The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-10-15

Hospital nurse, and EmmeJt R Phillips, fishermen, were married Tuesday afternoon. Attending tht couple were MT. and Mrs. Edward Champney, brother and sister-in- law of the bride.
 After a weeks honeymoon IT Juneau, the couple will make theil home on the Island
 Jack Conway was taken i'll or the plane last week while enroutt to his home in Seattle and taker to the Virginia Mason Hospital fol observation. His condition is re- 1 ported to Ice not serious
 Mrs. w. c. Charteris was released from the Virginia Mason Hospita this week and is convalescing al the home of MT. and Mrs. Jack Conway in Seattle.
 Mrs. Mary Johnson returned from Seattle this week where she had undergone major surgery. l Mrs. James Brightman returned this week from visit in the States. She plans to remain here to care for her mother-in-law, Mrs. Marie Brightman who has been i'll for several weeks. Her home is in Pelican.
 Mrs. Rodney Smith was given a surprise stork shower last Friday evening by members of the Epis- copal Choir of which she is a mem Der. The affair was given at the manse after the regular weekly practice with eighteen members present.
 Mrs. Frank White with her three young daughters returned this week from summers visit with her father in Fairbanks. MT. White is CAA employee on the Islands.
 Mrs. John Bahrt and baby left this week to visit relatives ill Georgia.
 Guest at the home of MT and Mrs. Cleve Haskins is her brother, Gerald Hall, of Seward, on a two weeks visit.
 MT. and Mrs. c. B. Wildes and two sons arrived last week end to visit Mrs. Wildes' mother, Mrs. Mae Nc Nulty.
 Sharon and Mary Lou Sunde ar rived last weekend to visit their grandparents, MT. and Mrs. R. K. Burke, owners of the Bayview Hotel, and their father Ole Sunde.
 Mrs. Billy Jean Morris left by plane Thursday for long vacation in the States. She has been em- ployed at the SPU office.
 MT. and Mrs. Glen Thornton who were married in Seattle last month returned by plane this week. MT. Thornton is electrical main tenance engineer on the Island where the couple plan to make their home.
 Carmena French, daughter of Pastor and Mrs. Kenneth French left Icy plane this week to start her junior year in college. She will be married in January to a fellow student and the couple plan to finish school together.
 Mrs. Polly Didrickson, widow of the late Chris Didrickson, died last week at the age of IT, after long illness. Funeral services were held at St. Michaels Cathedral with interment at the Russian Gene tery. She is survived by seven children living in Sitka: Annie Davis, Elizabeth Olson. Charlie Didrickson, John Didrickson, George Didrickson, Sam Didrick- son and Ben Didrickson.
 Mrs. Ella Mae Muir, new public health nurse, arrived this week, replacing Mrs. Al Lobo who resigned early in the summer. Ms. Muir is graduate of Columbia Univer- sity with several years service in New York State and two years as an Army nurse during the war.
 With the hunting season half over and still no sign of deer, the hunters are beginning to look frantic Men who years ago an- nounced themselves too old to pack deer from a mountain top are loping up cliff and crag in search of even sign of the animals exist