The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-02-15
BRIEF MENTION.

H. l.. Boardwell has returned from Port
land to remain in Vancouver for tune.
The valentine amusements have been the
rage this week, and ran the usual course
Two loads of hay were hauled across the
Columbia ON the ice at this point on Friday.
Judge J. p. Hoyt and family have re-
turned from their visit to the eastern states.
The board of delegates of the fire depart.
ment met on Monday evening for business.
We hear of several building operations to
be commenced as soon as the winter is fairly
over.
A daughter was born to the wife of Matt
Brown GU Friday, and he is CORRESPONDENCE
happy.
Potatoes, we are Informed, are frozen all
over the country, and higher prices may he
looked for.
George Doris departed for Oregon on
Monday, to resume his place on the govern
ment river work.
Lndley Meeker and family came up from
California this week, after several months
stay in that state.
The weather has not been severe enough
to prevent the shingle makers from bringing
their wares to town.
On Tuesday the county assessor, J. II.
Fletcher, started ont to commence making
the assessment for 1883.
Now that there is plenty of ice no one
wants any, although the quality is irst-class
and the supply very great,
The cold snap has not prevented the Van
couver FIGURING Mills from turning out the
usual quantity of -four daily,
Presbyterian services will be held in
Marsh's hall next Sunday, at $50 r. NJ,
Rev. Thos. J. May officiating.
The board of county commissioners en-
ished their lahors on Friday afternoon, snd
adjourned until the May term.
Even a snow storm does not DEFY the Ka-
lama mail carrier, and he reports here
promptly every mail day at noon.
1t is said that Weidler will build logging
railroad to his Washougal camp from The
Columbia river the coming season
The bad weather prevailing for two weeks
has stifiened the price OF hay considerably,
and S25 per ton is the ruling rate here.
Only one days mail has been missed at
Vancouver since the cold snap commenced,
service being had on the steamer Fdacomer.
Mr.. IL. l.. Caples Of Pataha is having a
serious Illness Many old friends in Clarke
county will be glad to hear OF his speedy re-
covery.
The cold weather has ahatcd, with an
inch or two of snow on the ground but
there is no immediate prospect of a breakup
an the river.
The racket of exploding bombs and crack
ers of the Chinese New Year celebration in
Portland Saturday night was heard here
very plainly.
LAUNDERING on Vancouver Lake has not
been carried on very actively tor n month,
being postponed until more favorable weather
settles down.
Noah n. Brown. who has been very sicl;
at his home on Brvsh Prairie, is now re-
ported as improving, much to the relief OF
many friends.
Mt. Hood has SACKED a great deal this
water. but there is no complaint, not even
by the prohihitionists, that he has been
drinking to excess.
David Shepherd and J. +. c. Dnrgan of
Washougal, went to Portland Friday,
crossing the Columbia on the ice with their
team, returning home Saturday.
Hay is up in Portland and last week John
Leavius came over after some he had stored
here. which was hauled down opposite the
nouth of the Willamette for shipment.
Mr. T. +. Blackwood aud two young men
from the Bishop Scott Grammar school
walked to Vancouver from Portland on Sat.
urday, crossing the Columbia on the ice,
The Walla Walla Democrat says; "Cranks
announce the terminus of the Short Line to
be at st. Johns on the Willamette. Why
not at Dixie in Walls Walla county,"
Major \. Z. Alden has bought half in.
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leave the asylum. His Vancouver friends
will stop with him in the new quarters.
Last week Tuesday Ilos. j. Wilson
found package OF coffee on the road be-
tween this city and his home, which the
owner can recover on paying for this notice
Mr. H. c. Liescr has opened his law office
in Vancouver next door to the office OF the
county Judge, in sohns Schueles building,
and his latch string is out for all who come
Upper country schools have been closed
entirely for two weeks by the extreme cold
weather, hence oar people should not growl
at a half day lost now and then by reason of
the cold rooms.
The steamer Washington, late of Vancou.
yer, now ON the Sound, ic undergoing a
thorough overhauling Here upper works
are being remoaeled SO that her cabins
will be much larger.
O'Dounell of Battle Ground, who re-
Gently lost lot OF grain from his granary,
was in town Saturday, aud said he has
found no trace OF it, but believes it is still
somewhere in that country safely stored
away.
The January number of the IYest Shore is
just issued, and is devoted largely to the