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Augustine & Kyer Exclusive at our Store Universally known as the most delicious Candies made by Man. They include Fresh Stock of: Chocolate Butter Crisp Olympian Chocolates Fruit and Nut Cherries and Cream After Dinner Mints Assorted Chocolates Chocolate Coated Brazils Our Specials for this week are: Nut Marmalade, per pound 50c Rainbow Jellies, per pound 50c Marshmallows, per pound .. 50c We deliver goods to any part of the city Cordova and McCarthy, Alaska. PHONE 102 R1L Give Him | B19E53 /'< 1 a Chance . E= 111■■ DIMBIBIBIH I !!■■! I HI II —f~ I — rBinWTIWf ■■—III ■Hill I III IIM III" You cannot divide your time between this fascinating little mortal and such irksome and health-destroying tasks as washing without depriving him of the care and attention he needs. Be fair to the Baby. Delegate the family wash to Jones’ Laundry, and devote a fair portion of your time to Baby. Give attention, fuss over him, do the little tasks for him that are such a pleasure to a mother. After he is asleep in his little crib tonight, sort and bundle up the family wash. In the morning call up 66 on the phone. In a few minutes the washing is out of your house and your mind at ease. In three days it is returned wholesome, pure and clean, and you have had the house and Baby to yourself, and then note how much more fascinating the Baby appears. Phone 66. Jones’ Laundry c/ t. WE TREAT YOUR CLOTHES—WHI TE s LaEL.m:T.■:::. : . ...; ,, i,: THE NORTHERN CLUE FRED HAEF, Proprietor Fool, Cards, Tobacco Soft Drinks of All Kinds THE POPULAR CORNER PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA =LUMBER= WHOLESALE RETAIL Phompt Attention Given to Small as Well as Large Orders Cordova Mill and Lumber Company Telephone 5 P. 0. Box 218 FIRST AND UNIVERSITY STS. SEATTLE , ARLINGTON HOTEL SS The Home of the Pioneer. jjPa! ThisHotel ia not and never has been owned or controlled by Japanese I $1.00 ONE DOLLAR ROOMS $1.00 « iBUSS MEETS ALL TRAINS. ■* J. J RYAN, Prop. ROBT. KELLY, Mgr. SHORT STORIES ABOUT ALASKA OCCURRENCES: ■ i The Thane high school basketball team beat the Juneau high school team at the Douglas natatorium last week by a score of 27 to 17. Approximately $200 was raised in Douglas at a dinner and dance last week for the Bishop Rowe memorial fund. The concert and dance at Hyder dedicating the new Pioneer hall there was a* success in every way, one of the largest crowds ever as sembled in the new mining camp being present. All Sitka turned out election night to attend a dance and get the elec tion returns at the Alaska Native Brotherhood hall. The committee had arranged a special wire from the cable office and the election re turns were flashed on a screen. The Sitka native band furnished excel lent music and the evening proved to be an enjoyable one to everybody present. Louis Weinrich. former well known butcher of Dawson, died re cently at Nome. ■ (). I'. Kastner is now located at. Whitehorse where he will handle the overland winter mail service. Q. E. Spivey, for twenty years warehouseman for the N. C. Com-1 panv at Dawson, died recently at the latter place of blood poisoning, re sulting from an abscess of the throat. Former students at the University of Washington met in Juneau last week and made plans for a reunion dinner to take place there on Thanksgiving day. All of the 30 former university students living on the channel are expected to lie in attendance. The members of the Eagles Lodge at Dawson are already planning for the annual Christmas tree. Two machine guns are being for warded to Dawson from Ottawa; two are being sent to Carcross and one trench mortar to Whitehorse. These are war trophies. B. F. Bradford has recently taken charge of the Hotel Kodiak on Kodiak Island. tlapt. Ed. Williams has beached the Takue to sheet the hull with iron bark. During the winter months the Taku encounters ice in Portland Canal when making the weekly mail trips to Hyder. Last year, strips of iron hark were placed along the water line near the bow, and tin was placed aft. The tin would not stand the wear and tear of (he ice, how ■ ever. John B. Anderson and *T. Grom !''!•.! l.;;,ve become fho proprietors of lie Petersburg Meat Company hav in;; purchased the 1 iciness from W. I ! faarberg. i —— John Miller, a pioneer resident of i Si the Yukon, died recently at White j horse of valv ; 1 r *li iart i rouble. The ! P deceased went to the interior as a 3 deckhand on one of the river steam ers brought to St. Michael in 1S9S. -♦--f D. A. Mltirhead has been appointed acting United States consular agent at Whitehorse. Captain Stephen Aninin, better known to old timers as “Russian Steve” died recently at Kodiak after a lingering illness. The young ladies of Hope, on Turnagain Arm, the upper end of Cook Inlet, have formed a sewing club for the winter months. ♦ A1 Ferrin has the contract for carrying the mail this winter from Mile 29, on the government railroad to Hope and Sunrise. The Valdez Post of the American Legion has taken a lease on the hall in the Emporium building and ' will make a headquarters for all • members, Capt. Max Faust, who has held all the ranks in the signal corps from J private to captain, and who has been | in charge of the Ketchikan cable I office since 1919, has been granted | a leave of absence, at the expiration j of which he will be placed upon I J the retired list with pay. Capt. ESTABLISHED 1909 ESTABLISHED 1909 SCANDINAVIA Remitting Facilities We have recently made arrangements with a banking institution specializing in Scandinavian Exchange. * We are, therefore, in position to quote most favorable rates on Denmark, Nor way, Sweden and Finland. Prompt payment of draft and money orders is assured. DRAWING FACILITIES If you have any balance abroad which you wish transferred to this coun try, we are in a position to pay you the money on ten days’ notice, at prevailing rates. . I i THE PIONEER INSTITUTION OF CORDOVA AND COPPER RIVER VALLEY Faust has served in many towns in Alaska while in the signal corps. -♦ \V. E. Parrott of Wrangell, harvest ed 5,000 pounds of spuds on his ranch, the result of having planted 112 pounds of seed spuds. This proves what soil there is near Wrangell. Jerry Ford, mining man of the Idiarod, with his wife, is now on a trip to Australia. Mr. and Mrs. Ford will return-to America and back to Alaska next spring. -•-— Thirty workmen from the Puget Sound navy yard, at Bremerton, are at Kodiak making extensive improve ments as to the radio station at that place. --• Kit-hard McNally, sourdough from the Tanana section and Daniel Thompson, from Seattle, have joined i. ■ i lives of the signal corps office at [Vtrsburg. Eiauk S. ,‘daii!, former owner 61 the Yu on Sawmill at Dawson is now ou- of tin* five active members of th • big staff of W. K. Grace .t Con,]; ; ay, steamship agents at New York City. Joseph A. Clarke, former mayor of Dawson, is now practicing law at Edmonton. Graham Bread fresh every day at the City Bakery. I OSCARS PLACE j FOR \ GOOD CIGARS •AND TOBACCOS OF ALL KINDS I AL80 : . Pool Tables | SMITH & M’CONAGHY Plumers and _ Steamfitters rner Front and E Sts. ' For Christmas A Handsome Smoking Jacket will be the “handsome thing” to give to him this Christmas—he’ll probably not expect it, but will certainly receive it with grati tude. If it’s for husband or brother then it will keep him home o’ nights. You’re sure to'get a good one if you get it here—one that will serve for a long, long time and not early show its age. His size is waiting—waiting and anxious to serve. “SHOP EARLY” IS THE SLOGA HERE THIS YEAR. r Ci -• .- arty UKj J& •.*^v.v.v.v.v.'.y.v.v;-*.x;-v.v.v-X*v-y.!.:.v.y.v.*.v.y.v.v«V«v •.v.v/.avwawim.av.m.'a* - Light, Water Telephone Three essentials in every well-regulated home or place of business i Alaska Public Utilities >