The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-06-12

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Tuesday for visit to the Sound country.
Thanks are due from this Office to Hon.
Thos. H. Brents, for documentary favors.
Mrs. J. Z. Francis returned from San
Francisco on Monday, improved in health.
The river has lowered inches in As hours,
and is 20 feet inch above low water mark.
Mayor Sohns started for the Sound ON
Monday, on a business trip of ten days or
more.
Plenty of potatoes in town, but rather
small being dug to save them from the high
water.
A letter for Chas Stone remains uncalled
for in Wells, Fargo & Co. ss1press Office in
Vancouver.
call yesterday, and reports his crops still
out of water.
The time is rapidly approaching when the
boys would rather run an ice cream saloon
than mower.
Arthur Dillon went up the river yester
day, and will perhaps reach Pendleton be-
fore he returns.
Josiah Lee went with his teams and fam
lily, up the river on Saturday, bound for the
Palouse country.
There will be fair amount OF all kinds
of fruit in this section this season, and ber-
ries in abundance.
There has not been Portland picnic on
7the Columbia river fer nearly a month,
which gives it a rest
The matrimonally disappointed Fourth
Plain bachelor has farm for sale Don't
all speak at once for it,
Mr.. L. ID. Woodland. of Belfast, Maine
brother-ln-law of c. Fl. Whitney, arrived
in Vancouver last week.
b. l.. Morrison has gone over to Oregon to
look after some of his hoop-pole business,
gathering up the last run.
Cherries are ripe and the boys and the
birds are harvestin. their share, which this
year will be the "biggest half"
John Denny and wife went to San Fran
cisco on the Oregon last Sunday, expecting
10 be gone month, visiting friends
Since the people at the Territorial capital
call the new born inhabitants "Olympiads.
at will be in order to call ours ''Columbads."
The excursionists from Oregon City July
4th will touch at Oswego. Milwaukee. East
Portland and Portland, en- route to Nancou-
yer.
j. T. Bowles brought 20 head of cattle
across from his Oregon farm on Monday,
and drove them out Fourth Plain way for
pasture.
Even as the early bird catches the worm,
so doth the city marshal go out first in the
morning and scoopeth up ye stray horses
and cattle.
Next week county school superintendent
Robb will commence his summer visitations
OF the school districts, going trs1 up the
Washougal.
The Vancouver representatives Mt the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge returned home on Fri
day evening, having passed pleasant week
on the Sound
The Rev. Peter Paaps has been assigned
to the Walla Walla district by Bishop
Blanchet, and left on Monday morning for
his field of labor
Mr.. George Pike, engineer on the Cascades
railroad, passed below yesterday, on his way
to San Francisco, to be away from duty till
the last Of the month.
The second game of base ball between the
Live Oaks and Blue Stars will come off ON
the old penitentiary ground in the upper
part Of the city, next Sunday.
The wretch who writes the town news for
the Olympia Standard says that "a woman
in the house is worth two in the street. "
What horrid town Olympia must be-
The fire department OF Vancouver, repre-
sented by about 40 men, headed by the DIST
Infantry band, will go to Portland to- NOR
row, to JOIN III the tiremen's celebration
there.
A man on Lewis river has theory on
breaking hen from setting, and. putting it
in practice sprinkled hot ashes in the nest.
His new barn will hardly be completed be-