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|| Dressy Overcoats from. 22.50 to 40.00
|| All-Wool Underwear in Many Weight# and
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JEWELRY
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Cordova
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PAUL BLOEDHORN
Watchmaker and Jeweler
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RESOURCES OVER A MUTUAL
TWO MILLION SAVINGS
DOLLARS SOCIETY
The Modern Way of Saving
is by mail where Uncle Sam protects
j your funds until they reach us.
Our funds are invested only in first mort
£a£es on improved real estate, in city,
state and U. S. Government Bonds
For over 17 years per annum
we have never on sayings
paid less than i left with us
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PUGET SOUND SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION
Founded 1901
Third & Pihe St. Seattle, Wash.
I Electric Wiring
and Repairs—
JOHN G. YOUNG
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Sheet Metal Workt.
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This Company has spared neither time
nor expense to give Cordova a continuous
WATER SUPPLY. To do this the Company
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must have your co-operation to stop the waste
that occurs from letting the water run to avoid
freezing the pipes. Where we find this con
dition still to exist we shall SHUT OFF THE
| WATER for the winter without further notice.
ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES
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i;i; ploded near one of the wards, and i
looked like a hit, but it simply hat
hit an outbuilding. They had abou
all the patients out and on the waj
to the rear, except one ward whicl
was filled with seriously wounded. /
big shell hit and exploded directly 01
top of this building and when th(
smoke and dust had cleared away, ’
noticed that the center portion of tht
roof, and part of the side wall was
blown away. I remember I was stand
irtg, sort of under cover, by a steair
sterilizer engine, with Sergeant ltice
and one or two of the other boys
:§ when this one hit. My heart, I think
|:j: missed several strokes, for I knew
that somebody had been killed or seri
ously wounded when that shell ex
plodded. I went down shortly al'tei
and looked into the building. There
;$■. had been a number of wounded mer
st lying there awaiting to be moved
— Lyle Stringham, one of our boys, whe
had been wounded in the head by a
shrapnel shell, early during the morn
ing, was in this building. Two men
were killed outright, and a numbei
wounded for the second time. Lyal
Stringham’s arm was broken by ';
heavy piece of flying steel. He had
just come out from under the. effects
of the ether. Orders came that we
were to close up, pack up, and get out
and that the wounded men would be
sent farther back. We did not get out
however, until about ?:30 that, even
ing; the shells were breaking arounc
us, off and on, all during the day
When we did pull out that evening, 1
can assure you it was a "grand and
glorious feeling,” because Busy It
— Chateau was, that day, no place for <
man who had hopes of seeing th(<
statue of Liberty, or La Grande, Ore.
again.
,We have been shelled several times
since then, but never in such an elab
orate manner. The main reason foi
this is that July 15th marked the las
big German attack and when it failed
the tables turned and most of the ar
tillery action was in their directioi
from that time on.
Prom Champagne the division wen
to Chateau Thierry, took Sergy, Hil
212 and a few others. The /fhe boys
had hard fighting there, too. We were
also quite busy for the first week
and were going night and day. There
are lots of men sent back gassea, but
the greater part of them are soon back
to duty.
The next place the division went in
> was at the St. Mihiel salient, and they
run the Hun from the tip of the
horseshoe to their objective, which
was a point even with the rest of the
line. We were on this front about
three weeks, and then moved over to
the Argonne Woods. This was a very
difficult front; the Boehes had it well
wired and held many strong points
from where they could command the
valley and woods. There was a great
deal of artillery action, also aerial
action.
The Americans had a great number
of bombers, but it did not seem that =
they were well equipped with combat
planes, but apparently they had good
protection for the bombers, for they
would go over the German lines in
waves of eight or ten planes, and it
was a common sight to see over a hun
dred planes in the air at one time.
The night of October 3tst the Amer
icans put on their big attack, which
broke down the Hurt defenses and
made it. possible to cut their main
lines of communication with which
they supplied their armies, and with
out which they were forced to make a
gonerai retreat. We were in a small
village named Anthe, when the armis
tice was signed November 11th, one
brigade of infantry from the division
had advanced as far as Sedan, when
they were relieved.
All during these different engage
ments wg were kept very busy. Some
times we would bo quite close to the
front and other times about five or six
miles back, it depended altogether
upon the front, whether an advance
was likely, or whether it would be a
standstill, and lots of fighting, where
our position was. At Champagne we
were about twelve kilometers Debind
the line, and the morning of the St.
Mihiel drive we moved up about two
kilometers ahead of our own artil
lery. • |
Considering the active service our [
unit has had, and the number of times =
we have been under shellfire, it is
somewhat remarkable that we are all
well, and not full of holes today. I am
sure that every man in the outfit ap
preciates the fact, now that the hard
days are, no doubt, over, that he did
go through the American part of this
war from start to finish. We also ap
1 predate the fact that we are part of
the Rainbow division, representing
' Oregon in the Rainbow, and we have
realized the responsibility to such an
extent that every man wanted to
’ make good, and he did, and the unit
did.
Another thing this little organiza
tion has to be proud of, and that is
that we are the only original and all
Oregon unit in Germany with the
American army of occupation. All of
the other Oregon national guard out
fits had rather unfortunate luck, pos
sibly with the exception of the railway
engineers, which was organized at
Portland. The Third Oregon were sent
over here with the 41st division, which
was used as a replacement division,
1 so they lost their identity as a regi
ment, and were badly split up. The
Third Oregon was the best drilled
regiment of men I have seen in the
army, and it was a shame that they
did not go through intact.
The soldiering here in Germany is
pretty fine, and it surely makes one
realize that to the victor belongs the
spoils. All the soldiers have beds and
are quartered in houses, hotels and j
public buildings, and I presume that
the German government, that is as :
soon as they locate a good one, pays
the bill. The German people treat us
very courteously, and the shop keep
ers are making special arrangements
to keep the boys supplied with fancy
souvenirs, at fancy prices.
From all appearances we shall be
here for three or four months yet. 1
am figuring on being home by July
1st mypelf.
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CUSTOMS RECORD ESTABLISHED
HAVANA, March 4.—Havana cus
toms house reports for the month of
January, 1919, show collections
amounting to $3,077,185.35, establish
ing a record for this port. The high
est previous month's collections were
$3,074,201.18.
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Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Orders from j
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Trains leave Cordova for Chitina eveiy other day
and retyrn from Chitina to Cordova on the following
day. Trains between Chitina and Kennecott run every
other day, making connection with trains between Chit
ina and Cordova.
The above schedule subject to change without no
tice.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p- m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent
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