Douglas Island news., 1911-12-20
The Douglas Island News,
THE LOCAL FIELD.
A Merry Christmas. Steve Kane was in from HOonah last week.


 A cut of ten per cent on all Suits at Jack McDouald's.
 The collier Edith unloaded 200 tons of coal at the City Dock yesterday.
 Chris Larson left on the Jefferson sto spend the holidays on the Sound.
 Mr. P. S. Early came down from Yankee cove on the Georgia Sunday.
 We will give 25 per cent off on Shoes antil January 1st, 1912, at McDonald's.
 LeRoy Campbell, for some years a resident of Douglas, died of typhoid fever, at Tacoma, on October 18th.
 The Alaska Catholic Club has de- cided to omit their social on Thursday night and have business meeting in stead.
 Andy Bront of the Mexican has a broken nose, as a result of lively boxing bout at TreadEell the other evening.
 Keep clean and you will be healhty. The bath tubs at the Douglas Hand Laundry are at your service. Try them tor your annual bath.
 They say that the Treadwell boys tied "Slippery" to chair last night at the Club, go hard and fast that he only escaped by breaking the chair in pieces.
 A nice line of box candy, empty boxes to be6lled, and cut flowers. at the Douglas Candy Kitchen for Christ mas. Leave your orders for Olympia oysters, and cream.
 The best of everything for Christmas aud just what you want; is our wei, come to Christmas buyers. Come and see Valentines store at Juneau, and be pleased.
 The SoldieEs Vaudeville Co.,, from Fort Seward, played at the Lyric last Wednesday night to good house. The famous Slippery" slipped through everything, and completely mystited every body.
 J. G. Darling, representative of the Scranton Correspondence School, will leave on the Humboldt for Ottawa, Canada, where he is called by the ser ious illness of his sister.
 am already for Christmas. Now is the time aud this Is the opportunity for economical, satisfactory Christmas buying that nobody can afford to miss. Come aud see Valentines store for your Christmas gifts.
 The date of the Boxing Bout at the Lyric Theatre, in which Chambers and Mckenzie are the principals, has been changed from Christmas Day to Sat .arday night, December B. There will be several good preliminaries.
 The Third Annual Ballot the Alaska Labor Union, held at the new hall Monday night, was one of the ,happiest affairs of the season. A large crowd was present, the music was splendid and many enjoyed for the first time the beauties of the new hall.
 LooK-Moneyl Moneyll MoneylIl A jar of money to be given away Free at the Alaska Drug Go. on New Years Day at-3 p. m. Every dollar purchase entities you to a guess, and the one guessing nearest the amount in the jar, gets it Free. See it in the window. Yours for a Happy New Year, Alaska Drug Co.
 Large crowds attended the demon stration and sale held by the Ladies' League at the Sans Souci yesterday afternoon and evening. Nothing was sold but the Cook Book, which has been in course of preparation for so many months. Articles advertised in its pages were exhibited and their !vir- tues publicly demonstrated.
 Miles Tiffen, we'll known to every body in Ketchikan, died last Sunday evening. He was buried Thursday, the first body to be inferred in the new cemetery. -ae had been resident of Ketchikan for the past five. years orzso, coming from TFeadwell, where he had worked asa blacksmith for number of years. He was member of the G. A. R., and was supposed to have had brother in Vancouver, B. C., who, how