PUBLIC NOTICE.
Sealed proposals will bo received
until 11 o’clock a. m . August 25. 1917.
at the office of the territorial road
commissioners for the Third division
of Alaska, in Valdez, Alaska, at which
time and plape they will be publicly
opened, for clearing and grubbing a
road along the south line of the Cor
dova townsite and to the Kyak lake
cemetery. Said proposals must he
signed by the bidder and accompanied
by cash or a certified check payable
to the chairman of the divisional com
mission for five per cent of the am
ount bid, which amount shall be for
feited to the divisional commission in
case that the bidder shall fail to en
ter Into a contract according to the
specifications of the said commission
for such work, in the event of his bo
ing awarded the contract for the above
work. The successful bidder will be
required to execute the general lorin
of contract of said commission for
such work within a perlud of ten days
from the acceptance of his bid by the
said commission. The successful Did
der will also be required to execute
a bond payable to tile chairman of the
said commission for 20 per cent of the
contract price, said bond to be accept
able to the commission.
The above work must be performed
according to the standard specifica
tions and conditions on file at the of
fice of the divisional road commission
at Valdez, Alaska, and at the City
KxpreBS Office, Cordova, where a copy
of same with form of contract may be
seen.
Proposals must be signed by the
bidder. Inclosed in a plain, sealed en
velope and addressed to the Territor
ial Huard of Itoad Commissioner for
the Third Division, Valdez, Alaska,
und be plainly marked. "Proposhls for
Clearing and Grubbing Road.”
The right is hereby reserved to re
ject any and all bids.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 15th
day of August, 1917.
Divisional Commission of Territorial
Board of Road Commissioners for
the Third Division. Territory of
Alaska.
By James E. Wilson,
Chairman of the Board.
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Osborne, watchmaker. Jeweler and
optician.
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Largest assortment of fancy Rita,
bons at Mrs. Kate Rolfe's.
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WANTS TO FLY TO BERLIN.
Seth Low. Captain of Yale
Varsity 1016, In Aero Corps.
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Photo by American Press Association.
"I want to l>e one of the first aviators
to reach Berlin," says Seth Low. cnie
tain of Yule varsity. HllO. lie Is a
lieutenant in the First Aero Reserve
corps ami is now undergoing training
at Mlneola^N. Y. Mis father was once
mayor of New York anil president of
Columbia unieorsity. -
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The Futility of Trying
To Purchase Friendship
By Porter Emerson Browne of the Vig.
il antes.
AMONG the mistakes natural to u
government that has been com
mitted to peace as long as the
United Stutes bus maintained it none
Is more fatal toward world respect
than the effort "to purchase the friend
ship of other nations by a cash or
equivalent consideration.
Governments, like Individuals, are
respected not because of what they
have, hut because of what they are.
Governments that u'e strong, honest.
Intelligent u d
honorable are re
spected automat
IcuJly, Just as are
.'Itlxens possess
ing tide *imio
qualities. But f ,r
a government to
say to Col, mljla,
“I'll give you
$ 2 oVOO t>,000 to
stimulate a fei 1
lug of cordiality,"
or to Can an; a,
"I’ll let you ha . e
8UU.0OO rounds of
pobiku kmkbso.n niumuiiitlon as a
BBOWNK. bond of good fe. I
tug,” both of which actions we ha* e
taken, is pro Isel.v like going to a man
you d n'[ like ami who doesn’t like you
and saying t > him. "If you'll like me
I'll give you $1." If friendship cou d
he bought like that, why not give him
$8 and have him like you twice ns
much?
Fricndsbin and respect are not pur
chasable commodities. If they were,
they'd be on sale, like eggs or button
hooks or small pen beaus, and a man
could drop into the nrartsjl department
store and say, "Set.'! me up sixteen
friends and a couple of yards of re
spect that won't ravel or crock."
We of the United States must learn
that we can't buy the friendship and
respect of other nations. Me must
enrn them. And we can't earn them
vicariously. We must earn them by
the strength of our characters, the
loftiness of our alms, the cleanness of
our souls ami the Idleness of our na
tional honor.
To do otherwise Is to emulate the
sapheade.l s u of wealth who thinks
by buying wine for everybody he Is ac
cumulating f i lends. People may drink
the wine, but they do so while saying
to themselves; "The poor smkor! 1
wonder what asinine trick he'll try
uext."
Men and women are liked and re
spected because they are honest, hon
orable, fearless uud clean. Nations
are liked for the same qualities.
Whereby, if the United States wants
the friendship and respect of other na
tions. let It appeal to those other na
tions on the basis, and the only basis,
that makes friendship and respect pos
sible.
1). C. Baird, representing the Lady
•smith smelter and formerly geologlsl
for the Milwaukee railroad, left on to
day’s train to examine the Westovei
group of copper claims, which art
situated on Boulder creek. In the Ni
zlna district.
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Have your measurements taken foi
the latest Uu Bone Corset. Mrs. Tut
ner. Phone 108. 6
■ CROWN PRINCE OF SPAIN.
| Hit Fa*.har’a Kingdom May
|| Decome a Republic Soon.
Alfonso, eldest son of Spain's klu>;.
nu.v never lime n chame to (ake%hls
'atlier's place on the throne. Uevolu
lon threatens in the kltiKdom more
mil more, and It may follow Russia's
end and l.e onto u republic soon. The
irimc is a manly little fellow-and is
■spei lolly food < f lie res.
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YOU CAN’T KEEP STILL
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When you hear ’em play good rag time
music in a ragtime way.. EAGLES’
HALL. SATURDAY NIGHT. Don't
forget.
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Where (lid you get those lovely
Doughtnus? Why. at the City
tlakery.
I
(By United Press)
Washington. auK. ig — wherein
Miss Ida M. Tarbell lays the charge
of Intellectual shiftlessness at the
door of the American housewife and
points out that It costs her merchants
$75,000,000 a year to lug home her
packages for her:
"The greatest immediate war bene
fit or curing this laziness in milady,”
said MUs Tarbell, "will be to release
100,000 able bodied delivery clerks as
fighting men at the front.”
Pausing just long enough to take a
bit of the string out of her charge by
saying she believed all the American
housewife needs to cure her is the
government's suggestion. Miss Tarbell
went on:
"The commercial economy board of
the council of national defence has
discovered that the delivery of the
housewife's goods is one of the most
expensive luxuries we indulge. A
world at war cannot tolerate sloth,
waste and Indulgence.
"On a food bill of twelve and three
quarter million dollars in 1916, Wash
ington housewives paid $900,000 for
having the stuff sent home. Ice,
bread, milk and ice cream cost the
most.
"What is true of Washington Is true
of every American city, town and vil
lage. The board estimates that the
grosH delivery expense of retail gro
cers in the country Is $75,000,000 a
year. What for? For the hire of men
to put up packages, run wagons and
trucks, put your things at your door,
not once, but often many times a day.
Housewives visit the stores in ears,
carriages or on foot, but they never
think of carrying home anything.
"The merchant is partly responsible.
His willingness to serve her careless
and irregular habits of buying is one
way he builds up good will. The wo
men have come to feel that If they
carry bundles they will be classed as
undesirable customers. In our great
cities the cost to the department store
or delivering packages Is from 8 to
25 cents apiece. It Is not uncommon
for the cost of delivering an article to
exceed the cost of the article.
"There are a few towns in the coun
try where the delivery evil has been
stamped out. Ann Arbor. Michigan,
has had a sensible system such as we
all need, for eight years. Formerly
they used seventy wagons. Now they
use only eighteen. There Is hut one
delivery a day. Every woman knows
what she wants and all tljat she wants
and she gets it on the one delivery.
All women could do this.
"There are a to wother towns where
co-operative delivery has been In
stalled and effected a tremendous sav
ing.
“I am sure each city, each woman
will do her share to get this system
throughout the country. They will
free 100,000 men for useful service
when they do. A package In the hand
will then be as truly a badge of honor
as a Red Cross button on the waist.”
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LADIES!
Have you seen the new fall ball at .
Mrs. Anderson's.
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Your eyes fitted. Compound t nd
astigmatic lenses replaced, gee Os
borne.
HMP^moothest smoothest If
^^smoking tobacco smoking to- ■§
' bacco” just be- ■ H
cause we call it so. /I|
nOME wasn't It is the smoothest / Hi
-Tv built in a smoking tobacco be- (viS|
day, neither was cause of its two years* u jLl
worth ‘while. Sft mel‘owi|>e »> wood- \lH
takes tao- than en hogsheads. f ||
two years to But don’t take oar word |] l|
build a tin of for it. Try VELVET \1 II
Velvet. and take your own. \ Hi
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Alaska Agricultural
Industrial Fair
To Be Held At
ANCHORAGE
ALASKA
I ' Sept. 3, 4 and 5.
$5,000 in PRIZES for Exhibits
1 ALL ALASKA and
HER FRIENDS
are INVITED
Reduced Rates- All Steamers
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Capital and Surplus of Institution I
$105,500,00 I
CORDOVA I
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Good Hunting and fishing.
Also fish and game for sale In
season. Boats for rent. Good
meals and beds. Rates $2.50
per day.
The WALKERS
ALGANICK, ALASKA.
Twenty Miles from Cordova.
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