PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
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There will be a meeting of the Cor
dova fire department tonight. *
The Bible class of the Presbyterian
Sunday school will meet at the manse
at 8 o’clock tonight.
B. E. Lee today underwent an oper
ation at the Cordova general hospital
for an injury to his leg.
J. L. Galen will leave on the Alaska
for Latouche, where he will purchase
another horse for his transfer outfit.
The steamer Alaska left Juneau at
6 o’clock last night and is due in Cor
dova tomorrow morning at G o’clock.
The declaration of intention papers
of Haratio Farger Kerrnish have been
found by John Rawson and can be re
claimed by their owner.
The big dance will be on tonight at
Hegg’s hall and all paths will lead to
that popular place. You and your
friends are invited to attend.
This is apparently an off year for
politicians, as they do not seem to be
working at the old job—at least so far
as the municipal election is concerned.
There is a strong wind blowing out
the line today and a rotary was sent
out from this end to meet the incom
ing train from Chitina, which will
reach here this evening.
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NOTICE TO ALPHA CLUB
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
All are requested to be present to
night at Eagle Hall. Dancing will
commence promptly at 10 o’clock.
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Alsace-Lorraine Will Lead France in the
Work of Reconstruction
By CLEMENT RUEFF
Alsace-Lorraine will lead France in the work of reconstruction. The
industrial rebirth of France will come from the territory wrested from
it in 1870 and now restored.
Had it not been for the possession of Alsace-Lorraine the Germans
could never have held out as long as they did. Alsace-Lorraine is a store
house of power and wealth. More than three-quarters of the iron used
in Germany all these years, and especially in the war, came out of this
territory. The district of Lorraine is the biggest iron field in the world,
bigger even than that' of the state of Minnesota.
In close proximity to the iron fields, in the district of Saar, we have
one of the biggest coal deposits. ’ The combination of these two, the coal
and the iron, is what made Germany the industrial power that she became
during the last fifty years. It was the Alsatians, however, who were the
brains of the industries.
In the question of potash, however, they were not so greatly dependent
upon Alsace. Alsace possesses the largest potash fields in existence. The
Germans objected to the mining of -this product in regions outside their
own immediate confines. In order to cut off the output of the Alsatian
mines it was arranged so that they were worked to not more than 10 per
cent of their capacity.
Germany has been noted for its perfection of aniline dyes. The situa
tion is ironic, to say the least. In Mulhausen, a city in the territory of
Alsace, is the most famous chemical college in the world. It is to the
work of this college that Germany owes its superiority in the dye industry.
The people of Alsace-Lorraine form the very backbone of industrial
France.
I say with perfect faith, as vice president of the American Alsace
Lorraine society, that in 'the years to come France will rank second only
to the United States in the matter of industrial wealth. Not only will she
Tesume all those industries which have been carried on in Alsace-Lorraine
during the last half century, but she will also make great strides in the
development of those natural resources which have meant so much in the
rise of Germany. Iron, steel, potash, chemicals, cottons and woolens are
Borne of the fields in which Alsace-Lorraine will prove its power. And
Alsace-Iiorraine today means France.
GIVES HUSBAND HARD JOLT
Bloody Evidence Is Ketchup, but Roy
Will Probably Stay Home Eve
nings for Awhile.
St. Louis.—Roy Colley of this city
returned home from work and found
his wife, Clara, stretched out on the
floor with her neck and thront covered
with what appeared to be blood. Col
ley screamed, woke his wife’s sister,
Miss Mary Collins, who was In the
next room. Both dashed to the street,
but the sister beat Colley to (ne police
station. Colley arrived1 just as the sis
ter was voicing her belief that Colley
had killed his wife. Colley told the
police some burglar must have mur
dered her.
Reserves were rushed to the house
and were welcomed by Mrs. Colley,
who in the meantime washed away
the ketchup which had been the evi
dence of the “crime” nnd calmly ex
plained that she “trusted she had
taught Roy a lesson” and that he
would stay at home evenings in the
QUITS “ROAD” FOR SAFETY
Throws Up Job to Avoid Danger From
Trains and Shortly After Is Killed
by One.
Cleveland. O.—C. A. Lidle, after 30
years "on the road" with the Erie rail
road. abandoned his job to avoid (hin
der from the trains. And every day
since bis wife would congratulate her
self that now she could be content in
the knowledge that he would come
home safe from his work In the office
of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men.
Then, one day, he took a holiday
and with his wife visited a cousin at
Warren, O. The three went riding In
the cousin’s automobile. They came
to a crossing.
All three were killed by a passing
train.
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Waukegan, 111.—A housebreak- S
er who stole several articles of S
valuable jewelry from the home
of Dr. and Mrs. Paul O. Berger <:■
here became conscience stricken |S
and a few days afterward, when :•••
Doctor Berger looked in his ice
ij: box, he found the jewelry there. S:
War’* Influence on Music.
Have you noticed what a “speeding
up” of music has come out of this
war? There has been so much music
In it. When the famous retreat from
Mons was made, one set of soldiers
was kept awake and moving one night
py the music of a little toy fife and
phild’s drum, which the commander of
X bought in a kind of desperation in a
shop shortly before. The music acted
ike a charm on the men, who began to
nove more quickly and more easily as
toon as they heard it. A battalion
marching without singing is unusual In
:hls war, unless secrecy of movement
s called for. "There’s a Long, Long
rrail” Is a favorite song, but dear old
‘Tipperary” is not sung much now.
Little French hoys sing It well, though,
md sing it a great deal. “Mother Ma
;hree" is sung still, because it has so
much of the old home feeling in it.
Whenever a woundey soldier in the
lospltal says he wants to hear a
jhonogruph, it is taken to mean that
te is getting better. And the very
lick soldiers, when they hear sweet
music played in their wards in hos
pitals, are soothed and calmed by it.
—Exclmnce.
Apple Crop le Larger.
The United States commercial ap
ple crop for 1918 will exceed the 1917
production by approximately 9 per
:ent, according to the November fore
cast by the bureau of crop estimates.
United States department of agricul
ture. Production for this year is now
estimated at 25,008,000 barrels, with
22,519,000 barrels in 1917. Attention
Is called to the fact that the barreled
ind bulk apple production is estimat
ed at a 31 per cent increase over last
('ear, while the 1918 boxed apple crop
will fall short of last year’s produc
tion by 22 per cent. However, the
latter deficiency is more than offset
by the increase In the Eastern states.
America’s Tin Industry.
While the United States has at
tained a commanding position in the
tin plate ftxport trade, it by no means
equals that which England had before
:he war. Data show that while our
exports of tin plate have grown from
>7,800 tons In 1913 to more than 233,
XX) tons in 1917, they even now are
ess than 50 per cent of England’s be
'ore the war, and only 35 per cent
nore than that country’s present ex
ports.
Will this country ever have a tin in
lustry of Its own? asks the Philadel
phia Inquirer. The American tin-melt
ng Industry is still in the childhood
itage. Ore supplies in Bolivia, In
South, America, are believed to be
arge, but Bolivian producers are flnd
ng conditions here unsatisfactory for
lolng business. Only the future can
ell whether any relief is possible from
his source.
Impress Left by Romans.
The old Romans and still older
Jelts have left their traces thickly
itrewn In the place-names of the coun
ry through which the victorious ai
led afmles advanced during the latter
>art of the war* Valenciennes, sou
named after the Roman emperor, Val
entlnian, just as Orleans was named
after Emperor Aurelian. The mark of
the Celt Is seen In the dun, or fortress,
of the ever-famous Verdun, and,
though now contracted out of exist
ence, in the towering old city of Laon,
the stronghold of the Merovingians.
The River Meuse, perhaps the river
most connected with war, has the most
peaceful of nnmes, Meuse being Cel
tic for the River of SJeadows.
Barbara Frietchie and Young China.
The fame of Whittier’s poem, “Bar
bara Frietchie,” has swept to China,
where school children in Hongkong
are Interested In the native town of
the heroine of the poem. The Chinese
boys have read the poem and now de
sire information and a picture of the
town. Reverend Mr. Bird of the Ellis
Kadooric school, Hongkong, has writ
ten to Mayor Lewis H. Fraley asking
for a picture postal card of the town.
The mayor has sent one of the cen
tennial memorial books.—Baltimore
News. /
Fish to Combat Mosquitoes.
An agent of the bureau of fisheries,
g. F. Hildebrand, who has been con
ducting experiments in the vicinity of
Camp Hancock, near Augusta, Ga., has
met with noteworthy success in con
trolling the breeding of mosquitoes by
the use of fish. Public health service
officials have given strong indorse
ment to the services thus rendered for
the protection of the health of soldiers
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
FOR RENT—One three-room fur
nished apartment and one three
room unfurnished apartment. Apply
K. G. Robinson. 10-tf
FOR SALE—A 40x40 spiller wall for
fish trap; range and cooking outfit
for a crew of thirty men. Apply to
H. M. Bollinger. ^ ll-3t
FOR RENT—Rooms and housekeep
ing rooms. Phone 185. 7t£
FOR RENT—Steam heated room. Ap
ply Dr. Council. 7-tf
FOR SALE—Boat 18 feet Iqng,
equipped with 4% horse-power en
gine. Apply Gus Cozokas, next door
to Times office, at 10 o’clock a. m.
12-fit
LOST—A pocketbook, containing reg
istration card, receipt (or a Liberty
Bond, and a Red Cross card. Re
ward for its return to Dally Tiaes.
Mt
FOUND—A child’s gold engraved
bracelet. Owner can secure saase
by calling 98. 3*
LOST—A lady’s pair of black woolen
mittens. Return to Times Offioe.
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ROOM AND BOARD at Lakevlew
house. Call 38—two rings.
Your eyes fitted. Compound a»d
stlgmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
Read the Dally Times (or the latest
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LITTLE MARY IS A Tonight
CLEVER LITTLE STAR Q. *
AND THIS PICTURE IS anow
ONE THAT WILL APPEAL 8 p. m.
TO YOU ALL
MARY MILES MINTER
In Five-Act Romance
“DULOE’S ADVENTURE”
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Bring the Whole Family
They Will Enjoy It!
Burton Holmes’ Travels
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“ Great,
Aren’t They John!”
The famous HEADLIGHT
guarantee still holds good.
“Wear a pair 30 days. If,
at the end of that time you
do not say that the Head
light is the best overall you
ever wore, your money will
be refunded cheerfully.”
We’ve got a big, new stock
made of the same highest
quality d^nimof pre-war days.
The price is right.
Headlight Headlight Come in, right away and look
Two-Piece Overall One-Piece Overall nver
FINKELSTEIN &SAPIR0
“THE STORE THAT SATISFIES"
Phones—Grocery 21; Office 74
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