The Alaska daily empire., 1918-08-19

formerly of Wrangell has been as signed to active duty with the ranh of First Lieutenant He left las, week for Camp Lewis to report tt the commanding officer. Mrs Pigg and their son, Harry Pigg, accom- panied him.
 [, Miss Mary Bihler, for four years a teacher in the Wrangell schools and for year at Anchorage, has gone to Seattle where she will teach next year.
 HOgue and Tveten of Petersburg have recently added a large ware house to their business plant at that place.
 A committee consisting of Jack Stoft, Mrs. Henry Dahl, Mrs. R. c. Mathis and Mrs. Munro has charge of raising funds for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief at Petersburg
 Frank Hermann of Ketchikan has just got letter from the second of his sons to reach France. He is with the 63d Field Artillery. The scow owned by Charles Nor berg and used as buying station for the Ripley Fish Company sank 1 Wednesday morning Several bar rels of salt fish and considerable fresh fish which had not been boxed was lost. The scow was tied to the end of Citizens Wharf It is planned to pull the scow on the beach and make repairs so that the business of buying fish may b6 con- tinued. The scow was under lease to the Ripley Fish Company.
 Forest Supervisor w. G. WeigIe, plans to leave for the Westward on the next boat North He will be away for a month or six weeks on official business, says the Ketchikan Progressive-Miner of August 18th. Miss Virginia Clark who is prin cipal of the school at Afognak has left for the Westward She was ac. companied by her mother, Mrs. J. S. Clark ~'-.
 The salmon pack in the Peters burg section is going to be large one this year according to reliable reports received here. The canner- ies here are ahead of the others by a considerable amount. says the Pet ersburg Report of Aug. 9th. On Wed nesday night the Petersburg Pack ing Company exceeded the 8O,00O mark, while the floating cannery had over 17,000 cases packed. Porcupines have been trespassing lately on the Edwin Hofstad place and proved particularly destructive in the raspberry patch, but Mrs. Hof. stadt has been equal to the emer- l gency to the extent of yielding a club in one instance, and two DOT cupines will never eat raspberries again. (Wrangell Sentinel.) Word received at Ketchikan re- gently was that J. J. Daly, who was | i'll at Seattle, was to leave for Koch. ester, Minn.. for an operation as soon as he was able to be moved. Dr. H. J. Minthorn of .Metlakatla has announced the marriage of his daughter. Miss Mary Minthorn, for merly teacher of domestic science in the Ketchikan public school, to William Strench, Immigration Inspec. tor in charge of the Ketchikan of- flee. The wedding occurred at New. port. Oregon, August 8. Mir. and Mrs. Strench will be at home at Ret. chikan after September 1st. Mrs. Strench is cousin of Herbert C.. Hoover. National Food Administra. tor. Grover Smith, son of Mir. and Mrs. c. A. Smith of Ketchikan, has been made Sergeant Major of his company at Fort Liscum.
 The Rev. MT. Vans Marter. J. L. Spaeth. A. R. Larson. Senator J. R. Heckman. John R. Beegle J. c. Bar. Der. M. J. Heneghan, W. A: Bryant, G. F. Rousenfell. Fremont King, B. L.. Myers and P. J. Gilmore have been namedat ex ecucutive committee to raise $500 at Ketchikan for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.
 Daniel c. Upp. a Dawson boy and graduate of the Dawson public school whose parents still reside at Daw. son. is First Lieutenant in the American Army and was the adju- tant of the American regiment that recently went through Canada on tour