Digital Bob Archive

JULY 1918 - PART 1:

On the first day of the month the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department hung out its service flag with its 14 stars, each representing a man in the armed forces.
Members in the service as of this date were W.J. Kesselring, Arthur Fairchild, William Taschek, J.J. Woodard, Marion Goldstein, P.L. Coleman, R.W. Bruce, E.V. Beaudine, Clifford Gunning, M.H. Sides, Thomas Gilligan, Malcolm Wilson, A.J. Kelly and C.J. Woofter.

Phillip R. Bradley, general superintendent of the Alaska Juneau mine, was named Alaska Food Administrator in place of Royal A. Gunnison, who had died in June. Governor Thomas Riggs, Jr., was notified of the appointment by Herbert C. Hoover, the National Food Administrator. Bradley was well known to Hoover, as both were mining engineers.

Joseph Warren White Acklin, who graduated from the Juneau High School in June, was admitted to the U.S. Military Academy on July 1 as a cadet.

James Christoe, for many years the cashier in the office of the Treadwell Company, was granted a three-month leave of absence from his job. He went to Soapstone Harbor at the north end of Yakobi Island, to work at the salting and fishing station of the Alaska-Douglas Herring Packing Company.

The Juneau branch of the Pacific Coast Coal Company ordered a shipment of 150 tons of coal from the Little Susitna mine at Houston. The coal was to travel by rail from Houston to Anchorage where it would be loaded on a ship for Juneau. This was said to have been the first commercial shipment outside the railbelt area.

Jack Penglase of Douglas, who had been raising Chinese pheasants for the past few years, reported that another brood of eight chicks had hatched and would be liberated on the island in the fall, along with several other broods yet to hatch. Three pair of birds and their broods of young were liberated in the basin above Douglas in 1917 and several people reported having seen them along the Treadwell Ditch. The pheasants were joining the snowshoe rabbits released on Douglas Island several years earlier by M.S. Hudson, and they, too, had reportedly been seen frequently.

M. Bloch & Co. was the most recent fishery firm to establish in Juneau. It set up operations on the City Dock to salt and freeze fish and to make shipments of fresh fish. Bloch represented the Lakeside Fish Company of Chicago and New York. Prior to coming to America he operated a large herring and salmon business near Vladivostok, Siberia, and specialized in making caviare from herring eggs. Bloch expressed fears that Juneau might not have enough steamer service to Prince Rupert, B.C., to take care of his needs.

A.H. Ziegler, the junior partner in the law firm of Cheney and Ziegler, left for Seattle to enlist in the Navy but planned to return to Juneau after the war.