Valdez Mercantile Co. *
TRUE VALUES
Will Come To Valdez
Santa Claus is due to arrive here on sched
ule time notwithstanding some reports to
the contrary. Many thought it would be
rather “hard going” for Old Santa this year
but after seeing our assortment of Toys and
asking the prices they have had a “change
of heart” and decided to help him along.
Here are a few suggestions for the
“Kiddie’s” Xmas
Dolls.75c to $2.25
Laundry Sets .$1.75
Doll Beds .50s to $2.25
Washing Machines .$1.75
Tea Sets .$1-75
Doll Furniture .3c to $1.25
building Blocks .25c to 75c
Books .•••15c up
Tool Chests .$200
Mysto Erector.$2.25 to $4.50
Drums .40c to $2.25
Mechanical Toys.25c and up
Sleds .$1.35 to $1.75
Air rifle .$2.00
Games .10c and up
CHRISTMAS CANDLES AND DECORATIONS
On ike basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Uihrmitj
Washington, D. C.
n™.„0 DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Offloe rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. BO
HOURS—9 to 12 a. b. ; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. a.
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
OffleeB Wall Street
Phone II VALDEZ
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
jCivil Engineer tnd|
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Bine Printing Valdee, Alaafca.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Orpheum Tonight.
Orchids, educational picture.
The Escape, swell drama.
Birds of Passage, hand colored
comedy.
Mike and Jake, Pugilists, joker
comedy.
Remington and smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
G. O. Relnke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, Is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
Before purchasing Christmas pres
ents drop In and see the stock on dis
play at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Reasons.
“I'd buy your eggs, but how do 1
know they're good eggs?
"They couldn't he better eggs.”
“How so?"
"They were laid on Sunday."—Pitts
burgh Press.
Beautiful Date Palm at the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition, San Francisco, 1915
Copyright. 18X4, by Panama-Padflo International Exposition Ca
THIS beautiful dele palm atanda baton the aouthorn facade of the great
Palaeo of Machinery. Through the planting of tan and beautiful
abraba and tnaa from all parte of tbe world tbe Bzpooitlon grounda
ban aaanmad tbe appoarnnoe of a aemltropical pared lea
CRUISER TACOMA
TO GUARD CANAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The
American cruiser Tacoma, which was
stationed in Cuba, has left Havana
to go to the Panama Canal to pro
tect the neutrality of the canal zone
from the belligerents.
BIG EIRE LOSS
IN PENNSYLVANIA
POTTSVILLE, Pa., Dec. 17.—Fire
In the business section of this city
destroyed $2,000,000 worth of prop
erty. The firemen were helpless to
stop the flames because of the in
tense cold and lack of water.
ALAMEDA SAILS
FROMJEATTLE
SEATTLE, Dec. 17.—The steamer
Alameda of the Alaska Steamship Co.
line left here last night with the fol
lowing Valdez passengers: Harry
King, Fay Boardman, Mrs. Baird, E.
Rogers, and one second-class. For
Fort Liscum, De Wit Riggs. For La
touche, Helen Van Campen.
| LOCAL BREVITIES. |
Matinee at the Orpheum Saturday.
—
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Bill Egan is in town from down
the sound.
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Joe Spenard had his bear team out
for a run today.
The launch B. F. M. arrived from
Port Wells yesterday.
Suits pressed ror $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198:
C. Ellis is in town from down the
bay.
R. Burges is in town from Port
Wells.
Just arrived the most beautiful and
largest assortment of Christmas ties
at Ben Silverman’s. tf
Chas. Hill has returned to town af
ter a trip to Landlock bay.
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. if
Several sleighing parties are be
ing arranged .for next Sunday to take
a trip out the trail.
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
H. Hunter left today for Shoup bay
to do assessment work on his min
ing ground.
Special hand colored pictures at
the Orpheum tonight, also fine com
edies.
Mrs. Albert White was taken to
the Valdez hospital this morning for
treatment. Mrs. White is suffering
with a heavy cold.
NOTICE:—Some stores cut prices
after the holidays. The Emporium's
prices are cut before the holidays and
we are selling “Hold-Heet” electric
stoves at $2.75 and aluminum perco
lators 'or $2.50 now. After Christ
mas the price will be $3.00, the same
as the stoves sell for in the states, tf
Sweat Bathe.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide to •
bles Issued by the Coast and Geodet'
1c Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the time of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Thursday, Dec. 17.
High tide 12:26 a. m., 7.6; 11:43 a.
m., 11.4.
Low tide 5:33 a. m., 2.7; 6:51 p.
m., 2.2.
Friday, Dec. 18.
High tide 1:12 a. m.. 7.7; 12:31
p. m„ 11.2.
Low tide 6:22 a .m., 2.7; 7:37 p.
m„ 2.0.
Saturday, Dec. 19.
High tide 1:59 a. m., 7.8; 1:19 p.
m., 10.7.
Low tide 7:12 a. m., 2.7; 8:21 p.
m., 1.6.
A SOLAR ECLIPSE.
When Totality Occurs Nature Takes on
an Awesome Aspect.
A total eclipse of the sun Is a won
derful sight. Where the eclipse Is but
partial the disk of the moon will
creep across the face of the sun little
by little, but will never completely ob
scure the orb. But where "totality”
occurs the sun at a given moment will
be entirely obliterated and the Inhabi
tants of the regions across which the
black band will stretch will perceive the
most wonderful phenomenon known to
astronomers—the display of the "coro
na” of the sun.
Great waves of Incandescent gas
hundreds of thousands of miles long,
reaching out from the sun Into the
ether, will be perceived. The country
side will take on a sinister, night gray
color, and tints of nature will pale and
deaden as at twilight, the temperature
will diminish sensibly, the birds, be
lieving night has come, will cease their
song and seek their nests. A person
who has never seen this strange mani
festation of nature cannot form any
Idea of its awesome aspect.
This eclipse Is a recurring phonom
enon. At the end of every period of
eighteen years and eleven days the
moon comes between the earth and
the sun at just such an angle that the
sun’s light Is completely shut off from
a portion of the world and partially
shut off from a much larger part.—
New York World.
A BILLION DOLLARS.
The Time It Would Take an Expert to
Count Them Singly.
I wonder if we realize when we talk
of a billion dollars what an enormous
sum of money it means?
We all know how rapidly an expert
counter of coins will manipulate them.
You can scarcely follow the motion of
his fingers as he shifts the coins from
one pile to another and counts them.
The treasury experts will count 4,000
silver dollars in an hour and keep it
up all day long, but that is their limit
Working eight hours a day, then, an
expert counter of coins will count 32,
000 silver dollars in a day. but how
long will It take him at that rate to
count $1,000,000? Thirty-one days.
But that is only the beginning of the
measurements of great figures, for if
this same man were to go on counting
silver dollars at the same rate of speed
for ten years he would find that he had
only counted 100,000,000 of them and
that to count $1,000,000,000 would re
quire 102 years of steady work at the
rate of eight hours a day during every
working day of every one of the 102
years.—O. P. Austin, Former Chief of
Bureau of Statistics.
Wind and tha Sun.
Wind does not always go down with
the sun. but may blow from high to
low after sunset If wind starts to
fill up a low pressure area before sun
set it is liable to keep pouring in until
it is filled and equilibrium restored.
If wind stops exactly at instant of sun
set one may rest assured that the area
of barometrical depression is filled. If
wind blows from sea to land by day it
may stop at sunset and reverse direc
tion. If it does the cause is that at
sunrise the sun’s radiant energy heats
the land more than it does the water.
The land warms the air. Increases its
rarity, and it rises, producing a lower
pressure area, and cooler air from over
the ocean rushes in to fill it. After
sunset land cools in less time than the
water, and the direction of flow is re
versed. But this may not always oc
cur. Local causes, as fog, saturation
of air. electrical conditions and others
may prevent.—New York Journal.
Sometimes Happens So.
The family had gone off for their
holiday In a taxi. Twenty minutes
Inter the taxi snorted back up the
road.
“Forgotten the tickets?” cried a
neighbor.
“No,” said the irate householder,
“but my wife’s just remembered that
she’s left a kettle boiling on the gas
stove.”
He dived into the house and came
back the next moment with a ghastly
calm on his face.
“All right now?” said the neighbor
cheerily.
“Right! Fd forgotten that I’d turn
ed the gas off at the meter, and now
we’ve two hours and a half to wait for
the next train.”—Glasgow Dispatch.
Father of the Dreadnought.
To the late Admiral Cunibertl, mem
ber of the Italian naval engineering
staff. Is due the credit of having sug
gested the modern Dreadnought It
was he, also, who suggested the mod
ern type of scout and he was one of
the first to study the question of tho
application of liquid fuel to marine
boilers. It was his influence which led
to the adoption of this fuel in the Ital
ian torpedo boat service.
Making Sure of Her Sleep.
“I knew you were eomlng tonight to
call on my sister,” said dear little
Jimmy.
“How did you know?" inquired Mr.
Nevergo.
“Because sis has been asleep all the
afternoon."
t
Encouraging.
Young Man—So Miss Ethel is your
eldest sister. Who comes after her?
Small Brother—Nobody ain’t come yet,
but pa says the first fellow that comes
can have her.
Love In Itself Is not Joy; It is always
service, and it may be a sacrifice; it
means giving not receiving—asking
not answering
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
llfECall You Jon Time forjthe boat
" if We Handle Your Baggage.
We Buy and£Sell Anything from
DeadfCrabs to Live Bear*.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
c 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS 5 Lunch 12 in to 1 p m
' 0 to 7 p m
BOARD Sc ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.”
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything:. We Bake.'Our Own
Bread and Pastry.RBread jforlSale.
Jack Callin • • Proprietor
flTil IiIH^^has. Perry
|rT>4 Complete Services*
1# IN THE HEART OF THE CITY ;
| l55Roomswithbatfr50 Sample Rooms
\ ALI
WASHED
AND
When
You
Use
a
Western Electric
Washer and Wringer
Simply put in the clothes and
start the motor;—in 10 to 15
minutes the clothes are washed
white and clean ready to be
hung on the line without the
wear and tear of the wash
board.
Connect to any electric lamp
socket.
Costs only 2 cents an hour to
run.’
Let us send one to your home
for 15 days’ free trial?
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Go.
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
PROSREOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.