The Cordova Daily Times
GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS.
H. G. STEEL. C. H. WILCOX, C. H. SCHEFFLER, Publlahera
H. G. STEEL, Editor and Manager
C. H. WILCOX, City Editor.
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('OKIH)VA, ALASKA, MnXDAY, FKRRLARY 15, 1915.
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LET THERE BE A STRONG
PULL AHEAD ALL TOGETHER
THBRB can be no real town without a community inter
est, and Cordova would do well to pattern after tin* ex
ample set by Seattle in this particular. On this subject
the Commercial Club Bulletin says:
“A community spirit is the most desirable factor of pros
perous, contented towns.
“While factories may exist in great number, while a city
may have thousands of people living in good homes, unless
there is a unified interest between the inhabitants, unless each
individual feels that all are interested in him and' he in all
others—that the institutions are his to share and to rejoice in—
there can be no real town. *
“The city or town was never made great where a majority
of the inhabitants were pulling in opposite directions; no com
munity ever became a fit place in which to live where each cit
izen did not do his part toward the common good.
“For schools to be properly conducted the parents must co
operate to secure good discipline and manliness among their
children.
“For the genuine growth and development of a community
spirit no man or woman can shirk his duty, however small.
“Let there be a pull all together in the right direction, in
order that the great result, material and moral, may bo attained.
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The shipping bill is in deep water with the sea valves
open.
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Villa has declared himself dictator of Mexico, and his fin
ish is in plain sight.
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The little game of municipal polities being played by the
Alaskan, by attacking all not in accord with the majority of the
present council, in the hope of creating a boom for these in
competents, may result in a boomerang.
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“This is not a world of individual achievement and' ex
ploitation of personal prowess,” says the business philosopher.
Co-operation is the keynote of success in every line of en
deavor, and the individual must learn that lesson or go down to
ultimate defeat before the irresistable force of immutable laws.
Our duties extend beyond our own narraw lives to those of
our fellow men on every side.”
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SPEAKING OF AERIAL RAIDS
BRINGS FORTH OTHER HISTORIC BATTLES
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; ECENT raids on England by German aeroplanes is re
-.T\ ,nin<lil.^r t.*lp historians of another phenomenal battle in
.§§-! t,le skies in 1642 in Northhamtonshire two months after
ffjjftlSPk111116 Kdgehill, between the royal and parliamentary
fOjrces. Just after midnight 272 years ago “there was heard
by Some of the shepherds and travelers the noise of soldiers giv
mg out their last groans, at which they were much amazed.
Then appeared m the air these incorporeal soldiers that made
hese clamors, with ensigns displayed, drums beating, mus
kets going off, cannons discharged.” This, according to a
pamphlet printed at the time by investigators sent by the king
to report on this unusual incident. For about three hours
said this pamphlet, the dreadful fight on high continued, “the
clattering of arms, noise of cannons, cries of soldiers so amaz
ing and terrifying the poor men that they could not believe thev
were mortal or give credit to their eyes and ears.”
The king’s investigators reported the celestial phenome
non to be a reproduction of the bloody fight above referred to
this chronicle, describing the fear of the shepherds arnffarm
pnntiTmnQ*
e ^UI- VVny < u'-v ^urs* not> ^>r f°ar of being made a prey
of these infernal soldiers; and so they, with much fear and
alright, stayed to behold the success of the business. When
the uproar ceased, the poor men, glad they were gone, made
all haste to Kemton and there knocking up Mr. Wood, a jus
tice of the peace, who called up his neighbor, Mr Marsh#] the
minister, they gave them an account of the whole passage’and
averred it upon their oaths to be true.
“ Suspending their judgment until the next night about the
same hour, they, with the same men, and all the substantial men
ot that and the neighboring parishes, drew thither; where
about half an hour after their arrival, on Sumlav, being Christ’
mas night, appeared in the same tumultuous, warlike manner,
the same two adverse armies, fighting with as much spite and
spleen as formerly. The next night they appeared not, nor all
that, week.* ***** But on the ensuing Saturday night, in
tho same place and at the same hour, they were again seen with
far greater tumult, fighting in the same manner as above men
tioned for four hours, or very near, and then vanished; appear
ing again on Sunday night and performing the same acts of
hostility and bloodshed. * * * * Successively the next Satur
day and Sunday the same tumult and prodigious sights and
actions were observed.
“The rumor whereof, coming to his majesty at Oxford he
immediately dispatched thither Col. Lewis Kirke, Capt. l)’ud
,ey> Ca.pt. W aithman and three other gentlemen of credit, to
take full view and notice of the said business; who, first hear
ing the relation of Mr. Marshal and others, stayed there until
Saturday night following, wherein they saw and heard the
fore-mentioned prodigies, and so on Sunday, distinctly know
ing divers of the apparitions by their faces, as that of Sir
Edmund Varney and others that were slain; of which, upon
oath, they made testimony to his majesty.”
It is the duty of every resident to see that their name is on
(lie registration books.
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Our “near-great” always seeks cover when any reference
is made to its telegraphic service—most of which is received bv
mail.
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The childish glee with which our “near great” contempo
rary hopes to fool the public by insinuating that the Daily
Times is to be short-lived is very amusing, when as a matter of
fact never before in the* history ot Cordova has a paper received
the patronage of practically all of the people, such as the Times
now enjoys. No subsidy is wanted or received, neither are we
the official organ of a few disgruntled politicians, as is the case
with the Alaskan. The entire community is giving the Times
very liberal support, thank you, and in return we are endeavor
ing to give the people tin* very best newspaper possible.
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In reference to the deserving unemployed the local Social
ists believe that the municipality should furnish work for
these men in order to tide them over until labor conditions
improve in Alaska. This is being done in many cities through
out the states and one of the strong arguments used at Wash
ington for the beginning of actual construction this spring on
the government railroad is that it would relieve the labor sit
nation in Alaska. It has also been suggested that the Cor
dova Park Association might got together and if climatic con
ditions permit start a force of men at work preparing the
ground's for the baseball season.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON'
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
ROBERT E. CAPERS
Attorney at Law
General Civil Practice
Suite 3, Adams Block
CORDOVA, .... ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at I aw
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
V. A. SCHMITZ
PRACTICAL OPTICIAN
Office at
CORNER DRUG STORE
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LUMBER CO.
Still In Business and Carry
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DESCRIPTIONS
And Building Material
Prices Made on Orders for
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THE MODERN LflUNORY1
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© A L A S K A
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodloua steamer* sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward via
INSIDE PASSAQt.
Sails frcm Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
February 1.... ALAMEDA .. February 8
February 8 . MARIPOSA.February 15
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdez and Latouche. Explos
ives. 8. 8. Seward. S. 8. Seward, 5th; 8. 8. Latouche, 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not b<* received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, February 5, Through to Kodiak.
ADMIRAL EVANS, February 15
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA I RANSFER CO., Local Agents
; Copper River &
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Northwestern Ry.
; EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 24, 1914. ! -
Trains leave Cordova, depot at foot of Second Ave- 11
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; Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays ' >
; Chitina for Kennecott— ;;
; Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. ■ ■
Kennecott for Chitina— 11
; Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays.
; Chitina for Cordova— > ’
Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays ;;
I lu> above schedule subject to change without notice. ;;
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Pickets on sale at Depot or up town office, Alaska ■’
Steamship Company building I|
: Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
Superintendent Cordova Agenl 11
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Cordova, Alaska,
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee Sc St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
OR
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AND POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.