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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, DECEMBER 17, 1915
NO PEACE IN SIGHT
Peace talk is cheap; yet the world may se*
some hope that the end of the war is at least within
contemplation. However, most men declare that
hope is slight because of the terms defined by the
factions.
The absolute defeat on the partof the Germans
is in substance the terms which the French would
require; and on the other hand, it is the German as
sertion that the allies are already beaten, and peace
becomes impossible until the allies acknowledge theii
defeat. From an outsider’s standpoint the net
gain so far as surface appearances go, is merely
the fact that they are willing to talk peace now,
a condition that six months ago was not in sight.
Diplomatically, we may be sure, the leaders in
each of the armed factions are on the alert. But
it is quite possible and not improbable, that there
is hope here and there for a showdown upon some
proposition that will involve a division of the honors
and advantage.
However, we cannot deny the fact that thus
far the barrier to peace raised by the different part
ies are insurmountable. But having in mind the
distress and world sickness of war, and considering
further the consequences sure to follow should peace
become a fact, the insurmounatbility of the barrier
may yet be accomplished.
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WE PITY THEM
We pity them, don’t you ?
It is about this time every' year that the mil
lionaires get our sympathy, because they have to
spend so much perfectly good money on Christmas
presents which they figure is a waste of money,
pure and simple. So do we, particularly when it
involves a large amount. To us a five cent piece
buys as big a loaf of bread now as it did a year
ago; but one thousand dollars doesn’t buy as big a
blue foxskin coat, no, not by half.
The boiled vegetables on the modest dinner table
are as cheap today' as they were years ago, but when
the poor millionaires are told to buy a white fox set
they must advance by almost sixty-five per cent,
for them than they would have done at this time
two years ago. Plutocratic happiness has advanced
shamefully while our sugar and mutton chops still
maintain the same price.
Yes, the millionaires are to be pitied, things
that they want have gone up so. With us it Is
different and as far as prices go, the poor man’s
dinner pail can scarcely tell a financial feast from
a financial famine, and that is the way we like it.
No indeed we don’t want to be a millionaire.
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NO TIME FOR TWO-SPOTS
(From the New York Times)
Into the happy, innocent, prattling parade of the
favorite sons, the Little Lord Fauntleroys of the Re
publican party, there burst a coarse, grown-up per
son, and treir pretty piping litle flutings are drown
ed out by a bass voice—one of the few bass voices
that the Republican party ha* heard in recent years.
It emerges from the sturdy lungs of James R. Mann,
one of the few men in public life who acts invariably
as if he believed that common sense is a better poli
tical asset than taffy. If that verile voice does not
wake the party up from its dream and make it stop
its favorite-son nonsense, take serious thought io
itself, and send its crop of Little Rollo favorite sons
about their business, it has another lesson to learn
in 1916 like the one it learned in 1912.
The Republican party, its house leader harshly
informs it, has "no walkaway” and “Cannot win with
a two-spot.”
In ordinary times, he says, it does not take rare
wisdom or statesmanship to be a president; “bul
when the next president is elected he must be a lead
er of men and the leader of the nation.” These are
not ordinary times.
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IN DEFENSE OF THE PRESENT
(Ellis O. Jones, in Life.)
Things are not worse than they were when you
were little. They only seem so. If they have
changed in any essential respect it has more likely
been a change for the better. The misleading thing
is that when you were a child your elders talked to
you so much about goodness and virtue and unsel
fishness you naturally assumed the world to be full
of those admirable qualities, and that the older one
grew the easier it was to find the right path and
follow it.
In aword, your elders imposed upon you. They
let you believe that the worst things in the world
were bad little boys and bad little girls, and that
nearly everybody stopped telling liesand being sel
fish after they reached a certain age. You thought
that a man who was kind and looked so wise as the
doctor must always know what he is talking about;
that judges who could wear such majestic gowns
must be the acme of perspicacious impartiality, and
that teachers could not be so impatient without hav
ing a great deal of intelligence to back it up.
And then you grew up to find that all these peo
ple are just people, and that all the vise men are
in books, whereupon you did not stop to analyze the
matter, but just jumped to the conclusion that the
world is deteriorating. On the contrary.
Take a
Tonight
s It will act as a laxative in the
morning
Ketchikan Drug Co.
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Christian Science Society
Subject for Sunday December 12th,
“God The Preserver of Men.”
Front street. Ketchikan,
Regular Services Sunday 11 am
Wednesday evening reading and
Song Services at 7:30 p.m
All Are Welcome
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Pint M. N. Church
Sunday Church service 11 a. m and
':30 p. m.
Thursday Prayer Meeting 8:30. p.m.
Friday choir meets 8 o’clock.
First and third Wednesday after
•nous at 2:80 Ladies Aid Society.
H. W. MICHENEB, Pastor
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Low Mass at 8:30 a. m.
High Mass at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School at 2:30p.ui.
Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. m.
Week Day Mass at 8 a. m.
Rev. PAUL P. KERNS.
Paste:
Saint John’s Church
9:45 Native Sunday School
11 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon
(Holy Communion first Sunday
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOUAI, CHURCH
in the month, 11:00 a.m.)
12:15 a.m Sunday School
7:30 p.m. Evening Prayer
Thursday 8:00 p.m Choir practice
Thursday 2:30 p.m Woman’s Guild.
REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY,
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POST OFFICE
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chikan, Alaska, Post Office.
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Ketchikan, Alaska Post Office, fo;
the week ending Dec. 11th, 1915.
McIntosh, Jack
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All letters unclaimed by Dec. 25th
1915 will be sent to the Dead Let
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M. E. SWINEFORD,
Postmaster.
For Rent—Desirable four roomed
house, hot and cold water, bath
room, and all the modern conven
iences. Fine view. A pply Mrs.
Young, Newtown. 6t n.lv.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Local 224, regular
meeting Wednesday
Visiting Brothers
cordially invited.
Hall for rent, Mon
day, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
CHOICE HOLIDAY LIQUORS
Mr. M. E. Martin, of the Side
board, has just received a large
stock of fine liquors, purchased
especially for parti ular family
trade. He announces that tele
phone orders will be delivered free
of charge in any part of town from
2 to 6 p.m., from now on till after
the holidays.
Call up phone 42. Adv. tf.
Draying
All Oi’ders will be pforoptb
aid carefully executed.
Contracts Taken For Anv Wor*
Ketchikan
DrayingCompany
J. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
Phone No. 60.
ROYAL CAFE
UNDER
NEW MANAGEMENT
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
parties.
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Stedman Hotel
HI STEVENS MGR.
Headquarters for Commercial, Can
nery and Mining Men
First 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.
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
GLEARANGE SALE
On Taffeta Ribbons
No. 1. Regular Price .021-2c. yd. Sale Price .01 l-2c. per yd.
No. 1-2 Regular Price ,021-2c. yd Sale Price .02 c.per yd.
No. 2 Regular Price .50 c. yd. Sale Price .02 l-2c. Fed. yd.
No. 3 Regular Price .05 c. yd. Sale Price .03 c.per yd.
No. 5 Regular Price .081-4c. yd. Sale Price .05 c.per yd.
No. 7 Regular Price .10 c. yd. Sale Price 07. c.per yd.
No. 9 Regular Price .12 l-2c. yd Sale Price .08 l-3c. per yd.
No. 12 Regular Price 15. c. yd. Sale Price .10 c. qer yd.
No. 16 Regular Price .20 c. yd. Sale Price .12 l-2c. per yd.
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Come early while the assortment is good
Be sure to see our new line of Ladies’ Collars, Dol
eros, Vestees, Boudier Caps, Maudarin Caps and the
very latest in Fur Trimed Collar and Cuff sets, on
display in our windows
T0NGASS TRADING COMPANY
Now Is the Time
To buy where your dollar
buys the most
1-4 off on Dry Goods
E. E. SPARHAWK
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Patronize Home Industry
When Buying a Cigar Call for
KETCHIKAN CIGAR
It is made from the Purest and Sweetest
Havana filler the market offords. Made
by hand and union made
TRY ONE
JOHN A. ANDERSON Ketchikan, Alaska ]
the Lotus Buffet
Ketchikan Alaska
The Originator and
Vendor of the Celebrated
“LOTUS FIZZ”
‘Nuf said!
Ketchikan Iron Works
We Cut Gears
THAT ARE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER OF TEETH
FROM
7 to 14 Pitch
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Gas Engines
Oxy - Acetylene
Welding
BLACKSMITHING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
Q. E. LINGER FELT, Proprietor
I We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of |
Spruce and Cedar Lumber I
II Can fill any order either stock ! i
; or cut to specifications ... !!
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Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche ii
for charter for freight purposes ii .*
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Ketchikan Power Company ii
WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES
^ on don't want to find at t.he last
minute that you haven’t a shirt or
a collar you care to wear. Make
■sure that won’t happen by sending
your things to this laundry. .You
get them back perfectly finished
and with buttons and buttonholes
intact. Think that last clause over.
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
For Vour
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing
Go To
N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan; - - c Alaska
Remember that the Firm of ™
3 A. E. WALKER & SON § '
^ DEALS in HOUSE-FURNITURE as well as in HUNTERS’ and ^ ‘
FISHERMEN'S SUPPLIES, such as GUNS, FISHING-TACKLE, ^
TENTS of all Sizes, and kept constantly in stock
Prices Most Reasonable.
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