Prosser, Col. William Farrand.  "A History of the Puget Sound Country, Its
Resources, Its Commerce and its People."  Vol. 2.  New York and Chicago: Lewis
Publishing Co., 1903.  pp. 290-291.

THE CHEHALIS BEE-NUGGET.

	In the advanced civilization of the twentieth century, when the immense
dominions of the United States have been knit together into an indissoluble
whole and as one mass move forward on the way of progress, the one great
powerful influence which has helped to accomplish this and wields the dominating
power in the country to-day, is the press; and as it is potent on the side of
right, so it may be the powerful instrument of tyranny and wrong.  One of the
progressive, bright and newsy sheets issued at Chehalis, Washington, which is
always found on the side of reform and public interest, is the Chehalis
Bec-Nuggct, a weekly, eight-page, six-column, Republican paper. The Nugget was
founded in 1883, and the Bee in 1884. and they were consolidated in 1898.
	Dan W. Bush, the present proprietor of the Bee-Nugget, is the postmaster of
Chehalis and records his birth as occurring in Wilson county, Kansas, in
November, 1869. He has been connected with newspaper work from early boyhood,
and in 1890 came west to Washington and at once became identified with the
progress of that state. His brother, J. C. Bush, had bought the paper in 1889,
but on account of ill health sold it to his brother; after taking a rest he took
up the work again and has since 1898 been editor and manager.  J. C. Bush was
born near Charleston, Illinois, but when ten years old was taken to Kansas and
was there reared and educated until his twentieth year.  At the age of fourteen
he began to learn the printer's trade, and he has made journalism his life work,
being fully justified in his choice by his success. For six years he was owner
and publisher of the Telegraph at Sidney, Nebraska, and he came to Washington in
1888.  In addition to his newspaper work he owns a nice little farm of
forty-nine acres two and one-half miles from Chehalis, and since 1893 has been
engaged in hop-growing.
	In October, 1893, Mr. J. C. Bush was happily married to Miss Laura Gordon,
the daughter of A. F. Gordon, one of the respected pioneers of Washington.  The
Bush brothers are both stanch Republicans and are men of high integrity, who
have made an enviable record in theif adopted city. 

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