Valdez Mercantile Co. .t
TRUE VALUES
On the 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 University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vcars in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Pbone IS THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drutt store. Office hours
8 a. m., to 6 p. m., 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment AH workiruaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. B9
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and7 to9p. m.
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F. BUTTERWORTH
jCivil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Bl«* Printing Valdez. Alaska.
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Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Summer Road. Winter Road.
Miles. Miles. .
00 Valdez. 00
9.9 .Camp Comfort. 9.9
18.8 . Wortman’s .18.8
26.9.Thompson Pass Relief Sta. 26.9
33.1 . Ptarmigan Drop.33.1
42.2 . Beaver Dam . 42.2
61.9 . Tiekhell 518
57.6.... Tiekhell Tel. Sta.67.6
63 . Ernestine . 63
80.6.’ Tonsina . 80.6
92.3 . Willow Creek . 91.8
102.6 . Copper Center .102.1
111 . Tallinn .110.6
113 . Simpson’s 112.6
118.6 . Dry Creek .118.1
128.3. Gulknna .127.8
139-8. Poplar . Grove .139,3
149.8 . Sourdough .149.3
161.7 .Hogan’s Tel. Sta.168.2
165.8 . Our. Qome .162.3
176.2 . Meter’s .171.7
190.9 . Parson’s .187.4
208.2 . MeCallum’s 207.4
219.9 . Miller’s .219.1
232.8 . Rapids .232
244.8 . Donnelly’s.244
261.8 . Beal's Cache .
280.2 . McCarty's .
292.2 . Shaw Creek .
297.8 . Tenderfoot .
300.8 . Richardson .
312.8 . Birch Lake .
. Gordon’s .260
. Sullivan’s .276
...Spruce Creek or Tent..,287
. Martin’s '.299
321.3 . Overland 307.7
330.2. Munson’s 316.6
337 . Salcha Tel. Sta.323.4
342 .. File Driver .328.4
362.1.Bergman’s.338.5
361.4 . White’s 347.8
370 . Fairbanks 366.4
FIREMAN'S BALL
THURSDAY NIGHT
The Volunteer Firemen of Valdez
will give their annual dance next
Thursday evening at Eagle hall. The
committee have arranged for music
by the Reinke orchestra. Tickets are
on sale at the drug stores. The pro
ceeds of tile dance are to be used for
purchasing better fire fighting equip
ment.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Special meeting of the Eastern Star
tonight Installation of officers. All
visiting members of the order cordial
ly invited.
The Valdez Volunteer Fire Depart
ment dance will be held in Eagle
Hall on New Year’s eve, Dec. 31.
Beinke orchestra. Tickets $1. tf
All Masons are invited to be pres
ent at the Installation of officers on
Wednesday, Dec. 30, at 8 p. m. A.
E. Grigsby, W. M.
LOST one arctic at Moose hall on
Christmas night The arctic left is
size 3 1-2. The one taken by mis
take has the name Faust Inside the
arctic. Notify Mrs. Faust
"The Governor’s Veto," In two
feels, at the Orpheum tonight. Also
a fine comedy.
Harvey's Toggery Retiring From
Business.
We are elosing eat our entire stosk
below sort Fixtures for sale. tf
8went Baths
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 5, Montana, tf
Not only trackless and trolleyless,
but also stepless, are new double
decked motor omnibuses designed for
use in an eastern city along the lines
of those used In Paris.
Two curved bands of metal, held
together by springs and provided
with spurs to prevent them slipping,
form a new device to be placed
around a broom when it becomes soft.
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' POISON OF NICOTINE.
It Affect* the Coronary Arteries and
Produces Tobacco Heart.
"Tobacco heart1' la a condition well
known to physicians, it is really a
phase of arteriosclerosis, due to exces
sive smoking, and is generally charac
terized by angina pectoris, a severe
pain in the chest. The New York Med
ical Record, commenting on some sta
tistics published in Germany by Dr.
J. Pawinski. says the Important con
clusion to be drawn from them is “that
tobacco has a certain, possibly a spe
cific, affinity for the coronary arteries.”
These are the arteries of the heart it
self, those that supply Its muscles with
blood.
That nicotine is a powerful poison
has long been known, but there has
been a wide divergence of opinion as
to whether tobacco smoke contains
nicotine or not. The investigations of
Zulinski and Zebrowski prove that it
does. The quantity of nicotine ab
sorbed by the body from tobacco smoke
is probably small, and if smoking be
indulged in with moderation it will not
injure healthy adults, but when car
ried beyond the limits of moderation
or when Indulged in by young people it
is certain to do harm to the heart.
Its effect is to cnuse a considerable
thickening of the inner membrane of
the coronary arteries, a pronounced de
generation of their middle coat, which
is composed of muscles, and marked
changes in the muscles that contract
and expand the heart, thus bringing
about disturbances of its rhythmical
heating.
EGGS AND THE HEN.
Life Work Nature Has All Laid Out
For the Young Chick.
■‘There Is water a-plenty In a fresh
laid egg. but no more air than there la
in a hammer,” said a dealer in eggs.
"So long as you can keep air out of
the egg it will remain sweet and fresh,
but no one has ever succeeded in keep
ing it out by fair means more than six
days. The oxygen is bound to find its
way through an eggshell’s pores, and
the only way to save that egg then is
to eat it. It sounds funny, but the
moment you give an egg fresh air that
moment you ruin its health.
“A good, healthy hen—not speaking
of any particular star breed, but just
hen—does not fulfill her destiny until
she has accomplished COO eggs—fifty
dozen. That’s what nature has fitted
up the hen to do in the way of just
uncoached and unstimulated egg pro
duction, and she gives the hen eight
years to do it in.
“The hen divides the fifty dozen
stunt up among those eight years.
Some years she may not turn out more
than a couple of dozen, but when the
eight years are up she will have man
aged her annual output so that the to
tal has come out all right. Then the
ben has ended her career as an egg
producer, and too often, if she is in
the bands of a thrifty owner, begins
another career, short and delusive—
this time as the summer boarder
spring chicken.”—Pittsburgh Press.
Weight After Meals.
There is, or used to be. an idea that
one weighs less after a meal than be
fore. but that is nonsense. There is
always a definite increase of weight
after a meal, and with most people it
is curiously uniform. After an average
dinner washed down with the average
amount of liquid—three-quarters of a
pint—the average man will invariably
find that he weighs two pounds more
than he did before the meal. There
seems to be no reason why a really
determined diner should not double
that increase. A half pint tumbler of
water or a breakfast cupful of tea
weighs ten ounces, so that probably
over half of the two pounds increase
of weight after dinner is accounted for
by the liquid part of the meal.—Man
chester Guardian.
The Speed Limit.
Motorists going through a small town
up in northern Indiana bear witness to
the fact that sarcasm reaches a high
stage of development there. Going into
the town one is met by a sign reading.
•‘Speed Limit 110 Miles an Hour.”
“Mighty decent people In this town.”
thinks the motorist But before he has
gone far he realizes the sarcasm fully.
The streets are so rough and the road
through there to Chicago has so many
turns In it that It would be Impossible
to go faster than ten miles an hour
without running into, some one’s front
yard.—Indianapolis News.
Three Hard Worda.
There are three short and simple
words, the hardest to pronounce In any
language (and .! suspect they were no
easier before the confusion of tongues),
but which no man or nation that can
not utter can claim to have arrived at
manhood. These words are, ”1 waa
wrong.”—Lowell.
The Art of Flattery.
Madam—With this goose I have been
awfully cheated. It Is old and tough
and still It looks so young and tender!
Cook (who likes to flatter her mistress)
—Yes, madam. One can never tell by
appearances. You. too. look much
younger than you really are.—Flle
gende Blatter.
The Beggar’s Retort.
She—1 shan’t give you anything be
cause I suspect you aren't blind at all.
He—That may be. but 1 can assure you
there are moments when I wish 1
were.—Pele Mele.
Trimming.
The old fashioned woman who used
to trim her own hat now baa a daugh
ter who trims ber husband for bar,
bats.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
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The Brute Again.
Wife (reading)—Woman recovers her
voice through a railroad accident
Husband—How much Is her husband
suing the company for?—Chicago News.
The Kind.
Jail Visitor—You say that a love for
hooks brought you here, my poor man?
Prisoner — Yes, sir; pocketbooks.—
Philadelphia Press.
Some Jar.
Jones—Wlmt was the worst fall you
ever had?
Aviator—The time I fell in love and
broke every bone I had in the bank.—
Chicago News.
Open For Engagement*.
American Heiress—Father says ho
doesn’t wish you for a son-in-law.
French Count—Ask him if lie’s got
any other good position he could give
a fellow, will you?— Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Explained at Laat.
"Why the strap under your chin?"
"That is a Jaw strap, madam, to
rest our Jaws when we are tired out
answering questions.”—Le Sourtre.
Sure.
| Tommy—Why do ducks dive?
Joe—Guess they must want to Ua»*
date their bills.—Philadelphia Press.
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Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
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The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call You on Time for the boat
if We Handle Yourf Baggage.
We Buy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
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] Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
t 6 to 7 p m
BOARD Sc ROOM $60 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.’*
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything.^, We Bake Our.Own
Bread and Pastry.SBread'forlSale.
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
CHAS. PEkj?Y
’Seattle"
*L4 Comp/e/e Services ‘
IN THE HEAR” OF THE CITY ,
[155 Rooms with bain-50 Sample Room 5
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WASHED
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When
You
l( Use
a
Western Electric
Washer and Wringer
Simply put in the clothes and
start the motor;—in 1 0 to
minutes the clothes arc washed j
white and clean ready to be j
hung on the line without the •
wear and tear of the wash- f
board.
Connect to any electric lamp
socket.
Costs only 2 cents an hour to
run.
Let us send one to your home
for 1 5 days’ free trial?
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co.|
Somebody
With Money 1
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 tireams.
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
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
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