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(By Associated Press)
FRENCH FRONT, Feb. 1 (by mail).
—The veteran of li»l 4 who has passed
four winters at the battle front is apt
to make ironic remarks about "feather
bed soidiers” when he hears newly
joined comrades speak of the discom
forts of cold-weather cantonments. At
tbe beginning of the war the fighting
men were more than pleased to dis
cover a comparatively dry spot under
tbe trees of a forest or in a drafty
stable or barn In which to pass their
very rare and short periods of repose.
Now all has been changed and every
thing possible is done to provide some
sort of comfort and distraction for the
men when they come down from the
front-line trenches. It must not be
supposed that all the modern aids to
human comfort are furnished to the
soldier, but his lot is luxurious com
pared with that during the early
months of the war.
In every village in the immediate
fear of the fighting line out of the
range of the German guns a town
major has been appointed, who makes
it his business to know of every nook
and corner where men and horses can
be housed. When a battalion or a regi
ment marches in everything is in
treadiness for its reception. Regimen
tal workshops and offices, stables and
kitchens already are arranged, and bil
leting accommodations for officers and
men listed in such a way that the sol
diers have only to go in and occupy
their quarters. Sometimes they are
lodged in the cottages, but in general
it has been found more convenient to
place them in farm houses and barns,
as the hygienic facilities in the coun
try houses are far from modern.
Every available grange and barn has
been thoroughly gone over and made
watertight by having its roof covered
with tarred paper and its walls made
uraftproof by thick crenelated card
board. Electric light has been in
stalled. every building provided with
a stove and washstands. Partitioned
• ft fs a compartment where the men I
-may take hot and cold shower baths,
in the near-by kitchens every requi
site iff handy for cooking.
As to the men’s personal comfort,
each of them is given a trestle bed,
with straw mattress, known generally;
38 “six-foot feathers.” bolster, sleeping
sack and blankets.
In the vicinity of the villages sports
grounds have been inclosed and
marked for football games, while nu
merous plots of land are set apart for
truck gardening and generally culti
vated by old reservists who do not go ,
info the firing line. The produce is
•much appreciated by the troops, who,
when at the front, have to content
themselves with canned vegetables.
In each cantonment a large hut has
erected to serve as a recreation
and reading and writing room. It is
provided with a fairly extensive
library and all kinds of indoor games.
Every week or so a moving picture
performance is given by the army the
ater, which also arranges dramatic
shows.
Besides these official arrangements
for the troops other efforts are made
by private bodies to cheer the men be
tween their arduous and perilous peri
ods of trench work. In almost every
cantonment a canteen has been estab
lished under the auspices of French,
American or British women, who serve
the men with hot coffee, tea and bouil
lon and little food delicacies.
During the chilly months from Sep
tember. to May each soldier is given
extra supplies of warm clothing, com
prising three cotton shirts, two pairs
of flannellette undergarments, two or
three pairs of woolen socks, three blan
kets, one sweater, one scarf and a pair
woolen gloves, and In the Vosges
-mountains and other sectors where the
cold is most severe still more warmer
clothing is placed at the disposal of
the troops in case of need.
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WOMEN OF TEXAS
BOOST THRIFT STAMP
(By Associated Press)
EL, PASO, Texas, March 2.—A rose
tea room has been opened in the busi
ness district which requires the pur
chase of a 25-cent war stamp for ad
mittance. The stamp may be affixec
to the thrift card of the buyer but the
stamp must be purchased at the ter
room. The room is in charge of £
committee of women and a large surr
has already been realized from th<
sale of war and thrift stamps. Thi
work is a part of the thrift stamp cam
paign which is being carried on here.
AUTOMOBILE CONCERN
IN BAD IN CALIFORNIA
(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 2—A
suit by the state to collect $24,000 as
the franchise tax levied against tht
Ford Motor Car Company in 1915 b;
the state board of equalization, am
penalties aggregating $3,000 for al
leged failure of the corporation t<
make the payment, was set for hearing
recently by Judge Peter J. Shields
department of the superior court.
The action was filed April 6. 1916
ten days after United States Senatoi
Johnson, then governor of California,
had issued a proclamation denying the
Ford company, among other corpora
tlons a right to transact intra-state
business in California and declared
forfeited charters of eerporations thal
had failed to pay the tax.
This proclamation directly affectec
the two distributing and assembling
plants of the Ford company maintain
ed in San Francisco and Los Angeles
The proclamation did not apply tc
! inter-state business transacted by the
company.
Under the provisions of the fran
chise tax law failure to obey the pro
clamation would be subject to a pen
alty of $100 for each day intra state
business was transacted.
Attorneys for the Ford company
claimed the tax was “unjust, dis
criminatory and that the procedure un
der which the corporation's charter
was forfeited was unconstitutional.”
1 Earlier in March, 1916, the United
States district court in San Francisco
denied the application of the corpora
tion for an order to restrain the gov
ernor from issuing the proclamation.
This case is pending in the United
States supreme court on an appeal by
the Ford company.
The tax-levy was based on a report
submitted to the state board of equal
ization under a provision of the law
requiring foreign corporations to set
forth annually in March its total
transactions in and out of the state,
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California stated separately.
In rendering its report for the as
sessment year of 1915, the Ford com
pany, members of the state board of
equalization said, “failed and refused
to give some of the information re
quired.”
It did, however, submit a report
stating its paid up capital was $2,000,
000; that it owned tangible property
in San Francisco and Los Angeles
which was assessed at $573,930; that
on September 30, 1914 it had in its
surplus account $48,827,037; that for
the calendar year 1914 it did a total
business of $120,827,626.42, of which
amount $7,000,000 constituted tne Cal
ifornia business. The company show
ed that at the end of 1914, it had made
a gross profit of $30,338,454.63 and had
allotted to dividends $9,200,000.
UMHMNSI TRAINING
Win worn WITH FORCES
(By Associated Press)
RIVERSIDE, Cal., March 2.—Music
and literature have become prominent
elements in the social service rendered
the soldiers in camp and cantonment,
as a part of the war service commun
ity service of recreation and instruc
tion, and the insistent call for men
librarians to serve in the military lib
raries at home and abroad has caused
the establishment of a school here
with the single purpose of meeting
that demand,.
The library at Riverside has long
been known as a training center foi
j librarians for civil work, and men and
t women have come here by the score tc
hear the lectures, study the methods
j and perform the duties comprising the
instruction course. Now Joseph F
Daniels, the librarian, has announced
there will be established a separat*
branch of the school, for training mer
to serve with the troops.
It is believed by the librarian an<
his advisers that there are men in th<
west who are past the draft age, an<
perhaps physically disqualified to pasi
the tests for active service, who wil
gladly accept posts as librarians witl
the soldiers. It is for these that th«
short course will be offered.
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MUNICIPAL MARKET
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, T. H., March 2
Hawaiian pineapple canneries are a
present working on government cor
tracts which are demanding more tha:
one-half of all the sliced pineapple
■ that can be turned out. Represents
tives of the canners’ association hav
! t.sked that the industry be exempte
i from draft because of the heavy d<
• mands on the ouput made by the go\
ernment.
I The FIRST BANK OF CORDOVA .
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CONDENSED STATEMENT j
Of the Financial Condition of the The First Bank of Cordova at the close
of business February 14, 1918 fj
RESOURCES LIABILITIES 1
Loans and discounts.$209,499.39 Capital stock.$ 50 000 00
Bonds and warrants.! 203,850.04 Undivided profits. l|234R2
Banking house, furniture and fixtures... 22,987.13 ,. 513,580.89
Cash on hand and due from banks. 131,104.54 ? [Sr, . 42573
oasniers checks.. 2 199 gg
TotaI.5567,441.10 Total.$567,441.10 |
RESERVE
Reserve required by law, $102,528.00
Actual reserve held by us
(Cash on hand and due from banks) $131,104.54
Secondary reserve
(Liberty Bonds, bonds of govern
ments, county, municipal and high
grade industrial bonds). 199 459 57
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Total Actual and Secondary Reserve $330,564.11
The First Bank of Cordova
SECURITY SERVICE SATISFACTION
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LIEUT. COMMANDER BAGLEY
Lieut. Commander David Worth
Baglay of the American destroyer Ja
cob Jones nearly lost nrs life when
the vessel was torpedoed by the Ger
mans. He was dragged from the wa
ter onto a raft by a seaman, who after
ward die^ of exposure. Bagley is a
brother-in-law of Secretary of the
Navy Daniels.
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MEMORIAL TO LABOR
PROPOSED IN LONDON
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 2.—A “national la
bor memorial of freedom and peace”
, is being organized and will be consid
ered by a special conference between
the Trade Union Congress and the La
; bor party shortly.
, The idea is to raise £300,000 to
I build a national headquarters for labor
, here as a memorial to trade unionists
1 who have, fallen during the war.
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> It is an absolute sin to waste food.
Food has become sacred.
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Bargain Notice—For sale one four
foot fireproof safe, three National cash
registers. Adress Prospector, Valdez
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t Use less wheat and meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
is left.
FISH OF ALL KINDS
5 HALIBUT, CODFISH and
i RED SNAPPER
Ice Box for Perishables. Big Stock
Always on Hand
CORDOVA FRUIT MARKET
NOTICE.
Owing to the danger rrom trains and
teams skiing and coasting is prohibit
ed on all streets west of the east mar
gin line of First avenue.
J. J. MURRAY,
Chief of Police.
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, will be
found in the Currier & Mickelson
building on C. street. 16-tf
The Red Dragon
CORDOVA, ALASKA
Headquarters of Cordova
Chapter American Red Cross.
Club House founded in 1908
by Episcopal church. Open
from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.
f REV E. P ZIEGLER
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