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The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-12

About three hundred persons took advantage of the excursion to the glaciers yesterday. The weather was ideal until after the excursionists had feasted their eyes on the wonders and beauties of the great ice fields. Rain commenced too late to spoil the pleasures of the picnickers.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-12

Peter Cars, a former railroad em ploye. died at the general hospital or Saturday.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-12
OF LOCAL
 AND PERSONAL INTEREST

A freighter was in port last night for oil and provisions.
 Dan Dooling of Brooks was an ar rival in town on yesterdays train.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-08-12

| aid
 Mrs. J. J. Murray and family and l the formers sister. Mrs. T. D. Sharp, will leave for the States on the next | south bound steamer. Nathanael Greene left yesterday for the westward. and will visit Valdez, 1 Seward and Anchorage on his annual inspection of the banks at those places
 Ethel Barrymore in five-aCt drama, The Lifted Veil" and a Max Sennett | two-reel comedy. "A Royal Rogue" | is the offering at the Empress the ater tonight
 Herbert Cooper. John Pierson, Mag nus Johnson, Edward E. Hunn and Jim Davis came down from Kennecott l yesterday. and are on their way to 1 Fort Liscum to enlist
 On Saturday evening John Memo ples and William Coroles. section men { employed on the Copper River rail
 way, were badly cut and bruised by falling between moving cars,
 
 John Randall Dunn, Christian Sci ence lecturer from St. Louis. is in
 Fairbanks, and will return to the | States over the government trail, stop ping over in Cordova for a few days. 1 Deputy Marshal J II Miller and Guard A. Hanot arrived from Fair banks with two prisoners-Carl Nigl, an interned German, who Is being taken to Seattle, and Dan Perisch, an insane man, for the Morningside asy lum.
 r. F. Kilbourne, for the past two years foreman of the Daily Dispatch office. Juneau. was an arrival in town to accept a similar position on the Daily Times. Mir. kilbourne is ac- companied by his wife. and they ex- 1 pect to make Cordova their future home.
 If the weather Is favorable the launch Waif will leave for katalla to-
 morrow George C. HaZelet and F. w. Van Camper will book passage for
 the Boring river coal fields and a
 barge will be lowed over with four
 horses to be used in their develop
 ment work at the mines.
 About three hundred persons took
 advantage of the excursion to the
 glaciers yesterday. The weather was
 ideal until after the excursionists had
 and beauties of the great ice fields,
 Rain commenced too late to spoil the
 pleasures of the picnickers. Mir. and Mrs. Fred c. Moves of
 Fairbanks reached Cordova on yes
 terday's train. having come as far as Chitina In their own automobile. MT, Moves Is the receiver of the famous
 Fairbanks-Alaska bank, and he and
 his wife are on their way to Califor.
 nia, where they will spend the win.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
Tragedy Of French Trees.

Br Ken homes, ruined factories,
shattered churches, violated graves, it
had seemed to me we had rung all the
changes on the destruction of war. But
there remained One-the tragedy Of
the trees-says a writer in McClure's
Magazine. You can rebuild houses,
churches, towns even-fOr that takes
only money. But you can't rebuild or
chards of fruit trees and avenues Of
great shade trees-fOr that takes time.
We were seeing them everywhere now
orchards with trees that were but
faded, shriveled branches of brown
leaves lying on their sides; orchards,
where these had been cleared away,
that showed nothing but white-tOpped
stumps. They say that when the
warm spring came, some of these or
chard trees, lying on their sides but
not wholly severed, leafed gently and
then-just before they died-blOOmed
once again for France.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
Uniforms Too Tight.

The army council order about the
tightness and fitting of soldiers uni
forms led to expert discussion as to
which force has the best, says the
London Chronicle. Wounded officers
with experience ranging from Bagdad
to Ypres voted for the Australian.
Its shirtlike tunic with buttOned
sleeves is ideally wOrkmanlike. The
Norfolk 1acket-like waistband gives
trimness without necessitating the
wearing Of a belt.
And 5ust as unanimously expert
opinion declared the U. S. A. uniform
the worst.
'It's too tight-it's skin tight. Bless
you, the pockets won't hold anything
they're FOR appearance. You couldn't
cram a handkerchief in one. And ]
used to carry quite comfortably pair
Of socks, G. couple of Mills grenades, a
tin of bully. chocolate, cigarettes, and
my revolver in one side of my jacket
"a thing in your pocket is worth q
stone in your haversack."
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
FERRY ACROSS THE CHANNEL
Freiuht Cars Are Carried for the First
Time in History From
England to France.

For the first time in the history OF
railroading a train ferry has crossed
the English channel from Newhaven,
England, to Dieppe, France, carrying
about fifty cars, says Popular Mechan-
les Magazine. Since early in the war
thousands of British railway cars have
been employed in France in transport
ing troops and supplies, but they have
all been transferred to the continent
by freighters. The Inauguration Of
ferry service indicates that the diff
culties created by very pronounced
tides have been overcome at last to
the mutual advantage of these two al
lies. At Dieppe the water level varies
as much as 81 feet. To overcome this,
short bridges, attached at one end to
the dock and resting on large floats,
are employed. During loading and un-
loading the ferry is chained to the
boat and dock pier as well. The two
smOkestacks are located one at either
side of the craft, leaving space for
tracks down the center of the deck.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
BRAVE SONS OF FAR WEST
Boys Sole Object in Going to War,
Like That of Others, Is to
"Can the Kaiser"

Mai. f. Alexander Powell, in Scrib-
ner's Magazine, says sit has been my
good fortune to have marched with
many armies, but none of them has
given me the thrill of pride which runs
I'D my spine when l see these loose
limbed, brOwn-faced, clear-eyed sons
of the far West go swinging by under
the slanting lines of steel.
'They are for the most part serious
looking, with a curious set expression
about them which makes you feel that,
though they realize the immense diff
Guilty of the task for which they are
preparing, they intend to see it fin
ished, no matter how long it may
take. Just as their fathers carried the
frontier Of civilization westward from
the Mississippi, so these, their sons,
are going to push that same frontier
from the Rhine.
'But that isn't the way that they
would put it. Should you ask them
what they are fighting for, they will
say nothing about the liberty of small
peoples or about making the world
safe for democracy. They will assure
you that their sole object in going tC
war is to can the kaiser And, upOI
thinking it over, it seems to me that
their answer though somewhat inele
gantly phrased, perhaps, expresses the
sentiments of all of us"
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
NO. CALENDAR FOR 500 YEARS
Christians Reckoned Time According
to Customs of Nations to Which
They Belonged.

History tells us that for 800 years
the Christians had no calendar of the:r
own, but reckOned the years according
TO the customs of the nations to which
they belonged. The Roman Christians
used the "AnnO Urbis COnditae," or
year of the founding of Rome, to count
from: others counted from the reign
Of Diocletian, calling it 'the Era OF
the Martyrs" ;" and still others used the
calendar of the COpts of Egypt. In the
sixth century Denis the Little, Greek
monk living in Rome, made calendar
counting from the Incarnation, the
date of which he fixed at 753~A. U. u
So we commonly say that Rome was
founded 753 B. G.
At the beginning of the eighth CEN
tury the. venerable Bede pointed out
that this was an historical blunder.
But no general notice was taken OF
his criticism and the error has contin-
ued to this day. Historic facts have
enabled modern scholars to determine
without much possibility of doubt, the
exact wear of the birth of Jesus, and
to place it at what we call b. Z.
at should be noted" says the great
| French astronomer, Camille Flamma-
rion, ''that the birth of the Savior re
ma.lned totally unperceived at the
tire. No register of birth, no cOntem
porary historian has bequeathed US
any sacred parchment registering the
event"
Moreover, although we are actual!
approaching the year 1923 A. D., there
is little probability that our calendal
will ever be reformed to show the fact
The confusion of dates that would re
suit from substitution of the more &C
curate designation would be too grea
to make such RIGHTEOUSNESS WORT
while.-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
Years of Experience.

Years of experience and preparation
are necessary for the accomplishment
of certain kinds of results, for partici-
patton in certain lines of activity.
This was never more true than today.
Business men, professional men, the
well-equipped man in the average
walks of life, are being called upon to
show and to give all that is best in
them. The very years the passing of
which they may have regretted have
equipped thousands Of men and wOm-
en- to do excellently well important
tasks which have arisen out of the
emergencies of the nations PERIL
The Three Partners.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
IT'S A PREMATURE MONUMENT
Tall ObeIisk Was Raised by the Turks
to Commemorate Anticipated
Capture IF kut.

Approaching Kut-el-Amara from the
south by the River Tigris, the first
thing one sees nowadays is a tall ODe-
lisk. 1t stands on ground sacred to
no people in the world but the Brit
Ish. Eleanor Franklin Egan writes In
the Saturday Evening Post. 1t stands
on the wide, shell-torn and deeply
trenched neck of land-base OF the
peninsula on which the town is built
where for IA days the shattered REM
nant Of a British army withstood
double siege of constant bOmbardment
and slow starvation.
This Obelisk was raised by the
Turks to commemorate the surrender
of General Townsend and their VIC
tory over the British forces that had
tried so long and so herOically to re-
lieye him. To me it was an eXclama-
ton point to punctuate my own aston
ishment!
1 saw it first in the wonderful
lights of early evening-a tall white
Shaft in a half-circling fringe of palm
trees. lifting itself against a back
ground of placid river, which lay in a
short, straight stretch to the north, re-
| fecting the cOlOrs of the sunset.
Was ever anything quite so prema-
ture? 1t makes one realize, as moth
ing else could, how confident the
Turks and the Germans were that they
had the British in MesopOtamia per
manently defeated. Defeated! II
seems incredible that anyone cOul(
have imagined it. In the face of things
as they have become, that Obelisl
seems to me to express a kind o.
whimpering enmity, as though it fel
itself strangely inappropriate ant
would get away if it could to follow
it's builders on the long trail of re
treat to the north. 1t is a mOnu
mental misconjecture, the irOnic hu
NOR of it being unique and thing il
which Englishmen may now rejoice.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
CLAIMS hx the Square Mile.

Any new source of food supply is
important in these days, and the gov
ernment fisheries bureau is greatly de
lighted at the discovery of the vast
and hitherto unknown beds of clans
off the coast of central Alaska, not
far from COrdOva. One bed is 60
miles long and from three to five miles
wide.
The clans are quite different from
those common in our Eastern mar
kets. They are "razOr clams"-a kind
of bivalve that derives It's name, ap-
prOpriately descriptive. from its like
ness in shape to a razor.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
MNo Lick, No Candy"

''I'm going to buy some candy with
my penny" lisped little twO-year-old
girl.
"I'm not" said her brother, who is
not quite six years old. "rm going to
save mine and buy another Thrift
stamp"
swell, want some candy" argued
.he girl.
"Aw, go ahead and buy your candy,
replied her brother. "but I'm going to
save mine and buy a Thrift stamp
cause daddy said that will help lick the
kaiser, and he says If he amt licked
there won't be any candy"
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
Relieved.

At Camp Dodge one night a Swede
was on guard duty. Being new to the
business, time dragged slowly, but
finally the officer with relief came
along. The Swede said: "Halt." They
halted, and next he said: "WhO was
dat?" The officer replied: "Oficer
with relief" The sentry. after wait
ing several minutes in q vain attempt
to recall to mind what he should say,
brought forth this startling command
'Dismiss yourselfs and be recOnciled."
Needless to say the stiffness of the
night was broken by a roar of laugh
ter.
Smyrna times., 1918-09-04
His Lonu Life Assured.

"YOur cobra is quite a card" said
the visitor at the circus.
"Yes, sir"
'But where are you going 20 get an.
other cobra in this country in case
that one dies2
swell, l expect this one to last q
long time," responded the performer.
"As you see, he leads a charmed life"
The Peoples Home Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

NeIOStICS COhpOSeu OI INctSs
nations baffled the wisdom of Wash
ington. not to mention Boston. Phila-
delphia. Chicago and New York.
DR.. Gay and his council Of sages and
strategsts turned the beam of per-
plexity end for. end. why waste
time" they asked, ION things that are
not essential? What we want to
know are the things that Gre essen
tial to the winning of this war" I'm
two times two are four. I'VE need"
say Gay. manganese for the harden
ing. of steel; coconut shells for the
making of gas masks: tin, platinum
manufacture explosives. The more of
these articles the better
This list became inviolate. Now it
should be understood that DR.. Gay
and his brilliant company of asso-
ciates have no authority to say what
tempted. Their functions are to in
vestigate and to suggest. Where
upon the shipping board acts. But
their lists. in effect are real statutes.
The board accepts them and they go
into force.
To mention the order of the lists
after the first one would occasion de-
bate and much unavailing correspond
ence. Protesting mep would call for
explanations. II am in broom corn,
why give coffee pots preference?'
some one might ask. If SUCH indeed,
happened to be the fact
X
4 x
1t is enough to say that many prod
ucts are given cargo space in vessels
bound for America, provided there is
room for them. and they are on the
docks ready for shipment. They
cd flo i,,fn hof T.
quebracho extract (for tanning),
wool. camphor. coffee, hemp. spices
and mica. There are number Of
others.
Having found the essential products,
1t was not difficult to catalogue those
that were not essential Works of
art, shoe backing, carriages. agri-
cultural implements. clocks and
watches, billiard balls. poker chips.
manufactures of cotton, electric
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Po,Oer of One Man in
Washington, Though
,No,0here to Be Found
IN an Act of Congress,
Is Prod;W s-He
May Alter the Trade
Currents of EUROPE
and South America.
BY JAMES Il. MORROW.

~ GODS are left on the docks or
taken and ships change from
Y one long route to another at
the suggestion of an unseen
man in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

But n revolutionary event occurred
when the forty scientists. duly as
sembled, after being called generally
by telegraph. heard the voice of Dr.
Gay. Millenniums were switched onto
side tracks, and the war express
loaded with men and rifles, was given
the right of way.
Everything was forgotten, but the
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21
\ HELPE D NJ {
Al c HT A " Ay
Kentucky Lady Says Two Bottles
of Cardui Surprised Her by
Acting so Quickly.

Relief. Ky Mrs Sarah NJ, Hill. OF
this place, writes: Il can't praise
Cardui too much, for it is wonder
ful medicine for women.
Eight years ago, ! began to feel
rot quite so we'll as usual was
not able to do anything. 1t seemed
like | was dwindling away, and kept
getting more puny every day. ] was
weak and pale and could not stand
on my feet long had no doctor
but | knew by my feelings that | had
womanly weakness.
After decided to try Cardui
bought one bottle. 1t seemed as i
the very first few doses began Il
t.elp me. ! was surprised that any
ti,ng could begin to act so quickly
hut it helped me right away. know
! it did because | began immediatel,
y get strong.
After | finished that first bottle,
| bought another. When | had finishe
| tl,at second bottle ! was all right.
did not need third bottle. keI
ripht on getting stronger until | wa
as strong as ever, and have keI
SO. Now / am as well and as stron
ard as able to do my work as ! eve
was in my life
| Try cardui today.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21
Mrs " altny Wilson
Chart ; Candidate

Mrs Wealthy Wilson Of Tulsa has
announ ID as candidate for com
missile; of charities and corrections
Mrs WHson says that she has been
engaged in charitable and humane
work fyr the past fourteen years in
this sta,e, and asks TIE democrats tt
give her the position formerly held by
Kate bernard Mr. Matthews, thc
present head of the charities and cor
rec,ions department. has already an
nounced that he win be a candidate
to succeed himself
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21
Sewing Circle With
Much Whispering
We Are An Greatly Indebted to Those
Who Tell Their Experiences.

Before the arrival of the storl1
there is much to talk about Tho COM
fort of the eXpectant mother is the
chief topic, and there is sure to be
someone who has used or knows Of
that splendid external help Mothers
Friend.
Nausea. nervousness, bearing down
and stretching pains and other symp-
toms SO familiar to many women are
among the dreaded experiences thou
sands of mothers say they entirely
escape by the use Of this famous
remedy.
Its influence ON the fine network
of nerves and ligaments just beneath
the skin is wonderful.
BY the regular use of Mother S
Friend during the eriod the mus
cles are made and kept soft and
elastic; they eY.and easily, without
strain, when baby is born and the
pain and danger at the crisis is ma
turally less.
Mothers Friend is for external use
only is sold by all druggists, and
should be used with the utmost reg
ular.ty Writ to the Bradtleld Regu-
lator Co., F150, Lamar Bldg, Allan
Ia, Ga, FOR a valuable and interesting
Motherhood Book There is
wo.Nh OF instruction and comfort d
1,'r, d in reading this little book
1t ialy written and will be Q
sH d Il little text book for guidance
not only for yourself but will max"
you helpful to others. And in the
meantime do not fail to get bottle
OF NJ hers Friend from the druf
store, and thus fortfy ourel
against pain and discomfort
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21
- f,o0r. divide the batter in three


.aa s,our, divide the batter IN three
parts.
Buise and pound a few leaves o.
,ninach in a thin muslin bag until
Won can express the juice put a fe"
d,ops Of this into one portion OF tue
batter color another with cochlnea"
leaving the third white; put a niue
# each into small round pans or cups
irving light stir to each color as you
,dd the next, This will VEN the
,akes prettily. Put the white between
the pink and green that the tints
may show better. Ice on sides ana
top.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

Rabbit pie has grown to be local
lelicacy.
Warmer weather is promised for
tuesday
French and British filters destroyed
tx enemy planes Sunday.
The wheat crop is saved, but the
,ow crop is still in doubt
1t is a pity that granulated snow
no good for sweetening.
The German motto: peace with
Russia and a piece OF Russia
The snow saved the wheat bu
the wheat can't save the snow.
Alvin Rucker says the states ga'
supply is rapidly disappearing.
Try Reeds Tin Shop on a leak.
radiator. 122 North First street.
If YOU are an alien you had bette
see a photographer. 1t will requir
tour small photographs before yo
can finally get on Uncle Sans bi
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

q the Hi Jinx club on Saturday aft
e,noon. She entertained the girls
with a line party, after which re-
ieshments were served to Misses
Nina Bronson Ruth Hildreth, Vera
Allen Vida Crook, Iona Wallace,
Qeneyieve SeXauer, Doris Gafiney,
Dorothy Davis and Georgia West.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

Sergeant Walter II Ritterbusch
~ gon company, lllth ammunit OF
rain, a Guthrie boy, stationed at
camp Bowie, is the only enlisted man
itom Logan coutny who has beer
admitted to the new officer training
camp. The class will number 500
,Aty-two of whom come from Okla
noma.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

registration book Registration be
ginsFebruary lth
Beyo d Beer of Thomas, was a |
member of the last Scottish Rite class
here
Judge Hldreth is the best story |
teller in town, and he always has a
rev one,
Sometimes the bridegroom looks as
serious as if he were being mustered
into the Battalion Of Death
Boys with bob sleds are having the
time of their young lives and the
Horny cars are carrying the burdon.
OF course every gentleman is proud
II being one. but he cant walk in
oep snow as interestingly as a lady
cen.
, Five years from now there will be
ON at the t0p in this country only
or those who went over the top in
| France
Furthermore when a lady shopper
buys THRIFT stamp at the store she
hould be prpared to carry her owl
)uckage
When the average mans conscience
peps him awake at night he pre-
ends Ike it was something he ate
fer supter.
After the snow melts then let the
'ornty dragmen get busy This Is
)ta good bet that should not bt
overlooked
l. ! Beland Personally, | hatt
o admit that | am not as young as
used to be, but don't pretend t,
uioy romping in the beautiful snow
Arthur Evans: Another seriou
objection to frozen weather is tha
C. personally. don't like my break
fast milk in slices. Did say milk?
. This talk you hear about Bill Muir
ray not being in the gubernatoria
! race is all moonshine,' said Judg
/ Thomas II Doyle Of Oklahoma City
who was here Saturday to pay hi
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

And for that matter If newspa =
Der told half the truth about some
ptople. there might be an increased
business in the divorce wing OF the
district court, not taking in consid
GRAFTON the countless other pangs
that might result. Sometimes the
t.uth half told is charity we'll per-
formed
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21
Domestic Science Club.

Domestic Science Club.
The Domestic Science club will
meet at the home Of Mrs f Il Wilber
IN Friday afternoon and Mrs + Trap
iell, Mrs l. II Lohr. Mrs } W Seer
md Mrs IL e Derwin will be assist
mt hostesses. The program viii be
Ia follows
Hygiene of Clothing Mrs Ralph
Hron.
Care and Repair of Clothing Mr.,
Nlber
Washing, Ironing, Dry Cleaning
Mrs Metz.
War Bread d-Open discussion.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

For Sale: Stock In a proven on
,ompany located in Blackwell, okla.
'ompany's price $500 per share,
will do much better II taken by Jan
5h. Rex +, lIargrayes, Blackwell
oklahoma.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

formed part of a statesman's entour-
al;c at an internal conference, she hay
iEg accompanied David Lloyd George
on his recent trip to Italy to meet the
prime minister of the allies
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-21

Mrs. Esther lrvan Of Bartlesyille is
he champion knitter OF the United
States. Last week she finished a full
ized regulation soldier sweater in
> ght hours and forty eight minutes
continuous work And besides this
he is left handed