TOMORROW 18 WHE.VTLE8S DAY
Save Flour
More Corn Meal
Such is the moment’s earnest request of the Food
Administration. And remember the following state
ments %re absolutely true, and to the point:
1. You can bake splendid bread with commeal.
2. Commeal as a breakfast food may well take
a good part of the place of wheaten breakfast foods.
3. And in saving wheat YOU HELP WIN THE
WAR.
(Excellent quality, perfectly
pure, without dust whatever.)
9-Pound Sack - - 90c
,,r if vnu wish a smaller package we have
3-Pound Paper Sack, each - 30c
Mercantile Co.
The food you miss in your measure today you’ll bless
In your leisure tomorrow! Stand by!
DONALDSON flCHEDULB
The following schedule for the har
bor boat "Lt. C. V. Donaldson” will
lake effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked. -
Monday. Wednesdays. Thursdays,
and Fridays: „ ..
Lve. Fort Liscum Leave Valdez
8:15 a. m. »:46 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAY
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4*30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAY
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:16 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
11:16 p- m. 12:00 m. m.
There will be no trips of the boat
on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each
month, these 'days being used to clean
boilers. ... .
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice. „ ,
All official kusinegs between Val
dez and the Post should be arranged
for transaction, where possible, so
that advantage will be taken of the
scheduled trips and extra trips will
be made at a minimum and made only
I
New Goods
Coffin’s Codfish Chunks, Swedish
Sweet Toast, White and Rye Knocker
brod, Grant’s Hygienic Crackers,
Pata-a-Cake and Teco Buckwheat, atj
Love-Wliitley co. tf |
NOTICE
Owing to the increased expense of
operation, occasioned by application
of the Territorial eight hour law, it is
necessary to increase the price on de
livery of coal, therefore the price of
coal delivered will be as follows:
Bulk .$14.60 per ton
Sacked (ton lots) . 18.00 per ton
Sacked, (half ton) .... 9.50 per ton
Sacked, less than % ton 1.35 a sack
If VALDEZ TRANSFER CO.
Buy your groceries direct. Save
fifteen to twenty-five per cent. The
house that sells direct to consumers.
Randall Grocery & Brokerage Co.,
Inc., 82 Marlon St., Seattle Wn. tf
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STEAMF.R SAILINGS ♦
♦
Steamship Alameda—Sailed south
from ,Valdez, Saturday, Jan. 5.
Steamship Admiral Evans—Sailed
south from Valdez, December 31.
Steamship Alaska—Sailed west from
Juneau Sunday, Jan. 6. ^
WANTED—Girl for general hoase
work. Apply Mrs. T. J. Donohoe. 3t
THK NATION PAYS
(11 He was 21.
He was 5 feet, 11 inches.
He weighed 165.
He had scarcely known a sick day.
Morally clean.
Physically perfect.
He did not know the taste of in
toxicating liquors.
He was the joy of his mother.
The hope of his father;
And the idol of his friends.
He volunteered.
Uncle Sam received him with open
arms.
Put him in the front line of battle.
Today he fills an unknown grave.
I 2 ) He was 21.
He was o feet, 11 inches.
He weighed 165 pounds.
He was morally unclean.
He was physically weak.
He was the habitue of the saloon.
He drank every day and was often
drunk.
He was the sorrow of his parents.
He had no real friends.
He was drafted.
Uncle Sam marked —
His unsteady eye.
His depraved face,
His whisky breath,
His cigarette fingers,
His unsteady heart,
And the germs of immoral dis
ease,
and said. “Stand aside, you are un
fit."
And he was left at home to help
breed another generation.”
—-J. K. S. in “American Issue."
Insane Man from Girdwood
Deputy Marshal N. E. Ohlsson, of
Girdwood, Is en route to Seward with
an insane man, according to advices
received by the marshal’s office. The
name of the prisoner is not given.
O YOU HOOVER
(This poem, without the author’s
name, is going the rounds of the em
ployes of the government depart
ments. )
My Tuesdays are meatless.
My Wednesdays are wheatless;
I am getting more eatless each day.
My home it is heatless.
My bed it is sheetless;
They’re all sent to the Y. M. C. A.
The barrooms are treatless,
My coffee is sweetless;
Each day I get poorer and wiser.
My stockings are feetless,
My trousers are seatless;
My! How I do hate the kaiser!
Notice to Masons
Special meeting will be held Wed
nesday, Jan. 9, at 7 o’clock p. m.
Work in third degree. Visiting mem
bers Invited.
kll C. C. REYNOLDS, Sec.
rfVKRXTHING TBS BBR ABDT MABOTKJB, Propr.
IAP SOLDIERS IN WAR GAME
Trench Fighting at Night, Mining and
Counter-Mining Included In Mod
ern Combat Practice.
The week's fighting maneuvers of the
Engineers' battalion of the Japanese
Imperials Guards and First division
were carried out on a scale never be
fore attempted, says the East and
West News. The war play occurred at
Otahara. in the Tochlgt prefecture.
The operations Included rival armies'
trench fighting at night, exactly as
practiced In the present Europe war.
Mining and connter-mlnlng, with many
other special features of modern war
fare, were practiced. The present type
of hand grenades was used.
Japanese were first to Introduce
these missiles at Port Arthur, but the
recent form of the grenade Is quite
changed and the weapon much Im
proved. The Mills standnrd bomb, a
British Invention, was chiefly em
ployed. It Is about the size and shape
of a large lemon. Is made of steel, the
outside corruguted Into 48 small
squares which, upon explosion of the
bomb scatter In a wide area. It will
not explode until released from the
hand of the thrower. A lever, fitted In
to a slot at the top. extends halfway
aruu-'.d the circumference and Is held
In place by a fixing pin. A small metal
ring upon this pin renders Its extrac
tion easy when ready to he thrown. In
casting, the hojnh and lever are tight
ly grasped in liie right timid, the left
font Is advanced anil the bomb Is
hurled with an overhead bowling mo
tion, iuiii*Ii ns In cricket. As the bomb
leaves the baud, the lever, actuated by
a spring, is looseued and fulls to the
ground, thus removing an Impediment
to the true flight of the mlssle. When
the lever files ofT. a strong spring Is
released, forcing the firing pin into a
percussion cap. This Ignites the fuse,
wliieh burns until the main charge of
Miiiiuonial explodes.
UNKNOWN LAKES AND RIVERS
Interior of Labrador Found to Possess
! Many Unmapped Bodies of Water
and Streams.
Chains of lakes hitherto liinna|ipe(i
inti rivers equally uukn.twn were trn
in the Interior of Labrador by
the exploring p;yliea of representn
| fives of the .National Oeographle soci
ety anil llte Carnegie museum. Pitts
burgh. which arrived at St. Johns. N.
K.. recently, says a correspondent.
The Journey covered about 750 miles
over a route never before truveled by
while men ami was made more difficult
by the fact that the five Indians vlto
were taken along as guides proved to
he unfamiliar with the country.
The party Included K. It. C. Todo.
curator of ornithology in the Carnegie
museum: O. .1. Mltrle. curator of mam
mals In the satin* institution, and Al
fred Marshall of Chicago.
They Iqft Seven Islands hay oil the
north -h# of the tiulf of St. Lawrence,
about tin* end of May and travel d
uortli hy canoe and portages, reach
lug Port Chiinn. near I'rgavn Im.v, Au
gust *J'J. In addition to mapping the
country, they studied its natural his
tory.
Mr. Todd said the existing maps of
a large district were found to he very
inaccurate and altogether misleading,
having been made hy guesswork from
informal ion supplied hy Indians.
German Mayor Has Sense of Humor.
The Prussian town of Altwusser hits
developed a humorous burgomaster.
The Sehwiieliische Tagwiicllt says:
"The burgomaster of Altwusser.who
has been flooded with anonymous let
ters accusing him of fulling In his
duty as regards the food supplies, has
caused a reply to his accusers to he
posted at the town hall. It reads:
•• *| am Illumed In letters for the
scarcity of |M»tntoes. for the heavy
mins and the consequent muddy state
of the streets, and for the unlawful
appropriation of food cards on tlie purl
of ninny of the Inhabitants. Besides
'the writers of these missives attack
ine for providing m.v household with
more than I am entitled to and for
pocketing public funds as salary.
•• *1 Invite some of these pettifogging
spirits, who have no other resource
than to besmirch the reputatlou of
their public officials, to come and dine
with me any Sunday.
>. *q*bey would regret not having
stayed at home to partake of the meat
with which they are no doubt provid
ed. Instead of the cabbage and tumlpa
| which they would And representing the
| Joint on my table.’ ”
Japanese Seek Match Outlet.
Plans are now under way to secure
a wide market In foreign countries for
matches of Japanese manufacture. At
one time Japanese matches had an ex
cellent market both In the East and
la the ’Vest, says the Pathfinder, but,
owing to lack of standardisation of the
product and to the marketing of Inferi
or goods by some of tjie manufacturers,
It finally fell off quite seriously. It is
now proposed rigidly to maintain a
high standard of quality In all Japan
ese matches and to have the product
of all memners of the newly formed
match manufacturers’ federation in
spected before shipment abroad.
Men Muet Go Out Shopping.
One result of the replacing of men
by women in many of the British In
dustries Is the Increase of shopping by
men unfit by age or physical disability
for army service, notes a correspond
ent. Tradespeople, who have noticed
the gradual Increase of their men cus
tomers are not at all adverse to the
Innovation, because they find generally
that a larger amount of business can
bo got through U a given t**ae.
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GROUND GLASS FOUND
IN CANNED TOMATOES
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Major General
William H. Carter, commander of the
central department of the army, last
night sent telegrams to commanders
of everx cantonment In his division
warning that ground glass had been
found in consignments of canned to
matoes and breakfast load, which
were being held here pending ship
ment to army cantonments. Hinton
G. Clabaugb, chief of the local bureau
of the department of justice, inform
ed General Carter of the discovery of
the glass. Mr. Clabaugh said the glass
was ground very fine, making its dis
covery improbable.
Call for Warrants
i Notice is hereby given that I will
i pay warrants up to and including war
' rant No. 4621.
E. G. AMES.
| 2t Town Trees.
| MEATLESS Ml NCR MEAT
TRIED ON SOLDIERS
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WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan., 8.—
Meatless mince meat, another culin
I ary triumph in the art of food con
servation, liaH been brought to the
housewives of the country by the na
tional emergency garden committee as
a worthy companion of pumpkinless
pumpkin pie and gingerless ginger
bread. The new mince meat, officially
described as a '‘camouflage” was tried
on 500 troops on a transport, who pro-1
nounced it perfect and called for j
more.
Half a package of seeded raisins. ]
half a pound of prunes stewed with :
lemon juice and peel, one-quarter cup !
of sweet cider, four tablespoons brown |
sugar; chop the raisins and prunes to- j
gether and the result is said to be a :
meatless mince pie. which will accord 1
with the food administration’s meat
less Tuesday.
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ANCHORAGE .MEN
MEET IN riTTSRl'RG 1
_ I
Charles E. Herron, owner of the
Anchorage Times; E. L>. Bedell, for->
nier city editor of the Times; Patrick ,
] Cummings and William Normile had j
dinner together last Sunday in Pitts- |
j burg, according to a message received j
'here today from Mr. Herron. Mr.'
Cummings, who is a well known ntln-;
ing man of Anchorage, is enjoying a ;
; pleasure trip to the States. Mr. Nor- j
i mile, who formerly was in business'
| here, is now a resident of Franklin,
j Pa.
The party sent Christmas greet-j
; ings to their friends and acquaintan-,
ces in Anchorage.
Mr. Herron is now in Chicago, but
■ lie will leave there tomorrow for
I Washington city to appear before the
| public buildings committee of the
1 house of representatives for a govern
! ment building in this city.—Anchor
! age Times.
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Toys! Toys! Toys!
Of all descriptions at the Valdez
Drug Store. tf
Cannery Sites l
We have customers for select can- j
uery sites located In the Prince Wli- j
, liani Sound District. If you have any- j
j thing to offer send full particulars, I
: location, description, etc., to
BOND & BABSON. |
Field Dept, j
32 Broadway,
New York City.
Q. E. Benson, a miner from Port
Wells, employed at the Granite mine,
is in town.
W. E. Jansen, who is trapping at
Sawmill Bay, arrived in town last ev
ening.
U. S. PORTABLE SEARCHLIGHT
This is u portable searchlight that
la In use at the United States maiina
camp at Quautico. Va.‘ It can be
moved anywhere ut short notice.
Qm0 Cauaa for It
Btrangerv-Bay, It aoema like the
whole town’srunntng. What’s the ex
citement? . \
Native—Excitement j Why, talater,
the 0:46 train's coming past.
Financial Reserve
There is hardly a day passes but mast
af us are called upon to draw upon our re
serve, either physical, mental or financial.
Have you some in store?
This bank is a good place to start a fin
ancial reserve and it cannot help but be of
real service to you.
H.VKK DKTOHIT BOXKf) TOR RKNT
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
VALDEZ. ALASKA
Valdez Dock Co • PH0N£ wo 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
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Office Foot of Wall Street
Headquarters For
Electrical Supplies
Only the best manufac
tures are represented in
our stock.
All electrical Supplies we
sell are guaranteed pro- .
ducts.
Make your electrical pur
chases here and have the
assurance of absolute satis
faction and quality.
Prince William Sound Water,
Light, Power, Tel. Company
peace’ not question
OF TERMS, HATH TAFT
PITTSBURG. Pa., Jan. 8.—Uphold
ing the morale of the allies is tl^p
most important task facing the allies
this winter, asserted former President
William H. Taft, in an address at a
Red Cross meeting here yesterday.
Discussing peace possibilities, the
former president declared.
"Peace is not a question of terms.
It is a question of downing the rul
ing power of Germany today—the
German military autocracy. It is a
question of helping the blinded rotsled
German people to see how they are
being fooled.
'The German people have become
obsessed with megalomania, with
grandeur, with the Idea that they are
supermen and are God’s chosen peo
ple. A people thus obsessed are Just
as dangerous in the family of nations
and to permanent peaoe as a mad dog
in the domestic family.''
Salesmen Wanted
Does your trade use sales boards’
We invite correspondence from sales
men who are soaking their trade reg
ularly. The most remunerative side
Una—no supples—no collections—
Commissions due as soon as order Is
shipped. We want only tot-dnss man.
Bnqthties 'to receive attention must
sUte Una carried and how long, dsns
of trade called on, territory and how
often covered. The K ft S Sales Com
pany. 154-56 Whiting Street, Chicago.
Illinois. tf
Just received all the latest popu
lar eoaga at Q. O. Relnke’s. tf
A complete line of nugget and Ivory
jewelry, watches, diamonds, etc., at ^
the Valdez Drug Store.
For Brat-claaa meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. tf
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Second Oall
We will accept Liberty Bonda for
stock In the Valdes Iron Works.
Make your money earn 25 per cent
lnatead of 4 per cent. tf
Anooo Films WIM
fit any standard make o f camera.
They are the standard. Ony B. Cam
eron. tf
CITY KXPRB88, Phono IS; read;
to tranafe. that baggage for yen. tf
Use Resell Hair Tenia and yen vtll
nse no other. YaMes Drag Store. tf