New
Spring Goods
Silk and Wool Sweaters, Sport Skirts,
Both in Silk and Wool, Waists, Dress ss, Silk Hose,
Silk Underwear, New Cretons, New Silks, Dutchess Satins, the
Moon Glow Silks, China Silk and Broadcloths.
We Have the Agency for the
WALK-OVER SHOE
and have just received a shipment in all
of the latest styles
New Easter Goods
Arriving On Every Boat
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—Follow The Boy (That Follows The Flag—
Knights of Columbus
WAR FUND
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March 11th To March 16th
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The Knights of Columbus have established and are establishing recrea
tion centers in the military camps in this country and France. These centers
are life-savers for the soldiers. They not only rest and restore them phys
ically, but they are a boon to them mentally. They are home to the home
sick and medicine to the worn out. The camps couldn’t get along without
them. Creed is forgotten; religious lines are wiped out in this work. Protest
ants are as welcome as Catholics. No man is asked what he believes or
whether he believes. It’s just: “What do you need?”
Every Cordovan who gives to this fund is contributing to the comfort of
the soldiers.
Don’t wait to be asked to give. It is your duty to see that your dollars
get into the fund If you have given already, give again—give until it hurts.
You wilf never have an opportunity to put your dollars to a better use.
Approved and indorsed by President Wilson, Ex-President
Taft, Ex-President Roosevelt, Secretary of War Baker, Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels, General Pershing, Commanding Offi
cers of Every barton:;l y the Press of the Country, by
Clergymen of Every L»eaoniir.ation.
JAS. GALEN, Chairman F. A. JONES, Secretary
JOHN MULLER, Treasurer
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO JOHN MULLER, Treasurer
THE ONLY RESOLUTION
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Of
FOR GRESSION
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March
15. 1 Iw tact that Germany's home
supplies of iron ore are limited,
coupled with misgivings as to diffi
culties of post-war imports, is believed
to be at the bottom of the clamor
raised in German industrial circles for
the possession of the ore-fields in
"Naboth's vineyard” just across the
French border—the basins of Briey
and Longwy.
I rotessor K. Hager the new rector
ol tlie Munich technical high school,
in a paper read the other day before
King Ludwig of Bavaria and a dis
) tinguished audience, told his hearers
that the ore supplies of Germany
would only hold out 66 years longer at
the rate of the present annual output
of 19,290,000 tons. This is without
taking account the imports, which
before the war averaged 18,900,000
tons annually.
As for coal, of which Germany uses
157.90o.000 tons annually, there are
supplies for the next 2,500 years, the
professor said. He added that Ger
many had three times as much iron
ore as England, and double the amount
of coal.
To deal with the iron situation after
the war. Professor Hager made the fol.
lowing suggestions: (1) to acquire i
foreign ore fields, (2) to raise the im-!
portatioQ "£ foreign ore by means of!
tariff regulations, (3) to reduce ex
ports of iron also old iron, (4) to make
in old iron a state monopoly, and (5)
to reduce the iron consumption in
Germany itself to a minimum. To at
tain the latter end, he urges the use
of ferro-concrete, wood, china and ce
ment articles wherever possible in
stead of cast iron, while it would also
be advisable to perfect the present
methods for preventing rust.
USE KTICIL METHODS
FOH1EUEF OF SUFTEOINC
LOS ANGELES, March 15.—Suffer
ing in homes, due to the induction of
men in the families into the military
service, has been prevented, in many
instances, by a check system handled
through the public schools, according
to a report on wark work in the
schools just issued here.
The report states that in order to
get a list of homes where suffering
or hardship might have followed the
draft, teachers were asked to le-*-— I
from the pupils In each room whether
any members of their families h»d
joined the service. If they had rela
tives in the service, the teacher filled
out a simple card, adding checks
which indicated whether, from her
acquaintance with the pupil and his
circumstances, any possibility of
hardship existed.
The cards that indicated such a pos
sibility were turned over to the re
lief dh Ision of the Red Cross, and the
cases investigated, many families be
ing thus saved from real hardship and
suffering.
J The plan, it was said by the report,
had the advantage that the pupils did
not know of its operation, and as the
queries were made quietly, no one
wa3 wounded by any suspicion of mis
placed charity, while others who
needed help were found. A complete
survey of the city was made, it was
reported, without any expense and
within a few days of its initiation.
GERMANY ALSO ROASTS
ITS FOOD ADMINISTRATOR
NEW YORK, March 15.—Germifh
newspapers of the first half or Jan
uary recently received here have sus
piciously little to say on the food situ
atiori, which for two years before was
an important topic for discussion in
practically all the Berlin newspapers.
The coming political strikes, evoked
by food difficulties and the prospect
of an indefinite prolongation of the
war through the attitude of the Ger
man delegates at Brest-Litovsk, was.
perhaps, casting its shadow before and
causing the censor to discourage pub
lication of news calculated to augment
the dissatisfaction of the working peo
ple.
A decree of the Prussian commis
sion on food administration mentioned
however that mortality during recent
months had been as high as fifty per
cent above that of 1913 and, for that
reason, prescribed increased rations
fcr tubercular patients, upon whom
the effects of undernutrition are felt
with particular severity.
Food Director Waldow launched a
fulmination against various offending
municipalities, which were paying
above the maximum prices for various
kinds of food in order to assure a sup
ply for their inhabitants and were
thereby, he declares, contributing
largely to the steady driving up of
prices and to the disregard of the food
laws.
The newspapers, none of which is a
friend of the food dictator, retorted
very sharply that it was impossible
for the municipalities to secure enough
food to feed their populations without
disregarding the maxima, which is a
general practice through Germany, and
declared that Minister Waldow could
find, if he sought them, lawbreakers
enough among the Prussian state of
fices and war food bureaus.
Vorwaerts, for example remarked
that the central administration of the
Province of Brandenburg distributed
flour among its employes for Christ
mas at a price equivalent to eighty
cents per pound; that the Berlin police
perfecture sold butter to officials at
\
the equivalent of $2.12 per pound;
that a state factory gladdened its em
ployes with marmalade at 75 cents,
and beef For $1.18 a pound and that
one of the food distribution bureaus
under Minister Waldow secured for
its employes as a Christmas favor a
very poor quality of pork, which it
sold to them at $1.75 per pound.
The principal rations of the Berlin
population were still on the same
meagre scale as for months—namely
a pound of potatoes per day, four
pounds of bread, one half pound of
meat and about an ounce of butter
per week.
A slight improvement in the milk
situation had been noted, permitting
the restoration of the earlier rations
of milk for children, one quart for
those up to two years, three quarters
of a quart for those below the age of
four and a pint for children between
four and six years. Expectant moth
ers also receive a ration of unskimmed
milk. Skimmed milk could be ob
tained by other privileged ones, not
by the general population.
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Use less wheat and meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
is left.
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BIDS WANTED
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T he C. R. & S. W. Ry. desires bids
for 15,000 hewed or sawed hemlock
ties. Bids should be entered at the
office of Superintendent not later than
March 2.Jrd. Specifications may be
seen at the office of the Superinten
dent. Bids must be accompanied by
bonds in the amount of 20 per cent of
the total amount bid. Bids for the
cuttings of the entire 15,000 ties or
any less number thereof may be made,
j T he C. R. & N. W. Ry. Co. reserves
i the right to reject any or all bids. 16-6t
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
} FOR SALE—A number of gasoline
engines and boats, suitable for
clam digging. Apply Alaskan Hotel
Barber Shop. 14.tf
WANTED—A good camp cook; good
wages. Apply to Gus Ohm, Blum.
O’Neill store.
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. 6-t
FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms
in new building, or furniture for
sale. Munsell, Ball Park. 9-tf
WANTED—Dinner cook and baker.
Good wages. Schiller's restaurant.
15-tf
FOR SALE—New Home sewing ma
chine. Almost new. At the Bar
gain Store.
WANTED—Chambermaid wants work.
Apply this office. 7-4t
FOR SALE—One ton Kelly-Springfield
motor truck, nearly new, run about
800 miles, A1 condition, all but rear
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 RENT—Two rooms for house
keeping. Inquire American Bakery.
Mt
FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms
for housekeeping, downstairs in old
meat market. 5-6t
WANTED—Range, heating stove and
rugs. Must be in good condition.
Phone 171.
FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms,
downstairs in old Meat Market.
WANTED—JMoman cook. Apply this
office. 25-tt
FOR RENT—CaDins. See Dooley.
WANTED—Girls to work in clam
plant Apply Pioneer Packing Com
pany, 25-tit
WANTED—A girl for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. E. L. Harwood.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a gen
eral municipal election will be held
in the town hall at Cordova, Alaska,
on Tuesday, April 2, 1918. Polls will
be open between the hours of 8 a. nt.
and 8 p. m. There will be selected by
the votes of the qualified electors of
said Cordova, seven councilmen and a
clerk of the school hoard, and a refer
endum will be taken on an ordinance
adopted by the town council granting
the Cordova Power Company, its suc
cessors and assigns, a franchise to
operate a steam-heating plant in said
town.
The qualifications of a voter for
councilman are as follows: He or she
shall be a citizen of the United States,
or one who has declared his or her
intention to become a citizen of the
United States, over 21 years of age,
who has resided continuously one year'
next preceding the date of said elec
tion within the territory of Alaska,
and in the town of Cordova for the
six months next preceding the date of
said election.
All adults, male and female, who are
citizens of the United States, or who
have declared their intention to be
come citizens of the United States,
and who are residents of the town of
Cordova, are qualified to vote for the
clerk of the school board.
EDWARD F. MEIH.EY,
Towm Clerk.