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Village Gossip
By MARY BAEN WRIGHT
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Mr. and Mrs. Bartley Howard and
daughter, Miss Ophelia, will spend the
summer outside. Mr. Howrard will
leave as soon as court is over at Val
dez; Mrs. Howard and Ophelia will
leave on the Northwestern early next1
month. They expect to make a short
stay at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and
later to visit relatives at Fordsville
and Owenshoro, Kentucky.
# * *
Mrs. Elizabeth Morton, of Pasadena,
Cal., traveler and Red Cross nurse,
came to Cordova Monday on the Wat
son and left for Anchorage on the
Alameda. She is endeavoring to have
courses in home nursing established
in the schools, and surely no work
would be more valuable. Mrs. Mor
ton has traveled extensively in Europe
besides living for two years in China.
Miss Keever took her to the school
house Thursday to talk to the pupils
about China. The children— and the
teachers, too—were delighted with
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her, and asked innumerable questions
about life among the Orientals.
* * *
C. H. Phillips left today on a busi
ness trip to Chitina. He expects to
move to Chitina about May 20.
* * *
Miss Harriet Spalding of Straw
berry Point is expected to arrive in
town in a few days for a week’s
visit.
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The sawmill was closed Thursday
afternoon for the t funeral of Samuel
Estlich, the unfortunate man who died
Wednesday from having his arm torn
off. The Pioneers of Alaska, of which
Mr. Estlich was a member, attended
the funeral in a body.' +
# * *
S. S. McKenny and family, who live
in Old Town, are preparing to move
in a week or so to Cottage No. 1 in
Railroad Row. Mr. McKenny is a car
repairer in the shops.
* * *
P. F. Claveau is expected back home
shortly from a fur-buying trip into
the interior. He has been gone about
three months.
* * *
A crew of pile-drivers and carpen
ters left for Chitina last Monday to
be ready to replace sections of the
y
wooden bridge over the Copper river
when it sweeps out. The spring break
' up always takes out a large section
I of this bridge, and the annual event
is expected this coming week.
* # *
Miss Marie Rosswrog and Miss Edna
Thawley are preparing to leave on the
next trip of the Northwestern for
Seattle, where they will attend Hall’s
business college all summer.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hayes left on
Tuesday for the flats to>fish.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, who have
been living near the ball park, left
for Seattle on the last boat. Mrs.
Hamilton’s health has been failing
lately.
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C. H. Lamprey and son Bryan left
on Tuesday for the flats, where they
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expect to spend the summer fishing
for the Hayes-Graham cannery.
# * *
Elwell Thawley, relay operator at
Chitina, returned Thursday after a
brief visit here.
* * *
The Loyal Orange Institution gave a
very enjoyable banquet last Friday
evening in the Masonic temple. Sev
eral musical selections added to the
pleasure of the evening.
* * #
Mrs. William Date and little son
Richard will leave on the Alameda
for the states. The little boy will be
taken to the Mayo Brothers’ hospital
at Rochester, Minn., for a slight oper
ation cn his throat.
* * *
Word comes from Seattle that Harry
Rolfe will soon be ready to return
to Cordova in the new boat which he
is having built there. The new craft
will be larger than the Rolfe, which
Mr. Rolfe sold to Joseph Ibach, and
will probably be the finest boat on
Prince William sound.
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The Alaska, which docked here
Tuesday, started from Seattle with
more than four hundred passengers.
She went up to Skagway to leave 123
of them, almost all of whom were
bound for Andreafsky, on the lower
Yukon. She brought 114 passengers
for Cordova, most of them for the
Alaska Sea Food Company. Will Clay
son, the local merchant, was on board,
returning from a stay of several
months in the States, much of which
time he spent in a hospital at Portland,
Ore. Mrs. A. Cockerill was returning
to Valdez, having been outside since
last fall. Virginia Hawkins, the
young daughter of the well-known
Seward-Anchorage merchant, was an
other passenger, en route to her home
at Seward. Antone Eide of the Alaska
road commission, who has been sta
tioned at Ketchikan since last fall,
was returning to Seward, where he
lived for several years before going
to Ketchikan. Mrs. Eide and their
daughter, Marit, had returned to Sew
ard about two weeks previously.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Day and child
of Chitina returned yesterday after a
brief visit here. Mr. Day is book
keeper at the Chiina Cash store.
* * *
Joe Ibach, who took a party of East
ern hunters on the Rolfe to Icy bay,
below Yakataga, is bringing them
back to try their luck on Montague
island.
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Dr. Rex Swartz came up from Chil
kat yesterday on the cannery boat St.
Martin. He will return Sunday to Chil
kat, where he will spend the summer
as physician for the Hoonah Packing
Company.
The baseball season was formally
opened Friday evening, when John
Rosswog’s nine crossed bats with
Brooke Lamprey’s over on the dia
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