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RAY G LARSON
DEALER IN
SASH, DOORS, GLASS
MIRRORS
Tel. 88-R.
5th Ave. and K St.
NORTH SIDE LUMBER CO.
Phone 35R and give us the dimension of your house;
we will do the rest.
ROOFING PAPER, SHINGLES, DOORS & WINDOWS
Place your order while our stock is complete.
Quick Delivery. Accurate Tally
ROGER SUMMY, Manager.
Phone 35-R
Stoeser Electric Works
Complete Line of Wire, Lamps, Fixtures and All Neces
sary Supplies for Wiring Homes and
Business Places.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
4th and G St.
Palace
Clothing Store
The Home of
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CLOTHES
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OPPOSITE HARMONY' THEATRE.
A. and H. Malmberg, of Seward, are
registered at the Crescent.
: A. H. Schmidt, timekeeper for the
A. E. C., and located at Camp 174, is
registered at the Hotel Anchorage.
Anchorage Choral club will meet to
night at 8 o’clock at the Presbyterian
church for rehearsal.
Flashes from the screen—“Charlie
Chaplin spent the night at Mile 10
and is due to arrive in Anchorage
soon.” -1.
Walter S. Jones, who spent the week
end in Anchorage, returned to his
railroad duties up the line yesterday
morning.
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A. J. Beckwith, an employe of the
j Alaskan Sngineering Commission, is
| spending a few days in the city as a
| guest of the Crescent.
W. M. Peltier, storekeeper at Potter
creek, checked out at the Crescent this
morning, after spending several days
in the city on business.
Basketball tonight at Labor Union
hall between City and A. E. C. Game
starts promptly at 7:30 o’clock and la- \
dies will be admitted free.
District Engineer F. A. Hansen and
Engineer in Charge R. J. Weir, left
on the morning train for an inspec
tion trip over the Tumagain arm dis
trict.
Regular meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce tonight at 8 o’clock„sharp.
A number of very important questions
will come up for discussion and a
large attendance is desired.
G. W. Meeks, of Kent, Washington,
and I. Mundor, of this city, have re
cently purchased six placer claims on
Wet gulch, a tributary to Willow
creek, and propose to put a hydraulic
plant on the property this spring.
Through the columns of the Daily
Times the Parent-Teachers’ associa
tion desire to express their gratitude
to the public for their patronage at
the house warming last Friday night
and to thank all persons who assisted
in making the affair such a social and j
financial success.
Bob Griffith, Bob Mitchell i and
Henry Wick, who were in charge of
the big gold shipment from the inter
ior, returned yesterday from Seward
and are stopping at the White House.
The boys will lay over in Anchorage
for a few days to rest up their dogs
before starting on the return trip to
Iditarod.
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Charlie Harper came over .from
Knik Sunday on a few day’s business
trip and is stopping at the White
House. Charlie and his brother, AI.,
are interested in some valuable placer
property on Nugget creek, in the
Cache creek district, and will start
freighting in their summer’s supplies
and provisions about the first of
March.
Roy Veach received a letter from
Gene Bartholf, who is spending the
winter in Nevada, to the effect the
mining industry in that section is ex
periencing a wonderful boom and that
wages are better than ever in the his
tory of the camps. He also writes
that the winter has been exceptionally
severe and mercury registered 16 be
low at Winnemuca. Mr. Bartholf will
return to Anchorage on the first
steamer and renew his mining activi
ties in the Willow creek district.
J. G. Bellows returned to his work
on the Tumagain arm district yester
day after spending several weeks in
the city on personal and government
business. Mr. Bellows is interested in
some copper property above Cordova,
on the Copper River railroad, and be
fore leaving Anchorage received a
wire from Chas. E. Herron, his asso
ciate in the property, to the effect
that a deal was pending with Phila
HARMONY
SCREENOGRAPHS
Tonight—The last chapter of
the Exploits of Elaine. Short
ly we will announce the name
of a new serial picture we will
run, and it’s • a “whale” for
thrills.
delphia capitalists, who would proba
bly take the property over in the near
future. The Bellows-Herron property
consists of five claims known as the
Texts group and join the famous Bo
nanza mine that is being worked by
the Guggenheim interests.
Today’s leading editorial deals with
a subject that means much to Anchor
age and the matter will be discussed
at tonight's meeting at the chamber
of commerce.
The Bills dub has changed the date
of the weekly meetings from Sunday
afternoon to Tuesday night at 8
o’clock. George Beaumont and John
ny Barrett, of the entertainment com
mittee, have arranged for a club “smo
ker” for tonight that will start imme
diately after the regular business
! meeting.
A baseball meeting has been called
; for Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock in
Byrne hall for the purpose of organ
izing the Inlet Baseball league. It is
the intention- to form a league com
posed of at least five teams and per
| feet a permanent organization that
| will have full charge of baseball
games this coming season. Later a
schedule will be arranged and the dif
ferent teams organized. All baseball
players and baseball fans are request
ed to be present at the meeting.
In a letter to E. S. Hewitt the Seat- -
tie manager of the L. C. Smith & i
Bros. Typewriter company among oth
er things, has the following to say
about Anchorage: “I do not believe
that the average person living in the
'States realizes what a fine young city
Anchorage must be. From the size
iand make-up of the Anchorage Daily
Times that reaches my office daily, it
would certainly indicate that Anchor-1
age is a live spot on the map of Alas
ka and promises to become the me
tropolis of the territory.”
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoffman will
leave tomorrow morning for Mata
nuska where Frank has his headquar
ters while looking after the law and
order of an unbounded section of this
part of Alaska. Mr. Hoffman has
temporarily been in charge of the local
marshal’s office during the local
shake up and was relieved yesterday
by Clarence Mossman, who has been
transferred to Anchorage.
George de Leon, one of Anchorage’s
most faithful boosters, has an inter
esting interview in one of the late San
Francisco papers that should do won
ders towards increasing the popula
tion of this section of Alaska. George
comes out strong for the farming ad
vantages of the Matanuska valley, the
future of the Wijow creek quartz dis
trict, the rapid development of An
chorage and the great railroad work
now being accomplished by the Alas
kan Engineering commission. Mr.
de Leon will return to Anchorage ear
ly in the spring and expects to im
prove his city property.
NOTICE TO PARENTS.
There will be a transition class in
the primary department of the An
chorage public schools. This class w'^J
be composed of children between the
ages of five and six, or such other
children as have not attended school
heretofore. Parents having children
for this class are advised to have
them registered on or before Thurs
day, Feb. 1st. C. H .SHEETS,
Supt. Schools.
WEATHER REPORT.
7 a. m., January 30, 1917.
Station Temp. Day Wind Trail Snow
Anchrge -28 Clear Calm Good 10 in.
Summit. -24 Clear Calm Good 36 in.
Kern Ck. -2 Clear Calm Good 10 in.
Mile 52. -21 Clear South Good 60 in.
SeWard .. 3 Clear Calm Good 14 in.
Potter ..-12 Clear Calm Good 16in.
Matnska -20 Clear Calm Good 12 in.
King_-2 Clear Calm Good 6 in.
Cmp 174 -38 Clear Calm Good 21 in.
NOTICE.
The Scandinavian society of Anchor
age will have a social at Robarts’ hall
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock. A
large attendance of members and
prospective members is expected.
Singing, dancing and games will be
the feature of the evening. Refresh
ments will be served.
366 COMMITTEE.
Word has been received at the gov
ernor’s office of the death at Morn
ingside Sanitarium, December 16, of
M. R. Ackers, who was committed to
the institution from Wrangejl'i^ 1912,
Hart Schaffner &|
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The Home of Hart Schaffner & MiiJx Good Clothes.
YOU NEEDN’T BE A
JUDGE OF CLOTH
in order to appreciate the good quali
ties of the fabrics we are tailoring
into classy suits for men of discrim
ination. Their tone and exclusiveness
are apparent at a glance. Their qual
ity is evidenced at a touch. Join the
classy class who will wear suits from
these cloths tailored in our high class
manner.
BJORNSON & GANTON
Merchant Tailors. . -
Cor. 4th and I
TEL.21-R
SHIP CHEEK MEAT CO.
Anderson & .Jensen, Proprs.
YOU CAN ANNOUNCE
DINNER
with confidence if the roast
came from this market. For,
properly cooked, there is no fin
er meat to be had than the kind
we sell exclusively. Tender,
sweet and juicy, it both stimu
lates and satisfies the appetite.
Yet this choice meat will cost
you no more than you pay now.
SPECIAL v\ X
COMPOUND, 5 lb. Pail.I..i A M
COMPOUND, 3 lb. Pail.I*/. .. , ^>60
LINK PORK SAUSAGE...20c lb.
SEAL TIGHT BACON . A. ..25$ lb.
Dried Salt Pork. .'1.......18c lb.
Dog Tallow, 40 lb. Can.....;r..$3.00
1917 CALENDARS.
Also Sugar Cured Hams and Bacon,
Home Made Sausage, Butter,
Eggs and Fish
Northern Transfer Company
COAL AND WOOD.
GENERAL TRANSFER BUSINESS.
PHONE 47-Y.
C. P. PEDERSEN, Mgr.
4th and D
ECKMANN’S
Furniture Store
FOURTH AND K STREETS
TRY WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES EQR RESULTS.