The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-08-16
CITY AND COUNTY.
BRIEF MENTION,


Holy Angels College will open for the
fall term ON September Bird.
Mrs. Geo. w. Durgin and Mrs. Denny
returned from the seaside last week.
10. Niles introduced himself and the San
Francisco Call into the city on Friday last.
Capt. John Smith, father of our mayor,
IL seriously i'll, at the Warm Springs Agency
Miss Lizzie Fletcher expects to 90 east in
. few days, to visit her aunt in Washington,
DC
Miss Carrie Pittock of Portland has been
visiting at Mrs. A. E. Winters for few
days.
As usual the finest Bradshaw plums of
the season came from the garden of Robt
Wolf.
D. L. Harley is now book. keeper in the
large establishment of Hexter 4 May, in
Portland.
Miss Mary Gray and Miss Nellie Freeman
OF Portland are in the city, visiting Miss
Julia Beeson.
Father Kauden of the Cowlitz mission
was in the city last week, returning home
on Saturday.
Only two pic mic parties went out to the
Lacamas last Saturday, but they had lots Of
fun, and dust.
The curtain of smoke which covers this
country now extends far out to sea, and
east into Montana.
Leonard Kass and Jos. Burke have dis
solved partnership. Burke will continue
the butcher business.
Mr.. Abe Neer Of Columbia City brought
his wife up on Monday to visit friends in
Vancouver for while.
Mr.. H. L. Pittock was in the city on
Monday, while returning from the new
town on Lacamas Lake.
Mackenzie, ''the blind man of Illinois,"
was in the city last week, but did not ere.
ate much of q sensation.
Presbyterian services will be held in
Marsh's hall next Sunday, at IL A. NJ,
Rev. T. J. May officiating:
The Exchange hotel in this city is enjoy
ing . good run of custom, and the proprie-
tors try to keep up with it.
There was larger attendance than usual
in Vancouver churches last Sunday. The
berry season is on the wans.
N. H. Abbott, q newspaper man some.
what known in Vancouver, has bought the
Grant County News in Eastern Oregon.
People who throw garbage into the pond
ought to remember that city ordinance
subjects them to heavy fine for so doing.
Wheat is selling in Walla Walla for 90
cents per bushel. 1t sells here at 95 cents,
giving better profits on less yield per acre.
Palmers mill sawed 1000 feet of l-nch
lumber in hour and 25 minutes last Tues
day. Pretty quick work for such a small
mill.
Thos. johnson, who had leg broken at
the Dietdsrich mill not long since, is doing
we'll, and will not have to undergo amputa-
ton.
Rev. p Poaps who returned from the
sea coast last week, on Friday started for
the Dalles, on business connected with the
church.
A party OF three East Portland men, C.
B. Bartel, Walter Bartel and II. A. kiess-
ling. went out to Canyon Creek mines on
Monday.
The "harvest moon" is on hand, but it is
dim one seen through our smoky atmos-
phere, and witnesses little or no harvesting
under its light.
Chief Engineer Hutscheck had the engine
companies out for drill few evenings since,
and all went well, the apparatus being
found in good order.
The impossibility of procuring white labor
has brought two Chinese wood -sawyers to
Vancouver, who are getting white mems
wages for their work.
Men desiring employment on the Colfax
division Of the o. r. 1 N. Co., now build.
ing. will apply to L. b. Clough. at the st.
Charles hotel, Portland.
Henry Ward Beecher is to lecture in
Portland on Wednesday aud Thursday even.
ings Of next week. Not many will 90 over
from this place to hear him.
Many Vancouver people are absent from
homo at the seashore and the country, but
Portland visitors have filed their places
aud the city is full as ever.
Mr.. C. A. Shane is making maps of the
section now being explored for coal in this
county, one Of which he has contributed to
this Office. He has more for sale.
It il probable that during the fall two
steam ferries will be started, one from the
mouth OF Lewis aud Lake rivers to st. Hell.
Gus. and one from Columbia City across the
river.
The fifth annual exhibition of the Portland
Mechanics Fair will take place from Oct.
18th to 70 the 9th, inclusive. Competition
10 spsn for articles from any part Of this
Territory.
B. A. Ssabers. Of Oysterville. who is well
known IN Vancouver. has bought the can.
merry ct Grays harbor. and 10 moving men
and machinery there to begin canning about
the 22nd inst.
The proportions Of the new stable for the
Light Battery ct the garrison are looming
up. II 10 237 feet long. 10 feet wide, and
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