THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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Alaska, as second-class matter
H. G. STEEL
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REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
CONCERNING MR. DEBS
If Eugene V. Debs should be elect
ed president of the United States
would he be permitted to leave At
lanta in order to be inaugurated at
Washington? Or could he pardon
himself before -.taking the oath of
office?
These are grave questions which
demand serious consideration in these
days when almost anybody may be
come somebody and any minute is
likely to be our next.
HEY, PASS THE SUGAR
Sweet sirs, before you load up on
fugar at panic prices, under the fear
that you. will have to pay fifty cents
a pound later, and glad of the chance,
read of the singular action of the
National Preservers & Fruit Pro
ducts association, and of the National
Association of Manufacturers of Fruit
Syrups and Soda Water Flavors. The
first of these includes in its member
ship Armour & Co.; Libby, McNeill &
Libby; Austin, Nichols & Co.; Welch
Grape Juice Co. and others. It uses
250,000,000 pounds of sugar a year
It has voted against buying any sugar
until the present prices are cut in
half—even if ! this means shutting
down. The soda water men are against
making any contracts at. this time and
these quotations. These large con
sumers say that the market is now
made by speculators. Well, what’s
good enough for Armour is good
enough for us. And if these con
sumers of more than 112.000 tons of
sugar per annum stay out of the mar
ket, there should be enough left for
us folks who use ten pounds or so a
month.
OUR SUMMER OF DISCONTENT
(From Fairbanks News-Miner)
The summer of 1920 will go down
in history for the next ten years as
Alaska’s summer of discontent, for it
is now that Lopp, the reindeer coun
ter and head of the Indian schools
of the territory, is branding all the
“cities” of Alaska as smalltown stuff
and the brand cannot be effaced for
another decade, because it is natural
for people to lie about their town
population, every one expects them
to and won’t believe their statements
but will refer to the official figures,
and the population he and his repre
sentatives give us will stick.
Cordova, a city of concrete pave
ment and concrete blocks, with an 8
page daily paper and often two of
them, is set down as a country town
of 955.
Valdez, the Gateway to the Garden
of the Gods (Fairbanks) is allowed
the crossroads population of 466.
Fort Liscum, which is supposed to
own enough soldiers to protect all of
Alaska, has 156 souls residing there
at.
Seward, the Other Gateway, also
concrete blocks, two banks and a
newspaper different from other Alas
ka newspapers, and which is noted as
the home of that greqft promoter,
John E. Ballaine, is given the tiny
suburban rating of 652 men, women
and children.
Latouche. of which you can see but
a millhouse. bunkhouse and a general
store and two or three shacks, is al
lowed 505 population, and Anchorage,
the government-built “city” where
Col. Charles Herron encourages blue
fish to dig danker ponies from the
sands of the seashore, and which is
claimed to have 3,000 railroad builders
working there, is rated at 1-856. in
cluding all who are alive there.
Fairbanks, for ten years the reput
ed and statistical metropolis of Alas
ka, has—they haven’t landed on us
as yet, but the reindeer counter has
our number and when it arrives we
will be willing to bet it won’t satis
fy our people. And, it may be right, at
that.
Ten years ago the government
made a business of taking the census,
“regardless.” They left it to civil ser
vice men, turned plenty loose on the
job, furnished them with plenty of
money, and they did a good job. This
year the government was “on the
cheap,” and they gave it to the edu
cational (Indian) branch of our ter
ritorial family, and he appointed as
assistants school teachers who had
nothing else to do and ministers who
had even less except on Sundays, and
they did the work- It is possible that
all of them did their best- and it may
be possible that all of them obtained
the correct figures in their camp, but
we shudder to think of the day the
Fairbanks figures are given out, for
the human balloon will sure go up
in our town on that day and date
when we are branded, numercially for
ten years to come.
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS
Wrangell, while perhaps not the
first city in size or importance in the
territory, will enjoy the pround dis
tinction of being the first spot in
Alaska cn which an array plane will
stop.—Douglas News.
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The census returns for Alaska that
are just beginning to b« made public
will show the population of the ter
ritory at its lowest ebb. Taken dur
ing the winter months even vhen
A’aska was most prosperous, a cen
sus would fail to show its full popula
tion because many Alaskans have
formed a habit of going south at that
time and are necessarily missed in
the enumeration.—Juneau Empire.
An unfortunate situation has arisen
in Ketchikan which may lead,—“no
one knows where.” It is brought about
by the walkout of sixteen laborers
at the new bank building, demanding
seven dollars a day, instead of six
dollars, the going wage in Ketchikan
for common labor, so-called. The cir
cumstances surrounding the walkout,
the attitude of the laborers, and the
contractor, and the present and fu
ture effect upon the town and its peo
ple are worthy of deep consideration.
—Ketchikan Chronicle.
Advertise in the Daily Times
SHORT-ARM
JOLTS
A pretender is always an “inten
der.”
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“A house divided against itself”—
the modern duplex.
Any wife is supposed to keep sweet
on her husband’s sour looks.
Who told you that your word was
the final authority on anything?
A man may be a shark at figures
but he never wishes to figure in a
scandal.
If you are prepared to love a gold
fish you are qualified to marry a wom
an with a hobby.
Envy ought to be kicked out of
every life because it is a consumer
and a non-producer.
Every woman knows that her good
for-nothing husband was led astray
by evil companions.
Who remembers the old-fashioned
girl who looked all around before
boarding a street car.
If you love everybody it’s a moral
certainty that some one out of the
entire crowd will love you
Wealth isn’t everything, but most of
those who have it do not seem to
know that it isn’t everything.
If you can extract a laugh out of
every solemn situation you’ll live to
be a hundred without half trying.
All men agree that a woman is
beautiful but no two women will agree
that the same woman is beautiful.
You can’t tell a romantic young girl
that love isn’t everything, and you
can’t tell a married woman that it is.
There was never a man who could
n’t trust himself who didn’t get mad
all over if anybody else failed to trust
him.
“Slow and sure” is a good motto
if you interpret it right—slow to an
ger and sure to smash hard afte:
ward.
We know one way to help this paper
shortage, but creditors probably
wouldn’t pay any attention to the sug
gestion.
Before he marries her he thinks
she’s “one girl in a million,” and
afterwards he knows she is just one in
several millions.
If you are enterprising and honest
you will be commended but if you are
successful you will be eulogized and
no questions asked.
The head of the family may fail in
lusiness or die and not cause half
the commotion in the house that the
arrival of a new baby produces.
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More prayers would be answered if
they were worth answering. The Lord
probably hasn’t much time to fool
with the one-cent postage kind of cor
respondence.
Petty troubles are like fleas—the
more you hunt for them the worse
they itch. But they’re different from
fleas. A dog never dies of fleas but a
human being often dies of small trou
bles.
A telegram was received recently
at Valdez from Deputy Marshal
Frank Lowes of Dillingham, on Bris
tol bay, stating that a shooting af
fray had occurred there. The names
of the principles were not given. The
telegram also said that five insane
persons, recent arrivals at the can
neries, were there awaiting shipment
to the states.
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DON’T OVERLOOK THE
4TH OF JULY
DISPLAY
AT
AUNTY KEATING’S
WEE SHOP
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THE PEARL IS THE BIRTHSTONE
FOR JUNE
WE HAVE PEARL STRINGS FROM $15.00 TO $30.00
PEARL RINGS. EARRINGS AND LAVALIERES
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PAUL BLOEDHORN’S
Jeweler and Watchmaker. Phone 132
For a (alorious i I
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Fourth !
THE NEWEST OF SUMMER j
STYLES IN FASHION-' j
ABLE DRESSES j
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Among the very latest of the most |
exclusive new styles we are showing •
■ such extremely clever costumes as the i
| new three tier dress which is one of the j
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j SKIRTS FOR DRESS AND SPORTS
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ing so smart, cool and so stylish as a
pretty blouse worn with an ultra mod
ish skirt such as these are. in plain col
ored fabrics as well as the latest checks
: and plaids.
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My New and Complete
Hat - Blacking
Outfit
Is now In operation. Bring In
your old hats and have them
made like new.
PEYSER THE TAILOR
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BUILDING MATERIALS OF
ALL KIND8
Brick and Lime
CORDOVA MILL AND
LUMBER CO.
CORDOVA
SHEET METAL
WORKS
Goods Manufactured to Order of
Sheet Iron, Galvanized Iron, Tin
and Zinc.
Phone 143
Second St., Next to Hospital
OSCAR’S PLACE
FOR
GOOD CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS OF ALL KINDS
ALSO
Pool Tables
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Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
LAUNCHES
PIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master
regular trips to KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings
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