COLD WEATHER GOODS AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES
French
Flannel
SHIRTS
Made of the fin
est grade French
flannel; cut full
size; two large
breast pockets.
Sizes 11 to 17.
$1.35 each
Reiutar $2.75
_ Value
2 for $2.50 RT&Sr1
ARMY BLANKETS
$1.10 each 5 for $5
SHEEPSKIN
MOCCASINS
SHEEPSKIN VEST
$4.35
Parcel Post 20e.
for Outdoor
Work
Made of extra
heavy tanned
sheep skin
—natural wool
lining. Soft
and pliable. As
• warm as toast,
pair k garment that
Parcel Port I5e. £ worth double
Heavy natural wool and j'In'p n
leather. For inside of boots “ff*.
or the house.
Sizes Hti to 18.
Parcel Post 15c each
Men’s Felt Slippers
$1.25
Parcel Post l(t.
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Motor Transport
Caps $1.2f’Sr2t£«'
Order now and nave money. Color:
light gray with fancy striped bor
Sizes 6 to 11. Made of a fine soft,
woolen folt. color olive drab, soft
buckskin soles, are very flexible
and easy on the feet. Just the
slipper for about the hon e.
Corduroy Sheep Lined
Coats, $14.50 Paree3,5cPo*t
Sizes ,0.6 to 16.
Heave ri zed sheep
skin collar; aver
age length 36
inches. A very
serviceable coat
with body lining
of selected bark
tanned skim, and
heat y blanket
sleeve lining.
Double - breast
ed with leather
trimming on all
4 pockets and
under sleeve cuff,
storm tab on col
lar. knit wrist
lets.
Wool Socks
Are 100% wool.
Toes and heels 4re
holeproof. Closely
knitted. Soft and
warm. Color grvy.
Sizes lO-ll'i
2 pairs
$1.00
Sizes 6*4 to 7 ‘i. Made of heavy
O. D. wools. Ties under chin like
cut—Brand new.
Moleskin Pants
Made of non-rin
able moleskin; the
stronger and most
durable pants made.
Du t, wind and
waterproof; excel
lent workmanship.
K very point of
strain re-inforced:
plenty of strong
pockets; cuff bot
Value $3.50. sizes
23 to 46.
$1.95
Parcel Post
15c extra.
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Railroad President
Predicts Prosperity
NEW YORK, Dec. 30—“Everything
today points to long continued pros
perity on the part of the American
people,” said President Charles H. ;
Markham, of the Illinois Central Rail- ;
road at this morning’s session of the
eighteenth annual convention of the
Association of Life Insurance Presi
dents. Speaking on the subject of
“Our Common Carriers and National
Expansion,” Mr. Markham predicted
renewed interest in railway securities
by the life insurance companies whose
holdings in that class of investment
lie said, had dropped from 35 per
cent! of their total assets in 1911 to 22
per cent at the beginning ofo 1924.
He added that in actual amouunt the
life company’s investments in rail
way securities had slightly increased
rather than decreased during that
period. The total of railway securi
ties held by these companies is about
§2,000,000,000. Declaring that railroad
conditions are now different from the
past and that they will remain differ
ent, Mr. Markham expressed confi
dence that the life companies will
make additional investments in rail
way securities to such an extent in
the future as to reverse the down
ward trend of the recent past.
“The injurious effects of the late
war are beginning to wear off, and all
lines of business, including agricul
ture and the railroads are ready to
make a new start to levels of indus
try that have been as yet untouched.
The settled conditions that were in
evidence prior to ,the war are to be
resumed. Farm prices are becoming
more stabilized. A national election
unaffected by the heritage of the war
has just been decided. A national
policy of encouragement of business
has been determined upon. In every
way, I believe that we are safe in
looking forward to an era of good
times in which every one will share.”
Harems Are Numerous
In Southern Philippines
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—The ab
sence of civilization in the southern
provinces of the Philippine Islands is
attributed to the lack of home life
and the practice of polygamy among
the native Moros, said Mrs. Carl M.
Moore, wife of the governor of the
Southern islands of the Philippines,
and herself a Filipino.
“There can be no home life where
there is a harem,” Mrs. Moore ex
plained. “The lack of home life in
the Southern Islands, about 1500 small
islands, totaling not over 1100 square
miles, is due to the influence of the
, Mohammedan religion. Every man
living there under Mohammedan rule
not only avails himself of the Koran’s
granted privilege to four wives, but
he also takes advantage of the mod
ern privilege of divorce. Like a po
ker player he is continually throwing
one wife in the discard and picking
a fresh one from the deck, providing
himself in this manner with a con
tinual succession of young beauties
for his harem.
“Some of the marriage customs of
the land-dwelling natives are quaint.
A bride seldom attends here own
wedding. She is arrayed in her wed
ding garments, frequently of gaily
colored materials with a veil, many
beads and girdles, and then locked
in tomblike room where she is under
guard of of some male relative. The
Imams, Mohammedan priests, recite
long ceremonies over the head of the
groom. The bridal pair may then
exchange long distance greetings thru
a barred window, but not until after
i long continued ceremonies, lasting
thrown many days and nights, are
they considered sufficiently married
to set up an establishment of their
own.
“When a woman marries, the family
gives her a dowry. If she runs away
from her husband and it is proved
that he has treated her cruelly, she
keeps her dowry, whether lands or
cattle or money. But if she is un
faithful and runs away with another
man she must not only return the
dowry but twice the sum. There are
very few unfaithful wives.”
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AGED SPOKANE MAN BUYS
CONFISCATED RUM PLANE
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 30.—An
airplane, declared by H. S. McClure,
federal prohibition agent for eastern
Washington, to be the first liquor
smuggler’s airplane to be captured
in the northwest, was sold here at
auction today to Z. Tisher, 73, of
Spokane. The plane was captured in
February, 1923, near here.
Mr. Tisher bought the machine for
$435 and declared he will make a trip
in it to Omaha, Neb., next summer
to visit relatives, He said he made
a trip from Portland by air in five
hours recently. T
CAMPAIGN CARD PUTS
AUTO ON THE BUM
BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 30.—A caiu
j aign card put an auto “cat of the
running.”
When David Hickenhofctori. a lo
cal resident, drove into the midst ol
i crowd in which a number ol Bel
mont County candidates were hand
ing out cards bis machine suddenly
stopped. His engine had gone dead.
His car wags a flivver. None of
the candidates’ cards bore Henry
I Ford’s name. Perhaps the machine,
realizing this situation, had balked.
However, Hickenbottom proceeded to
investigate. A search failed to dis
close the cause and the car was
hauled to a garage.
The garage mechanic found that a
card of a candidate for county com
missioner had slipped into the coil
box and prevented a wire connect
ed with the magneto, from func
tioning.
ROUTINE OF SUNDAY
FOR BUSY PASTOR
WILTON, Conn., Dec. 30.—The Rev.
Frederick Bunker, pastor of the
Congregational church in this little
town, recently preached a Sunday
evening sermon on the Tenth Com
mandment. A busy Sabbath preced
ed the sermon. Mr. Bunker’s morn
ing Sunday school services were in
terrupted when a house near the
church caught fire, and he rushed
out to lead volunteei's in subduing
flames. Returning, he finished Sun
day school, conducted regular church
services and preached the morning
sermon.
Immediately afterward he mar
ried two young members of his par
ish, ate dinner conducted two fun
eral services that involved long
drives and returned just in time to
■ start his evening service.
WALLACE DAYKIN IMPROVING
Wallace Daykin, who went to the
Baughman hospital with a bad case
of pneumonia, is reported to be im
proving, having passed a restful
night.
Pacific Coastwise .Service
^ADMIRAL LINE
IH.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENTSuj—^SSBB
STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
Jan. 7th
Feb. 4th
Arrives
Seward
Jan. 15th
Feb. 12th
South from
Seward
Jan. 18th
Feb. 15th
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
STEAMSHIP STARR
S. S. STARR SAILS JANUARY FOURTH
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON 13». SEWARD, ALASKA
fCONSTABULARY CALLED
OUT WHEN TWO BRASS
BANDS STAGE CONTEST
MANILA, Dec. 30.—Rivalry between
two brass bands became so keen dur
ing a concert at Pasig, Rizal pro
vince, recently that it was deemed
necessary by the authorities to call
out a detachment of constabulary and
the entire police force of the town
t to preserve order.
I The reason for this display of
| force was that the concert was a
contest of ability and endurance be
tween the bands, one from Tinajeros
a nearby town, and another ifrOm
Kawit, Cavite, the home of General
Emilio Aguinaldoo
The supporters of the contestants
were there in force, ready to defend
their organization with fists if music
failed. After playing more than 300
pieces during the contest which
lasted from seven o’clock. Friday
evening until daylight the next Sun
day morning, the bands agreed to
call the contest a draw, thereby
avoiding any disturbance. There
were no judges of the affair, it being
the custom in these contests for the
bands to play until one admits de
feat, frequently from exhaustion.
The two organizations, which are
cdnsidered among the best in the
Philippines, have met on at least
three precious occasions, and each
time the result has been a draw.
One of the rules of the contest is
that all selections must be played
fronr memory, without "written
music. Endurance and memory are
tested to the utmost. One band
plays five pieces and then the other
has its turn. This program continues
without intermission, day and night,
until one side is beaten.
Playing from memory has been an
acquisition of Filipino musicians
from Spanish times. Recalling an
incident at the St. Louis Exposition
in 1904, where the Philippine Con
stabulary band'played, a member of
that organization said that the
j the audience was amazed when the
I music continued without a break.
He said the band finished the piece,
and continued to play until the
j lights went on again.
WAVE OF CRIME SWEEPS
CHICAGO AFTER XMAS
CHICAGO, Deec. 30.—Money, liquor
and other objects aggregating about
$75,485 in value were stolen yesterday
jin a series of nine robberies commit*
I ted by 18 or 20 persons, one of whom
i was a woman. Another woman w^H
being held by the police as an accom
plice in a recent $700 apartment rob
bery.
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
Swedish American Line
“Only line between America and.
Sweden." Direct over the Atlantic,
and the North Sea in Large, Mod-,
em and Comfortable steamers.
Frequent sailings. '!
Christmas Excursions to Sweden
and Finland *
S. S. STOCKHOLM—From New"
Ycrk December 2; from Halifax
December 4.
S. S. DROTTNINGHOLM—From
New York December 10.
Also Earlier Sailings
For further information and res-i
ervations apply to
WAYNE BLUE,
Agent for Seward, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel—
Northwestern
Alaska _
Yukon__
Alameda_
Alaska_
Yukon _
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
.December 20
.December 27
.January 3
January 10
.January 17
January 24
Scheduled
Arr. Seward
December 27
January 3
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
Scheduled
Sail fm Sew’ard
December 27
January 3
January 10
January 17
January 24
January 31
Steamers in the above schedule wrill make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamer Redondo will continue calling at Seldovia and Halibut Cove
until further notice.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle, December 30th.
Send orders by wire.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
» —————-———-g——s
li « . Greetingl ;
In extending the Season’s Greetings to all its friends and patrons,
The Alaska Railroad takes occasion to announce a
of one and one-third for the round-trip, between all stations. Reduced
rate tickets may b.e purchased at all agency stations December 20th to
January 1, inclusive; final return limit January 6, 1926. Passengers
boarding trains at non-agency stations may avail themselves of this
Special Excursion Rate by purchasing reduced rate tickets at first
agency stations.
It is the sincere wish of The Alaska Railroad that the year 1925
will be the most progressive and prosperous for. all Alaskan activities,
and towards the accomplishments of this purpose The Alaska Railroad
will continue to lend its earnest and whole-hearted co-operation at all
times.
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
V
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S
EXCURSION FARE
*
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McKinley park route
ANCHORAGE
ALASKA
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