Do Your
Thanks
giving
Shopping Tomorrow
Store Closed All Day Thursday
ERE’S a list of some of the
good things this store has
ready for you for your Thanks
giving dinner:
A fall assortment of True
Blue Cookies, Salt Wa
fers, Soda Crackers;
Heinz Pickles and Relishes;
S. & W. Asparagus;
Hunt’s Canned Fruits;
^JFresh Canned Crabs, Lob
sters and Shrimps;
Plum Pudding;
Mrs. Porter’s Fruit Pudding
Oranges,
Apples,
Grape Fruit,
Cranberries,
Casabas,
Sweet Potatoes,
Hubbard Squasb,
Cauliflower,
Layer Raisins,
Salted Nuts,
Mixed Nuts,
Calimyrna Figs,
Calarab Figs Candied,
etc.
Principal Distributors For Community Silver
Valdez Mercantile Co.
WY . lU i strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
1011 VY gill an(j Groceries, and appreciate
* prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
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CHMIDPS BAKERY
FOR GOOD THINGS TO EAT
1 Doughnuts what am*—Cakes and Cookies.
/ Wiegels High Grade Candies.
Delicatessen and Lunch Goods—Bread 3 for 25c. Call 156
[i Mi H ttfW SWIFT DELIVERY
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
. Independent Laundry Go.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66 •
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Roush Dry lCc lb
Free Auto Tickets
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THE BUFFET
PHONE 7 VALDEZ, ALASKA
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/ War Items.
Paris: Tbe order for tbe bolding
of American mall for two days be
fore being forwarded or delivered bas
been cancelled by tbe ministry of war.
Berlin: More than 6000 iron
crosses of tbe first class have been
conferred on German, Austro-Hun
garian and Turkish officers and sol
diers, according to tbe Overseas News
Agency.
Paris: A new type of submarine
mine layer and a new type of repeat
ing mine have been Invented by the
Germans and placed in French and
- ———-.-H :--—
(British waters. The old type of mine
was anchored to the bottom and the
explosive head was about ten feet
below the surface of the water. When
a mine sweeper scooped it up, that
was the end of its usefulness to the
power that placed it. The new Ger
man mine has an automatic adjust
ment like the cartridge chamber of
a rifle. When a mine sweeper nips
off one mine another comes up to
take its place. The chamber that
holds the mines Is placed by the Ger
mans where the old mines had their
anchors.
SIGNAL CORPS WILL
INSTALL TELEPHONES.
At the suggestion of Lieutenant
Dougherty, the war department has
approved the suggestion Of putting
auxiliary telephones along the Valdez
trail, as feeders to the telegraph
line. The telephones are not for any
commercial business, but simply for
use of the maintenance of the line.
A year ago this winter one of the
signal corps men was frozen to death
on the Valdez trail while out repair
ing the line. Had the auxiliary tel
ephones been Installed as now con
templated, It is more than likely that
his life would have been saved. Lieut.
Dougherty sent these facts and much
other data in support of his recom
mendation for the installation of the
auxiliary telephones and when it
reached the chief signal officer it
was approved and he was requested
to state where he wished the phones
stationed. He was also asked to
give his reasons for installing a tele
phone in each case.
He recommended that the McCar
ty station be connected, by telephone
with Birch Lake, and also with Beal’s
cache; that Donnelly station be con
nected with Miller’s roadhouse; that
Paxson station be connected with
Meier’s roadhouse; that Beaver Dam
Btation be connected with Ptarmigan
Drop roadhouse; and that Valdez
station be connected with Comfort
roadhouse.
With telephones installed at these
places it would then be possible to
discover more quickly where breaks
might occur.
In the vicinity of the Rapids road
house the course of the telegraph
line has been changed for a distance
of almost 12 miles. Formerly the
line did not follow the course of the
trail which made it difficult in win
ter to make any necessary repairs.
The construction work has been
in charge of Corporal McFarland^
who was forlerly located in Fair
banks, and who was later sergeant
major at Fort Gibbon.
Lieut. Dougherty will remain in
Fairbanks for a few days, checking
over the property and accounts of the
wireless and city offices.
WHAT WAR 18 COSTING
ENGLAND FOR SHELLS.
This is a war of artillery. Shells
and shrapnel are being used on a
scale for in excess of the calcula
tions of the most far-seeing military
experts of Europe. That is why the
French and Kitchener are asking for
more shells and still more shells;
for a great proportion of the $100
a minute which this war is costing
is being blown away by our big
guns.
To fire a single shot from our big
gest guns cost $4000 and some idea
of the expenditure of naval firing
can be gained from the fact that
one famous battleship could use up
$100,000 worth of ammunition per
minute if she worked all her guns
at full blast, as she would do if it
was necessary. And to this huge
outlay must be added that the cost
of the gun, remembering that the
largest weapon has a very short life
and is -soon worn out. The most ex
pensive gun we use is the 15-inch,
though othfer big guns runs up heavy
ammunition bills. For instance $300
vanishes in flame and smoke every
time a 13.5 weapon is fired.
The guns wmcn expena $t>ouu
worth of ammunition every time
they are fired are really wonderful
pieces of artillery. They can hurl a
ton weight of explosive shells over
a distance of thirty miles with the
certainty of hitting any spot they
aim at. The power and velocity of
the shot is such that on leaving the
gun it has force enough to go right
through 57 inches of wrought iron.
' The 12-inch gun can eat up well
over $600 worth of ammunition per
minute. For a 9.9 it is approxi
mately $150; for a 7.5 inch under
$100, and for a 6-inch about $60.
—Tid-Bits.
Mrs. Dunlap Fined $500.
The U. S. marshal’s office has re
ceived information from Anchorage
to the effect that Mrs. Dunlap charg
ed with selling liquor without a li
cense and who was convicted on the
charge, was lined $500 and costs.
Every one of the defendants in the
'.iquor cases have been convicted.
William Jennings Bryan is report
ed to have come back into the fold
and announced that he would sup
port the President’s policy. Can it be
possible that Bryan's stand was from
policy and not from principle?
London: An arrangement for a
commercial credit in London for Rus
sia probably will result, the Times
says, from the visit to England of
Finance Minister Bark. Russian
government bills up to twenty million
pounds will be discounted it is said.
Paris: Raymond Swoboda, of New
York, who was arrested last March
charged with setting fire to the liner
La Touralne, and later was held as
a German spy, will be sent to a con
centration camp. The charges against
Swoboda were not proved.
MAKE EXERCISE PLAY.
T» Oat the Beet Results It Must Be
Thoroughly Enjoyed.
When you exercise, play. That la
one of the points most strongly urged
to the attention of the public In re
lently published public health reports.
No matter whether you are walking,
gardening, exercising In a gymnasium
or playing golf, keep your exercise free
from the spirit of drudgery and make
it all recreation. Make it as enjoyable
as anything you may do throughout
the entire day. If you don’t much of
the good that it might do you is lost.
"The very best thing a man can do,
says the report, “is to make a hobby
of bis exercise. No matter bow poor
the hobby, if it induces outdoor exer
cise it 1b perfectly Justifiable."
The woman who is obliged to take
her baby out for a two hours' airing
every day is far more fortunate than
she often realizes.
The only advice the report offers the
tnan who is going to take up a bobby
for the benefit of the resulting exer
cise is to choose one that permits of
its being followed the year round rath
er thau one that depends upon seasons
of the year. For that reason the ama
teur gardener or chicken fancier is far
more fortunate in his choice than the
amateur geologist, botanist or ornithol
ogist. The latter must wait on the
seasons and must find favorable loca
tions for indulging their hobbies, while
the former have year round pastimes.
OUR MISNAMED RUINS.
The Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings Are
Really Complete Towns.
Many visitors to the prehistoric cliff
dwellings of the Mesa Verde National
park, in southwestern Colorado, says a
government publication, are astonished
to find that what is commonly de
scribed as a dwelling is not properly
a dwelling at all. but a village or city.
The celebrated Cliff Palace Is not a
palace. Neither is Spruce Tree House
a house, nor Balcony House a house.
Each of these is a complete town
which once, in the dim ages before the
earliest Indian tradition, was an or
ganized community, often of consider
able size.
The arrangement of houses in a cliff
dwelling of the size of Cliff Palace, for
example, is characteristic and inti
mately associated with the distribution
of the social divisions of the inhab
itants. The population was composed
of a number of units, possibly clans,
each of which had its own social or
ganization more or less distinct from
others, a condition that appears in the
arrangement of rooms. The rooms oc
cupied by a dan were not necessarily
connected, although generally neigh
boring rooms were distinguished from
one another by their uses.
In a Maori Wooing Housa.
Among the Maoris sometimes in tbe
wbare inatoro (the wooing bousei. a
building in which Die young of both
sexes assembled for play, sougs.
'dances, etc., there would be at stated
times a meeting. When the tires burn
j»d low a girl would stand up iu the
dark and say: “I love So-and-so. 1
want him for my husband. if be
coughed (sign ot assenti or said "Yes’
it was well; if only dead silence she
covered her head with her robe and
was usbamed. This was not often, as
she generally bad managed to ascer
tain. either by her own inquiry or by
sending a girl friend. If the proposal
was acceptable. On the other hand,
sometimes a mother would attend and
say. “1 want So-and-so for my son
If not acceptable there was generally
mocking, and she was told to let tbe
young people have their house (the
wooing bousei to themselves
His Master Stroke.
“George Ferguson." said his wife,
looking with crushing scorn at the
gaudy rug he had buug'nt at u special
sule. ‘‘I wonder if ever In your life you
kuew a bargain when you saw it!”
The case was critical. Mr. Fer'gusou
saw that something bold and decisive
must be done, and bis mind worked
quickly
"Why. yes. Laura.” he said. “When
I wanted a wife I picked out tbe
nicest, sweetest little woman in the
whole world, and I got tbe best bar
gain any man ever got There, there,
pet!”—Chicago Tribune.
Sitting In Judgment.
The admonition “Judge not that ye
be not judged" is valid only at those
rare times when we are feeling hum
ble and Insignificant. On these rare
occasions we find the attitude. “Who
ant 1 that 1 should pass judgment npou
my fellow men?" But the normal at
titude Is. “Who are my fellow men that
1 should refrain from passing judg
ment upon them?”—Life.
Surprise All Around.
“Miss Gadders Is full of conversa
tlon ^surprises”
“jffit what do you mean by that?"
“You never know what she Is going
to say.”
“Good heavens, hian, she never knows
that herself!”-Birmingham Age-Her
ald. _
A Problem. *
Lecturer—Now, my dear friends. th<
first duty of a teacher la to inoculate
his pupils with the love of learning
Timid Teacher—But. sir. suppose it
wouldn’t take?-Baltimore American
Tho Hoad of tho Family.
In Germany the father is the head
of the family, in France the mother.
In England the eldest sop,. In America
the daughter.—Don C. Beits.
Life la short Let us not throw any
of U away In useless resentment
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ARE BOATS AND NEVER MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Night.
Bay and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA j
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAIBY
Phone 68 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
.. .
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils,
located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
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PUGET SOUND Admiral j PUGET SOUND
California Line j Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 0 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th enlla Illnmnn anil Koillak—All Sailing enll at Unlk
anil Aneliorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Weilncndny anil Sunday, connecting with
Steamera Vale anil Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr.. Seattle: VAI.DK/. DOCK CO., I.oeal Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Atari! eda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattleihe 6th, 12th, l£th,24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south -7th, 13th, 18th, 2Sth and 31th for Ccr
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell. Douglas. Skagway. Cordova, Ellamar. \alde* and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche. on the 15th, S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
f, B. TRACY, Gen*! Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road-one management—one service all the way
through to Chieago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE 4 ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.