The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-04-14
BRIEF MENTION.

now have their crops all in.
No salmon in the market, which makes
the oldest inhabitant growl.
John Ginder is still on the hunt for print
ing offices among the bunch grass.
G. 7. Mcconnell arrived home from Ellens-
burg, w. T., yesterday afternoon.
Next Sunday is Easter Sunday, the day
for bringing forth the hidden eggs.
City Council meeting on Monday evening
next, and important business on hand.
Just rain enough this week for trans
planting this years crop of sauerkraut.
Mrs. j. S. Bozarth, of Lewis river, made
a pleasant call on friends in Vancouver last
Saturday.
Mrs. Amelia Knight is in Vancouver this
week, stopping with her son-in-law, W. B.
Patterson.
The matrimonial market is very dull at
present, and Justice Maxon languishes in
forced idleness.
The City Council will consider next Mon
day night two ordinances which the Mayor
does not approve.
w. w. Newln, Register in the Vancou-
yer Land Office, started for Olympia on
Monday morning.
The peddler nuisance is reviving here,
several of that ilk from Portland being
around at present.
The Clarke County Agricultural Society
Trustees will meet in this city on Saturday
next, the 10th inst.
The ship Alden Besse, Capt. Allan Noyes,
sailed from Hong Kong for Portland on
Sunday, April 10th.
James Crawford, Jr., has gone to the up
per country. searching for fate and fodder.
He will find them both.
L. NJ linden went up the river on Mon
day to look after his railroad contract, TAX
ing about 30 men along.
Mr.. Scott SHETLAND departed for Portland
yesterday to take his position as steward on
the steamer Washinyon.
Any person wishing to see a copy of the
Oregon State Fair Premium List for 1881
will find it al. this office.
Thos Nye & Co. are the lowest bidders
for filling the beef contract at Vancouver
Barracks for the coming year.
Mrs. NJ. J. Maxon, who was quite sick
last week, returned home from Portland on
Saturday. little improved in health.
Gen. C. G. Sawtelle's household goods
were sold off on Tuesday, and Lieut.. II. l..
wharf.
a nephew of Mr. John Eddings, our post
master, named Thomas Jerry, arrived in
Vancouver on Friday, direct from Belfast,
ireland.
The Washington will probably steam from
Portland over to Vancouver on Saturday
1t il not yet known when she will be placed
on the route.
The Mayor will not approve the ordinance
which requires the people to pay the city in
coin and allows the city to pay the people
when it gets ready.
Our garden hot-bcd shot an unlicensed
canine Tuesday morning busted
sash and do1with half of one fore leg miss
ing. "Honors are easy
The water in the Columbia is still well
up, but not rising, and the longer it re-
mains at this stage the better it will be for
only 4 moderate rise in June.
Lam. Thominsons barber pole stood on
its head Tuesday night, and broke its neck.
Lem. says the chap who assisted is like unto
the male descendent of canine.
Decoration Day approacheth, and prcpar
atoms for its celebration are being made.
The Ladies' Guild of Oregon City will have
an excursion to Vancouver as usual on that
day
Our thanks are due OF. Meredith Davies,
General Agent Chicago & Northwestern
Railway, San Francisco, for the most COM
plete railroad map of the United States yet
issued
'Thcre is Joy in the house of Ward" be-
cause Andrew Proebsters wife has little
daughter. In consequence thereof Andrew
has resigned his position in the I'D. c., l.
Society"
Mr.. Geo. Meridian of Shelby Co., Iowa,
recently arrived at Vancouver, the van
guard of the emigration of 1881. He says
several of his old neghbors will also remove
to Clarke county.
The Smith building is now nearly COM
pleted. Next week Lem. Thomlinson and
Harry Smith will occupy two sets of rooms
one with stock of cigars, tobacco, etc., and
the other with the barber shop.
We have received copy Of the proceed
ings Of the fifth annual meeting of the Wash
ington Teachers Institute. 1t was printed
at the Olympia Courier office, and is cred
liable typographical production.
Mr.. H. B. Fraser and wife. Of San Fran.
cisco, arrived here on Saturday, and ON
Monday went up to the Washougal to look
for a home. MIR. Fraser was for many years
an engineer ON the ocean steamers plying on
this coast
All United States internal revenue special
tax stamps, commonly called "licenses, :" ex-
pire this month, and those who are in bust.
ness requiring payment Of such taxes should
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