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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1879)
January, 1879. 3 go, and then he beholds, reposing al most at his feet, the city with all its hustle of active business life, and yet so near to all the lovely verdure which surrounds him. Refore he leaves he takes one more glance seaward, and now can just discern in the distance the white cliffs of Dungeness, which the rising sun has illuminated; and then again, looking a little to the right, Race Rocks and the light-house, stand ing boldly out against the misty back ground, catch his eye for the first time that morning. One might fill a good sized volume in describing other at tractions in and about this young me tropolis, but the want of space forbids further mention in this number. to a hall fund, and as the lectures are to be delivered by the best talent that Portland affords, we hope to sec the hall filled on each evening of these lectures. Our winter is over, and at the pres ent writing (January 23rd) the air is ( balmy and pleasant as in May. At no jtime during the entire winter, which lasted just sixteen days, has the ther mometer been lower than twenty-four degrees above zero, whilst the snow king was not generous enough to af- i ford us a sufficiency of snow even for one hour's good sleighing. Grass is starting up, and whilst our Eastern neighbors are shivering in the north wind's icy blasts, we, here, in the most shoulders to the wheel and assist this association all that they possibly can, for Oregon should and can have one annual fair where honest and moral men; with their families, can gather without fear of having their boys and girls initiated into all the different ways of gambling and whisky-drinking. A saloon-keeper of this city offered to furnish the grounds and necessary buildings for holding the annual fails of the Northwestern Industrial Asso ciation rent free for six years providing he could have the monopoly of the whisky and pool-selling. Plus modest oiler was politely but very promptly declined. They want no whisky or pools. They'll have trials of speed without jockeying. If pools are sold it will not be under the auspices of this association, and such persons as may ' ''' " fj " ' ' 1 ' ' " Jllg t '11 GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS Vn fMA, B. '. Send twenty-live cents to this office for three months' back numliers of the West Shore, or one dollar for seven teen months' back numbers. For ten cents additional we send one copy of the Oregon Spectator, dated Oregon City, February 5, 1846. It is an exact reprint of the first number of the very fust newspaper ever published on the Pacific Coast. Tiik I'iiii.om a tiikan. Under the auspices of this society a course of lec tures will be given at Masonic Hall, beginning Friday, January 31st, and ending April 1 ith. Tickets for the en tire course have been placed at $1.50. each. The proceed arc to be devoted favored spot on colli, make preparation and lay out plans for spiing woik in the garden. Portland used i,, barrels of lime tat Vetr, which nil came from Pnget Sound. San Juan supplied S,.,, bat rels.Orcas yioo, and Puyallup 1,000, The Northwestern Industrial Asso ciation was organized here recently for the purvmc of holding annual exhi bitions of the products and manufac tures of this State. The members are moral, high-minded gentlemen, who will sec to it that all gambling schemes sre carefully excluded from theii grounds during their annual exhibi tions. Our citizens should put their want whisky will have lo bring it with them. A CHEAT STUMP EXTRA! rok Any of mil n ailers whose lends are dieflfiirod by ugly, hlsck stump of trees, will do well to give 1 1 - follow ing a trial : lime a hole 111 tin- lop, say one 01 two inches in circunili mice, ami right inches deep. Put in the hole from one to two miners of saltpeter, fill with hot water, nod plug up tight. In the spring takr out the plug, pour in a half gill of kerosene oil, and set fire to it. The stump will burn entirely up, even to the smallest roots. The trouble with a good many mar riages is that the parties ipiit I mi, i wnen tney enter matrimony.