Douglas Meed, a well-known Port Townsend boy who years ago made the trip from here to Johannesburg, South Africa, returned to town to visit with family.

A section gang composed of Japanese laborers who have been employed for some time on the Port Townsend Southern railroad, yesterday declared a strike and walked out. They were later hauled off to Seattle.

100 years ago (1917)

The launch firm of Fulmer & Johnson, which proposes to operate an automobile ferry this summer between this city and Whidbey Island, yesterday completed negotiations for shipping over the first tourist machine of the season. The car, a Ford, will be landed at Casey on a favorable tide this morning.

A woman suffering from leprosy who has been confined at the Diamond Point quarantine station for a number of months, left the station Sunday and walked clear around the shore of Discovery Bay, following the railroad track to this city. She finally collapsed from exhaustion after walking as far as Tyler Street. She was taken back to the station yesterday.

90 years ago (1927)

Sheriff Caroll scored another neat capture in Port Ludlow in the early hours yesterday when he apprehended John Johnson, Port Angeles taxi driver, homeward bound with a touring car load of 31 gallons of moonshine.

One of the clouded mysteries of inland seas of Puget Sound yet hides the facts involved in the fate and total loss of the tug Warren early Tuesday morning in the Strait of Juan De Fuca off Middle Point, about 6 miles west of Point Wilson. Traces of wreckage from the ill-fated craft, in the way of Engineer Tucker’s coat, food chests and life preserves, have been found along the shores of the strait by Coast Guard patrols, which are trying to locate the bodies of the five men who composed the crew of the tug.

80 years ago (1937)

For the first time since 1933, smoke billowed from the stack of the local cannery Monday as the Olympic Peninsula Packing Co. completed putting the steam house in condition for a test run June 5. Operators of the new local industry announced that the packing of peas will begin June 15 or shortly after. Jefferson and Clallam county pea crops are reportedly thriving.

60 years ago (1957)

“The sheriff’s office here has been asked to help find the bell which is missing from the old Leland school.”

The USS Nautilus, the world’s first atomic-powered submarine, will lie at anchor off the Harbor Defense pier, Fort Worden, for about half an hour Saturday morning while taking on passengers, including U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson and other prominent persons. The visiting dignitaries are to take a helicopter into Fort Worden. Spectators are welcome for the visit, but small craft are asked to stay 50 yards away from the sub.

35 years ago (1982)

The City Planning Commission urges the Port Townsend City Council to question state officials as soon as possible, claiming the new ferry terminal design package “is not in the best interest of the city.”

Farmers and livestock producers on small farms are struggling. The assessed value of agricultural land is $600 an acre for a 20- to 25-acre farm, compared to a market value of $1,500-$3,000 an acre, and a residential property value of $34,000-$50,000 per acre.

(Sources: Leader Collection; Jefferson County Historical Society Museum and Research Center, 13692 Airport Cutoff Road, Port Townsend; Jefferson County Historical Society, 379-6673, jchsmuseum.org; jchswa.org, the online search site)