On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
** Native and I f Til/IDL'D and Building #
* Puget Sound LiUIVIdHiIx Material
At
* CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle! |
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell, Douglas
Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Ratouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
S S Latouche. 15th; S S Cordova. 25th of eaoh month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
c F B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock"Co., Local Agt.
Me Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALAbKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 10 A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer sailing , 15th calls Iliamna^andlKodiak-AH sailings call at Knik Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Rivht reserved to change schedu.e without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD^Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
'GiraduMe of National Universitj
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
^ in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaliadj^Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over invl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alacka
Tbis is a good time to return that
Dook you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’8 Club. Library houra:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. ^n.
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QUART
“Henpuck says lie doesn’t know what
he’d do without his automobile.”
“How’s that?”
“Why. when ho craw-ls under it he
knows it’s the only place his wife can’t
follow him.”—Pittsburgh Press.
Good to Keep Away From.
vYifey—I suppose we must send.miss
Splicer a wedding present.
IXubby—I warned you not to get too
Intimate with that girl. 1 knew she
was of the kind to get rotrried soon.—
Exchange.
Revenge.
First Lawyer—I got even with that
reptile De Mil title!
Second Lawyer—How?
~ First lawyer—His wife came to see
me about divorcing him, and I praised
him up so highly she’s decided to stick
to him.—Boston Globe.
Enterprising Youth.
“When you grow up 1 suppose you
will be an undertaker, like your fa
ther?”
“Naw. I am gonter be a shofer,
so I kin help me paw’s business."—
Pittsburgh Press.
Accent on the “le."
. it. — » v so tr*
Wlfey—1 wonder why we are grow
ing tired of each other?
Hubby—I haven't an Idea.
Wlfey—Yes: maybe that la the rea
son.—St Louis Globe-Democrat
—
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
FRANKING MAIL MATTER.
At One Time Soldiers In This Country
Enjoyed the Privilege.
The postoffice was first established
for the principal and in some countries
for the exclusive purpose of carrying
official correspondence by mail. Later
la France, Great Britain and the
United States because of the great ex
pansion and commercialization of the
postal system the free carriage of mail
matter came to be regarded as a privi
lege and this privilege was claimed by
persons in official position.
In England the house of commons
claimed the privilege as early as 1060.
It was abolished in Great Britain,
however, by the passage of Howland’s
cheap postage measure In 1839. In the
United States the first appearance of
the franking privilege is traceable to
the action of the Continental congress
assuming control of the postofflce in
January. 1776. It is interesting to
learn that it was then granted to all
private soldiers actually in service for
all letters they might write or that
might be written to them.
In the early years of the United
States government the privilege was
granted widely, but it soon became
necessary to restrict it. An act of
March 3, 1845, limited the privilege to
the president, the vice president, mem
bers and delegates in congress, the
third assistant postmaster general and
all postmasters. Other offices were di- |
rected to keep quarterly accounts of |
postage.—Argonaut
COSMOPOLITAN DAMASCUS.
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The Oldest City on Earth, It Show
All the World’s Peoples.
At last we are set down in the midst
of Damascus, a city tliut can claim
life without a break from its founding
back in the dim dawn of the world’s
history. When Abram crossed the des
ert from Ilaran 4,000 years ago this
city was standing (Genesis xiv, 15, and
xv, 2). She dates back to the time of
the Pharaohs in Egypt. In fact, she
was old when Greece and Rome were
striplings in years. Home may. be
termed the Eternal City, but Damas
cus is twice as old, and though her
streets have run red with blood of
battle and rapine many times, she
has not been overthrown.
“Babylon is an henp in the desert,
and Tyre a ruin on the shore.” but
Damascus remains.
Was there ever such a place to see
the nations of the earth parading to
gether? Here in the market place are
motley crowds of Persians. Moors. Af
ghans, Indians. Egyptians. Sudanese.
Jews, Bedouins. Druses, Turks. Euro
peans. The streets—so crooked, so nar
row, so dirty, so full of life, with that
strange spell of the desert upon them!
The residences as seen from the street
are ugly and disappointing enough,
yet like old barns and tumbledown
mills at home are fascinating and pic
turesque.—Christian Herald.
Mystery of a Bridegroom.
The mysterious disappearance of a
bridegroom at a wedding is recalled
by T. F. Thiselton Dyer in his
“Strange Pages From Family Papers."
The wedding took place in Lincoln
shire about the year 1750. "In this in
stance ttie wedding party adjourned
after the marriage ceremony to the
bridegroom’s residence and dispersed,
some to ramble in the garden and
others to rest in ttie bouse till the
dinner hour. But the bridegroom was
suddenly summoned away by a do
! mestic who said that a stranger wisli
j ed to speak with him. and liencefor
| ward be was never seen again. All
kinds of inquiries were made, but lo
uo purpose, and terrible as the dismay
was of the poor bride at this inex
plicable disappearance of the bride
groom. no trace could be found of
him."
A Change of Tune.
“Mamma. I'm tired of going to
school."
“What’s the matter. Willie?"
"The teacher’’—
“Now, don’t you say a word against
your teacher, Willie. I’ve uo doubt
you annoy her dreadfully, and she
seems like a very nice sort of person.’
“Well, she said this rnornln' that she
didn't think I had much of a bringiu'
up at home, an’
“Wait'. Did she say that? Well, of
all the coarse Impudence! You shan’t
go back there another day!”
Exit Willie, grinning. — Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Do You Know the Answer?
A teacher was giving to her class an
exercise in spelling and defining words.
“Thomas.” she said to a curly haired
little boy. “spell ‘ibex.’” "1-b-e-x."
“Correct. Define it.” “An ibex." an
swered Thomas after a prolonged
mental struggle, “is where you look in
the back part of the book when you
want to find anything tbut’s printed in
the front part of the book.”—Philadel
phia Ledger.
Mean Thing!
A New England physician says that
if every family would keep a box of
mustard in the bouse one-half of tlie
doctors would starve to death. A mean
man suggests that everybody should
keep two boxes.—New Orleans Pica
une.
Interested the Feline.
“Serenaded my girl last night"
“Any member of the family come
out?"
“Only the cat."—Chicago Record-Her
ald.
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Panama’s Cathedral.
The towers of the Panama cathedral
Mja» roofed, with, pearl shells, which re*
fleet the sunlight so that they can be
seen far but at aea.
THE ART OF SELLING.
Real Salesmanship Is a Light That
Can’t Be Obscured.
The boss wants lookers, because be
knows the looker of today is the buyer
of tomorrow and he wants to make
the lookers feel that his store is “the
best place to trade,” which is only an
other way of saying that it is ttie best
place to do one's looking. He also
knows that the looker of today can
sometimes be converted into a buyer
before the day is over. All he requires
to accomplish what he desires is sales
manship among his salespeople.
Does he get it? Not from all of
them. If he did there would be less
need for commissions to inquire labo
riously into the relation between shop
girls’ wages and shopgirls’ chastity,
for real salesmanship will get the
money wherever it is practiced and by
whomsoever it is practiced. Real sales
manship is one light that can’t be hid
den under a bushel. It’s a light that
can’t be obscured. It's a light that
will shine above department heads and
floorwalkers and reach clear up to “the
old man” in his private office, if you
keep it buridng long enough.
What is salesmanship? No one quite
knows. But if you will take care of
the lookers, if you will make all the
lookers pleasantly remember what you
showed them and how you showed it
to them when they were merely look
iug. you will have mastered one very
Important branch of retail salesman
ship.—Collier’s Weekly.
SPEED OF GAME BIRDS.
The Hazel Hen Said to Be a Wonder In
a Short Spurt.
What is the fastest game bird that
flies? Of course, in seeking an answer
to the question, as a writer in the
Scotsman points out. one must assume
equal conditions of atmosphere and
cause for flight, for all creatures, hu
man or other, seek their highest rate
of speed under the influence of fear.
A recent writer declares that in a
race of, say, 200 yards he would back
a bird which, though not found in Brit
ain, is indigenous to most of the rest of
Europe and is especially familiar in
Scandinavia—the hazel hen or geli
notte.
Yet, curiously enough, this is one of
the forest haunting birds which, like
the American “fool hen,” usually fly
up into a tree when flushed and, re
jecting further attempts at escape,
elect to be shot sitting. "But,” says the
writer referred to above, “on the rare
occasions (and that they are rare I
readily admit) when one catches a geli
notte in the open I have never seen
any bird fly so fast nor move its wings
with such extraordinary rapidity.”
Next to it at any rate one must sure
ly place the teal, which has a marvel
ous knack of getting under way quick
ly. Some experienced observers would
give the third place to a bluerock pig
eon—the wild, not the Hurlingham va
riety.
Inflammable Celluloid.
Celluloid, being tirst cousin of gun
cotton and closely related to nitro
glycerin. is highly inflammable and
should never be brought in close prox
imity to a flame. Celluloid is a com
pound of cellulose or vegetable tibrine.
reduced by acids to guncotton. Cellu
' lose is found in all vegetable life, par
i ticularly in young plants. It is a
! starchlike substance. Cotton fiber is
principally cellulose. After the cotton
fiber is cleaned it is submerged in
acids, which quickly reduce it to cellu
lose in the form of a thick, pasty, semi
transparent mass. Camphor is added
further to thicken it. and the required
| coloring matter is thoroughly mixed
I in. after which the celluloid is molded
by bent and pressure into various use
ful and ornamental objects, such as
combs, boxes, pins, paper cutters, or
naments. etc.—New York World.
Learr to Write Well.
First legibility, second sightliness,
should be the endeavor in handwriting
and let the ••character" and the ••indi
viduality" take care of themselves. If
you wish to devise a signature hard
to forge that is another thing, but
one’s everyday handwriting should be
plain and as good looking as one can
make it. The art of writing a neat
legible, well punctuated, correctly ex
pressed uud spelled letter should be
long to every high school graduate,
much more to every college graduate,
and the thanks of the community are
due to those who are testing and try
ing to improve our methods of educa
tion; but they must remember that the
letter style is properly more loose and
conversational than any other and
therefore should not be criticised in just
the same way.—Kate Dpson Clark in
Leslie’s.
Within the Law.
A real negro mammy of the old type
came up the walk through the old fash
ioned garden to the side porch. She
had a basket of “fresh algs" on her
arm and was offering them for sale.
“Are you sure they are perfectly
fresh, auntie?" asked the lady who
came out of the house.
“Yes'um, they sho is all right. Miss
Bess. Ain’t nary disorderly aig amongst
’em.”—New York Post.
Exclusiveness.
The pinhead puts a barbed wire
fence around himself because he in
stinctively knows he’s a fourflusher
nnd is afraid you'll find it out if you
get too close.—Indianapolis Star.
The Main Point.
Crummer—I see that a woman was
killed in the crush at a bargain counter
yesterday. Mrs. Crummer—Dear me;
what bargains were for sale?—Puck.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting
from our impatience.—Horne.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries receh ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
BEST PLACE TO EAT ~
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
\ l 7 a m to 9 a in I
MFOALS? F^unch 12 in to 1pm jj
' 0 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
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Congregational Church.
The evening service will tie field at.
7:3d and the subject will lie, 'lie Is
Risen, Even As lie Said.” Some time
will be devoted to singing many of
the good old familiar hymns suitable
for the occasion. You are most, cor
dialy invited to attend.
Sunday school meets from Id to 1
o’clock. The Bible class will be in
teresting to you.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a Gen
i oral Municipal Election will be held
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on
the sixth day of April, 1915, for the
purpose of electing seven members of
the Common Council, who shall hold
| office for the term of one year, and
j until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
I Valdez School Board who shall serve
as a director for a term of three
i years and until his successor is elect
I ed and qualified.
I The Town Hall has been designat
j ed as the polling place for said elec
tion.
! Said election shall commence at 9
j o’clock a. m. and shall continue un
it il 7 o’clock p. m. of the same day
without closing the polls.
R. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications March 8, 15, 22. 29.
I
Summons By Publication
• In the District Court for the Terri
I tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
i son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
i of America, greeting: To Eri Tliomp
I son, the above named defendant: You
j are hereby summoned to appear in
I the District Court for the Territory
! of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
i Valdez, within thirty days after th► ■
; completion of the publication of this
! summons against you, to-wit: within
; thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
j ril, 1915, and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, filed in
: the clerk's office of the above entitled
j court: and unless you so appearand
j answer or otherwise plead, the plain
1 tiff will apply to the court for the
| relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in l’a
: vor of the plaintiff and the said de
j fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
! Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
' Precinct. Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March, 1915, which publication was
directed to be made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of the District Court.
By CHAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
Date of first publication March S,
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915. _
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
"bade” 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
(Jo'llar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.