THE PROGRESSIVE -MINER
Ketchikan. Alaska.
Entered at the Post Office at Ketchikan, Alaska a.
second class matter October 21, 1914, under the act o.
March 3, 1879. -
THE PROGRESSIVE PRINTING COMPANY
J. E. RIVARD . Editm
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devoted to the best interests of our city, Southeaaterii
Alaska in particular and the Territory in general.
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, APRIL 11, 1916.
SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE.
Everybody knows that Ketchikan is the first
town in entering Alaska, but it isn’t everybody who
knows that the town is only second in importance
in the north. It isn’t either Fairbanks, Nome, Cor
dova, Seward or Valdez that ranks next to Juneau.
It is Ketchikan; and yet all those towns have theii
High School. None of those towns have to send theii
children outside to obtain a high school education.
Long before Seward was yi incorporated town, it
had a high school. Ketchikan with a population
three times as large as most of those towns is still
without the proper school facilities. The cause of
this is not far fetched; all we have to do is to look
at oui streets and the record of taxation and we
find the reasons.
It is glaringly evident that the citizens of Ket
chikan have been too busy accumulating wealth and
spending public money in makeshifts. Our streets are
only melting pots for public money. Most of the
revenue goes to keep them up in repairs. All these
years, the rate of taxation has been extremely gen
erous to the property owners. It seems to have
been the customs to assess only part of the value of
the property. Thus favoring the property owners
every year at the expense of the children who need
ed high school education. It seems to us that the
time has come when we should be willing to be taxed
the full limit for a year or two in order to provide
sufficient funds to give our children a proper school,
make permanent streets, sewers and other improve
ments. This, it is safe to say, the present council
will favor and in a short time Ketchikan will take
her place at the head of all the towns in Alaska
where she should be by right of location, climate,
industries and everything else.
ARE WE ASLEEP?
What are we doing? Here we are less than two
months from the beginning of the tourist season and
we are apparently asleep. What have we done to
advertise our part of the country’. The answer is
brief and to the point; we have done nothing.
We have mining galore. Are 've trying to ad- j
vcrtise it? Not that we know of. There is a min- |
ing man now with us who had heard indirectly of
our mining possibilities here; he stopped on his way
to an advertised part of Alaska and after a short
inspection, secured an option on a piece a property
and will open it up. How many more would stop and
look over our property if they only knew that we had
such things? And everything else is being carried
on in the same way. Strangers come along, look
us over and depart asking one another what we are
doing here for a living; what industries are here
to hold us, and all such questions. And this lead us
to the question: What is our Commercial Club doinp
anyhow ?
It seems to us as though some kind of adver
tisement should be prepared setting forth the truth
of the importance of Ketchikan district with all
its mines, fishing industry in all its varieties, timber,
farming land and what not; and distributed to the
traveling public. There is room for more settlers;
then why not let intended settlers know what we
ha\’e instead of waiting till they ask us. By all
means, let us wake up.
ALL FIXED, EXCEPT—.
To the Editor: Please publish these few lines for
me I am known as a widow twice of Virginia, have
four children, two small and two of school age art
looking for a husband. I cannot live on the place
and take care of things alone, I am in earnest about
wanting a husbaend, I need the help and protection
of the right kind of a man. Would like to hear
from men who are not over 40 years of age, single
i men that have no children, that have farmed and
would be willing to live on a farm and take inter
est in the place and help as a life companion. Call
and see me before croping time. One with horses
preferred, as I have none. Have all except horses
and a true husband.—(The Downey Idahoan.)
Nobody will doubt for a moment that she can
find a husband with horses, but a true husband—well,
i hardly. We don’t believe thac there are such a beast
—poor woman.
HOW TO KEEP A CITY CLEAN.
To make a city cleaner and neater and to substi
tute beauty for ugliness is to enhance the value of
both public and private property. As to public prop
erty, this work can be easily controlled. But the
city authorities can be expected to act only on the
insistence of the general public. Unfortunately,
however, no matter how careful a city may be about
structures erected on public property, the general
effect of street and open places may be spoiled by
ugliness in surrounding structures and private prop
erty. Billboards, signs, ugly, garish or unkempt
buildings, buildings out of repair, untidy yards and
vacaent lots—all may counteract whatever the city
may do to make public property attractive. The
only way to keep the city neat and to make it look
as though it were really self-respecting, is for all
citizens to co-operate in insisting on private, as
well vs public neatness and attention to good design.
KETCHIKAN
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND
FREE READING ROOM
10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
MRS. J. B. THOMPSON
Librarian
AT THE CHURCHES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Regular Services Sunday 11 aun.
Wednesday evening reading and
Song Services at 7;30 p. m.
Subject for April 2, “Unreality.”
ALL ARE WELCOME.
FIRST M. E. CHURCH
Sunday Church Service 11 a. m.
and 7;30 p. m.
Thursday Prayer Meeting 8:30 p.m.
Friday Choir meets at 8:00 p. m.
First and Third Wednesday after
noons at 2:30 Ladies Aid Society.
H. W. MICHENER, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Low Mass at 8:30 a. m.
High Mass at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School at 2:30p.in.
Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. m.
Week. Day Mass at 8 a. m.
Rev. PAUL P. KERNS.
Pastor.
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Sunday—8.00 a.m., Holy commun
ion, (Except first Sunday in the
month.)
10:00 Native Sunday School.
11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and
Sermon. (Holy Communion, first
Sunday in the month.)
12:00 m. Sunday School.
7:30 Evening Prayer and Sermon.
Holy Days—10:30 a.m. Holy Com
munion.
Tuesday—8:00 p.m. St. John’s
Social Club, Guild Room.
Wednesday—2:00 p.m. Native
Women’s Guild, Indian School House
Thursday—2:30 pun. St. John’s
Guild Room.
7:.00 p.m.St. John’s Athletic Club,
Boy’s, Guild Room.
Friday—8:00 p.m. Choir Rehear
sal, Guild Room.
A sincere welcome is extended to
all, especially to newcomers.
REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY,
' Pastor.
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA. (2
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Ketchikan Meat Co.
PHONE 120
W e make a specialty of Camp and
Cannery trade
Carstens Packing C,o. Owners
Night Phone S120
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Fishing Outfits.
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Ketchikan - - r Alaska
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ADVERTISED LETTERS
Avertised letter list of the Ket
chikan, Alaska Post Office. For
the week ending April 8, 1916.
Don Abemethy, Simeon G. Ayers.
Fred Bronson, Arthur Frey, Willie
Lang, K. Wallace, Mayme Wallace
(8), J. G. Welch, Herr T. Peterson.
All letters unclaimed by April
22, 1916, will be 3ent to the dead
letter office, Washington, D. C.
Parties claiming letters from the
above list must pay a fee of one
cent for each letter claimed.
When calling for the above, say
Advertised.
M. E. SWINKFORD,
Postmaster.
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dono at the Progressive-Miner.
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ANOTHER AMUSEMENT PLACE
With the re-opening of the Shoot
ing School at the foot of Mission
street, the people may fird another
place of amusement where u / can
shoot away their little wads. Mr.
DeYoung will attend to the rest
Just go and shoot away all you mind
to.
Draying
All Orders will oe promptly
a ad carefully executed.
Contracts Taken For Anv Work
Ketchikan
DrayingCompany
J. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
Phone No. 60.
Miller & Stevens;
Hairdressing Parlor
i
Mclllravie Building, Main St.
Hours, 10:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Special work by appointment
E. E. Sparhawk
DENTIST
Office in Residence
Hours, 10 a. in. to 4 p. m.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
!24, regular
Monday!
Brothers
Invited,
rent, Mon
rsday, Fri
Saturday.
ROYAL-CAFE
We make a specialty
of Short Orders at all
times of the day or night
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Our dinners are un
equaled in the North.
| Private Boxes for Dinner]
Mitchell Bilicich, Co.
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Stedman Hotel
IRA H. KING. Manager
Headquarters for Commercial, Can
nery and Mining Men
First Class Cafe and Buffet in Connection
SPECIAL WINTER RATES FOR PERMANENT QUESTS IN
GOOD CLEAN ROOMS STEAM HEATED, AND WITH ALL THE
SERVICE AND ACCOMMODATIONS OF A FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
RATES UPON APPLICATION.
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
3 POUNDS
DELIVERED
AT YOUR
HOME
The high cost of living may be reduced. NOT
by buying CHEAP GOODS, but by buying the best
goods cheap.
YOUR great problem is, to get the best value to
be had for the money; and TO GIVE the best value
that can be given for the money, is OUR great aim.
For fifteen years we have been selling the best
coffees the world has produced, from the Islands of
Java and Sumatra, from Arabia, from South and
Central America, and while these coffees each have
some predominating fine quality, the problem has>
been to combine them and yet preserve all their fine
qualities and to so blend them as to reach PERFECT
ION IN THE CUP.
This has now been accomplished. You will find
a coffee THAT JUST SUITS YOU in CRYSTAL
BLEND, a coffee that stands alone UNEQUALED.
Let us send you a pound package to convince you
that it is THE BEST COFFEE YOU EVER DRANK.
; Phone us your order today.
Tongass Trading Co.
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EXTRA SPECIAL SALE
DRY GOODS Now on Display ih our Show
Window at from 25 to 50 per cent
BELOW COST PRICE
E. E. SPARHAWK
WASHINGTON FISH OYSTER CO.. Inc.
Phone 173
Wholesale dealers in Fish, Oysters, Clams and Crabs.
^ Fresh fish shipped to all parts of the United States
The new Fish Market supplies to families as well as to steamers in any
quantity
Cold Storage Building Ketchikan, Alaska
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JOSEPH FENYES’
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NEXT WEEK
Ketchikan Iron Works
We Cat Gears
THAT ARE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER OF TEETH
FROM
7 to JA_ Pit ;h
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Gas Engines
Oxy - Acetylene
Welding
BLACKSMITHING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
G. E. LINGERFELT, Proprietor
I We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of I
Spruce and Cedar Lumber 1
Can fill any order either stock |
or cut to specifications ... 1
Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche |
for charter for freight purposes i
Ketchikan Power Company f
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WE HOLD FAST
to the idea that a satisfied customei
is a mighty good advertisement.
Also that a dissatisfied one is a
mighty good advertisement for
somebody else. Hence, we always
do 0ur very best with every bit of
launrdy work. How good that best
is you will appreciate if you send
your things here next time.
Phone 24.
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
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Buy
Columbia
Batteries
Cost No More Last Longer |
For all ignition work
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