The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-19
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

the old stand
The river is rising and the water is
getting quite muddy.
Miss Esther Dodge of Portland is visit
ing Miss Grace Riddell of this city
Joe Robinson, of Nansene, and ed
Harriman, of Eight Mile, were in town
today.
Fourteen car loads of cattle passed
through the city night before last for
Seattle.
A license to commit matrimony has
been issued to Martin L. Holmes and
Selma Swanson.
W. Kirby of Third street is preparing
to put in line of groceries at his old
stand.
Mr.. Henry Maier, of the firm of Maier
& Benton, is lying very i'll in his room in
the Union block.
We understand that VIM. Tackman
has ordered another car load of Davis
ewing machines. .4.a.af-.t,- 4, n:
The CHRONICLE gets the market quota
tions for wheat from Chicago and San
Francisco every day.
The stiff west wind today effected q
sudden s'rise'' in real estate. The sand
lots especially advanced rapidly.
H. Herbring will soon move his dry
goods store to store. in the French
block on the opposite side of the street
The imes-Mountaineer is simply
4'damning with faint praise the ac-
tions of our representatives at the last
legislature.
J. H. Cross has moved his feed and
poultry store from the Michaelbach
building to the store opposite Haight's
restaurant.
The regular gym nasium party has
been postponed till week from tomor-
row on account of the battalion drill to-
morrow night. ',trN 1zE
Two car loads of wheat were shipped a
few days ago from the u. F. Moody
warehouse and sixteen car loads from the
Wasco warehouse.
did you see >Handbury's last es-
timate?'' said gentleman to the
CHRONICLE man. Eyes, hope have
was the reply.
The street commissioner is filling up a
number of unsightly hollows in oui
streets with broken rock and dirt. Why
not try coal cinders?
The dam below the. Mill Greek bridge
has been so washed out that fish vii
have no trouble going up that stream
from the Columbia. ,8ieBAAf
The Walla Walla Journal of March Is
says: 'sFlour has raised dollar on &
barrel and is worth now from $4 to $50
Wheat is up to 81 cents a bushel Farm
ers now is the time to let go.''
Invitations are out for the wedding o
Lillian Calista Frisbie and Charles Henry
Knapp. The ceremony will take place q
the Taylor street NJ. E. church, Portland
on;March 2Sth inst. Miss Frisbie is tn,
step daughter of Professor Smith of thi
city. fsa grf Fss
Somebody is going to get hurt one o
these days by the reckless way trains ar,
run through the corporate limits of thi
city. While the law limits them to five
miles an hour it is notorious that the,
dash through at a rate of from ten t.
twenty five. This thing ought to b.
stopped before it is too late,
Everybody is busy making garden
and dressing up their lots, shrubbery, etc
also painting and cleaning up, generally
The warm weather has made the hill
look green with the wild grass and wilt
flowers. The Dalles will have SOM
beautiful gardens this season.
CsDnel Sinnott saws that the people D
The Dalles and Eastern Oregon general,
have much>to be thankful for from th'
fact that the locks at the Cascades ar
not-completed. In case the italian ma
ton should see fit to make war on tn
United States it would be impossible fo
an iron-clad to'steam up the Columbi
and lay us under tribute. We are saf
for some time from any such invasion.
Since our article in the CHRONICLE
few days ago, several have asked us t,
again call the attention of the city father
to the propriety of covering our mail
business streets with coal cinders from
the mouth of Mill Creek. The intersec
ton of Second and Washington, wher
these cinders have been already use'
seems. to prove that this method of i'm
proving our street would be a complet
success.