The Cordova daily times., 1919-09-27

IS 1I3 pupils as compared With about 82 pupils at this time a year ago. | The increase in the school population 1 indicates an increase in the number of families settling in Cordova, which at least lends an air of permanency to the place.
 # # # 1 MT. and Mrs. John Day are booked as passengers on the steamship Alas ka, and will visit relatives in Seattle. Miss Bessie White, Miss Mary Baen Wright and Miss Mary Edel- brock, of the teaching staff of the CordOva public school, will oc- cupy the Day house up till about the first of December, when they expect to move into their apartments in the Lathrop building.
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 Mrs. J. Props, who has been visiting her husband at Kennecott, returned to her home at Vancouver on the Northwestern.
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 MT. and Mrs. c. M. Anderson and child left on the Northwestern for Seattle and Portland.
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 Duck hunters must come back. Sometimes they bring dead ducks back with them and sometimes they bring tales of what might have been. Link Waln and Louie Dahl brought the tales this time. In the first place they went out to Boswell bay and there were only four ducks out there to greet them. They brought those l four back with them, however. It rained out there-just little harder than it did in Cordova. After wait ing three days they decided to come home and eat what ducks they had. Then the engine balked-simply laid down flat on them. We'll the ROlfe kindly lowed them into the Graham cannery for repairs. At the end of another three days they sighted the fiickering lights of Cordova. Alto ~ether it was a week of strenuous labor. And yet a duck hunter once exclaimed exultantly as he tramped across miles and miles of sticky mud flats in a driving rainstorm, "Only the idle rich can afford to hunt ducks" Link and Louie don't think that there is anything idle about it.
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 Mr. and Mrs. Hillery will leave Cordova on the steamship Alaska and will not be back until next spring They will remain for several weeks in Seattle before going on to Los Angeles, Cal Their house will be occupied in their absence by MT. and Mrs. James Chambers, who are at present stationed at Mile 89.
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 The outgoing Northwestern carried as a passenger Mrs. H. c. Robinson, who was called home suddenly to Toronto, Canada, by the severe illness of her mother Mir. Robinson will leave on this Alaska to look into the oil boom in Texas. He will return to Cordova in about twelve weeks, stop ping off for a visit at Hyder, Alaska, 1 on his way back.
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 The steamship Alaska carried 250 feet of lumber to be used in con- structiOn work at LatOuche. She also had aboard forty-seven laborers for LatOuche
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 Mrs. Roy Walker is at present wis iting in Ashland, in Southern Oregon. Mrs Walker cOntemplates returning to Cordova with the children about the first of December
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 Frank McCOnaghy was an outgoing ! passenger on the Northwestern. Mir. | McConaghy intends to join his family in Aberdeen, Wash remain there this winter and then return to Cor dova when the clam season opens in the spring.
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 Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Weaver were passengers on the steamship Alaska en route to Seward, but will return on the next boat. MT. Weaver is con- nected with banking interests in Spo- kane, Wash, and is now looking over the prospects in Alaska with a view to making this his future home.