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In appreciation of the patronage of the ladies of Cordova
and the Copper River Valley during the past year we will give a special discount
OF FROM 111 TO 20 PER C NT.
-ON OUR ENTIRE STOCK
| THIS SALE INCLUDES Hats, Coats, Dresses, Waists, Shirts, Suits, Hose, Shoes, Corsets, Silk and Batiste
Underwear, Umbrellas, Gloves, Sweaters, Silks by the yard, Crepe de Chene and Georgette Crepe, Towels
and Toweling, Sheets, Pillow Casing, House Dresses, Aprons and Yarns.
All NEW GOODS Arriving During This Sale
Will Also Be Subject to Discount
MAIL ORDERS from the Copper River Valley and the surrounding towns will also be given strict attention.
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SHELL SHOCK I
WASHINGTON, May 27.—The gas
cloud, the bayonet thrust and the bul
let wound have caused many a repeti
tion in the war of the familiar story
of “The Light that Failed.” But
among the thousands of combatants
whose blindness will ever through
their lives prove a poignant sacrifice
is one who almost miraculously has
recovered his sight. And as an in
spiring sequal to the story of his phys
ical rehabilitation, the victim has an
nounced his intention of going back
to the trenches.
It was in the fierce fighting before
Gallipoli in 1915 that Thomas Skey
hi 11, a signaller in the Anzac forces,
was instantly blinded by the blast of
an exploding shell. Following a ter
rific bombardment from the Franco
British fleets that succeeded in si
lencing the Turkish forts at the en
trance to the Dardanelles, thousands
of Irish, Australians and New Zea
landers, with British and French
troops, landed in an effort to sweep
past the defenses of the peninsula and
take Constantinople.
The world knows the story. For
nearly a year the allied forces strove
valiantly to take defenses that proved
impregnable. Thousands of lives
were sacrificed, and many bodies
were maimed by the withering fire
that came from the foe's positions on
the hilltops. It w»as in December,
1915, just a month before the allies
carried out their splendidly success
ful evacuation, that the light wTas
taken from Skeyhill’s eyes.
Months of service had given Skey
hill a deep insight into the motives
that had induced his comrades to sac
rifice gladly their lives. Incapacitated
for further fighting, he sought tc
preach the gospel of the allied effort
from the lecture platform and through
the press. Although barely over his
majority—he enlisted at the age ol
19—-he soon jjecame known as a power
fully effective lecturer. His speeches
were instrumental in rallying hosts
of Australia’s man power to the col
ors, and his verse .published undei
the title of “Soldiers Songs of Anzac,’
i
caused him to be popularly known
throughout the Antipodes as the “blind
soldier poet.”
Recently he left Australia, where
his name had become a household
word, to come to America for a series
of lectures in the interests of the (ted
Cross. His first addresses at San
Francisco were heard by more than
150,000 persons. He met with simi
lar Successes in Reno, Salt Lake City,
Denver, and finally in the national
capital.
Although suffering from his phys
ical disabilities, Skeyhill announced
his intention of inaugurating an in
dividual drive with the object of rais
ing a million dollars for the Red
Cross. He had been afflicted with
violent headaches for more than a
month. In San Francisco he had
been obliged to go to a hospital; in
Reno he had nearly bled to death
from hemorrhage, and in Washing
ton he suffered greatly from pains in
his neck.
A Washington specialist found that
the vertebrae at the base of Skey
hill’s neck had been dislocated in
three places, presumably by the shock
that had blinded him. A simple
osteopathic operaton was undertaken,
and as the vertebrae were snapped
back into position .the sight returned
to the soldier's eyes. It was explained
by the physician that the displaced
bone had impaired blood circulatior
and nerve connections with the eye
centers of the brain.
As the realization came to Skeyhil
that the darkness that had hung ovei
him for more than two years hac
been dispelled, he became seized with
an ecstatic joy that nearly unhinged
his mind. His mind became a blank
concerning the years that had elapsec
i since his injury, and he imagined him
; self back in the bayonet charge ir
which he had been wounded. His con
dition -became so acute that he was
removed to a hospital, but after ;
night’s sleep he regained his menta
poise.
Skeyhill immediately after the op
oration was able to see objects witl
perfect clarity, but for several days
was afflicted with color blindness
This is rapidly disappearing, and his
sight s expected to be as good a:
ever in a short time. His case i
believed to be the first in which i
complete cure of shell shock has beer
effected.
The soldier-poet will complete hi
work in the Red Cross drive and thei
will try to rejoin his Anzac comrade:
in the trenches overseas.
HOME GUARD EQUIPMENT
EXPECTED HERE SOON
-George G. Hazelet. chairman of the
National Council of Defense, has re
ceived the following self-explanatory
telegram from Governor Thomas
Riggs:
“Delayed answering letter Home
Guards May 13 pending information
from Washington regarding equip
ment which may be expected. Home
Guard organized under law of June 3,1
1916. Am sending what information !
we have first mail. Reasonable rentj
of armory is allowable. Advise me I
amount needed. RIGGS.”
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MIN Si IS SH
i SI BRITISH IN fnm
LONDON, May 27.—A British sub-1
marine has sunk a German submariner
of the cruiser type near Cape St. Vin
cent. Portugal, says an official admir
alty statement.
fEUN SUBMUIKII
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MADRID, May 25.—An official
| statement was issued this morning to
! the effect that Gorman submarine No.
56 had entered the port of Santander
; at 6 o’clock yesterday morning.
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NOTICE TO MERCHANTS
Notice is hereby given that Cindia
; D. Beran and the undersigned have
li separated from bed and hoard, and
that the undersgned will not be re
| sponsible for any obligations or debts
j hereafter contracted by her.
PAUL BERAN.
May 27, 1918.
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FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING —
Remodeling; all kinds of sewing;
5 satisfaction guaranteed. Mrs. J. C.
1 Funk, Windsor hotel. 25
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and
, astigmatic lenses replaced. See Oa
borna.
AT THE
Empress Theatre
Monday, May 27, 1918
Proceeds to go to the
RED CROSS
War Fund