Reductions For
Tomorrow—The Last Day Of March
i
ORDINARILY the last day of the month is very quiet in a selling way
Tomorrow we’re going to change the schedule AND MAKE IT THE BUS
IEST. Every department man has orders to furnish merchandise that
the people want—the prices speak for themselves. One dollar in many in
stances does the work of two or three. Remember the sale-it’s for one day
only. Come early, you’ll not be disappointed.
Heavy Shoes
A Broken Lot, prac
tically all sizes—Put
mans, Northern Pa
cific Logger, S. & K.,
Friend, and other
makes. Values from
$5.00 to $12.00. Wed
pHct','s A Third OH
Closing out Hart Schaffner
& Marx Suits at $19.00
WE’RE closing out this celebrated line
and you can now have your unre
stricted choice. There are practically
all sizes so that every one can be fitted.
Regular prices $25.00 and $35.00 |h|Q nn
Wednesday your choice . - iJlUiUU
Khaki Coats
Heavy, Rainproof
Khaki cloth Coats in
both single and dou*
ble thickness, pants
reinforced front, most
ly large sizes. Single
Coats, $3.50 values,
Wednesday $2.00
Double Coats, $4.50
values, Wednes.$2.75
Pants, $2.75 values,
Wednesday $1.50
Dress Goods
Entire stock Woolen Dress Goods
including Wool Crepe, Bedford Cords,
Gabardine, Serges, Worsted, Home
spuns, Suiting, value to $2.50; Wed
A Third Off
Muslin Wear
Entire stock Muslin Wear, in
cluding Gowns, Corset Covers, Com
bination, Princess Slip, Drawers,
practically all sizes, value to $2.50;
—.:. A Third Oft
Lunch Cloths
Lunch Cloths, Printed, Japanese
Crash Lunch Cloths and Runners,
sizes up to 72 x 72, values from 75c
to $2.5tL Wednesday’s Half Price
Allovers
Shadow Allovers in ecru, white and
black, neat patterns, values to $1.25
»Third Off
Scrims
Entire stock of Curtain Scrim and
Nets, value to 40c a » Third Off
yard; Wednesday ... " I III 111 Ull
Silkolines
Cretonne anil Silkolines, regular 15c
and 20c values; Wed- 1 fir
nesday’s price. I
Toweling
Linen lluek Toweling, plain and
fancy, values to 75c a yard; Wed
xy's. A Third Off
Women’s Vests
Women's Gauze Vests, value to35e;
Wednesday’s Oflf*
price . tllu
Women’s Gauze Vests, values to 75c;
Wednesday’s AflP
price . “UU
Ribbons
Entire stock of fancy ribbon in
Romans, Moire, Flowered patterns,
values to $1.25 a yd.; I Thjrr| Off
Wednesday’s price .. “ IIIIIU Ull
Trimmings
Entire slock Dress Trimmings;
. Half Off
alarm clocks.
Aerogram thirty-hour time
alarm clocks, regular price
$1.00; 7Kp
Wednesday’s price.. lull
Selling Groceries at Prices That Knock
The Props From The High Cost of Living
Pink beans, regular
price, 8 l-3c per lb.;
price per lb. p 1
Wednesday ” ■
Bayo beans, regular
price 8 l-3c per lb.;
Wednesday P A l\
price per lb.. U I "tr
Evaporated pears, reg
ular price 20c per lb.;
Wednesday 1 rip
price, per lb. '
Catsup S. & W., Sny
der’s or Bishop's, regu
lar 30c; Wed- ORP
nesday price. 4uU
Mrs. C’s original Fig
Pudding, purity guaran
teed, no preservatives
used, regular 16c; W*d
nesday
price .
Lilly Gloss Starch, 1
,'b. package, regular
15c; Wednes- OKp
day price 3 for... tub
Macaroni, 1 lb. pack
age, regular 12 l-2c =
Wednesday 4 n_
price . I Uu
Spaghetti, 1 lb. pack
Wednesday j n
price . I Uu
Egg noodles, 1 lb.
package, regular 12
l-2c; Wednes- 1 flp
day price . • MU
Magic yeast, regular
5c; Wednes- j||.
day price 3 for.. . I Uu
Currants, 1 lb. pack
age, regular 15c; Wed
nesday
price .
German wash blue, in
1-2 lb. box, regular 15c;
Wednesday 1 ftp
price . I MU
Olympic pancake flour
in 4 lb. net weight
packages, a product un
approached regular 35c,
Wednesday
price.
Bulk roast coffee, fine
flavor, best duality,
regular 40c; Wednes
day
price.
Potatoes, regular 2
l-2c per lb.; Wednesday
price,
per lb.
Delmonte brand cher
ries in Maraschino 12
oz. bottles, regular 65c;
P‘ice. AdP
Wednesday ‘TUU
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle atg 10| A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer railing 15th calls Iliamna and'Kodiak--All sailings call at Knik Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RIN6W00D, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
Notice of Special Election.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial election for the purpose of elect
ing a clerk of the Valdez school board
to fill the vacancy caused by the re
moval of C. E. Bunnell from the city
of Valdez, Alaska. Election will be
held at the Fire Hall Valdez, Alaska.
April 6th, 1915. The polls will be
open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. The
following persons shall be qualified
to vote: All adults who are citizens
of the United States, or who have
declared their intention to become
such and who are residents of the
Valdez school district. The judges
of said election will be Chas. Sealey,
John Heckey, and Sam McNiece. The
clerks shall be John Kfum and C. P.
Topliff.
Dated this 23rd day of March, 1915.
A. VON GUNTHER,
MRS. ALBERT WHITE,
Members of Valdez School Board.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
KAISER REPRESSED
By HEAVY LOSSES
I
LONDON.—The situation in the
eastern arena of the lighting is oc
cupying the attention of the military
authorities in Berlin in very large de
gree, if reliance may be placed on
news dispatches reaching London
frop the continent. According to
these, Emperor William returned hur
riedly to Berlin from the front in Po
land and at once held a prolonged
military conference, summoning for
this purpose Gen. von Moltke, Count
von Aulenberg, Gen. von Kesesl, and
numerous other well-known leaders.
According to the correspondents of
certain neutral Danish newspapers,
Emperor William finds the situation
generally hopeful, but he is described
as greatly depressed over the terrible
cost in men Germany has had to pay
In return for comparatively limited
advances against the Intrenched Rus
sians. One account reaching Paris
by way of Warsaw places the Ger
man losses on the Bzura and the
Rawka fronts at 45,000 dead. This
report Is without confirmation, and it
has not even been repeated from
any other source.
Nevertheless, Danish military crit
ics say Emperor William has pro
tested against this slaughter, and that,
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account >
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
• f * '■ '*l.i /Iff!:} ••tt.Trir,' t-’j. : $
as a result, an effort will be made
by the German war staff to transfer
the fishtins? to some point where the
Russians are less formidably intrench
ed.
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RUSSIA PROFITABLE FIELD
FOR AMERICAN PRODUCTS
NEW YORK.—Curtis Guild, former
American ambassador to Russia anil
ox-governor of Massachusetts, says
that Russia is the most profitable and
prolific field in the world for Amer
ican products. He advised the estab
lishment of an American-Russian bank
for the acceleration and promotion
of trade between the two countries.
Alba B. Johnson, head of the Bald
win Locomotive Works, the presi
dent of the association, in introducing
Mr. Guild, said there was no subject
before the American people which
should be brought more strongly to
the attention of the State Depart
pent than the reconsideration of the
whole subject of our diplomatic re
flations with Russia. Ex-Gov. Guild
said one of the greatest sympathies
that ever existed between nations was
that which prompted Russia at the
time of the American revolution to
decline to supply troops to England,
and he attributed the favorable terms
of the Treaty of Ghent to the influ
ence of the Emperor of Russia.
Getting the trade of Russia, meant
obtaining the trade of 172,000,000 peo
ple, said Mr. Guild, who told that last
year, while we imported goods from
Russia to the value of $29,000,000, we
sent her $26,000,00Cf jworth of our
own, although many American pro
ducts that went to London, Antwerp,
Marseilles and Hamburg, were resold
to Russia. He said that $150,000,000
was a conservative estimate of the
value of American goods which even
tually reach Russia every year.
“We don't hear very much about
the Russian emperor,” he continued,
“but he has done wonders for his
country. He has reduced illiteracy
by half, he has promoted athletics,
he has stamped out vices such as
drunkenness."
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CLEVER WITH HIS FISTS.
John Paul Jonaa In a Fight Wat aa
Quick aa Chain Lightning.
The exploits of John Paul Jones, the
famous commodore, have for many
years formed interesting reading for
young and old students of history, and
a volume issued by M. MacDermot
Crawford, under the title “The Sailor
Whom England Feared,” adds much
that is worthy of note. The hero of the
book is thus described in its pages:
"Though of low stature and slender
build, Ids nock, arms and shoulders
were those of a heavy set man. His
neck was out of proportion to the rest
of him. The strength of ids arms and
shoulders could scarcely be believed,
and he had equal use of both hands,
even to writing with the left as well as
the right hand.
j “He was past master in the art of
boxing, and though there were many
hard nuts to crack in the various crows
he commanded, no one ever doubted
that the commodore was the best man
aboard. To all this he added a quick
ness of motion that cannot be describ j
ed except by saying that he was quick
l er than chain lightning. When roused
| lie would strike more blows and do
i more damage in a second than anyotli
j er man could do in a minute,
j “Even when calm and unrullled his ;
i gait and all his bodily motions were
1 exactly like those of the panther—
' noiseless, sleek and the perfection of
1 grace, yet always giving one the idea
j that it would be well to keep out of
; reach of Ids paws and teeth.”
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AN UMBRELLA TAIL
It Serves Many Purposes For the
South American Anteater.
One of the old natural history stories
that hare been only half believed is that
the South American anteater uses its
great bushy tail ns an umbrella when
ever it takes its walks abroad in a
! shower. Tile story is partly true. And
the tail has other excellent uses, as one
might suppose of so extraordinary an
appendage, for perhaps no other ani
mal of the woods has so much tail in
proportion to body.
The tail is like a. huge plume, hut
differs from the feather and from such
j flat, feather-like tails as form the rud- ■
! dors and balancing poles of the squir- j
j rels In having its hairs arranged in ,
i two enormous fringes along the upper !
and under surfaces of t lie tail-not
along the sides of it.
The benefit of this arrangement is j
that when the anteater lies down at ;
rest, with his tail bent sidewise, ns is :
■ his wont, the long hairs of the tall
completely cover the body like a cloak
or umbrella and shod the rain like a
sloping thatch. The hairy covering is
also useful in keeping away trouble- ;
some or dangerous insects, and Its dull
gray tint harmonizes so well with the i
lights and shadows of the forest that it i
actually helps to hide the animal from j
its enemies while it sleeps.—Youth's
Companion,
i
A Marvelous Makeup.
George liobey tells this story in an
interview in London Motor: "I do not
remove my makeup in driving from
one Loudon ball to another, but travel
with the grease paint still upon my
face. One night we bad a little alterca
tion with the driver of a vehicle, who
i quite forcibly declared that he had not
[ seen us coming toward him. which was
quite true, because lie bad been fast
| asleep. At last I looked out of the win
■ (low at him, when, jumping back In
surprise, lie demanded, ' 'On's the old
fright, you've got aboard';' 'My mas
ter is Mr. George liobey.’ responded
my driver, with dignity. "Well, you toil
'im,' said the man, scrambling up into
; his cart, 'that if Vd sit on the ciigin’
J with that face and nose and them eye
| brows, 'e wouldn't want no ’eadiiglits
t in a fog!’ ”
|
His Money Was Safe.
| Schopenhauer, the German pessi
mist, was asked one day to dinner by
I a gentleman who bail also invited a
i number of Prussian officers. Said one
of tlie officers to Schopenhauer, “Why
do you put a frederic under your
plate?’’
“I have made a vow," replied the
philosopher, "to give this piece of
money to a beggar the very first time
I dine with the military without hear
ing talk about women and horses. It !
is fifty years since 1 made this vow. j
but I have not yet been called upon to
bestow my frederic in alms."
Harder Still.
Senator Sheppard was talking about
a pathetic figure in Texarkana, an old
merchant who. after attaining a posi
tion of eminence, now saw his trade
slowly deserting him for younger and
more radical rivals.
“Poor old Blank is a pathetic figure,”
said Senator Sheppard. “He shows us
that, hard as it is to climb up in the
world, it is harder still to climb down.”
—New York Tribune.
Just What She Said.
"Does he ever try to flatter you?”
“Indeed he doesn’t. He always tells
me the plain, unvarnished truth.”
“Why, I heard him tell you that you
were bewilderlngly beautiful.”
“Didn’t I tell you so!” —Houston
Post.
A Mutual Pleasure.
Mother—Were you glad to get back
to school and see your dear teacher?
Little Son—Well, I—I was just about
as glad as dear teacher was to get
back and see me I
Tims Wastsd.
Madeline—He’s a nice young man to
take a girl fishing, I must aayl May—
Why, what did be do? Madeline—Be
fished!
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
anc! nuts.
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and on the job-day or night—-buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a Gen
era) Municipal Election will he held
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on
the sixth day of April, 1915, for tho
purpose of electing seven members of
the Common Council, who shall hold
office for the term of one year, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
Valdez School Board who shall serve
as a director for a term of three
years and until his successor is elect
ed and qualified.
The Town Hall lias been designat
ed as the polling place for said elec
tion.
Said election shall commence at 9
o'clock a. in. and shall continue un- '
til 7 o'clock p. m. of the same day.
without closing the polls.
It. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications Ma < li 8, 15, 22, 29.
Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting: To Eri Thomp
son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
summons against you, to-wit: within
thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril, 1915, and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, filed in
the clerk’s office of the above entitled
court; and unless you so appearand
answer or otherwise plead, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments. '
This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March. 1915, which publication was
directed to lie made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this Stii
day of March. 1915.
(Seal) ARTHUR I.AXd.
Clerk of the District Court.
By CHAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
Date of first pi b’ication March 8.
1915.
Dot*- of last public: ioi April lit,
1915.
Notice To Creditors.
In I lie mutter of the estate of George
Hansen, deceased.
. Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the es
tate of George Hansen, deceased, to
the creditors thereof, and to all per
sons having claims against said es
tate, to exhibit the same with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to-wit, within six months after
the 24th day of February, 1915, to
said administrator, at the office of
Donohoe & Hiniond. his attorneys in
said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said es
tate.
The date of the first publication
of this notice is the 24th day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
A. S. JENSEN. Administrator.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found lo
“b'fcclt” 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
vyith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN TME
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
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