Digital Bob Archive

AUGUST 1918 - PART 3:

Mrs. Harry Bishop, librarian, announced that the Juneau Public Library in September would commence opening in the evenings in addition to the 1 to 6 p.m. hours then in effect.

Seward Kunz, one of the few Native farmers in the area, was in town from Eagle River where he had a 249-acre ranch. He reported that his crops of potatoes and other hardy vegetables were doing well.

Jack Oswell and Clinton Hodges of Juneau were appointed midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. (Note: Oswell is not listed in the records of the academy; Hodges, a member of the class of 1922, died at Annapolis in June, 1920.)

Charles E. Rudy filed notice of his intention to submit final proof in support of his homestead entry which covered 101 acres in the Mendenhall Valley.

The Juneau Chapter of the American Red Cross was calling for volunteer knitters to produce 100 pairs of socks by September 1. That was the quota assigned by the national organization. There was plenty of wool on hand, it was announced, but if the quota was not met, Juneau would not receive the next allotment.

Captain Christian E. Ahues, superintendent of the Libby, McNeill & Libby cannery at Taku Harbor, announced that he would hire a large crew of carpenters and helpers during the coming winter to erect a new cannery building measuring 56 by 280 feet. Lumber for the building is being cut by the Juneau sawmill and treated piling has been ordered for a new 100 by lO0-foot dock.

Because of conditions effecting the sugar crop, the U.S. Food Administration announced a reduction in the sugar ration from three pounds to two pounds a month for each person. Sugar ration cards were being issued and the ration applied to both cane and beet sugar, whether granulated, powdered, cube or brown. Corn syrup, maple syrup and molasses were not rationed.

John Fraser Pugh was reappointed Collector of Customs for Alaska by President Woodrow Wilson. Pugh, a native of Port Townsend, Washington, entered the Customs Service in 1902 as an inspector at Ketchikan. He later served at Skagway, then at Sulzer, and came to Juneau in 1909 as deputy Collector. He was appointed Collector in 1913.

Newman A. Fuller was married at San Jose, California, on July 31 to Miss Lenore Johns, according to word received in Juneau. Fuller was one of the men who grubstaked Joe Juneau and Richard Harris who discovered the gold here. Later, in a lawsuit, Fuller acquired all of Harris's mining claims, a property that was later developed as the Alaska Juneau mine. For some years Fuller was assistant superintendent of the Treadwell mine. He later went to Dawson where he owned the telephone company and from there he went to Fairbanks where he also installed the telephone company. He left the North in 1908.