Western Meat & Fish Go j
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Packers and JoDbers of T
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Fresh Meat, Provisions and Fish ;;
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KETCHIKAN - — ALASKA. ;
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Alaska Steamship Co.
THREE DAY SERVICE
Sailing from Ketchikan Northbound. Southeastern Alaske Service
JEFFERSON NOV. 29, DEC. 9-21, JAN. 1st.
DOLPHIN, NOV. 17.
RETURNING THREE LATF**
MORT COMFORTABLE SHIPS ON SOUTPIE ASTERN ROUTE
ALAMEDA, NOV. 19, DEC. 12, JAN 1st.
NORTHWESTERN, DEC. 3-23.
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway and Westward, Returning 10 Days
Later. Largest and Fastest S lip; running :o Alaska
-Ml Sailings Subject to Change Without Notice.
Tickets to Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia.
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent = - Phone 64
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1 STEAMERS FOR J
| Seattle, Tacoma
Victoria, Vancouver. Ana ortes, Bellingham
Everett, Olympia. Port Townsend, South
Bellingham, Eureka, Santa Barbara, Mexico
i San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
H. BRANDT, G.A.P.D. C. D. DUNANN, P.T.M.
608 Second Ave, Seattle. 112 Market, SanFrancUco
Right reserved to Change Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS FROM KETCHIKAN
S. S. SENATOR, NOVEMBER 26.
SITY OF SEATTLE, DEC. 7-18-2!). JAN. 9-20-31. FEB. 11-22.
RETURNING THREE DAYS LATER
PHONE 77. .... . - F, H. BOLD. Agent.
HUMBOLDT
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
11 * S. S. Humboldt sails from Ketchikan for Skag
way, and all S. E. Alaska Ports on or about
the folowing dates:
November 6th, 18th, and 29th.
And every 10 days thereatter, leaving south
bound three days later
HECKMAN WHARF COMPANY, Agents.
Border Line Transportation Co.
REDUCED RATES BETWEEN KET- First Clasp $16.00
CHIKAN AND SEATTLE Second Class $10.00
S, S. ALKI PASSENGER AND FREIGHT
SERVICE BETWEEN SEATTLE
„ „ __ _ , .. .... AND S. E. ALASKJ "DIRE-*t
S. S. DfcSPATCH SERVICE TO WEST CP".!
OF PRINCE OF WAI-5W VL
S. S. NORTHLAND
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
For further informaion apply to
D. W. Hunt, Agent, Northland Dock. Phou 60.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway
THE PRINCESS LINE
Leave Seattle and Vancouver. Nov. 27 Dec. 11-27 Jan. 8-22
Arrive Ketchikan p.m. Nov. 29 Dec. 13-29 Jen. 10-24
Leave Ketchikan a.m. Dec. 3 Dec. 17 Jan.2-14-28
Arrive Victoria and Seattle Nov. 5 Dec. 19 Jan 4-16-30
Subject to change without notice
Steamers connect at Vancouver with trains for all Eastern points.
We offer attractive rates to eastern rail destinations.
The Line of Quality. Our Service is Unsurpassed on Water or
Rail. Full information give n by
F. E. RYUS, Agent Phone 39
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Save Time
Use the New Short Route
To and From EASTERN CANADA, also EASTERN and SOUTH
ERN UNITED STATES POINTS via
PRINCE RUPERT
GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC RAILWAY AND STEAMERS
Lowest Fares. Unexcelled dining and Sleeping Car Service.
Electric Lighted Trains. Observation Cars.
For full information apply to
JNO. R. BEEGLE, & CO. Agents.
Ketchikan, Alaska.
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WAITING IS WHAT
HURT SAY SOLDIERS
THE LAST MINUTE BEFORE
CHARGE IS TRYING TIME
“The last minute before the
charge was the hardest to pull
through” said a machine gun ser
geant recently when telling of sottne
of his experiences. In one instance,
he fought his way forward nearly
four miles through a storm of pro
jectiles of all sizes and kinds, pit
ting the earth about him. Contin
uing the sergeant said:
“After we got started it was all
right. We didn’t have time to be
nervous. We had work to do. It
was the moment when all we hed
to do was wait and think and im
agine that hurt’
“Every man knew the exact mom
ent set for the charge. The front
trenches Friday night were filled
with men in marching order and
every one of them knew’ that at 9:15
o’clock the next morning hell would
break loose.
“We tried to sleep. I don’t think
many of us succeeded. The gen
ertal attack we had been preparing
for months w'as at hand. Also,
crowded trenches are not the most
comfortable sleeping quarters in
the world even for a soldier. Still
we dozed a litttle, our heads polliw
edon knapsacks or on one another
like kittens in a basket. Had we
been in bed w’e couldn’t have done
much better.
“Our artillery v’as making bed
lam of the w'orld. It was enough
‘o frighten the devil himself. I
don’t vender that many of the Ger
mans in the first line trenches, a
rainst whose earthworks the shells
were directed, were later found, if
alive at all, badly dazed.
“Dawn came cloudy and chilly.
The artillery thundered worse taan
"■ver. The scream of shells over
head was continuous and deafening,
like a million engines letting off
■Tara. For seventy hours this storm
had been growing steadily worse
frrrn a. furious beginning. I thought
of what a pal of mine in the artil
lery told me General Castelnau’s
order had been to the gunners:
“ ‘I expect you so to do your duty
+hat the infantry can advance with
their rifles slung across their
backs!’
“Nine o’clock c ame. Our coffee
had been drunk. We were all ready
Wo were washed up clean; for one
dosen’t like to be picked up dead,
unclean. Just to do something we
adjusted knapsacks, canteens, belts
and the like, buckling and unbuckl
ing, adjusting, loosening them—
anything to be doing something.
“Five minutes more and it would
begin. Our watches had been regu
lated by those Of the officers and
three or four times a minute every
soldier would glance at the dial.
After what seemed a year the min
ute hands moved from 9:10 to 9:13.
A decade dragged past. It w’as 9:14
—sixty seconds before the charge!
“Men swallowed. Some cleared
their throats. From second to sec
ond men gave that little shoulder
hunch w’hich lifts the knapsack
higher. The glancing at watches
on wrists was now continuous and
sighs—the sighs of men awaiting
the inevitable; like the dentist’s
rhai or a speech, were visible if
■o; audible.
“That last sixty seconds! I shall
never forget them! I lived a whole
life in them. I: could see myself
torn to bits by a great exploding
shell. I could see one of my legs
shot off and flying through the air,
leaving me lying all day and night
and the next day and the next night
alone in a comer of the battlefield.
I could feel a bullet pierce my
eyes, another go through my jaw,
tearing my teeth off level with the
gums. Ithought of home folks, of
boyhood school days, of fights and
love affairs and utter nonsense and
trifling nonessential happenings of
years long gone; of—
“Somebody touched me on the
arm. A machine gun man was hold
ing his canteen as if toasting. I
remembered then that we six of
the machine gun section had filled
our canteens with champagne with
this moment in view,
“ ‘To those who don’t get there!”
he shouted; and drank. I drank.
Four fellows in the trench beyond,
drank. And as we drank the whis
tle sounded and the charge was on.
“Instantly my nervousness was
gone. The whistle did it. It meant
the end of inaction. We were out
at a bound and runnong forward.
The heavy equipment was as light
hs a feather, and we raced for the
German first lines with joy.
“Men didn’t sit up nights yearn
ing to charge t he enemy’s trench
es, but aside from a religious be
lief in our cause, something gets in
to the blood the minute one starts
forward and that something neutral
izes any possible terror.
“Rain began to fall just as we
got off and I saw men throw their
heads back to catch the drops in
their faces. And they laughed.
. “There’s no use telling the rest.
You’ve heard It many times. Be
sides I only know what happened
immediately about me. We simply
went forward, carrying our machine
' guns on our backs, stopping n®y
and then to tear off a few rounds.
“The tick of my watch before
9:15 hurt me much worse than the
bursting shells and the rat-tat-tat
of machine guns in front of me In
the charge. The charging was fun.
It was the wait that hurt.”
CLASIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Don’t forget Red Men’3 Ball New
Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 1915.
BAND CONCERT
The Metlakahtla Band of thirty
pieces, will give a concert in Red
Men’s Hall next Wednesday even
ing, Dec. 29th. Watch for further
particulars. Ad.tf.
SPECIALS
Fresh Olympia Uysters,
Chicken Tamales,
Fresh Choice Veal Chops
and Roasts.
KKTUIilKAIN MEAT MARKET.
BAND CONCERT AND DANCE
The famous Metlakahtla Band of
thirty pieces under the direction of
Archie A. Dundas, will give a con
ceit and dance at Red Men’s Hall
next Wednesday evening. See
program. Admission 50 cent3,
children 25. Everybody should turn
out and give the boys a boost. This
is the only band in the Ketchikan
District and should receive our
support.
SPECIALTY
August chickens weight from 1
and 1-2 to 2 pounds each alive or
dressed, delivered at any time.
A. W. BRINDLE. Phone G 105.
If you are looking for handsome
Christmas gifts, see display at
Mrs. Washburn’s Millinery store, ad
FOR RENT—Five room house
with bath. Phone 62. .adv.
FOR RENT
Furnished honse, 4 rooms and
bath, Main St. .Two rooms, New
town. See Feddersen. Adv. 26t.
BOTH WILL BE THANKFUL
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We will thank you to subscribe
for the Daily Progressive-Miner for
eight months, $5.00 cash, and you
will thank us.
A REMINDER
Don’t buy your Xmas gifts til!
you have visited the Bon Marche, ad.
TO SAVE SHOE LEATHER
We are offering an eigth month’s
subscription to the Daily-Progres
sive Miner for $5.00 cash—we give
you the collector’s commission.
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 adv.
The quality of Ladysmith Coal it
guaranteed by the Northland Dock
company. adv.
NOTICE
We hereby give notice that repair
work left with us must be called for
within thirty (30) days. After the
■wcpiration of that time, th goods will
be sold for charges.
RYUS DRUG CO.
After January the first I will
engage in the practice of dentistry
at my residence.
Office hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
E. E. SPARHAWK D. D. S.
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
KETCHIKAN CAMP, NO. 20, A. B.
Meets every Monday evening
at 8 p.m. at A. B. Hall.
Visiting Brothers Welcome
H. M. Stackpole, A. C
D. M. Smith Harris, A. R.
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 Numberl3
JACK CORDELL, Propletor.
CLEANING AND PRESSING
NEATLY DONE
In Rear of Jack Close’s Barber
Shu,..
Suits cleaned and pressed $1.50
Suits presed 1.00
Suits dry cleaned E 2.50
Clothes called for and delivered
in any part of the city free of
charge.
Phone 13 J, C. HEIM Prop
People’s Meat Market
At The Old Stand Opposite
Sparahawk’s Store, Newtown
SWIFT & COMPANY’S MEATS
ED COOK, Propietor.
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4 SHIPMENTS OF FISH DIRECT 4
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4 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR, 4
4 AND IN EVERY RESPECT 4
4 SATISFACTION GUARANTE- 4
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4 SHIPMENTS OF FISH FROM 4
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James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adjoining U. S. Customs
Office
Notary
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S. A. PLUMLEY
Attorney and
Counselor at Law
Office—Town Council Chambers,
Ketchikan, Ah.ska.
•i If You Want a |
| WHITE XMAS |
■ t Send your holiady linen to the J
j: Electric Laundry !
! ' It will receive Special Attention 1 j
;; Phone 156 £
General Hauling
and work of all kinds
done by the
Independent Transfer
Company ■
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent
Phone 64
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Alaska Delivery
WALTER GRAY, prop
COAL DELIVERED FROM Ail
DOCKS
PHONES 61—T
MARY A. C. GIBSON
Stenographer
Notary Public
OFFICES
—Newtown Home—
Phone 142
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Ketchikan Wharf Co.
COAL
COAL
NANAIMO
Lump Coal
$9.00 PER TON.
Ketchikan Wharf Co.
| C. M. Taylor
Phone 64 Agent
C. E. 1NGERS0LL
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Prompt attention given to perfecting land titles
and securing patents.
Ketchikan. Alaska
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
1 Attorney at Law
ENERAL PRACTICE
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T A MESSAGE I
On Your Arrival in, or your Departure From
the City,”, if You Visit
The SIDEBOARD
<£=■<
Corner Front and Dock Streets, You Will be Welcomed on Your
Arrival and Carry the Good Wishes of M. E. MARTIN
With You on Your Departure.
Congeniality, Goodfellowship and Fair Treatment
Combined, is our Long Suit.
I NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS jj
Standard Gas Engines
1-^ Gas Engine Supplies Jefferson Swing Unions i i
Titan Balata Belting Edison Wet Batteries and Renewals ] ;
OUR SPECIALTIES , ' ■ >
«- OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING | |
% GAS ENGINE REPAIRS ; ;
| GENERAL MACHINE SHOP WORK i i
the Cabinet
Is widely known; not only for the qaility
of its Liquors, Wines and Cigars,
but for its hospitality to
its nunierouspatrons.
Henru Goemaere and fl. W. Morgan
Ketchikan,Alaska.
meADMIRA L
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A place where Friends or Foes are equally well
treated: a place where the best Liquors, Wines
and Cigars are kept. Our motto being:
“Thebestis none too good for our Patrons”
At the Admiral Saloon, Ketchikan.
Westinghouse Automatic Electric
Range
MORE CONVENIENT
and more
ECONOMICAL THAN
FUEL IN OPERATION
NO SMOKE NO DIRT
NO GASES NO FUMES
^Citizens’ Light, Power & Water Co.
jPOODLE DOG!
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jUKlLLj
Where Everybody goes to eat, be
cause of the quality of Meals served
and the reasonable prices charged.
The best in the market; excellent
service and courtesy, is our Motto at
the^POODLE DOG GRILL.
« fc- M'-* Wilkes, PropKetchikan, Alaska.