Digital Bob Archive

24 November 1978 issue

DECEMBER 17, 1914-Douglas was a Mecca for burglars and safe breakers last night. The Kronquist Grocery on St. Ann Avenue had its safe blown open with nitro glycerine and about $900 taken, $700 of it in cash. Smith?s Drug Store near the ferry approach was broken into but the safe remained intact. About $15 was taken from the cash register and about $75 worth of merchandise was also taken. A prowler entered the Corbett boarding house but was frightened away by residents and it is believed there were no losses.

JANUARY 11, 1917-West 9th Street from the top of the hill at 8th Street has been set aside for coasting and skaters. No vehicles will be allowed on that street and warning signs have been posted by Street Superintendent W. Kesselring. Sleds and skaters will not be allowed on other streets. Acting Mayor Ericson took the action to close West 9th after there had been some near misses on Main and other hill streets.

DECEMBER 21, 1922-The last stamp dropped in the Ready Bullion mill yesterday at 2:30 p.m. after grinding up what ore remained in the bins when the hoisting of rock from the mine ceased a few days ago. With favorable conditions after the winter is over, it is thought possible that the mining and milling of ore may be resumed for a time. (Note: As nearly as can be learned now, the mining and milling at Ready Bullion never did resume.)

JANUARY 19, 1925-The 1925 Alaska Legislature will hold its sessions in the Arctic Brotherhood Hall on Third Street, Governor Scott C. Bone has announced. A contract has been entered into with Nick Rocovich, lessee of the building. Alterations are now being made to make it suitable for the purpose. The dance hall on the first floor will become the House Chambers, while the Senate will occupy the former lodge room on the upper floor.

JUNE 22, 1926-Preparations are underway at the Douglas Island Packing Company plant for the largest pack the plant has ever made. Manager E. P. Dudden has engaged two large seine boats and their crews to fish for the cannery this season. One of the boats, the Bull Moose, is now at Douglas.

JUNE 26, 1928-HMS Durban, light cruiser which has been on the China Station for many months, is now at the government dock in Juneau while on tour of Pacific Coast ports. The 475-foot vessel under Captain G. L. Coleridge carries a crew of more than 400 men. She called at Kodiak and Valdez before coming to Juneau and will go on to Sitka, Wrangell and Prince Rupert after leaving here.

MAY 27, 1929-The Boy Scout cabin at Eagle River was virtually completed over the weekend by a crew of men and scouts and everything will be ready for the summer encampment which starts in a week. Working yesterday were 12 scouts and Mayor Thomas B. Judson, G. E. Krause, Ambrose Hile, Gus Erickson, Tom Dull, Max Mielke, H. L. Redlingshafer, B. F. Heintzleman, Dr. Robert Simpson, Ralph Mize and Scoutmaster Douglas.

AUGUST 11, 1934-The following will be the faculty of the Juneau Public Schools for the year 1934 under the new Superintendent of Schools, A. B. Phillips:

High school principal and manual training, A. S. Dunham; mathematics, Marjorie Tillotson; home economics, Helen Gray; commercial, Margaret Yeakey; English, Everett Erickson; science and athletics, Harold E. Regele; history, Kathyrine Long; languages, Etta Schwamm; instrumental music, Pauline Reinhart; vocal music and art, Ruth Coffin.

Grade school principal and eighth grade, Mariette Shaw; eighth grade, Douglas Gray; seventh grade, Doris E. Cranby; sixth grade, Elma Olson and Ann Easton; fifth grade, Mrs. Helen R. Webster and Mary Kolasa; fourth grade, Ann Rohwer; third grade, Donie Taylor and Margaret McFadden; second grade, Mabel Monson and Velma J. Bloom; first grade, Iva Tilden and Dalma Hansen; kindergarten, Dorothy Batson.

JANUARY 8, 1935-W. L. Grisham, manager of the Harry Race Drug Store here, has purchased a part interest in the store, it was announced today. He is a 1931 graduate of the University of Washington College of Pharmacy and has worked for Harry Race?s drug stores both in Ketchikan and Juneau for the past three years. Evelyn Hendrickson continues as an employee of the Juneau store.

AUGUST 20, 1938-The first scheduled Pan American Airways air express flight arrived from Seattle today. The S43 Sikorsky amphibion Alaska Clipper was landed at Auke Bay by Captain John M. Mattis and brought about 75 pounds of express. Regular flights are scheduled each Friday but no passengers will be carried until the trial flights are completed.

JUNE 15, 1939-Charles Tweed, 40, Yukon Southern Air Transport pilot, was killed and his co-pilot, Cecil Pickell , 23, miraculously escaped when the gasoline loaded seaplane they were flying crashed into a dolphin near the Douglas Island shore of Gastineau Channel today. The two had arrived last night and were taking off for Dease Lake in British Columbia with 265 gallons of gasoline in the cabin. When the plane struck, Pickell was thrown clear and was picked up by 13-year old Jerry Cole who was near by with his outboard boat. Tweed was seen attempting to leave the flaming plane when a can of gasoline exploded and blew him back into the inferno. Pickell suffered a broken nose and other injuries and was rushed to St. Ann?s Hospital.

JUNE 17, 1939-The city building inspector has issued a permit to contractors Jensen & Boyer to build a home at 522 West 11th Street for J. G. Shepard. Herb Redman is the architect and the contract price is $5,840.