GAGE HATS
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J Just received a large shipment of
Gage Hats in the latest
SPRING MODELS !
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Smart Stunning Youthful
Some are Plain Tailored
Others are Trimmed
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We have only one hat of each model and an
early selection would be advisable
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| ALSO NEW SHIPMENT OF
| WAISTS and ' .ESSES
| Infants’ and Children’s Goods
| on the Next Boat
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Knights of Columbus
WAR FUND
Our Great President Once Said:
A supreme moment of history has come. The More are needed over here and “over there” with
hand of God is laid upon the nations. He will Pershing. $10,000,000 must be raised at once,
show them favor, I devoutly believe, only if they Every soldier or sailor, regardless of his religious
rise to the clear heights of His own justice and leanings, finds here a home and club where he
mercy- ’ may rest, read, converse and enjoy himself as he
" desires.
We are at war for democracy and humanity.
It is an All-American war and demands an All- ket no Cordovan fail in his duty. Make up your
American unity. The morale of ALL our soldiers mind today and say “I WILL” subscribe to the
and sailors is strengthened by the knowledge War Camp Fund of the Knights of Columbus,
that ALL at home are helping ALL at the front.
The soldier cannot stop after his first, second or 1
third fight. We at home cannot stop giving with
our first few contributions. Our soldiers must Governor Lister of Washington Says:
continue to fight—we must continue to give. ... . ...
“I have personally kept In touch with the work
Forty per cent of our soldiers and sailors are bei„B done by the Kn,Bht# #f Columbu, ,t c
Catholics—three times the quota according to ....
population Lewis. I believe it to be a line of activity that
will be of material benefit to our soldiers. Never
The Knights of Columbus In our war camps are , . , .
working shoulder to shoulder with the Y. M. C. A. hi*0ry ,0 much attentio" b#fore b«"
Both have more than they can do. given to the social and recreational part of a sol
“Everybody Welcome”—cheerily blazons forth d,er'« ,if® «»'» now the ease. The Knlghte of
from the seventy-three war camp recreation Columbus Organization is playing no small part
buildings already being operated by the Knights in this great work. I hope for your every sue
of Columbus. ces in the campaign.”
We are ail brothers today, United in One Cause
To Win This War—To Preserve Our
Government and Liberty
DO YOUR BIT!
JAS. GALEN, Chairman F. A. JONES, Treasurer
JOHN MULLER, Treasurer
Make Your Payments to John Muller, Secretary
i KUT, SCENE OF
I BRITISH DEFEAT,
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(By Associated Press)
I KUT, Mesopotamia, Dec. 28 (by
| foail). This city, the scene of the
British Mesopotamian army’s greatest^
reverse, after lying for many months
| a city of the dead, abandoned by even
y its native population, has gradually
I been rebuilt in the past six months,
fj an<( *s nnw a thriving town of nearly
as great population as in days of
| peace.
It was too important a center to be
neglected, it was a link between the
j Euphrates and Persia, and accord
ingly, after it had been deserted fori
more than two months, a British of-1
ficer arrived here to take charge of
the work of reconstructing it.
1 lie first thing to do was to clean
the place. The debris was dumped
erf of the houses into the streets; the ]
accumulated filth was buried or1
burned, the barricades were pulled1
down, the dugouts and trenches were
filled up.
An imposing colonnade bazaar was j
built along the river bank. A begin-!
ning was made with a coffee room and
some retail shops for the builders,
who for a long time were the sole pop
ulation. Skilled masons, natives who
had been employed by the Germans
in connection with the Bagdad rail
way, were collected and set to work.
They rebuilt and reroofed the old ba
zaars, widened the old streets and
built new ones, repaired the mosques,
: ’ the baths and the iee factory, put new
= engines into the flour mill, and con
| verted the flats and shoals in the mid
| die of the Tigris into vegetable gar
| dens.
Though still partly in ruins, Kut]
1 today is a cleaner and better town
’ than ever before in its history. Most
of the people are back again behind
their old doors. The bazaars are
t thronged. And the people are more
prosperous than ever, for there is
1 abundant labor for everybody in the
neighborhood. Some of the prominent
people of the town will never come
back. ‘ Eight of them, including the
sheikh and his sons, were hanged by
the Turks, and forty others were shot.
The house which General Towns
hend occupied during the siege has
been repaired, but the roof and bal
cony are still pitted with shrapnel.
Seven shell holes have been filled with
plaster. The memory of the general
and of his principal officers survives
in the names of the new streets. There
is Townshend road, Delamain road,
Melise road, and the names of the
brave regiments are recorded in Dor
set road, Norfolk street and Mahratta
row. Every association in the nomen
clature of the Kut is reminiscent of the
memory of its former defenders.
Especially the cemetery. The long
drawn agony of the garrison which
“fought and endured here so staunchly
to the edge of starvation makes one
of the most tragic stories of British
military history. Nearly 1,800 sol
diers of the British army died of
wounds and disease during the siege,
and are buried together in a bare mud
field Inclosed by a mud wall, with a
few starved palms in It, and hueless
desolation all around—but that is Mes
opotamia. The Turks dug trenches
all around the cemetery, but they re
spected the graves.
I Volunteer parties of bluejackets
from passing gunboats have landed
and trimmed these mounds of earth,
which are as clean-cut and neat now
as in an English churchyard. A brick
wall is being built around the inclo
sure. The place is grassless, It is
true, but the somber aspect will dis
appear when water is brought to the
land and the scrub palms are fertilized
and cared for.
Three miles below Kut is the only
enemy relic in the neighborhood. It
is an obelisk put up by the Turks in
commemoration of the fall of Kut. It
is a kind of Cleopatra's Needle on a
square plinth, all of kiln-dried brick,
plastered over. An old converted
British “cow-gun” stands as a trophy
on each side. One of the guns has
tumbled forward, and the plaster and
brick are already crumbling. The
monument was never unveiled, and is
still half covered with canvas sheet
ing, most of which, however, has been
carried away by the wrind.
FISH OF ALL KINDS
HALIBUT, CODFISH and
RED SNAPPER
Ice Box for Perishables. Big Stock
Always on Hand
I CORDOVA FRUIT MARKET
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
PRAISED BY Y. M. C. A.
The following article from the Camp
Dix Times, a Y. M. C. A. publication,
will give an idea of the splendid work
being done by the Knights of Colum
bus. What they are doing at Camp
Dix is only a sample of what they are
doing in the other camps. Read what
they are doing:
“The Knights of Columbus are doing
themselves justice at Camp Dix, and
In doing so are rendering great service
to the soldier boys and the country.
“If it were not for the great work
being done by the Knights of Colum
bus and similar organizations the life
:)f a soldier would be a weary one.
Tust imagine, if you can, what would
those brave lads do with their spare
hours after drill if it were not for the
entertainment and recreation afforded
them in camp.
"At Camp Dix, as in all other camps j
throughout the country, the Knights
of Columbus have built and equipped
Ihree beautiful and spacious buildings,
known as recreational halls, indicated
bv a large sign on the front and top
of the building reading. ‘Everybody
Welcome.’ Although the Knights of
Columbus is an organization composed
of the stalwart men of the Catholic
church, no line is drawn in their build
ings.
“All of these halls are equipped with
a player piano and music rolls, grafn
nolas, pool and billiard tables, wres-.
fling mats, boxing gloves, basketballs, |
footballs, checkers, chess, indoor base-,
ball games, moving picture machines,
libraries, medicine balls, magazines!
and newspapers, writing paper and
envelopes—in fact, everything that is,
possible for the needs of the soldiers
in order to make their lives as home
like as can be done for them in these
buildings. There is absolutely no
charge for anything.”
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COL. MEARS’ REGIMENT
TO OPERATE RAILROADS
Announcement is made by Colonel
Frederick Mears, former member of
the Alaskan engineering commission,
that the engineering regiment being
mobilized under his immediate direc
tion will be a railroad-operating organ
ization only. The new regiment will
be in no sense a construction unit or a
regiment assigned to the maintenance
of an existing railway.
With few exceptions, every man of
the new organization, which will be
known as the Thirty-first engineers,
will be an experienced railway oper
ator. Applications will be received
only from men who have good records
as locomotive engineers, firemen,
brakemen, railway clerks, yard fore
men, trainmasters, switchmen, con
ductors and others whose training
fits them for the duties of running
trains.
Colonel Mears’ regiment will mobil
ize at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and it
is expected that recruiting offices will
be established at various points
throughout the United States. It is
not improbable that one of the re
cruiting offices w'ill be located at San
Francisco.
A large number of the employes of
the Alaska engineering commission
have applied for enlistment under
Colonel Mears, but official announce
ment was made recently that no em
ploye would be accepted for service
until permission had been obtained
from Chairman William C. Edes. It
is not the desire of the military au
thorities at this time to obtain recruits
from the employes of the Alaskan en
gineering commission. The impor
tance of completing the railroad from
the coal fields to Seward is recognized
as being of military importance, and
until that portion of the road is com
pleted no encouragement to the enlist
ment of employes will be given. Em
ployes of draft age, however, will not
be exempted on the ground that their
work is of military necessity, as no
trouble will be experienced in filling
the places of those drafted from the
large number of applications on file
in the office of the commission.
Among the former employes who
have been granted permission to en
list with Colonel Mears’ regiment are
F A. Hansen, engineer maintenance
of way; C. G. Jones, roadmaster, and
F. U. Mayhew, assistant engineer.
They are at present in Seattle, await
ing the arrival of Colonel Mears, who
is expected to reach there soon for
conference. C. R. Breck, Jr, formerly
district engineer at Matanuska, has ap
plied for and will probably be granted
a commission in the organization. Last
week W. S. Kennedy, district store
keeper at Seward, received an order
to report at Fort Leavenwrorth, and left
at once for the South, sailing on the
steamship Victoria.
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Lent is with us and good patriots
are having a hard time finding any
thing they can drop from their diet
TJOSEVIG AND LUND
ABE CITED FOR CONTEMPT
Judge Jennings has cited Chris
Tjosevig and his attorney, M. J. Lund,
to appear Saturday morning to show
cause why they should not be pun
ished for contempt of court. The or
der was issued because of an affi
davit made by Tjosevig setting forth
that Mr. Donohoe, plaintiff in the case,
was Democratic national committee
man for Alaska, that he controlled or
greatly Influenced the appointment of
judges for Alaska, and was largely re
sponsible for the appointment and con
firmation of Judge Jennings, and that
Judge Jennings and Donohoe are per
sonal friends. It set up that the de
fendant felt that he was working at a
disadvantage before the court, and
asked that the court submit certain
facts to the findings of a jury, and de
manded, in case this be not done, that
another judge be called In to hear the
facts.—Juneau Dispatch.
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WHY DOESN’T THE
GOVERNMENT DO IT?
(By William Allen White)
Over and over again the Red Cross
solicitor in a drive for Red Cross funds
meets this question: “Why doesn t
the government do it?” or “Why are
we asked to pay for something the gov
ernment itself should pay for?"
Considering Red (Toss work in
terms of socks and sweaters and
chloroform and sweet-faced nurses
bending over wounded young men. or
surgical bandages, the question is per
tinent. But the medical aid or the
surgical dressings or the hospital work
or the sweaters, socks and wristlets ot‘
the Red Cross form altogether but a
small part of its activities. And, of
course, the government could do that
part of the Red Cross work easily
enough, merely by adding another ex
pensive bureau to the national admin
istration, and paying men and women
by the thousands for the work that
they are now doing for nothing. Nat
urally, it W'ould increase taxes greatly;
and it would put into politics some
thing that is now kept high and beau
tiful in life—almost in the field of re
ligion; but the government doubtless
could do it.
But could the government look after
the families of soldiers who need help
—look after them quietly, without pub
licity, giving them the benefit of ad
vice, encouragement, sympathy and
fellowship as well as the financial aid
suited to their needs?
Could the government spend half a
million dollars building canteens at
the railroad junctions all over France,
where French soldiers coming back
from the trenches on furlough might
have lodging, food, baths and a rest
place, all but free, and thus return
home clean and rested and happy and
ready to go back, instead of returning
[ home wet and hungry, and lousy, and
sullen—could the American govern
ment do that?
Could the American government get
from the commander-in-chief of the
French army the names of all the
French soldiers whose families are in
want, suffering this winter from cold,
and hunger, and disease, and look eat h
family up all over France and see the
the family is supplied with fuel and
food and shelter in plenty, so that the
soldier fighting in the trenches will
feel that his family is cared for and
will stick—stick—stick to the end, full
of courage and ginger—could the
American government do that yrork
which the American Red Cross is do
ing, and spending American money
by the millions in doing? Well, hardly.
Before that work was six weeks old
some pro-German pacifist would have
an injunction in the federal court to
stop it, claiming it is unconstitutional
—and with some show of righteous
ness in his contention.
Less than a week after the Italian
breakdown the American Red Cross
was in Italy with long lines of freight
cars loaded with surgical supplies,
food and clothing for civilians, and
distributing this aid to the hospitals,
and to the hundreds of thousands of
refugees, men, women and children,
fleeing before the German invaders,
and making America felt for brother
hood in northern Italy as no other
country ever was able to make itself
felt in the world before. Could the
government have done that with paid
workers and salaried politicians for
the job?
Within ten days after the Germans
were on Italian soil three unpaid work
ers of the American Red Cross were
going through Italy with thousands of
dollars in cash—-not in checks, but in
cash—on their persons, distributing
emergency aid to the stricken popu
lations of Genoa, Milan, Bologna, Ra
I venna and a dozen smaller Italian
J ‘"wns.