The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-06-26
BRIEF MENTION.


r. Wolf has sent in to us the premium
early potatoes and cabbage
Mayor Sohns arrived home from the
Sound on Saturday evening.
St. Luke's Parish school will close the
term one week from to-day.
Wells, Fargo 4 Co. have established an
express office at Godendale.
The citizens of the Cascades will give a
grand bali on the evening of July 4th.
Hunting and fishing excursions are be-
coming the rage all over the Territory.
Capt VIM. Bratton Of Lewis river came
up yester day, to see his numerous friends.
John Eddings and Sam Marsh have COM
,menced work on their Main street grading.
A. w. Boyce can learn of something that
will interest him by calling at this Of
fee.
L. R. Sohns and c. C. Gridley departed
on Monday to join the Puget Sound excur-
sion.
Ed. Bateman resumed his old position as
steward on the steamer Vancouver last
week.
Fred Dehm and Ben Korten, old Vancou-
verites, are again elected aldermen at the
Dalles.
Two steamers will make several trips
from Portland to Vancouver on the Fourth
of July.
Col. E. c. Mason occupied the pulpit in
the M. z. Church morning and evening last
Sunday.
G. w. Durgin has been struggling for
week with chills, and don't feel very well
himself.
Gov. E. p Ferry arrived down on the
Cascades boat Tuesday, but did not stop
over here.
The steamer City of Quincy is withdrawn
from the Lewis river route, and the Gazelle
takes her place.
Miss Ella Stonghton went to the Sound
on Monday, and Will visit her mother be-
fore she returns.
There will be an excursion from Portland
to the Cascades on the steamer City of
Salem on Saturday.
MIR. J. NJ Fletcher returned with his
wife from Victoria on Saturday, not making
a. long stay ls was expected.
Mr.. c. H. Whitney has been grading 10th
street with some of the gravel taken from
the excavation of the fire cistern.
The East Portland Sunday school excur-
sion that reached this city on the steamer
Traveller last Saturday had Il moist time
OF it.
The salmon FISHING season is about over.
and most of the fisheries below have hauled
off their boats. IL is regarded rs a very
short season.
At the Battle Ground the annual road
work has commenced and all are getting
ready for the 4th. Mr.. }. luke is to build
. new house.
The District Court is now in session at
Kalama, and District Attorney Bloomfield
and w. Byron Daniels are in attendance
from this place
The Terpsichorean Club of Portland will
come to Vancouver un Julv Sd. for pic
mic. Plenty of roon-let them Terp, only
don't get Terpsi.
The County Superintendent OF Schools,
R. Robb, is very busy making the charts of
the county school districts, task of no
small magnitude.
Brinn Brothers are again logging at the
head of Vancouver Lake, with fair pros
pect Of successfully running out what they
put in this year.
The grade for the improvement of Main
street was adopted by the City Council last
Saturday evening and will be oihcis pro-
mulgated next week
The ladies of St. Luke's Guild are to have
the boss refreshment stand on the 4th. and
their ice cream is going to be little better
than any other made.
The excursion of Portland base ball clubs
to Vancouver, announced for last Sunday,
was drowned out by the rain, and never put
in any appearance here.
The Oregon City Enterprise has aston
ished its readers by coming out once during
the last four weeks without announcing
change in it's ownership.
Ben. Holman. Esq. arrived in Vancou.
yer day or two ago. aud is as full as ever,
with overlooking good nature. He CON-
plains little of broken shoulder.
A. +. Parshall, of Portland, liquid slat.
ing agent, was in town last week, hunting
up the tracks of the fast young man who
represented him so badly last spring.
Judge Greene has decided that when
man and woman are living together as man
and wife, it is not adultery, for the pre-
tense Of being married is legal matrimony..
The fountain at the park has the jets in
place, and as further attraction for the
printers on the 10Th the boys have placed
two very handsome mud turtles in the
basin.
Charles Muckle, of St. Helens, stayed in
Vancouver nearly week to take care Of his
brother, taken down with inAamatory rheu.
matism. being able to take him home on
Tuesday.
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