The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-05-24
CITY AND COUNTY.
BRIEF MENTION.

Wild strawberries are ripe on the hill
sides and in sunny places.
Baled hay has been sold as high as $35
per ton here within week.
The Portland printers pic ME will come
to Vancouver on June 10Th.
There was no rain on Sunday last, the
Easter seven Sunday rains having run out.
Mr.. p. Buckley, newly appointed Indian
agent, will not 60 to Tulalip Agency until
late in June.
McAndrews and his party departed for
the Washougal mountains again on Friday
morning last.
The Clarke county tax levy is I9b mills
for 1883, against lS9 mills ia 1882 and 20
mills in 1881
An Iowa man has purchased ranch on
Lewis river, intending to start a creamery
there this fall.
The Morrow brothers last week sold 800
acres of their farm near 4th Plain to Foster
& Moore, for $1,000.
The Columbia has been over the lower
docks for week past, but has fallen few
inches since Monday.
Mrs. A. NJ. Patterson, of kalama, was in
the city on Friday, staying with the family
OF Chas. w. Slocum
The Knights of Pythias of this city re-
ceived their uniforms from the east this
week. They are simply immense.
j. w. Hagerman has bought and leased
portions of the Marble place on Salmon
creek, aud is already hard at work.
Mr.. James Miles and Ed Brown went up
the river on Monday, to encounter the
brakes and burns on the Oregon side.
Mr. VIM. Scott, of Dundee, Scotland,
who owns property in Vancouver, was in
the city on Friday, inspecting the same.
The price for the new wool clip starts out
at Is to % cents per pound. The market
is dull, both in Portland and San Francisco.
The steamer Trareter seems to have abau-
doned the Washougal route altogether, and
will be used as an excursion boat this sea-
son.
The public school entertainment of last
Wednesday evening was as successful as
the first one, and netted S37 25 for the piano
fund.
There has never before been so many men
going through Clarke county looking for
farms and stock ranches. The county is
fast illing up.
Mr.. Joseph Bone and family arrived in
Vancouver on Monday, from Webster City,
Iowa. For the present he will occupy his
Salmon creek ranch.
The machinery for the Ward saw mill
at Brush Prairie arrived in Vancouver last
week, and Oh Friday was started for its des-
tinatlon IN the timber.
Ed Sch0tield arrived home from the Sound
q few days ago. looking as though the eli
mate there agreed with him. He returned
to Tacoma on Tuesday
On Thursday last Miss Ida Browning.
whose parents live at Chelaehie, was mar
ried in East Portland to Eugene L. Thorp,
editor of the PiRdicdtor.
Miss Addie Brant will close the term for
her dancing class on Monday evening" next
by giving a social at Metropolis hall, for
which large number of invitations have
been issued.
Mrs. Duniways account, in editorial cor
respondence, OF her visit to Vancouver last
week. pays our city some compliments well
deserved and says some other things that
may we'll be needed.
An experienced teacher, male or female,
with good references. can find immediate
employment by applying to the directors OF
school district No. 81, on Cedar creek,
Clarke county, w. L. 2
The legal proceedings against old man
Jenney for cutting down that bridge cost
the county Of Clarke Sl4l.S0. and still the
old man has the best of the fight, though
he has never done that much good for the
county, and probably never will.
The Vancouver packages of the Daily Or
egonidn went by up tine river on Tuesday,
and then there was howl in town, for want
of daily news. After all the great new
paper, and the great old paper with new
dispatches. do not seem to I'LL the long felt
want which only the Oregonian assuages
The Vancouver INDEPENDENT has been
designated as the official paper of Clarke
county by the board Of County Commits
sioners. The price obtained for doing the
work is Just the size of the soul and mau
hood OF the so-called printer who has brought
public printing to his level in Clarke county.
MEMORIAL SERVICES will be held at the
Presby terrain church in Marsh's hall next
Sunday morning at IL o'clock, in observ-