The
REXALL STORE
Can Supply Your
BABY
NEEDS
;
In our big stock of drug store supplies we have paid parti
cular attention to the line of baby needs. In the department you
can find all the well known items that are required for your baby’s
If health and comfort
Horllck’s Milk Hygea Bottles
Mellln’s Food Talcum Powders
Robinson’s Patent Barley Milk Magnesia
Sugar of Milk Laxative Syrup
Rexall Baby Remedies Nursery Castile Soap
S Lime Water Infant Syringes
Castoria Nipples
Glycerine Suppositories Zinc Sterate
Baby Water Bottles
Cordova Drug Co.
7%e Store
E. V. BOYLE, MGR.
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My New and Complete
Hat - Blocking
Outfit
is now in operation. Bring in
your old hats and have them
made like new.
PEYSER THE TAILOR
PHONE 188
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CORDOVA
SHEET METAL
WORKS
Goods Manufactured to Order of
Sheet Iron, Galvanized Iron, Tin
and Zinc.
Phone 143
Second St, Next to Hospital
Real Alaska Jewelry
can be had at Osborne Bros., Manufacturing Jewelers, who make Jew
elry of all kinds fom Alaska gold.
We have the only GRADUATE OPTICIAN in Cordova, and can
grind lenses on short notice.
OSBORNE BROS.
EXPERT JEWELERS, WATCHMAKERS, ENGRAVERS
FRESH FROM OUTSIDE
Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton and Poultry
Wholesale and Retail
All Orders Given Prompt Attention
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NORTHERN MEAT
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STEAM HEAT ~T~T~~~
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
Overland Hotel
MRS. J. W. KENNEDY
Chitina, Alaska
POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION
BGST BRANDS OF CIGARS KEPT
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1 ASCENT OF MOUNT ECCLES IS
GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED BY
MEMBER DAILY TIMES STAFF
BY MARY BAEN WRIGHT
Last Friday the curtain of mist
which for several days had narrowed
the stage of our town life, lifted to
reveal a wonderful background of
green-forested foothills and jagged
rocky crests of snow-patched moun
tains outlined upon a brilliant blue
sky. A perfect day for mountain
climbing, thought Miss Margaret Kol
benson, her guest, Miss Myra Phillips,
and her room-mate, Miss Mary Baen
Wright. So, plotting an assault upon
Mount Eccles, they immediately began
boiling eggs and spreading slices of
bread with deviled ham.
Though the face which Eccles turns
towards Cordova is stern, forbidding
and merciless, he is not utterly un
approachable. He's not as bad as he
looks, but he’s bad enough. You have
to sneak up on him from behind.
Noon found the trio entering the
slashed trail back of Beachway, which
they followed to a dilapidated skid
road. By the time they had toiled to
the top of this they felt quite equal to
; tripping up the five-foot steps of the
pyramid of Cheops. Fine training,
that skid-road, for anyone planning a
tour of Egypt!
The upper end of the old skid-road j
opens upon beautiful green meadows,
dotted with violets, buttercups and j
pale purple daisies. Here and there
the water of the squashy tundra has
drained into pools upon whose quiet
surfaces float yellow water lilies. On
the banks the girls found that curious I
little varnicorous plant, the sun-dew,!
and watched with interest the delicate
# red fuzz of the leaves fold down upon
~ tiny gnats and “no-see-’ems.”
A short distance on lay the city
reservoir, the terminus of a pipe line
which led back into the hills to a
roaring water-fall. Along this banked
up pipe line the girls walked, spring
ing across the soft places, but some
times not nimbly enough to prevent
their being swallowed to the knees in
the muck.
They left the pipe line patch to fol
low the bed of a stream strewn with
great chunks of petrified wood, and
- soon encountered some real climbing
on a slope so steep and slippery as to
be almost insuperable. By throwing
their lunch boxes on ahead and dig
ging with their fingers into the slope
they finally reached the next bench.
From here the ascent was difficult.
The three waded the narrow beds of
tumbling streams, dug feet and hands
into almost perpendicular snowbanks,
and zigzagged sideways across the
slopes, clutching for dear life to every
fragile bush and plant in reach.
Far aloft in the blue, above the
- smoke and stir of this dim spot that
- men call earth,” circled a magnificent
bald eagle, looking down disdainfully
upon the painful upward struggle of
the three humans. . They, for their
part, scarcely dared to glance down
upon the dizzying depths beneath, re
membering the fate of the Seattle
teacher who toppled off Pinnacle
peak on. Mount Rainier a few years
since, and rolled and bounced down
the mountain side to Paradise valley,
a mile below.
Climbing became easier near the
J summit, where the rocks and scrub
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spruces began to jut out. One of the
climbers, seeing herself far out-dis
tanced by her more active and experi
enced companions, and reaching a
slope which offered no foothold what
ever, unlaced her hiking shoes and
squirmed to the top without them.
There, while refreshing their weary
bodies with a mess which had orig
inally been sandwiches, cake, boiled
eggs, bananas, pickles and chocolate,
the three teachers agreed that moun
J tain climbing was like getting an edu
cation—each upward step revealed
outlooks and possibilities undreamed
of down below. Beneath them, all '
the Copper City and Lake Eyak in
a glance; to the left, the bay, like a
breadth of shimmering blue satin,
stretching out past Pinnacle rock,
Strawberry point and the Hinchin
brook beach to the sea; behind them,
mile after mile of river flats, and on
the furthest verge of the ocean that
terrific granite fang known as Cape
St. Elias.
In a bottle on the summit were
found names of several who had
scaled the peak—among them Mr. and
Mrs. George Osborne, Clinton Pinkus,
Billy Field, Frank Burns and Edna
Thawley.
The descent, contrary to expecta
tions, was scarcely less difficult than
the ascent, for in trying to find slopes
which seemed not absolutely impossi
ble, the girls found themselves in an
almost impenetrable maze of alders,
devil clubs and giant ferns. Some
times the only wTay down a precipice
was to swing from the boughs of a
spruce, without being able to see or
to feel any reassuring footing beneath.
With nerve-snapping speed they slid
down a snowbank and at last reached
water, which they thankfully scooped
up in hatfuls to relieve their choking
thirst.
Then for possibly half a mile they
trudged down a ravine in which the
snow had accumulated to a depth of
ten or twelve feet. This new wilk
ended abruptly where it joined a
stream blocked by a high dam, over
which plunged a roaring torrent. No
planks—no stepping stones—what to
do. Nothing evcept to drop down on
all fours and made the knee-keep, ice
cold torrent. But they were rewarded
by finding on the other side a good
path, which led down to a foot bridge
spanning a chasm.
A queer sound halted the three—
a peculiar sniffling, chuckling sound—
and out upon the plank there advanced
a large bow-legged porcupine, bristling
with all President Wilson’s fourteen
main points and several thousand
minor ones. As from the present of
ante-bellum royalty, the hikers re
spectfully backed off the bridge, none
showing any desire whatever to argue
the right-of-way with the snub-nosed
stranger.
A distinctly steep and rocky climb
beyond the bridge, a drop down on the
other side, and there was the pipe line
path across the green flats, marked
out in the gathering twilight by but
tercups which shone like stars. Then
down the skid-road, into the thicket
along the beach, over the trestle and
back into town dragged three very
weary young women—one so weary
that she was not able to be up next
day, to scribble her usual amount of
“Village Gossip” for the Daily Times.
CHURCH WORKER RETIRES i
TO TAKE UP FARMING
NEW ORLEANS, July 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Karl Lehmann, nation
ally known because of his work during
the last dozen years in the interest of
the Christian Endeavor movement,
and for the last five years general sec
retary of the organization in the south
ern states, has retired, and Charles F.
Evans of Lexington, Ky,. is expected
to succeed him as general secretary.
Mr. Lehmann announces his intention
of taking up farming in Lake county,
Florida, and assisting in the work of
an agricultural school at Monverde.
Geo. Anderson, piano expert Is in
Cordova until Friday. Phone Wind
sor hotel. 13-3t
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW l
USED FOR A CATS PAW SHE
SCRATCHED THE WRONG WAY
A tensely dramatic story of a young girl,
poor as a church-mouse, who hob-nobbed
with millionaires until she found out
their game—then turned and beat them
at their own designs.
ALASKA TRANSFER COMPANY j
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TRANSFER AND STORAGE
COAL AND WOOD
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AUTO SERVICE
DAY OR NIGHT
Office, Northern Hotel Bldg. Phone 85 i
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Manhattan 1 iotel \
LOUISE DEJONGHE, Prop. j
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Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL. CORDOVA, ALASKA 1
PHONE 99 |
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CORDOVA FISH & COLD STORAGE CO.
Swift’s No. 1
Stee r Beef
ALL KINDS OF MEATS AND POULTRY
FISH, CRABS AND CLAMS ^
Order by Phone 141—3 Rings Or our driver will call on you
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