THE PROGRESSIVE-MINER
Ketchikan. Alaska.
Entered s.t the Post Office at Ketchikan. Alasua^ as
second class matter October 21. 1SH. under the act e.
March 3
J. E. RIVARD.Editor.
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The Progress ve-Miner is stActly non-partisart and de
voted to the Cert interests of our city. Southeastern A',
aska in parties a- and the Ter- tory in general.
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA. JCXE IT. 1S1«.
HE MUST BE NERVY.
“Gone up. gene up! It’s impossible for me to
ge: away from that sound. Wherever I go I
hear "gone up. gone up!' Truly, that expression
rings in my ears even- time I think of preparing
a meal." said the wife yesterday; and from what
it cost to live, we judge that she knows what
she is talking about. Up to a year or two ago.
the partitions we used to be handed for our
meals were—most of the time, sufficient, but to
day, in order : make both ends meet, we are
told, we have to go hungry half of the time. It’s
awful to hear re’s stomach plaintive appeal
sometime.
These days, you go to a store to make a pur
chase, you will invariably look disgusted at the
price you have to pay for everything, and should
you ask the clerk if it isn’t possible that he made
a mistake, he’ll simply answer. "Gone up, gone
up! You buy a dollar’s worth of meat, you get
as much as a cat can eat for its lunch, and if you
remark, you will hear that universal answer.
“Gone up. gone up I’’ The restaurant, the grocer,
the baker, the clothier, the hatter, the shoeman.
it’s “gone up. gone up’.’’ Continually and invar
iably you hear “gone up. gone up.” The only
business man who still maintains his usual price
f:-r his ware is the shoe-strings vender, but front
the fact that we have no shoes to wear, the low
price :-f shoe strings does not benefit us any.
With “gone up" ringing in our ears, we think
of the great work of the democratic party when
it revised the tariff law and wonder how it is
that despite the great promise of reducing the
cost of living, things have “gone up. gone up."
Incidentally, we wonder what kind of nerve
President W;l- r. has to try for re-election.
THE END IN SIGHT.
A ; rding t telegraphic news, the Russians
are surely bringing the end to the war. They
are sweeping an obstructions on their onward
march ami apparently gathering up momentum
at every step. With the Germans fast spending
their last spark of vitality on Verdun, and the
Russians hammering away at the other end of
the war zone, if the latter continue their march,
it can only be ; matter of a few weeks before
peace will be restored. Peace is said to be syn
onymous to love, and love is the only thing
worth living for. To the non-combatants, it
matters not what side wins the tight. Peace is
what is wanted.
People who complain that this is a cruel old
world ought to stop and think what a terrible
place it would be if we ■all got what we deserved.
THE RICH MAN'S WORK.
Those who are bora rich work hard nough, and
their work is the hardest of alt. their wo. . is amuse
ment. For by souse strange misuaderstan Eg all the
most tedious and unsatisfactory means of dis r action a?re
termed amusement, betting gambling, trave 3. dinner
panics, love making. Whereas the valid ai .1 sufficient
form of distraction, earning your livelihood tr the sweat
of your brow, is designated by the unplensa.c.
bor.—(George Moore >
ENJOYS A UNIQUE DISTINCTION
(Anchorage Times.t
Anchorage. Uncle Sam s youngest city, with a popula
tion of $.*>.'"■ people, has the unique distinction of prob
ably being the only city under this government to observe
Memorial Day Having no honored dead of either the
north or south to pay their respects to. and in the ab
sence of a soldier's grave, the children of the public
schools scattered wreaths. Sowers and the American
Sag on the waters of Shi? creek, a swift-running stream
•hat empties into the arc. of the ocean at Anchorge.
The fraternal criers of the Elks .Masons and Odd Fel
lows arc the dignitaries of both the city and the Alas
kan Engineering Commission, together with the school
children, took pan in the exercises.
THE ETERNAL MOTHER.
Gayety is good to look upon and an innocent face
is delightful to our souls, but no woman can resist
sadness or weakness, and ugliness she dare not re
sist. Her nature leaps to be the comforter. It is her
reason U exalts her to an eestacy wherein nothing
bat the sacrifice of herself has any proportion. Men are
no? fathers by insure!, but by chance, hut women are
mothers beyond thought, t-yond instinct, which is the
father of thought. Motherliness. pity, self sacrifice—
these are the charges of her primal ceil, and not even
the discovery that men are comedians, liars and egotists
will wean her from this.—-t James Stevens.!
UTTERED NOT ONE WORD
President Wilson professes to be for "America First."
yet when Congress had an opportunity to vote on a
measure that would insure the establishment and de
velopment of a dyestuffs industry in this country and
thus make us independent of Germany in that respect,
Wilson uttered not one word in its behalf. The Demo
crats defeated the measure, following the theory of Pres
ident Wilson 'hat a Protective Tariff is an economic
error "America First." indeed.—Dolyestown (Pa.) In
teliigencer
KETCHIKAN CAMP. NO. 2C? A. B.
every Mqndb. .van in -r
a: 8 p.m., at Red Men's
Visiting Brothers Welt jse
H. M. Stackpole. A- C
D. M. ftrHarris. A. R
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AT THE CHURCHES
CHRISTIAN* SCIENCE SOCIETY*
Erc-ct Street. Ketchikan, Alaska.
Subject .or June IS "Is The Uni
Terse Including .Man Evolved by
Atomic Force--**
Regular Services Sunday II a. re.
Wednesday evening reading and
Song services a* 8A0 p. m
ALL ARE WELCOME.
FIRST 4L E CHURCH
Sunday Church Service II a. rr.
ani 7;39 p. m.
Thursday Prayer Meeting s:'0 p.rr..
Frsday Choir r. eets at 8:00 p. m.
First and Third Wednesday after
r . - - - at La.', eu Aid Society.
H. W. MICE EN EE. Paster.
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Low Mas* a; 8:3<> a. m.
High Mas* at 10:30 a. cu
Sunday School at 2:30p.in.
Sunday Ye*per* at 7:30 p. no
Week Day Masi at Sam.
Rev‘PAUL P. KERNS.
Pastr
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Sunday—&M a_rr.., Holy commun
ion, ("Except first Sunday in the
month.)
10:00 Native Sunday School
11:00 a-m. Morning Prayer and
Sermon. (Holy Comm onion, first
Sunday in the month.)
12:00 m. Sunday School
7:30 Evening Prayer and Sermon.
Holy Days—10:30 a.m. Holy Corn
nliinion. /
Tuesday—8A0 pjn. St. John’s
Social Clab, Gaud Room.
Wednesday—2:00 p.ra. Native
Women's Gaiid, Indian School House
Thursday—2:20 pm. St. John’s
Guild Room.
7:A0 p.m-St. John’s Athletic Club,
Boy’s, Guild Room.
Friday—8 A0 p.m. Choir Rehear
sal, Guild Room.
A sincere welcome is extended to
alL especially to newcomers.
REV. HAROLD H KELLEY.
1 Paatcr.
PROFESSIONALS
James M. Shoup
Attorney at Law
Offices adjoining V S. Customs
Office
Notary
S. A. PLIMLEV
Atlomev and
Counselor ai La*
• t»ce—i oite Council t’h»r7«ber»
•'etcbskao. A? ~ka.
J. FILLMORE WARDER
Attorney at Law
General Practice Rerilla Block
CHAS. H. COSGROVE
Attorne\ at Law
GENERAL PRACTICE
C. E. INGERSOIL
ATTORNEY AT LA'V
Prompt attention given to perfect
nsr 'and tities and securin ' patents
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
El E. Sparhawk
DENTIST
Office in Residence
Hours, 10 a. m to 4 p.»m.
: NORTHERN MACHINE WORKS 1
Standard Gas Engines
t OXY ACETYLENE WELDING l
l We Weld
♦ Steel, Brass, Bronze, Cast-iron
* Malleable iron. Welds Guaranteed. •
♦<■ 4 + -'+rr- + K 4r*-.+
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Ketchikan Meat Co.
PHONE 120
U e make a specialty of Camp and
Cannery trade
Carslens Packing Co. Owners
Night Phone SI20
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For Your
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing
Go To
N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan - r Alaska j
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GO TO
TYRON’S
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For Your
WAFFLES, SHORT ORDERS
AND FINE COFFEE
YOU'LL BE TREATED WHITE
Remember the Name
“QUICK LUNCH”
FRONT STREET
Ketchikan Auo Transfer
C. C. COLLENS. Prop.
General Transfer to Any Part of
Town
Day Phohe 41 Night Phone 4S
ROYAL-CAFE
We make a specialty
of SSiort Orders at all
times of the day or night
Our dinners are un
equaled ill the North.
Private Boxes tor Dinner ]
Mitchell Bilicich, Co.
Dray ing
-v!I Urder*. will oe promptly
mi carefully executed.
Coniracts taxei For Anv Work
Ketchikan
D ray i ng Com pan>
,r. W. CORDELL, Propietor.
Phoue No. 60.
* We Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of *
Spruce and Cedar Lumber
i
Can nil an\ order either stock
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♦ or cut to specifications .
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Barge Blanche a
for charter for freight purposes 1
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t Ketchikan Power Company
Stedman Hotel
IRA H. KING, Manager
| Headquarters for Commercial, Can
| nery and Mining Men
1 First Class Cafe aitd 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 CxxASS HOTEL.
RATES UPON APPLICATION.
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
GENERAL BOAT BUILDING^
AT THOMAS DOCK
Estimates Furnished,
Prices Reasonable.
CANNERY WORK A SPECIALTY
" Boat work of all kinds promptly done.
H. CRICKS, Builder
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DON’T MISS THIS
OPPORTUNITY
84000 worth of Dry (roods at less
than original eost]
I am retiring from the dry goods business to stock other
lines. In view of the fact that prices are going up on nearly
everything you cannot afford to pass up the greatest sale in
dry goods ever offered the dccoIc of Ketchikan.
Laces, Ribbons, Embroido ry, duslin, Wool and Cotton Un
derwear, Hosiery, Silks and Satins, Cotton Poplins, and aP
piece goods. Hats, Caps and all Men’s Furnishings.
Make your selections early as this stock will not last long.
E. E. Sparhawk
Telephone (i Ketchikan. Alaska
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WASHINGTON FISH OYSTER: CO.. [Inc.
Phone 173
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
We Cut Gears
THAT ARE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER OF TEETH
FROM
7 to J_4_ Pitch
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Gas Engines
Oxy - Acetylene
Welding
BLACKSMITHING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
G. E. LINGERFELT, Proprietor
to the idea that a satisfied customei
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
launrdy work. How good that best
is ye! 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. The
four-cycle can be slowed down to
two miles per hour.
Burns less gasoline per horse
power.
At least investigate before buy
ing any other motor.
HANDLE ALL PARTS.
II. G. KLHLEY
Dealer in General Merchandise
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
I Every Home Should Have A
Vacuum Cleaner
The Fir .t Aid to the Housekeeper
THE ROYAL
Is Supreme in design, materials
and workmanship.
LET US SHOW YOU
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Citizens’ Light, Power & Water Co.