, 1879-05-01
pR1EF LOCAL ITEMS.

MAY -DAf'
SPRING has sprung.
LOVE among the roses.
VEGETABLES are plentiful.
THE ARGUS is settling down on a new
basis.
uI1yE and learn"-to do your Spring
cleaning. ... ...
JUST cast your eye athwart our new
heading
WORK on Union wharf will commence
right away.
A NEW departure departed from-wait
till next week.
REV. S. A. Star,wil preach next Sun
day at Dungeness.
DIR. Willison has moved his office. Read
his card in another column. r.
DIR. Hill has been away to San Juan,
exchanging school text books.
.OH, for thousand tongues ITO lick
that nice candy at Holcomb's.
MR. S. Walker, of Dungeness, left this
week, enroute for Cassiar mines.
Mr.. C. c. Bartlett will sell the personal
property OF the Ross estate on the 18Th.
THE Hyers combination will entertain
Port Townsend people Oh the 18th inst.
TAKE your lunch with you today, and
have a jolly time out at the picnic ground.
Mr.. Holcomb's family moved down
on Monday, to rooms over his restaurant.
Mr.. s. L. Mastick, OF the Port DisHov-
ery Mill Co., has returned from San Fran
cisco.
Ma.P r. Stockand secured the con-
tract for draining the lagoon. Considcra-
tion:$l74.s SO 81 s.GR AA-e&e 49,.
SUFFERERS from the wreck OF the Great
Republic will be furnished with the ARGUS
at$3 per annum.
FINE, ripe Strawberries may be obtained
at Jimmy Smiths garden-in about
two months time.
WE are indebted to purser Patten, OF
the Dakota, and to agent Tibbals, Of this
place, for tayors, Tli. i--I. .i,t
DON'T forget that the Sheriff $ sale OF
lands belonging to Capt. sayward will
take place next Monday.
WE received call on Monday, from
Hon. Beriah Brown, senior editor oi the
Seattle ''Intelligencer"
Our Public School has returned to its
Normal state. This item isn't very funny
but 1t is true nevertheless.
OUR young friend, AL. Plummer, has
charge of Rothschilds store in the absence
Of the proprietor, and is digging up lots
oil business. aS E& Ef
GONE where my love lies dreaming"
She walked up and started down town to
buy some of those nice Spring goods at
Waterman & Katz'.
Rev. Jas. Agnew has resigned the pas
'orate OF the Presbyterian Church, of this
place. Rev. David Sires preached there
last Sunday, morning and evening.
Down ut the Central they don't always
''clothe the naked" but whom it comes to
such scriptural iniunctions as, 'feed the
huugry"-tell you what they're ''thar."
THE ''gnawing OF the tidal wave" and
the erosion of the atmosphere are con-
Stantly changing the aspect Of the earth's
surface, but nothing has thus tar visibly
affected the regularity with which Mr.. G.
@. Bartlett contronts his customers with
an elegant display OF goods. His stock is
iull all the time.
ON Friday last the little steamer Casslar
called at this place, and remained a few
hours, after which she proceeded on her
way to Stikine river. She is handsome
craft, and as fine specimen of STERN
wheel boat rs can be found on our waters.
She Is credit to Seattle and to her build
ers.
Mr., r. =. Shoecraft, OF Olympia, has
gone down to Port Angeles, with a party
OF surveyors, to fill a contract for survey
ing three new townships of land near that
place. The job will consume about three
months time. Should the Tennessee colo"
NY of which we spoke recently, conclude
70 locAt" in the Quillyhute valley, another
effort will bemade to get few townships
surveyed over there.
Mr.. Bishop advertises his cheese factory
t0's week. He is now manufacturing
at The rate OF over ton week, and has
lasiIitles for considerable increase in the
amount. Mr.. b. is thorough going bus
mess man. and will build up the enterprise
rapidly. Mr.. Fields, the efficient foreman,