Digital Bob Archive

MARCH 1918 - PART 6:

At a well-attended meeting on March 20 the public made its nominations of candidates to run in the April city election. Allen Shattuck, Emery Valentine and J. Latimer \"Dolly\" Gray were nominated for mayor but Gray declined. Council nominations for the four seats to be filled were: Cash Cole, Royal Shepard, Wallie Staats, Jack Mullen, Shelly Graves (declined), W.G. Johnson, James McCloskey (declined), B.A. Roselle, P.G. Barnette, T.J. McCaul, George Wilbert, W.A. Warwick, Jorgen Nelson, Peter Carlson, Robert Kennedy (declined), John Perelle, William Short, E.G. Ellingen, Andrew Lagergreen and Gudman Jensen. Three were to be elected for two-year terms, one for a one-year term to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of George Miller.

Unusually heavy falls of snow were raising havoc with the deer population, according to Frank Aldrich, game warden. They were apparently unable to find enough food in the heavy timber, he said, and were driven to the beaches. There they ate seaweed, which did them little good, and they became too weak to climb the high snow banks and often drowned when the tide came in.

The Valdez Beverage Company, which had leased the Eagle Brewery from S. Zynda for five years, was making plans to produce near-beer which it would sell with the label Alaska's Pride. Otto Haering, a former resident of Juneau, F.H. Senssdorf and A. Dierringer recently incorporated the company in Juneau for $50,000. \"There is not a drop of alcohol in the product,\" Haering was quoted as saying.

More than $700 worth of thrift stamps were sold at the Juneau public schools during the program's first two months.

\"Dooley,\" the big black bear on Mayflower Island, on the Douglas side of Gastineau Channel, came out of his den on March 26 after three months of hibernation, but as of late in the afternoon his mate had not appeared. The two bears were the only animals then in captivity on the island, a recreation area for Douglas and Treadwell.

The McConaghy house on Franklin Street between Fifth and Sixth was secured by the health committee of the City Council for the detention of such diphtheria patients as were required to be moved from where they were taken sick. Three patients were in the house at the end of the month, under the care of Miss Robinson, a trained nurse.

Officials of the Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining Company at Thane declared a quarantine of children for as long as the diphtheria epidemic lasted. Thane children were forbidden to visit Juneau and no children from Juneau or Douglas were to be allowed to visit Thane. Because of the epidemic, the Juneau Public Library was also closed.

The welcome sound of the whistle at the Worthen sawmill was heard as the mill resumed operation at the end of March. Orders were reported on hand to keep the mill running until late fall.