Digital Bob Archive

27 October 1978 issue

APRIL 17, 1914-U. S. Marshal H. L. Faulkner said this morning that saloons and liquor dealers in Juneau and Douglas are being notified that the Sunday closing law will be in force hereafter. The order comes from the Department of Justice. The closed period will be from 12 midnight on Saturday until 12 midnight on Sunday.

Here in Juneau the edict was received favorably by the saloon keepers, according to expressions they made to a reporter.

Cassie Secrest of the Mecca: ?It suits us, it?s all right.?

W. L. Scribner of the Louvre: ?We have anticipated the order and it is all right. We are arranging to shut off the bar and run the moving pictures for the benefit of patrons.

Simon Hirsh of Juneau Liquor Co.: ?Personally, I am pleased. It will give the help a chance to rest.?

Harry Goldenbar of the Heidelberg: ?It?s a good idea. We all like to have a day to rest.?

James McCloskey of the Germania: ?It?s a good thing.?

Gus Studebaker of the Old Stand: ?I like the idea.?

APRIL 27, 1914-The Royal Fruit Company is a new wholesale house in Juneau and in addition to fresh fruit it will handle butter, eggs, potatoes and other fresh vegetables.

APRIL 28, 1914-Denny Molloy returned to Juneau last night on the Alameda with five baseball players for the Juneau team and it is hoped that they will be able to keep Juneau out of the cellar this season in the Gastineau Channel Baseball League. The players are:

Clarence Duggan, catcher from Seattle; Walter Ford, spitball pitcher from Rattlesnake Gulch, Arizona; Dick Hester, first baseman from the California bush leagues; Glenn Callan, shortstop, also from California, and Bill Reid, outfielder, from Aberdeen, Washington. All are registered at the Alaskan Hotel.

JANUARY 22, 1917-For the first time a Coast Guard cutter has been detailed to the northern fishing banks in the winter and the big new cutter Unalga has arrived from the south for the service. She will serve as a hospital and aid ship for the halibut fleet fishing in the Gulf of Alaska. The Unalga was in Alaska waters last summer but did not call at Juneau. She is in command of Frederick G. Dodge and has a crew of 75.

FEBRUARY 17, 1920-Members of the Alaska Daughters, a Native women?s society, were entertained at the school house by Mrs. J. B. Bernhofer, the government teacher. Officers of the organization are: Mrs. Martin Holst, president; Mrs. Seward Kunz, vice president; Mrs. James Watson, secretary; Mrs. A. Johnson, treasurer.

NOVEMBER 8, 1922-There was a meeting last night at the Eagles Hall at Douglas of the various fraternal orders and the Old Age Pension Community Club was organized. Elmer E. Smith, representing the Eagle Lodge, was named chairman. The object of the organization is to secure for those in need, over a certain age, a cash pension that will enable them to remain in their own homes and live their lives as they see fit.

JANUARY 17, 1925-A lease for five rooms on the 5th floor of the Goldstein Building has been signed by Governor Scott C. Bone and his offices will be established there at once. The offices will be moved from the old Presbyterian Mission building on 5th Street which was recently damaged by fire. The mission building was erected about 1885 and was purchased by the federal government in 1911. Governors Clark, Strong, Riggs and Bone have occupied the offices there.

MAY 12, 1926-Paving Front Street with concrete from the Juneau-Young Hardware at Seward Street to the Alaskan Hotel will begin within the week. This will be the first concrete paving in Juneau and the contract is held by G. E. Krause. The cost will be $10,000 which will include a new sewer line under the paving, which is being done to Bureau of Public Road standards.

MAY 13, 1928-The Juneau baseball season for 1928 opened yesterday with a parade and a double-header. The parade formed at Front and Franklin at 2 o?clock and marched to the ball park on Gold Creek where Governor George Parks pitched the first ball. In the two games that followed, the Moose team beat the Alaska-Juneau boys 7 to 6 while the American Legion topped the Elks by a score of 6 to4.

MAY 31, 1929-Two Loening amphibian planes of the Navy?s Alaska Air Mapping Expedition arrived on Gastineau Channel this morning from their base at Petersburg. They are piloted by Lt. Commander A. W. Radford and Lt. Richard Whitehead, and R. H. Sargent, director of the topographic work, is also on board. It is expected that it will require the entire season to map Southeastern Alaska. The mothership Gannett and a 130-foot scow with quarters for the personnel are presently in Petersburg.

JULY 22, 1932-The 71-foot yacht Kuru, owned and skippered by author Stewart Edward White, is a Juneau visitor and is spending the summer in Southeastern Alaska waters, cruising as far west as Yakutat. She will return to her home port, San Francisco, in September, having left there in May. The yacht, which was built in 1930 carries a paid crew of two, a steward and an engineer.

JANUARY 15, 1935-A ?liquor course? for all territorial schools in which pupils would be taught the theory and proper handling of the so-called liquor problem ? that is the answer of A. H. Ziegler, territorial representative from Ketchikan, to the demand for new beverage legislation. ?I am firm in the belief that the only ways in which we can really solve the liquor situation is by education,? Mr. Ziegler said.