The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-15

the gIoWnupS too vert to bed. ! However, the sale of firecrackers just outside the City limits raised such storm of indignation and f wrath, people were tco busy being made to celebrate wholeheartedly Most people seemed to agree that , something should be done" or the Ordinance prohibiting the sale of firecrackers should be repealed.
 Dave Dalton, committed suicide in his room at the Sitka Hotel either the evening of the 4th or early morning of the 5th. His body was 1 discovered shortly before neon oh Tuesday. He tlad been drinking and worrying over the possible loss of his job with the Oxenburg Brothers, fish buyers, on the Cold Storage Dock. He shot himself with 1 9 .2z
 Funeral services were conducted Thursday morning. Survivors incldue sisters Agnes Dalton, Alice Island Sanitarium; Dorothy Smith, Peters burg; brothers, Edward Dalton, Rake; Clarence Dalton, Alice Is- land Sanitarium; George Demmert, Klawock; and uncle, Fred Ana skitte, Klawock, and an aunt Mrs. Frank Booth of Mt. Edgecumbe.
 News of the death of Jack Little page, at his home ir. Seattle Thurs day evening, saddened his many close friends in Sitka. He had been so vital a part of the town during ais years as manager of the Public Utilities-and before that, as ire uuent visitor from Chichagof where he was in charge of the mining properties
 MT Littlepage was born in Ore gon, in September 1894 and went to Juneau as a mining engineer where he married Georgia Gilpat- rick, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. ! H. Gilpatrick, in 1917
 1 The family led an interesting I life-covering most of Southeast Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and spending ten years in Russia where MT. Littlepage was employed as an engineer on various mines in Si- teria. His experiences, written in
 collaboration with DeMaree Bess. appeared in the Saturday Evening Pest before icing published in beck form
 His widow and two daughters, Ms. Jack Goudie and Mrs. Bob People, and four grandchildren re- side in Seattle.
 Roland Peletier, recent resident of Sitka, died of a heart attack Wednesday, at his home in PaSco, | Wash. Peletier was an employee of | the Columbia Lumber Company and an officer of the SaWmill Workers Unicn. He is survived by a daugh- ter, Iris Peletier, now living in i Ketchikan.
 Mrs Matilda Cook died Thursday, at her home in the Cottages. Her exact age is unknown but she was l believed to be in her late seventies. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon by the Rev. FL wood Hunter at the Presbyterian Church and she was buried at the | Presbyterian Cemetery
 Mrs. Cook is survived by relatives MT and Mrs. Charles Joseph, MT. and Mrs. Charlie Dick and two grandchildren, Lillian and Louis Shotridge.
 | Audrey Bowman and Clem Pace were married Friday evening at the George Sarvela home on the Cres- cent, by US Commissioner Frank Richards, tefore a group of rela- lives and close friends Attending the couple were Ethel Campbell and 1 George Sarvela.
 After the ceremony, reception was held at the Silver Foam Yacht Club where the refreshment table,
 including large wedding cake, was
 set in the rear room. Scores of
 friends called during the evening to congratulate the couple and wish
 them many years of happiness.
 The Faces have taken the down.
 stairs apartment in the George Sa-
 vela home.
 Mrs. Pace, a nurse at Alice Is-
 land Sanitarium, is the daughter of Mrs. Paul Kell of Port Lupton, Colorado. She came to Sitka just a year ago.