The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-12

the nome or MrS. GeOrge D0Oley last Thursday. The members are busily engaged in making pretty fancy work articles which will be a feature of their annual dance to be given in March. After sewing hard the ladies enjoyed a dainty luncheon. Those present were Mrs. Whalen, Mrs. Din cen, Mrs. Leach, Mrs. Rosswog, Mrs Scheffler, Miss Genevieve Rosswog, Mrs. Sheldon, Mrs. Shoemaker, Mrs O'Neill, Miss Dorothy Dooley, Mrs Bjarnson, Miss Marie Rosswog and Mrs. Dooley.
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 The Presbyterian Sunday school held social at the church last night and very enjoyable time was had
 Next Monday evening the Pioneer Ladies will hold a social meeting, to which the Pioneer men are invited, at the Eagles hall rooms. The eats will occupy the most prominent place on the program The hostesses for the occasion will be Mrs. c. M Ross wog, Mrs. Charles Scheffler and Mrs. E. P, Harwood.
 Miss Mildred Wilson, eldest daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. James A. Will son of Portland, Oregon, and George w. Benning, of Anchorage, were joined in marriage by Rev. Father Markham, at the home of c. G.. Jones, of Anchorage, last week. A number of relatives and close friends of the contracting parties were pres ent at the ceremony.
 MT. Benning will be remembered as popular yoeman on the U. s. S. Saturn during the war and is now in the employ of the Alaskan engineer ing commission.
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 A copy of Alaskas first newspaper, 1 The Sitka Alaska Times, published September 19, 1868, was found in an old deserted house and presented to the Alaska Historical Society. This pen and ink on foolscap paper by Barney OHagan and in it he first voiced in print the dream of rail road connecting points in Alaska with the states.
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 Cordova friends of T. J. Devenney, of Valdez, wifi be glad to learn that he is receiving the congratulations of his friends on the arrival of a nine pound boy at his home.
 Having failed to make it's street car system @ financial success, Seat. tie is now trying to settle the prob lem of whether married woman should work or not. Q * * #&
 H. R. Rasmussen, of Seward, is, l spending the winter at Tampa, Flor. ida lit is said to be~the man farthest, away from home at that popular winter resort. Instead of going after bears with gun, they should be domesticated. At the roadhouse at Elevenmile, near Hyder. they have become so tame that they call every day for their meals and eat pie out of the hands of the people there. MT. Hornaday would probably be glad to learn how gentle bears have grown lately. 1 @
 Dr. W. H. Chase has just received tooth which formerly belonged to mastodon who made his home on the Siberian wastes in the long ago. But the remarkable thing about this tooth is the fact that it weighs ten pounds; and when you start remod- cling this monster, using a ten-pound tooth as the base, you will get heavyweight even among the masto- dons.
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 Mir and~Mrs. Fred Schrenger have moved from their home in Old Town to the Northern hotel which will be more convenient for MT. Schrenger in his new duties as club steward for the Bills.
 | % * * It is understood that Eddie O'Brien is going to get some real home cook ing when his wife returns on the Ala meda.
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 And newspaper heading informs us that money could be made to talk louder than it does" We'll listen l on1y