The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-30
The school Superintendent Abroad.


county am enabled to furnish few items
that may not be out of place in your col
umns At La Center found business quite
brisk. Messrs. Gather and Pieper are each
doing a prosperous business John Timmen
look hale and hearty, and the crowd around
his hotel indicated lively patronage. The
shoe maker and blacksmith are kept busy
pounding away, and J. d. Banner is still, as
of yore, lining the river bank with piles of
wood. Ralph Lyons is erecting a new and
commodious frame dwelling house. Dr. r.
S. Davis keeps fine stock of drugs on hand,
but as there is but little sickness in that Sec
ton he is enjoying temporary rest.
The most encouraging feature noticed was
the prosperous condition of the school.
Here found about fifty pupils in attend
auce 1t is taught by Miss E. NJ. Beard, of
Oregon. Miss Beard comes among us with
flatterng recommendations, which are duly
sustained by the condition of her school and
her general bearing as lady. In passing
around among the patrons of the school
found more than ordinary interest mani
tested in the welfare of the school. The di-
rectors seem to be doing their duty, and the
people appear determined to sustain them
and teacher in the good work. From here
passed to the school in district No. 80,
which is in charge of Miss Anna Selby of
Brush Prairie. As at La Center, there
seems to be growing and healthy interest
manifested in matters pertaining to their
school, The register showed p names en-
rolled, and the average attendance remarka-
bly, good Miss Selby is evidently doing
good work, and from what could learn has
won the general confidence of her patrons.
Since my last visit to this neighborhood
some changes have taken place in the own
ership of real estate; some families have
moved in, and few have moved out. Mr..
Buchanan is building fine barn, roads are
being much improved, and considerable land
is being brought under cultivation.
The school in district No. - is taught by
Mr.. Edwin Pratt, and like every other
school taught by him in this county, it is
success. A prominent feature of his teach
ing is the apparent ease in which he man.
ages the government of his school. Each
scholar seems to understand his or her own
place, and like little and well organized
republic, the school works ~ from day to
day in a harmonious and prosperous man
ner.
At recent school meeting the voters in
school district No. 20 voted to continue
their school through an eight months ses-
sion. As in school district No. 81, the PEG.
pie here exhibit high appreciation of the
Importance of educating their children
When the public funds are not sufficient to
provide proper school advantages the people
of these districts unhestatingly go down
into their pockets and furnish the balance
necessary; Vet they are among the most
prosperous neighborhoods in the county. If
one.fourth of the money that is annually
squandered in Clarke county could be APP
piled to the school fund our moral, intellect
ual and material progress would receive an
impetus that would not only be God send
to this generation, but would carry untold
blessings to generations to come. X.
THE Olympia Courier hits the nail on the
head when it says 1.-THE editor of the Cen
sor has evidently never heard OF the Civil
Damage and 'Habitual Drunkenness acts
on the statute book of the Territory. A
large share of the evils OF liquor selling and
incompetence would be done away with if
these laws, we have now, were only en-
forced But they are not. Public opinion
its enforcement. We repeat, that until
such laws as we have are enforced it is folly
to enact more stringent ones, which would
be dead letter from the outset. We have
laws against gambling Sabbath breaking,
etc, that are openly and continually ig-
nored, and there is no use to lumber up the
statute books with others that will be more
hagrantly violated. The Censor man ap.
pears to be Of the hare Drained, fanatical
class, who think they can drive men as they
please, and continually do more harm to
cause they support than they can ever do
good"
The MIDSUMMER "CALIFoRNIAS."-Th
home magazine comes out in attractive new
type, and with a brilliant table OF contents
The Californian is evidently a progressive