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Cordova Chapter, American Red
Cross, is one of the busiest organiza
tions in town and is accomplishing
a great deal of good work. Up to the
end of last month $3,278.92 had been
raised by memberships, donations, etc.
The treasurer's report for the period
eDding March 31 is as follows:
Receipts
Balance on hand March 1,1918 $2,647.87
Membership—
Sustaining.•. 10.00
Annual . 7.00
Four subscriptions to maga
zine .
Katalla Branch portion due
headquarters of 21 annual
members . 10.50
Received from Katalla branch 10.50
Received from Episcopal
Guild . 328.60
Radies’ Aid Society . 160.00
Donations . 43.30
Refund from headquarters... 8.00
Sale of knitting needles. 8.75
Tobacco fund . 2.15
$3,278.92
Expenses
Supplies from headquarters $ 706.11
Headquarters’ portion of mem
berships . 41.50
Endowment of bed. 600.00
Donations sent to headquarters 1,000.00
Refund to Episcopal Guild .. 328.60
Refund to Katalla branch ... 48.75
Express and freight. 36.57
Fnel . 19.50
Incidentals including oil cloth,
lumber, window pane, etc. 33.19
$2,814.22
Balance on hand March 31,1918 464.00
$3,278.92
Mrs. C. P. Mickelson, chairman of1
the Military Relief Committee, sub
mits the following report of accom
plishment for the past month:
Since the report given by Miss Ben
nett. March 8, there has been turned
into the chapter, the following knit
ted goods: Twenty-nine sweaters,
thirty-five pair socks, one pair bed
socks, three pair wristlets, and two
scarfs.
In the sewing department: Sixteen
muslin bed shirts, forty-three outing
flannel pajamas and nine pair outing
flannel bed socks.
On March 18 a shipment was made
on the Alameda to divisional head
quarters in Seattle, consisting of forty
one suits outing flannel pajamas,
fourteen muslin bed shirts, twenty
five knitted sweaters and four knitted
scarfs.
Finished garments on hand: Twelve
knitted sweaters, two knitted scarfs,
four pair knitted wristlets, thirty-five
pair socks, one pair knitted bed socks,
nine pair outing flannel bed socks,
two muslin bed shirts and twenty
three suits pajamas.
Garments in work: Eleven suits out
ing flannel pajamas, twenty-four pair
outing flannel operating leggings, and
two muslin bed shirts.
There is still a great deal of wool
out that is being knit into garments
and there has been some response to
the article published a few days since
calling for promptness in return of
work.
in the making of surgical dressings
more enthusiasm has been displayed.
Something like three thousand dress
ings have been made during the past
ten days, and had it not been for the
inclement weather, the work would
have gone far beyond our expectation.
A shipment of these dressings will
be made on the next steamer.
Three dollars and ninety-five cents
has been turned over to the secretary
for the sale of needles during the month
of March.
I hope to publish a report in the
near future of all the work turned out
by the women who are doing this
noble work that the people of Cor
dova may learn what the Cordova
Chapter of the Red Cross has done.
Mrs. Sophia Scott, secretary of the
Star of the East Auxiliary, reports
that the following articles were fin
ished during the month of March:
Fifteen flanelette pajamas, sixteen
knitted sweaters, seventeen pair knit
ted socks, nine pair flanelette bed
socks and one knitted scarf.
Kennecott Chapter
The membership this chapter is
three hundred and eighty-three and
there are thirty-two women knitting
who have already shipped thirty pairs
of socks, six sweaters and three pairs
wristlets.
The members of the executive com
mittee are: Miss Ware, chairman;
Mrs. J. Colwell, vice chairman; Mrs.
M. V. Rodovan, secretary; Mrs. Law
rence Eddy, treasurer.
The financial report since June,
1917, is as follows:
Subscription .$ 690.03
Social affairs . 924.23
Dues and contributions . 791.70
$2,406.01
Sent to National American
Red Cross .$1,200.00
Life memberships, December 225.00
N. W. Division, February. 650.00
Wool and express . 163.00
Buttons, telegram, etc. 26.1
Cash on hand. 141.09
$2,406.01
McCarthy Chapter
The present membership of the
chapter is three hundred and seven
teen of which fourteen are life mem
bers. Postcard membership receipts
are being mailed to every ’ member.
The knitting branch is now work
ing industriously and many new knit
ters are learning—meeting at various
homes until they become proficient.
The financial report since Novem
ber, 1917:
Subscriptions .$ 849.00
Christmas drive . 382.00
Three new memberships_ 3.00
Thanksgiving dinner . 206.60
Christmas packet fund . 51.00
December card party . 15.25
Children’s fund . 6.10
January card party . 40.60
Sleighing party . 24.00
Washington entertainment .. 45.00
Pillow raffle . 110.60
Auction of pillow . 30.00
Bren wick raffle . 29.. 5
K. Kennedy raffle . 115.06
Mother Lode employees’ don
ation . 181.00
Extra donations . 5.80,
$2,094.26 j
Remittance to Seattle .$ 185.00 j
Remittance to Seattle . 850.00
Expense dinner, telegrams,
etc . 74.30
Index files and cards. 2.50
Printing . 5.25
Wool and freight . 64.81
Remittance to Seattle . 501.90
Cash on hand . 410.50
$2,094.26
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Uncle Sam in his work for the peo
ple does not stop when he reaches
the comfort zone where temperature
conditions are pleasant. The bureau
of mines, department of the interior,
maintains an experiment station at
Fairbanks, Alaska, the object of which
is to assist the prospector to deter
mine whether his ore is of value or
not, and likewise to assist in the gen
eral development of the mineral re
sources of the country. A report from
John A. Davis, superintendent of the
station, which has just reached the
bureau of mines, having traveled a
part of the distance on dogsleds,
makes the statement that the official
temperature for the month of Decem
ber, 1917, was 401-2 degrees below
zero. There were fifteen nights when
the minimum was below 50 degrees,
and there were five days when the
maximum was not above 40 degrees
below zero, even at noon.
I In spite of this, Mr. Davis reports
that one hundred and ten mineral
specimens were submitted by prospec
tors and others, and that seventy-five
persons actually visited the station
during the month. Free gold was
found in five specimens, tin in one,
and copper in seven, all being poss
| ible commercial ores. In addition,
I iron, asbestos, arsenic, antimony and
zinc were found in commercial quan
tities in other specimens. Mr. Davis,
who made two trips on dogsleds to
mines in his territory, declares that
the work for the month was “some
what delayed by the extremely cold
weather.”
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Pood will win the war—produce it.
Do you know that the El Roi Tan
Cigar is the largest-selling high-grade
cigar in the United States?
FISH OF ALL KINDS
HALIBUT, CODFISH and
RED SNAPPER
Ice Box for Perishables. Big Stock
Always on Hand
CORDOVA FRUIT MARKET
' VOLUNTEERS ENROLLING TO BUILD AMERICAN SHIPS
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This is but a small batch of the men who are daily enrolling to build ships to beat the kaiser. All the men
volunteering for this work are enrolled In the United States shipyard volunteers of the public service reserve. To
each one of them will be given a certificate signed by Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping
board, to testify to the volunteer’s patriotism. * «
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The Minimum of the
Third Liberty Loan
is $3,000,000,000
The Maximum is Unlimited
This is an Opportunity to supply the Govern
ment with so much money that the next
Liberty Loan will be thrust far
into the future
Cordova has over-subscribed its quota. 1
Let us “All Do Our All” and let I
Cordova and vicinity lead
Alaska in the amount
subscribed
The First Bank of
Cordova f
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Until Further Notice
CHANGE WATER SERVICE
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On Wednesday, April 10, water will
be turned on between 7 and 8 o’clock
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in the morning and between 4 and 5
o’clock in the afternoon. On Thurs
day if conditions do not improve water
will be turned on one hour each day,
from 4 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
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Also remember: A man on the spot with a
bucket of water at the outbreak of a fire
Hi m
is worth more than an auto pumping engine of
:
1,000 gallons per minute capacity a half hour
later. So fill your pails and tubs.
Cordova Power
1 Company
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