First Congregational Church
Rev. R. Demaln Ntcholls, pastor.
Sunday. September 16th, 1917.
11 a. m. Worship and Sermon.—
“Expansion in Religion.”
12 noon. The Sunday School and
Bible Class.
7:30 p. m. Song Service and Ser
man—"Beginning right—Marriage,”
the first of a series of sermons on
“Red Letter Days in Life.”
Next Sunday evening—"Going In
to Business.”
Sept. 30th—“The Larger Citizen
ship.”
October 7th—"Getting the Fun
Out of it—Amusement.”
Thursday afternoon, the Ladies Aid
will meet in the Lecture Room of the
Church—Mrs. Emil will be the hos
tess.
Thursday 7:30 p. m. The mid-week
meeting of the Church.
Wednesday, 8 p. m. The first of the
winter series of Community Socials in
the Church, everybody is cordially In
vited to this affair: Mrs. Harry Nelson
will have charge of the amusements,
and there will be fun for all. Please
accept this as a personal invitation,
and enjoy an evening of laughter and
jollity. No charges.
Christian Science Society
Pioneer Hall
Sunday Service 11 a. m.
Subject of Lesson Sermon, “Sub
stance.”
Sunday School 12:10.
Wednesday Evening Meetings at 8
o’clock.
Free reading room open Wednes
day from 2 until 5 and from 7 until
8 p. m.
All are welcome to attend the meet
ings and visit the reading room.
Catholic Church.
Mass 8:30 and 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School Immediately follow
ing Mass.
Evening Services, 7:30.
—Rev. A. Fletcher, S. J.
Episcopal Church
Sunday. Sept. 16. 1917.
Rev. George John Zinn, minister
in charge.
Sunday school 12 noon.
Rev. George John Zinn of the Epis
copal Church was an outgoing pas
senger on the steamer Evans for Sew
ard where he wiU remain over for
services next Sunday.
FOR SALE—Patten mining stock
at $2.98 per share. Inquire Prospec
ter Office. tf
Just received a new fall and win
ter line of ladies coats, at E. Win
ter’s. tf
LAUNCH DELLA
Capt. H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdez to
Ellamar, Landlock, Fldalgo and
way ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen*
gers.
For rates apply on board.
CAPT. H. L. RIDER
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to Is Inundated and several small
placer camps located along the differ
ent streams have been washed away.
No Re|>ort of I«oss of Life
No report of any loss of life as the
result of the flood has reached An
chorage. Four men are marooned on
an Island above McDougal. The
launch Olymax. under command of
Captain Max Nelson, has left here to
rescue the four men and will aid any
other persons needing assistance. It
is not thought that It will be neces
sary to send out further relief from
Anchorage as the government boats
plying on the rivers are expected to
'.e able to handle the situation un
less It becomes much more serious.
However, the government boats here
will be kept In readiness to send out
on a moments notice.
Cache is Probably Klooded
No reports have been received from
Cache creek district, but this district
too, is probably experiencing high
water on account of the heavy rains
which have been general in that re
gion. Bridges in neighboring districts
generally, have been washed away.
Trails are In deplorable condition and
practicable impassable.
Heavy storms are also reported
from the district north of Anchorage
and the Turnagain Arm district is
having its share of rainy weather.
During the stormy weather of the past
two days a great amount of rail fell,
hut no particular damage other than
blowing down a few trees resulted
around Anchorage. Telegraph com
munication has been interrupted by
reason of wire trouble at Kern creek.
—
Damage Done to Railroad
ANCHORAGE, Alaska:—The Al
askan Engineering commission today
received the following message from
Seward:
“All wires down at Glacier stream
near Seward. The trestle at Mile 3
is washed out. The water is very high
at Mile 34. C^mp cars are in danger.
Water is running over the railroad
track three feet deep at Miles 16 and
17. A train is marooned between these
points. Communication with this
train is cut off. The railroad line ap
parently is all right from Mile 34 to
Mile 71. All bridges across Glacier
stream at and near Seward are gone,
including the railroad bridge. The ma
chine shop at Seward is in danger,
as the stream is changing its chan
nel rapidly. Several homes at Seward
have gone down stream.”
A few hand-painted dishes for sale
at Mrs. Capris’ tf
Notice of Sale
, Special sale on jewelry at the Val
dez Drug. Everything half price. tf
Ice—Ice—Ice
Delivered to all parts of the town,
Ic. per pound. Love-Whltley Co. tf
Just received all the latest popu
lar songs at G. O. Reinke’s. tf
Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tf
SAINTH ELIAS PHOTEL
MRS. FRANCES CRUM. MGR.
Rates made on Rooms by Week ror
Month, Warm, Comfortable, !Home-Like'
Special Attention to Transients.
THE PINZON
Fine Wines, Liquors, Cigars,
Cigarettes, Tobaccos and
Smokers’ Sundries.
Finest Pool and Billiard Tables
in the North.
Gird Rooms in connection.
PHONE 69 Me Kinlejr St, Valdez
MOTION PICTURE FILMS.
How They Are "Edited" Before They
Reach the Publio Eye.
After a motion picture film has been
developed and printed it is sent to the
general manager or to the director t<
be “edited." Like an author's manu
ocrlpt in the bands of an editor, it is
shortened here and there, the captions
altered, some parts entirely “cut" or
deleted and. the whole dim dressed op
to suit the ideas of the men closest In
touch with the theater going public.
The editing takes place in the pro
jection room, says the Popular Science
Monthly, but the altering—cutting the
dim and changing it—la done in the
cutting and assembling room by men
who do nothing else. Sometimes the
men In the cutting room (“cutters,” in
the trade llugo) are so overwhelmed
and confused with orders Issued by
the studio officials that they are com
pelled to ask for additional explana
tions. Needless to say this wastes
much time.
By means of the phonograph, how
ever, one motion picture company is
eliminating this waste and saving
money. As the director watches a pic
ture in the projection room he utters
his editing orders into the transmltter
of a dictating machine. The tilm is
then sent hack to the cutting room
with the phonograph record.
A SUBMARINE BASE.
It I* a 8uppty and Repair Station For
Undersea Boata.
What Is a “submarine baseT” Well,
a submarine base Is, In a word, a sup
ply and repair station for undersea
boats. Craft of this kind are very
elaborate and exceedingly delicate
pieces of mechanism; they are liable to
need tinkering at frequent Intervals.
Hence there must be a machine shop
on shore at the service of the boats
when at Intervals they return from
cruises. There must also be a store
house containing all kinds of supplies
and, spare parts for the submarines.
Most important of all. there must be
tanks of fuel oil.
Usually there Is attached to the base
a “mother ship"—a good sized steamer,
with muclilnery aboard for making
emergency repairs. The steamer also
carries dynamos, which may be used
for charging the batteries of the bouts
-though at sea the charging Is accom
plished by tlie oil engines that propel
the submarine when on the surface.
When It Is not practicable to estab
lish such a shore station the “mother
ship" may lie utilized temporarily as a
flouting Iiase.—Exchange.
Curious Land, Curious Poopis.
Near Cape Horn, in tile isluuds of
Tlerra del Fuego, live the most curious
people in all South America. It rains
or snows or sleets nearly every day.
and yet they look on their country as
the finest In the world. They wear
hardly auy clothing and seem not to
feel cold. Because he saw tires on the
shore the explorer Magellan, the first
European that rounded the Horn, called
the island “the land of fire," which is
almost the worst name he could have
chosen. Their huts are made of bent
boughs and covered with grass and
give only the poorest shelter. The folk
are vain, too, wearing necklaces of the
teeth of fishes or seals and painting
patterns on their bodies. Among them
some colors have a novel meaning.
White is the sign of war und red of
peace. They are great mimics and will
imitate voice and gesture perfectly.
Handicapped by Hia Name.
The handicap of u poet's name was
illustrated in the case of Mr. William
Wordsworth, who was the eldest sur
viving grandson of the poet. Mr.
Wordsworth was a great scholar and
a poet himself of high distinction. A
volume of his sonnets was Issued pri
vately some years ago. On account
of the similarity of his name with that
of his grandfather, he always refused
to publish any of his poetical writings,
though pressed to do so by the people
of such high authority as Matthew Ar
nold, who described one of his sonuets
as the finest in the English language.
—Montreal Star.
Odd Geographical Division.
The range of the Blue Ridge moun
tains in Pennsylvania is divided by a
river every twenty-seven miles, as fol
lows: From the Susquehanna to the
Swatara, twenty-seven miles: from the
Swatara to the Schuylkill, twenty-sev
en miles; from the Schuylkill to the
Lehigh, twenty-seven miles; from the
Lehigh to the Delaware, twenty-seven
miles. At the next twenty-seven miles
Is a hollow of New Jersey, in which
nestles a lake known as Culver’s pond.
Right Thinking.
The quality of your friends Is the
quality of your thoughts. Think the
thoughts of a thief and thieves will be
your companions. Think clean, helpful,
creative thoughts and surely your as
sociates will be clean, helpful and cre
ative. You attract to you what belongs
to you.
Changed Idaaa.
“Mrs. Sjn&rty used to boast that she
never let her mind run upon little
things.”
“Well, does she?”
“I should say so! She can’t talk of
anything but her baby.”—New York
Times.
Cireumatantial Evidence.
“What makes you think all women
hate each other?”
“Because a woman so seldom brings
up a son fit to be another woman’s
husband."—Exchange,
To make knowledge valuable you
must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
-Emerson.
STEAMER SAILINGS
Steamship Mariposa—Sailed from
Seattle (or Valdez, Thursday, Sept.
13.
Steamship Alameda — Sailed (rom
....Valdez (or Seattle, Friday, Sept.
14.
Steamer Northwestern—Sailed south
(or Seattle, Monday, Sept. 10.
Steamer Evans—Sailed north (rom
Seattle, Sept. 8.
Steamer Alaska—Sailed north (or
Valdez, Monday, Sept. 10.
Steamship Admiral Farragut—Sailed
South (rom Valdez, Wednesday,
Sept. 5.
Steamship Admiral Watson—Sailed
south from Valdez (or Seattle, Sun
day, August 19.
TIDES FOR SEPTEMBER
Saturday, Sept. 15.—
First high tide 11:49 a. m., 8.6.
Second high tide 11:55 p. ru., 8.8.
First low tide 5:39 a. m., 0.9.
Second low tide 5:50 p. m., 1.3.
Sunday Sept. 16.—
First high tide 12:12 p. m., 9.0.
First low tide 6:03 a. m., 1.0.
Second low tide 6:fF20 p. m., 0.9.
Monday, Sept. 17.—
First high tide 0:?8 a. m., 8.7.
Second high tide 12:35 p. m., 9.3.
First low tide 6:26 a. ru., 1.2.
Second low tide 6:51 p. m., 0.6.
Tuesday, Sept. 18.—
First high tide 1:00 a. m., 8.5.
Second low tide 1:00 p. m„ 9.4.
First low tide 6:50 a. m., 1.5.
Second low tide 7:23 p. m., 0.4.
Wednesday, Sept. 19.—
First high tide 1:33 a. m., 8.1.
Second high tide 1:26 p. m., 9.5.
First low tide 7:16 a. m., 1.8.
Second low tide 7:57 p. m., 0.4.
Thursday, Sept. 20.—
First high tide 2:08 a. m., 7.7.
Second high tide 1:55 p. m., 9.4.
First low tide 7:44 a. m., 2.3.
Second low tide 8:35 p. m., 0.4.
Friday, Sept. 21.—
First high tide 2:48 a. m., 7.1.
Second high tide 2:30 p. m., 9.3.
First low tide 8:15 a. m., 2.8.
Second low tide 9:20 p. m., 0.8.
Frank Ramson left with the mail
for the interior this morning, he and
Contractor Schmidt trading cars un
til the road is fixed. Mr. Schmidt’s
car is on the Wortman side of the
canyon and Mr. Ramson’s car on this
side, consequently the exchange was
made.
The Pathe Gold Rooster play,
"New York” will be shown at the
Empress tonight in five parts.
Thief, Take Notice
The party who took the magneto
frojn the Packard car on the Valdez
trail is notified to feplace it at once,
as it is known who did it.
k24 OWNER.
Odds and ends of wallpaper 3 & 4
rolls to the bundle, cheap at Ru
dolph’s. tf
Marguerite Clark in "Still Waters”
will appear at the Empress theatre
tomorrow night. This is a great cir
cus story arid is one of the best in
which Miss Clark oppears.
Freezing at McCallum
Freezing weather is reported at
McCallum, Salcha, Richardson, Mc
Carty, Donnelly, Paxson’s and Hog
an. Snow is falling at many points
along the trail, one Inch being on the
ground at Paxson.
The natives at Tatltlek state that
winter will come two to four weeks
earlier this year than last. If there
is any merit in these prophecies by the
aboriginees it is high time we were
filling our coal bins.
Lieut. Faust at Guikana
Lieut. Faust and party arrived at
Guikana last night at 6 o’clock, and
left this morning for Valdez.
Supt. Jack Ingram left on a tour
of Inspection over the trail this morn
ing.
A nice line of Earthern Teapots
at Rudolph’s. ' t*
New Coats
Just received some
very nifty styles in
Winter Coats at
E. Winter's
Without a Rudder
No one would wish to ride in a ship
without a rudder.
Cancelled checks are a rudder for
your future guidance, and will enable
you to save and cut out many useless
expenditures.
Come in and let us tell you how a
checking account with this bahk will
help you.
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
Valdez Dock Co # PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, toot of Wall street
So comfortable in the morning, when other fires burn
low—
So healthful in sickrooms, where oxygen is valuable—
So convenient and safe for cosy corners.
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light & Telephone Co.
Valdez-Fairbanks Auto Service
CARRYING U. S. MAIL and EXPRESS
_^___
Passenger Service—Valdez-Fairbanks
25c Per MiJe To All Interior Points
LEAVE VALDE25 1st and 15th ot Each Month
^SPECIAL TRIPS ON APPLICATION
Address: WM. SCHMIDT, Valdez, Alaska
Phone 228
KEYSTONE PRODUCE Co.
HEINZ’S 57 VARIETIES
AMOCAT CANNED GOODS
Groceries, Butter, Eggs, Fruits, Vegetables,
Cigars, Tobaccoes and Confectionary.
Keystone and McKinley Streets
A pretty line ot colored crochet
cotton end atamped pillow illpe at
the Needlecraft Shop. tf
For nret-claee meala and good aerr
tce at reaaonable prlcea try the Mer
chanta* Cafe. **
WANTED—Fire centa per pound
will be paid for clean, cotton raga at
the Proepector Oflce. tt
Genuine Sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tt
Old papers In bunches ot 100 at
this office, only 10 cents. tt
A new lot ot manufacturer's sam
ples of men’s and women’s wearln*
apparel Just received at the Empor
ium. tt