The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
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served.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER, Hi, 1917.
STRAIGHT TALK.
Speaking of honest editors, it must
be admitted that they are so rare in
these modern times as to lead one to
believe that the species is about to be
come extinct. But we have been for
tunate to locate one, however, some
where in Texas. Our authority is Dun
bar's Weekly of Phoenix, Arizona, who
in turn passes the credit along to the
Dallas Pitchfork. The unquestionable
honesty of this contemporary puts to
shame everything we have ever es
sayed under the title of Straight Talk
and inasmuch ns it has a purely local
application in every American com
munity, we print it without further ex
planation:
“A west Texas editor got tir.ed of
being called a 'liar' because of an oc
casional typographical error or slight
disarrangement of the facts in pub
lishing a commonplace news item. In
his wrath he announced in bold face
black typo as follows:
“ ‘A lot of people in this town fall
out with the editor and brand him aH
a liar when the ordinary human mis
takes of life show up in a newspaper.
You have a little charity and fellow
feeling for every man in town, but
your editor. You claim that you want
the facts, and damned if I don't give
them to you. I’ll admit that I have
been a liar, an editorial liar, ever
since I have been editing this sheet,
but I have never printed a lie in these
columns except to save somebody’s
feelings from being hurt. I’m not
afraid of any of you, and I'll be dad
blamed if 1 don't print the plain truth
from now on, or until you get out of
the habit of calling me a liar every
time 1 make some little unavoidable
typographical error. Watch my
suivnci
"Here are some of the paragraphs
culled from the next issue: 'John
Coyle, our groceryman, who voted
with the Republicans in 1896 and con
sumes more mail order whisky than
any other member of the Baptist
church in this country. Is doing a poor
business. His store is dirty and dusty.
It is a wonder he has any business at
all.’
'•’ 'The Rev.“Sty preached last Sun
day night in the Christian church. His
sermon was punk and uninteresting,
except some stuff he quoted from Bob
ingersoll, for which he failed to give
Bob any credit. He also recited a few
passages from one of William Elbert
Munsey’s sermons, and had the gall
to palm ft off as his own.’
“ 'Dave Chartier died at his home
two miles north of this place last
Thursday night. Dock Holderness,
who is an old friend of the family, at
tended him a few minutes before he
expired. He gave it out that Dave
died of heart failure. That is a lie.
Dave died from drinking too much of
a very poor grade of mail order licker.
This paper prints the truth.’
“ 'Tom Spradlin married Miss Cor
die Meador last trades’ day at the
county seat. It ain’t generally known,
but the marriage was brought about
mainly by a Remington shotgun ma
nipulated by the bride’s father, Tom
concluding that marrying was the
healthiest thing he could do until
other arrangements could be made.'
“ ‘Roger Lloyd, cashier of the state
bank at Willow Grove, died Wednes
day morning, and was buried Friday
by the Odd Fellows in Pleasant Mound
cemetery. He had been taking this
paper seven years and so far hadn't
paid a cent, we thinking he he, being
a banker, wgald pay some time. We
will sell the account for two bits’
worth of fresh greens.’
“ 'Married: Miss Susie Scruggs and
Horace Guffin, last Saturday at the
Methodist Parsonage, the Rev. James
C. Williams, officiating. The bride
is a very ordinary'town girl, who flirts
with all the traveling men she meets
and never helped her mother three
days all put together in her whole life.
She is anything but a beauty, resem
bling a gravel pit in the face and
walks like a duck. The bridegroom is
a natural born loafer and bum. He
never did a lick of work until his step
daddy run him off from home last
fall. He went to the county seat, and
just before starving to death, accept
ed a job as chambermaid in a livery
stable. As soon as hie ma found out
where he was she went and got hint
and brought hint home. He now re
sides at the home of his wife’s father,
| and says that he has no definite'plens
for the future. Susie will have a hard
row to hoe.’
'“Died, at Jayville, yesterday, Jas.
Alugford, aged 56 years 5 months and
13 days. Deceased was a mild man
nered pirate, witn a mouth for whis
ke and an eye for boodle. He came
here in the night with another man's
wife and joined the church at the first
chance. He owed us several dollars
for the paper, and a large meat bill,
and you could hear him praying six
blocks. He died singing ‘‘Jesus Paid
it all,” and we think he was right, as
he never paid anything himself.' ”
ARMY RATIONS.
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The business of mobilizing an army
of a million men out of plain, every
day American citizens pfesents count
less problems to our military authori
ties, but none so great as the task of
providing board and keep for a million
military boarders. “Many men can
train and lead troops,” said Welling
ton, the hero of Waterloo. “I can
feed them.” And was it not the great
Napoleon himself who asserted that
armies travel on their stomachs?
Inasmuch as America must feed the
great armies of her allies from now on
to the end of the war, as well as her
own, the task assumes proportions
that would almost challenge the in
genuity of a race of supermen. Ac
cording to the present schedule of ra
tions in force in the United States
army, a million men will daily east
approximately 6,000 Tiarrels of flour,
the product of an average wheat field
four miles square. They will also con
sume upwards of 150,000 pounds of
bacon, ten carloadB of potatoes, ten
carloads of beef, fifty tons of beans,
one hundred tons of sugar and over
a half carload of coffee.
In addition to these tremendous am
ounts of foodstuffs for the sustenance
of the soldiers alone, the orders for
the material necessary to properly
clothe and shoe the big armies will
well nigh stagger the manufacturers
of the country. It has long been an
accepted rule by military authorities
that "two or three times as much as
an army needs for its immediate use
must be supplied, if it is to be kept
from want.”
POOR OLD VALDEZ.
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Cordova again springs the old, old
story of the beauties of the Fairbanks
trail on its readers. - We are willing
to endorse all the Times says about
the trail, and more,4jut it seems a ease
of the tail wagging the dog when that
paper tries to tell its readers that au
toists should take the railway to Chi
tina to encounter its beauties. By
coming a few miles this way many
dollars can be saved in expense and
many hours in time, as the beautiful
trail mentioned by the Cordova Times
starts right here in Valdez, and the
Chitina end is but a spur to the main
line. The ride from Valdez to Willow
creek, the intersection of the spur to
Chitina, through the canyon and over
the summit, is one of the finest on the
route, and is thrilling and awe-inspir
ing. However, there is beauty and
trail enough for both Cordova and
Valdez, and so long as the Times does
not second Brother Caskey in his ef
forts to tear down the work of the
road commission we are willing to co
operate and co-ordinate. — Valdez
Prospector.
ALASKA PAMPHLET TEXT BOOK.
“Our Alaska Frontier W'onderland,"
the title of a pamphlet issued by the
Alaska bureau, has become known
throughout the country and has
attracted most favorable attention.
The Alaska bureau has receivdtl re
peated requests for copies from edu
cational institutions, asking to use
the booklet in their clasB rooms.
Among the institutions making such
’use of the pamphlet are the Plainfield,
N. J„ public school; the Normal Train
ing School, Cleveland, O.; the Michi
gan State Normal College, Ypsilanti,
Mich.; The Peckham Vocational!
School, Buffalo, N. Y.; the high school
Ibrarlan of La C.rande, Oregon; the
John Crerar Library, Chicago, 111.; the
i’armly Hillings Library. Billings.
Mont.; the Streator Public Library,
3treator, 111., and the Conservation
Commission, Albany, N. Y.—Seattle
Spirit.
The proposition to employ girls in
the messhouse at Treadwell is a good
one. In Canada girls are now being
employed as engine wipers in railroad
roundhouses, where they don overalls
and are said to be doing the work
equally as well as men. Anyway, they
wouldn’t be required to wear overalls i
around the messhouse. — Douglas
News.
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TO HELP IN
(By United Frees)
TRENTON. N. J„ Oct. 19. — You
want to know what t have done to
help America win the wtfr. You re- j
member when President Wilson made j
an appeal to the people to help reduce
the high cost of living tknd so create
m'ore crop to feed the allies? I ap
plied at that time to the supervisor for
an acre of land. On that acre of land
1 make one of the best gardens that
you ever saw. I got enough potatoes
to supply my family. I raise toma
toes, lettuce, heans and all kinds of
greens. This garden is a great help |
to me and my family. Then came
the Liberty loan, and a then sub
scribed to it. Besides subscribing my
self, I encouraged nearly every man
in my gang who could pay for it.
I have a good gang of men, and we
do first class work to keep the tracks
so that the trains can carry the sol
diers, their ammunition and food with
out delay or derailment I want to
tell you also that with the exception
of two or three, all the men In my
gang are naturalized. I have helped
them by explaining what naturaliza- j
tlon is.
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ARE YOU LONGING
For a toothsome dainty some- I
thing that will h|L.*he spot? If
so, Just drop into tiny “Dec of
Sweets*' and try some of our de
licious candies, made right here
in Cordova every day. The qual
ity is the highest the price the
lowest of anywhere in Alaska.
SANITARYCANDYKITCHEN
Next To Cordova House
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION.
No. C-130.
Mabel E. Sprague, Plaintiff, vs. Her
bert A. Sprague, Defendant.
SUMMONS.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting:
To Herbert A Sprague, the above
named defendant.
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of the
publication of this summons, to-wit,
within thirty days after the 22nd day
of October, 1917, and answer the com
plaint of Mabel E. Sprague, the above
named plaintiff, in the above entitled
cause, which cause is an action for
divorce in one of the cases prescribed
by law wherein the plaintiff prays for
a decree dissolving the bonds of mar
riage between herself and you and for
such other and further relief as to the
court may seem right and proper in the
premises. And you are hereby noti
fied that if you fail to appear and an
swer said complaint as herein re
quired, the said plaintiff will take
Judgment against you for want there
of, and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in her complaint, as
hereinbefore set out.
The order for the publication of this
summons was duly made and entered
on the 6th day of September, 1917.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, judge of said court, and the
seal thereof thiB 6th day of Septem
ber, in the year of our Lord the one
thousand nine hundred and seven
teenth and of our Independence the
one hundred and forty-first.
(Seal of the District Court,
Territory of Alaska, ■
Third Division.) I
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk District Court, Third Division.
Territory of Alaska,
By C. H. Wilcox, Deputy.
First Publication, Sept. 11, 1917.
Last-publication, Oct 22. 1917. I
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You Are A
Committee of One
DO YOU SEE THE BIG
ON ALL THE POSTERS
Do You Realize That Your American
Goverment Needs Your Help? All
Banks Are Paying For Their Liberty
Loan “Ads” As The Bank of Alaska is Paying
For This One, Also Postage Incidentals And
Time Given For Liberty Loan. Now We Want
To Do Your Part That is Why We Make You
This Proposition;
You pay $1.00 on a $50.00 Bond or $2.00 on
a $100.00 Bond to the Government with your
application for the Bond and Bank of Alaska
will take your note, charging no interest and
will allow liberal time for you to pay the bal
ance of the payments.
REMEMBER
The Sale Closes on the I
27th
of This Month
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Bank of Alaska
Banking Hours After October 24th.
Are 10 To 3
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CORDOVA. ALASKA
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