The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1943, Page 6

% SITKA GIV CARD PARTY BY ST. PETER'S GUILD Seventeen tables of cards were in play at the card party sponsored by the Ladies of St. Peter’s Guild at the rectory, the home of the Rev and Mrs: Willlam A. Thomas, Thurs- day evening, July 20. Mrs. Clarence Rands was warded first ladies’ prize for bridge, with consolation prize: going to others. Ray D. Peterman held the gentlemen’s honors with Elliott Fletcher holding low score. Por pinochle, Mrs. Irene Williamson won first prize for the ladies and Mrs. Clyde F. Nunly, low, and John | Masel, first for the gentlemen, with Poster Mills receiving the consola- tion prize. A midnight Iuncheon was enjoyed by the guests, after the card playing TO TAKE VACATION William Cleveland, of the Russian Bell Curio Shop, plans to leave in | the near future for a vacation trip to Seattle. This is the first trip to the South that Mr. Cleveland has made since his arrival in the Ter- ritory more than 12 years ago. WHITTEMORES BUY HOME Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whittemore have purchased the ‘home of Mr and Mrs. Thomas C. Ryan on Jamestown Bay. Mr. and Mrs Ryan, who have made their home here for more than two years, left recently to establish a residence in the South. While here Mr. Ryan was engaged in defense work and Mrs. Ryan had recently been em- ployed as a teacher by the Office of Indian Affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Whittemore and fourteen of their | friends enjoyed an informal house- warming at their home Wednesday evening. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE A free lecture on Christian Science will be given here Monday night, August 2, by Herbert B. Beck, C. S. B, of San Francisco, Calif. The public is invited. ON EXTENDED VISIT Mrs. Thomas A. Tilson and Mrs Lydia Tilson, local postmistr will leave here early next week for an extended visit with friends and rela- tives in and near Seattle. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA NEWS & BUFFET JPPER Mrs. Willilam C. Charteris, Mrs. John J. Conway and Mrs. Prosper S. Ganty entertained at the Ganty residence Tuesday evening with a buffet supper to honor Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Johnson, of Portland, Ore- gon, who have been visiting here during the past week, The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Frée- burn, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Calvin, Dr. and Mus. Louis Scharpenberg, Mrs. Tony Schwamm, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip A Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson. GOING TO SPRINGS Mrs F Peterman is to leave here Saturday for a ten-day stay at Goddard Hot Springs. NURSE V TING SITKA Miss Blanche Horner, nurse em- ployed by the Presbyterian Missions who is on duty at Haines, is the house guest here of Miss Ora Kuykendahl, structor at the Sheldon Jackson School, at her. summer home on Teachers' Island. Mrs. Frank Price entertained at dinner Thursday eve- | ing for Miss Horner and Miss Kuykendahl, with Willilam “Uncle Billy” Barrows, former Juneauite and Mrs. Jack Schaeffer, tional guests. RECEIVES SAD NEWS Mrs. Frank Calvin received word | from Long Beach, California, of the death of her father, K. M. Henrick- son, Saturday, July 24. Mr. Henrick- son was a resident of Ketchikan from 1900 until 1924 when he moved | to California to make his home. BELLAMYS LEAVING Ben Bellamy, wholesale grocery representative, who, with Mrs, Bel- lamy, has maintained a part-time residence in the Kettleson Building here, has released his apartment and will transact business in other parts of the Territory in the future. Mr. and Mrs. Bellamy have made many friends during their stay here and their departure regretted. SITKA IS SURVEYED E. E. Lincoln and Charltes T. Benton, of the War Manpower Labor Board, who are making a survey | @ Relaxation is a necessity in wartime or peacetime . get your ration at the COLUMBIA! Buy Bonds!? COLUMBIA COCKTAIL BAR BUY MORE WAR BO; DON'T WISH FOR GOOD LUCK You'll have good luck and a wonderful time when you "DROP IN" at the SILVER FOAM NDS FOR VICTORY! National Board of | in- | | as addi- | is sincerely | of the Territory were business busi- ness visitors in Sitka for a few days this by Mrs. Lincoln. ANDERSEN RECUPERATING Neill Andersen is recuperating at has kept him away from his busines: during the past week. s TEACHER RESIGNS The Sitka School Board has re- | Roan, grade school teacher and di- {rector here for the past six years. Miss Roan has notified friends here that she has accepted a position in the schools at Vancouver, Washington, for the coming year. | REVENUE MAN VISITS | John Nyman, of the Office of | the Collector of Internal Revenue at Juneau, spent several days last week tranacting business here. TO VISIT IN SEATTLE | Mrs. Maude Wakefield, who has {been making her home with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Neill Andersen, will leave here soon for Seattle where she will visit with relatives. She plans to return here after a stay of several weeks | ‘m the South. ON KETCHIKAN VISIT John Conway, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Conway, will go to | Ketchikan early next week for a }short visit at the home of Mr. and |Mrs, Robert L. Jernberg, returning here in time to attend school. VISITORS TO LEAVE Mr. and Mrs. Frank: B. Johnson, | who have been guests of their son and danghter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, | Philip A. Johnson, will leave here within a few days to return to | their home in Portland, Oregon. Mr. | Phillip Johnson is Manager of the First Bank of Sitka. | ESTABLISHES RESIDENCE Mrs. Tony Schwamm, who arrived here recently for an indefinite visit, has established a residence in-the Rands Apartments. Mrs. Schwamm is the sister of Mrs. Louis Scharpen- berg of Sitka. RENOS TO LEAVE | Mr. and Mrs. Horace Reno, who | have made their home here for the past two years, plan to leave short- |1y to establish a residence in the | States. From here they will go to ‘Denver Colorado, to visit with rela- | tives before making a permanent | settlement. BACK FROM PELICAN Lawrence Freeburn, Superintend- |ent of the Pyramid S8almon Com- | pany interests here, has returned | from a business trip to Pelican City Conway Dock Company 0il - Coul Gasoline Insurance Phone 78 week. They were accompanmd‘ his home from a recent illness which | ceived the resignation of Miss Helen | of music in all the schools| where he also has salmon cannery interests. MRS. PETERSON TRAVELS ‘ Mrs. Carl Peterson left shere by plane Monday for Juneau for a visit of a few days, after which she planned to go to Funter Bay for a |two weeks' stay as guest of Miss | Beatrice Porter, who is a nurse |there. Young Charley Peterson ac- | companied his mother on the vaca- | tion trip. | TO JOIN HUSBAND Mrs. Kenneth Nordby will leave | | here on an early boat for Seattle| to join her husband who recently | departed from Sitka. Mr. Nordby vas Manager of the Sitka Cold Stor- age store during his residence here | jand Mrs. Nordby was employed at icmmic's Dress Shop. SOCIAL GATHERING | To compliment. Mrs. Horace Reno | who is to leave here soon to make her home in the South, & number of friends gathered at the home of Mrs. Phillip A. Johnson for a social afternoon on Wednesday. | TO VISIT ILL MOTHER Mrs. Earl Shennet will be ‘& pas- senger aboard the next boat leaving here and plans to travel to Grand Island, North Dakota, for a visit with her mother who has recently been seriously ill. Young John Shen- Inet will visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Smithmeyer during | | his mother’s absence. CITY COUNCIL DOINGS At the regular meeting of the Sitka City Council held at the office | of the Sitka Public Utilities Tuesday evening a resolution was | passed authorizing a special -ax- payers. election for the purpose of | floating & bond issue* of '$70.900. | The money is to be used for retiring th city bonds of 1940 and 1941, for | providing funds for the construction | of a new, fire hall, for extending the | paving of the city streets thorugh the native village and for improve- | ments which are deemed necessary | to the municipal float. The Cofincil | members also voted to purchase ! compensation insurance for a1 city | employees, including fir :raen, at this meeting. The statement of City | Engineer Hugh B. Antrim on the yardage of gravel for the recent paving was also approved. Mayor Winn Goddard presided at the meeting. | Eddy Gilmore Is Back Home After 3 Years on European Batfle Lines. (Continued trom Page one) = dhmg stukas, theyll be hearing ia Board of Equalization for the {ment was presented which result- | business. |the return voyage you are and they know that story that we are starving is a big lle. You are what you call in your coun- try a good advertisement. I hope you don’t find.” Eddv d)dnt DOUGLAS NEWS JSUAL RATE OF 20 MILLS T FOR CURRENT YEAR'S TAXATION IN DOUGLAS The Douglas City Council sat as third and final session last night to settle tax matters for the cur- rent year. But one case for adjust- ed in a $300 reduction in the as- sessed valuation of the former Runquist two-apartment building on St. Ann's Avenue due to dam- age caused by fire last month. With adjournment of the Board meeting, the Council went into action after hearing report of tax assessor L. W. Kilburn and there upon set the customary rate of two percent for property owners to pay i on their assessed valuations. A re-| duction of three percent of the amount of each one’s taxes will be allowed as usual if payment is made on or before October 15, it was decided. A recess appointment as coun- cilman was given Frank Campbell to fill the vacancy caused by the prolonged absence of H. L. Cochrane | as a member, concluding the night’s ARE PREPARING NOW FOR CRAB CANNING A. E. Goetz, captain of the Sea Bonnett, have been in town most! of this week on business connected with the Juneau Packing Company plant, located in'Idaho Inlet. Leo Young,+who is also one of the company employees, came into town with them to settle up his affairs preparatory to establishing his resi- dence for the winter at the Inlet. They expected to get out today for in preparation for the crab season which begins tomorrow. GIRLS NOT IN SHOW Doris and Patsy Balog and Peg- gy Cochrane aré in no way con- nected with the “Alaska Girl Show” Parrot, with his deck hand Louis| Their names were included with out our knowledge or approval This statement is made by Mrs. Catherine Balog and Mrs. Mar- garet Cochrane. DAYTON FLEEKS MOVE Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Fleek moved today from Juneau to make their home in one of the Buckingham apartments. WELL-BABY CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD TUESDAY The regular monthly well-baby conference will be held Tuesday at the Douglas School. The session will be open at 1:30 o'clock nnd lall children under six years of| age are eligible for the monthly check. Weights and measurements will be taken and recommendations ror child care will be made. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital yesterday for minor surgery was Josephine Abbott. Simon Kirby, a medical patient, was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday, Mrs. Evan O. Wruck gave birth to a baby boy on Friday at St. Ann’s. David Thamas was admitted to the Government Hospital Friday. Mary George and John Lee were admitted to the Government Hos- | pital yesterday from Excursion In- let. . Mrs. John Wilson and baby were !dismissed from the Government Hospital yesterday. B COUPLE WILL BE WED BY REV. BOOTH TODAY Louise Blake and James R. Blan- chard, both of Juneau, are to be married this afternoon. The Rev. LIS O SR Willis R. Booth will read the vows.| o SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1943’ " Around the Clock” Coiffures for Women at War! We speclalxze in quick-change, all-duty coiffures . . . just right for every hour in your busy waxtime schedule! ' They’'re cool . . . smart . . . easy-to-care for! Why not get your “Around the Clock” Coiffure today? MONTH-END SPECIAL Permanment Wave $9.50 IGRIDY BEAUTY sALON IN THE COOPER BUILDING Opposite Federal Building Telephone 318 Open evenings by appointment BUY WAR BONDS PARSONS ELECTRIC CO. JUNEAU Solicits the business of friends in Sitka Electric Service and Repairs as announced by Mrs. Kenton Hal- vorsen in last evening’s Empire. Westinghouse Representative ——— General Hurley's lusty warwhoop.” Perhaps Eddy's favorite stofy is about his trip to Iran. He had no more than arrived than a member of Tass, Russian news agency, in- vited him to dinner. After that, the Russlan nmewsman started a round of entertainment for Gilmore that went on for days. Eddy could think of no good rea- ing him, royally or otherwise. He hinted and probed, but to no avail. Finally he asked his host point- blank just what was the big idea. stories here that we are starving. So I take you around, introduce you to everybody and say you have been in Russia for nearly two years. And ithey lock at you and see how fat SITKA RUSS CLITHERO WHEN IN SITKA Make Your Headquarlers "The Home of Hospifality” the HOTEL Manager FOUNTAIN NEWS STAND All Occasions! Sitka’s Pharmacy JEWELRY You Will Get the Fountain Drinks ALASKA DRUG AND BEST in War Bonds COSMETICS GIFTS for for Over 20 Years COMPANY son why Tass should be entertain-, After some hesitation, the fellow explained. | “Our enemies have spread the Dine Out — Here MOY’S Open 51012 When you wish that every pot and pan in the world were at the bottom of the sea with the Jap fleet, dress up, phone hubby, tell him you'll meet him for Dinner You’ll turn your dark clouds inside out, have a wonderful time. And not harm your budget a bit. BUY MORE WAR BONDS First Bank of Sitka A COMPLETE BANKING SERVICE Money Transmitied fo All Points Do Your Part==- Put 10% of Your Income in War Bonds What a Treat... Fountain . . Cosmetics . . Newsstand Gifts . . Remembrance Cards NEILL ANDERSEN A crispy sugar. cane filled with delicious ICE CREAM. Mother will approve of your eating this. It's good for you, you know, and it gives you the energy you need. Buy War Bonds! 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