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1_CORDOVA, ALASKA
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of eteamere
without notice.
Leaves Seattle For Seattle
June 3—NORTHWESTERN .June 16
June 8—ALAMEDA . June 20
June 16—ALASKA .June 28
The freighters Cordova, La touche, Juneau, Valdez
and Ketchikan also make regular trips.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Bag
gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour
before sailing time.
J H. BUNCH, G. F. & P. Agt 8. R. HEDGES, Agent.
Pacific Steamship Co.
Safety Courtesy Servi^ '
S. S. Admiral Farragut
From Seattle Due Cordova Sails South
May 28 June 3 June 9
Through tickets sold to all California points.
Three sailings a week from Seattle.
Steamers President, Governor, Queen, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
See agent for special summer excursion rates.
W. A. NOURSE, AgentEMPRESS BLDG.
I ALASKA TRANSFER
| COMPANY
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| Transfer Storage Coal & Wood
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| AUTO’SERVICE- DAY or NIGHT
Office—Northern Hotel Building. Phone 86.
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THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP. PHONE A-~7
POOL, CARDS, TOBACCO
SOFT DRINKS OF ALL’KINDS
THE POPULAR CORNER
CORDOVA ALASKA
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Loggers Attention!
After February 1st we will pav $10.00 for
Flemlock and $11.^0 for Spruce
GOVERNMENT SCALE
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Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
I KEriJEnBEEJLHF DAYS
THURSD^^LiSS
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TUESMU WHIAnj^ SfflJSW-S&SS
LONDON, May 8 (by mail).“Hey!
You with the beak!”
Sergeant S-abruptly interrupts
the calisthenics of D Company and
levels a stern finger at a tall young
soldier with a bruised and swollen
nose who is making only a perfunc
tory effort to touch his toes with his
finger-tips. The scene is the deck ol
a transport, warward bound about 1C
a. m. of a spring day.
- “Is that what you call exercising?”
- demands the sergeant. “You think
you don’t need any of this one-two
three stuff, eh? You are fit, already,
maybe, to eat a boche for breakfast.”
The company looks on and grins. Or
dinarily Sergeant S-, like the ma
jority of the efficient, hard-working
sergeants of the American army, is
a man of few, precise words. But on
rare occasions he finds it expedient
to “talk to” some erring private, and
his ability in that line has won him
I fame througout his regiment.
The tall soldier flushes and stam
mers out an explanation. Bending
over causes his nose, still sore from
a bumping against a door, to bleed,
“Pall out then,” directs the sergeant.
“You oughta said something before
wo started.” Briskly he resumes the
. setting-up exercises and for half an
hour the company is busily engaged.
% Breezy and fresh is the morning,
:< a brilliant sun making rainbows in
•: the spary from the transport’s bow
:• and lending a sparkle to the dancing
•: whitecaps. On all the decks khaki
?: clad lads are twisting their bodies
j: and working arms and legs to the
:• measured count of their sergeants
:• All in a glow, filling their lungs with
:• the sea ozone, they are a picture ot
•: health and American “pep.”
=: “Keep ’em busy,” is the watchword
:• of the officer in military command of
i the vessel. He has several thousand
:• exuberant young soldiers to look af
■; ter and his experience on transports
:| has taught him that ship life becomes
:• wearisome for a large body of men
;• closely quartered unless they have a
ular daily occupation. To meet
this demand, he has worked out a
program that suplies the required
amount of wholesome work and that
provides also for plenty of recreation
and amusement.
Army hours are strictly observed.
Reveille is sounded by the buglers
at an hour that brings muffled pro
tests from the few civilian passengers
on board, the blasts penetrating to ev
ery corner of the ship. Sometimes
later, after the civilians have roled
over in their berths and are about to
fall asleep again, there is a mighty
tramping on decks and in the corri
dors, as the hungry soldiers pour from
their quarters below, eager for break
fast.
Impatiently they await the sum
mons, which is beaten on an instru
ment that sounds like a sheet of boil
er plate, and, when it comes, they are
off with a rush for the hu]>e first
cabin dining room. And it is not un
til they have satisfied their husky ep
petites that the officers and civilians
are called to their breakfast in the
smaller dining room which, before the
liner became a transport, was reserved
for second-cabin passengers.
This is a British vessel, one of the
largest in His Majesty’s fleet of aux
illiary cruisers. Before the war, it
was described as a ‘‘floating palace,”
but the press agent of the line that
operated it then wouldn't call it a
‘‘floating palace” now. It is a war
ship, grimy utilitarian With the ex
ception of the handsome mural decora
tions of the salons, there is scarcley
a vestige of its former splendor and
luxurious apointments.
The great lounge is now an armory,
filled with the stands for the troops’
rifles. The gymnasium is a storeroom
for soldiers’ luggage. Only the first
cabin smoking room remains as it
was, and this is used as a club-room
for the officers. It boasts a phono
graph and a piano, and here an occa
sional concert is given in the evening
and every other afternoon a regimen
tal band plays.
The concerts are mostly or the im
promptu, informal kind. The enter
I tainers are enlisted men who seek to
welcome the opportunity to display
their talents before their officers.
The regiments from which these
mucisians are recruited is a striking
example of the American melting pot.
Its members are scions of a dozen
or more nationalities, and all parts
of the country, even our island pos
sessions, are represented. New York
talent is much in evidence, and there
are several Indians and at least one
Hawaiian. This islander has no uku
lele, but he takes a guitar and, using
it as if it were a zother, he gets the
last sob out of the plaintive “Aloha.”
Some of the vocalists, although un
trained, have surprisingly good voices.
Their choice of songs runs to the
comic and the to sentimental. The
later are especially popular, and the
soldier who sings a simple homely
ballad with a child and a heart-throb
in it is a “sure-fire hit.”
When a man is going to war, his
thoughts are with his loved ones back
home, and his emotions lie near the
surface and are easily probed.
-♦
Yes, they are holding the line, but
the folks back home must bring up
the reserves. *
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For real lemon pies—the American
Bakery. Next door to the Modern
Laundry.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court in and for Cordova Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, in probate.
In the matter of the estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceased.
In the matter of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned administrator of the estate
of Gunnard Johnson, deceased, to the
creditors and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
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WHAT'S the use o* kickin’?
The rain you don’t want :
is doin' some feller's crops
U a heap o’good, an’th* fish
n alius bites better on dark n 1
U days. Anyway, try a
■ pipeful of VELVET, an’ -
somehow th* weather's 1
p anything you’d like to f*
have
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VELVET, the Smoothest Smoking- Tobacco.^
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I exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers within six months after the
publication of this notice, to said
administrator at his place of busi
ness at the Northern Hotel in the
Town of Cordova, Alaska, the same
being the place for the transaction
of the business of said estate.
V, G. VANCE
Date of first publication—May 29,
1918.
Date of last publicantion—June
19, 1918.
MOTION .FOR .PUBLICATION .OF
SUMMONS
No. C-141
Ira McLean, plaintiff, vs. Marie Mc
Lean, defendant.
To Marie McLean: You are hereby
notified that you have been sued in
the above entitled cause in the above
named court by Ira McLean; that said
suit is brought by him to secure a
decree of dvorce from you. And un
less you appear and answer his com
plaint filed in said eause within thirty
days after completion of publication
of this summons against you, to wit,
within thirty days after July 8,
1918, your default will be entered
and said plaintiff will apply to the
court to grant the relief asked in his
complaint.
This publication of summons is
made pursuant to an order duly made
in said court on May 22, 1918.
i Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 22d
day of May, 1918.
(Court Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By C. H. WILCOX, Deputy.
First publication. May 27, 1918.
Last publication, July 8, 1918.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,;
THIRD DIVISION.
Ruby Nevins, Plaintiff, vs. James i
Nevins, Defendant.
To James Nevins: You are hereby I
notified that you have been sued in
the above-entitled cause, in the above
named court, by Ruby Nevins; that
said suit is brought by her to secure
a decree of divorce from you; and
unless you appear and answer her
complaint filed in said cause, within
thirty days after completion of pub
lication of this summons against you;
to-wit, within thirty days after June
24, 1918, your default will be entered
and said plaintiff will apply to the
court to grant the relief asked in her
complaint.
This publication of summons is
made pursuant to an order duly made
in said court on May 9, 19M, by Hon.
Fred M. Brown, the judge presiding
therein.
Dated, May 10, 1918.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk
(Court Seal)
By C. H. WILCOX, Deputy
First Publication, May 14, 1918.
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PIANO TUNER
Geo. Anderson, Piano Expert
and Factory Representative
for High Grade Pianos and
Player Pianos, Will Be in
Cordova this summer.
GEO. ANDERSON
Cordova
Sheet Metal Works
J. A. COHRS, Prop.
Phones
Shop, 143 Res., 160—2-R.
General Sheet Metal Work,
Smokestacks, Boats and other
Tanks, all sizes; Boat Flywheel
Pans, Garbage and Ash Cans.
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R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
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Pool and Billiard Parlors
CIGARS, SOFT DRINKS AND TOBACCO
FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP
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MUSIC EVERY NIGHT PHONE 15