and consult staff for availability.
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St.Johns
Buswell—Ambulance No
Dawson
Canadian Field Artillery
Liebnecht—Militariem
Germany
Roussell
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E. W. Foy
General Nations
N. Jersey St
W. L. Montgomery
N. Kellogg Street
Alex Scales
Fessenden Street
Spokane Daily Chronicle
Mell Hathaway
Frank Little
Butte
Mont
Mell A. Hathaway
Spokane Bulletin of Lumber Workers’ Union
Tusla
Oklo
John Monette
Spokane
Dargrave
Sula Tay
Huard
Cholmonday
Christine
Nalpole
Dark Forest
Chicago
Jemes
Burr Street
M. N. Amizich
Conservatory of Music and Dramatic
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Voler
Danciig
Vote
Dromutt
Ead
Cowal
Ion Maih
Frank A. Rice Teac
Denne
W. John Biowed
Telephone Calieilaego
Georgia
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Col
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Helene Ogscuny Williams
John Claire Monteith
North Ketloge
Wootlawn
Gabriel Pullin
London
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Comer
Wall Phone
Colwiihia
Elmer Sneed
Syracuse St
Myrtle W. Campbell
Fourteenth Street
EE Gilstengy
Seely
Mate
M Hatake Mud
Ewart P. Borden
Joseph Mechesney
J. Vinton Scoti
Samuel A. Mulkey
Caldwell & Patterson
Barbis
Yenat Patangy
Uretnak Promt
Burlington Street
First National
Bana Fusseling
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