The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1948-04-28

businessman; and Nick Bolshanin
local fishbuyer.
Following the service, dinner will
be served at the Lutheran Service
Center. Then at 3 pm, at the Cold
Storage Dock will be the blessing
of the fleet. For the waterfront
ceremony, music will be provided by
the Sitka High School Band and
I the Sheldon Jackson Junior College
Choir.
Mr. and Mrs. Cash Cole arrived
from Hoonah aboard their cruiser last
Saturday, with Mr.. and Mrs. p S.
GanCy as their guests, for a three
day visit in Sitka. They managed to
visit all their old friends during their
three day stay and on Sunday eve
ming were guests at a no-host buff
fet supper party, given by twenty
some pre-war friends, at the home
Of DR.. and Mrs. w. C. Charters.
They left Tuesday morning for a
visit TO Pelican and Elfin Cove before
returning to Hoonah.
Jack Conway arrived late Sunday
evening by chartered plane piloted
by Dean Goodwin, to join the no.
host party at the Charters home
Mr.. Conway flew up from Seattle
Sunday, too late for the regular
Sitka plane; learned that the GAN
tvs were in Sitka; managed to locate
them Ky long distance telephone;
was informed OF gathering of the
clan; managed to reach Sitka
just at dusk.
Nj. Conway plans to remain for
the summer and will be joined by
his family in June, after the clos
ing CT Seattle schools.
Mrs. Wendell Segersten arrived
from Terrence, California, by plane
Thursday, for two weeks visit with
her daughter, Pat Campbell, nurse
at the Orthcpedic Hospital. Miss
Campbell has resigned from the
hospital, effective May /, and will
accompany her mother home for
summers visit before returning to
Sitka.
Mrs Don McGraw Jr. LETT via To-
tenn Air Line with her infant son, to
visit her family in Kinosh, Utah,
near Salt Lake City. She was called
home by news of the illness of
favorite uncle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Somers with
daughters Sally and Janet are
scheduled to arrive aboard the Alas
ka. Mr.. Somers will be office mana
.er for the Columbia Lumber Com
pany. a position he filled during the
war years and until 1915 when he
resigned to make his home in the
States. The Somers have rented the
Adolrh Thompson house at the rear
of the Tennis Court
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Trierschield
returned by plane Wednesday from
Juneau where he was entered in ST.
AIMS Hospital, while waiting for
pace in Veterans Hospital in the
States Mr.. Trierschield, veteranpf
World War I, has been suffering
, from a heare ailment..
Miss Charlotte Groves was dis
charged from the Orthopedic Hos
pital last week, on crutches and still
in a cast for serious ankle frac-
ture, the result of a bad fall on the
ice some weeks ago. She expects to
re able to return to her job as book
keeper at the Cold Storage Store
shortly
T. j. Cole, Superintendent of Sit
ka Schools, received word last week
that Lydia Ann Tilson, daughter
of Postmistress, Mrs. Lydia Tilson,
was the only freshman from Alaska
to make the Honor Roll at Pullman
University. Lydia Ann graduated
from Sitka High with the class of
AT.
Sitka High School students held
their annual picnics Tuesday, the
Freshmen and Sophomores going to
Grab Pay aboard the Biorka and the
Junior-Seniors to Fred's Greek
aboard the SIS II. For the first year
in many, no student got up enough
courage to go swimming.
Five inches of snow fell Friday
hight with flurries continuing this
morning. Will spring never come?
A second daughter, Isabelle Louise,
weighing seven pounds eight ouces,
vas torn to Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Weeks last Sunday night at their
ONE on Etolin Street. Mr.. Weeks
Religious Coordinator for Mt.
5dgeeumte School.
| A second son, third child, was
torn to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kidd
| the Pioneer Hospital early Tues
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