, 1881-01-07
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
OFFICIAL PAPER or PORT TO&N5ENo.
BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.

THs Odd Fellows ball was a decided
success.
A GREAT many calls were made on new
years day.
DIR. York Is lecturinS in Port Town
send this week.
The holidays are past, and now the
next thought is about spring.
Mr.. c. F. Clapp, OF Dungeness, came
down from Seattle yesterday.
DELEGATE Brents has our thanks for a
valuable Congressional Directory.
THE smoke OF the furnace at Irondale
il already ascending in the most approved
business-like manner.
The sloop Frances Is running opposi'
ton to the Virginia, between Port Town
send and Ebey's Landing.
The present address of Hon. Thos. ii.
Brents, our Delegate in Congress, is 726,
Eleventh Street, Washington, ID. c.
The present being the annual week OF
prayer, meetings are being held every
evening in the n. e. church.
PROF. Roberts has sent out circular no
tifications to his patrons, regarding hi
rates hereafter for mu l. te lchihg.
Mr.. Waldo Moore, lor several years n
mail agent on the route between here and
Olympia, has been superseded by stran
ger.
WE have learned incidentally OF the re-
Gently celebrated nuptials OF Mr.. VIM
wooding and Miss Emma Hoffman, OF
Dunge,iess.
AMONG the ladies who entertained IL
royal style on the lst inst, was Mrs.
Learned. wife of the man who bosses on.
latter business.
SCARLETlNA has been troubling SOM
of the children IN town. No deaths, o.
very serious sickness, however, have RI
suited thus far.
BoRN.-- In this city, Dec. 25, 1880, t.
the wife Of b. G. Pitcher, of Dungeness.
a son. An important Christmas gift t.
the happy father.
SEVERAL carpenters are now at worI
on Capt. Dalgardno's sleop, or srhoone
that is to be. She will therefore be fin
ished in q short time.
MRS. Lieut.. o. S. Wiley, U. S. r. NJ
service, returned to her home in this plac,
OH Saturday, having spent the holidays ii
Seattle and Olympia.
CAPT. Mcintyre is out on duty again,
having gone to b. c. to attend to his yes
sci. He returned, however, on Monday,
and thinks of "layng up" Tor while t.
have rest.
PROF. Roberts informs us that he IN
tends giving regular Children's party
about next week, (weather permitting
There will be lots of games, dancing, and
plenty OF fun generally. Further partic-
ulars hereafter.
THk holiday number Of the Seatt,
Post" was very creditable and inter.
esting production. Although In Its Port
Townsend department the putting went
by favors, to some extent, still 1t embod
led a good deal of condensed information.
THE California was so much behind
time on her last trip down from Sitka
that she went direct from Victoria to
Portland. Purser Hughes passed through
this place on Monday, enroute for Port.
land by way Of Tacoma, having brought
wlth him the u. 5. mail.
INSTEAD Of our public school opening
last Monday, as was expected, the vaca.
ton was extended enc week. Miss Bge
low, who had been spending the holidays
at home in Olympia, came down to Seat
tie before receiving the telegram inform
ing her OF the action OF the directors.
A NUMBrR Of people have been in town
from Dungeness lately. Mrs. j. J. Rog-
ers, Mrs. l.. II. Gays and Mrs. II. Davis
went down this week on the Dispatch.
Capt. and Mrs. Nc Almond and Mrs.
Capt. Cornish returned last week, on the
pilot schooner Champion. Mr.. and Mrs.
B. G. Pitcher are still in town.
On Wednesday, Dec. Goth, tho house of
Mr. Geo. Cooper, of Dungeness, came
near being consumed. The fire aroused
the inmates some time in the night, and
consumed or hopelcssty injured the con-
tents of one room before it could be ex.
tinguished. The loss is severe one that
the family can i'll afford to bear.
The "West Shore" Is credit to Ore
gon, as we'll as the entire Pacific north
west. Its fine Illustrations, excellent ar
ticles md carefully selected miscellany,
place it among the foremost journals in
the land. Recently ten thousand copies
OF this valuable publication were sent to
the Eastern States for free distribution.
Thus, as an agency for building up Ore
gon and Washington Territory, 1t is i'm.
portant enough to deserve the hearty sup.
port Of oil.