The Cordova daily times., March 20, 1922, Page 8, Image 8

About The Cordova daily times. (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947

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J. Bogard is now working for his
brother, I. D. Bogart, who is installed
in his new location.
The Orca cannery has several men
employed now, repairing buildings
and making ready for a busy season.
The steamship Victoria is due from
Seattle early Wednesday morning,
■with a large list of passengers and
twelve days’ mail for Cordova.
Unfavorable weather conditions
continued up the railroad line and
no trains have left or arrived at
Cordova in more than a week. An
early change of weather is confi
dently predicted.
Meyer Blum of the First Bank of
Cordova received word today that
John McCrary of Copper Center, is
waiting for a train at Chitina on his
way to Valdez to have his recent fire
loss adjusted by George Love.
Judge Hayes, night watchman at
the Ocean Dock, has the smartest
dog in Cordova, his friends declare.
He is a beautiful Cocker Spaniel.
He is an office dog, trained to make
himself useful. "Go, tidy up the of
fice now,” Judge Hayes will say,
kindly, and the spaniel immediately
picks up every bit of stray paper and
puts it in the waste-basket. The dog
also announces visitors by barks.
A joyous dinner party was given
in honor of Edmund Bernoudy’s
birthday Sunday at the home of Mrs.
B. O. Graham. The table was artis
tically decorated in pale green. The
guests were. Dr. and Mrs. W. H.
Chase, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. LaBelle,
Miss Mollie Eastman, A. H. Pinkus,
B. O. Graham, Harold Graham and
Mr. and Mrs. E. Bernoudy. After
dinner the guests enjoyed a theatre
party at the Empress.
Capt. William J. Crooker has had
his boat, the Pioneer, thoroughly
overhauled this winter preparatory
to the summer run between Cordova
and Katalla. The cabins have been
rebuilt and rearranged with a view to
the comfort of passengers, new en
gines installed, and everything put
in first-class shape. This is now
one of the bet boats on Prince Wil
lian Sound. She will go into service
about May 1. The work of re
building was done by C. J. Deverseth,
one of Cordova’s expert boat build
ers.
The rotaries will start out about
E:30 o’clock this afternoon to clear
the railroad of snow drifts in order
that traffic may be resumed between
Cordova and Chitina.
BAND MEETS TONIGHT
FOR PRACTICE—THEY
ARE MAKING PROGRESS
The Cordova Brass Band will meet
at its usual place this evening for
practice The Rev. R. S. Nicker
son, who is the organizing director,
said today the players were, doing
remarkably well, making such pro
gress that they will be ready for
the community concert in the Em
press Theatre on April 21. Proceeds
from this event will be used to pur
chase uniforms.
All except four players started
“absolutely green,” but they are all
producing harmony now.
“In another year,” said Rev
Nickerson, “we shall have one of
the best bands in Alaska. We are
| playing a good grade of music. All
[ the members are loyal in attendance,
; making every effort for development.
We hope to be ready, when the Pres
ident comes, to show him that Cor
dova is not out in the wilderness en
, tirely.”
EVERYONE DISAPPOINTED
IF PRESIDENT CAN’T COME
| There was keen disappointment
j about town today when the bulletin
! was receive,d~ from Washington that
1 President Harding might not be able
to come to Alaska this summer on
account of Congress having so great
a grist of business that it probably
will stay in session until snow flies, i
The coming of the President has
been for some time a hopeful topic
in every home. The general senti
ment is one of exasperation with the
congressmen who require all summer
for their wrangling over legislation.
ALL SEEM TO
WANTUBRARY
Proposal Evokes Many
Ideas for Good of
the Community.
All Cordovans seem to want ac
tion immediately by the Literary
Club, which meets tomorrow night,
toward establishing the nucleus of a
free public library. One of the Club
members said today the proposal
would be given attention.
It the Club backs the movement, as
expected, donations of books will be
in order, likewise paintings for dec
oration—as a start for the city's mu
seum of fine arts.
A commodious room downtown can
be obtained, it is said, well adapted
to the purpose.
No definite plans have been at
tempted, this being left for the Lit
erary Club, but it has been suggested
that the librarian at first be a vol
unteer, who would attend and give
out books at certain hours, daily.
After awhile a regular librarian
could be employed and open house be
kept contilnually.
Another suggestion is uiai a
phonograph be obtained, together
with the best grand opera and other
music records, so that musical en
tertainments could be given in the
evenings, free to everybody. The
idea is to announce the program of
these entertainments in The Times.
In this way everybody could have
the pleasure of hearing the best
music and at the same time look
over the book supply.
Several prominent citizens already
have said they know of many per
sons who would be glad to donate
books for such a purpose; others
know where paintings and other
works of art might be- found, for the
asking.
WATER
Beginning Saturday night and until
further notice, the Water Mains will
be shut off at seven o’clock in the
evening and opened at seven o’clock
in the morning.
ALASKA PUBLIC UTILITIES
A Sale
Without Wind
j*
COR one week only we will
* sell two numbers in our
Washington semi-dress Shoe
for $6.00 per pair.
These are regular $8.00 and
$10.00 values.
The Blum-O’Neill Co.
»
Big Clearance Sale of
DANIEL GREEN
FELT SHOES
100 pairs
While they last
Going at
$4.00 & $5.00
100 pairs
THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN
DO NOT MISS IT.
Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention.
Finkelstein & Sapiro
- INCORPORATED
“The Store that Satisfies”
Grocery Phone 21 Office Phone 7 4
LET’S TRY THIS WAY
Mailing Clerk Charles Game esti
mated today, in reply to a Times in
quiry, that 10,000 to 12,000 letters go
outside on every passenger ship leav
ing Cordova. He agreed that the idea
of persuading letter writers to insert
a light leaflet bearing the essential
facts concerning Cordova would be a
good way of advertising the communi
ty. The plan certainly would get cir
culation, he said, — half a million
pieces pf advertising without cost, ex
cept the printing of the leaflets.
Postage is the chief cost in circulat
ing community publicity. In this way
Cordovans could advertise their town
extensively free of charge, if they
were supplied with the leaflets.
The idea is to print upon a leaflet
the size of a post-card all the essen
tial facts regarding Cordova. The
Times could get them out in 100,000
lots,—the more the cheaper.
Many responses have been received,
approving the suggestion. Malcolm
Brock said he thought the plan would
get rich results and that the letter
writers—all being loyal Cordovans—
would co-operate readily. This seemed
to be the concensus of opinion.
Incidentally, the postoffice is in
need of a cancelling machine to expe
dite the handling of letters. The Cor
dova postoffice has probably more let
ters than any city of its size on the
outside and every postoffice with 5000
>or more leters has a cancelling ma
chine. The work here is done by hand
—a tedious and painstaking job.
The launch Morning Star will leave
for Katalla tomorrow morning at 8
o’clock.
GOOD NEIGHBOR TELLS US
WHERE QUESNEL DISTRICT
IS—NEW STRIKE OF GOLD
One of The Times's great family of
readers, all of whom seem eager to
help make the Best Newspaper in Alas
ka, brought in today full information
concerning the Quesnel district, where
the new gold strike was made recent
ly. Tomorrow’s Times will have it.
We are optimistic. We believe
that the world is g^pwing better.
We believe it in spite of the fact
that all of thet experts said that it Is.
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