88 THE SITKA
HOME
The 1910 report of the hoard of trus
tees of the Alaska Pioneers’ Home has
been printed.
Amongst other things the report
states that the home has been in op
eration for four years; that the insti
tution has been conducted in an effi
cient manner; that there was a bal
ance in all funds January 1, 1917 of
$28,955.27. The board comprises Gov
ernor J. F. A. Strong, chairman; Allen
Shattuck, treasurer, and C. C. George
son, secretary.
Superintendent A. G. Slioup reviews
the operations of the home and recom
mends that it should be optional with
the trustees whether indigent or dis
abled applicants would be cared for
in the home or given a monthly allow
ance; that salaries of employees
should be increased and that certain
repairs be made.
The physician, James W. Johnson,
reviews the medical work done and
tells of the general condition of the
patients, most of whom are suffering
with chronic maladies, and in but few
cases could curative effects be ex
pected.
Senator Aldrich made a special in
vestigation of the home and reported
that there are sixty-eight inmates,
eight of whom were in the hospital
ward; one a paralytic who has been
confined to his bed for three years.
Aldrich made certain recommenda
tions as to salaries and improvements.
30,10 BRITISH
TO CLOSE
(By United Press)
LONDON, April 19. — Thirty thou
said British saloons probably will be
closed within the next few months.
English brewers themselves have
suggested a sweeping measure on
these lines as the solution of diffi
culties arising from the restricted out
put of beer. At present, they say,
there are far too many distributing
agencies, a third of which could be
put out of business without inconven
iencing the public, while trade would
be carried on more economically.
England must quench its thirst on
ten million barrels of beer a year or
go thirsty, under the recent govern
ment restrictions, and the brewers
are hurrying to meet the contingency.
In the rural districts, instead of
three breweries competing for busi
ness in one locality through thirty sa
loons, twenty of them will be discon
tinued and one joint firm supply all
the beer to the ten.
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mm. rUrlLa!
(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, April 19. — Boys and
girls of the El Paso high school have
voluntarily agreed to adopt a uniform
dress for school wear in an effort
to reduce the high cost of living.
The uniform for the girl students
consists of a blue serge skirt, a white
middle blouse with black flowing tie
and cotton stockings. The boys will
wear the regulation school cadet uni
form of olive drab prescribed by the
war department regulations govern
ing high school cadet corps. Compul
sory military training is a part of the
cadet system at the local high school.
c o pHTcents
NO LONGER IN
—-—RTITTE. Anrii 19. — Deportation of
the copper cent is carried on at the
local postoffice each month out of re
spect to the tradition which still re
mains in Butte that the copper cent
was never meant to circulate except
to purchase a stamp as a means of
ending its activity as a medium of
circulation in this section.
Postmaster Phil Goodwin ships to
Helena each month about $30 in pen
nies that are paid in at the postoffice
for stamps, which are about the only
thing that pennies will buy in Butte.
Department stores here do not ad
vertise bargains for which odd cents
must be paid.
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Three Shetland ponies were recent
ly brought to Fairbanks from the out
side and made the trip in good shape.
The owners will experiment to see
if they can be used to replace dogs
in many instances where light loads
Me hauled,
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♦ ters so nobody will know who ♦
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♦ Some business men who are ♦
♦ really interested in knowing who ♦
♦ writes to them, employ signature ♦
♦ ferrets. That is, bright young ♦
♦ men who take the wild signature, ♦
♦ chase it to its lair, lash it into ♦
♦ a fury and force it to divulge ♦
♦ its identity. +
♦ Then there are other methods. ♦
♦ Sometimes the ferret is able to ♦
♦ nail a signature's owner by com- ♦
♦ paring it with the printed list of ♦
♦ directors, or managers, or some- ♦
♦ thing like that printed at the top ♦
♦ of the letterhead. But this is not ♦
♦ often possible. ♦
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♦ and others write their names. ♦
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sdldierjTpets
ARE LEFT ON
(By Associated Press)
FORT BLISS, Texas, April 19. —
Hundreds of stray dogs, burros, goats
and other soldier pets were left be
hind by the national guard troops
when they left for home after being
encamped at Fort Bliss reservation
for many months.
There was hardly a company in the
entire national guard camps but what
had a pet of some description. Bur
ros, because of their novelty to the
eastern and northern soldiers, were
the favorites, and small Mexican boys
found a ready market for the dimi
nutive donkeys at the national guard
camps. Dogs were next in point of
popularity, while raccoons, cats, goats
and horned toads were adopted by
the guardsmen. As no provision was
made for the care of these pets, they
were fed from the extras allowed the
soldiers and slept wherever a warm
spot could be found in the shelter of
a tent house.
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WASHINGTON RELICS
TO GO UNDER HAMMER.
NEW YORK, April 18. — Direct de
scendants of George and Martha
Washington will put some of their
most prized heirlooms under the ham
mer at the Anderson galleries here
tomorrow.
Included in the collection is an un
known portrait of Washington’s moth
er, which will be held at a minimum
bid of $10,000. There also is an un
known portrait of Washington himself
which will be held at a minimum bid
of $5,000. Martha Washington’s wed
ding ring and other personal posses
sions of the Washington family will
be put on the block.
STYLES DIRECT
FROM SMART
CENTER
(Margaret Mason, United Press)
I'm much too tired to think or write.
Or make typewriters go;
And so I'm sure the spring is here—
It always makes me so.
NEW YORK, April 18. — All hall,
gentle spring! This Is the joyous sea
son of the year when the amorous
robins and the blue birds for hap
piness wake you at 6 a. m., as they
warble under the window sill. These
are the nights when you toss off the
extra counterpane and wake in the
morn with a cold in the head and an
extra counter pain in your chest.
These are'the happy days when the
Amalgamated Union of Janitors turns
off the steam heat prematurely and
you have to affect the cumbrous drap
eries of your eiderdown bathrobe on
top of your customary garments round
the frostbitten menage.
These are the pleasant meal times
when you struggle with the offspring
to get them to consume sufficient
quantities of rhubarb snuce, Bpinach,
dandelion greens and other healthful
first fruits of spring against which
their childish souls and tummies re
volt.
xjciiiK Dimpling ptJiuapo accuuuiH lur
their being “off” spring vegetables.
These are the intoxicating afternoons
when the shop windows get full of all
the fascinating grills and furbelows
and frivolities that go to female
heads. The little birds are on the
wing, and the little wings are on the
hat. If only the spring bonnets knew
how to use their many wings they
would certainly fly away a la the lit
tle birds. As it is, it is only their
prices that soar. Truly, fine feathers
make fine hats this spring, for almost
every turban, poke, mushroom, sailor
and stovepipe shape that isn't beaded
is a bristle with wings. Some of them
are both beaded and winged at that.
Hats aren’t the only things in the
shop windows that go to female heads,
however, as there are the stunning
Spanish back combs of tortoise shell,
amber, demi-amber and carved jet.
Wonderfully artistic and alluring they
are, and every woman is immediately
bitten with a desire to possess one
as soon as she tries their teeth in her
topknot.
Like Dutchmen's breeches, violet,
dogwood and all the spring flowers the
fashionable growths in the Bpring shop
windows are prone to have as ephe
meral an experience. They enjoy a
brief popularity and then vanish like
the crocus, to be glimpsed no more
this year.
I am wondering if the exuberant
new waistcoats of rainbow hued jer
sey silk are doomed to so fickle a
fling. Most amazingly colored are
they in broad Roman stripes of
orange, emerald green, purple, and
scarlet. They are stunning for wear
with the new sport coats of velvet that
are presaged as successors to the
ubiquitous sweaters.
I rather fear the existence of the
divers hued waistcoats will be fleet
ing. however, since all of their colors
are guaranteed fast. Speaking of bril
liant colors, we are due to have a per
fect riot of them on hands this spring
if we are to judge by the way the
glove fingers point. Talk about hand
painted; well our hands will certainly
look painted when they don the new
sport gloves. Their lower sides are
of wash kid in tho most hectic of
hues and their backs are of glove silk
in equally hectic matching tint or a
contrasting tone. They will look
hand painted if they don't look ns ir
something had dyed on our hands.
Royal palms may well be dubbed the
hands that are covered with royal
purple gloves with orange silk backs,
purple gloves with Orange silk backs
Verdant palms will be those of emer
ald green backed with Chinese bluq.
White gloves with black silk backs
and vice versa are especially smart in
these days when black and white is
such a winning combination, but the
bright colors run pretty close for
favor. When tho kid undcrpnrt of
the glove is in the same brilliant col
or as the silk back Instead of being a
contrast, the stiching on the back in
an off color relieves the monontony.
Just fancy a group of foreign born
charmers at the polo match, the golf
club or the racecourse indulging in
an animated conversation in which
hand gesticulation plays such an im
portant part. Thus gloved, their wav
ing palms are bound to have all the
colorful and shifting effect of a kale
dioscope.
A <
MAIL FOR LLOYD GEORGE
IS HANDLED PRONTO.
(By United Press)
LONDON, April 19.—“Queen Anne,
Micawber and Lloyd George" are the
labels on three piles of correspondence
on the desk of an official in the gov
ernment office. A minister who saw
them asked the meaning. Said the
official:
"Queen Anne letters are dead and
gone. Micawbers are waiting for
something to turn up, and the letters
labelled Lloyd George have to be at
tended to pronto or something will
happen.”
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W. E. TERRILL
FREIGHTER
Baggage and Freight Taken
over the Trail to Fairbanks.
TEAMS LEAVE CHITINA
FEBRUARY 5
MARCH 15
Baggage can be left at the
Chitina Hotel, Chitina, or Alas
kan Hotel, Cordova.
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Alaskan Grill
M. E. HOLBEN, Prop. . '
The Place To Eat
Everything In Season
Service The BEST
Boxes For Large Or Tray Service
Small Parties Our Specialty
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
320,817
Hava bean built and actually lay or disappointment In secur
dellverad to retail buyers alnca ing Ford cars. If, therefore, you
August 1, 1$16. are planning to purchase a Ford
_These figures — 320,817 _ re- car, we advise you to place your
presenT~the~aetuat~mrmber man* order end take delivery now.
ufactured by ua since Auguat 1, Immediate orders will have
1916, and delivered by our prompt attention,
agents to retail buyers. This un- Delay In buying at this time
usual fall and winter demand for may cause you to wait several
Ford cars makee It necessary months. Enter your order today
for us to confine the dletrlbu- for Immediate delivery with our
tlon of care only to those agenta authorized Ford agent listed be
who have orders for Immediate low and don’t be disappointed
delivery to retail customers, later on.
rather than to permit any agent
to stock cars In anticipation of PRICES F. O. B. VALDEZ,
later aprlng sales. ALASKA.
We are Issuing this notice to Runabout $460, Touring Car
Intending buyers that they may $475, Coupe-elet $620, Town Car
protect themselves against da- $716, Sedan $765.
Ford Motor Company
Owen E. Meals
VALDEZ, ALASKA.
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An Alaskan Product
Real Old German Lager
A Refreshing Drink
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The Valdez Brewing Co.
Under New Management
Patronize Home Industry
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On Tap In Every Saloon
| Alaskan Hotel I
;l;i THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
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THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
INALASKA
BAR AND BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION,
ijji Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
|i Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection |
ROBERT QOTTSCHALK Proprlteor* ART CLONINQER
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| CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
| Foos Gas Engines I
4 to 5C0 Horse Power
| General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
| Pelton Water Wheels |
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines |
| Harmon Machinery Co
if Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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| & a commercial account is a good business barometer. It «
fj automatically indicates whether you are going ahead or stand
in^ yon** business. Deposit all the money you receive
1>!,y ou< money by cheek only. At the end of the month a glance
j 'jk !!t y°»r ,mnk Statement will show your total receipts and ex
I 'J I»enditures during that month. In other words, it will show
j how much business you have done.
i k WE INVITE YOUR ACCOUNT.
1 The First Bank
1 Of Cordova
Territorial Depositary.
United States Depositary for Postal Savings Funds.
Commercial Department. Savings Department.
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Cordova Mill &
Lumber Company
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber.
We Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Company and
All Mail Orders Should be Addressed to Us.
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
E. A. HEGG
STATIONERY AND PHOTO SUPPLIES
Developing and Printing Phonographs
Views and Postcards t
. .-r,. . . Columbia Records
Art Pictures, Art Supplies . „ .
Picture Frames Sheet Music
Picture Framing Candies Always Fresh
Toilet Articles Cigars and Tobacco I
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.
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ALL THE LIGHT ON THE BOOK,
and none in the eyes Is what makes
the electric light so superior for night
reading. And its brilliancy bring* out
the type with the utmost distinctive
ness so that reading is accompanied
by no strain on the eyes whatever.
Have you electricity in your hom*T
Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.
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| Copper River &
1 Northwestern Ry. I
EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
|| Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chitina. i|
i|i; Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. i|
j| Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thun- §j
days and Saturdays. j|
|| Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and |i
§j Fridays. §
|| Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thun
days and Fridays. |
l;i; Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesday, |
H Thursdays and Saturdays. |
.;| The above schedule subject to change without notice. S
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peeeenger Train* ^
•a tween Cordova and Chitina. !|
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Freight received from. 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ;§
i| Tickets on sale nt Depot or up town office, Alaska i§
jj Steamship Company building s
I Caleb Corser W. E. Brown |
8 Superintendent Cordova Agent S