TODAY
is the
TOMORROW
that we worried
about
YESTERDAY
and it didn’t
HAPPEN
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TWO A' AVINGS
DOLLA1 OCIETY
The Modern Way of Saving
is by mail where Uncle Sam protects
your funds until they reach us.
Chir funds are invested onlg in first mort
£a£es on improved real estate, in citg,
state and U. S. Government Bonds
For over 17 years per annum
we have never on savings
paid leas than left with its
BOOKLET MAILED FREE
PUGET SOUND SAVINGS K LOAN ASSOCLATION
Founded 1901
Third Sf Pike St. Seattle, Wash.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
must have your co-operation to stop the waste
| that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE
WATER for the winter without further notice.
ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES |
First Street Phone 1 3
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HOW RETURNED
SOLDIERS A E
CARED FOR
N'KW YORK. Jan. 14 (by Associat
e<l i’rcsBl. "home >:liow."
Yep, Hrradway lor mine."
Veterans of tb" ' big show," ov< r
there and. incidentaly, veteran and
j somewhat blase first nighters of
j theatrical performances given within
] hearing of the crash of battle, a fish
| erman from Maine ami a Kansas
farmer, respectively sergeant and
corporal in the United Stales arm',
were "talking it over" as a midnight
train bore them from an evening s
amusement in New York to n nearby
debarkation ramp.
With several score of their com
rades, guests of the war camp com
munity service, which had provided
orchestra tickets for a star attrac
j ticn of the metropolitan dramatic
| season, they had enjoyed one of the
; numerous features of the welcome t<
homecoming troops conducted by this
organization. Harked by a fund ol
$9i)0,00u appropriated for its work in
the immediate future in this vicinity
j the war camp has a ranged an attrac
| live program of entertainment cover
ing the months of debarkation and in
tended, while giving evidence of the
country's appreciation of its oldiers'
| sacrifices, to combat the most insid
I ions enemv of armv morale— loneii
Inuring a year or more of constant
change of scene from cantonment to
transport, to training camp abroad, ti;
- the "hardening" trenches, to battle
to rest billets and back into the light
again the American soldier, the wat
camp directors say, has developed it:
- an extreme degree the "Where do w<
! go from here?' It. bit. Retime d h
I home soil in the proccs of detnobili
/atlon, it is inevitable, they declare
th; t he will chafe over detention at a
1 debarkation camp. To meet this sit
nation the organization provides the
aire parties, automobile rides, meal?
and sleeping accommodations fcr men
on leave in New York, while fop Jtic
bed-ridden wounded in the debarka
tlon hospitals almost daily entertain
mi tils are given by players from tin
leading Broadway productions, ap
pouring on professionally equipped
stages in the wards.
The New York war camp makes it
self felt as a "cheer up" agency for
homeward hound troops as soon at
their transports enter the harbor. It?
activities continue until the returning
units start for the demobilization can
tonments, when other branches ol
this countrywide organization, which
is to receive aproximately $20,not),(Hit
ol the United War Work fund, tuki
tip the task which leads eventual)' to
the soldiers’ hearthsides.
Some of the earlier contingents
| greeted as they came up the bay by j
the citizen's committee aboard a po
lire boat and by choruses of sirens
and whistles, were skeptical regard
i ing the material side of their wet- j
tome.
“They give us an official 'how-dye
do'—but what does that gel us?" was
! t;*,. comment of a 'doughboy,' and his
comrades nodded assent.
Their first moment ashore was one
I of enlightenment. The pier was pla
nt riled with announcements of the
''Community's” weekly vaudeville j
show, to which “Your uniform is your
pt as." and at the cantonment the
men found war camp workers waiting
for them, circulating information con
cerning the organization’s numerous
( stations in New York and arranging
with Iheir officers for various types
j of free entertainment. As a result, j
the soldiers' typical "let's go" found
ready outlet.
To "keep 'em smiling” the war
camp distributes every week among
returned troops, along with other,
ro:dlers. sailors and marines within
the city's gates, 10,000 tickets for the
J best metropolitan shows, many of |
; them donated by theatre owners; it !
j stages in the port hosptials six or!
seven entertainments a week, with'
l.toadway actors and actresses as
I volunteer performers; it conducts in;
the Manhattan Opera House every
Sunday afternoon a continuous vaude-;
villc performance, to which American
ami allied uniforms give admission;!
, it provides every Sunday, and when- j
ever possible during the week, auto- j
mobile sightseeing tours for Son to j
5uO wounded men; and it holds scores;
of “home again" parties, at which
hundreds of girls from the comrade \
society make merry with the men anti !
help to ease them hack into civil life
after their necessarily restricted
existence under military discipline.
This is the lighter side of the war
camp work, which provides comforts
, a swell as enlerlainment With it
hotel on West Twenty-seventh street
, s its ( enter, the organization main
'ties a feciiitiL and hoe tug ystem
capable of areomniodotin ; thousands
of men at a time. \t tie- hotel, which
ha - '1.500 hods, a matt in uniform may
spend the night and have breakfast at
a cost of 115 to 5o cents. Similar ar
rangements prevail at canteens and |
j smaller stations throughout the city, j
In the aggregate the war camp has
I sleeping quarters for 10,000 men, soon
j to be Increased to 15.000 through ft
gift from the war department of 5,000
beds
at ail in«'se sinuous a sour**: s ui
srilor's credit is good If a guest says
hi* is "broke" the workers take his
"I. (). r." The organization creilits j
its patrons, who have numbered many j
hundred thousands, with a record j
showing only one per cent of failures j
to redeem this pledge.
The war camp community service j
is one of Ihe "Iiig Seven" orymiza- j
liens pushing to promote the welfare j
f the fighting men. The work in New
York where $50,000 a week is expend
ed, is most important, because of the
! city's strategic location in relation
belli to the homecoming troops and
me sailors who are manning their
tr: imports, but at minor ports, as well
as at inland stations of all branches
of the army and navy, the program Is
conducted on a scale in keeping with
the number of men assembled.
Letters from thousands of mothers,
one file at headquarters, attest the
chi meter of the war camp service,
which stands as assurance to the fam
ilies and friends of more than four
million men in the army and navy, a
majority of whom will be discharged
within the year, that the time of wait
ing will bo lightened for tl em with
activities that are antidotes to home
sickness and discontent.
—♦—
j American flag was hoisted at Fort
I Tongass. Alaska, by Gertie and Hat
1 tie, daughters of Captain C. It Fierce,
Battery li, Second United States ar
tillery. says the Ketchikan Miner, in
i commemoration of the purchase of
} Alaska. October 18, 1867, six months
before. In time Gertie married a Mr.
j Sullivan. A baby girl was born who
I today is Mrs. Jack Jenkins of Ketchi
! kan. also the proud mother of a baby
girl. At the time of the (tag-raising
ceremony an ode was composed by
the local poet, Charles Stevens, a copy
of which is in the possession of Mrs.
Jeifltins.
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On complaint filed by I)r. H. J. Mc
Callum, Mrs. A. A. Zimmerman was
placed in the detention hospital at
Fairbanks, charged with being insane.
Mail Carrier Johnny Palm recently
arrived in Fairbanks with mail from
Chatanika and Yukon river points. He
reports about two feet of snow on the
trail.
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Joe Kelly has received a new ship
ment of Chesterfield underwear, suits,
gent's furnishing goods and ladles'
waists. He also has a fins assortment
of furs, which will b« *oW at reason
able prices.
WILLOW CREEK,
ALASKA
will soon become a second
Cripple Creek
$100 Invested Today in the
Little Gem Mine
will make you several thousand dollars within
a year or two.
1 am authorized to place a limited amount
of shares at
TEN CENTS A SHARE
and will accept Liberty Bonds at par value.
Will be at Smith’s Hotel for one week I
only.
R. DAVID REESE
Mining Engineer
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Alaskan Grill
FRANK A DOUGLAS, Proprietor
“The Home of Quality and Attention”
The Popular Restaurant of Cordova. Everything First-Class
Special Attention Given to Parties
One \ isit to the Alaska Grill Will Make You u
Regular Patron
ROOMING HOUSE 1
y Over Lindig’s Grill j
j PHONE 173 /
1 NORTHERN MEAT MARKET 1
S| Wholesale aud Retail Dealers in
Fresh Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton |
and Provisions |;
S Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Ordere from
| Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points
| Halibut and Other Fresh Fish of All Kinds Will Be Kept |
in Stock When Available ?:
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| SMITH & GLASSBRENNBR, Props.
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Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule Bubject to change without
notice.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent