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Newspaper
Saint Johns Review
Location
Saint Johns, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1913
Page
2
A damaged OCR fragment describes a street scene with names and locations obscured. It mentions a February printing event and references streets, blocks, and local figures whose full details are unreadable. The text is fragmentary and lacks a coherent reportable action.
Oregon railroads including the Astoria line and United Railways offer free shipping for school exhibits to the State Fair. Exhibits from any county can be gathered at local shipping points under supervision for transport to Salem. Prizes total more than last year with five $100 prizes for county exhibits and five for single room districts. Oregon aims to lead in industrial education with statewide cooperation urged.
Nancy Norton discusses tacit opposition to low neck gowns in New York boarding schools in the first issue of Good Dressing. The monthly fashion guide from Couch and Company features Paris and New York designs, plus patterns for home sewing at low cost. Regular distribution begins the 8th of each month.
Sealed proposals will be received at the office until 8 p m April 8 18 for furnishing the city of Johns Oregon an automobile pumping fire engine capable of delivering at least 100 gallons per 120 pounds net. City council reserves right to reject any and all bids. Public notice appears in the St Johns Review on March 28 and April 4 1918.
A special meeting is called for next Monday afternoon at City Hall to decide whether to move from the Library to City Hall for meetings. The group notes six months of Library sessions and favorable council approval to meet there on the first and third Mondays. If changed, the switch would take effect the first Monday in April.
An ordinance of St Johns Oregon establishes the time and method to improve Fessenden Street from Oswego Street to Smith Avenue. It sets a preliminary cost estimate of 10 650 45 and a completion deadline. calls for grading, six inch concrete pavement sixteen feet wide each side, and necessary crossings and drains under city engineer supervision. Public notice and Local Improvement District No 96 designation are included with publication and filing dates.
The Consumers Cooperative Company of Cleveland with 270 stockholders, formed to eliminate the middleman, filed for bankruptcy. Liabilities were listed at 4123 dollars with stockholders investing ten dollars each, and a trustee’s sale notice appeared in the Cleveland Classifieds offering groceries and fixtures from locations on Superior and St. Clair avenues. Don R. Sipe is named for inspection appointments at the Oregon Merchants Magazine offices.
The Board of Directors of School District No 2 invites sealed bids for sale of three dwellings on Block W behind St Johns Central, St Johns. Bids for one two or three houses must include a 10 percent certified check and be sent to F P Drinker at First National Bank St Johns before noon April 24 1913. The board may reject bids and require move of dwellings within 30 days.
Notice sets April 7 1918 polling place for Oil Election in the first ward at the vacant Jersey and Charleston streets building formerly F W Valentine’s Real Estate Office instead of Holbrook at Richmond and Joneey. Recorder F A Rice signs.
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