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The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
FRENCH SHIPS OFFICERS
 BLAMED FOR EXPLOSION

HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 4-The gov ernment commission which has been Investigating the disaster which de stroyed a large portion of this city and snuffed out thousands of lives has placed the blame for the collision which caused the explosion on Pilot Macky and Captain. Laniboc of the French munitions ship.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
 CAUSES GIRL $ DEATH

SEATTLE, Feb. 4.-Miss Regna An derson, aged 25, was killed here today when an automobile in which she was riding was struck by a street car Eight persons on board the car were injured.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
LAST,l)F NAMES CALLED
 : UNDER FIRST DRAFT I

WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.-Provost Marshal General Crowder today all, nounced that the movement of the last inerements of men selected in the first draft will begin on February 23, and will continue for a period of five days. This will complete the opera tions under the first draft.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
FIGHT PROMOTER
 WILL RAISE CATTLE

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Tex Richard, the famous pugilistic promoter, has abandoned his former occupation, and has sailed for South America, where he will engage in raising cattle.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
DISASTER IN BOHEMIA
 INCENDIARY IN ORIGIN

LONDON, Feb. At is reported that munitions depot near Prague, the capital of Bohemia, has exploded, killing many persons. It is believed that the disaster was caused inten- tionally.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
FAVORABLE WEATHER
 FOR WINTER BASEBALL

OAKLAND, Feb An unusually large number of amateur baseball teams have been playing this winter owing to the late arrival of the rain. There has been a suggestion of mid summer activity on Sundays, when every available field has been utilized by competing hines.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
GEN. WOOD RECOvERs
 FROM REGENT WOUNDS

PARIS, Feb. 4.-General Leonard Wood, who was injured recently while visiting the American positions at the front, is able to leave the hospital, and is receiving visitors.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE
 NAY BE PALL BEARER

BOSTON. Feb. 4-Former President Roosevelt has been invited to act as pail bearer at the funeral of John L. Sullivan, which is to be held on We'd nesda'evsaxt
 The casket was sent from New York, as there was none large enough in Boston.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
MEETING OF RUSSIANS
 SET FOR THIS MONTH

NEW YORK, Feb. 4-The revolu tiOnary Russian followers of former Premier Kerensky will meet in con vention in this city February g.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
KETCHIKAN FISH

KETCHIKAN, Feb. 4.-Today's fish prices were: Halibut, 16c; sable, 4cs red rock, Pc.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
It is an absolute sin to waste food Food has become sacred.

Eat le3s wheat. Get into the corn line
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
His Limit.

Il understand, Mr.. Rasp," began the
suave stranger, that you once voted
for the Hon."
Yes" admitted old Rupus Rasp. Il
voted for him Il good many years ago.
Also 1 once applied my youthful tongue
to an ice-cold sledge hammer. Like
wise, ! once paid tuition to n corre-
spondence school of growing tall by
mail and thereby becoming irresistible
to the ladies'. But it won't do you any
good to produce that fiat package which
l observe outlined through your coat
and which | suspect Is simple vol
ume of Great Flights of Orntory by
American Blntherskites. for while !
own up TO having been n fool in my
time 1t infurates me to be called. even
by implication. II hopeless durn fool
Kansas City Star.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

be committee formed to give the
idiot notice that we can't put up with
such thing on this street 1t will re-
duce the price of real estate % per
cent"
Mr.. Bowser went up the ladder and
began on the third chimney, but his
heart was not in his work. After the
four stones, thrown by unseen hands,
had landed on the roof near him, he
carried his material down to the
ground and entered the house, and.
without word to Mrs. Bowser, who
sat weeping he changed into his bust
ness suit and left the house. An hour
later three painters were at work wip-
ing the first paint of the chimneys and
repainting them the original color.
Two boys took away the sign hanging
on the fence and nailed 1t over a stable
door, and the incident was closed-all
but the damage to Mr.. Bowser's feel
ings. He had set out to beautify the
street. and the people wouldn't have
1t. He wanted villa, but the public
wouldn't stand for 1t. He wanted 20
do some art work that should live after
him. and he had been abused as IL he
had stolen whole flock of sheep.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

duced piece of chalk from his pocket
and made the sign read, 1.-The Bowser
Villain" Then he called up:
Hello, old man. is the villain at
homer
"What do you mean. sir?" demanded
Mr.. Bowser. -
II want to wiring his neck for him
for setting up barber shop on this
street."
Mr.. Bowser hastened down the lad
der, but the man moved on, but an
other man replaced him, and they kept
coming and halting until thirty people
were gathered in front of the house.
They took Mr. Bowser for IA house
painter and he had to listen to such
remarks as:
"Why, the man must he n fool"
"What donkey lives here, any
howl"
SIS it going to be n barber shop
or COney Island popcorn foun-
dry?"
villa! villa! Why, it looks more
like chicken coop. There ought to
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

Mr.. Bowser was up long before the
sun next morning and getting "A milk
man to help him raise the longest lad
der he mounted to the roof and made
n closer inspection. While he was do
ing this painter brought sign about
ten feet long and hung it on the fence.
1t read: "The BOwser Villa"
During breakfast Mrs. Bowser was
very quiet and Mr.. Bowser was in
too much of hurry to do any talk
ing. As soon as he had finished he
began carrying his material to the roof
and In little while he was ready to
begin his hard work. The cap, or top
of the chimney for foot downward,
was painted a dark blue. Then fol-
lowed strip of red and strip of
green came next to 1t. Then there
was more dark blue down to the shin
giles. Mr.. Bowser came down the lad
der and surveyed the house from the
sidewalk. His art work was just boss ;
no landscape painter could have
equaled it. The sign on the fence was
simply magnificent. The half Il dozen
people who passed and repassed Mr..
Bowsar didn't utter n word of praise.
In fact. some of them sniggered with
contempt. This was scarcely noticed
by the great painter, and he went back
to his work highly elated. The stripes
on the opposite chimney We're reversed.
Instead of beginning with dark blue he
began with red. Just as he had fin
ished and was about to take another
survey man came along and pro
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
Peruna Relieved
My Cough

Mrs Gertie Ebhardt, 21s East First
St, Kewanee, Illinois. writes:
81 have taken six bottles of your
Peruna for a cough, and ! am all
we'll. I went over to see a neigh
Dor ono day and 1 had a terrible
cough and my eyes were sore. She
gave me half a bottle of Peruna last
November. and 1t did me so much
good that bought a bottle. and then
when ! had finished that ! got an
other, and so on until 1 have taken
almost six bottles and feel like a
new woman. I am fifty-nine years
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
4Th!rty People Gathered in Front Of .he House"

hire us to do it, but said that he had
his own ideas to carry out. If he
hasn't said anything to you he will
probably tell you all about 1t this eve
ming. He made us promise to have
everything over here before four
o'clock and everything is here. He
can get up at four O'Clock in the morn
ing and go right at work."
If Mrs. Bcwser had not had sweet
temper she would have spent the rest
of the afternoon in kicking over
Bowser hadn't said word about re-
painting the house. He had preserved
the strictest secrecy about the enter
prise. The house did not need re-
painting and the idea of having him
daubing around for week or two was
unbearable. She made no outright
demonstrations, however, hut that eve
ming would bring the talk.
Mr.. Bowser came home at the usual
time and took look into the side
yard before entering the house. He
realized that Mrs. Bowser had seen
the outfit and must suspect his evil
design, but he entered the house with
flourish and did lot of talking in
| the next five minutes. In fact, he did
all the talking during the dinner and
great deal more than was neces-
sary. He was putting the explana-
ton Off as long as possible, but it had
to come when they reached the fam
lily room.
"Now, then" said Mrs. Bowser, as
she Strengthened up and set her jaw,
"why did you have those men bring
all the things this afternoon"
"Why, my dear" said Mr.. Bowser,
in an oily voice, II am going to do
little painting. Didn't l speak about
/ it a week or so ago? This is glorious
weather for outside painting and
am anxious to be at the work"
"Mr. BOwser, this house does not
need any paint on it, firmly replied
Mrs. Bowser.
you may not think so, but thou
sands of other people do. l am al
most ashamed to turn ut the gate
and look ut 1t. Besides, / have an
other object in view. How long have
we lived in this house?"
about fifteen years" was the reply.
"And 1t has been of the same color
ever since. The house Is red brick
and the woodwork painted white.
That's the way most of the houses
on the block are. There is dread
full mono;ony about it. l had almost
as soon walk through cemetery as
along this block"
''Then your object is to change the
color?" queried Mrs. Bowser.
"There shall be complete change
my dear. You won't know the place
when get through with it. You
know what n villa is, don't you?
Well, there is not villa within half
n mile of us. 1 am going to make one
of our house."
"Are you going to get bunch of
carpenters up here to tear this house
all to pieces?" was demanded.
"Oh, no, no. There will be no car
penters and there will be no other
painters beside myself. l shall make
villa of 1t by the way 1 paint it
and thousands Of people will stop to
admire"
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
BY M. QUAD.


About midafternoon the Bowser prem
ises were invaded by three or four
strange men. Two of them brought
ladders and the others cans of paint
and jugs of turpentine and oil. Mrs.
Bowser when she had recovered n lit
tie from the invasion tried to make
the men understand that they had
made big mistake.
"Oh, no, Mrs. Bowser," replied the
leader of the gang. II have known
Mr.. Bowser for three years and I've
There is no mistake here"
But what is all this stuff for?" she
protested.
at looks as If Mr.. Bowser was GO
ing to do some painting. He didn't
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
Skin Troubles That Itch

Burn and distigure quickly soothed
and healed by hot baths with Cuti-
cura Soap and gentle anointings of Gu
ticura Ointment. For free samples,
address, "Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston"
Sold by druggists and by mail. Soap
%, Ointment 25 and 50.-Adv.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
l Feel as
J l Did
Twenty
Years Ago.

old, and since have taken the Pc
runa, l feel as 1 did twenty years
ago. will always keep Peruna in
my house,"
Those who object to liquid medi-
cines can secure Peruna tablets.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

If there is anything in the pot when
II gambling place is raided 1t may be
applied on the costs and fines of the
owners of the money. Attorney General
McGhee of Ohio rules in effect
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
Win the War by Preparing the Land
Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops

win the war Dy preparing the Lana
Sowing the Seed and Producing Bigger Crops
Work in Joint Effort the Soil of the United
The Food Controllers of the United States Canada asking for
Scarcely
able allies Upon the
efo of and eburdcn
Every Available Tabs Acre Must Contribute; Every Available
Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist
Western Canada has be seeded but
Short and appeal the United States allies for for seed
ing operation
Wheat Production Last Year wa. 22 Bushels. the
Demand From Canada Alone for 1918 400 900 900 Bushels
To She land but needs
The Government of the United who
effectively help do farm work this the land the United
States developed first of also help Canada When
find supplied
o direct him there.
Apply Employment Service. and will tell where
best the combined interests
Western Canads help will be required 5h Wages
help $50 90 month and board and lodging
Those who respond this will welcome good
good board and find comfortable homes They will
mile from Canadian boundary destination and
For particulars and employment had
U S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

If you wish beautiful, clear white
.lothes, use Red Cross Bag Blue. At all
Eood grocers. Adv.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

1t is estimated that 100000 horse
power will he obtained from Scot
lands waterfalls.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

Nobody ever got anything by nurs-
ing crouch. but the crouch always
gets bigger. Be cheerful
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
All, Me!

He-Each hour ! spend with you is
like pearl to me.
She-Aw, quit stringing me.-Jester.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

Sloth wears out the body and con.
sumes the mind.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
Talk and Takers.

"After ALL" said Attorney General
Gregory Mt Il dinner in Washington.
twas there ever great talker who
wasn't great bore? Look mt Cole
ridge.
81 said to man the other day:
"'Thc Judge Is n splendid talker,
isn't hep
"'The finest said the man, I ever
escaped from Case and Comment.
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08

Getting Even With Grump.
This ccrtain!! is IL hard winter"
Huh. Any fool knows that"
Then needn't have told you"
The Ordway new era., 1918-03-08
BQwser's
Villa
Folks Call 1t Something
Else

Copyright. 1917. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate)
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
ABE'S LITTLE SISTER I.
 LOYAL

Bishr1 Walter R. Lambuth, chair man of the war work committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church South re- ports the following episode having ;aken pdace on a train spedeing south ward from New York
 "A young Russian Jew, not long in this country, having volunteered for service with our Army, had been or dered to report at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.," said the Bishop. He left behind sister, whose 12year-old daughter works in department store, assisting in the support of her mother. Upon the uncle's departure, the niece gave lem the following letter:
 Fear Uncle Abe: As sure as there is a God in heaven, mother and will be praying for you. So be brave, hold up your head, and fight for victory and for your adopted country.
 FRIEDA." 1" This serves as an example of the spirit of those. Russian refugees who have adopted the United States as their land"
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28

The. more questions you ask the more you will find out that 1t is not so
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
METHODIST CHILDREN TO SEND AN AMERICAN
 MOTHER IN FRANCE

Send an American mother to France,' was the slogan of the May campaign undertaking by the children of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A sum of money was desired, sufficient to send and maintain an American worker for one year in the orphanage at Grenoble, France. This drive was under the supervision of the Woman's Home Missionary Society.
 The entire country was severed by this campaign and the returns are as yet incomplete. The children were ac- tive in their efforts and a successful report is anticipated by the Woman's Home Missionary Society. People were asked to buy "koopons" from red white, and blue mileage books. The
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
COLORED WOMEN ARE DOING HOME DEMON
 STRATION WORK

CClored women have opportunities to learn all the newest and most scientific methods of gardening and canning, according to Miss Agnes liar. ris, emergency assistant home demon. stration agent for the States Relation Service, South.
 Negro home demonstration agents are being employed in all the Southern States where there is large negro population" said Miss Harris. For instance, in Arkansas there are 25 and in Virginia 59. They are all we'll trained women who are doing a great service among the women of their race They start out teaching gardening and poultry raising, but sanitation and i'm provement of the home surroundings is the immediate result They will soon take up canning and will give in- structions in utilizing the containers and equipment available"
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
AMERICAS PLACE.
 AT THE FRONT

A young Italian diplomat said tc an American friend recently: T saw a moving picture showing the invasion of America. I remember that I could not be stirred by it as were my Ameri can friends; to me it was only show Now Italy is invaded. It is not a show. It is reality. You sympa thize--but you cannot know
 An English woman now in this country told of spending five success sive nights in the cellar of her little home to escape the Zeppelin raids and she added: You forget that England is now one of the invaded countries
 France, Belgium, Italy and England; 1; all are now scenes of actual invasion.
 America has not been invaded, it is true, but her boys are being shot down. It is her fight.
 The very fact that her territory has not been invaded, the very fact that she has been spared this dissertation u ueI tOW HS dllu Villages, lHdhCo luc responsibility for personal sacrifice doubly here.
 She should give and keep on giving. Her own personal comfort has not yet been touched She should contribute money and then more money But all the money in all the Allied countries will not win the war without food
 America is being asked right now to give every grain of wheat she can possibly spare. There ought to be but one answer to this request: Take it all"
 France has again cut down her bread ration to about two-thirds of that heretofore maintained. Since bread constitutes over one-half of the diet of the French nation, this is greater denial even than it sounds.
 The eating of wheat in America is solely a matter of taste, comfort and convenience.
 Every patriotic American should sacrifice his own taste, comfort and convenience in order to give to those who have suffered so long and cruelty in this war. his last grain of wheat
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
UNCLE SAM NEEDS MORE
 CLERKS

Although the civilian workers in the National Capital have increased from 30.O00 to nearly S0,OOO in the first year of the war, the Government still needs Civil Service Commission announces that there is an. urgent call for appli- cants for the positions of stenog- rapher, typewriter, bookkeeper-type- writer, clerk-bookkeeper, cost account. ant, accounting and statistical clerk, statician, clerk qualified in account ing, clerk qualified in business admins. tration, index and catalogue clerk schedule clerk. passenger-rate clerk, blueprint file clerk, and assistant to business manager. These positions are open to both men and women.
 Representatives of the Civil Service Commission at the post office in all cities are prepared to furnish definite inforamtion and application blanks.
 According to the Civil Service Com mission, the full extent to which the specialized clerk is needed is perhaps not generally understood, and it is in this class of work that women have the best opportunity to be of real ser vice to the Government at this time. Eighteen thousand stenographers and typists are at work constantly in the Government offices at Washington, D. C., on the tons of correspondence ard records made necessary by war prep arations such as the world has never before known.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
FILL THE SHIPS!

Food means life. Lack of food means death. When you waste food you are wasting someone's life.
 Stringent measures have been taken aboard to drive home this fact to peoples minds. A woman in Eng land was fined $1O0 recently and jailed for thirty days because she threw away one-half of a rice pudding. A baker was sent to jail for six months for throwing away two pies.
 Hard penalties, you say? But these people were wasting human lives! They are murderers.
 Scrupulous care is taken that every bit of food that comes into those homes across the sea is saved. For in. stance, every vessel ill which food has been cooked has water poured into it. The water is strained and the food which originally adhered to the side of the vessel is saved and cooked again.
 This is just one sample of the ways in which European housewives are economizing. We may be very sure that no food we send to Europe is wasted.
 Let's fill the big ships then, and send them back with their message of life and hope to those women across the water.
 Wheat is the food most needed just now. Let us do without it, so far as we can-altogether if we can, and most of us are able to if we are in earnest. One way to do it is to have these wheatless breads instead of bread with wheat in it.-Bulletin 1O1.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28

"koopons" each represented a certain sum of money to be devoted for the relief of the war orphans in France
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28

can early vegetables, and when can. ned they are always ready for the table. We suggest that the housewife can peas, corn, carrots, beets, toma- toes, spinach, dandelions. and other wild greens.
 Don't fail to gather in season and can the wild things-like wild mustard cowslips. and pokeberries- are wholesome food.
 "The better the garden. the more saved for other comforts"
 Canning and garden literature will be furnished free from the United States Department of Agriculture.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28

that, when I finished, the professor said he could recommend me to work in any drafting room in the country" said Mrs. Garth q have a mechan. ical turn of mind, so it was rather easy for me to grasp the construction of iron and steel work The drawing I knew how to do, so do not have to spend any time on that.
 What I have done in six weeks others can do, and drafting is not hard It is nice work for a woman, and any. enc who can draw can soon be- come proficient I have been draw. ing free-hand all my life, and have also studied Illustrating, as we'll as other lines of art. It is easy for me to do drafting and like it."
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
MAKE THE GARDEN WORK
 OVERTIME

If the housewife of America needs the advice of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, by fall she will have the shelves of her pantry filled with food from her own home garden, or if she has no space for garden she will can both vegetables and fruits in season. In either event her pantry will be full.
 Make the garden work all through the summer and fall, and see that your fall garden plans calls for staple stor- ;ge vegetables like potatoes, onions, Deets, squashes and the like," is the injunction of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. It is easy to
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
!KETCH1KAN, ALASKA
NOTICE OF MEETING

Alaska Labor Union Number Five will meet at eight p. m. Wednesday at Deep Sea Fisherman's Hall.-advtf
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-06-28
COLORADO WOMAN LEARNS DRAFTING OF IRON
 AND STEEL WORK

Mrs. s. A. Garth of Colorado Springs Colo, has just completed a special course in drafting of iron and steel work in the engineering department of Colorado College.
 T took a six weeks course of 3O hours a week and mastered it so well
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-08-28

art spent the week end at Redwood
Falls.
w. w. Hobbs of Marshalltown and
the Misses DR.. Jessie Catlow and AL
ice LIE Fever of Boone, Iowa autoed
here last Saturday and are visiting
at the home of Mr.. Hobbs daughter
Mrs. A. L. Leonard.
Mr.. and Mrs A. Treadwell and
Miss Emma Huweiller of North Red
wood spent Sunday at the Ole Flore
home.
Mrs. Margaret Evans and daugh-
ter Mary and son John of Judith Gap
Montana, and Miss Florence Evans
of Ipswich, S. D. spent last week at
the home of Mrs. Evans daughter
Mrs. Harry Johnson.
Miss Belle McCorqpodale of Echo
is visiting at the D. R. McCorquo-
dale home.