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ANCHORAGE, Aug. 4.—(Special to
Daily Times).—You will be officially
advised today of acceptance of base
ball challenge, together with guaran
tee and tentative arrangements. Set
games starting August 15. Also bring
gun club of at least five members. Try
and arrange steamship excursion
rates, leaving Cordova on the Alaska
and returning on the Alameda August
19. Make this a gala occasion. Bring
your spare change; also footracers,
boxers and participants in other
sports. E. T. BEDDELL.
Dr. Council requests that all ball
players in town report at the park
every evening that the weather is
favorable in order that the strongest
possible nine can be selected to make
the trip to the westward.
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ANIMALS DAMAGE
NEW JERSEY FARMS
BELVIDERE, N. J., Aug. 4.—Deer,
foxes, raccoons and rabbits are creat
ing havoc among the truck farms in
the vicinity of Oxford township. Mrs.
Margaret Vallershamp, complaining to
the animals, says that four deer are
destroying her fruit and vegetables.
Other animals are doing considerable
damage to her truck patch and nearby
farms.
Snakes are numerous. A five-foot
black reptile was killed this week.
Mrs. Vallershamp will appeal to the
game warden for relief from the dep
redations.
JOHN MERCER SOUGHT
BY SISTER IN CHICAGO
ABERDEEN, Wash.. Aug 4.—John
Mercer, who was last heard of almost
a year ago in Aberdeen, is being
sought by his sister, Harriett E. Mer
cer, 315 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.
The sister does not expect to hear
from him living, as she is sure he
would have written if he were alive.
TEACHER SHORTAGE i
IN OREGON SCHOOLS '
ALBANY. Ore., Aug. 4.—A great
scarcity of teachers in Linn county
during the coming school year is in
prospect. Mrs. Ida M. Cummings,
county school superintendent, fears
that unless applications are received
more rapidly than they have been
many schools will be without teach
ers this year.
GERMANS TO 7 UP
MINING DISTRICT IF
INVADED BY FRENCH
BERLIN, Aug. 4.—A widespread plot
between capitalists and labor leaders
in the Ruhr district to hinder produc
tion in that great mining district in
the event that the French should in
vade it, is exposed by the Deutsche
Zeitung. The plot is said to include
an agreement by which the miners
would refuse to work overtime while
the mine owners were to pay the ex
penses of thousands of miners who
were to emigrate from the Ruhr dis
trict.
MUST MARRY THE GIRL
OR QUIT HANGING ROUND
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4.—Judge
Rossman gave Charles H. Rowe a
week to make up his mind 'whether
| he would marry pretty Mrs. Mabel
j Parker. In case he decided not to
marry her, the judge told him he must
make up his mind to leave her en
tirely alone.
Rowe was arrested on complaint of
the girl’s mother, Mrs. May Parks,
who declared he was without visible
means of support and charged him
with vagrancy. She declared that hei
daughter -was giving him money from
her wages earned working in a pickle
terfactorv.
Mrs. Parks also declared her daugh
ter, dressed only in a nightie, had
entertained Rowe on one occassion be
neath a peach tree in the back yard.
She said Rowe was continually hang
ing around.
Cordova Jazz Orchestra Dance at
Eagle Hall on Wednesday and Satur
day nights. Music by the Ragtime
Trio.
CENTRALIA, Wash Aug. 4.—Word
has been received from Washington,
D. C., that the United States Public
health service has designated Cen
tralia as a hospital center for south
west Washington, for the purpose of
furnishing medical . and surgical
treatment to ex-service men under
the war risk insurance act.
Dr. David Livingstone has been ap
pointed assistant surgeon of the
United States Public Health Service
and the Lee A. Scarce hospital has
been designated as a public health
hospital, where disabled ex-service
men and women can obtain medical
and surgical treatment.
Heretofore ex-service men with dis
abilities have had to go to the marine
hospital at Port Townsend or to Seat
tle, if they wished treatment at gov
ernment expense.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
The steamship Northwestern is due
from Seattle at 9:30 o’clock tonight.
The next train for Chitina and
Kennecott will leave on Friday morn
ing.
Mrs. Sophia Scott has moved into
an apartment over the Blum, O’Neill
Co. store.
' The steamer Admiral Watson is
billed to arrive here from the south
on Friday.
Gus Gelles, representing the Na
tional Grocery Company, wires the
Times that he will leave Juneau on
the steamship Alaska and expects to
be in Cordova next Tuesday
MASONIC MEETING
Stated communication of Mt. Mc
Kinley lodge, No. 183, F. & A. M., on
Thursday evening, Aug. 5 at 8:30
o’clock. Visiting brothers welcome.
J. H. SELLEN, W. M.
W. E. BROWN, Sec.
Best coffee In town served at the
City Bakery.
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