IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM For Our Immense
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We Will Make a Special Reduction of From
15 to 25 Per Cent Off!
ON OUR READY-TO-WEAR
SUITS COATS
HATS SWE A7ER3
WAISTS SHOES
AFTERNOON and EVENING PRES'ES • i
SKATING SETS ' •
You Get a ticket free for the Christmas prizes with
every $5,00' worth of merchandise. Merchandise or
| ders now for sale. If in doubt w hat to give for Christ
mas, present your Friends with one of these mer
chandise orders
j Cordova Style Shop j
| “Courtesy and Quality” Our Motto
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SACIiAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 28.—Ai
chitects throughout the United State
•'have been invited by the Californi
state building commission to partic
pate in the competition lor the dc
signing and building of the two ne\
state buildings to be constructed her
at an approximate cost of $3,000,00<
Bonds have been voted and rhe sit.
for the two structures has been don
1 ' atcd to the state by the city of Sacra
J mento.
Programs outlining the rules of the
competition will be distributed booom
j ber 15 1917. Each architect must
1 make his own selection* of mater
ials to be used and recommend, the
landscape treatment for the site,
which is opposite the eapitol.
- • An office building and library and
3 courts building are to be constructed.
i | The jury of awards will be com
- j posed of tlic governor, chief justii'%
- j of the state supreme court, the stab
; librarian and three architects to be
3 j selected. Eight sets of plans will be
.; selected from the whole number sub
- mitted and from these will be chosen
[ the plans which finally will be adopt
! er. An honorarium of $11100 will ,be
[ paid- to each of the seven unsuccess
ful^ candidates in the final competi
tion.
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In a wire recently received at Fair
banks came the news that Ben Brom
berg had fallen down a shaft 50 feet
deep and required Immediate medi
cal aid. A machine whs secured at
once and left for the scene of the ac
cident.
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George W. Palmer, the ivnik tiler
chant, will engage ir the fish busi
ness at Snug harbor.
Advertise in tin* Times
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28.—Court
martfals, of which more or less will
be heard while the nation Is at war.
j were descrihed here today by an army
| official as the army’s way of seeing
j that the soldier gets a square deal.
They are trials with all legal red tape
; left out and every opportunity is giv
en the defendant to put in any sort of
evidence he think? will better his
case. They take inti, consideration
I every aspect of a < .Je, 1 ways with
the view of .o(rtting i j rights of
the enlisted mar..
1 The court ; composed of from five
to thirteen . oni missioned officers of
no sp cifi .d rank. It is headed by a
president. Tin members of the court
■ar their mie arms and service uni-j
.us. The hearings are usually open
u .he public.
'i ^ court is intended to be an ab
L • to any unjust penalization
. men Ly Superior officers. If a
n denies n offense of which he is j
accused ' y hi? company commander, I
liie comm- 'deb may not arbitrarily
punish ike man, but must leave it to
the court. No man can be sent to the
guard house, or deprived of his pay,
without action of the court. The sev
erest penalties that can be inflicted
on him Cor an offense which he ad
mits. and which is not grave enough
for court action, are kitchen police,
added fatigue and confinement to
| post. #
There is no appeal from «the final
verdict of the court after that ver
dict has been approved by the com
manding general.*. The accused may
ask for clemency, from the commaivd
ing general, the judge advocate gen
eral, the secretary of the war or even
the president, but a case is never re
viewed.
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During the months (ho bar
bers of Fairbanks will not open up
until nine o’clock in the morning.
The rule is now in eife^t.
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Advertise in the Times.
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£ Vi
I Alaskan Hotel !
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ROBERT GOTTSCHALK—Proprietors—ART CLONINGER
“The House of Comfort.” £:
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL IN
I ALASKA
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| Bar and Barber Simp in Connection.
| Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells,
Electric Lights, Steam Heat, Suites
| With Bath'.
CORDOVA . ALASKA |
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jl Carter & Bogart
PAINTERS AND PAPERHANGERS
Estimates Furnished. Phone 75
An 1 p-to-date Line of Wallpaper and Glass. j
SIGN WRITING
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Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
LONG AND SHORT MILL WOOD FOR SALE
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough aud
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber
W e Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Company and
All Mail Orders Should be Addressed to Us.
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
I romptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
Aunty
Keating’s
Opposite city Bakery.
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J 5 ■; ‘ a r> >* K H S ’ ) 9U be the loser if you
. r’ - fc. S\ O , faii tQ write to U3. We charge
no ec.m mission; wcrem.it you day your shipment is
r w. v We help the trapper make money. A trial
’ r .’.t^i 11 convince you that wo pay the highest
; r:. iforftiff. Write today for free trappers guide,
* cal., .or: of supplies and price list.
:>or ..veslera Hide & Fur Co.
MuinennoUs, Minnesota *..
A large variety of apples, $2.25
a box at the Blum, O'Neill store.
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_ ATTENTION
The Cordova Volunteer
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Are To Give Their Annual
I M asq ii erade Bal 1
ON NEW YEARS EVE
7 r>e CORDOVA DANCE ORCHESTRA Consisting of FIVE
of The Best musicans on The Coast Will
Produce 7 he Music
REMEMBER
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7 his is to be the greatest MASQUERADE BALL
ever given in Cordova
SAVE YOUR COSTUME
for this GREAT EVENT and win a PRIZE worth working for
which have been generously donated by Merchants of Cordova
BEAR IN MIND
THAT This MASQUERADE is for the benefit of ‘he
CORDOVA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
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• THE RAG TIME TRIO HAS FOSTFONED THEIR BIG MASQUERADE ON
Account of the Above Event and have kindly donated their Services for the
First half of the Evening. Save your costumes for the Big New Year’s Ball
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