Special to Mothers
WE WISH TO ANNOUNCE to the MOTHERS of
Cordova and vicinity that we are adding
to our store an
Infants' and Children's Department
And will give this department the same careful atten
tion and will carry only the most high class merchandise
that the market affords. Any suggestions from the
Mothers pertaining to this department, wouid be greatly
appreciated.
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“DO YOUR BEST”
For the |
And Help
WIN THE WAR
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IRE ■ DISCREDITEE
(By Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 5.
Alaska bears are not always “weath
erwise,” for this winter several of then
came out of their holes and endec
their period of hibernation late in De
cember, long before the arrival o
spring, according to J. C. Uhl, a pion
eer big game hunter who recently
spent several weeks on the Eagle riv
er, near the government right of way
between here and Fairbanks.
Uhl said he saw several bears
prowling around late in December and
that this was the first time he had
ever heard of them leaving their holes
at that time of the year.
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Eat le3s wheat. Get into the corn
line.
THINGS IHIT1STDNISH
RETURNING SOLDIERS
PARIS, Feb. 15.—One of the French
trench newspapers has been asking
. soldiers returning from leave what
i astonished them most in Paris. Here
are a few typical replies:
To see people sitting down to their
- meals.
To see unoccupied cellars.
To find there are women who are
not grocers.
To find people who want to go to
the country.
To see funerals.
To be asked to sit down when get
ting one’s hair cut.
To hear civilians complaining about
their hardships.
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If you want printing of any kind
call up the Times office.
MO IS ElUiSTED
1TH tUBLE BEE
(By Associated Press)
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 6 —
1'our cars of ballast, costing approxi
mately $30 a ton, or about $3200 for
the entire lot, are being tried on a
section of the transcontinental rail
road near Billings. Whether it proves
successful or not, it is not likely that
any more will be used.
The four cars, filled with manganese
ore, were started for the Pacific coast
from a mine at Phillipsburg, Mont.,
and were mistaken for cinders. The
ore is black and resembles coal some
what in appearance, but is extremely
heavy. The officials of the railroad
are trying to learn who comandeered
the ore for track foundation.
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LOWELL MELLET
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
I ARKS, Nov. 25.—Havre isn’t much
fun on a windy winter’s duy.
( apt. Dobson and I tried a movie, i
attracted by a bill which featured
T“resident Wilson" and “Joe l’ldole
du Rauch." The President was an ani
mated creation of a charcoal artist,
but Joe I'Idoled around before the
camera in the flesh and chaparrals, to
the accompaniment of an Indian upris
ing, a 1 endleton round-up and much:
fat comic relief.
The movie should give the French
an Interesting idkia of the brains, ux
our regular army. The movie regu
lars were infantry; air they had. to do
was to overtake and capture a flock'
of red Indiass aboard fleet-footed
ponies that skimmed across the sage
brush regardless of all speed laws.
As if the handicap were not enough,
the movie producer had provided the
brave font soldiers with a beautiful
but immense star spangled banner to
carry!
The captain and I lunched on well-'
cooked and variegated food in an un
ostentatious, though ambitious, little
cafe; the proprietor will be able to1
retire in comfort when the war is
over.
Capt. Dobson's French isn’t all it
might be. Quite apart from our order, J
the waitress brought two large glasses
of lager beer. It was clear, to my
mind, that she had mistaken his or
der for butter, though he insisted it
was my order for boiled potatoes. I
At the railway station we plumped
into an officer of the American mili
tary police. His home is Denver and
he’s a marine. He was sore because
the marines hadn’t been allowed to be
the first in the trenches.
“The marines are always first," he
argued.
Dinner on the train likewise was
marked by plentitude and paralyzing
prices.
A porter at St. Lazare station found g
me a taxi, driven by a dignified look- £
ing Moor in long whiskers. I directed £
him th# hotel. £
Iru|Hntly from somewhere in the {
HflWrounced an indignant Frenchman
proclaiming that the driver had no
right to drive to that hotel. He was j j
so vociferous about it that he gather- i J
ed a crowd in much less than a min
ute, notwithstanding it was midnight $
and the streets had seemed deserted. £
The crowd, including several soldiers
seemed to share his views. They :$
joined in the noise, which became £
terrifying; but the Moor on the box
seemed unmoved. The crowds number
and its rage increased, but not a 3
whisker of his trembled. Eventually, ^
he started the machine and hustled £
awayr to the hotel, followed by the
imprecations of the moth
I don't know what it was all about.
PARIS, Nov. 26—Breakfast, it
seems, is coffee and rolls, with per
haps. some jam. I ordered jam in a
perfectly strange restaurant. On the
Mil I found a charge for the whole pot
—one dollar. Explained I hadn’t eaten
the whole pot, but that made no dif
ference. The waiter brought me the
pot and had me write my name oa it.
Now I’ve got to eat there frequent like
or lose money on that jam.
Found Col. House bravely stem
ming the tide of inflowing French dig
nataries In the large suite of hotel
rooms devoted to his mission. Gor
don Auchincloss was cheerfully tell
ing nothing whatever to a group of
American correspondents. He was
cheerful because he had just been
through an ordeal with the reporters |
from the local papers, after which the,
Americans seemed easy.
The appearance of the Paris papers1
made Auchincloss tear at what re
mains of his hair. The papers had
mixed things. There are three distinct
things involving the American mis
sion. One is the inter allied war con
ference. Another is the interallied
council and the third is the supreme
war council. Some of the same per
sons participate in all three, but most
of them don’t. Given a chance like
this to mix things, the Paris papers
did a thorough job. However, it doesn’t
in the least matter, since the work
the three are to do does not depend
on the newspapers.
It doesn’t matter, apparently, any
more than the newspaper opinion here*
that there should be one supreme gen-i
eralissimo. In the views of other eoun-1
tries’ representatives here, as thus
far obtained, have any weight, there'll
be no generalissimo.
The Place Concorde, on which Col
House’s hotel is situated and the
streets and boulevards leading Into It
all have one point of similarity. They
are filled with American soldiers.
Never saw as many American soldiers
in all America, or so it seemed, as I
saw today.
Met one who looked lonesome for
someone to talk with. He had certain
absolute opinions about Paris. He
hails from Cripple Creek, Col., but he
swore there is nothing so wild and
wooly in the West as Paris is today.
He referred t® the matter of wicked
ness.
Can’t pass on his opinion, but It
disagrees with that of a fad from
W ashington, D. C, an officer whom I
met at the hotel.
“Frightful bore, Paris.” he averred
Maybe what shocks the one bores
the other and maybe the Colorado boy
was judging the city by its picture
papers, which as he truly remarked.
Burleson would not allow in the Amer
ican mails.
Am sure I don’t know.
After London one misses music in
the cares. There is light and laughter,
wine and women aplenty, but the space
once taken by the orchestra is now
filled with tables. Apparently it is no
loss to the restaurant business, this
prohibition of music, for all tables are
filled until the lights go out at 9:30.
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TO DRAIN LARGE AREA
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Feb. 6 —
Steps looking to the fruition of a plan
discussed for many months were taken
here recently, with the filing in the
district court of a petition for the
creation of a drainage district on the
w-est bank of the Rio Grande river,
a few miles south of here. The peti
tion asks that about 7,000 acres be
placed in the proposed district.
Supporters of the plan assert that
lands in this portion of the Rio
Grande valley can be brougnt to a
higher degree of productivity by drain,
age. Hearing on the petition was set
for February 28.
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