The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-05-08
BRIEF MENTION.
The blondes are coming.

The blondes are coming.
The grain planting season is over
County Board of Commissioners in session
this week.
The early planted potatoes are not doing
as well as usual.
The Clarke county assessment for 1879 is
entirely completed
Rain enough for week past to lay the
dust and fears of a drouth.
Mrs. A. r. Middleton has removed to
Portland, to reside for time.
Charles Troup took spin over home from
the Willamette on Monday morning.
Travellers can make connections for Lew
iston on Wednesdays as well as Fridays.
Will johnson left for Yakima this morn
ing, having been nearly a year in this city.
No serious fights in town to record this
week, and those of last week are too ancient
to speak of.
Mrs. A. L. Coffey has sold out her bust
ness at Lewiston, and returned to the Wa
shougal to live.
Miss Mollie Troup returned from Salem
last week, and Immediately went to the up
per country to spend the summer.
The Red Men, of Portland, are to have a
pic mic at Catalpha Grove on Saturday, the
boat touching at Vancouver on the way up.
Attorneys Bloomfield and Daniels have
their law office over Dillon's store very
neatly fitted up, and are ready for business.
Pittner, of Brush Prairie, on Saturday
last boarded the up-river steamer with his
worldly effects, bound for the Spokane coun-
try.
Sister Josephs, of the House of Provi-
dence. Vancouver, is now Ill Walia Walia,
attending to the building of an academy
there.
Dick Seibert to-day went up the river
to Pendleton, intending to start meat mar
ket there if the prospect is favorable for the
business.
The d. & c. Society will hold another so.
cial at the rectcry on the evening of Thurs.
day, May 18th. Old and young are invited
to attend.
The steamer Vancouver yesterday brought
over pile driver in tow, which Is to be used
putting in some new fender piles at the gov.
eminent dock.
Some of the boys took baby seal out Of
the river Saturday evening" and 1T was Sc
attractive all day Sunday that the Sabbath
schools were short.
There was Sunday excursion to Catal
pha Grove last Sunday, from Portland, 8
drunk, q fight or two, and disgraceful ex
hibition generally.
C. A. NJ. Spencer made his appearance il
Vancouver on Monday, after several months
absence in the bunch-grass country. He
now halls from Baker City.
A number of Germans from Sohom'
county, California, are in Clarke county
looking for new location. They say the,
are tired of Chinese and drouths
The fruit crop is now past all danger from
frost, and will be larger than last year. ex
cept in spots where cherries and plums hav'
been touched with frost.
Bishop Morris held services in st. Luke
church last Sunday, according to announce
ment In the evening eight persons wer
confirmed as members of the Episcopa
Church.
The shed on the old wharf was pulled
down last Friday, and while Frank Stevens
was taking off the last roof board the franz
and scaffold fell to the wharf, he going dow
with the wreck The result was badl.
sprained wrist and bruised hand.
The pic mic and excursion to the Cascade
by the pupils and friends connected will
the Hall Street Sunday School, Portland
which was announced to come off last Satur
day, was postponed until next Saturday
owing to unsettled condition of the weather