Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
February Clearance Offerings
Women’s
Underwear
Two piece woolen underwear,
broken lots, mostly small sizes,
50c and 75c garment.
Women’s Hosiery
Unusual values at 15 cents.
Pumps and Slippers
Broken size lots of up to date
footwear at reduced prices;
Three-fifty, Four dollars and
Four twenty-five values,
at $2.75 pair.
Women’s
Sweater Coats
All-wool sweater coats, grey
and white—formerly sold for
five and six dollars,
now priced $1.00.
Red Cashmere
Seventy-five and Eighty-five
cent values, now 50 cents.
All One-twenty-five to Two
fifty corsets offered now at
< On the basis of Security and Service
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we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Univertit*
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears In
AfltlGe Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 The dentist
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
, a. m., to 6 pjp.. 7 p, m..to« p. ui. Sundays
by api^phtmem. All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company** Phone No. SB
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to9p. m.
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
t
JCivil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdez, Alaika.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Minora
H. M. CARTER,
OBAS. McCAZXUl^y^
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
What Women Stand.
Mrs. Newlywed—Oil, Fred, you’ve
broken our best bread plate.
Mr. Newlywed—Awfully sorry, dear,
but I accidentally dropped one of your
biscuits on It.—Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
THE READING TABLE
There Is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read In comfort and peace.
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Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Company
THEY WERE WELL MATCHED.
Why th* Ramsey* Were Like Old Joe
Murchison’s Team.
“It seems stmnge that the Ramseys
should have married each other,” said
Mrs. I’llman.
“Strunge? Not at all. my dear!” re
plied her husband. "They are well
mated—as well mated ns old Joe Mur
chison’s horses were.”
“1 don’t know anything about Mur
chison’s horses,” said Mrs. Piliuan.
“but I know that Mr. Ramsey is big
and handsome and indolent, and Mrs.
ltamsey is always at work and is
thrifty into the bargain.”
“That bears out what I say, my
dear,” said her husband. “Let me ex
plain. In that remote and ‘dark ages’
period of my life before I knew you
they offered a prize at the nnnual fair
for the best matched pair of agricul
tural horses. There were some beau
ties brought hi, so that everybody
laughed when old Joe Murchison came
driving along a great, handsome, slow
moving horse harnessed with a wiry,
scrawny little beast that took two
steps to the big fellow’s one.
“‘That’s a finely matched pair!’
somebody shouted.
“ ‘So they be!’ agreed Joe compla
cently. ‘So they be! The best matched
pair in the county! One’s willin’ to do
all the work an’ t'other’s willin’ lie
should!’ ’’—Exchange.
THE OLD YORK ROAD.
Built In 1711, It Was the First Great !
American Highway.
Something over 200 years ago there
was built the drst great American
highway, "the old York road." be
tween New York and Philadelphia.
The construction of this famous road
in 1711 was an example that led the
energetic colonists at other points
along the Atlantic seaboard to make
similar roads where there were no wa
ter routes. For the most part these
roads were built by chartered compa
nies and were called turnpikes or toll
roads. Pennsylvania, Connecticut and
New Jersey had many roads of this
kind.
The first macadamized road in this j
country was constructed in 1792 be- j
tween Philadelphia and Lancaster. In
1811 there were said to be 4,500 miles
of chartered turnpikes in New Eng
land and New York. During the next
twenty years the government expend-,
ed many millions of dollars in con-(
strueting great highways, but the pan-'
ic of 1837 and the building of rail
ways and canals put an end to that
branch of the government work.
Washington Star.
^ Wanted a Little Praise Himself.
Following n disastrous Ure in a west
ern city, many men and women gath
ered to look at the ruins. Some of the
men, seeing that a wall near which
they were standing was topping, rnadu
haste to get out of the way and nar
rowly escaped being crushed.
Johnny Urabisou, a good Irish citi
zen, was so near the wall tlint he could
not escape with the others. So, whirl
ing about, he made for a door in the
wall, burst through it and came out on
the other side safe and evidently very
proud of his exploit. Women who had
shut their eyes and shrieked when they
saw his danger now gathered round
him in great joy and cried out:
“Praise heaven. Johnny Urabisou.
down on your knees and thank heav
en!”
j “Yis, .vis." said he, “and I will, but
j wasn’t it injuneyyous in me. now'?"—
Youth's Companion.
"Kubisagari."
One of the strangest diseases Is
known ns kubisagari. it is common
til northern Japan and in a small dis
trict on the Frnneo-Swlss frontier, tint
unknown elsewhere. Its symptoms
are a sudden paralysis of certain mus
cles. loss of vision and vertigo. The
attacks last about ten minutes and
continue from May to November, re
covery always coming in the autumn
Nothing is known about its cans.
though Dr. P. L. Coucbaud described
in the Presse Medicate a microbe he
found in the cerebro spinal tluid ami
the milk of persons suffering from the
disease. The name kubisagari Is Jap
anese and means “drop head.”
Conclusive.
Two Pullman porters representing
different railroads met off duty and
progressed from friendly gossip to heat
ed argument Their quarrel centered
about which one worked for the better
road. Their claims, figures nnd argu
ments came fast and furious. At lust
the tall, thin porter settled the dispute
with these classic words: "Go on, nig
gub; we kills mo* people den you fel
lahs tote.”—Argonaut.
Making and Earning Money.
“What is the difference between
making money nnd enrnlng money?"
asked the youth.
“Sometimes the difference Is a trip
to the penitentiary for counterfeiting."
answered the home grown philoso
pher.
All Hia Fault.
Mr. Flubdub—1 lost my umbrella to
day. Mrs. Flubdulv—That’s Just like
you. John Henry. I told you wheu
you left the house this morning to
take one of the borrowed ones.—Puck.
No Rival That Way.
He—Have I n rival? She (coldly)
No; I cannot think of another person
I regard with such indifference.—Bos
ton 'I’ranscrlpt
Misunderstanding goes on like • Mi
en stitch in a stocking, which In the
beginning might have bean takas a»..
by a needle.
ENERGY OF THE SUN.
niansity of the Light and Heat It
Sheds Upon Our Universe.
By a series of curious experiments
iclentiflc men have gained a fair idea
)f the Intensity of light and heat from
the Bun as compared with enrthly ln
itruments.
When the sun Is at the zenith, or di
rectly overhead. Its light Is equal to
seventy-five electric lights placed only
three feet from the observer. Yet an
electric light Is too dazzling for any
ane to gaze steadily at It. And as com
pared with Sirius, which Is the bright
est in the heavens, the light of the sun
Is 20,000,000 times more brilliant
The Intensity of solar heat on our
globe varies greatly, in a way that sun
light does not, the former being affect
ed by locations, nltltudes, changes of
the atmosphere and many enuses.
It has been estimated, however, that
the total quantity of heat which the
earth receives from the sun each year Is
enough to melt a layer of Ice covering
the entire globe and having a thick
ness of a hundred feet.
But this Is only a very small portion
of the whole amount of heat given out
by the sun. The total solar heat Is
enough to melt every day a layer of
Ice ten and one-half miles thick, about
the entire sun, or, to take Professor
Tyndall’s comparison, the sun’s heat
emitted in one hour Is equal to that
produced by burning a seam of coal
sixteen and one-half miles thick.—Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
CONCEITED JAILBIRDS.
To Have Been In Prison Is a Mark ol
Culture In Nigeria.
In the land of the Niger, says Mr. P.
Auiaury Talbot In the London Times,
little or no stigma attaches to jail
birds.
in fnet, prison residence 1s often re
garded as conferring the mark of cul
ture and distinction. The last gover
nor of Southern Nigeria once compli
mented a chief of the Interior on his
knowledge of English, to which the
man replied with a proud air: “Of
course I be fit to talk English mouth!
1 learn all that when I live long time
for prison.”
Such residence Is Indeed looked upon
as giving a sort of official status. At
Calabar some prisoners were out clean
ing the road when a clerk, dressed in
the height of fashion, high collar, pat
ent leather boots and the smartest of
suits, went by. In passing he flicked
one of the bending laborers with a lit
tle swagger cane he was carrying
At once the aggrieved party sprang
erect "What!” he exclaimed, with
splendid contempt “You dare touch
me! You factory man! Look-a me!"
Here he pointed to the broad arrows
prominently displayed over his simple
vest and loin cloth. “1 be government
mnn! See here!”
And the dandy passed on thoroughly
abashed.
Tho Fattest Race.
How Is it that the Danes ns a race
are fat? Professor I.yde states that
"from one end of Denmark to the
other you will not And a really thin
man.” And he gives rather a quaint
reason for It. "The growth ot dairy
farming in Denmark tends to make
men lazy. The private houses adjoin
the byres, which are kept at a uni
formly warm temperature, and the
people are employed in warm build
ings, living chiefly on milk and cereals
The men get so lazy that they will not
take the trouble to cut up their food "
And then conies this delightful con
elusion: “This state of things has pro
duced a nation of housewives who ex
cel all others in varieties of sand
wiches, which can he munched nil day
long.’' And thus is produced the fattest
race in Europe, and we get a hint foi
u real rest cure. .Manchester Guardian
Treating a Corn.
Whether a eoru is treated at dome 01
by n chiropodist, the treatment Is the
same It consists of applying to the
^uface an acid (the most commonly
^Hfehclug sallcylici mixed with col
lodlon and etber. The ether evaporates,
leaving a layer of collodion to hold the
acid while this does Its work. After
applying this regularly for four or five
days the foot is soaked in hot wuter.
when the corn can be picked out In
one piece, leaving a dole, which quick
ly tills up. Some chiropodists eat the
corn out by repeated applications of
nitric acid, picking away the parts ol
the corn destroyed at each treatment.
Every time you cut a corn yourself
you run the risk of blood poisoning.—
New York World.
Nothing Doing.
A little four-year-old, a most attrac
tive little fairy, suddenly lost interest
in Sunday school. She bad enjoyed so
much learning about Moses that her
mother could not understand the
change of attitude.
“Why don’t you want to go, dnugh
ter?” she asked.
“Oh," was the astonishing reply, ”1
don’t ’Ike to go to Sunday school since
Moses died.”—Woman’s Home Com
panion. _
Her Telltale Ups.
“You have been kissing another
man."
“You have no right to say that" de
dared the girl.
“Then 1 withdraw it But i pre
ferred to believe that than to think
yon had been chewing tobacco.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Better to Admonish.
It is better to admonish than to re
proach, for the oue is mild and friend
ly, the other harsh and offensive. The
one corrects tbe faulty; the other only
Tenvicta them-Bplctetna.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Call You on Time for the boat
We Handle Your Baggage
Wet Buy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Chas. Perry
,_MANAGE
, Seattle
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Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration books for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez, Alaska, on the 6th day of April,
1915, will be open at the office of
the Town Treasurer, in Coppet
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, 1915, between the hours
of 2 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open lor
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, ex
cept Sundays, until and including the
27th day of March, 1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 26th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
within the office hours and between
the dates mentioned; and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at
said election.
BANPATJ, E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of 1.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and til
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, the
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back" a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
With the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
If you want all tte uwi all ■*
Hmo. read the Pree feeler.