HAPPENINGS OF
LOCAL INTEREST
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The steamship Alameda is due from
the westward tomorrow.
J. S. Taylor and wife, of Seattle, are
spending a few days here.
W. J. Feaster, United States mar
shal at Chitina. is here on business.
Deputy Marshal W. J. Feaster came
down from Chitina to join the Elks.
John Muller, who spent a few weeks
at Slate creek, returned on yester
day’s train after a pleasant vacation.
Louis Elmer, the young son of J .M.
Elmer, Slate creek operator is here on
his way to the states to attend school.
Misses Valentine and Mildred Ander
son of Fairbanks, are Cordova visi
tors, en route to the states.
D. L. Green and wife were among
the arrivals on yesterday’s train, who
are on their way to the states.
J. E. Liebig and wife, of Santa Ana,
California, who are touring Alaska are
spending a few days in Cordova.
Richard Robarts who has been em
ployed as engineer on the Glacier,
will leave on the Alameda for his
home in Tacoma.
Ben Centino, who has been fishing
at Mile 55, returned to town yes
terday and Mill leave for the states
on the next boat.
J. L. Fozard of Latouche is expect
ed on the Alameda from the M^estward,
on his way to the states M'here he
will spend his vacation.
Billy Taylor, who has spent the sum
mer here in the employment of the
Hillery-Seott Cannery, will leave on
the Alameda for the states.
Tonight the Elks will entertain all
members of that order at a smoker
to be given in the Eagle lodge room
and as- an elaborate program has
been prepared a good time is in store
for all who are fortunate enough to
be eligible to attend.
Dr. Basil C. Parker, who recently
arrived from the states, left on this
mroing’s train for Kennecott where
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he will begin his medical practice.
Geo. J. Appel and E. C. Wills, old
time Alaskans, who are now located in
the states but made a trip to the in
terior are here on their return to Cal
ifornia.
V. E. Dzabaiff, who has mining
interests in Dan Creek arrived in Cor
dova on yesterday’s local and will
leave on the next steamer for Seattle
and outside points.
On Friday evening next the mem
bers of the Northland Club will en
tertain their lady friends at an infor
mal dance.
A1 Shields and wife, who have been
employed by Alaska Public Utilities at
their Humpback power plant, arrived
in town this morning and will leave
for Portland on the Alameda.
There were three more candidates,
Robert Mooney, Dr. Louis Wolfe, and
W. J. Feaster, initiated into the EMks
last night, making forty-four who have
taken on antlers this week. Nineteen
more applications are awaiting to be
acted upon.
H. A. Slater, A. N. Fields, J. H. Sel
lin and Bartley Howard, this morning
accompanied James Howarth Begg,
grand master of the Masonic order
for Washington state and Alaska, to
the glaciers at Mile 49, where they
spent the day viewing the grandeur of
the scenery and watching the glaciers
in action.
Through some fluke in transmit
ting a telegram the Anchorage ball
team did not receive the message
intended for it and consequently is
not aboard the Alameda to play here
tomorrow. An effort is being made
however, to have the champions of
the westward come here next week
and play a series of three games.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Services will he held in the Masonic
hall Sunday at 11 a. m. Subject,
“Mind”. Sunday school at 12 m. The
reading room will be open Wednes
day from 2 until 5 and from 7 until 8.
All are cordially invited to attend.
LABOR SCARCE
FOR MONTANA
CROP HARVEST
HELENA, Mont., Aug. 21 (by As
sociated Press).—The Helena com
mercial club advertised in the east
jand west for common labor,_ with
indifferent success although wages
offered are good.
Nowhere in the state has a surplus
of labor been reported since the
boom which began shortly after the
war started. Even in Butte, where
mine production has not been on full
time for some months, there is
little idleness, it is stated. Farmers
have difficulty in obtaining hands
although assisted in great measure
by high school and college students
who have come into the fields in
large numbers.
MONTANA FOREST FIRES
SPREAD ON FLATHEAD
INDIAN RESERVATION
MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 21 (by As
sociated Press).—The forest fire sit
uation in the northwest is much im
proved generally, the forest service
headquarters announced yesterday,
but the flames are spreading on the
Flathead reservation.
NO DROP IN SUGAR
BEFORE JANUARY 1
NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Retail sugar prices
will not drop before January 1 and
may increase, in the opinion of John
B. Floyd, special agent of the depart
ment of justice, who was assigned to
the task of rounding up profiteers.
SEATTLE, Aug. 21—(Special to
the Times).—Prices at noon Aug. 20:
Halibut, 20c; chicken, 10c; sable fish,
5c; red and ling co, 2c.
Cordova Jazz Orchestra Dance at
Eagle Hall on Wednesday and Satur
day nights. Music by the Ragtime
Trio.
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