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(Connected with the Alfred Benjamin-Washington Co.)
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Spring Samples nou) ready.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
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. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
a-™ DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 18 . * THE DENTIST
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Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. no., to 6 7 p. m.,to9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
•DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’e Phone No. S8
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m. j 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m.
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court Housa
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
! ’ JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
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;» LYONS A RITCHIE
< i Attorneys at Law 1
| | Offices in Whaling Building J
| ’ Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska j
F. BUTTERWORTH
’Civil Engineer and’
j U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdez, Alaska.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
H. M. CARTER. PraskUnt.
Gruito Mia#.
<MA3. McCALLUMv?acr»Uurr.
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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.
Hard to Convince.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
I_U -cO.I
“I’m afraid,” she said, "you don’t
love me with all your former fervor.”
“Sure I do,” he replied. “Didn’t I
bring you 10 cents’ worth of peanut
brittle Chicago Record-Ilerald.
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THE READING TABLE 1
There Is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
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NURSED A HOT TEMPER.
Something Had to Give Way When
William Morria Broke Loom.
Though explosive tempers may not
be admirable and temperamental ex
plosions are not always harmlessly ex
pended. they are always preferable to
soreness, sullenness, brooding resent
ment or cold anger. Arthur Compton
Rickett in bis study of William Morris
—that “Jolly vivid man,” as he terms
him—relates several new Instances of
Morris’ violent thunderclaps of temper
and swiftly ensuing sunnluess and
sweetness.
Once while he was pnlntlng he was
called from the room, and presently his
startled model heard him furiously
anathematizing some one outside
whom he dismissed or ejected and
then returned a moment later still boil
ing with wrath. He could not resume
bis work, but made wild dashes about
the room, growling and muttering, un
til at last In a culminating access of
rage be took a flying kick at the door
and with a vast crashing and splinter
ing smashed In a panel. It was too
much for bis model’s nerves, and he
started to flee, but at that moment
Morris, with bis Ire entirely gone now
that the explosion was over, turned
with a beaming smile, and assured him
genially:
“It’s all right, it’s all right, but some
thing had to give way!”
FLAVOR OF FOOD.
It Is an Important Factor In Digestion
and Good Health.
If It were not for flavor we should
not digest our food properly. Epicu
reanism in eating is the handmaid of
good health. Flavor has been called
the soul of food. The viands that are
most agreeable to our sense of taste,
those we enjoy most, are those we are
most likely to digest well and from
which we are most likely to derive the
maximum of nourishment.
A book was devoted to this subject
by Henry T. Flnck of New York. He
called it “Food and Flavor.” In a re
view of it the Scientific American says:
“The psychic factor of desire must pre
cede ingestion or results will be unpro
pitious. To each cent spent for nutri
ment we add five more for flavor. Fla
vor. In short, has an appetizing value,
a health value, a commercial value.
"The evolution of a discriminating
appetite and the education of the cook
must go hand in hand. But your glut
ton Is never an epicure. Rational mas
tication must accompany the highest
enjoyment of food, and in this enjoy
ment lie perfect assimilation and
health. It is flavor that stimulates the
flow of the digestive Juices; it is the
digestive juices that prepare the food
for the extraction of nutriment”
The Professor Was Wrong.
Several decades ago a learned profes
sor delivered n course of lectures. In
one of which he proved to his own sat
isfaction that tile Atlantic ocean could
never be crossed by steam. Steam
power had been discovered and ap
plied on land, but he was confident it
could never be applied to tbe ocean.
Under the peculiar conditions of the
heaving tides, tbe danger of storms,
the rolling of the tide, and so forth
you could never apply steam to navi
gation across the Atlantic. The bool;
In which that lecture was published
was on the first steamer that crossed
the Atlantic. The captain took it along
as a sort of curiosity. That book did
not have a very large sale, blit there
has been quite a run of steamers ever
since, and the professor ceased to
argue that steam could not be utilized
on tbe ocean.—Christian Herald.
Salting One's Smoke.
The strangest way of taking ills salt
was probably Dr. i’arr’s. Telfonrd
records that he used to till his pipe
half with the finest tobacco and half
with salt After that it is not very
surprising tu learn that he smoked
•‘with a philosophical calmness." On
one occasion when the two met Charles
Limb’s furious smoking of the strong
est tobacco filled Dr. Parr witli as
tonishment. Gently laying down his
pipe, he inquired how Lamb had ar
rived at his power of smoking at such
a rate. “I tolled after It. sir, as some
men toll after virtue,” was Lamb's re
ply.— London Graphic.
Strychnine.
Strychnine Is one of the most power
ful vegetable poisons known, but it has
very odd effects. Up to about one
thirty-second of a grain It is often used
In medicine as a stimulant. Very little
more is required to bring on that pe
culiar state known as “tetanus,” in
which the muscles lock themselves up
Into such bard masses that they are as
rigid as bone. An overdose, however,
has been known In at least one In
stance to cure Itself.-Kxchange.
How Hs Felt.
“You net ns though you thought
yourself superior to the government.”
“Well," replied the genial egotist, "I
do feel slightly superior. As a tax
payer when 1 owe the government any
thing 1 pay. When tue government
owes me anything It does as it likes
shout the matter."-Washington Star
Plenty of Hopeless Ones.
At the nge of twenty-live a man can
be forgiven for thinking he knows It
all, blit If he bnsn't changed his mind
at forty there Is no hope for him.—To
ledo Blade.
Faint Heart.
"Hare you spoken to father yet?"
“Certainly. I Bald ‘(Jood evening*
when I passed him in the hall."—Penn
sylvania Punch Bowl.
Circumstances are beyond the control
of man, but bis conduct Is In bis own
power.-Beaumont
REED’S WITTY THRUST.
It Silenced For the Time the “Great
Objector,” Holman.
There are many stories of the caustic
wit of Thomas U. Iteed, the famous
speaker of the house of representatives.
One of bis most amusing thrusts was
delivered at William S. Holman, a
member of congress from Indlnna. It
was perhaps the keenest witticism ever
uttered in debate on the floor of the
bouse.
Holmnn was a constant objector to
the expenditure of money by congress
and bad honestly earned the title of
"Watchdog of the Treasury.” One day.
when the committee was perfunctorily
putting through a number of bills for
the erection of government buildings In
various cities, Holman was constantly
on his feet, objecting to their consider
atlon. But when Indiana was reached
and the committee began to propose ap
propriations for buildings in the towns
of that state Holman’s objections came
with much less spirit and Anally
ceased altogether. When at length a
bill was offered that carried a generous
appropriation for a building In Hol
man’s own town, he rose and expressed
hearty approval. Hardly had he taken
his seat when Mr. Reed was on his
feet. “Mr. Speaker!” he shouted; and
then, In gently sentimental tones, be re
cited Byron’s familiar lines:
•Tis sweet to hear the watchdog’s honest
bark
Bay deep mouthed welcome as we draw
near home!
And the "great objector” forgot to
object any more that dayl—Youth’s
Companion.
THEY PLAYED MARBLES.
One 8treet Game In Which Lincoln
Took a Hand.
An elderly gentleman now residing In
Washington tells this story about
Abraham Lincoln:
‘‘I was about ten years of age and
given violently to the gagie of mar
bles. One cold March day my compan
ions and 1 were playing on the side
walk before my father’s shop when 1
slipped on a piece of ice and fell, cut
ting my chin. The other boys seized ns
many of my marbles as they could and
made off. Wild with anger, 1 started
after them, calling them names and
threatening to annihilate them, and so
on. Suddenly a hand on my collar
stopped me, and a deep voice said:
“ ‘We’ve got enough 111 feeling going
on in this country these days without
you boys catching It!’
“A big mau swung me around and
wiped my wounded chin and then went
on:
’“1 saw what they did, son. Have
you any agates left? Good! I’ll put up
three chiuy alleys, and we’ll see who’ll
win.’
‘‘He drew from his pocket three mar
bles.
“ ‘I got them from my boy Tad,’ he
explained, and then I knew who he
was.
"There on the street I played marbles
with the president for five minutes,
and he let me win. Here are the mar
bles — a precious possession!’’ — Ex
change.
Fed the Brute.
Sir Charles Tupper in his book,
“Recollections of Sixty Years," recalls
an experience of his daughter in Can
ada during the Riel rebellion in the
northwest She was in the region of
trouble, aud on a day when she hap
pened to be alone in her home “in
walked a strapping Indian, all war
paint and feathers. She thought the
best thing she could do was to feed
him. She cooked everything in the
house—potatoes. meat and bread
When all was consumed—and these
Indians will eat at a meal enough to
lost for three weeks—he had grown to
a very large size. As he could not
speak a word of English or French, tie
evinced his gratitude by patting his
protuberant stomach, with a guttural
"Ha, ha. ha,” and left.
Plague of the Black Death.
That terrible plngue the black death,
originating somewhere in the east,
passed by way of Armenia into Asia
and thence to Egypt nnd north Africa.
Reaching Sicily In 1340. It spread over
Italy, France aud nearly all of the
countries of Europe, Including the
British Isles. The mortality was ap
palling. some 25,000.000 of people dy
ing from the dread epidemic. The na
ture of the great pestilence has been a
matter of much controversy, but It Is
generally conceded that It was closely
related to what Is known today as the
"bubonic plague.”—New York Ameri
can.
City of the Dead.
Close by Canton, China, Is the bill
called Queen of Heaven mountain, on
the lower slopes of which is the fa
mous City of the Dead. Their bodies
wait In their coffins sometimes several
years before the priests are able to de
termine an auspicious day for inter
ment.
Bluffed and Won.
“What is the meaniug of this?”
“My dear,” he murmured, “1 got to
thinking about women beiug denied the
right of suffrage, and I took a few
drinks.”
And he got away with It that time.—
Loutsvtlle Courier-Journal.
Satin Aahea.
Little Lura-Mnmma. what kind of
ashes Is satin ashes? Mamma—I never
heard of them, dear. Little Lura—Well,
In my Sunday school lesson It says.
'And- the king of Nineveh covered him
self with sackcloth and sat In ashesl’—
Chicago News.
Pee Himself, Yea.
Tramp—One moment, boos; can you
■par* da price of a maul? Accosted
Party—Certainty! I’m on my way to
gat it bow."—Boo too Transcript.
Dougherty & Ferguson
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Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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We J Buy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
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Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration books for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez, Alaska, on the lith day of April,
1915, will be open at the office of
the Town Treasurer, in Copper
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, 1915, between the hours
of 2 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and w ill remain open for
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, ex
cept Sundays, until and including tho
27th day of March^.1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 26th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
within the office hours and 1 etw en
the dates mentioned: and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at
said election.
RANDALL E. ASIIBY,
Town Clerk.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner's Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.— Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of ibe estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
tho 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o'clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, tho
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 2i,
1915.
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
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SULTS.
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itran. read the Proapaaeae.