The Wrangell sentinel., 1938-07-15
Local Items


 Elaine Morke. eight-year old daughter of E. Morke, arrived from Juneau this week to spend the sum- mer vacation at her fathers home.
 L. B. Chisholm, city clerk and treasurer. left on the Yukon tol spend a week in Juneau. During his absence the routine work of the city hall is being carried on by Miss Dorothy Voss.
 Roy Rutherford, president of Jul neau Lumber Mills, returned to Ju-I neau Tuesday night on the mill tug Lone Fisherman towing a scow with 50,000 best quality red cedar shingles from the Wrangell ShingleI Mill. and the dismantled dry kiln from the local sawmill which closed operations last year.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Duggan of Denver, Colorado, arrived in Wran-i gell Tuesday morning and will bel guests Of Mrs. Mary Grant at theI Wrangell Hotel for several weeks.
 Corey Ford and Alastair McBainI nationally known writers. of New York City, accompanied by DanI Holland, also of New York, arrived here Monday on an outing trip and in search of story material. They were met at Wrangell by Frank Dufresne, executive officer of the Biological Survey in Alaska, who made the trip from Juneau on the patrol boat Seal and took the party to Anan creek, to see the salmon runs and the wildlife of that area.
 Miss Virginia Patton of Spring. field and Edward E. Ogden of Will low Springs, Missouri, were young tourists aboard the Columbia Mon day who were having a delightful trip. Miss Patton hoped to see Glenn Neitzert, former U. s. Bureau off Public Roads engineer at Wrangell while the highway was under con struction, who is now in business at Anchorage. The Patton and Nett zert families are neighbors in Springfield.
 Mrs. Carl Jacobson last week bought the pr. Kearsley property on Front street which MT. Jacobson will make habitable in his spareI time.
 Miss Beulah Porter of Vancouver, Wash, and cousins, Miss Mary Betts of Florida and Miss Sally SunstromI of New York City who are touring southeastern Alaska and interior points, visited with Mrs. Leo Oster- man while the Columbia was in port Monday afternoon.
 Miss Mildred Hansen, assistant at Wrangell Institute Health Center, returned on the North Sea Monday from a two-months vacation which she spent in Seattle with the Ralph Mize family.
 P. T. Richfield who left Wrangell in June for Los Angeles following a severe attack of pleurisy, writes home that he is gaining in strength daily and is enjoying the California sunshine.
 Winston J. Jones, head of the AL aska Transportation Company, was a Wrangell visitor Monday while on a tour of southeastern Alaska in the interests of his company.
 Miss Meredith Mitchell, superin- tendent of Bishop Rowe General Hospital, left on the Alaska for a two-month's vacation which she will spend at her home in Montana and in a motor trip through Wyoming and Utah.
 Miss Marnie Dalbec arrived on the Columbia Monday to join the nursing staff at Bishop Rowe Gen. eral Hospital, Miss Dalbec is a graduate from the nurses training school of St. Johns hospital, Hel- ena, Montana.
 John Magnusson left on the Prince Rupert Sunday for Seattle. He is re- turning to his home with his Grand mother Stensland after spending d year at Wrangell