The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 1937. g tipns from the usual custom. Each Forestry or Mineral Resources of the | member will contribute the contents Territory. Cash prizes are offered |for three' baskets this year, and on for the best essays, and Mrs. Lesher December' 28, membetrs will gather reported much interest manifested |s uuTLINEu BY |at the home of Mrs. Ray G. Day, to by both students and teachers. | prepare the baskets for distribution.’ Four new names for the Junior quAN,s GLUB jl..asr. year 118 baskets were prepared Department of the club were pro- and distributed by the committee in posed and accepted yesterday, these charge, and this year the number being Mrs. Zalmain Gross, Mrs. Varied Community, Wel- fare Events Planned | will be considerably augmented. George LeVeque, Mrs. Catherine Yesterday | Mrs. J. M. Clark has been appoint- Sams, and Mrs. Erling Bugge. Ac- ed to “take the census” of those in tive work in this department will be town to whom baskets are to be 'started as soon as the New Year sent, and anyone knowing an aged begins and it is expected that the lor shut-in person who would care development of work for Junior to receive the club's greetings is re-|women will be one of the outstand- 7 quested to notify her. The baskets|ing features of the Club's work for Plans for Christmas octivities 0c- gre not intended as charitable of- the current year. cupled first place at the regular ferings, but merely bear Chflslmasl eI SN business session of the Juneau Wo- greetings to those who might, be- man’s Club, held yesterday after- cause of their age or infirmities MAR]NE AIRWAY OUT ON SCHEDULE noon at the Pent House al (he A= faii o be included in the festivities aska Electric Light and T of the holiday season. A Christmas Company building, with & > end gapdle to burn on Ohristmas Eve Mrs, Michaelson, Gole Will Be Heads of Pim@r Orders Igloo, Auxiliary Hold Meet- ings Last Night— Social Session | _Delegates to the session of the Grand Igloo to be held in Cordova commencing February 22, 1938, will be Robert M. Keeny, Willilam Mar- kle and C. E. Rice. Officers elected by the Pioneers' Auxiliary to serve with Mrs. Mich- aelson were Mrs. Dora Sweeney, Vice-president; Mrs. Della Clark, Secretary; Mrs. John Satre, Treas- urer; Mrs. C. E. Rice, Chaplain; Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, Historian; |Mrs. Dgidyy Brown. Sergeant-at-| Arms; Mrs. John Torvinen, Trustee.| 3.5 Mrs. Jenne and Mrs. Charles W.| Heading activities of the Ploneers|garter were elected delegates to the and the Auxiliary during the com- pepryary convention, and Mrs. Kate ing year will be Cash Cole, olect,ed'.,“mfln' was elected delegate-at- President of the Igloo last night, large. Mrs. Robert W. Bender was and Mrs. J. C. Michaelson, newly ynitiateq by the Auxiliary during the | elected President of the A“’“““"»""evenlng | New officers were chosen at the| molowing the business mwnngs,i individual. meetings of the lodges , saoial hour was held with n'(n:sh-\J held in the 1.0.0.F. Hall where Rob-| j,onts served by a committee from | |to hear special | Christmas activities. | {Sheclor s in charge of the social | meeting set for Deeecmber 20 when FGUR MEMBERS |the Auxiliary will meet with the’] | Legion. ARE ELEcTEn | Mrs. George Penny was named |chairman of the Junior American | |Legion Auxiliary, and announces that the next meeting of the group BY AUXILIARY £ Taxation Scheme ; 1:30 am. Installation of | Gnfls |“tu smnk‘ officers will mark the meeting, and | o T . plans will be made for helping the . o o needy children at Christmas time. |- 18X Committee Will View Supreme Court De- | Mrs. Oscar Olson was installed as | tirst vice-president at the Auxiliary A cision Monday I meeting last night. & r—— 4 ) | TGN, s |House Tax Subcommittee abans TO FAIRBANKS | (oned, proposuls tor Federsl Taxa, will be held Saturday in the Dug- | t 11 Mrs. Oscar Olson Installed As First Vice- President Four new members were clected by: the American Legion Auxiliary last night, when members gathered in regular session in the Dugout, reports and plan tion of the incomes of state and {municipal . employeés. M - The new members are Mrs. Flor-| Jerry Jones and Walt Hall pi-| Interest on Fedeéral, State a ence Mutch, Mrs. Ted Hellenthal, [loted a Pacific Alaska Afrways Lock- | municipal securities-are-now sgempt. Mrs. Rex Hartman, and Mrs. J. A. 'heed Electra from the PAA afrport|Chairman Vinsen -gd"‘;g’u com- Carnegie. [this morning with two passengers miittee has agreed’ to:view the Su- enthusiastic atiendance. Mu. 14y ang Christmas goodies are included! Marine Airways made their regu- G. Day, president of the clib e~ jn each basket. lar weekly scheduled flight to Sitka sided, with Mrs. H. L. Wuotl ac. 08 Two special announcements for!today with A. D. Johnson ard Jane as secretary. lofficers of the Alaska Federation Doe, and mail and alr express. Juneau’s Communily CLi5.325 of Women's Clubs were received' On the return trip, Alex Holden Tree, for the past ten years an es- sential part of the holiday season, will again be placed and lighted on Front Street in front of the First National Bank, it was decided yes- terday, following a five minute for- um on this topic led by Mrs. J. E. Neate. Y | Cooperation of the City of Juneau, the telephone company, KINY, vari- ous musical organizations of the town, and of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, which will wire the tree for lighting and contribute the electric current nec- essary for this purpose, will again be asked and plans are under way for making the Community Christ- mas Festival, which will be held on the Sunday befére Christmas, out- standing this year, The work of ar- ranging the program for this event and carrying out the other details is in the hands of the Department of Civic Improvement of which Mrs H. 8. Graves is chairman. Hospitalizéd Children Only 14 of the 32 children who were hospitalized in the Tubercular ‘Ward at the Government Hospital Jast year, have survived the ravages of the dread disease, but to these 14 the club will again take Christmas greetings as in the past. Mrs, R. B. Lesher will again be chairman of the committee in charge of provid- ing the Christmas treat of toys and hopes to have the cooperation of the townspeople, in the matter of discarded toys and games that will help while away the tedious hours in bed. A Mend-It party will be held at the home of Mrs. Lesher on Wil- loughby Avenue on December 21, which will combine the regular so- cial meeting of the month with the work of mending and repairing toys, dressing dolls, and wrapping the various packages for the children. An additional feature of this meet- ing will be the Christmas party. for club members. s 3 4 Each member is requested to take a small gift for this pariy, and the club will have .a regular Christmas tree with distribution of packages for members, as well as a profitable ert Keeny and Mrs. Crystal Snow|yne pioneers Jenne presided as outgoing officers o Other officers of the Pioneers are picked up Luella King at Hoonah. William Markle, First Vice-presi- ST TIEW, -5 0 T dent; Al Lundstrom, Second Vice-| There is practically no market in president; Alfred Zenger, Secretary; Argentina for embalming fluids, as John Reck, Treasurer; John Lang- léss than five bodies a year are seth, Historlan; Rev. C. E. Rice, cmbalmed there. |Chaplain; William Douglas, Ser- R and read at yesterday's meeting Participation in the publication of an Anthology of Alaskan verse was! asked in an interesting letter from Mrs. P, C. McMullen of Seward, Chairman of the Division of Poetry of the Fine Arts Department of the Federation, who urges all clubs to assist in compiling and publishing a book of Alaskan verse. Mrs. Harold Smith, chairman of the Department of Fine Arts in the Juneau Woman's Club, was named to collect copies of verses from the poetically in- clined in Juneau with the view to contributing them to this Anthology. Essay Contest Federation announce- ment of special interest was re- ceived from Mrs, Robert B. At- wood, of Anchorage, President of the Alaska Federation. An essay contest for club women only is suggested by Mrs. Atwood, on the general subject “Alaska's Heritage Becomes an Inheritance.” Mrs. At- wood asks all Alaska clubwomen to participate in this contest by sub- mitting essays telling how residence in Alaska has enriched their lives Substantial cash prizes are offered for this event. Mrs. M. O. Johnson of Wrangell, is named as chairman of judges for this contest, which is open to all clubwomen, including associate members of the Juneau ‘Woman's Club. A report of the charity ball held during the latter part of November under the auspices of the Public Welfare Department, was given by Mrs. Glen Wilcox, chairman of the committee in charge of'this event, who paid tribute to the assistants she had on this committee. A vote of thanks was accorded Mrs. Wilcox and her committee for their work on this project. A fur- ther report from the Public Wel- fare Department included some of the things this department is ac- complishing. A baby bed, a cot and a baby ‘wilker, contributed to- this department found immediate place- ment, and the need for a child’s high chair was reported. The club's annual Essay Contest for grade school students, is now Everett Nowell, er, left firms he represents. SEMI- Another MARJONE and DEE FROCKS Dress and Formal Models Regular values to $35.00 SPECIAL $14.95 SOUTH FOR CHRISTMAS wellknown brok- now shown in the drive as a result | on the Yukon for Seattle of the campaign with Hawail. Mrs. to spend the holidays with his fam- | Edith Sheelor, chairman of the re- man, left on the Yukon for Seattle |Virginia might tax gross incomi ily and also attend conferences with habilitation committee, reported on to be with 'his family during the!recflvtd by contractars for buildi g A report on membershlp was for Fairbanks. They were Mrs. E. preme Coutt deefsion Monday, bub made by Mrs. George C. Penny, L. Shermer and Alfred M. Ohlson,|fo - recommendatfons have been chairman, who told of the Interest B e ,|made pfo or con” refetring to the NOONAN GOES SOUTH decision of the Supréme OCous Dan Noonan, Alaska traveling which held Washington and Wi Ilocks and dams for the ¢ovammerr|f work of her department. Mrs. | holidays. BB 2 e e ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday MILLINERY Final Clearance - . Purses — Silk Ling afternoon’s work. Assisting Mrs. Lesher in this work will be Mrs. under way, and will close just be- fore the holiday season, according John Chappel, Mrs. David Wag- to announcement made by Mrs. R. goner, Mrs. R. V. Marshall, Mrs. B, Lesher, Chairman of the Depart- John Rogers, Mrs. Henry Larson, ment of Applied Education. This Mrs. C. C. Rulaford, and Mrs. H. 5. 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