The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-18
Village
 Gossip

Grant Bullock, who has been em-
 ployed in the Kennecott mines for
 the past two years came down from kennecott yesterday and will take the next boat for Seattle where he will locate
 Supt. Lily, of the Pioneer Packing Company, will take party to the Copper River flats tonight on a week end outing, his guests being Mir. and Mrs. Malcolm Brock, MT. and Mrs. E. V. Boyle and Mrs. Wm. Ellis. Last Monday evening Mrs. Chase entertained the Sykes expedition with a diner party. Those present were
 MT. c. k. Sykes, of Ardmore, Okla.,
 Mr. Edward Crabb, of Okla, Mir. Rob- ertRockwell of Brooklyn, MT. Charles Hoffmeister, of Imperial Nebraska, MT. and Mrs. J. J. Fraisure, and Dr. and Mrs. Chase.
 . II
 ! Friday evening, Dr. and Mrs. Nick
 erson were the honored guests at a
 surprise party given by Mrs. w. H.. Chase, Mrs. k. P. Harwood and MT. Nlckerson, at the home of Rev. Nick erson. Games and music were enjoyed
 during the evening after which dain- ty lunch was served to those present who were: Dr. and Mrs. Nickerson, Dr. and Mrs Wolf, of Kennecott, MT.
 and Mrs. Cohrs, MT. and Mrs. Sevelle,
 MT. and Mrs. Czerwenka, Mr. and Mrs.
 Mellison, MT. and Mrs. LaBelle, Mrs. Vance, Mrs. Counts, Mrs. J. c. Smith, MT. Hubbert, MT. and Mrs. Rev. Nick
 erson, Dr. and Mrs. Chase. Miss Edna
 Evans, Miss Mable Vance, Ada Beth
 Czerwenka, Erma Lois Czerwenka,
 and Edith Katherine Smith. Last Monday evening the Ladies 1 Auxiallary and the Pioneers gave an-
 other one of those enjoyable socials some fifty members and their friends being present. The evening was spent
 in music, telling of stories and early
 day experiences. Beans and brown bread were served by the hostesses, Mesdames Urquhart, Thinius and
 Ceruey. Among the guests of the ev.
 ening were Dr. E. l.. Anderson of La
 touche and Dr. w. w. Council. The Sykes expedition for big brown bear organized by Dr. Chase of Cor dova and which left for the Aleuthian Islands about May 1, returned to Cor dova last Sunday the twelfth The expedition met with the great est success of any which has ever gone to the Alaskan Penisular to se- cure speciment of this famous Kodiak bear. The hunters were in the field
 only 2S days and in that time secur- ing IF specimens, all af which were in prim condition and including all the variations in color and size, some of which approached records. group of five were secured for
 the Oklahoma State University-M scum of Natural History, and a group
 of seven for the Brooklyn Museum of Natural Histohy, Art and Sciences; Aso three beautiful specimens for MT. Sykes collection as we'll as one for each of the members of the expe- dition.
 The personnel of the xepedition in
 cluded MT. c. E. Sykes of Ardomore, Okla, a big game hunter and oil pro-
 ducer; MT. Edward Crabb, represent ing the University of the States of Ok lahoma; MT Robert Rockwell. repre- senting the Brooklyn Meseum of Nat ural History, Arts and Sciences; Mr.
 Charles Hoffmeister of Imperial Ne
 braska and Dr. w. H. Chase, of Cor
 dova.
 All the members of the expedition
 returned in good health and were very
 enthusiastic over the interesting exper-
 fences they had passed through and
 express their desire to come again
 next year.
 MT. Sykes and MT. Crabb will jro-
 ceed to the interior unon the arrival
 of the s. s. Northwestern on which
 are their wives, who will join them on
 hunt in the McMillian River country
 this fall.