Digital Bob Archive

FEBRUARY 1918 - PART 3:

The Juneau Volunteer Fire Department held its 12th annual ball at the Arctic Brotherhood Hall on the night of the 12th, Lincoln's Birthday, and it was pronounced a great success. The hall was decorated in a patriotic theme with bunting and flags, including the department's service flag with its six stars, one for each member who was serving in the Armed Forces. A large sign proclaimed, \"We Fight Anything from Fires to Germans.\" Juneau, Douglas and Treadwell firemen attended in full uniform. A collection was taken up for the Red Cross, and Junior Red Cross girls sold bags of confetti and netted $12.60. The Fire Department's receipts, amounting to $102.25, were invested in war savings stamps.

Editor E.J. \"Stroller\" White wrote in his Douglas Island News: \"So long as booze was sold in Alaska we never insisted very strongly on the payment of delinquent subscriptions to this paper, not considering it humane to ask a person to give money for the support of a newspaper when he needed it for the purchase of whiskey. But now that the latter is no longer to be had, we do not think hardships will be worked if a few hundred delinquents to this paper, some of three years' standing, will come forward and square their accounts.\"

Members of the Juneau Native Women's Christian Temperance Union are making moccasins and sending them to Army hospitals in France for use by wounded Alaskans. Among those participating are Mrs. Marie Orson, Mrs. Jennie Holst, Mrs. Mamie Dick, Mrs. Mary Watson, Mrs. Annie Willard, Mrs. Helen Kunz and Mrs. Mary Waggoner.

Goldstein's Special Coffee is now on sale at 40 cents a pound in the grocery department of the Goldstein Emporium. The store is also selling Alaska pink salmon at 15 cents a one-pound can, or two for a quarter. Not to be outdone in the coffee department, the Treadwell Mining Company store is offering its best bulk coffee at 35 cents a pound.

An epidemic of German measles has kept many children out of school during the past few weeks.

Women faculty members at the Juneau Public School challenged the high school girls' basketball team to a game and the challenge was accepted. On the faculty team were the Misses Blanche Dyer, Gertrude Hellenthal, Fay Wenk, Dorothy Gilcrest, Evelyn Sullivan and Mary Dresser. The student team was made up of Frances Ptack, Roberta Coryell, Belle Hood, Myrtle Jorgenson, Mary (Sasha) Kashevaroff, Ada Irish and Emma Perelle. The teachers were beaten by a 16-1 score.

The National Independent Fish Company bought 32,000 pounds of halibut from local boats at 16 cents a pound and shipped the fish to Seattle on the steamer Alaska. The boats Rolfe and Signal, sold 19,000 pounds of halibut to the Alaska Coast Fish Co. at Douglas.