The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-08-08

Mrs. Beulah Ward has returned from trip to Seattle and is back at work driving her taxi. She left Donna Lee to spend the summer visiting with her grandmother, Mrs. Henry Williams.
 Mrs. Gordon Blanchard and her two children Brian and Susan have gone to California, where Mrs. Blanchard's mother is i'll, to spend the summer.
 Art Larson has resigned from his position as chief clerk to the Super intendent, White Pass and Yukon Route, and will move in the near fu- ture with his family to Everett, Washington, where he will be To- cated with the New York Life h. surance Company.
 Mrs. Cliff Rogers, Jr., visited in town two days before going to her new home in Whitehorse, VT. She has just returned from a two months visit with relatives at Ellensburg, Washington.
 Vernon Johnston spent week visiting with his parents, MT. and Mrs Hal Johnston. His niece, Karin Laboreaux, accompanied him to An chorage where she will visit with relatives for several weeks.
 !.-. Mrs -Sisne Homer of Hai,3eS was a patient in the White Pass. hos pital for several days as a Aesult of injuries received in fall. Her son, Steve Homer, come to Skagway and took her to Juneau to St. Ann's hospital by Alaska Coastal.
 MT. Nova Warner went to Kodiak and accompanied the Skagway Boy Scouts home from their visit in that city. A great many of Skagway's residents turned out to welcome the boys> home when the CAT landed on Skagway's field.
 Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. David O. Byars, Jr., and their children, Anne and David III, are visiting for sev- eral weeks with Mrs. Byars' mother, Mrs. J. Keller. Lieut.. Col. Byars is on the staff of the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND.
 Miss Signe Transgrud and Miss Wanda Adkins, nurses at the White Pass hospital, left Wednesday morning by Alaska Coastal for Ketchikan where Miss Adkins will stay on the nursing staff of the hospital there. Miss Trangsrud is returning to her home in Webster, North Dakota, to spend the sum- mer. Miss Adkins made her friends, who were gathered at the plane, very happy with her announcement that she would be back in October to make her home in Skagway - | wedding bells!
 | Larry Sullivan and Charles F. Roehr spent the Fourth of July m ! Juneau.
 July the Fourth was perfect day in Skagway - tha day almost
 oo warm for comfort. The celebra- tion started at 9:30 am. with a parade on Broadway. Walter Self carried the Colors, with Frank Will cox representing the Army and David Oler the Navy, led the parade of interesting floats and walking
 groups. The Legion was given first 7 prize for the best patriotic float
 a military cemetery in miniature;
 he Presbyterian church float show , ing the part the church plays III , life was given the second prize. The
 first prize for the best decorated float went to HAS "Trea-
 sure Island" float-a pirate buryine ? a chest of gold on desert island Ed Fairbanks the pirate The second : prize went to the FOE. Auxiliary l "The Old Woman in Shoe" The } walking group prizes were won - E the first by the School Band anc
 the second by the Cub Scouts witf
 their drum and bugle group. A prize ] for the most original entry went . to the Home Nursing Glasses fol : their float of patient in bed witE '. a home nurse administering to hei g patient, Mrs. Vic Sparks; nurse y Mrs. Leland Gault The judges fol
 the parade were Capt, Guy Hughes
 A. s. Moffat, chief engineer, anc : P. A. Trowsdale, second engineer e of the Princess Kathleen, and Mrs 5. Frances Ford of Silver Springs, Md = For the childrens parade the ' judges were Mrs. Anna Mulkey
 Nova Warner, and Ace Logan. Int