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Ketchikan, Alaska.
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, APRIL 19, 1916.
IT LOOKS THAT WAY STILL.
At the outbreak of the European war, and after
a survey of the territories of the nations involved, the
cause of the gigantic struggle, their conditions and
the ultimate result of the whole; we predicted that
before the war would terminate, the United States
would be drawn into it. Wc gave the reason for this
deduction in substance as follows: The struggle was
to bo for supremacy between powerful nations and
keeping in sight the fact that only one side could
win, when the time arrived for one side to give in,
that side would commit some act that would force us
to take a hand in order to assert our rights; then
that side would throw up its hand, as it w’ere and
complain that the world was against it, sue for peace
and appeal to the generosity of the other side to let
it off in an honorable way. This conclusion was ap
plicable to either side.
It appears now as though Germany had played
her hand. She has spent uselessly her best in her.
Her splendid armies composed of compact, well train
ed bodies of men, have dwindled down until they
are no longer redoubtable, and her leaders know as
much. Consequently, Germany is preparing to bring
us in, so it seems.
Despite our much proclaimed unpreparedness and
while our country might not amount to much in a
war for conquest; it is another affair when our rights
as a Deaceful nation are involved. We w’ould become
a mighty nation because we would go into it as one
man.
WHY THIS BOTHER?
Telegraphic news from Seward yesterday states
that the delegates to the republican convention have
assembled, and from all indications, the First, Second
and Third divisions will have full control of the con
vention and that “general feeling here favors Hughes
for president.’’ But why this bother? If it was cut
and dried before the meeting, why should they have
met at all. If those delegates imagine that the ex
pression of their desire at a meeting will have any
effect upon the people in general, they are simply mis
I
those delegates is not far fetched because we only
have to go back to the primary election. The delegates
elected at the primary were elected long before the
election. It has been a put-up job from the start.
They will not represent the majority at that meeting,
therefore, we conclude that they are merely wasting
their lime and are not using their energy judiciously.
MORALLY DEFECTIVE.
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Are we morally defective ? According to Dr. Otto
Warning of Chicago, we are. Every one of us will
hate like sixty to acknowledge it, but in the face of
such argument as was given by the eminent doctor.
We must agree. In a lecture he asserted that the
“battered crockery and glistening crystal are no longer
merely marbles, but they are gambling devices." He
says that the game teaches the boys to gamble. And
he is right. But the funny part of it is that we
never thought of it in that light. No wonder that
our boys are bad; we permit them to practice and be
come expert in gambling. A crime much worse than
chicken stealing. Its wonderful how some of those
reformers can detect crimes.
“WORRY LIKE THE DRUG HABIT.”
“No more fatal habit ever attacked the human
family than worry,” said the Rt. Rev. Bishop Charles
E. Woodcock. during a recent sermon. “I can think
of no more deadly drug, T can think of no suicide
more real, and perhaps, when we consider its effects,
there are very few sins which are greater.”
Bishop Woodcock gave "a vivid word picture^of
the uselessness and evil effects of worry, diagnosing it
as a disease and concluding by prescribing a remedy.
The remedy he found in his text, “Casting all your
care upon him, for he careth for thee.” He spoke in
part as follows:
“Not only is worry a sin—it is a disease. The
sufferer worries about anything and everything until
he worries because he has nothing to worry about.
There is no personal weakness which is greater than
the constitutional habit of worrying. There is a great
distinction between worry and care and proper anxiety.
Worry is something that you add to care and anxiety
until you haven’t time to do anything else. People
who really are doing something haven’t time to worry.
“Worry poisons the blood, hardens the arteries,
impairs digestion and destroys health. It poisons every
blessing, assassinates every hope, dims every splendor
and profanes every bright prospect. No one ever
heard of a single thing that worry ever helped. It
never inspired a single hope or created a single success.
It is populating our madhouses and our sanitariums
for the nervously broken down.
“Most worries are by anticipation. It is a sin
because it means a waste of life. It is just as
controllable as the drink and drug habit. It has the
same effect on life and character that dissipation has.
It is no more sinful to drink yourself into the gutter
than to worry yourself into the grave. You won’t be
asked how you wasted your life, but why you wasted
your life.
“There is a cure for worry, and the remedy is
absolutely sure and simple. It is this: Every day has
its cares from below and its help from above. You:
join the care from below with the help from above
and there is nothing in human history that you can
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KETCHIKAN CAMP, NO. 20; A. B.
Meet? every Monday evening
at 8 p.m., at Red Men’s
Visiting Brothers Welc .ne
H. M. Stackpole, A. C
D. M. Smith Harris, A. R.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Local 224, regular
meeting Monday
Visiting Brothers
cordially invited.
• Hall (or rent. Mon
day, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
AT THE CHURCHES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY
Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Regular Services Sunday 11 a.m.
Wednesday evening reading and
Song Services at 7 ;30 p. m.
Subject for April 23, “Probation
After Death.”
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
ts at 2:30 Ladies Aid Society.
H. W. MICHENER, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
t.uvv Mass at 8:30 a. m.
High Mass at 10:30 & m.
Sunday School at 2:30p.m.
Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. m.
W eek Day Mass at 8 a. m.
(lev. PAUL P. KERNS.
.Paster.
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 p.m. 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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PROFESSIONALS
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
| Offices adjoining U S. Customs
Office
Notary
S. A. PLUMLFY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
Office—Town Council Chambers.
K etch i kan, 1 „ska.
E. E. Sparhawk
DENTIST
Office in Residence
Hours, 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
.
Miller & Stevens
Hairdressing Parlor
Mclllravie Building, Main St.
Hours, 10:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Special work by appointment
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorney at Law
GENERAL PRACTICE
C. E. INGERSOLL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompt attention given to perfect
■ng land titles and securing patents
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
J. FILLMORE WARDER
Attorney at Law
General Practice Revilla Block
MARY A. C GIBSON
Stenographer
Notary Public
OFFICES
—Newtown Home—
Phone 142
Phone 106. First-Class Work
F. MILLER
Painting, Kalsomining, Paperhanging
and Graining a Specialty.
KETCHIKAN, - : : ALASKA
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Ketchikan Meat Co.
PHONE 120
We make a specialty of Camp and
' Cannery trade
Carstens Packing Cjo. Owners
Night Phone S120
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For Your
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing
Go To
N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan - ■ Alaska
FOR SALE
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Bell Island Hot Springs
Locuted 45 miles north of Ket
chikan, 'Alaska. Composed of 22
cabins, -tore with $1,000 stock, dock
and walk from, dock to Springs, a
distance of one quarter mile.
Numerous number of springs. Five
of the largest cemented, walled and
fenced in and the water is seven
feet deep. Creek flows by springs
with good water power, being fed
from four large lakes.
Springs are in the hands of the
heirs of George Roe, and their de
-ire is to sell if reasonable price
if offered in the near future.
Terms can be made on this sale.
Inquiries and information can be
had from W. L. ROE,
Ketchikan, Alaska.
EVERYBODY IS
DOING IT, DOING IT.
DOING WHAT?
Going for a square meal
at the STEDMAN CAFE.
Give us a trial!
ROYAL-CAFE
We make a specialty
of Short Orders at all
times of the day or night
Our dinners are un
equaled in the North.
| Private Boxes for Dinner]
Mitchell Bilicich, Co.
Draying
All Orders will oe promptly
a ad carefully executed.
Contracts TaKei For Anv Work
Ketchikan
DrayingCompany
J. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
Phone No. 60.
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| We Manufacture and Keep in Stock ail kinds of I
I* Spruce and Cedar Lumber f
Can fill any order either stock jj
or cut to specifications ... 1
Steamer Vigilant and Barge* Blanche |
for charter for freight purposes |
Ketchikan Power Company ]
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IStedman Hotel
IRA H. KING, Manager
Headquarters for Commercial, Can
nery and Mining Men
Mrst Class Cafe and Buffet in Connection
, SPECIAL WINTER RATES FOR PERMANENT GUESTS IN
GOOD CLEAN ROOMS STEAM HEATED, AND WITH ALL THE
SERVICE AND ACCOMMODATIONS OF A FIRST CLASS HOTEL.
RATES UPON APPLICATION.
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
3 POUNDS
DELIVERED
AT YOUR
HOME
i The high cost of living may be reduced. NOT
I 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.
A. ;'vvv- ' "
Tongass Trading Co.
GENERAL BOAT BUILDING
AT THOMAS DOCK
Estimates Furnfshed,
Prices Reasonable.
CANNERY WORK A SPECIALTY
Boat work of all kinds promptly done.
H. CRICKS, Builder
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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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Ketchikan Iron Works
.. _ Cut Gears
THAT ARE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER OF TEETH
FROM
7 to 14 Pitch
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Gas Engines ^
Oxy- Acetylene
Wr»IHin<r
BLACKSMITHING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
Q. E. LINQERFELT, Proprietor
WE HOLD FAST
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to the idea that a satisfied customet
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
laumdy work. How good that best
is you will appreciate if you send
your things here next time.
Phone 24.
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
THE EVINRUDE
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
This you will find in an Evinrude.
Unequaled in Power and Duribility
Ideal motor for trolling- Tho
four-cycle can be slowed down to
two miles per hour.
Bums less gasoline per horse
power.
At least investigate before buy
ing any other motor.
HANDLE ALL PARTS.
H. G. KUBLEY
Dealer in General Merchandise
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
Slows Down
To two miles per hour
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Buy
Columbia
Batteries
Cost No More Last Longer
.For all ignition work
Citizens’ Light, Power & Water Co. *
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