THE PROGRESSIVE-MINER
, Ketchikan. Alaska.
Entered at the Post Office at Ketchikan, Alaska as
second class matter October 21, 1914, under the act of
March 8, 1879.
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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA, DECEMBER 7, 1915.
SOME OF US ^ONLY DRIFT
It may be said without fear of successful con
tradiction that among our little community, many
are disatisfifed with their condition for which most of
us cannot account for and without searching for
the cause, we simply attribute it to “luck," If
we would only use that mighty power with which
nature endowed us, and that is, the faculty of reason
ing, we would undoubtedly discover that we have
only, been drifting with the time, never grasped op
portunities, never used our reasoning faculties ;ind
finally we find ourselves discontented.
A great deal of poverty, sorrow and misery- met
along the road of life is our own making, because
we are just drifting with the tide here and there like
a wreck. Instead of concentrating every power of
our mind to battle our way through life, we lay down
at the First obstacle and drift, forgetting that we
have a reasoning faculty to clear the war to oppor
tunities. 2
We must admit that every advance that we havemade
was brought, by reason, just the same as every
backward step has been imposed by the lack of it.
If we look around us, we find that those who have
succeeded were thoughtful men, for whom we have
another name perhaps, but they were men who saw
ahead of the time, grasped at opportunities and
avoided mistakes. Back of the successful men is
thought and reason, which only proves the assertion
that only the thoughtless, heedless and mentally care
less fail. For the simple reason that we are just
drifting through life, forgetting that we may use
our reasoning faculty as a rudde. to steer our course
with to contentment.
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LACK OF KNOWLEDGE APPARENTLY
Is it the lark of knowledge or discrimination that
prevents publicity of facts about the mining activity
in the vicinity of Ketchikan ? However, we prefer
to believe the former. Although we have a right
to' believe that the Alaska and Northwest Mining
Journal, a Seattle publication knows more of mining
operations of Ketchikan and vicinity than it appar
ently wants the world to know.
This publication, particularly in its September
number, mentioned every part of Alaska but Ketchi
kan. Valdez, Seward, Juneau, Cordova and otherj
places, but ignored Ketchikan entirely. As though *
there was nothing doing in the mining line. When
as a matter of fa.t and consequently of record, there
is more mining going on hereabouts than at either
Valdez, Cordova, Seward of Fairbanks.
The Ketchikan precinct has several good mines that
are being worked extensively. Others are being
opened up which will make the precinct one of the
most prosperous mining precincts of the country.
Apparently, some of those mining publications are
informed only in spots.
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HE WAS REMEMBERED
"The visit I hBW paid to the old home town
since I left it, seventeen years ago,” stated Sissors
Smith, “proved a great disappointment. The only
man who recognized me, after I had wandered for
hours around the familiar streets, ’r.eath the drooping
ellums and all such as that, was old Uncle Riley
Rezzidew, who knew me the minute he set eyes on
me by a debt of six bits which he claimed I had
owed him when I went away."
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DEFENDING OUR LANGUAGE
(From the New York Sun)
At this time the people call a man a “guy,” a
woman a “skirt,” and a dog a “mutt.” Other sam
ples of the speech of the people are not essential.
The truth is that few can say anything in the old
fashioned direct way. Ail have become so accus
tomed to the use of slang that the common speech
is no longer common: it is become a curiosity, rele
grated to the obscure haunts of the “highbrows” and
treated with scorn by the workeis of the world.
While this undoubtedly gives much joy to Prof.
Brander Mathews, it saddens some old fogies, who
mourn the departure of earlier and more elegant
ways of speaking, as they mourn the decadence of
earlier and better manners. Perhaps the two were
unrelated, but they were at least companions.
It is not probable that if the young ceased to call
their elders “old guys” or "geezers,” to refer to
other people’s mothers as "skirts’ or “rags,” and
gnerally began to lift their terminology toward
levels of a decorum less figurative, if more prosaic,:
they might also improve their manners ? At any
rate is there any overwhelming reason why the
youth of this time should be almost unacquainted
with the plain English tongue and unable to say the
simplest things except in slang? It is a matter
worthy of the consideration of those _ teachers and
professors who may perhaps not agree with the
Columbia sage that “everything goes.”
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THE SOUND OF SHRAPNEL
(From Scribner’s)
Have you ever heard shrapnel, by any chance'1
No? Well, it sotfnds as much as anything else like |
a winter gale howling through the branches of a
pine tree. It is a moan, a groan, a shriek and a
wail rolled into one, and when the explosion conies
it sounds as though some one had touched off a
stick of dynamite under a grand piano. And it is
not particularly cheering to know that the ones you
hear do not harm you, and that it is the ones you
do not have time to hear that send you to the
cemetery.
Our Advice Is:
When yon feel out c>f sorts from consti
pation, let us say that if
do not relieve you, see a physician,
because do other borne remedy will.
Sold only by us.
Ketchikan Drug Co.
For a Short Time Only
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KETCHIKAN
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AMO NO THE CrHTJXOHSS
Christian Sole nee Society
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Subject for Sunday December 12tb,
“God The Preserver of Men.”
Front street, Ketchikan,
Regular Services Sunday ii ani
Wednesday evening reading and
Song Services at 7:20 p.m
All Arc Welcome
Pint M. B. Chszch
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Sunday Chareh eaeviee U a. m and
f:S0 p. ax.
Thursday Prayer Meeting 8:30. p.m.
Friday chMr meets 8 o’clock.
First and third Wednesday after
aeons nt 2:80 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.in.
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
(Holy Communion first Sunday
ST. JOHN’S EPISCOUAL CHLRCH
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*
Thu»rda> 2:3(1 p.m Woman’s Guijd.
REV. HAROLD H. KELLEY,
PaWor.
Hit The Trail
For the East
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The New Short Line and the Alaskan’s Favorite
All-steel trains and a
Top-notch service where
You’ll be among friends
From start to finish.
For information or literature write or ask,
C. M. TAYLOR, Local Agent, or
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent
Juneau, Alaska
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
PCGBT SorFD-CALINOBNIA PUGET SOUND-ALASKA ROUTE
RorT* —Tacoma and Seattle for Ketebh
—SeatUe-Sen Frencuco. con- kan. Petersburg. Juneeti. Kauri) a
««trng with the Yel. end H.rard
Wen*. Enanasr, la Toocbe, Cook
lor Southern California Porta. Inlet potota. Seward and Kodiak.
Steamers Admiral Brans And Watson Call at Ketchikan North and
Southbound on the 8th, 18th and 28thof each month.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
H GALLAGHER. Agent, NORTHLAND DOCK CO.. Agent
■>«"«*■PHONE 60 Ketchikan
25 per cent Discount
On all dry goods and other
toilet articles until further
notice at the
GATEWAY STORE
A. KALEEL, Prop.
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„ Growing Children
frequently need a food tonic and tissue
builder for their good health.
SansO* 3SS3L
containing HgpophotpAilto
is the prescription for this.
Ketchikan Drug Co.
EXTRA SPECIAL
The Daily Progressive- M' ner foi
ri^ht months for $5.00 cash. This
offer subject to withdrawal at
any (mi without notice. Cheaper
than going out in the rain ami
borrowing it.
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST OF
THE KETCHIKAN. ALASKA,
POST OFFICE
Advertised letter list of the Ket
chikan, Alaska. Post Office.
For the week ending Dec. 4, 1915.
Connor. Mrs. Wm.
Cornelinsen. C.
Leeseth, Peder
Leighton, Miss Helen
Neal, Miss Lizzie
Peck, Charley
Pedersen, Julius
Ferine, Miss Irene
All letters unclaimed by Dec. 18,
1915 will be sent to the Dead Let
ter Office, Washington. D. C.
When calling for the above, say
Advertised.
M. E. SWINF.FOI5D,
Postmaster.
For Rent—Desirable four roomed
house, hot and eold tenter. bath
room, and all the modern conven
iences. Fine view. A pply Mrs.
Yonng, Newtown. 6t s.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- I
board, has just received a large j
stock of fine liquors, purchased J
especially for particular family j
trade. He announces that tele- ;
phone orders will be delivered free j
of charge in any part of town from
2 to 5 p.m., from now on till after
the holidays.
Call up phone 42. Adv. tf.
Draying
All Orders will be promptly
aid carefully executed.
Contracts Taken For Anv 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.
MTCHELL piLICICH- Prop
Stedman Hotel
HI STEVENS MGR.
Headquarters for Commercial, Can
nery and Mining Men
First Class Cafe and Buffet in Connection
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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
CLEARANCE 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. Ped. 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.
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
veTy latest in Fur Trimed Collar and Cuff sets, on
display in our windows
TONGASS TRADING COMPANY
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Specials for December
101b Best Cane Sugar .75
All brands of Milk 3 for .25
Wb pkg. Rooled Oats
Premium .25
Choice Evap. Peaches 21b .25
Fancy Evap. Prunes 21b .25
Fancy Evap. Prunes
251b box $2.50
Extra Fancy Evap.
Prunes 8It> box $1.10
Cluster Raisins lib pkg.
2 for .35
New Crop Walnuts 21b for .45
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Sks. Fancy Head Rice .45
5 per cent Cash Rebate Tickets given with the
above goods
H. R. Thompson Store
Now Is the Time
To buy where your dollar >
buys the most
1-4 off on Dry Goods
E. E. SPARHAWK
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 JRIaska
The Originator and
Vendor of the Celebrated
“LOTUS FIZZ”
‘INuf said!
Ketchikan Iron Works
We Cut Gears
THAT ARE
Evenly Spaced
Accurately Cut
ANY NUMBER OF TEETH
FROM
7 to JN_ Pit:h
AGENTS FOR
Atlas Gas Engines
Oxy = Acetylene
Welding
BLACKSMITIIING AND
GENERAL MACHINE WORK
Q. E. LINGERFELT, Proprietor
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IWe Manufacture and Keep in Stock all kinds of |
Spruce and Cedar Lumber I
Can fill any order either stock |
or cut to specifications ... |
: Steamer Vigilant and Barge Blanche |
for charter for freight purposes |
; Ketchikan Power Company I
WE PUT UP A GOOD SHOW
of the whitest and cleanest linen at
all times; and you may rely npon
the superior finish of all our work.
We have ample facilities for taking
care of hotel and boradlng-house work
all the year round, and we are noted
for the exceptional care and aocuracy
we show in handling your lanndry
work and for the reasonable charges
we make. Phone 24.
KETCHIKAN STEAM LAUNDRY
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For Your
Hardware, Clothing, Shoes, Underwear,
Fishing Outfits.
The Celebrated Walrus Oil Clothing
Qo To
N. F. ZIMMERMAN
Ketchikan - - Alaska
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Remember that the Firm
5 A. E. WALKER & SON
S DEALS in HOUSE FURNITURE as well as in HUNTERS’ and S
2 FISHERMEN’S SUPPLIES, such as GUNS, FISHING-TACKLE, g
2 TENTS of all Sizes, and kept constantly in stock 2
S Prices Most Reasonable. ^