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Village Gossip
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% ' BY HILDA SHERIDAN .
Mrs. Charles Foystan was the
charming hostess at a bridge party
held at her home Tuesday evening.
After the card games the guests en
joyed delicious refreshments. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. H. I.
Call, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Koch, Mr.
and Mrs. Chester Mellison and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Foystan.
* * *
The Red Cross committee, consist
ing of Henry Slater, Mrs. W. W. Coun
cil and John Muller, has been busily
engaged in checking up the returns
of the Red Cross membership drive.
All the reports are not yet in, and
Katalla has not been heard from at
all, but it is expected that the results
will total within (he neighborhood of
five hundred members.
* * *
The Northland Club is to be further
dolled up. This time the acquisitions
consist of beautiful marquisette cur
tains with velvet side drapes. As soon
as the curtains are hung the mem
bers of the club will celebrate either
the hanging of the curtains or the
rendering of a horrible bill for the
same by a dance for members and
their friends.
* * *
Walter Bullard, a former Cordova
boy, is at present in Seattle, attend
ing an automobile school.
* * *
The Alpha School of Dancing held
a recital Wednesday evening, which
proved to be a very pleasant affair.
Following the dancing, refreshments
were served.
.
Instead of holding a regular busi
ness meeting on Wednesday of next
week, the Ladies’ Aid Society will
give its annual sale of good things
to eat. The sale will be held in the
T. N. Hubbert tailor shop, and it may
be advisable to drop in early in the
afternoon, for the ladies do not ex
pect to have anything left by 5
o’clock.
* * *
Mr. Wetzler, postoffice inspector, ie
visiting in Cordova while waiting for
a south-bound boat.
* * *
Mr. Randall, for a long time postal
clerk on the river boats, is in Cor
dova, and will take the next boat go
ing to Seattle.
* * *
Dan Leach, superintendent of trans
portation, returned to Anchorage or
the Alameda.
' * * *
W. H. Graves, formerly of Cordova
is now living in Vancouver, B. C.
having been discharged from the Ca
nadian army.
# * *
Among the passengers gonig to the
westward on the Alameda were C. E
Dole and wife. Mr. Dole is the pur
chasing agent for the Alaskan engi
neering commission, and until re
cently was located at Seattle.
* ¥ *
Major McFarland and his twc
daughters were returning passengers
to Anchorage on the Alameda. Major
McFarland has charge of the tele
graph and telephone systems in An
chorage.
* * *
Little Miss Mary Noaks was hostess
to a number of her young friends on
Saturday of last week. The occasion
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was the seventh birthday of Mary,
and the event was made doubly en
joyable by the fact that this was her
first birthday party. Merry games
during the afternoon were followed by
delicious refreshments, served by Mrs.
R. H. L. Noaks, assisted by Mrs. Lines.
The guests present were: Betty Zieg
ler, Ann Ziegler, Marion Foster, Betty
Foster, Dorothy Dooley, Gracie Doo
ley and Minnie Dooley, Lenor Holden,
Ophelia Howard, Jessie Graham, Mr.
and Mrs. E. P. Ziegler, Mrs. Lines and
Mrs. Noaks.
* * *
Thomas Griffin, formerly connected
with the signal corps in Fairbanks, is
at present located at. Fort Bayard,
N. M. Mr. Griffin spent several years
in Alaska, and made a great many
friends here, before his health neces
sitated a change of climate. Friends
are pleased to hear that at present
he is getting along nicely.
* * *
Sergeant Shutts, signal corps man,
stationed at Valdez, was recently
transferred to the States. Sergeant
Shutts will pay a visit to his home in
New Jersey and then return to San
Francisco, where he will resume his
duties with the signal corps.
* # X
Sergeant Odle of the signal corps,
who has been stationed in Alaska for
the past, five years, was transferred
to Salt Lake City, and with his family
left Valdez recently to take up his
new duties.
* * *
Jim Morgan was a passenger on the
Admiral Watson from Ketchikan to
Seward.
* * *
Miss Mary Edelbrock and Miss Bes
sie White, two of the popular teachers
of the Cordova public school, recently
moved from the Day house to an
apartment in the Lathrop building.
* * *
Otto Kraft, the well-known merchant
of Kodiak, and his daughter, Miss
Margaret, were returning passengers
on the Admiral Watson this week.
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Latest advices from Juneau report
that Jack Kline and his wife, former
Cordovans, are preparing to go on
their vacation, which will be spent
in Chicago.
* * *
Colonel H. P. Warren, engineer for
the Alaskan engineering commission,
and his wife passed through Cordova
on the Alameda, on their way to Sew
ard, where Colonel Warren will again
establish his headquarters.
¥ * *
Dick Kerwood is at present in Los
Angeles, and seems to like the sunny
South. The time of his return to Cor
dova is indefinite.
* * *
Ed Smith, a successful quartz min
ing man of Fairbanks, is at present
in Cordova, awaiting the return of the
Alameda. Mr. Smith will go directly
to Oakland, Cal., to visit his family,
returning to Alaska some time in
March. Mr. Smith predicts an active
future for Fairbanks when the rail
road is completed to that city. It is
almost impossible to interest capital
In the Interior under present condi
tions; but when transportation be
comes easier and quicker there will
be a change in this respect, h« thinks.
Mr. Smith and his partner have been
operating their quartz mine for the
past eighteen months, and it is one
of the few in that section of the coun
try thaChas been entirely self-sustain
ing from the very beginning.
* * *
When last heard from Mrs. Helen
Bell was at her store in Ketchikan,
and she is expected to arrive in Cor
dova on the Northwestern.
* * *
Geerge Warmbold, a well-known
mining man from Brooks, is a guest
at the Windsor hotel, awaiting a south
bound boat.
* * *
F. W. Sommers, agent for the rail
road at McCarthy, and his wife were
visitors in Cordova for a few days
this week. The couple returned home
on Thursday’s train.
* * *
L. D. Colbert, brother-in-law of Mrs.
Frank Foster, and a well-known min
ing man of the Interior, is the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster. Mr.
Colbert will leave on the next boat
for San Francisco.
Delicious mince pie at the City
Bakery. 13-tt
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
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Todays
Games
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! in the Handicap Bil
liard Tournament at
the Horseshoe are:
Bloedhorn vs. Kelly,
at 4 p. m.
Walker vs. Mellison,
at 7 p. m.
Dr. Chase vs. Derry,
at 9:30 p. m.
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Sunday’s Games
will be:
Matson vs. Rawson, j
at 2:30 p. m.
Hoff vs. Winn, at
4 p. m.
Hoover vs. Gaffney,
at 7 p. m.
Graham vs. artwig,
at 9:30 p. m.
THE HORSESHOE j
BILLIARD HALL j
E. L. HARWOOD, Prop.
IHWHggasS^. ON DISPLAY
™wmr^fe^. Qur new fall line of Blue Serges,
I r YiT^n" Bankers’ Grays, Fancy Wor
Ss. r'in^ \ \ 1 steds and Imported Tweeds.
CUSTOM TAILORING fV All su ts will be made here
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