SPECIAL SALE
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HATS
WW §§8B
Every hat in the store, values from
$3.75 to $10.50, for
83.50
NEW CRETONNES
in the pretty pastel colorings reasonably priced
The Cordova
Style Shop
Would You Help?
Time Is Precious
War has a way of driving on with
out regard to the desires or
conveniences of the
individual.
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....This is no time for hesitation.... S
If you are going to do your part to bring
victory nearer, you must get started.
The Government wants what your
money will buy—and wants it before it
is too late to be of use in this war.
Join a War Savings Society. Decide now
to cut down the unnecessary things and
lend what you save to the Government.
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fws.s. Do Your fws.s.1 I
"WAR SAVINGS STAMPS l^n »•/ VAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE 1 iff t ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT
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I.AKK CHARI.BS, l.a.. July 20. -
An aerial amliulanee service assign* I
to C.erstiiei li Id. near here, has made
Its first run to ri tual service and In*
fulfilled the expectations of officers
who advocated its adoption.
A lieutenant at target practice at
the aerial gunnery school, about
twenty miles from the flying field, re
cently, while descending at terrific
speed from a high altitude Snd firing
his machine gun at a target placed on
the surface of the lake, failed to flat
ten out sufficiently when he com
pleted his dive, and crashed into the
water. He was rescued immediately
but while not seriously injured, was
badly bruised and shaken up, neces
silating a few days' confinement t<
quarters
The round trip by automobile fron
Clerstner field to the gunnery school
consumes from un hour and a half t<
two hours over a rough and round
about road Instead of telephoning
for a car the aerial ambulance was
ordered.
Forty-five minutes later it had madi
tin- forty-mile flight from (ierstnei
field to the lake and return, and tIn
injured aviator was in his quarters
receiving medical attention
The flying ambulance is describee
as a large biplane with the usual seal
for ibe pilot and an adjustable or re
dining chair for the patient. To <1 is
tinguisli It a large red cross is painted
on the wings
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ENGLISH FOOD SHORTAGE
RELIEVED DV AMERICANS
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LONDON. July 2" "This countrj
will never again have to go througl
any period of such trial ami irritatiot
as arose from the food shortage whir l:
caused tin queues in the country Iasi
autumn and in February and March.’
said John Robert dynes, acting food
controller in the course of a State
ment recently on the food situation
, Mr. dynes told of the immensr
change that has come over the coun
try since a few months ago, when hr
and his chief. Viscount Rhondda, wort
about to ration the people. So great
is the change that the talk of revolt!
firm on food shortage has passer
away, and trade union conference!
now end without mentioning food.
"We have to thank our bountlfu
! ally, America, for great food supplies,
said Mr, dynes. “She has had meat
less and whentless days in order tr
send us more "
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Writing Paper for Soldiers
Three hundred million sheets o
writing paper have been ordered foi
the free use of American soldiers ai
home and abroad The Y. M. ('. A
has ordered 200,000,l»o« letterheads foi
immediate distribution lo the camps
and cantonments in this country anti
i 100,000,000 leterheads to he sent pi
the American expeditionary forces
| within the next three or four months
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Tubercular Given Care
dty councils of defense in Illinois
| are organizing committees to keep
tubeir uk" mt'ii oui of the army, to
I care dr ildiers returning with tuber
>■ and to establish sanitariums,
cir it, . ,.rl education to check tuber
culosis in the civil population
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Have you looked over our stock of
i C’ongoleum rugs? The Northwestern
I Hardware store.
r n Fru-n] Ahnlnl-orjtlrto.
Fir'er Rabbit betur mahe hls
i- j t>• skeerce en not go pro
n* roun* uhar <h*r> a cookin’
ii* on, ’cause a rabbit In a pot is
» ">in’ tor look n»I^ht> -;uod to in os’
e lviu.ily ’fo’ 1 >n; ’count er f »lka |
ha in’ ter save on m*at. ’Sides
foil s’II kinder have : save do
wh it flour fnr comp’ny n t bread
n a e outen dis yore ‘ substitute** !
hour. Pat wise of* O 1 dotu. sav ilat
to win de wrv.* you not ter feed de
sojer boys dut’s doin’ de fightin*.
J ut's w'at’n takin* do wheat or. moat.
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I' 8 Food Administration.
Ol’ Squire ’Tutor ’low he goln’ to
he mighty nigh king er de roos’
’mong garden muss folks. We alls
kin eat him as a 'tutor boiled, baked,
fried. st**wed, cooked wid cheese eti
dey gettln’ so dey make Im inter
flour; hm’s we kin "substl-tute” him
fo' wheat flour. He's de ”«uh«tltu
tenost" of all de vlttles, he sez.
De udder garden sass folks lak
Inguns, tomatues. cabbage en turnips
en squash don't need to git peeved,
'cause dey’s goin’ to he room In de
pot fo* de whole tribe Kv’y las’
one on ’em can he’p save wheat en
meat fer de hoys dat a Join’ do fight
in’ over yander.
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The "anglers’’ say "we have th*
right kind of tackle to get the hi:
ones." Better outfit from the North
western Hardware Co.
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR LETTERS OF ADMIN
ISTRATION
In I'nlted Suites <ommissioner s
Court in ami for Cordova Precinct,
Territory of alAska In Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of Andrew
Nelson, deceased.
Notice si hereby given that K E
Holden has Hied with the above-en
titled court his petition in manner
| and form as required by law, wherein
he prays that he be granted letters of
administration of the estate of An
j drew Nelson, deceased, and that Sat
\ urday, the 24th day of August. 1918.
' at the hour of 10 a. m. on said day, at
| the office of the undersigned I'ntted
States commissioner and ex ofHcio
probate judge, at Cordova, Alaska, has
been fixed as the time and place for
said hearing, at which any and all
persons interested may appear and
show cause. If any there be, why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted. EDWARD F. MEDLEY,
Cnited States Commissioner, ei of
; flclo Probate Judge.
First publication. July 18, 1918
Last publication. July 22, 1918
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