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PATHE INTRODUCTORY PICTURE
CARTOON—“HOOLIGAN”
Everybody’s Favorite
HAROLD LOCKWOOD
IN THE EIGHT-ACT METRO WONDERPLAY
“UNDER HANDICAP’
A real Western play, full of pep, and showing the working
of gigantic reclamation projects, and the wrestling of the
great gifts from Nature.
TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP. ADMISSION 30c and 10c
NORTHERN LIGHTS
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Now, listen here, you Northern
Rights—why <lo you tinker round of
nights and tantalize us with your
glare? What are you doing 'way up
there, where nothing lives but bears
and seals, where ocean's depth in tee
congeals? Why don't you put a feller
wise to why you haunt the polar
skies?
Why don’t you tell us. Northern
Rights, what fairy scenes and won
drous sights you see when daracing to
and fro above the trackless polar
snow, where man has never forced
his way- with what strange children
do you play of nights when all ttie
air is still and endless winter spreads
its cliil?
You can not be a lifeless tiling, the
you signal u . by Jins! with col
or: such as never man 1ms equaled
since tie- world begun. bat mes
sage would you bring to pur pool
mortal: who with fret and fit s en
due lie- darkness and tin cold in
<11 • : of -mads of virgin gold? Or do
you strive to entertain the tenderfoot
and ease bis pain at thoughts of other
lights Outside, and lure him into
spaces wide to come beneath 'ri
tie spell, which man can’t break in
spite of, well at any rate, I think 1
see what word you would impart to
me, and this is it: "You spendthrift
poet, you'd better buy an overcoat!'
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FOR SALE—Hawaiian guitar and a
spring, (’all Room 2. Old Hospital,
between fi and S o'clock p. m.
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Time'-’ telegraphic nows is reliable.
METHODIST PREACHERS
TO TRAIN THE FARMER
NKW YORK. Dec. f>. To help mak
farming profitable and rural lift* ondu
able for the farmer, his wife, his son
and daughters, the Methodist Kpiscc
pal church has undertaken to spoil
$5,500,000 in training rural minister
to teach scientific farming and dcvelo
social activity in country districts. Th
purpose as announced by the* Hoard <
Home Missions and Church Kxtensio
is to keep the farmers on the farm
and thus help win the war.
Dissatisfaction with country life-,
is declared, has caused a decrease <
rural population in Ohio. Indiana. Mi
souri. Iowa. Vermont and New Ham
shire The bny and girl will nc
sta> on the farm when high wages ai
in Im* earned nearer the moving pi
turn theatres.
To combat this tie* Methndi
. l.i !*c b i - plannim- to send man\ «
it-' be - r mi'ii to the country diurche
^>f which if has upward of 111.on
Rural pastors are to have- special trai
lug in agriculture1 se> as to help fan
- r . ith aelvice Demonstration farn
are* to be- established where* agrici;
tural colleges do not meet the* need
Associations of rural ministers i
put these* plans Into effect alreac
h ive* b**c*n started in Ohio. West VI
ginia. Iowa, South Dakota. Rennsj
var.ia and Nebraska. Chairs of Rur
Sociology to teach how to be* hapj
though living on a farm have* be<
< stablishe*d in thc*olc»gical seminarf
and plans are* in the* making to sta
similar course's in colleges.
HAPPENINGS
ABOUT TOWN
A. Wilson of Flat is a Cordova vIh
ltor.
The launch Ascension is in port with
a cargo of crude oil
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The steamer Northwestern is due
from the south late Sunday night.
(leorge A Mosser is hobbling about
on a crutch as a result of having run
a nail in his foot
Agent F. II. Tracy Is having the in
terior of the Alaska Steamship com
pany building renovated
Miss Freidenherg is a recent arrival
in town from the States, and will
likely remain here and engage in pah
lie stenography.
The employees on the ocean dock
came uptown today, the quarantine
ban having been lifted until the ar
rival of the next steamer.
The launch Waif, which started for
Katalla Wednesday, was compelled to
return to Cordova yesterday after
r noon on account of the rough weather
» at sea.
The train which left here yesterday
x morning went through to Kennecott
) and will not return until tomorrow
afternoon, bringing down a string of
p cars loaded with copper ore.
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s | Harold Lockwood in the rollicking
,. | eight-reel drama. "Cnder Handicap."
I j will lie played tonight for tile last
s i time at the Km press theater. Tomor
pi row evening the last of tlie Helen
,. i Holmes "Railroad Raiders" will be
f! shown. tin Sunday we have Hilly
ii I Burke in "The Mysterious Mrs.
;
s j Terry." it rich comedv-drama, also it
I I learst-l'athe News.
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| KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, NOTICE
titi .Monil.iv evening. 1 >e< ember
)
Hie;'- will he an important business
meeting of Hu- Knights of Pythias
lodge, anil all members ar. requested
to attend. H \. HSU MON. M of A.
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' buying all your Christmas gifts. b "t
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s >. • the Sanitary Candy Kitchen.
1 fresh-roasted peanuts, popcorn, pen
nut brittle and salted peanuts made
_ fresh every day.
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Co % 25-tf
MOTOR TRUCKS
USED IN RURAL
MAIL ROUTES
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trucks damaged or ruined over on the
other Hide ” said Mr. Blakeslee telling
of the growth of the system. l don't
care what condition they are in. We
want them all, and can fix up and put
every one of them to work. What's
even more important, he's got some
hoys over there shv a hand, or an arm,
or a leg. and we can use them all. too.
in good work at good pay. that they
can do. Congress gav* us $:;•)(),turn to
work with, and it wo had the earn
ings of the lines themselves, we could
expand almost indefinitely. As it is,
$'.),uoo,<iuu will he requested by the
division for next year, and 1 think it
will be appropriated People realize
what we are doing.
"Operating at night is the most pro
fitable. and we have but two machines
doing that, out of New York. The typ
ical route is about ISO miles long. !»o
miles out. and 1H) miles back.
' Almost always the constant opera
tion of the lines produces a return
load, tin* universal character of the
mail service allowing almost anything
to be taken. The mail trucks go. come
rain, storm, or anything, and so the
traffic develops. Kates are also pretty
high, the lowest being about $2n a ton.
That is what makes the surplus in
revenues.
"Of course, we'll have to have con
Crete roads, hut the business can pro
duce the money to build them There
are some economies in distribution
of produce that are simply amazing.
If has add' d an entirely new factor
to truii-contincntal transportation, and
we shall just begin finding it out when
more extensive operation goes into ef
feet during tin* next two years "
Just why Mr. Blakeslee sees it that
way can be understood from just one
commodity price list. Milk retails
in Washington at IT (cuts a quart.
Milk i coinin'.', in on mail trucks direct
in coiisuc.er mr 1" - «-nt - a quart
saturaily tin* tian are being weighed
do.-.n with 11v. gallon can,' a roiisiiMi
. i- .u a id t;. p . ibilit y Tin- tr.u !.
tap -mil, | i . 1 u« mg territory that li• -
o it>id.* tin* u m:i! hauling lim ai d -d!
<h rail art rh
V." < d the mads < one- 1 nun t * *
run ’» iM-n truck- In a - k • " W »- II.
t In n ai" in'. in rural mail and star
routes being operated in tin 1 uited
States now Sometimes l think every
one of them would make a truck line
Food is being handled ten times on
its way to a consumer. We can cut
that to five.
"Watching these figures, since i>e
comber, when we started, has given
me a new sort of inspiration We
shall be moving the mails and mails
will include a whole unexpected var
iety of things in new modes before
the generation finishes Airplanes fot
the thousand mile distances, trains for
tiie fun) mih-. and trucks for the 2 •'»
That's about tlie schedule ”
WILL MEASURE
WATER IN THE
SNOW FIELDS
SACHA.MKNTO. ( ill . Dec. t> The |
water content of ii numher of snow-,
fields in tin Sierra Nevada mountains j
will lie measured this winter under
the superivsion of the California state j
engineering department To do this
the state has obtained virtually all of
the seeintilie apparatus available In
the lTilled States for such observa
lions It is the first time such work;
has been attempted in the public in i
iterest. aeeording to Major IV M Nor J
j line, assistant state engineer.
Some of the information gained it is j
expected, will be of Value to tile fed I
i
| eral government when it prepares to
! lay out a transcontinental aerial route
The object of the work is twofold
) The information will lie used to warn
; the people in the valleys of California
| and Nevada of the possibility of Hoods
jin the spring when the snow begins
to melt and to determine whether or
j not there is danger of a drought in the
} summer season, anti that irrigators
may be warned of the need of con
serving water
The information will also be avail
able to guide managers of reservoirs
in choosing times to use them to shut
off the peaks of freshets, or when to
store water to guard against drought
After each heavy storm in the moun
| tains this winter the engineer depart
| ment's men will go forth, armed with
"samplers" and other scientific appar
atus and equipped as for Arctic ex
peditions. They will travel on snow
shoes and will carry their own pro
visions and sleeping bags To make t
1 the measurements needed, each work- j
j er will take sections from the snow
; fields tit numerous points with his
sampler. With this instrument it is
possible to obtain portions of snow
from each layer of the winter's fall.
The samples will he weighed to as
certain the water content
The figures brought back by the ob
servers. with other data, will enable
li • t.1 ?• * t.i aiiiiiiuinv lui'A much watei
d;i\ I i* - *• \|t11-il from ?h• miowIm-M
n th»* spring
other information tn b* r. • 11 h * - • t
\ ill |*ro\ 111.• ;i a an ilrat1 ■ • imat
In- prol ..1 !• amount «-i watei th-- m>i‘.
-.ill pour into tin- heu»iwafef> o' \:
on . r i . am- t** b. < arm- i -low n into
In* valh-y -
Much of this information will •••■ -•!•
aimd from thr*meteorgruph*. said
o i. the only lik* instruments a\.ii!
ible lor public use in the Cnited
Mat* s These will furnish daily eon
inuou - records of the temperature
mrometric pressure, humidify. pr*-< ip
tation and velocity and direction of
In- winds It i> th**ir r**eords which
ire expected to aid in mapping tin
lerial rout**
ol- ervatioio are to 1».* made in tin
mow holds at tin* headwaters of the
South Yulia. American. Mokeluinm
md Tuolumne rivers on the California
•dopes of the mountains, and m those
reeding tin- Truche**. Carson and Wal
.«••• rivers on the Nevada side oi th*
range
Th*- federal government and th*
Atat*- of Nevada will co-operate in tin
>bs*-rvations. Major Norboe said.
"Th** valu«* of these observations,
was demonstrated this year by Pro
fessor .1 K Church of th** Cniv.-rsity
>f Nevada, who has collected an im
mense amount of data.” Major Norboe
said "With this data Professor
Church, who is a pioneer in the work,
was able to forecast a drought along
the Walk**** river in Nevada this year
This prognostication was verified
As soon as more instruments are
available, probably after the war is
final!) ended, the observations v\il! be
extended to the snowfields in all th**
mountains of California Major Nor
lute predicted similar methods would
be adopted throughout the world in
years to conn*
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ApplestafT. most delicious non-alco
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Numerous Styles and a Full Line of Folders to Choose From.
■ WE HAVE ADDED A LINE OF
I MECHANICAL TOYS
■ for the Holidays
■ A Sensible Gift for the Kiddies at Prices that Are Right.
H| We Also Carry in Stock a Variety of
I Delicious Christmas Candies
“Bring Her Home a Box for Christmas"
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What Will You Give Him
for Christmas?
THERE’S one thing that is certain; it will he a use
ful gift; something that he'needs and would have to
buy if you didn’t give it to him. Nobody wants to
be wasteful this year.
Here at this store we have only the things men and
young men need and want and we’ll be glad to show you.
Here are a few suggestions; »
Hosiery Underwear
Shoes Gloves
Belts Neckwear
Collars Sweaters
Shirts Pajamas
The most substantial, useful gift a man could receive
for Christmas is a Hart, Schaffner & Marx suit or over
cqat; they are economical because they can be depended
on to wear a long time.
Blum-O’Neill Go.
The Home of Hart, Schaffner & Marx Clothes Hm* 6cMh» »Min
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