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4 Village Sossip
By MARY BAENyWRIGHT - „•*.
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*The spacious home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank H. Foster was the scene
Thursday night of a surprise recep
tion under the auspices of the Epis
copal Ladies’ Guild lor Rev. and Mrs.
Eustace P. Ziegler, in celebration of
the eleventh anniversary of their com
ing to Cordova. The surprise of the
rector and his wife was complete
when Mr. Foster presented them with
a purse well filled with gold. Violin
and piano music, played by Mr. Fos
, ter and Miss Evangeline Church, add
ed to the pleasure of the evening.
Cake, sandwiches and coffee were
served. Rev. Mr. Ziegler has ob
tained a year’s leave of absence from
his church work here, and intends to
leave with his family during the
spring. They will be greatly missed,
by their numerous friends here, of
whom the following were present to
%greet them Thursday night: Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Fursman, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Dono
hoe, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Robinson, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Long, Mr. and Mrs.
Lou Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jones,
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hazelet, Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Bart
ley Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fos
ter, Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Ziegler, Mes
damesj. Chester Mellison, Fred Schaupp,
Alvah Eames, E. L. Harwood, G. A.
Harmon, B. Tibbs and Fred Glass
*brenner; Miss Margaret Foster, Miss
Opheliahetaoni shrdlu etaoin shrdlunn
Evangeline Church, Miss Ophelia
Howrard, Miss Louise Tibbs; J. H.
Sellen, Brady Howard, E. F. Medley,
Walter Wolf, Judge Noaks, Charles
A. Derry, H. G. Steel, H. E. Nye, J. J.
Jones, John Muller, Donald Foster
Eugene Tibbs.
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Announcements have been received
here of the marriage of Miss Alice
I^ouise Branner to Ralph Ernest Bull
at Seattle on December 31. Miss Bran
ner was stenographer here for the
Copper River Railway Company for
three years, and is known to many
Cordovans.
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The Ladies’ Altar Society met Fri
day night at the home of Mrs. Walter
Gaffney, with about thirty members
present. Officers for the coming year
were elected as follows: Mrs. Horace
Leach, president; Mrs. James Galen,
vice president; Mrs. Lee Rowley, sec*'
^retary. Delicious refreshments were
served.
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Word has been received here of the
bifth of a son to Mr. and-Mrs. C. H.
Manning of Seattle, formerly of Cor
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tiova;: Mrs. Manning is the sister of
Mrs. R. Hillery.
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Miss Evelyn Johnstone, who has
been teaching at Chitina, arrived in
town op Tuesday’s train and has been
the Windsor. The school
at Cliltjftia has been given up on ac
count?-«f the small number of pupils,
and Miss Johnstone has been awaiting
ike Alaska, which takes her on to
Seward: There she will go over the
government railroad to Matanuska,
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where she will teach the rest of the
Jfcenn. While here she met a number
of young people, and says that Cor
dovans know how to make a stranger
feel at home and have a good time in
their town.
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Miss Emma Keever, superintendent
of the Cordova school, returned on
the Alaska from a stay of about three
weeks in Juneau, where she met with
the commissioner of education and
the superintendent of the Ketchikan
school to select text-books for the
schools of the territory. Miss Keever
reports a very rough trip down, as
the boat was delayed by storms at
Cape Spencer and gave its wretched
passengers an unrespited rolling for
thirty-six hours. The fatal landslide
at Juneau occurred within a block or
two of the hotel in which Miss Keever
was staying. The trip home she re
ports as even worse than the trip
dowjfc and she was very glad to step
onc^ more through the Copper Gate.
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According to reports received here,
the Pioneer started from Katalla Fri
day morning and was obliged to turn
back on account of stormy weather.
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Mrs. Horace Aiken entertained the
C. B. Clhb Thursday afternoon. The
ladies brought their sewing. Mrs.
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Charles Foyston, Mrs. H. I. Call, Mrs.
Lester Koch and Mrs. Aiken formed
the company.
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Mrs. Malcolmn Brock has been suf
fering from a threatened ijervous
breakdown during the past week.
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An epidemic of bad colds and ton
silitis seems to be going the rounds,
probably the result of the slushy
weather we endured recently. Pauling,
pferfft2; atnd Alfred de Vitle, Harry
O’Neill and three of his children, Mike,
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Pat and Florence, have been among
the victims. The O’Loughlen chil
dren, Elizabeth, Barth and Matt, have
been out of school for the same rea
son, anad Miss Marian Daggett has
been another sufferer.
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Ray Bates of Seattle was a guest
of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Boyce whjle
going through here on the Northwest
ern last week.
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Ernest Bryan of Katalla, who has
been in town for the past week, will
return Monday on the Rolfe.
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The Northland Club is preparing to
give a dance at its rooms next
Wednesday ngiht.
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Friends of Jeff Devinney, a promi
nent Valdez business man, well known
here, will be interested to learn that
he was recently married to Miss Clara
Bunner, who came North last August
to teach in the Valdez school.
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The Alpha Dancing School pupils in
vited their friends in to enjoy a social
evening with them at their hall
Wednesday. Refreshments were
served.
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Mrs. J. C. Funk is preparing to
leave for California as soon as she
can settle up her business affairs.
She has never fully recovered from
an attack of “flu” during last winter’s
epidemic, and is going Outside to have
a minor operation performed upon her
ear.
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V. G .Vance and wife, owners of
the Northern hotel, who left here last
August, have been doing considerable
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traveling since. After visits in West
Virginia and Kansas, they came on
west to Los Angeles, which they left
last week for Seattle. They did not
state when they would return to Cor
dova, but friends here expect them
soon.
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Harry Johnston, an employe of the
Copper River Railway Company, will
leave for Seattle on the Alaska to
spend about two months with his pa
rents at Troy, Idaho.
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Tom Davis of the supply depart
ment of the signal corps at Valdez re
turned on the Alaska from a month’s
furlough spent in Seattle and vicin
ity, and visited friends at the cable
office here while the ship was in port.
Mr. Davis bad planned to visit his pa
rents in Boston, but could not get
sufficient leave of absence.
from .an attack of grippe, during which
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Mrs. Fursman will take her place at
the Northern drug store.
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The “Eight C’’ Bridge Club, organ
ized last week, met with Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Currier Tuesday and enjoyed a
pleasant evening playing auction
bridge. H. I. Call and Mrs. Lester j
Koch captured the prizes. The hostess '
served an elaborate luncheon to the
members of the new club, who are as
follows: Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Call, Mr.
and Mrs. John Day, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Foyston, Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Mellison, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Currier,
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Murphy and Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Walker.
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J. J. Jones, superintendent of the
Bering River Coal Company’s mines at
Katalla, returned on the Alaska from
a visit tp his family in^Seattle, and
is ip town awaiting a boat to Katalla.
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Frank O’Neill, who recently got his
leg broken in a friendly scuffle, is
rapidly recovering at the hospital.
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Miss Laura Bacon, who left Cor
dova last November, is now visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Razor, formerly of Cor
dova, and now living at Spokane.
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Miss Ellen Fraisure left on the
Northwestern for a two months’ visit
with her sister in Portland.
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Miss Ethel Graham is expecting to
enroll in the Cordova high school Mon
day for the remainder of the term.
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Carl Nelson and family left pn a
gasoline launch’ this* morning for
Humpback creek, where Mr. Nelson
will work in the electric power plant.
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The Alaska brought up 204 sacks of
mail from Seattle.
Allan Grennan, who left Alaska with
the Fourteenth infantry, having joined
the army from Nenana, has recently
been married to a Sacramento girl,
and is now employed in Los Angeles
moving picture studios, showing the
picture magnate^ how Alaska scenes
should be filmed. He came to the
North when he was a year old and
was in the Dawson stampede at that
age.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
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The Daily Times , job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing. i
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The Shands roadhouse, at the mouth
of the Stewart river, which has been
a conspicuous landmark ever since the
days of ’98, was recently totally de
stroyed by fire.
N. R. G. laundry tablets wash cloth?"
without rubbing. Contain no lime
!ye, paraffin, wax or other injurious
chemicals. Nothing like it on tfcfe
market. Phone 142—5 rings. 12-tf
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Job printing at Daily Times office.
/ SHAMPOOING
\ FACIAL AND
For, MANICURING
CALL
\ 101 -3 RINGS
MRS. SWANBERG
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FO! SALE
A BARGAIN
Chance to make some
easy money this summer.
Three lots on corner,
value . with grading
$1,300; building cost
$2,700. All for $1,500
cash, or will offer as se
curity this property for a
loan of $1,000 for nine
months at * 1 2 per cent.
See F. A. JONES
PHONE 66
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now under way at
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“HORSESHOE”
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| Bogart vs. Mellison
at 7 p. m.
Dr. Chase vs. Foster
at 9:30 p. m.
Tomorrow Night:
Stephenson vs. Steele
at 7 p. m.
* Rawson vs. Crooker
at 9:30 p. m.
FIRST PRIZE—$25
SECOND PRIZE—$15
THIRD PRIZE—$10
THE HORSESHOE
j BILLIARD HALL |
4 E. L. HARWOOD, Prop. j
1 CORDOVA JAZZ KDU f
! DANCE j
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EAGLE HALL, SATURDAY NIGHT I
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£ The Cordova Jazz Orchestra will give away to its lady pa- :£
& trons durin gthe months of January, February and March $50 in £:
£ gold in three prizes to the ladies guessing the amount of beans •£
:£ in a glass jar. The conditions of the contest are as follows: £•
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£ Each lady will have one guess for every attendance at each £:
£ dance during the three months. The prizes will be $25 for first
prize, $15 for second and $10 for third.
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£ Ladles, come often and guess. • £:
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FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
10 NG AWAY SALE!
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I am leaving soon as all stock is disposed of.
Get in early on this. Here are bargains—real
bargains. Sale begins Monday, January I 2.
MRS. FUNK
WINDSOR HOTEL
# itTBT^ ^hy have the dlrt rubbed and
■ I JB ^k I I ^k I M pressed in when we have the ma
il || ■» IB 1^1 I 1^1 B h chine for renovating your clothes?
I B HI \ 11 Tt costs no niore and the satisfac
TV! UTTDDCDT ^ tion *S great' Suits Made to 0rder'
1 • IN. nUDDLK 1 New Woolens Just Arrived
Tailor Across from Blum-O'Neil! Store
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Alaska Building 127 w. 27th St.
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