The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-11
STATE PRESS.


The Island County sun, published At Coupe
vile. says, evidently in references 70 some local
event, thst - newspaper II getting out Of it,
latitude when II publishes every dirty little
scrape that may Hauspire." The Sun shows
good sense. II Il wise editor who knows both
Whist to print and what TO omit There are
many private unpleassntnesses occurring in
every town with which only the scandal-mongef
is concerned. II people resort to the courts. or
commit sucn an onense against public morals
that an arrest follows. it IL public matter and
becomes legitimate subject Of Newspaper note.
But It serves no good purpose and only Injuries
town to gather up and publish abroad the
ordinary petty disagreeables Of ery-day life.
Unfortunately, there are some newspapers
which revel in nasty details and devote more
space to one little scandal than to the ninety
and nine good deeds thst men perform.
The Allyn Times announces that an election
Is called for the purpose OF issuing bonds to pay
the indebtness Of the school district and to
finish and furnish the school house. The dis
trict il in debt $500. and the amount called for
Is $500. The Times sanguinely opines that at the
end Of ten years, the time fixed for the bonds to
become due, there win be more people and
ss~>oSAS ecAss~s
than now" Let Us hope 50; or II not that,
within ten years there may bs fifty men in
Allyn able and willing to put up s12 apiece or
perhaps twelve able to subscribe $50 each. IT
Allyn will profit by the experience of Seattle she
will call out three-fourths Of hef qualified
voters," whatever that means, and also see to 1t
that her notice Of election is published as
passed by the district board of education.
somebody thought it would be . good joke to
ring ire alarm about midnight following the
day Of the marriage Of the engineer. According
to the Yakima Republic the joke may be pro-
ductive Of good. as 1t was discovered that the
ressrve water tank was empty, and had there
been IRE the means upon which the people
relied would have been wanting
The editor OF the Aberdeen Herald has gone
off TO the Olympics for week. Editors down
that way are getting into . bad habit lately.
Whenever they don't want to take their wives
on the annual camp-out picnic they call Il IAN
exploring expedition" and go OF fishing and
hunting and have good time with some other
fellows.
The Slaughter Sun pokcs fan at Silverton. Or.
egon, which is sending gratuitous boom litera-
ture to the Washington papers, showing that it
was founded in 1853, and in thirty-seven years
has reached population OF 600 aud 700. "Grsat
Casar's ghostl" says the Sun. 'what an enter
prising set Of men they must have there
Puget Race, Of coupviile has got married. and
the Sun thus pleasantly speaks of the bride
groom: puget Is nice young man. mild-man-
nered and steady, and IL engaged in the drug
business among us" The bride is to be con-
gratHlated.
''It does our town great injury" says the Port
Angeles Tribune, ITO send out false dispatches
and induce parties to come here and find them
selves deceived. They so away dissatisfied and
give our place black eye everywhere they CO."
The Spangle Record, which bears the colors of
J. w. Dow at its masthead, announces that 'the
present management steps down and out" It
adds: 1--WE do not know what Mr. lnkster, the
owner, is going to do with the Record"
The Vancouver Independent says that Seattle,
with population less than that Of Portland by
$1,000 has four daily papers" The Independent
must have been reading the census returns of
1890