SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
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Steps are being taken to organize
a post of the American Legion at
Petersburg.
T^ie Seward lodge of the Pioneers
of Alaska has decided to purchase a
lot and erect a hall in that town.
The town of Petersburg has been
fUdverUsing for a city electrician to
take the place of John Otness, who has
resigned.
Twenty-four babies were born in
Petersburg in 1919 and nine people
died. Eight couples were married
during the year.
That there is very little poverty in
Ketchikan is proved by the fact that
city spent only $60 last year for
the relief of destitution.
The Kasaan basketball team visited
Wrangell recently and played two
games with Wrangell teams. They
were defeated in both games, but had
a fine time.
Owing to the alleged poor service
furnished by the local water and light
companies, the town of Seward is con
sidering the proposition of bonding
f&e city to acquire these properties
and to have the municipality own and
operate them.
The Boy Scouts of Petersburg have
offered their services to the fire de
partment there to keep the crowds
back in case of fire. The offer has
been accepted. Each boy is to take
a staff about six feet long with him
to the fire, with which to keep back
the crowds.
As there is a big appropriation avail
able for work on the government rail
road this year, and the Alaskan engi
neering commission announces that
four thousand men will be hired in
Seattle to work on the project, it is
expected that good progress will be
made this year.
Ketchikan Post No. 3 of the Ameri
can Legion, at a recent meeting, voted
to publish the names of those persons
in the First division who relinquished
their first citizenship papers in order
ter avoid military service during the
late war. The list, containing forty
five names, was published in the
Ketchikan Chronicle.
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Owing to the fact that something
over $15,000 in delinquent taxes was
recently paid into the city treasury
of Seward, that town has now on hand
over $15,000, when it -would normally
be broke at this time of the year. On
account of the extra work necessary
in taking in these delinquent taxes
the city clerk is asking for $100 extra
pay for the year.
H. Jamison, representing the Cox
Bngineering Company of Seattle, has
arrived at Petersburg to make a sur
vey of the Bling river, near there,
whera^Jbe city proposes to install an
electric power plant. Mr. Jamison’s
company will give the Petersburg
council a bid on the installation of
the plant and the erection of the
transmission line to the town.
H. A. McNurney, for the past six
months in charge of the cable office at
Petersburg, has retired and left
Petersburg for Seattle to make his
home. Mr. McNurney retires with
the rank of master signal electrician,
aad will draw pay of that rating for
the rest of his life. He first came to
Alaska in 1904, and was stationed at
Sitka, and has been at Wrangell and
Petersburg since.
There was a lot-jumping in which a
gun-play was featured at Ketchikan
rejently. N. P. Olson is alleged to
have tried to jump a water front lot
claimed by the Alaska Trust and In
vestment Company. Olson is said to
have first pulled a gun and driven
the representatives of the company
off the property, and when he gave
the gun up to the officers, to have
driven the men off with his fists. He
was put under bonds to keep the
peace. The Chronicle claims that the
Alaska Trust and Investment Com
pany bought the property through a
dummy to sell to the city at a profit.
The city wanted the lot in a deal for
extending the street. Olson started
to jump the lot with the intention of
presenting it to the city.
Congoleum Rugs, suitable for every
room in your house, can be found at
the Northwestern Hardware Co.
LARGEST MUNICIPAL
STREET RAILWAY LINE
. OPERATED IN SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Seattle’s street railway sys
tem, said to be the largest municipally
owned in the world, now includes
85.71 miles of double track and 41.38
miles of single track, a total of 127.09
miles, according to a supplement to
the annual report of Thomas F. Mur
phine, superintendent of public utili
ties. The city owns 500 passenger
motor cars, 37 cable cars, and em
ploys 2,180 persons, the report says.
One-man cars, the use of metal tick
ets and skip stops were innovations
under city ownership that have result
i ed materially in economy of opera
tion and increased efficiency, Mr. Mur
phino* declared. The system was pur
chased by the city in March, 1919.
MAYOR REFUSES POST
ON ACCOUNT OF SALARY
BELPRE, Ohio, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Because of the low sal
ary, F. P. Murphy, newly-elected
mayor of this village, has declined to
serve as chief executive. The posi
tion pays $110 a year. The town mar
shal receives $300.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Advertise in the Dally Times.
PROFESSIONAL
DR. W. W. COUNI
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office and Residence, Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander
Building).
Phones—Residence, IIS; Office, 1315
DR. W. H. CHASE
Phyaician and 8urge«n
Lathrop Building
Phone 9
Established Cordova 19*8
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DR. W. D’ARCY CHACE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
WINDSOR HOTEL
Hours:
1 p. m. to 8 p. m. and 7 p. m. to 8 p. m.
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DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
DENTAL OFFICES
LATHROP BLDG. PHONE 200
CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. CORA DAGGETT
SPECIALIST
DENTAL PROPHYLAXIS
PYORRHEA X-RAY
OFFICES WITH
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
DR. VON ZESCH
Dentist
ADAMS BUILDING
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DONOHOE i DUUND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Offiset: -
CORDOVA and VALDEZ
FRANK H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ROOM 1, OSTRANDER BUILDING
4-4
EF.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
Room 1, Adams Block
CORDOVA. ALASKA
4-4
R.H.L NOAKS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
8ECOND ST., OPP. HOSPITAL
4---4
D. C. FAIRMAN
TEACHER OF PIANO
4-4
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL AND MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
Juneau, Alaska
* LIFE INSURANCE
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Accident and Health Insurance
United States Fidelity & Guaranty
THOS. S. SCOTT
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Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right Ovef Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
j Fresh Ever-Ready Flashlight Bat
teries, all sizes. Blum-O’Neill Co. 3-tf
i Job yriniiuy at uaiiy Times office
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CORDOVA MACHINE
WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Phone 101-3
Shop Phone 182
MachintS Work of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
CORDOVA, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
Helps You
On Built-In
Features
Our Catalogue for the Home-builder contains draw
ers and bins, cases for them, kitchen cabinets and other
pieces, knock-down or set-up. Study of these will aid
in planning a new home or improvements in an old one.
Write Rovtg. 2229 1st Av. S. Seattle. "Better Mill
work, Sash and Doors."
Costs Nothing
OB’S LAWS
STILL IN EFFECT
It’s a long time since Moses came
down the side of the mountain with
the ten fundamental laws, but they
are still in effect. They apply in Cor
dova as well as in the wilderness or
any other place.
You, Mr. and Mrs. Reader, violate
any of them at your peril. The wages
of sin is death in one form or another.
We reap what we sow in morals as
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well as on the farm. ;
Why not strengthen your religious
convictions by regular church attend
ance at our church? Come every
Sunday. You need the Gospel and we
need you at the
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
"The Church with a Message”
11 a. m 8 p. m.
H. B. WOLKiNC & CO.
Licensed
UNDERTAKERS
And
EMBALMERS
Phone 133—3
' FRESH FROM OUTSIDE
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton and Poultry
Wholesale and Retail
All Orders Given Prompt Attention
NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
8TEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHT#
Overland Hotel
MRS. J. W. KENNEDY
Chitina, Alaska
POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION
BUST BRANDS OF CIGARS KEPT
CORDOVA
SHEET METAL
WORKS
Goods Manufactured to Order, of
Sheet Iron, Galvanized Iron, Tin
and Zinc
Phone 143
Second St., Next to Hospital
WALLPAPER
In Latest Patterns
GLASS
In All Sixes
BOGART & ROBINSON
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| | A Few Words to Husbands I j
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| New ideals have come to hus- scrubbing. Washed in our way | ji
^ ! | bands on the question of what every garment is sweet and fresh | |
|| should be expected of a helpmate. —a joy to wear. j ji
| No husband now asks of his wife Then we iron the flat pieces- j I
| anything that he would not do ^ bed ljnens> the ta5Iecloths> | |
j bimself. the napkins, and so on, in our | t
| But many husbands forget improved manner. Other things, I jj
jj j about washday, with its heavy like skirts, the children’s clothes, j jj
* labor. And because they just and shirtwaists, we starch and f ?
^ haven’t thought about it, still make ready for the housewife I jj
! permit their wives to struggle on to iron. Many of the undergar- j jj
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» - . . , . ,. r ^ we dry them, need no ironing. *•
1 It need not be so in the future. J <
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g Our Family Laundry Service In substance, we do all the :j
| | offers a happy way out. This back-breaking work of washday, ji
^ | is a modem service—the cost is leaving to housewives only the ji
| | no more than washday at home, lighter ironing. |
| I and usually 1118 less* We will be glad to tell you 1
^ | We wash everything in water more about this family laundry | |
|| delightfully soft and in fleecy service. Telephone us any time. f |
I • suds of flaked soap. Nowhere Or mail us your address and we 1 |
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I the old-fashioned rubbing or family bundle. I |
j We treat your clothing white |
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