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THL’RNDAY, DK1TKMHKR 27, 1917
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THE MEN I LIKE TO MEET.
mHERK are many pleaaant peo
pie
Whom one would like to know—
Editors and harbers
And men who shovel enow:
There are laymen, there are dray
men.
But the ones I like to meet
Are men who pat the horses
When they pass them on the
street
IT'S loll.'. on the avenue,
To bow and raise your hat
To some ene so distinguished
That your comrade aaya, "Who's
that?”
But the man 1 really honor
When the stinging north wind
blow*
Je the ore who always stops to
stroke
Some horse's frusen nos*.
-Christopher Morley In Life.
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THK CONSTANT DRIP
“The constant drip wears out the
rock.”
The persistent hammering that is
being waged through the columns of
The Prospector is behalf of the "BUY
IN VALDEZ” movement will surely
bear fruit, for our local business
houses and our city in general.
LOYALTY in these strenuous times
means more than ever before in the
history of the world. Loyalty to the
flag of one’s country is the watchword
of all America today.
Never before have our institutions
and our country meant so much to
us. Never has the ensign floating
proudly and unsullied in the breeze
appeared so beautiful.
LOYALTY to one’B country means
loyalty to one’s town, and to one’s
homeland and to one’s friends.
Who is any greater friend to you
than the merchant who carries your
account in sickness and in health; in
good times or bad?
Your very children depend upon
the friendship of the local merchant
for the bread they eat, the clothes
they wear, the employment they seek
In order to buy these things.
There Is loyalty in a commercial
sense as well as in a military sense.
Every citizen of Valdez should be
inordinately proud of the fact that
he lives in Valdez.
We should prove our loyalty by up
holding our home institutions. Our
business men are the men who have
really made the city what it is to
day. Their loyalty and energy hnve
made schoolhouses out of our forestF
and homes out of the thickets.
In no city in Alaska can we find
merchants who are more loyal to their
home town or more nccomodatlng to
their customers.
They give freely of their energy
and means for every worthy cause.
Does your out-of-town merchant do
this?
Who pays the taxes and keeps up
our streets and our schools and fur
nishes employment, and food and
clothing and medicine?
Your local business men.
Are we treating these loyal men
justly when we buy out of town?
Let us renew our loyalty to our
country and to our home town by
spending our money at home.
Jl'ST BRAGGING
The Fairbanks papers are looting
their horns—in a modest sort of way,
you understand—about the amount
their people subscribed to the second
Liberty Loan, and say that Fairbanks’
total of $223,000 will probably be
the record for Alaska towns of that
class. That boast may pass unnoticed
by peoples who are not familiar with
Fairbanks and surroundings; but
those papers cannot pull any of that
stufT over the eyes of those who know
that that town has never failed to
claim for itself anything within a rad
ius of a hundred miles or more. We
should like to know just what the ac
tual people of Fairbanks have sub
scribed, so we could compare notes.
Ketchikan with its population of less
than 3,000 subscribed $90,000. Val
dez, with a population of 1,000, sub
scribed $52,00, $52 per capita. With
Fairbanks we are safe to say that Es
ter. Ready Bullion, Coldstream, Ped
ro. Dome, Cleary creeks and other tri
butaries including the Chatanika,
have been included in that list which
would be approximately ten thousand
population. Fairbanks holding record
|—Piffle!—Ketchikan Miner.
INFORMATION WANTED
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The Juneau Dispatch of the second
instant after quoting us on the trans
portation question says:
"Thus we find a paper howling fdr
Sulzer in one breath, and howling for
more boats and cheaper freight rates
in the next. Let it be known that if
Mr. Sulzer had been on his job, and
not nasking in the sunshine of Calif
ornia, Seattle would never have slip
ped over the little joker giving two
transportation companies an absolute
strangle hold on Alaska.”
At this juncture, we rise for infor
mation. Would the Dispatch kindly in
form us of the whereabouts of Wick
THE MPRESS
THURSDAY EAGLE HALL 8 SHARP
PATHE PRESENTS THE NEW ADVENTURES OF
J. RUFUS WALLINGFORD, FEATURING MAX
FIGMAM, LOUTA ROBERTLON, AND BURR Me
INTOSH IN
The Bang Sun Engine
ALSO
Hears! Pathe News of Current Events.
The Bang Gold Mines of China.
AND
LUKE AND THE MERMAIDS in a side
splitting comedy.
Admission 30c
STEAM HEATED NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MBS. E. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ' ALASKA
ersbam at that time? According to Its
own statement, Wick ia still tbe dele
gate. Tbe reason for the question is
that we are not so sure of our foot
ing that we can place the blame on
any one. As much as we may hope
for the confirmation of Sulzer as dele
gate, congress has the last say, .there
fore prefer to wait until the Dispatch
or congress give ub the true facts in
the case. Cntil then we shall not
blame Sulzer for anything—Ketchi
kan Times.
APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED
EOU THE ENTIRE TERRITORY
The governor has completed the
list of names for the Territory, for
tbe legal advisory boards in each di
vision to work with the local exemp
tion boards concerning registrants,
and following are their names as well
as tbe names of the medical board.
First Division, at Juneau: R. W.
Jennings, chairman. Royal A. Gunni
son, S. Hellenthal.
Second/Division, at Nome: Wm. A.
Holzhelmer, chairman,, James Fraw
ley, J. F. Forbes.
Third Division at Valdez: Fred M.
Brown, chairman, E. E. Ritchie, O.
P. Hubbard.
Fourth Division, at Fairbanks: C.
E. Bunnell, chairman, C. H. Clegg,
John A. Clark.
Medical Board*
First Division: P: J. Mahone, Ju
neau; A. J. Palmer, Juneau; G. F.
Midford, Douglas; A. R. Sargent,
Douglas; H. C. 8tory, Ketchikan; W.
A. Meyer, Ketchikan; D. W. Figgins,
Ketchikan.
Second Division: Henry Burson,
Nome; Curtis W. Welch, Candle; W.
Ramsay, Council.
Third Division: C. A. Winans, Val
dez; J. H. Romig, Seward; J. M.
Sloan, Seward; C. C. Benedict. An
chorage; J. J. Beeson, Anchorage.
Fourth Division: H. J. McCallum,
Fairbanks; P. J. B. Le Blanc, Fair
banks; M. E. Smith. Nenana; W. E.
Leonard, Tanana; H. R. Moore, Idit
arod.
/
DU OUT OF EVERY IOO
GERMANS WANT PEACE
LONDON, Dec. 27.—Philip Schetd
mann, leader of the German social
ists, either is at Stockholm or on his
way there, and Pan-German newspap
ers ask what he is going there for, ac
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen. In reply,
Vorwaerts, the socialist organ, says
that Herr Scheldmann is working for
what “ninety-nine per cent of the
German people want, namely, peace.’’
GIRL WORKERS WEAR MASKS
\\ lieu working in u cotton fumigui
lug plant at Bush terminal, Brooklyn
girls have to wear masks for protec
tion against poison gas used Id the
process. All cotton shipped Into porr
Is fumigated with deadly gas.
Simple Remedy.
In these days of nervous prostm
tlon, called by some ••nervous prosper
tty,” because It Is so prevalent among
the Idle rich, this story of the famous
Doctor Abernathy, who did not be
lieve In coddling his patients. Is ap
ropos:
A patient, a wealthy woman, aeni
for him and he found U was a case of
nerves.
“Doctor," she Said, “I feel a terri
ble pain In my side every ttme I put
my hand to iny head."
"Then, madam,” said the doctor,
“why In the name of common sense
do yon put your hand to your head?"
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No Waste Allowed.
In the airplane factories In Great
Britain, absolutely no waste la al
lowed. Even the sawdust la sucked
tip through giant shafts to be trans
formed Into gas, which In turn Is used
to generate electricity to drive the ma
chinery. The whole power of the plant
Is supplied hy tta own waste, a notable
Instance of up-to-date economical
nwfliodt
FUEL SAVERS
We have added a new heater
to our line that is
Economical to bum,
Durable in Construction,
Sightly to the eye.
This stove comes in the two sizes
most wanted.
Also a full line of The Cole’s Hot Blast
Stove. The most economical heater on the
market.
S. BLUM AND COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
Candy Kitchen
L W. HUNT—b Owl Drag Sure.
FOUNTAIN DRINKS
HOT- -COLD
LAUNCH DELLA
CapL H. L. Rider
Weekly trips from Valdes to
Kllamar, Landlock, Fidalgo and
way ports. Passengers landed
at all points.
Carrying freight and passen
ger*.
For rates apply on board.
CAPT. H. L RIDER
THE SOUTHERN
MRS. BLACKWELL, Prop.
Nice, Clean Rooms
Baths In Connection
PRICES REASONABLE
Phone 104
J. E. WILSON
Freighting to all points
in the third division.
Hrtrses bought and sold.
Phone 166.
Valdez Miners Uufon No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
W. M. CONLEY ProUnt,
Valdes Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Secretar*
Valdes Alssfau
r. ML BROWN. W. M.
4BD WOOD, Mcrttary
Swiss Elect President
BERNE, Switzerland, Dec. 27.—
Felix Calonder, vice president of the
republic and head of the department
of the interior, yesterday was elected
president of Switzerland for 1918. He
received 176 voteB. Dr. Richard Mil
ler was elected vice president by a
vote of 155 to 44 for Gustave Ador,
president of the International Red
Cross.
ONLY JAPANESE OFFICER
IN THE V. S. ARMY
HONOLULU, Dec. 27.—First Lt. K.
Sakai, a Japanese born here, who re
ceived his commission in the officers'
training camp, is believed to be the
only Japanese officer in the United
States Army.
Fresh taffy, chews and brittlea, at
Hunt's Candy Kitchen. tf
Suggestion
A nice display of hand-painted pic
tures at Rudolph’s tf
fit any standard maks o f camera.
They are the standard. Ony E Cam
eron. tf
OYSTERS
A nice lot of Fox’s Fresh Oyster
Cocktails just received hy the Love
Whttley Co. tf
Just received a new line of Pyra
ln Ivory suitable for Christmas gifts
at the Valdes Drag Store. tf
ArcticHotel
All Warm, Ontalde Rooms
TraSWent Trade Solicited
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths la Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING. Pray
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICK.ES MERRITT
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
TUlikum Club.
Phone 00. McKinley Strom.
Contract Surgeon. O. A Army
A. > Surgeon. U a Public Health Sere
(Marine Hospital)
DR. H. C0CKER1LLE
Gradaate National ralverelty
Washington, O. C.
DENTIST
In Valdes Since 1808
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
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VALDEZ HOSPITAL
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Terms Reasonable
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Sunder br Appointment
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