, 1884-01-31
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thanks foE favorS-
Hon. Edward Eell., [. ;. Indian
A-ent at Skokomish, went to Dungeness
today
Air c. W. Flint j. making extensive
improvereuts upon hi> residence near
the Presbyterian church.
Can't. strattou returned home today
Tom always leaves an aching void that
can he felt for days after lie ha2 gone.
TIL We see you some more Cap, hello!
The Seattle Herald Is carefully and
ably written up, II, superiority IN this
fe-,ect Iar.e,y cumpensaiea tor lta lack
II late ;elc-5aphic news
The Di-patcL l-Et this morning Tor
Neah By aud way ports with Jolly
crowd # passengers and q lot of Ire'Ehf'
She also touei the scow Peruvian BIT
ters.
We arc receiving So many valuable
aud Interesting communications these
DAYS that some OF them Lave TO lie over
Keep cool. friends, we'll get around to
all Of You III due season.
NIr.J. E Pugu. proprietor Of the b tel
al Port Discovery returned as far as Port
Townsend yesterday fro " Victoria where
he hal been twJ or three weeks recupera-
ting his health. He IS improving. We are
glad trsay.
Mr. Meyer. of Gerson y Meyer,
was out exercising his bicycle yesterday,
1t looks t. be W, uderfuIly easy sport to
ruuune of those vehicles, but they are the
uauIiest things Imaginable for amateurs
to fail down over.
Rev. DIR. 1. Dillon, of Seattle, will oc-
cupy the pulpit Of the NJ. l. church
next Sabbath. \ week from Sunday
will be the qu5 rterly meeting occasion,
when Rev. d. G.. LeSourd, presiding
elder, Will CfHciate.
4 shoemaker shop is about to be
epeued In Port Discovery by Mr.. Chas
Armstrong. This will doubtless rove
a great convenience to the pc pie of that
LOCALITY, as Mr. Armstrong Is said To be
a man who understands his business.
Vancouver is veritab;e Gretna green
for webfeet Lymeueal candidates During
1888 upwards of ninety marriage licenses
were issued at that place 10y the auditor
of Clarke county, the majority of Which
we're for runaway couples from Oregon.
Mr.. John Such, of Quilcine, was IN
town a few days ago, aud duly prepared
hims If for kees in5 posted" on c'-rrent
ews during the year by subscribing for
the ARGUS. He truly says that the peo-
pie of Quilcine feel isolated from the rest
of the wurIi, and that home news, s,market
reports, &c, are Greediiy devOured by
them. We can promise him his moneys
worth and more too.
MORE BUILDING-It will be remem-
bered that we announced short time
ago that Capt c. Gilbert, proprietor oi
the Califol MIA Hotel, bad purchased two
.ots in the Learned s addi ion adjoining
Maple a reuue The Captain informs us
hat he has ord cred lumber from Port
Discovery, and will proceed to erect Oh
his lots a good dwelling house for rent
Il. came here from Astoria, aud, Judging
by the way he is taking hold and help
ing to develop our town, Astoria's loss is
Il big gain for MS Snch enterprise i
highly CONNIE endable. Capt. Gilbert has
faith in Port Townsend's future. and is
putting his money where it i'll DO tine
most good. His example, if followed b!
everybody else, will lead to la-g
growth here during tie year.
REsIGSED-NTiss Wood. for some time
p1s' engaged as teacher in charge of the
primary department of our public schoo',
has resigned her position, ior reasons
best known to herself. The school d.
rectors, at a special meeting of their
board. appointed Miss Annie Van Box
kelen, to succeed Miss Wood in this de.
pa-tment of the public school. The d.
rectors III the appointment o. Hiss Van
Bukkelen, made an excellent choice, and
| no doubt, the citizens of Port Townsend
will heartily commend their selection.
She is young lady of excellent qualifica-
tons, and indeed is a Port Townsend
girl, and has received her education at
the public school of this city. N'ss
Van Bokkelen assumes her school drties
next Monday, and we wish her abund-
ant success in her new field of labor.
We learn IS mechanics liens have been
f ed against the property of the Town
send Iron works, aggregatinG the sum of
$3.50. 1t is rumored that importau'
changes will sDon take place in the MAJ =
agemeut of this establishment. All ex-
perienced mechanics agree that there is
money in the business, and the larg"
amount of work done by Townsend
Works, as we'll "a the universal sqtisfac-
ton given by its mechanics, insure its
perpetuation. The foundry and machine
shops were started by ambitious young
dollars with which to carry on busi-
ness requiring $4,000 or more. That
they have become temporarily embar-
assed is by no means to their discredit:
neither does it argue augbt against the
industry. We doubt not that the eS-
Enlistment viii snon be opeaed up on
broad ID solid financial lfouudatiop, and
that it viii be extended and enlarged
sound
Deputy Collector Izett, of Roche Har-
Dor, sends the following iu reference to
the white sloop' recently reporte drift
ing about in canal de Haro in a storm:
"On the Sth INST. Peter L1mi and Eu-
gene, fishermen, OF Mitchelrs Bay, left