The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-02-25

ona; Recording Secretary, John Hanley of the troller Polaris; Sergeant at Arms, Frank Deiner of the troller Sefora; Trustees, Marvin Ki:nberg. troller Mischief, Glenn Collins, troller Wnalebird, and Ray Waterhurg, trollerf Elsie Nj.
 Mrs. Katherine Bilodeaux has announced the opening of the Harbor Coffee Shop at the City Float. Built on scow, the shop is moored at the Webb Forbes Marine Repairs. Light lunches and coffee will be served.
 MT. and Mrs. George Baggen and George Baggen, Jr., return ed last weekend aboard their workboat Samson II after a stay of several months in Seattle for the installation of new deisel engine in the craft. The engine, a 265 hp Hendy, was installed by the Petrich Machine Works. New fuel tanks and a new tow bit were also installed.
 The Sampson II is used for tow ing log rafts for the Columbia Lumber Go.
 Bill Walton, Nick Kasakan, John Lawrence, Merle Emloe, James Walton, George Jones and Nick Anderson have formed partner ship under the name of Walton Logging Company for the purpose of establishing camp at Redoubt to obtain timbers for the Colum- bia Lumber Company.
 Bill Walton's Sea Ranger and Nick Kasakan's Biorka will be us- ed as work boats for the camp ex- cept during the brief seining season. Also a siXty-foot raft is being built, to be powered by a l54 hp Skagit Vader. Operations will start early next month. Veteran herring fisherman Ed Hansen has chartered the Tony K this year to fish for the Sitka Cold Storage Company. Boat owners Clyde Peterson and Russell Mills, assisted by Ole Sunde, will act as crew.
 Charles w. Kidd, accompanied by his wife and infant daughter, arrived by plane from Baltimore Maryland, last weekend, to clerk in the Sitka Mems Store owned by Charles Whittimore. MT. Kidd had worked in the store before, while stationed at Fort Ray dur ing the early years of the war. The Red Cross has sent out desperate call for help from the community in completing their sewing project for European re- lief. Under the leadership of Mrs. Walter Dangel, the local chapter has undertaken the mak- ing of fifty overcoats for Europ- can children and to date only 25 have been completed.
 The Sheldon Jackson Practice Cottage is open every Monday evening at 7:30 for the sewing project and anyone who can sew or press is urged to put in some time.
 Miss Nancy French and Will jam Youppi were married last Sat- urday evening by U. s. Commis- sioner Ernest Dennis, at the home of MT. and Mrs. Ben Rigling. At tending the couple were Mrs. Fred Upton and Rex Marchant. Fol lowing the ceremony a reception to a hundred friends was given at the Elks Club rooms. The couple will make their home on Japonski where MT. Youppi has been chief of operations for CAA for the past several years. { The bride is the daughter o1 Mrs. Robert Henry French of San Diego and came to Sitka about a
 year ago.
 The Elks Days of '98 celebra- tion Saturday evening was a rous- ing success. The number of au- thentic old costumes that were
 unearthed for the occasion were
 worth a style show by themselves.
 Not only ladies dresses but mems
 suits were authentic to the last
 detail.
 The Elks had contributed hours
 of labor to complete the altera- tions of the club rooms, more
 than doubling the space available ! for dancing. Those not Interest,"
 ed in dancing were provided with
 card games for the evening-the