The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-08-19

fer, Oregon, December 2l, 1894 and first came to Alaska in 1922. He returned to Oregon in 1924. came to Sitka in l943 and joined the Vita Foods Company in 1914
 He is survived by his wife, who. is local secretary and storekeep- CT for Vita Foods, brother, Frank, fish buyer for Booth Fish cries in Pelican, and nephew, Edward Mosher of Friday Har- 1 Dor.
 Funeral services will be held on Sunday afternoon at the Carpen- ters' Hall
 The Totem Air Service, using a PBY-5, an amphibian plane capable of carrying three tons of freight, brought it's first shipment of fresh produce to Sitka on Thursday
 Piloted by D. H. Campbell the plane made a previous survey flight last weekend Aboard were owners F. A. Davis and N P. Da- wis, Louie Delebecque of the West Coast Aircraft Sales and Service Company, Forbes Huffman and crewmen John Dawson and Bill Reynolds.
 1 The Sitka Mercantile and Nord- by & Shennett received the first shipment of fresh produce ara found that though the merchant disc arrived in excellent condition, the transportation rate was more than double the cost of produce, due to the unnecessarily sturdy packing
 A direct freight and passenger service from the States has long been local ambition, but the towns ability to support such a service is still questionable.
 At the annual stockholders meet ing of the First Bank of Sitka last week, three additional direct ors were elected: Charles Wortman, Neil Andersen and Charles Peter son. Bank director officers were reelected for the new year.
 On August ', a daughter, Don ma Jean, was born to MT. and Mrs. Robert DiRae, at the Salva- tion Army Home Weighing seven pounds eight ounces, the baby is the DiRaes' first child
 Keith Snowden, owner of the Service Transfer, has purchased the Oja Apartment building on Lincoln Street and plans to move the transfer office to the ground floor of the building as soon as the present occupants can find new locations
 MT. and Mrs. Curley Stanton
 have bought the Wm. Rausch house on D Street. MT. and Mrs, Rausch and daughter Katherine left for the States aboard the
 Alaska.
 MT. and Mrs. Bob Hagen and : MT. and Mrs. Glenn Hagen have : leased the L. M Mills property. , The Bob Hagens will occupy Miss Mills home and plan to move in about six weeks, while the Glenn Hagens will move to the smaller , Mills house the first of September , MT. and Mrs. Harry Myser of
 Oakland, California, arrived Tues . day aboard the fish carrier Mag nolia, owned by Hans Nordness. The Mysers have been visiting Southeast Alaska in a leisurcly fashion, by any small boat avail , able, for the past six weeks. After a two day visit in Sitka,
 they left for Juneau on the Este teth and will circle back to Hyda- berg to meet Margaret Bell, auth of of Pirates of Icy Straits. Mrs. , Myser is gathering material for the illustrations of rcW book , being written by Miss Bell. MT. and Mrs John Kienast ar , rived by plane Friday from their
 home in Bellingham, Washington, They were met in Juneau by tnei- daughter, Mrs. Frank Wright, Jr., : and granddaughter, Pat Wright, who flew to Juneau the previous day
 George Paxton and Mrs. Thomas Paxton arrived by plane Thursday from their home in Anacortes, for Ia visit at the home of MT and Mrs. Orville Paxton.
 MT and Mrs. John L. Bahrt and baby arrived on the Alaska last Monday, to make their home in Sitka.
 Miss Ora Kuykendall returned on the Alaska from a years vacation in the States. Miss Kuykendail, who retired last year after many