The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-20


 after dinner, featuring February
 holidays. Next meeting of the group
 is scheduled for the first Tuesday
 in March with MT. and Mrs. Loren
 Hert, MT. and Mrs. James Kreuder, and MT. and Mrs. Al Blake to act as hosts.
 Beta Sigma Phi sorority held It's monthly meeting at the home o1
 Mrs. Frank Calvin Thursday eve ming. To choose officers for the
 new year, a nominating committee
 was appointed: Mrs. Frank Calvln, Mrs. Bernard Beckerson, Mrs. Frank
 White, Mrs. Robert McCracken and
 Mrs H. H. Smith. Plans for the
 rushing season were discussed and
 the first party set for February 20.
 After the business meeting, the
 cultural program was given--a talk
 on the Art of Speech" presented
 by Mrs Harold Engleman and Mrs.
 John Holic.
 The Moose Lodge is sponsoring
 bowling league for Teen Ayers. The first meeting of the group was held Saturday with Dick Cushing and
 Jim Campbell heading the move
 ment. Twenty-Five public school boys, from the seventh grade through High School, showed up
 and word was sent by the Mt. Edge
 cumbe School and SIPS that they
 would have teams in the league. Six teams are planned, to play from two to four Saturday after
 noon. Possibilities of forming
 Teen Age girls league is also be- | ing considered.
 Final report from the Soroptimists
 on the March of Dimes drive shows a gross take of $647. 7.49. Mrs. Leslie Yaw left by plane for | the States Thursday on a months vacation. While south Mrs. Yaw will visit former Sitka residents MT. and Mrs. c. G. Stuart at their home at | Port Angeles. her daughter Betty at
 the Lewis and Clark College in Port land, her daughter Helen at Wash | ington State University in Pullman and her father, Frederick Witzig-
 man in Los Angeles.
 Roy Avrit, former manager of the Sitka branch of the Columbia Lum- ]! Der Company mill, arrived by plane 1 Thursday for a months stay while present manager Ernest Somers is on vacation. MT. Avrit is in charge of the Columbia Lumber mill in Whittier.
 Mrs. Julius Ferney and daughter Marlene ar lived by plane from Wrangell Wednesday for a visit at the home of MT. and Mrs. Harvey Brown. The Ferneys were residents 
 of Sitka for a year during which time MT. Ferney managed the Sltka Sentinel. He is now editor of the Wrangell Sentinel.
 MT. and Mrs. Alex Holden were visitors from Juneau. They were guests at the home of MT. and Mrs. Orville Paxton. During thelr visit there were many dlnheI parties given in their honor. MT. and Mrs. Frank Metcalf were visitors in Sitka this week on combined business and pleasure :. trip. MT. Metcalf has long been
 expected on city business-and was
 also urged to plan his trip to coin
 eide with the Elks Past Exalted Rul- CTS Night.
 Erlene Miller, daughter of MT l and Mrs. Earl Miller, celebrated her 1 birthday February 4 at the Miller
 home in Millerville on the Island
 Places were set for twenty-five al
 A table decorated with Valentines including a heart shaped birthday
 cake. Games were played during
 the afternoon.
 | Sitka made the Believe It Or Not
 column recently. The fact that we'd
 kept a balance in population in the
 past year with 76 births and 10 | deaths seemed noteworthy. We