GAGE HATSs
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Just received a large shipment of
Gage Hats in the latest
SPRING MODELS \
Smart Stunning Youthful
Some are Plain Tailored
Others are Trimmed §
We have only one hat of each model and an
early selection would be advisable
1 ALSO NEW SHIPMENT OF
1 WAISTS and DRESSES
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Infants’ and Children’s Goods
on the Next Boat
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Knights of Columbus !
I WAR FUND
Our Great President Has 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/ 1 may re8t’ read’ conver8e and enjoy himself as he
desires.
We are at war for democracy and humanity.
It is an All-American war and demands an Alt- Let 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
8aij0rs i8 lengthened by the knowledge War Camp Fund of the Knights of Columbus,
that ALL at home are helping ALL at the fronL
The soldier cannot stop after his first, second or ■ ■■
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 h.in_ h, « - , . . '
~ .. .. being done by the Knights of Columbus at Camp
Catholics—three times the quota according to . .. .
population. Lewis. I believe It to be a fine of activity that
_ - . . wil* 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. " hl8tory has 80 much attention before been
Both have more than they can do. given to the social and recreational part of a sol
“Everybody Welcome”—cheerily blazons forth di*r’8 life 38 i8 now the ca8e’ Th* Kni0ht8 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 suc
of Columbus. ces jn tj,e campaign.”
mm.
We are all brothers today, United in One Cause
To Win This War—To Preserve Our
Government and Liberty s
DO YOUR BIT!
JAS. GALEN, Chairman F. A. JONE^, Secretary
JOHN MULLER, Treasurer
Make Your Payments to John Muller, Treasurer
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
VOTE FOR
JAMES L. GALEN
Republican Candidate for
Road Commissioner
Primary Electian Tuesday. April 30
JAMES E. WILSON
Road Commissioner
Solicits Your Vote for Re-election
Primary Election Tuesday, April 30
VOTE FOR
HENRY A. SLATER
Republican Candidate for
Representative
P imary Election Tuesday, April 30
VOTE FOR
JOSEPH H. MURRAY
Republican Candidate for
Representative
Primary Election Tuesday, April 3(
CLIFFORD H. PHILLIPS
Announces His Candidacy
for
Clerk of School Board
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Will Make you
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SOLDIER BOXING BOUTS
LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 4.—A
least 80 soldiers and sailors are es
pected lo be entered in the boxin
tournament of the Los Angeles Ath
letic Club to be held here March 7 am
8 under the sanction of the America]
Athletic Union. De Witt Van Courf
boxing instructor of the club, will tr;
out some of his new material in thes<
events.
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(By Associated Press)
A PORT IN FRANCE, Feb. 10 (by
mail).—A little more than six months
have wrought a mighty change in the
base at which, last June, the first
division of American troops landed to
go into training for their fight with
the Germans.
The docks have been and are being
enlarged, storage warehouses have
been and are being built, the harbor
has been dredged out to accommodate
more and larger ships, and the rail
road facilities have been nearly
doubled and are being increased day
by day.
The enlargement of the port has
| created a somewhat anomalous situa
tion. For whereas up to about the end
of last year troops landed more regul
arly and quickly than supplies, so that
it was sometimes feared it would be
necessary to draw temporarily on the
French for their support, the base is
now in the position of being able to
handle more tonnage than is at pres
ent coming to it, either in the form of
supply or troop ships.
The capacity of the port would, how
ever, be almost reached with the com
pletion of the docks and store houses
now under construction if it were not
for far-reaching engineering plans that
are underway.
Auicutaii auiuonues eariy rore
I saw that even comprehensive dock en
largements would inevitably result in
congestion and contusion if some out
let were not arranged for the increas
ing supplies expected to arrive when
they are needed, and which even in
creased storage space could not be ex
pected to accommodate. The problem
i resolved itself into one of transporta
; tion.
Therefore, while the railroad tracks
| at the port itself are vastly more nuin
! erous than they were six months ago
the American engineers have conceiv
1 ed a plan whereby a vast tract of land
| three or four miles back of the porl
| has been taken over, and is being de
- veloped coincidently with the port it
5 self.
On either side of a huge basin inti
| which ships can if necessary be towei
| and unloaded, dozens of parallel spu
| tracks are being laid. They will servi
| a dual purpose, for cars either can bi
| filled from barges and vessels brough
| into the basin, or cars loaded at thi
| port itself can quickly and easily b<
| hauled to the spurs and there made u|
| into trains.
| 'if The Americans already have takei
| over on lease from the French cei
| tain lines of railroad which will b
e fed from the yards of the port and o
its complementary station in the real
| They are increasing constantly the el
1 ficency and capacity of the port itsel
'i by helping the French to economiz
| in dock and transportation space.
| The American plan which envisage
1 caring for vastly more volume thai
3 the port would normally accommodate
I even wun tne enlargement of dock
II and store houses, is not original wlti
I them but is more or less a copy o
| what the English have done at anothe
| port, where they have increased th
| daily output of merchandise fron
| about 200 cars or less to more that
I 700. This they have been able to d<
1 by laying out huge yards to the reai
i of the actual port to avoid congestior
and to facilitate making up trains.
The steady development of thf
American port has made it necessarj
to rearrange the manner in which the
work is done. Last July a comparative
ly small branch of the quartermaster’s
department was amply able to superin
tend and manage the unloading and
distribution of supplies. Today the
work has grown so that it has had to
be entrusted to a railway transporta
tion department that is growing in
size every -week and which now merely
turns over to the quartermaster, as it
does to the engineering, the aviation
and all the other departments such
material as belongs to each.
To keep pace with the increasing
volume of supplies that arrive, a huge
i force of workmen has been found nec
essary. Two regiments of colored sol
diers, numbering three thousand men
. and most of them husky stevedore
and longshoremen from New York and
, southern ports in times of peace, now
do the bulk of the unloading from the
I ships and the reloading of the trains.
l A not inconsiderable force of Ger
man prisoners of war, with whom the
, negroes especially seem to enjoy fra
, ternizing, are at work about the docks
from early morning until evening.
Every able male citizen of the port,
and many not so able-bodied. In addi
tion to all the women who care to
work, have found employment and of
course at wages that were hfthert.i un
known. The city may be said to be in
the heyday of its prosperity.
The somewhat chaotic conditions
that naturally prevailed when thou
sands upon thousands of newcomers
flooded into the city from the boats in
late June have subsided. Those sta
tioned permanently in the port have
gradually settTed down. In the few ho
tels and in many private families. The
officers have established messes for
themselves at which they can avail
themselves of American food, and the
men who are not quartered in the town
itself, live at the original camp where
General; Sfbert and his first division
stayed until it was time to go to the
training camp behind the front.
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ALSATIANS ATTACK
GERMAN GUARDS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, March
Z'-—A pitched battle between the Ger
man frontier guards and a detachment
of German deserters who were trying
to escape across the border into Hol
land took place a few days ago just
across the barbed wire boundary.
The -deserters were Alsations and
were well armed. They were accom
panied by a number of Belgian work
men, who also wished to escape into
Holland. The Alsatians had been on
the Russian front throughout the war.
and were just being transferred to the
west.
As they approached the boundary,
the German guards opened fire, but
the Alsatians replied promptly, killing
and wounding three of the small party
of guards. The others retired to seek
reinforcements while the Alsatians be
gan cutting the wire, wrhich was pres
ently short-circuted, causing a blaze.
Before a path had been opened across
the border, a detachment of mounted
German military police galloped up.
After a short skirmish, the guara suc
ceeded in overpowering the Alsations.
A few of the Belgian workmen, how
ever, succeeded in getting into Holland
safely.
CORDOVA
| MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Shop
Phono 101-3. Phone 132
Machine Wo: k of all Xlnda,
' Blacksmithing, General Hepair
, • Ing, Horse Shoeing. Oxv Acety
I lene Welding and Cutting
■ HARMON MACHINERY
* BUILDING
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, Cordova. Alaska.
s Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
1 Attention.
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; CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING,
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. FOR SALE—One ton Kelly-Springfield
- motor truck, nearly new, run about
r 800 miles, A1 condition, all but rear
i tires. Cost f o. b. $2,350 (some new
parts extra). Will sell for $750 cash,
’ if taken soon. Owner going Outside.
» Call or write O. L. Johansen, Chitina,
, Alaska.
FOR SALE—Chespeake hunting pups.
f See Geo. Dooley, 4-2w
-. WANTED—To rent piano. Apply Mrs.
> I Nina Nichols, Empress theater.
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t FOR SALE—Three room house, fur
, nished. Enquire this office. 2-tt
Bargain Notice—For sale one four
foot fireproof safe, three National cash
registers. Adress Prospector. Valdez
FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms,
downstairs in old Meat Market.
FOR RENT—First-class restaurant lo
cation^ Apply Cordova House. 28-tf
WANTED—Woman cook. Apply this
office. 25-tf
FOR RENT—Cabins. See Dooley.
LOST—A crescent nugget pin. Finder
will please return to Times office.
WANTED—Girls to work in clam
plant Apply Pioneer Packing Com
pany. 25-6t
WANTED—A girl for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. E. L. Harwood.
FORE SALE—Furniture. Apartments
for rent, up stairs over Dougherty's
store. 23-6t
FOR SALE—New Remington typewrit
er. Slightly uesed. $75. Telephone
94. Htf
FOR SALE—$1800 cash. Three lots
and building on A street. Cost $3,
750. Renting for $20 per month or'
131-3 per cent. See F. A. Jones,
Modern laundry. (j-t