The Empress
_TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP_
FORD EDUCATIONAL WEEKLY SHOWN FIRST
The Emotional Artiste
PAULINE FREDERICK
In the Superb Five-Act Drama
“The Spider”
Cast of Characters
Valerie St. Cyr—Joan Marche.Pauline Frederick
Julian St. Saens.Thomas Holding
Count De Poissy.Frank Losee
Two-Reel Fox Comedy, “His Merry Mix-Up,”
A Side-Splitter
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Mrs. Nina Nichols at the Piano Regular Admission
SAMMIES OVER HERE
GET BEST OF WESTS
WASHINGTON, March 27—Ameri
can fighting men are receiving the
firest, the freshest, and the purest
meats that America can supply.
Sammies can sink their teeth into
every good red chunk with assurance
it’s as good~-and better—than the
folks back home are getting. It
reaches him ten-fold inspected and
“certain-teed” by the most perfect na-|
tional meat inspection service in the
world.
Only selected meat from healthy!
steers—not bulls or heifers—is al-,
lowed to go to the troops.
It is shipped by the most direct
routes that it may arrive fresh.
From the steer on the hoof, to the,
time the meat drops into the mess-pot
it the front, it is subject to a constant
inspection by trained U. S. meat ex
perts.
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NOTICE
Tomorrow, Maundy Thursday, there
will be a meeting of» Scottish Rite
Vlasons in Masonic hall at 8 o’clock
p. m. All visitors are welcome. There
will be no meeting of the Eastern
Star tomorrow night.
HARTLEY HOWARD, Pres.
HOLY WEEK SERVICES
Thursday, 11 a. m. (Maundy Thurs
lay), holy communion.
Good Friday, 11 a. m., matins and
sermon.
The services will be held in the Red,
Dragon.
LOCAL DOINGS
L. L. Steckler, of Seward, was ar
arrival In town last evening.
But three more days remain ir
which to register for the municlpa
election.
Cordova's Home Guard military com
pany is increasing in membership at f
most gratifying rate.
Any business house desiring a wai
bulletin service can arrange to se
cure same Trom the Daily Times.
Almost daily rehearsals are now
being held for the big vaudeville show
to be given at the Empress theater or
April 20.
Tuesday was another busy afternoon
at Red Cross headquarters. Four hun
dred and sixty surgical dressings
w-ere made.
The steamers Northwestern and Ad
miral F'arragut left Ketchikan at 8
o'clock this morning and are both due
here on Saturday.
Deputy Marshal H. C. De Line, of
Valdez, is spending a couple of days
in Cordova. He is accompanied by
his wife and little daughter.
The train w-hich was snowed in at
Mile 31 returned to town late last
v‘ fa -
night, and a local will leave for Chit
ina on Friday morning, „
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A meeting of the national council
of defense will be held at the United
States commissioner’s Office on Fri
day evening and a full attendance of
the members is requested.
The local exemption board is anxl
ous to secure information as to the
whereabouts of Daniel Morrison Shree
nan. He was formerly employed by
the Cordova Packing Company.
The Pioneer Packing Company has
about forty diggers on the clam beds,
and expects to begin its summer oper
ations on Monday next. More than
fifty employes for this plant will ar
rive on the steamship Northwestern.
Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans, of
Seward, arrived from the westward
last night on the Admiral Watson. He
is one of the best known and most ef
ficient federal officers in the territory
and is here in connection with govern
ment business.
Pauline Frederick, in “The Spider,”
will bo the attraction at the Empress
theater tonight. It is described ar an
unusually powerful drama. The lord
Weekly News and a two-reel Fox com
edy, “His Merry Mix-Up." make up the
balance of the program.
There not being a quorum present
the Cordova Credit Association did
not meet last night, and if this organ
izntion is to accomplish the objects
for which it was formed more inter
est will have to be manifested in its
affairs by the business firms of the
city.
On Saturday the Daily Times will
begin the publication of that great
war story, “Over the Top," which is
being so widely read in the states.
There will also be some other espec
ially interesting features in this issue,
which will consist of twelve pages.
The sixty-one Anchorage young men
aboard the Admiral Watson for the
states to enlist in Major Mears’ en
gineering regiment, were tendered a
dance at Hegg’s hall last night, while
the boat was in port. There was a
large turnout of young people and the
affair was very successful.
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A caravan consisting of two hour
horse teams each hitched to a canvas
covered house placed on runners re
cently attracted much attention at
Council. The houses carried enough
food and supplies to last for sixty days
during which time the men will be
busy taking up the C'ouncil-Solomon
railroad and preparing it for shipment
outside.
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