, 1884-01-03
From Tuesdays Daily.

day.
! Treasurer Bartlett WIS kept very busy
yesterday afiXing his autograph TO tax
receipts,
our Holiday eiition is still~ellnG.and
tn. edition is marry exhausted Call at
one. il you want any.
urs. Waterman and !irss halische are
in Seattle. assiating Mrs. b. Gatzert to
receive new years callers
Making fashionable calls was IN
duGseI IN b. number Of our young
bIaods this afternoon, IN spite OF uu-
favorable weather.
Hon. Thos. H Brents, Representative
in Congress from tins Territory, has been
assigned by Speaker Carlisle place on
the committed on public lands.
The ball given at Fowler's hall last
evening by the y. y. L. d. club was
largely attended, and was one Of the
most pleasant sccial gatherings of the
season.
\ new China wash house has been
opened opposite the jail. Now if some
enterprising person would only start Il
steam laundry bat then, maybe its too
soon to want everything.
The Temple of Fashion store has been
closed since Monda! morning, the lady
in charge of it having returned to Sc
attle Miss Stagg is expected down to-
morrow to reopen the establishment.
BURNED-We learn that the residence
of Capt. E. L. Marshall at Milton was
destroyed by fire last evening, very little
having been saved from the flames.
Capt. Marshall is proprietor of the Mil
ton saw mill
Sloppy weather. just the kind TO be
disagreeable. Snow fell last Saturday
to the depth of about two inches; next
day it frozc about all day Yesterday a
warm Chinook wind setin and since then
the thaw has continued.
GRowTH-The following is indicative
of business growth il the Port Townsend
postoffice, and is quite gratifying: Sale
of stamps during Or. ending Sept. Both,
1898 .6S; do, Or ending Dec 31st, S638 II.
This last. too, with letter postage reduced
10 two cents.
Rev. John Reid, pastor of the Presby-
terian Chu-c ch, having received an invita-
ton to attend the opening of the new
Pandora street Presbyterian church in
Victoria, left this morning for that city.
He says if he doesn't find any better
weather over there maybe he'll return.
A Seattle paper says of the MAN in a
NJ ze:' The Langrishe Company played
to the best hou e of the season last even
ing at YesIer's Hall. The play was en-
ioyel throughout During the perform
auce Miss Nellie Pixley favored the audi
ence with one or two choice musical Sc
lections."
Master VIM F. Learned, eldest son of
our postmaster, ". H. II. Learned, Esq,
left on tn. steamer Mexico Sunday night
for Oak AMI, Cal, where he will enter Il
commercial college. William is good
boy, aud we wish him every success. If
he don't come out at the head Of his
class We will treat.
GRADED.-Postmast Learned informs
us that the Port Townsend postoffice has
been graded, to take effect Jan. 1st. This
is as it should be. For long time past
the labor in this office has been out of
proportion to the salary. Formerly the
boss P. NJ. received $1,000 year; now
he will receive $1,000. Even this would
be small pay if he had to rent an office
and hire clerks. But small favors are
thankfully received, and the announce
ment herein made shows that we are ad-
vancing.
ADDENDA.-Amongt the matters proper
to have received attention in our article
on the growth of Port Townsend during
the year past might have been mentioned
the firm of Messrs. Pettygrove & Bur
kett. These gentlemen formed co part
nership and purchased the rrocery and
bakery business of Mr.. Chas. Eisenbeis
one of the oldest business stands in
town, located in one of that gentIeman's
spacious, substantial stone store build
ings. To the stook of groceries, &c, they
added an extensive assortment of dry
goods, gents furnishing goods, liquors,
etc. With their other branching OUT
from the limi occupied by their pre-
decessor they bought and put into use a
horse and delivery wagon, which has
been kept going quite steadily ever since,
evincing their large and growing trade.
Mr.. T. W. Pettygrove, Jr., is the young
est son of our fellow townsman, F. w.
Pettygrove, Esq. He is agenial young
man. ever alert to aid his business by
selling you something. He served an ap-
prent ceship of six or seven years in the
large mercantile establishment of Water
man & Katz, and there gained a great
deal of valuable knowledge by his wide
awake activity, which knowledge he is
now putting to practical account. Mr..
PettygrOve has already become a
thorough-going, competent and reliable
business man, and. if he lives twenty
years longer, will be wealthy He has
just turned into the twenties, yet he is
farther along toward a competency than
most men are at thirty-five. Mr.. Herbert
Burkett, the other partner in the firm, is
one of the family Of Burketts at Olym-
pia. Like Mr.. Pettygrove, he too is a
young man, driver in business, and a
person of considerable energy and enter
prise. Starting out with an excellent
practical education acquired by indus
trious, studious habits in early boyhood,
he came to Port Townsend while yet in his
teens, entering the store of c. C. Bart
lett & Co, then owned and conducted en-