The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-09-24

who, with Mrs. Porter, arrived from Seattle on the North Sea. MT. Por- 1 ter has had many years of merchan- dising experience, having been asso-
 ciated with the Tongass Trading Company in Ketchikan, wholesale groceries in Juneau, and the Safe way stores in the States.
 Thomas c. Vint, of Evanston, III, and Alfred c. Kuehl of Juneau were 1 in town on National Park Service business, Tuesday through Thurs day
 Mrs. L. Pugsley and daughters Pamela and Sandra, left on the Northland for their home in the States after spending several weeks visiting Mrs. Pugsley's parents, MT. and Mrs. Jess McGraw.
 Arriving on the North Sea were: Mrs. Tom Tilson from a several weeks visit with friends in the States; MT. and Mrs. Robert Hagen and daugh- ters Nancy and Judy from years residence in Tacoma; MT and Mrs Verre McGraw from a years resi- dence in the States, during which time MT. McGraw was a member of the merchant marine; LaVonne Deiner. daughter of MT. and Mrs Frank Deiner, after summers visit with relatives in the States Mrs Art Franklin after spending several months in the States, where she was called by the illness of her mother; Ernie Carter, from a short business trip in Petersburg.
 Those sailing on the North Sea were: Mrs. Cora Hanley returning spending the summer visiting her daughter and Son-in-law, MT and Mrs. R. J. Hunter; Mrs. Jack Roberts and two children, to visit relatives in the South; Mrs. M O'Brien and Miss Lillian O'Brien, returning to the States after spending the sum- mer with MT. and Mrs. James O'Brien; Gordon, Yvonne and Caro- lene Isaacson, with their grandmoth- CT, Mrs. Myrtle Foster, to join their mother, Mrs. Gladys Isaacson, who recently went south to make her home; Mrs. M. R. Graves, mother of Mrs. Oscar Isaacson, to her home in the States after spending the sum- mer here; Hans Anderson, fisher man, to enter the Marine Hospital in Seattle; Gertrude Jackson, the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Chris Jackson, returning to the University of Washington after spending the summer with her parents; Mrs. Orra Mahoney and Mrs. Anna Pearce re- turning to the States after spending several weeks as the guests of Mir and Mrs. Clarence Bands; Mir and Mrs. Stanley Totten, enroute to New Orleans where MT. Totten will be employed by the California Oil Company as geologist; Mrs. Dorothy Redfern, sister of Clyde Hager, re- turning to her home in Oregon after spending several weeks visiting in Sitka; Mrs. Ole Erickson and Mrs. T. A. Bergland, returning to i their home in Rainer, Wash, after spending several weeks here as the guests of MT. and Mrs. Roy Avrit.
 Mrs. Leslie Grove gave birth to a son, Stephen Bruce, early Monday morning at the Salvation Army Ma ternity Hospital. MT. Groves is an employee of the Ketchikan Public Utilities on the Beaver Falls in- stallation.
 With the establishment of a semi permanent maternity hospital at the Salvation Army Home, prospective mothers can now make definite ar engagements for their disqualification The Pioneers Home Hospital was rcver equipped or adequately staffed for maternity cases.
 Before the growth os the town Mrs. Marie Brightman took cases ] into her home and when she went