Acrou the street from the Post
office,—on the corner just before
you reach Cooney’s Hotel,—back
of the only Butcher Shop in
town,—opposite the Barber Shop,
—next to Thompson’s Drug Store,
you will find the
Good Clothes Store
aod the Best Stock of Suits in
the Interior of Alaska
(BARRING NONE)
Not Alone<the Best Suits,
but the
Best Values as Well
It would be poor business policy
on our part to make these strong
assertions were they not true.
WE CAN PROVE THEM.
If you think of buying a New
Suit, you are cordially invited,
but if you only come to look, you
are just as welcome.
SUITS AT
$25, $35, $45, $55
The Good Clothes Store
LIPMAN SIMSON, Prop.
Good Goods and Goad Values
SUPERINTENDENT LEECH
ENTERTAINS AT THEATER
Superintendent of Construction
Dan Leech was host at a jolly the
ater party on Thursday evening, fol
lowed by a dinner at the Tavern
cafe, where covers were laid for
an even dozen. The guests of the
popular railroad builder were Mr.
and Mrs. William Taylor, Engineer
in Charge and Mrs. Fred'k D.
Browne, Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Smith,
Mrs. C. W. Adams, Misses Jessie
Johnston and Nellie K. Wilson, and
General Storekeeper Robert Donald
son and Examiner of Accounts
jBamdollar.
I Dog Harness and Shoe Finding*.
'Fowler St MorrU.
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! SHELDON WILL LEAVE
FAIRBANKS TOMORROW
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Bobby Sheldon, veteran auto
'stage man, is scheduled to leave
i Fairbanks for Chitina tomorrow
morning with a number of pass
engers, the list including Mrs. Ruth
Wilson, Jennv Smith, Frank Bur
gess, and J. Harmon Caskey.
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Horlick’s Malted Milk. Fowler St
Morris.
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PIONEER LOCOMOTIVE
GETS POST OF HONOR
.SACRAMENTO, Cal.—California's
oldest locomotive, the C. P. Hunt
ington No. 1. has been placed in the
plaza, near the Southern Pacific
j railway station here, as a monu
ment to the achievements of pioneer
railway men of the West.
The locomotive was built in the
.East, shipped around Cape Horn in
1863, and was the first locomotive
to be operated in California, rail
I road officials declare. It was brought
;to Sacramento by the original Cen
jlral Pacific company, of which Collis
P. Huntington was president, and
for years was on the run between
; Sacramento and Folsom, then a
i prosperous mining town.
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GO TO
THE PORTLAND
STATIONERY CANDY
HAS SI AIES BEAI
IN SPUE OF ILLS
There is no place under the Stars
and Stripes quite as good as Alaska,
in the opinion of Fred M. Ayer,
Nome mining man, who arrived in
Xenana last night direct from the
Outside, where he spent a number
of months traveling over the coun
try and sizing up conditions. It
was his first trip out in many years
and he wanted to see for himself
[the changes that had taken place
i during his absence in the North.
;He traveled ,'rom the Pacific to the
[Atlantic, north and south, and ev
jerywhere he went he found condi
tions that made him eager to get
back to Alaska. There was much
evidence of prosperity in many lo
calities, but conditions, he says, are
jvery unsettled and strikes and shut
downs have thrown many people
[out of work. He saw many old
timers of the Nome country in his
travels, he says, and most of them
Were sorry they ever left Alaska.
Some of them had good jobs, but
good jobs nowadays are not as good
as ordinary jobs were a few years
ago, because of the increased cost
of living and the uncertainty of
working conditions.
Mr. Ayer found many strikes in
progress throughout the country,
[one coast being about as bad off in
that respect as the other. Of the
cities visited by •him, San Francisco
seemed to be most upset by labor
troubles, with many men out of
| work.
Asked regarding the possibility of
hard times in the States in the near
future, Mr. Ayer said he would not
venture a guess as to the probable
outcome of the present unsettled
conditions. The big men of the
[country, he said, are giving the mat
jter thiclosest attention and they
:can’t say what the end will be. They
|seem to realize that present con
jditions cannot continue forever, but
that is about as far as they can
[get with their reasoning. He found
'many of the opinion, however, that
[high prices would continue for an
other two years at least.
I Alaska is attracting more atten
jtion now, Mr. \yer says, than when
:he went Outside, and it is his belief
■that the spring will find many peo
iple headed this way. The boats
are already crowded, in fact, the
lone which brought him North being
[practically sold out.
Mr. Ayer reached Seward on Feb
ruary 8 and was three days making
the trip across to Anchorage. Snow
slides were giving the commission,
a lot of trouble and the snowplows
are having: all they can do to keep
traffic moving;. He traveled part of
the distance be;ween the two towns
on a snowplow after the regular
train had become stalled, and he
'found more trouble on the line
'north of Anchorage. Ho was de
| layed over a week between Seward
! and the end of steel.
The trip across the trail was also
a hard one, owing to heavy snow
| south of Broad Pass. It showed all
the time he was on the trail, about
fifteen feet of the beautiful falling
while he was on the coast end.
The climate locally made a big
, hit with the Nome man. It beats
anything he has experienced, either
in or out of Alaska, he says, an!
he would willingly have tarried here
but for the fact that he is in a
hurry to get back to Nome, for
which place he started this morning
with his speedy dog team.
Mr. Ayer is not sure that he will
enter his team in the race which
: is scheduled for the early spring.
; If he does, he will use only four of
| the dogs in the team he is drying
now, and he doubts if they will be
in fit condition for racing when he
reaches Nome.
His leader, Smoky, is one of the
, famous racing dogs of Seward pen
insula, having carried off the honors
in seven of the Solomon derbys. He
is still a fine trail dog. but his
racing days are nearly at an end.
The Ayer team was driven to the
, coast several weeks ago - by Dan
j Crowley and left at Anchorage,
■ pending the arrival of the owner
ifrom the States.
Mr. Ayer is a member of the
Wild Goose Mining company, which
is still doing business on a large
scale in the Nome country, both
with dredges and by the hydraulic
method. The company has about
seven years’ work still in sight.
Woodbury'* Facial Soap and other
standard toilet soap*. Fowler &
Morris.
! The territorial headquarters of
: the American Legion has been re
moved from Anchorage to duneau.
j The change was made recently
‘because Juneau is more centrally
'located ,and owing to the fact that
George Getchell, who was the only
Alaska delegate to the national con
vention held at Minneapolis on De
cember 10, was named national ex
ecutive officer for Alaska and will
have his headquarters at the terri
torial capital.
| On account of the difficulty in
getting mail to and from Anchor
COLISEUM
EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG PARAMOUNT FEATURE AND
PARAMOUNT TRAVELOGUE FOR PROGRAM
SUNDAY NIGHT.
PARAMOUNT TRAVEL PICTURES
Offers
A SPLENDID TRIP THROUGH THE SUNNY SOUTH
OF ENGLAND.
Famous Players Film Company Presents
AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED SCREEN STAR
Mary Pickford
IN A DRAMA OF HUMANITY
“THE ETERNAL GRIND
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IN FIVE ABSORBING ACTS.
MUSIC-VIOLIN. PIANO AND DRUMS
| General Admission 50c. Reserved Seats 75c.
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SOLDIERS AND CHILDREN, 25c
SHOW STARTS AT 8:30 O’CLOCK.
age, it is thought that the chant;;
i will make it easier to speed up busi
ness matters.
i Anchorage was the first city ir
[Alaska to organize a post of th<
American Legion, and received thi
l first charter. It is likely that Ju
; neau will now remain headquarter
[until a territorial conversion is he!<
‘and a place chosen.
Two new posts of the America!
jLegion have recently been organ
lized. The new posts are at Wrangel
;and Ketchikan.
The .Juneau Elks nave donated th:
use of their hall to the Legion, am
i
jin the future all the meetings wil
!be held at that place.
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Birth Announcement Cards at th<
I News Office.
TYPEWRITER PAPER IS
ON SALE BY THE NEWS
A shipment of typewriter paper,
of the standard American brand. ^
has just been unpacked at The News
office, where it is on sale by the
box or in any other quantity desired.
I The sizes include both legal and
letter and the weights range from
the lightest to heavy.
The paper was bought right and
I is being sold at a close margin of p
profit.
The News also has unprinted en
I velopes for sale by the box and by
I the package—all sizes, from bareni
al to legal, white and colored, and
bond and wove.
Fre*h Groceries, Fancy and Sta
ple. Fowler & Morris.
GROCERIES, MEN’S WINTER WEAR
GENERAL OUTFITTING
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IF HE IS IN TOWN. SOONER OR LATER THEY ALL DROP
IN AND JOIN THE BUNCH.
POOL AND CARD TABLES
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