The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-16

SITKA, Alaska, Aug. 15.-tSpec- ial Correspondence)-Mr. and Mrs. John Bahrt left last week on their fishing boat for Icy Straits, where they plan to spend the rest of the season.
 Miss Laura Adams, instructor at the Sheldon Jackson School, has returned here from Ketchikan, where she went two weeks ago to meet her father, who arrived in Alaska from Chicago to visit here
 Funeral services were held last week at the Russian Church for Annie Liberty, a fourten-y -year-old daughter of Mrs Charles Daniels, whose death followed a lingering illness, with interment in the Rus sian cemetery
 MT and Mrs. George Lewis, Jr residents of the cottages, are re- ceiving congratulations on the birth of a son, Frederick Melvin
 Walter John and Percy Hope na- tive youths, left Sitka last week for Juneau where they entered the Government Hospital for medical treatment.
 
 Miss Cleo Campbell, instructor in Ketchikan school, who is repre- senting the L. L. Adcox Diesel En- gineer School, returned to Ketchi- kan after a one-week stay here.
 Mrs. R. w. DeArnond, accompan- jed, by her daughter, Miss Harriet DeArmond, left Sunday for Juneau to sail on the Aleutian for the Westward to attend the wedding of Miss Ruth DeArmonG and MT. Howard Estelle, which will take place the first of September. Miss DeArmond has been employed as a home demonstration agent at the Matanuska colony. Most of her life has been spent in Sitka. She has attended the University of Ore gon and the University of Michi- gan Mir Estelle, who came here eight years ago to attend the Uni versity of Alaska, has recently ac- cepted a position as agricultural agent for the Matanuska colony with headquarters at Palmer, where the couple will make their home. Mrs. DeArmond will return here sometime during September, and Miss Harriet DeArmond will go to Fairbanks where she will begin her second year at the university.
 Funeral services for Peter Allard were held at the Pioneers Home Tuesday afternoon, with burial in the Russian cemetery Allard was shot by Jerome J. Armstrong fol- lowing a fight aboard the fishing boat Eagle week ago Sunday at Kalinan Bay.
 MT and Mrs. Karl Hansen are here from Ketchikan in the inter- ests of fishing Mrs. Hansen is staying at the home of Mrs. M. Brightman.
 MT. and Mrs Sherwood B. Doo- little, of Hartford, Conn, are here for an extended visit with their in-law and daughter, MT. and Mrs. Edward Prothero. MT. Doolittle is a retired professor of applied arts.
 Mrs Walter Rutluff arrived here last week on the North Sea to join her husband and son Elvin of the trolling boat Ideal Another son, Leslie, on the trolling boat Jean Marie, is expected to arrive here soon. The family expects to make their home here for the winter.
 Lieut.. w. E. Oberholtzer, U. s. N., arrived in Sitka last week from Long Beach, Cal, and reported for duty at the Fleet Air Base, Japon- ski Island. He was accompanied by Mrs. Oberholtzer and two chil- dren, William Edward and Velma, who are making their home tenn porarily with It. Com. and Mrs. Joseph Cronin.
 Andy LorentZen, proprietor of the Pioneer Bakery, left Thursday on the North Sea, for a trip to the States, and has planned to be absent six weeks.
 Charles Frederickson, of the troll ling boat Seasnort, returned here on the North Sea after making a short visit with his family in Ket- chikan.
 LeRoy Vestal, of Juneau, is visit