Compare These Prices
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THEY ARE THE MOST CONVINCING PROOFS THAT IT
IS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO TRADE AT THIS
STORE, WHERE YOU CAN SAVE MONEY ON
EVERI PURCHASE.
It’* you.- duty to try and aave money and not ignore
fact*... If you consider the purchase of your winter outfit of
clothes from a strictly business standpoint, we will surely
get our share of your business.
MEN’S SUITS
(The Best of the Ready-Made Brands)
$35.00
Strictly Hand-Tailored—Correct in Eve-y Detail; Including
All Black and Blue Serge Suits.
Hart Schaffner & Marx Overcoats, with Velvet
or Presto Cloth Collars .
There’s nothing like a Genuine Down Quilt for solid
comfort... We have them from the regular Bed Size (some
of them silk covered) to a 9-foot square sixe. And as they
are all left-overs from last year, we will sell them at last
year’s prices—from ..$12.50 Up
COTTON QUILTS .$3 50 Up
GOVERNMENT BLANKETS .$7.50 each
Here is where you can find the official Football Sweater—
the famouse “YALE”, the best are priced fro $6.50 up
At the rate prices and freight rates are climbing, it’s
doubtful if we will be able to handle Trunk* or Suitcases
next season. Take the hint—Buy what you need NOW.
Prices are last years prices.
LARGE STEAMER TRUNKS .$15.00
SUITCASES, Real Fibre .$3.50
LEATHER COVERED $9.50
LEATHER COVERED .$9.50
SOLID LEATHER .$19.50
SIMSON’S
is (Silk or Satin Lined, $10 Extra) Alterations Free =
$25—$35 1
EE GOOD HEAVY CLOTH OVERCOATS. Special.$20 == j
= DRESS MACKINAW COATS,.$6.50, $7.50, $8.50, $9.50 = 1
= Just Received—The Very Latest Hats =
JOHN B. STETSON AND OTHERS
ASK TO SEE THE NEW VELOUR HATS
They are Beauties—All the Latest Shades They are $6 each
FELT HATS, at .$5.00
FUR BAND CLOTH CAPS—the Nobby Kind.$1.50 ==
MAMMOTH MITTS—Best Grade, pair.$1.50
GREY OUTING FLANNEL OVERSHIRTS.$1-50
UNION SUITS, Extra Special, $6 Quality.$4.75
SUITCLOTH OVERSHIRTS, Our Own Make.$4.75
Come and see the latest KHAKI FLANNEL SHIRTS, they
are just like the ones Uncle Sam’s Boys are wearing,
SPECIAL PRICE, $5.00
COMBINATION KHAKI FLANNEL OVERSHIRTS AND
SWEATERS—We have been fortunate to secure a few
dozen of these Arctic Sweatershirts. It’s the ideal gar
ment for the outdoor man. Price.$5.50
I DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT 1
$30 HEAVY SERGE STREET DRESSES, At.$15.00
HEAVY CLOTH COATS WITH FUR COLLARS
NEARLY EVERYTHING IN THIS DEPARTMENT AT
ONEHALF AND ONE-THIRD OFF
LADIES’ UNION SUITS, Heavy Weights.$2.50
TIGHTS—WAISTS—BLOOMERS .$1.50
CHILDREN’S UNDERWEAR AT HALF PRICE
HOOVERIZE—Make your own quilts. Gumbo Batts,
Enough for a quilt.$2.50
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No change is reported in the con
dition of Carl Ross, who is said to
be resting easy.
Carl Fleischman, who is at Camp
Lewis, was heard from recently. He
says that he expects to be sent
across to France by Christmas time
with a large body of troops.
Mary Gillette the three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R.
Gillette, died at nine o’clock last
night at the family home. The
litle girl had been suffering from
spinal trouble for over a year. The
funeral will be held at 10 o’clock
tomorrow morning.
Registration under the rrw man
plbwer act is progressing here. Reg
istration was commenced on Satur
day, when permission had been re
ceived permitting the registration
of those coming within the meaning
of the act, who wished to leave the
country. Registration just now is
not compulsory but all who wish to
do so may register.
“Full steam ahead” on canning—
“Slow” on sugar.
VISITORS WITNESS
RAILROAD BUILDING
Yesterday morning a party com
posed of Messrs G. H. Gamble M. C.
Edmunds, Supervising Engineer H.
K. Ward, Pete McDonald, Joe Fisher,
E. D. Bresnahan and the News rep
resentative went out on the D line
with W. L. Packer, whose guests
they were, and were given an op
portunity to view the construction
operations under way at the end of
steel and the work of the Bucyrus
dragline excavator.
Ideal weather favored the party
during the entire rtip. The jour
ney to the end of steel was made on
one of the big gasoline speeders
of the A. E. C., operated by Walker
Blakey. The machine worked
smoothly and after a fast run thru
the crisp air the party landed at
camp 15 shortly before the noon
hour.
At camp 15 another party com
posed of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Moyer,
Mr.and Mrs. R. E. Burns, Mrs. Alex
Fowler and Mrs. J. R. Bowen were
met. They were on their way back
from the end of steel, where they
had been interested spectators of
the railroad building operations in j
progress. The end of steel at noon
yesterday was over a mile away from
camp 15, and was steadily drawing
farther away. |
On a short spur branching off the j
main line near camp 15, a string;
of cars were being loaded with
gravel for use on the grade, by the
big Bucyrus dragline excavator, the
string of cars being pushed back
as each car received its capacity
load, and in an amazing short space
of time the string of about a dozen
care were loaded and ready to be
hauled away and unloaded on the
grade.
One of the party timed the big
excavator and it was found that she
placed the gravel in the cars at the
rate of three cubic yards a minute,
using a bucket with a capacity of
a yard and a half The capacity
of the gravel cars are from 30 to
35 yards.
As soon as the loads of gravel
had been hauled away to be un
loaded on the grade, a string of
empties were switched on to the
spur and the big excavator resumed
her work after a brief spell of in
activity. Unloading the cars is done
by the Lidgerwood unloader. This
big machine, which is mounted on
a flat car, is hooked on to the rear
end of the locomotive, from which
she gets her supply of steam. AI
heavy steel cable from the drum
of the Lidgerwood unloader is strung
out the entire length of the gravel
cars and is hooked on to a heavy
box plow mounted on a car attached
to the rear end of the string of
flat cars. At a given signal the
Lidgerwood begins winding the cable,
the plow is drawn slowly through
the gravel cars and the material ir.
unloaded evenly on either side of
thei track while the train moves
slowly forward.
Underneath the flat car imme
diately to the rear of the Lidger
wood in the gravel train, a new de
vice built recently under the direc
tion of Superintendent Packer gath
ers up the gravel unloaded by means
of the plow and spreads it between
the ties on either side and in the
center of the track. The device
consists of an inverted V shaped
plow with notches to fit over each
rail and arms extending a short dis
tance beyond the rail on either side
of the track. In one operation the
gravel for the use of the surfacing
gang is unloaded, gathered and
spread properly over the track, the
rails being left clean; and when the
train has passed on and left the
track clear, the men of the surfacing
gang are enabled to go ahead with
their portion of the railroad build
ing work without any delay.
Before the advent of the new de
vice, much of the time of the sur
facing gang was taken up in shovel
ling in the ravel from the sides of
I track to where it was used
for tamping the ties and giving
stability to the track. This extra
work is n. ;v er.rrely eliminated,
j Owing to the scarcity of labor for
railroad work and the urgent ne
. co.sity for the rushing of construe
tion.work to the coal fk’ds, it is
It that th? ne'.v system, m a very
large measure, meets the labor
shortage and materially increases
the amount of work done with the
limited force available.
After partaking of a very enjoy
able lunch at camp 15, the ladies,
accompanied by Messrs Moyer, Burns
and Dr. Bowen went over to camp
400, on the high ground about a
mile from cam" 15, in the direction
of the old right of way, on a visit
to Engineer and Mrs. Hawley Sterl
ing; while the rest of the party
went on to the front to see actual:
tracklaying operations in progress, j
The party proceeded on the work
train over rails laid in a swamp
and on to a stretch of partly fin
ished grade. Here the Brown hoist
with a car of ties and one of rails
was busy passing on the material '
as required for the men ahead, who j
were laying track at a rapid rate, j
The laying of three rail lengths,!
(about 100 feet) was watched with •
a great deal of interest ere the re
turn journey to camp 15 on the!
work train was undertaken.
The right of way lying between j
camp 15 and the end of steel was
being filled., in with gravel and the ’
track steadily raised to grade level,
trains were on the move most of the
time and this section was the scene
of a vast activity.
The return journey to Nenana
was commenced about three o’clock
and the run to town was made in1
forty minutes, after a very enjoy-'
able and most interesting trip.
Superintendent Packer proved to be,
an ideal host and explained the diff
erent phases of the construction
work to the members of the party.
The party left the front at about
two o'clock, at the time Station No.
18650 had been reached by the
steel. This station was on the
partly fininshed grade and continued
up to Station 18634, where it ter
minated in another stretch of ap
proximately 1000 feet of swampy
land. Beyond this swamp, which is
said to be the last of its kind on
the D line, the grade on which sev
eral men and teams were working,
was visible for some considerable
distance. It is expected that, by
the time the last swamp is crossed
the grade beyond will be completed
and that the tracklaying work,
which is at present conducted under
difficulties, will move forward very
rapidly until the coal fields are
reached.
Right at the front and to within
as close to the end of steel as she
dared go was the Brown hoist with
a car of steel immediately behind
her and a car of ties behind the
steel. At the commencement of
tracklaying operations a car ^load
ed with 100 rails and another with
450 ties, which allows of the unin
terrupted laying of 1650 feet of
track. The Brown hoist reaches back
and passes on to the men ahead
the material as required, and moves
on ahead as track is laid. Messrs
Gamble and Ward took several pic
tures of the work in progress at
the front and also several views of
the grade in the neighborhood of
the end of steel.
H. B. Nelson, a former Valdezan,
is organizing a company to erect
a saltery at Kachemak bay.
MAKE YOUR WANTS KNOWN
through the
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alaska,
If you want to either hire or he
hired, let us hear from you.
Employers will please state nature
of positions vacant and
wages paid.
Those desiring positions will give
qualifications and nature of
work wanted.
" E. J. WHITE,
Chief of Bureau.
By order of the Governor.
Fresh Ranch Eggs Fresh Milk
i The Tavern
W. F. RODIGKEIT, Prep.
i TRY SOME FRESH GREENS WITH ONE OF
OUR DINNER ORDERS
If ft Is On the Market You Will Find It Here
WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF DINNER PARTIES
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CATHOLIC SISTERS FOR
ST. JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL
Sisters Robert, Laurentein and
Romanauld were among the pass
engers transferring from the steamer
Tanana to the steamer Reliance for
Fairbanks, and on arrival at the
upper town will join the nursing
staff of the St. Joseph’s hospital.
They were attached to the Roman
Catholic hospital at Nome until very
recently, when that instiution was
closed as conditions would no*, justify
keeping it up.
The hospital at Nome is equipped
to handle seventy-five patients and,
at a pinch, can be made to accom
modate about 100 patients. All
of the equipment was left in '.he
building in the charge of a care
taker, as the Roman Catholic mis
sion in Alaska expects to be in posi
tion to reopen the hospital after the
war.
Nome is very quiet at the present,
the exodus of people from the town
has been exceptionally heavy this j
season owing to the war and thej
high cost of everything in that dis
trict, but it is expected that a great
many of those who have gone out,
will return in the spring
MRS NORMAN CAMPBELL
TAKES OVER SKOF HOUSE
By a deal put through today, j
Mrs. Norman Campbell takes over
the management of the Skof House
from Mrs. Theodore Brakke, who
experts to go Outside.
Mrs. Campbell will run the popu
lar rooming house along the same
lines as adopted by Mrs. Brakke.
RUST HOUSE
Mrs. Ed. Williams, Prop.
A and FIFTH STREETS
ROOMS AND BOARD
ROOMS 75e and $1.00
Coffee and Doughnuts 25c
DOG KENNELS
Dr. R. R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
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Little
Americans
Do your bit
Eat Corn meal mush*
Oatmeal - Corn, flake s
Hominy and rice with
milk^ Eat no wheat cereals.
Leave nothing on your plate.
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