The Daily Morning Astorian

A Live Daily Newspaper.

Half a dozen more new subscribers were added to the Argus daily list during the past week—but we need more, quite a number yet before the extra expense for telegraph service is made up. We are trying to secure this convenience for our local readers, but cannot afford to continue it unless the expense entailed is approximately borne by our patrons. It is doubtful if another town the size of Port Townsend on the Pacific coast can boast a daily paper with dispatches as a regular telegraph service. We could not here if the service had to be paid for from the east; still, as it is, the expense is one which, added to that of type setting, editorial and reportorial work, incidentals, &c., makes the actual cash outlay for running expenses something formidable in a limited field. The Argus has occupied the field here as a daily when there was no money in it for anyone; it has served the public for public convenience alone; it has filled a necessity as that necessity grew, and it has never thus far appealed in vain for support. If its present venture is not cheerfully sustained we shall feel that the business community is making a sad mistake. No town can be more profitably advertised than by sending out a live daily newspaper, one that is a credit to the public from whence it emanates.
—Port Townsend Argus.