CHATOLIC CHURCH
LADIES TO DANCE
The ladies of the Catholic Church
announce that they will give a
dance next Saturday night at Red
Men’s Hall commencing at nine
o’clock. There will be good music
also cards for those who do not
wish to dance. Refreshments will
be served and altogether a splen
did time is being arranged for all
those who will attend.
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FOR SALE AT KKAFTHURST
1, L. C. Smith Typewriter and
stand in fine condition, $50.00
1. Copeman Electric Range, good
working order, $35.00
1, Grand Electric Washing Mach
ine, first class, $35.00
1,Cyphers Electric Incubator, 120
pggs, as good as new, $18.00
1, Singer Sewing Machine, in good
condition, $30.00
About 90 pullets and two year
. old hens, White Leghorns, White
Orpingtons and crosses of the two
breeds, in fine condition and laying,
$1.50 each, special price on the
whole lot.
The above must be sold in the
next three days. If interested call
Phone, Green 84.
M. A. MITCHELL.
CLASIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Last lap of the Big Race for Bar
gains at Heckman’s. Don't miss
filling up in dry goods and under
wear. Adv.
Bring in your bit of news. The
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to receive and print news items.
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livered 75 cents per month.
FOR SALE—A two room cabin
and a lot on Stedman Ave., City.
The lot is 30 foot front by 150
feet deep. For particulars apply to
“Dad” De Young. Adv. tf.
FOR SALE
The “Tom Barry House” in New
town. Any reasonable offer will
be considered. Enquire of North
ern Machine Works. tf. adv.
LADIES AID TO HOLD SALE
The Ladies Aid of the M. E.
Church wish to announce that they
will hold teir big Annual Sale about
Easter time. 6t.
FOR QUICK SALE
One interest in the Eurus Group
of Marble claims on Dali Island will
be sold cheap if taken a t once. Best
marble prospect in the country.
Address, P. O. Box 73. Ad. 6t.
Great “cleanup” sale for the rest
of the month of January- at Heck
man’s. Adv. tf.
FOUND
Found, a plain gold band ring
with three initials engraved upon
the inside. Owner please call at
this office and prove property, adtf
FOR SALE—Choice four resi
dence lots at $300 each. Apply to
Jlcob Pittinger, City. Adv.
French Flannel Waists, formerly
$3.00 now sold for $1.50 at Heck
man’s. Adv. tf.
FOUND—In Tongass Narrows a
14 ft green skiff. Owner apply
this office prove property and pay
for this notice. Adv. 6t.
KETCHIKAN' MEAT COMPANY
SPECIALS
Fresh Chicken tamales,
Fresh Sound Oysters,
3 Doz. Eggs 93 cents.
Would like a few more boadrers,
good home cooking, family style.
We give meal tickets at reasonable
rates. Located over Kriedler’s
Lumber shop. 26t.
MRS. RETSCH
WHY PAY RENT?
When Mr. Peckham with the
Ryus Drug & Jewelry Co., is of
fering his furnished home at a
very low figure for a quick sale
Five rooms and large bath room.
Splendid view. Call and see Mr
Peckham at once. Adv. tf.
The quality of Ladysjnith Coal is
» guaranteed by the Northland Dock
company. adv.
FOR RENT—Five room hou
with bath. Phone 62. .adv.
Semi ■!! \ *• ■ • i- ! • r- 3i.,| pel lie
i'-| mark*" pree for them
f ont f> .1, Ollmcire air
BOTH WILL BE THANKFUL
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for the Daily Progressive-Miner for
eight months, $5.00 cash, and you
will thank us. , 1
celebrate; Lincoln’s birthday
AT THE FIREMEN’S BALL
FEBRUARY 12 AT THE RINK
The hoys will spare nothing to make you
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You all happy. So come and swell the
funds to be used for building a
Gymnasium and Recreation Hall
The Committee on arrangements
for the Firemen’s Ball on Lincoln’s
Birthday, February 12, 1016, have
to announce that all plans have
been completed and a big time is
assured. The dance will be given
in the Rink, where there will be
plenty of room for all, both great
and small.
The following committees will
have charge of the evenings’ fest
ivities:
Reception Committee: D. W.
Hunt, Chief; Fremont King. Hon.
Chief; and F. H. Bold, Asst. Chief.
Floor Committe: Harvey Stack
pole, Foreman Cart No. 1; Lawr
ence Kubley, Foreman Cart No. 2;
end Stanley Adams, Foreman Chem
ical.
Refreshments: Jack Rounsefell;
Carl Thatcher; and Fred Patching.
Ticket Committee: John Koel:
Chris Hoover; and T. Clemenson.
The following committe "ill have
charge of the music: W. H. Patch
ing, Bob Graham and Walter Jang
gen and the best in the music line
is guaranteed.
The price of admission will be
50c. each one and alll. Tickets
will be on sale this week at all
the leading places of buiness. The
receipts from this ball will be used
to satrt a fund for a public gym
nasium. Ketchikan affords very
little recreation for her growing
boys, or the business man, and this
should recommend itself to each
and every one of us. The co-op
eration on the part of every citi
zen is requested to make this dance
■ success.
UNDERGROUND
DWELLING WONDER
SERIES OF ROOMS EXCAVATED
BY A FARMER
HARDTNER, Kan. Jan. 25.—Wal
ter Griffin, a farmer, has a curio
sity in the shape of an underground
dwelling, near this place. He has
devoted many months to the work.
Hundreds of people have visited his
odd home which reaches into the
ground to a depth of about sixty
feet, but instead of going straight
down it is really and Underground
gallery, extending from one ledge
to another, and arranged with lad
ders and platforms.
The top of the “well” is closed
by a door way and lock. On open
ing the door one finds a hole in the
ground wi.h a ladder leading down
into darkness. Going down the
ladder, one comes to a ledge several
feet in width, to the side of which
is a room about twenty feet square,
dug out of the earth.
From the ledge another ladder
leads downward and another ledge
is reached. Here the attempt was
made to make a gallery of 200 feet
back into the earth, which is not
finished, though it is intended to
be, according to those who live in
the vicinity. From this point the
well leads down successive steps in
zigzag fashion to the bottom, where
there is five or six feet of water.
Not only is the home alone re
markable, but the sinking of it
none the less so. Griffin dug his
well himself, throwing the dirt and
rock (for a portion of the excava
tion is through solid rock) up from
one ledge to the next above until
he reaches the ladders, where he
put it in buckets and carried it by
hand to nearby buffalo wallows.
The people living in the neigh
borhood say he lived almost entire
ly «n crackers during the months
it took to do the digging. It will
be one of the wonders of the State
when finished.
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STRUGGLING FOR EXISTENCE
WAS TOO MUCH FOR
THEM
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Wearied
by the struggle for existence. Geo.
Batum, 83 years old and his wife
Martha, 89, sat with their arms
around each other in their little
two-room flat at 433 West Fiftieth
and determined to end their lives.
Their little granddaughter detect
ed the odor of gas escaping, but it
was too late to save Mr. Batum,
who was found dead beside his wife
Mrs. Batum, revived by a pulmotor,
was taken to Polyclinic hdSpital,
This house, after it has been remodeled,
will be for sale by 1YI* S Smith
BRITISHER IS DETERMINED TO
FIGHT IT OUT
“Do not be under any misappre
hension,” Lloyd George is quoted as
saying by the newspapers giving an
interview recently. “Great Britain
is determined to end the war. We
may make mistakes, but we never
give in. It was British stubbor
ness which overthrew Napoleon af
ter twenty years of war. Our al
lies then fell away one by one, and
England alone held on. This time
oui- allies are as stanch and resolute
as we are.
“We have at present 3,000,000
men under arms," continued Mr.
Lloyd George, according to the in
teviewer, “and by spring we will
have 4,000,000 soldiers, solid, fit and
well equipped.
“This is a democratic war. if
it was not I should have nothing (o
do with it. I was opposed to the
last war that England engaged in,
But in the present war the future of
dmocraey in the whole world is in
volved. It is a final struggle be
ueen military autocracy and politi
cal liberty.a hideous conflict but on >
wherein we shall be victorious, of
i hat 1 in r i tain. The central cm
, ires h.i, , , ... u eir ciii i of vic
icry, an i ti.r-v k. w it. Gnu: Mr
tain is an-c-d H| tins **ir to such a
point that f 'here aeie * general
ejection ut a single rv.i »•*» mem
her v on d In* eh-vied
“I forsee no difficulty in connec
tion with compulsion. No fewer
than 6,000 000 men cam- forward
where it is said she would probab
ly recover. Policeman O’Neil, of
of the West Forty-seventh street
police station, reluctantly made a
technical charge of attempted sui
cide against her.
Heartbreaking economy for many
months had at last enabled Mr. and
Mrs. Batum to save enough money
for the expenses of a funeral. An
undertaking firm was instructed to
send a representative to the flat.
To the latter Mr. Batum explained
just what kind of a funeral they
wanted, placing particular empha
sis on the direction that they were
to be buried together.
In explaining to their visitors
why they were making such arrange
ments Mr. Batum smiled at his wife
and said: “We are very old, you
know. Death comes quickly to the
aged, and suddenly.”
Shortly afternoon Ethel Coan, 8
years old, ran up stairs for her
daily chat with her grandparents.
No one answered her call of “Gran
ny.” Through the keyhole came
a strong odor of gas. Neighbors
led the girl away while the police
man battered in the door. They
found Mr. Batum sitting in a chair
•• :th his wife on her knees besido
li m.
UNDERWRITERS
GIVE UP HOPE
STEAMER THAT LEFT IN DEC
EMBER HAS NOT BEEN
HEARD OF
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—The steam
er Orleaniann, that sailed from New
York for Malta, with passengers
and freight, and which should have
arrived at its destination long since,
is given up as lost by the under
writers.
Inpuiries and search have been
made, but so far nothing has been
seen of the steamer since it left
lie port here.
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STEAMER SPOKANE FROM THE
SOUTH
The steamer Spokane arrived
om the south at an early hour
this morning with 65 tons of local
freight.
S. Zj'ndar was the only passenger
from Ketchikan.
to en;ist. Some were unfit for ser
vice, otherswere required for muni
tion factories, for the railroads and
i :i'3. About .‘’380,0’\- men are af
lecteri by D>* compulsory serv: :e
m-HMire I u this nu liter • dimi
nish m« n ugh daily inteHaticn*.
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TONIGHT AT
THE GRAND
“THE TENTH COMMANDMENT”
Featuring Win, SIIAY and VIOLET MERSERLAL
“LITTLE EVA MANSFIELD”
3 In a drama of charming fantasy
And a comedy completes the show
Change of Program Wednesday
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CANNON’S BAKERY -
AND GROCERY
Corn .15
Ail milk 3 cans .25
8 oz. can Bakers cocoa .25
Reliance Coffee .40
Gold Shield coffee .40
Canned Pineapple .15 ft .20 ^
String beans, ,20c. two for .35
Sweet potatoes, 20c. 2 for .35^
Krout, 20c. 2 for .35
E. J. Peas, 20c. 2 for .35
Golden Wax beans .20c. 2 for .35
Pumpkin, 20c. 2 for .36
Hominy, 20c. 2 for .56
Solid Pack, Amocat and Reliance
Tomatoes, >16
Ranch Eggs per doz. .35
or 3 doz for $1.00
Lciul flirerer cocoanut per lb. .20
Your money back if not satisfied.
Bread, Rolls, Pies, Oakes and Layer
Cakes, Angel Food, White Cake, Jel
ly RoU, Lemon Roll, Cup Cakes, Gin
ger Bread, Cocoanut Basses, Maca
roons, Honey Jumbles, Frosted Creams,
Lemon, Sugar, Currant, Soioe and Co
coanut Cookies. Doughnuts and Toast.
Baking powder, per lb. -16
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IT H A N K S 1
We wish to thank the people of Ketchikan for their valued ,K y
patronage during the past year, and we are glad to announce ,
that our holiday business this year far exceeded our expecta- ! pj
tions. This only goes further to prove that our customers are , &
our friends, and we take this opportunity to wish them all a H
Bright and Prosperous New Year Xx
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That good teeth is the key to good health, and he recommends ft
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