The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-11-27
BRIEF MENTION.

a flying visit on Tuesday
Foggy mornings make navigation on the
Columbia slow and difficult.
Everything is advancing in price except
postage stamps and newspapers.
Some of that clay crcsswalk has been
treated to dose of good gravel.
Wanted, several cords Of dry fir wood at
this Office, for which cash will be paid.
We continue to receive letters from Kan
sas people DESTROYS to come out here to set
tie.
Geese and ducks are now abundant in this
vicinity, which affords spertsmen great pleas
ure.
1t Us a fact that two ckimneys burned out
down town this week without creating fire
alarm.
The improvements to the Odd Fellows
building, including q new walk, are now all
completed.
Saturday is the last day for payment of
taxes to the County Treasurer to save the
two per cent.
One of the boys who went hunting ducks
last Sunday came near shooting a calf, on
his own leg.
The steamer Ldtond now makes trips
every other day between Portland and points
ION Lewis river.
J. Proebstel, jr, of Weston, Or, has been
Mn this city for few days, seeing familiar
faces and sights
Mr.. Morgan of Brush Prairie was brought
in to the Sisters Hospital last week, sick
with typhoid fever.
The Cascade mountains are becoming white
with snow, and the passes are already filled
in and impossible.
b. L. Morrison made his first shipment of
hoop poles for the season this week, per
steamer to San Francisco.
Bishop Junger dedicated the new church
at New Tacoma on Sunday last, and the one
at Cowlitz on the previous Sunday.
A chap known as yakima" billiard
sharp who roams over the whole coast, made
a single run in Vancouver last Saturday Of
!7S3 points.
A government printer has lost dog-sk
glove with fur wristlet, and is willing to play
the finder game of seven-up to see who
shall take the pair.
Mr.. J. NJ. Delaney has gone to teach the
school in District u, for a term OF three
months, where he taught before he accepted
position in the College.
To-day the geese and ducks will suffer, as
this is the grand holiday hunt when half of
Portland turns loose into the sioughs and
bayous of the Columbia
Mrs Smith has graded down the front of
her Main street property, put in good sub
stantial walk. and otherwise much improved
the appearance of her property.
The water company has commenced dig
ding up 9Th street, and will lay two-inch
Main NJ tn
block in which is Mr. Chas. Slocums resi-
dence.
An editor is man who carries a pair of
scissors in his vest pocket, a lead pencil in
his breast pocket, a memorandum IN his
coat rocket and his wealth III someboy else S
pocket.
The town of Goldendale is now an incor-
porated city, and Thomas johnson has the
honor of being the first Mayor. They can
not do better than to keep him there as long
as he will stay.
The Northern Pacific r. r. Co. has re-
duced the price of their lands for sale to 81. 80
per acre. which price will rule on most all
earned lands now for sale in Clarke and
Cowlitz counties.
Mr.. Fred Ernst. who has for years been
steward on the O. $. n. Co.'S boats has
purchased the Occidental restaurant III Port
land from Mr.. e. Noos, and on the first OF
the month will take possession.
The legislature passed one hundred and
thirty-tive acts, and thirty three memorials
and resolutions. and no bills received aveto
full list of the acts passed will be found
in another column OF this paper.
The rain gauge at Fort Riley, Kansas,
showed that from Friday night eth inst. to
Tuesday night following 20 inches rain fell.
This country has a reputation for big rains
but it never rains inches here i'll that rapid
style.
NJ. Winter has cut down all the maple
trees in front of his residence and store, cut
ting the corner one high enough to serve for
a lamp post. in which capacity it will do
itself more credit than in littering the walks
with leaves.
Capt. John Wolf who has passed Van
couver twice day with few omissions for
twenty years, in command of the o. 5. n.
Co. steamer, has gone to the Sandwich Is
lands for the winter. Capt Dick HOyt has
taken his place on the steamer.
Through a mistake of uncxplainable cause
we furnished Armstrong the photographer
with daughter last week, but he objects
unless we furnish wife also. However the
Young lady who has the care Of her mother
from Salem, is doing nicely and will soon be
we'll
A man named Alfred Higgins came from
Portland over here to get married about two
weeks ago, ran his face for a two days hotel
bill did the same at the Burton House in
Portland, and left in the lurch all his friends.
He is not the kind of a man to make good
husband.
THANKSGIVING SxRvIcE-There will be
the usual services in st. Luke's, Episcopal
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