, 1882-12-22
From Mondays DAILY.
HUMPTY Dumpty.

Inspector Blake, Ol W latc IN, IS III
town.
SEATTLE had ten thousand dollar
fire on Saturday.
AccIDENr.-We are informed that Rev.
J.R. johnson, NJ. E. pastor at Dunge-
ness. was thrown from horse last week,
sustaining serious injuries.
OLYMPIA has had temperance rally
at which addresses were made by Gov
Newell, Judge Lewis and Jacobs, n. H..
Bloomfield and Col. Hawkins.
CAPT. J. T. b rown, late register Of the
laud Office at Olympia, and I. M. Reid,
jr., have formed law partnership, max
ing land business a specially.
j. Gal. McFadden, prosecuting at
torney elect in the "a judicial District,
and Miss Lydia Crins, were united in
marriage at Olympia on the 9th inst.
Scuoo1 teachers looking for situa-
ton will find something to their advan-
tage by referring to a notice published
elsewhere by the clerk of Port Town
send district.
| FROM the liberal distribution OF pres
ents expected to be made by Mr.. Santa
Claus next Monday, it is evident that
gentleman must be laying in gener-
GUS supply.
We learn that Mr.. VIM. Payne, of
Port Discovery, was unfortupate enough
to lose a pair Of valuable oxen few days
ago. getting them run over by the cars
in his logging camp He was away at
the time, and the accident was caused
by the cars being run down an incline
while the team was being driven out over
tle same road.
For THE SoHooL.--We are authorized
to state that ball will be given in this
| pac, week from next Thursday (Dec.
2Sth) in aid of the Port Townsend pub
| lie schools. The immediate object is to
secure money enough to buy about a
dozen new desks and seats. The price
| OF tickets and other particulars will be
givon soon. OF course everybody will
| want to patronize il whe ,r they attend
the ball or not
BIG TIME.--The Chimacum public
school will close next Friday. The
teacher Miss McPhee, must have given
general satisfaction, as the directors
have hired her to teach again next year
at salary increased from S65 to $40
per month. The close of school Friday
will be made the occasion of q big din
ner for pupils and parents. If the
weather is fine very enjoyable timemay
be expected. School will reopen
March 10th.
II CANNOT get along without the
ARGUS said one Of our patrons as he
paid for another year this morning and
secured the premium offered-the
Chicago Ners for year. "If 1 had to
choose between all the papersI now take
I would keep the ARGUS every time, be-
cause l want to know what is going on
about home" Such comments are en-
couraging to publisher, especially il he
is doing his best TO return value for
value. Twenty years ago the Oregonian
was not nearly SO good paper as the
ARGUS is today, and had not Oregon peo-
pie since then supported their home pa
per in preference to sending abroad for
more news at less COST that paper never
would have attained its present magni-
tude and value Today is powerful
commercial factor, not only for Portland
but for the whole of Oregon. Aside
from the fact of getting your moneys
worth in news, there is no way of invest
ing for the general development of the
country that pays such large dividends
as the support OF live, progressive home
papers. They do more than all the i'm
migration pamphlets, boards OF trade,
ETC., ever thought of, because their in
huence IS constant and growing. We
venture to say, without any egotism,
that no town the size of Port Townsend,
and no county with the population of
Jefferson, in Washington or Oregon, can
make better showing in regard TO
newspapers-a the past but foreshad-
ows the future il support be liberal.
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