The Cordova daily times. [volume], February 24, 1921, Page 2, Image 2

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R exall
Store
Specials
For the balance of this week your Rexall
Store is offering Special Prices on the
following well known seasonable items
35c jar Peroxide Skin Cream, free with every $1.00 pur
chase of any merchandise.
$1.75 box of Liggett’s Orange and Gold Assorted
Chocolates, for ... $1.^5
108 Sheets Lord Baltimore Linen Paper
50 Sheets Lord Baltimore Linen Envelopes””
The regular charge for this combination is $1.50
THIS WEEK THE PRICE IS $1.15
35c box of Aspirin Tablets free with every 85c bottle
Cherry Bark Cough Syrup
Cordova Drug Co.
TAg 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
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72
LUMBER
WHOLESALE RETAIL
Prompt Attention Given to Small as
Well as Large Orders
Cordova Mil! and Lumber Company
Telephone 5 P. 0. Box 218
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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. in. to 6 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
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DEATH CLAIMS
MILTON SMITH
RAILROAD MAN
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 24 (by As
sociated Press).—Milton H. Smith,
president of the Louisville & Nash
ville railroad, died here yesterday
after an illness of several months.
He was 85 years of age and had been
president of the Louisville & Nash
ville railroad since 1891.
Milton Hannibal Smith was for
thirty-five years chief operating of
ficer of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, which he helped to make
one of the principal railway systems
of the south, owning and operating
more than 5,000 miles of trackage.
The nrincipal lines of the company
extend from Cincinnati, through
Louisville, Nashville, Birmingham,
Montgomery and Mobile to New Or
leans; from Cincinnati by way of
Cincinnati to Atlanta; and from
Nashville to St. Louise.
He was born in Green County, N.
Y., September 12, 183S. His father,
a farmer, a short time later re
moved with his family to Chautauqua
County, N. Y., and then to Illinois,
where the boy grew to manhood.
Farm life proved irksome to the
future railway president, and before
he reached the age of twenty he had
mastered the art of telegraphy and
taken a position at Holly Springs,
Miss., in the office there of the
Mississippi Central railroad.
When the Civil war began he en
tered the military railway service,
being first stationed at Holly Springs.
His work here attracted the atten
tion of his superiors and after the
fall of Fort Donelson and the battle
of Shiloh he was transferred to
Jackson, Tenn., as master of trans
portation on all military roads in
the occupied districts of the south.
At the close of the war he became
agent at Louisville, for the Louis
vill & Nashville railroad, which at
that time was operating less than
three hundred miles of line. Three
years later he was advanced to the
post of general freight agent.
Mr. Smith’s service with the Louis
ville & Nashville continued with but
one interruption until his death, and
the story of the way in which this
came about is told by his friends to
illustrate the dominating personality
he possessed and his impatience with
opposition in a course he thought
right.
At Montgomery. Ala., (luring the
yellow fever epidemic along the gulf
coast in 1878, a shot gun quarantine
was established. No trains from the
south were permitted to enter the
city under any condition.
Mr. Smith as the chief traffic of
ficer of his company went to Mont
gomery and sought to have the quar
antine modified to permit passenger
trains to pass through without stop
ping and with windows closed. He
failed. Then he issued order plac
ing an embargo against the move
ment of all trains from the north in
Montgomery and within five days
the city’s food supply began to run
low.
Urgent appeals were made to him
to permit the movement o£ trains
with supplies into the city. They
were met with the reply that when
quarantine against the movement of
trains through Montgomery, bearing
refugees from the fever stricken dis
tricts of the south had been modified,
all his embargoes would be lifted.
Montgomery authorities would not
agree to this, and carried their ap
peal to Hermann Newcomb, then
president of the road. He issued or
ders revoking the embargoes. Mr.
Smith resigned.
He was at once offered and accept
ed the post of general freight agent
for the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, a
place he held for three years. His
next post was general agent for the
Pennsylvania lines, at New York,
which he held until he went back to
the Louisville & Nashville as chief
operating officer, with the title of
vice-president Jan. 1, 1882. The title
of president at that time was held
by the chief financial officer.
In 1883 during a financial crisis
he was given the title of president,
but in 1886, the precedent of invest
ing the chief financial officer with
the title of president was resumed,
Mr. Smith again assuming the title
of vice-president. In 1891 he was
again given the title of president, and
the chief financial officer vested with
the title of chairman of the board.
In Louisville, where Mr. Smith
made his home he was known by
sight, at least, to almost every resi
dent of the city. He was known for
his kindness, and was held in high
esteem by the employes of the road,
none of whom, it is said, was ever
refused a loan and his personal aid
in a time of distress. In contrast
with this kindly spirit toward the
men under him was the determina
tion with which he fought every ef
fort of the road’s employes to force
him to deal with them as an organ
ized bady.
Reticent to the extreme about him
self and his own affairs, many of
his intimate friends knew little of his
personal history, and, it is said, the
only interview any newspaper man
ever obtained from him was have
nothing to say.”
CALIFORNIA LAVA BEDS
SHOWING ACTIVITY
KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 23 (by
Associated Press). -Recent queer oc
currences reported In the lava bed
region in the northern part of Modoc
country, California, have caused some
inhabitants to fear that some long
dormant volcano is about to break
forth. The family of W. P. Hery
ford, it is reported, was awakened re
cently before midnight by queer
rumbling noises. On rising and look
ing out, they said, they saw flames
in the hills across the lake from
their dwelling. The flames at inter
vals shot high into the air, the in
crease in volume accompanied by
the rumbling sounds.
Other persons have reported simi
lar sights and occurrences, but owing
to the remoteness of the district, au
thentic information is difficult to
obtain. The lava fields are north of
Mount Lassen and northeast of Mt.
Shasta.
Cordova Jazz Orchestra dance at
Eagle Hall Saturday night.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
Professional kodak finishing. Scar
borough. Agency at Cordova drug
store.
Meet
Your
Friends
at
The Club
billiard
HALL
EMPRESS
One Show Only
Beginning 8 p.m.
TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
You see, Reggie told her before they married, that he
was the Original Cut-up and Gay Dog-that wild and
wolfish women cried for him. Which was all very well,!
but Angelica had to be shown. And Reggie proved
about as speedy as a steam roller going up hill. But sud
denly he started to make good. The things that man did!
SEE FOR YOURSELF IF YOU
DON’T BELIEVE IT
“Parlor, Bedroom
and Bath”
With an All-Star Cast headed by
RUTH STONEHOUSE
—And—
EUGENE PALLETTE
A Hilarious, Broad, Well-Built, Well-Acted Farce.
Young people! Be careful about taking
your parents to see it.
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