THE PROGRESSIVE-MINER
Ketchikan, Alaska.
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, JANUARY^ 3, 1916.
THE UNDISGUISED TRUTH
It was only the other day that wo came across a
man who was apparently annoyed as he became very
profane. The undisguised truth is that he swore
like a trooper, whatever that means. Anyhow to us
he was very profane because we never swear—hardly
ever; and when we do we use a foreign language.
Even the old saying that it helps one to get rid
of pent-up passion, is unsound; and swearing is never
A becoming to a man anymore than the use of vulgar
language is becoming to a woman. If at the very
''beginning of the year we have taken the good resol
ution to be strong a t all times, we will be able to
ove rcome that feeling of being nasty in the use of
0, ri" words, and that much better off at the end of it.
Mot only in the saving of energy but we shall not j
/ annoy anyone.
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/ AFTER PLEASURE
[ This year with most of us, it was a case of
f “pleasure before business.” We celebrated the firs:
day of the year with an abundance of indolence, con
sequently, have allowed work to accumulate t|jr i «:
be done, therefore, we must buckle down and help
to shove the wheel that makes the world go ’round,
as it were. It is very well to be amusea and amuse
others, but we soon get tired of that and we turn to
our work with pleasure. Without work life would
not be worth living.
Wealth has never purchased lasting happiness;
and while wealth can purchase idleness, idlenes is
only a curse. As a matter of fact, work is the
greatest blessing of mankind; and when men come
to realize that the great reward for labor is the
consciousness of work well done instead of the a
mount of wage received, we shall have ascended one
plane nearer to happiness.
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A MESSAGE TO AMERICANS
(From the New York World)
Twice within a few weeks has Rudolph Blanken
burg, born in Germany, reborn in the American
spirit, delivered a stirring message to his country
men.
In Philadelphia the president of the United States
revealed that lie gets peevish when the buttons aren’t
was among those moved perhaps to tears by his
earnest plea for national unity. In New York, the
other clay, he told the Pennsylvanians, who are of all
the children of the states most proud of their pedi
grees, that “neither British nor German Americans,
nor Irish, Scotch, French, Italian or Russian Ameri
cans,” should have weight in our affairs.
The veteran mayor, whom Philadelphia, to her
cost is losing, would have us prepare against a pos
sible foe abroad, but more against “the domestic foe
who may, unrecognized for years, appeal to our prej
udice, our love of riches, our political ambitions and
our vanity to uphold himself on the ruins of a popu
lar government,” the partisan politician “to whom
party is paramount to conscience."
Speeding the day when “selfishness will be sup
planted by disinterested service, cowardice by manly
courage, indifference by earnest longing to lend a help
ing hand,” Mayor Blankenburg bids us “abolish
all distinctions that mar lead to ill feeling, and let
us call ourselves, before the whole world, Americans
first, last and all the time.”
Finer word has not been spoken than this message
to Americans of a true American citizen.
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OUT OF TUNE
(From theCommercial Appeal)
We must fulfill our earthly mission. We must
put our best in what w edo, and when the door of
old age is opened, when we grope in the darkness
and wish to leave some pleasant reminder of what
we have been, while hopelessly and helpessly out
of tune, we can permit some one to touch our dis
cords and leave pleasant reminder of what we have
been and what we may hope to be.
Do not abuse the family piano because it is sweet
ly out of tune. Think what it was at one time and
live accordingly. When the old instrument is sent to
the scrap heap by unsympathetic people, it its dis
cordant strings could sing again, they would sing
with the sweet expression of the soul, the pas'
would become rose-hued, the dark days would be
touched with the sunshine of pleasant recollections,
the drab days of the present would be pushed aside,
we would become young again, confident, bouyant
and hopeful.
The instrument of life that harmonizes our early
days may some time become sweetly out of tune.
This should not discourage us. We can but lend a
listening ear to the discordant sounds and imagine
the exquisite harmony that has been lost amidst the
crowding years.
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NEIGHBORS
(From the Kansas City Star)
Occassionally a writer makes a big hit by a very
simple device. He discovers his neighbors. Most of
us live next door to people for years and visit them
on the front porch and once in a while we call on
them. But we rarely get really acquainted.
And then a McCutcheon comes along, or a Web
ster, or a Briggs, or a George Ade, or a Fatty Lewis
and finds out that a neighbor is a human being. It is
sewed on, and that his children have the croup, and
that the baby keeps the family awake all night, and
that in general he is a romantic character.
It is possible that your own neighbors might be as
interesting as those of the gentlemen just mentioned
if you would take the pains to know them
Phone 13
Ketchikan
Messenger Service
Call them up for all kinds of
light delivery, window cleaning,
messenger service and odd jobs.
OFFICE WITH JACK CLOSE
Remember Phone Number 13
JACK CORDELL, Propietor.
KETCHIKAN
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND
FREE READING ROOM
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10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
MRS. J. B. THOMPSON
Librarian
AT THE CHURCHES
AMONG T»rE 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.
ALL ARE WELCOME.
Subject for Jan. 9th “Sacrament”
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
Vwens 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.m.
Sunday Vespers at 7:30 p. m.
Week Day Mass at 8 a. m.
Rev. PAUL P. KERNS.
Paster
Saint John’s Church
9:45 Native Sunday School
11 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon j
(Holy Communion first Sunday j
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH j
in the month, 11:00 a.m.) i
12:15 a.m Sunday School 1
7:30 p.m. Evening Prayer
Thursday 8:00 p.m Choir oractice
Thursday 2:30 p.m W'oman’s Guild.
REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY,
Pastor.
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Happy New Year.
The sails are spread, the ship rides
free
For a voyage through the unknown
year,
And we want our friends to sail
with us
To a land of success and good
cheer.
For never on a New Year’s morn
ing
Have we put out. to sea
With a clearer conscience, better
hope,
Or a heart more light and free
KETCHIKAN IRON WORKS
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CHOICE HOLIDAY LIQUORS
Ylr. 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 aftet
the holidays.
Cnll up phone 42. Adv. tf.
FOK SALE
A House and lot on the Hill. Ap
ply at this office, or to Mrs. George
Chesney. Adv. tf.
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Local 22*1, regular
meeting Monday
Visiting Brothers
cordially invited.
Hall for rent. Mon
day. Thursday. Fri
day and Saturday.
Draying
v 11 Orders will oe promp'n
a id carefully executed.
Contracts Taken For 4nv Work
Ketchikan
DrayingCompan>
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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Headquarters for Commercial, Can- 1
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nery and Mining Men I
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.
RATES UPON APPLICATION.
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
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The Fisherman’s Favorite
Moderate in Price
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PHONE 8 Ketchikan, Alaska
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Grocery Specials every Wednesday
I Pay More For Your Dollars Than Any Other Store
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When Buying a Cigar Call for X
KETCHIKAN CIGAR I
It is made from the Purest and Sweetest ^E
Havana filler the market offords. Made ^E
by hand and union made fit
TRY ONE ■
JOHN A. ANDERSON Ketchikan, Alaska S
the Lotus Buffet
Ketchikan ,71 la ska
The Originator and
Vendor of the Celebrated
“LOTUS FIZZ”
‘"Nuf" said!
Ketchikan Iron Works
We Cut Gears
THAT ABE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER OF TEETH
FROM
7 to _L±_ Pit-:h
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Gas Engines
Oxy = Acetylene
Welding
BLACKSMITHING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
Q. E. LINGERFELT, Proprietor
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t We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of %
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| Spruce and Cedar Lumber |
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Can fill any order either stock +
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or cut to specifications . . .
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if Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche !
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Ketchikan Power Company | J
WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES «
Ii on don’t want to find at the last J
minute that you haven’t a shirt or *
a collar you care to wear. Make
sure that won’t happen by sending
jour things to this laundry. .You
get them back perfectly finished
and with buttons and buttonholes
intact. Think that last clause over. J
Phone 24. S
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY ■
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For Your 1
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear, j
Fishing Outfits. 4
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing M
Go To 1
N. F. ZIMMERMAN 1
Ketchikan - * Alaska I
Remember that the Firm of
$ A. E. WALKER & SON
S DEALS in HOUSE FURNITURE as well as in HUNTER^.
FISHERMEN'S SUPPLIES, such as GUNS, FISHING T
^ TENTS of all Sizes, and kept constantly in stock
S Prices Most Reasonable.