The Cordova daily times. [volume], February 16, 1921, Page 2, Image 2

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Candy
Special
65 cents
Buys a pound of any of our various brands of Bulk
Chocolates or Bunte’s Hard Candies, which regularly sell
for $1.00 a pound
BOX CANDIES
During this sale we will sail our Box Candies at a big
reduction. For instance, a $2.00 box of Candy will sell
for $1.35, and other price packages in proportion.
SALE LASTS ONE WEEK
Cordova Drug Co.
The Store
E. V. BOYLE, Manager
“The Drug Store With the Big Stock.”
FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
8ECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
LUMBER
WHOLESALE RETAIL
Prompt Attention Given to Small as
Well as Large Orders
Cordova Mill and Lumber Company
Telephone 5 p. 0. Box 218
Copper River and
Northwestern Ry,
Effective November 1, 1920.
TRAIN LEAVES—
Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday.
Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday, Friday and
Sunday.
Kennecott for Chitina Monday, Wednesday
and Saturday.
Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
THIS SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
Freight received and delivered at Cordova Wharf from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays
and Holidays
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot Office one hour
before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER. Superintendent MARK McALLEN, Ticket Agent
Workers Who Never Strike
BY PAUL L. SCHWARTZ
What can be more lifeless and
characterless to the human eye than
a spade full of soil; the soil that
has been trodden upon and exposed
to the ruthless elements for countless
ages? And yet, what interesting
stories a mere grain of sand coutd
tell; what secrets and mysteries it
could clear up; it would put to shame
our beautiful cosmogenetic theories
and scientific facts. Herodotus, Fath
er of History, would dwindle off into
one of the hazy motes of the milky
way, and Darwin with his revelations,
would stand as much chance of Im
mortality as a celluloid dog !n i fire:
if the soil could only speaK.
Bacteriological research has ush
ered in many valuable discoveries
that are indispensable for the ad
vancement of mankind as is Chris
tianity. As self-preservation is one
of man’s first laws, the science of
bacteriology concerned itself chiefly
with his diseases, but gradually with
the advent of this specialization era,
1 the field has broadened to such an
extent that it has developed many
: distinct and separate branches. It
is with the branch treating of the
soil bacteria that we find many in-1
! teresting and vital problems arising.
Were our eyes powerful enough to
j behold, without the aid of artificial
■ lenses, microspic organisms, looking
j into the soil we should discover one
'] of the largest factories in the world,
! employing trillions of one-celled la
borers all working harmoniously day
j and night, without any bosses, super -
I intendents and foremen, without any
regular hours, and yet, never “strik
| ing.” This universal institution is
! divided into several departments,
i such as the carbon department, a
| special group and type of germ con
I secrated to the decomposing of this
[element; the sulphur, phosphorous,
j iron and nitrogen departments. These
are subdivided again and so on down.
It is the presents of these organ
isms in in the soil that makes all life
possible, for it is their function to
break up the food elements into such
fine particles and make them so
available to the plant that it can
readily suck up this food through its
tiny delicate root-hairs. “Busy as
bees” is too mild a term to ex
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press such industriousness, for they
are manufacturing all the year
’round. But they have their para
sites, however, and these are the
protozoa (one-celled animals); under
the microscope we can see these
animalcules devouring bacteria by the
scores.
But what is most surprising and
interesting to Alaskans especially, is
the fact that in the winter when
nature is supposed to be resting and
dormant, we find that these soil or
gaisms are most numerous. I have
gone out into the snow-covered fields,
shovelled the snow away from an
area of a few feet of the surface,
and by means of a sterile chisel
have cut. several incheB underneath.
Taking this sample to the laboratory
and making cultures of it 1 was soon
made to realize that our frozen,
"lifeless” soil was just teeming with
life.
How shall we interpret this? What
is mother nature’s idea?
NOON RETURNS FROM
TRIP TO WASHINGTON
John Noon, sourdough of Alaska,
and former territorial senator from
the Third division, accompanied by
his wife and son, was aboard the
Alameda en route to his home in
Seward. Mr. Noon has been absent
from Seward for the past five
months, the greater part of that time
having been spent in Washington, D.
C., where he went in the interest of
Alaskans his trip having been fin
anced by various persons and organ
izations.
“I talked Alaska straight from the
shoulder,” said Mr. Noon, “until
Washington officials and others
dreaded my calls, but I certainly told
them a few things concerning red
tape in Alaska and bureaucracy. I
believe much good will result from
my trip and am sure that certain
recommendations will be acted upon.”
Mrs. Noon had the misfortune of
spraining her ankle just before the
Alameda reached Juneau and Dr. L.
O. Sloane of that city was called to
give treatment.
JUNEAU MAN CHARGED
WITH ATTEMPT TO KILL
Delbert Roper, charged with shoot
ilng Mrs. Georgia Stanton, at Juneau
on the morning of January 15 with a
big calibre rifle with intent to kill,
was arraigned before U. S. Commis
sioner H. B. LeFevre in that city on
Saturday. He waived a plea and
was remanded to the U. S. marshal,
bond being fixed at $5,000.
Roper was unable to raise bail and
is now at the federal jail, having
been taken there from St. Ann’s hos
pital on Saturday, where he had been
since January 15 recovering from
self-inflicted wounds received when
he attempted to commit suicide after
having shot Mrs. Stanton. He is
gradually regaining his strength.
Mrs. Stanton, who was shot
through the arm and right lung, is
improving and will recover.
SOCIALIST DENOUNCES
RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKS
LONDON, Feb. 16 (by Associated
Press).—M. Schwartz, San Francisco
Socialist, who returned from Russia,
emphatically denounces Bolshevism.
He sailed home Tuesday and will
visit Secretary of State Colby at
Washington.
SMITH & M’CONAGHY
Plumbers and
Steamfitters
Corner Front and B Sts.
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