n^^ersary Sale! 1
OF FROM 10 TO 20 PER CENT.
--—-ON OUR ENTIRE STOCK
THIS SALE INCLUDES Hats, Coats, Dresses, Waists, Shirts, Suits, Hose, Shoes, Corsets, Silk and Batiste
Underwear, Umbrellas, Gloves, Sweaters, Silks by the yard, Crepe de Chene and Georgette Crepe, Towels
and Toweling, Sheets, Pillow Casing, House Dresses, Aprons and Yarns.
All NEW GOODS Arriving During This Sale
Will Also Be Subject to Discount
I MAIL ORDERS from the Copper River Valley and the surrounding towns will also be given strict attention.
AT THE
Empress Theatre
Monday, May 27, 1918
Proceeds to go to the
RED CROSS
War Fund
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SEWER SYSTEM
FOfiTHE CITY
At last night’s meeting of the city
council the street committee urged
the necessity of building a sewer from
the alley between A and B streets to
the bay, and was instructed to pre
pare plans and get an estimate of
the cost of same, to be submitted at
the next meeting of the council. It
was also decided to have the alley
between B and C streets cleared of
all obstructions and garbage. The
committee was further instructed to
draft an ordinance regarding street
signs.
The fire committee reported that
hose had been placed in the fire hall
on the hill, for the protection of prop
erty in that part of town.
After June 1 there will be a regu
lar scavenger service established, so
says the health committee
Several arrests for drunkenness
were reported by the police commit
tee, who are of the opinion that the
guilty partier are getting the liquor
from out of town.
An ordinance establishing official
grades for the town, under the di
rection of A J. Adams, was ordered
drawn. It was also the consensus of
opinion among the members of the
council that an ordinance should be
drafted submitting to the voters of
the municipality the right to elect
their own mayor and city officials.
Councilman J. B. Sapiro, who will
leave tomorrow on a trip to the
States, was granted a two months’
leave of absence.
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BIDS WANTED
Bids wanted for the construction
of a hose tower to be erected at the
city hall. See town clerk for plans
and specifications.
Bids will be opened and contract
awarded Saturday night, May 25,
1918. 21-6t
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, will be
found in the Currier & Mickelson
building on C. street. 16-tf
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FOR RENT—Cabins. See Dooley.
iHMHIItS OF LOCIL
IDO FERSOHILIHTEDESI
The steamship Alameda is due from
Seattle at 9 o’clock tomorrow morn
ing.
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Tonight E. F. Medley will be the
four-minute speaker at the Empress
theater.
* . .
The Pacific Steamship Company
has donated $150 to Cordova’s Red
Cross war fund.
A trainload of twenty-one cars of
copper ore arrived here from Kenne
cott last night.
The sailing of the Admiral Farra
gut from Seattle has been changed
from May 30 to May 28.
William A. Hesse returned last
night from Kcnnecott, where he has j
spent the past several months.
Sale of reserved seats for the big
vaudeville show will open . at the
Northern and Cordova drug stores to
morrow morning.
A crew of six men is employed at
the radio station finishing up the work
on the new buildings which were
started last summer.
Jay Caldwell came down from Ken
necott to go to Fort Liscum for med
ical examination as a recruit in the
Twenty-seventh engineers regiment.
In publishing the list o£ business
houses contributing to the Red Cross
war fund the. committee inadvertently
omitted the First Bank of Cordova.
Don’t forget the food sale to be held
Saturday at the Blum, O’Neill Co. and
Finkelstein & Sapiro stores for the
benefit of the Red Cross. It will be
in charge of the local chapter, as
sisted by the Junior Red Cross.
The Boy Scouts of Cordova made a
gleaning of $660 in the third Liberty
loan. The Scouts had to work hard
to get even this amount, as the coun
cil of national defense did such thor
ough work at the start that there was
very little left for the boys to get.
Second-class Scout John Rosswog
has been assigned to Red Cross head
quarters for this week.
Harry Nettleton, who left Cordova
about April 1, and who has been visit
ing his mother and sister in Los An
geles, Cal., has enlisted in the navy
and is now in the Chicago training
school. The many friends of our pop
ular young townsman will be glad to
know that he has enlisted in Uncle
Sam’s service,
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A special election was held today
at the city hall and on the Ocean
dock to vote on increasing the cor
porate limits of Cordova. There was
a light vote cast on account of a mis
understanding as to the qualifications
of voters. Those in charge of the
election at the city hall were O.
Lambert, George Kennedy, George
Mosser, Joe Hall and W. A. Nourse.
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