The Cordova Daily Times\\
Entered at the Postofflce at Cordova, Alaska, us second clans matter.
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H. G. STEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, At LI ST 22, 1H17. -
WANTED, A REAL COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION
The Creel committee of public information is about to kick
the bucket, siiy Washington dispatches. Weir, let it go. It is
a good riddance. It’s one attempt to.do other than establish a
crude sort of censorship was a fiasco.
With it gone let us turn to the organization of a really use
fill committee on public information, a committee that v\ i 11 es
tablish a system of getting word back to the folks at home from
the boys at the front. We want a committee that will encour
age the boys to write all the little intimate details of tiieir every
day life, and then will follow such letters from the front to Ta
coma, or Seattle, or l’odunk, to wherever mother and father and
sister and brother are waiting for some wold from the boy.
Of course such letters will have to be censored, and cen
sored very closely to make sure that either wittingly or unwit
tingly the information they contain may not give aid to the
enemy. That is ,ju'«t what we want that new committee1 on pub
lic information for. We want it to see that the letters get to the
censor, so that they are given the consideration which their im
portance demands, and then see that they get across the ocean
and to the homes. Censors so often figure that it is easier 1o
throw a letter into the fire than read it. Burned, they knov
it can do no harm. That is true enough, and if the letters were,
as they no doubt figure, of no importance anyway, just a note
about a sore toe, an aching tooth, a baseball game or some other
camp triviality, it would be a foolish waste of time to bother
with reading them. But that is not true. In the aggregate
such letters are all important. It is them, the spirit that they
breathe across the ocean into the American home that will give
us all a chance to fight and make absolutely certain an unboun
ded support of the government for which they have gone across
seas and are fighting.
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GERMAN CUNNING SEEN
The manner in which a few conscienceless leaders have
worked on the credulity of the ignorant Oklahoma tenant class,
who are now in arms against the draft, indicates strongly Ger
man cunning. First, these poor people were made to believe
that draft in the army meant certain death; then there was im
planted in their minds dreams of conquest, riches and power
that would come with their revolting against the government.
The only thing like it in absurdity was that dream of a
black republic which German agents attempted to implant in
the minds of the ignorant negroes of the south, or that dream
of the conquest of Texas by Mexico if Mexico would fall for the
Zimmerman plot.
Cunning, such machinations, but utterly futile. It is a sort
of war heckling that contributes considerably to the news re
ports of the day, but has no other effect, and W ill not in the
least impede our war plans.
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Says the Boston Transcript, it is not “a little group of wil
ful men,” but rather ‘‘a group of wilful little men.” However,
that doesn’t feaze the ‘‘little men.” They are still on the job
in the senate and something must be done about it immediately
—if not sooner.
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Like as not after Clark Griffith gets to France with his
baseball teams for the behind-the-trenehes series the censor
will step in and it may be a year or two before we learn about
the winners and the scores.
Tk.« * ay to l urhl is to fi.trl.f—not talk about it- ,,s is shown
,y recpot events in Russia. If only that could be I>()Un.led into
i few nenatonal cramums.
The true solace for all private troubles is to lose yourself in
our own work.
A soldier can’t carry « rifle and a soap box, too
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Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
LONG AND SHORT MILL WOOD FOR SALK
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber, ^ f
We Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Company and
All Mail Orders Should be Addressed to Us
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
Prompt ly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
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SAVE MONEY!
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
And see what we lmve in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beils, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirror's—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Alaskan Grill
M. E. HOLBEN, Prop.
The Place To Eat
Everything In Season
Service The BEST
Boxes For Large Or Tray Service
Small Parties Our Specialty
I SAFETY FIRST I
I MODERN LAUNDRY I
I F. A. Jones, Proprietor
j] An Up To Date Steam Laundry
i Experienced Capable Employes fc
I SANITARY
| Clothes Thoroughly Washed and
Sterilized No Contamination
I SERVICE
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C>uick Work - Reliable - Courteous t
Out of Town Work Given
I Careful, Prompt Attention
PHONE 66 I
WE AIM TO PLEASE 1
1st Avenue Below Alaskan Hotel h
Bargains in Real Estate
Six room houBe. modern Im
provements; to rent or for sale.
Fine residential lots In any
section of Cordova for sale to
home builders on easy terms.
Business Lota.—A bargain on
Second street near the postof
fice. Two lots together, on First
street; owner desires to sell be
cause he 1« ill. will be sold at
a sacrifice.
Small cabin to rent.
INSURANCE
We sell fire, marine, casualty,
burglary and liability Insurance.
Also surety bonds. Only the
highest grude insurance compan
ies represented.
ABSTRACTS
Reliable abstracts of title can,
be furnished on any lot In Cor
dova.
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
Room 1, Adam. Building, Fir.t
and C Street*.
Osborne, watchmaker, Jeweler and
ipticlan.
WM. A. HESSE
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Mining Engineer,
O. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
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Office over Cordova Drug Store
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Reeldenoe,
Alaskan Hotel
DR W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND 8URGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
Ing).
Phones—Residence 115; office 132.
DR. C. L. HALE
b E N T I S T
Specialty of
I’ovcelnin, Inlay, Bridge Work
Office: Over Blum, O'Neill’s Store
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
AND
DR. HOMER BLYTH
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DENTAL OFFICES
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phone 200. Cordova,
P. O. Bo* 186. Alaska.
Hour*: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALA8KA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground.
HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. 8. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., 8EATTLE.
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, note and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL.
PATENT SURVEYS
A. C. BALDWIN,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor.
VALDEZ.ALASKA
E. F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Room 1
'dams Block CORDOVA, ALA8KA
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND 8TEAMFITTERS.
Cor. Front and B Streets.
Office Open Evenings.
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Windsor Hotel
L. Wain, Prop.
Where You Get
Comfort and Service.
Ami the Rates Are Right.
Cordova Xlaska
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For tha Meat Branda of I
WINES,
LIQUORS :
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CIGARS
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Call at the
POPULAR CORNER j
Firit Avenue and C Street4 ♦
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
F«»* and commodlou# steamer, .ailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, SI i j\ay, Cordova Valdez. Seward
Leaves Leaves Cordova
Seattle- for Seattle.
Aug. 10.ALAMEDA Aug. 20
Aug. 18.ALASKA.Aug. 30
'lilt: freighters Cordova, Itouche, Juneau, Valdez
and Keteliikcit alsofuako regular trips.
Tnlt 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 L* received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, S R. HEDGES,
_ General Agent Agent
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP <2
ADMIRAL LINE
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE ATGFRT 7 15-23 I! 1
SAILINGS FROM CORDOVA
Southbound Westbound
August 12th \ August 13th
AuKU8t 19 ‘ j August 21st
Au«usl 27 / August 29
September 4 September 6
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Steamers President, Governor, Admirals Schley and Dewey, Queen.
Through Tickets to All Parts of the United States and Canada.
Right Reserved to Chance Schedule of Steamers Without Notice.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY
, ^NOURSE, Agent. Empress Building.
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FOR GENERAL TEAMING, BAGGAGE
TRANSFERRED, AUTO SERVICE,
COAL AND WOOD.
ALASKA TRANSFER
COMPANY
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Mdse and Household Goods.
Office-EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA—Phone 85
| NORTHERN MEAT MARKET I
•j:; WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN j|
| Fresh Bee!; Pork, Veal, Mutton 1
| and Provisions
i| Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to orders from %
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
I INTERIOR POINTS
| SMITH & QLAKUKUNNKK Props I '
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
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| Foos Gas Engines |
| 4 to 5.0 Horse Power
General Electric Motors * |
Roebling Tramways 1
Pelton Water Wheels |
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors 1
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| Harmon Machinery Go Inc |
Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting |
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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ASK I'OH Till “SHI 1.1)0N SLRVICL I
Sheldon Auto Stage Line
Twiee-a-Week Service, Chitina to Fairbanks. ?
Cars Leave Kach Fad Tuesdays and Fridays.
FARE 975.00 40 POUNDS BAGGAGE FREE.
KUK I I KTHI-R IM OU.MATION ADIIK SJ
j ROBERT SHELDON, Owner and Manager CHITINA, ALASKA |