The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-09-14
I'm and Near La Center.

Prosaic times friends. Ha?
Pheasants, pigeons and quail are plentiful
Politics run in undercurrents down this
way.
James Mcbride is lying sick with typhoid
fever at his brothers home in Yacolt.
The water in the river is quite low, with
depressing prospects of further shrinkagc.
The annual siwasi stampede to Yacolt
prairie to pick huckle-berries ETC., is on the
return tide.
Flies and heas are with us yet and like
my wife's relation, determinedly protract
their visitation.
Several emigrant families have arrived
here the past two weeks and gone to settle
lands on Cedar Creek.
Miss Mary Spencer left Monday to visit
relatives in Yamhill, Or, and possibly will
prolong her visit till spring.
Walter Camm aud wife, of Colorado, are
visiting relatives here and looking about
them to see how the land lies.
A. j. Cnlbertson, the genial proprietor of
the village cabaret, is candidate for con-
stable in the Lewis river precinct.
Bolen & Ball have finished digging 100
rods of ditch to insure a direct and plentiful
supply of water for milling purposes.
Burning stubs and dead trees scattered
through the woods make night luminous
with free display of fireworks really grand.
The village school opened Monday with a
bright outlook for a successful season of in
telectual progress up the hill of knowledge
A. W. Steers has closed his school on
North Fork and intimates his intention Of
tnE in frit A nj, ID
A dcephalous curiosity in the semblance of
having the heads at either extremity was
killed lately in one of the roads near the vii
lage.
Fresh hopes were born for other years.
at the home of Willis Powell, August 18th,
1882, that will henceforth be known as
Stella Pearl
From three-a acre field belonging to v.
Neswall ten tons of clover was harvested
which is somewhat better than it will aver
age everywhere.
A fairly successful term OF public school
in District IA. Miss G. Renloeb, teacher,
will close Oh the Sth, with the usual Friday
afternoon exercises.
The last game Of base ball played between
the Modocs OF La Center, and a club from
the North Fork resulted in victory for the
former. The score stood 81 to 49,
A call at the village apothecarys will
convince the most skeptical that it is unnec-
essary to drag their sickness abroad for
treatment as there is always kept on hand
a complete stock Of drugs as fresh as the
doctors happiness.
A horse belonging to John Tmmens drop
ped dead in the harness the other day. 1t
had been gorging itself with wheat and
water which swelled up on him like Mis-
sissippi flood till like Johns political star he
sank to rise no more.
A portrait painter has been ''doin" La
Center lately, and every body and his wife
indulged in ''pictur" The story goes that
Capt. Weir's phis bankrupted the artists
supply Of carmiue and tan colors. but We re-
gard the story as an invention.
The Lewis q Lake River Transportation
c.. are building q substantial wharf aud
warehouse 1t Quigleys landing. Lake river.
and are making all expedition to have il
ready for receiving freight and the benedic-
tions Of the people before tho spring time
comes gentle Anna"
Rumors are rife relating to = steamboat
building at 81. Helens for well known resi-
dent parties, that. 1t is said, will be run on
this route as an opposition, though what's
the call for three boats on Lawns river IL
moro than the average plodder can decipher.
Sept. 9th, 1882. JOHN SMITH.