The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1915-05-18

remain here and dispose of some of
their household effects, expecting
later to go to California.
M. Brock, local manager for S.
Blum & Co., is spending few days
at Chitina and out the line, expect
ing to return on Tuesday. Sam
Blum will come over from Valdez
on the steamer Mariposa and remain
in charge while Mr.. Brock goes 20
| California on a vacation of several
weeks.
Mrs. Sophia Scott will be an out
| going passenger on the steamer
Mariposa, expecting to spend the.
summer on the cast. Mrs. w. H.
Chase will entertain for her tomor-
row afternoon.
Dick O'Neill is the newest recruit
in the Forestry service. It was
expected that the Northland would
leave this afternoon for Seward and
would take over Harry Nettleton,
George Stewart ana Dick. From
there they will go to different parts
of Kenai peninsula, to be employed
| the season.
Two weeks from today the nine
months term of Cordova schools will
end and the boys and girls will be
free to enjoy themselves for tho
summer. Next term they will have
one of the present teachers and
new one.
Fred Schringer announces that he
has given up the grill at the
| Windsor hotel. After taking Mrs.
Schringer to their ranch near Whit
shed he will return to go to Ship
Creek
! Cordova, May Is
The steamer Northland got away
last evening for Seward carrying
several employees Of the forestry
department. They were: Grover
Hanneman, Harry Nettleton, Dick
O'Neil, and George Stewart. From
Seward these men will strike out
along the railroad and go fifteen to
twenty-five miles to the Kenai Lake
basin, where forest fires are now
raging. They will be engaged for
the summer in preventing fires and
assisting in fighting them.
Practically the last work has been
done on the buildings at the outer
dock for the Canoe Pass Cannery
Company. Everything, is now inj
readiness for the run of salmon,
which is expected within the next
two or three days. The new can
merry hopes to put up about 10000
cases this season.
These are warm days for COrdova.
This morning at O'Clock in the
sun, in front of F'red's Place, the
thermometer registered 106. But
in the shade it is cool and pleasant
while after sun down little fire is
necessary to take off the chill in
doors.
At 6 o'clock last evening a bevy
of women, chaperoned by Geo. c..
Hazelet, E. v. Boyle and DR.. Coun-
Gil, swarmed the streets in outing
attire They had just returned from
fishing expedition in the neighbor
hood of the Power Company plant. A
big string of fish was brought back,
but it is an undecided question
whether they were caught by the
ladies or the gallant men. The lat
ter are non-committal.
Mrs. AL Church was an arrival Oh
yesterdays train from Mccarthy.
She will take the Alameda on Tues
day and go to Ship Creek, where her
husband is now located with meat
market. He went to the westward
two or three weeks ago and sent
back encouraging reports.
Cordova, May II
The steamer Santa Ana started
westward from Seward on Friday
morning, and will be gone nearly
month. Among the passengers were
Alvah Eames and wife, of Cordova.
| They will go as far as Nushagak,
Mr.. Eames making inspection of the
various postoffices at which the
steamer puts in.
Sam Blum and family were ar
rivals on the steamer Mariposa last
night from Valdez and are domiciled
in their home at the corner of
Third and c streets. They will re-
main here during the summer, ex-
pecting later to go outside and visit
California. The boys, John and
Alan, are growing into large and
/, sturdy youngsters.
The launch from the radio station
came over on Saturday evening and
took over to Whitshed 26 of the