Digital Bob Archive

12 January 1979 issue

OCTOBER 17, 1913-The Hotel Cain will celebrate Alaska Day with a formal opening tomorrow. This is Juneau?s newest hotel and follows only a month after the opening of the Alaskan Hotel. It is Juneau?s only concrete hotel building and was erected by E. R. Jaeger and C. E. Erickson, local businessmen, for Harry Cain and has been leased to him. The building is on Franklin Street between Front and First Streets. (Note: The building, later enlarged, is now the Gastineau Apartments.)

DECEMBER 29, 1913-In what was said to have been the social event of the season, the Silver Bow Ptarmigan Club entertained fully 300 people at the Perseverance Mine on Saturday night. Sleighs began leaving town for the mine early Saturday afternoon and continued through the evening. Music for the dance was furnished by the Treadwell orchestra, with the dance starting at 9 and continuing until 2:30. H. H. Morton, steward at the mine boarding house, presided over the banquet which followed the dance.

MARCH 11, 1914-B. M .Behrends, Juneau merchant and banker, has closed a deal for the purchase of the Hoggart property at Third and Seward Streets and will erect a modern bank building on the site. Construction is expected to start May 1 on the 50 by 50 concrete building. The remainder of the property, running along Third Street, will be improved later.

AUGUST 19, 1914-A Merchants? Protective Association was organized last night in a well-attended meeting at the Council Chambers. This will be an auxiliary or local branch of the Alaska Merchants? Protective Association. Charles W. Carter was named the president with W. H. Chase as vice president and B. A. Roselle as secretary and Percy Pond as corresponding secretary. W. R. Willis, Arthur Ficken and Isadore Goldstein make up the executive committee.

FEBRUARY 1, 1917-Arrangements have been completed between Governor Strong and Charles Goldstein for the 1917 Legislature to meet in the Goldstein Building, as it did in 1915. The two houses of the Legislature and legislative offices will occupy most of the third floor of the building.

MAY 24, 1924-A plant has been installed on the Treadwell Beach by N. F. Gilkey to work over tailings from the 300 mill. The plant uses six concentrating tables and is said to be working well, with good recovery values. It was designed and built by Tom Judson.

JUNE 24, 1926-The Forest Service trail from Glacier Highway to Windfall Lake has now been completed, according to M. L. Merritt, assistant District Forester. This is a foot trail more than two miles long. The work was completed by a crew under the direction of Ranger Harold Smith.

MAY 4, 1929-The Gorst flying boat Alaskan with Clayton Scott at the controls took off from the harbor at 10:30 a.m. for Ketchikan. A. H. Ziegler and E. R. Tarwater, both members of the Legislature which just adjourned were passengers for Ketchikan. The Alaskan arrived yesterday from Seattle, making the trip north with three stops in British Columbia because of weather. Scott plans to return here and then to make a flight to Cordova.

FEBRUARY 28, 1931-The Ketchikan High School basketball team made a clean sweep of its three game series with Douglas High School to win the championship of Southeastern Alaska. Scores for the three games were 38-16, 21-14 and 20-13. Playing for Douglas were A. Gair, R. Fox, H. Lundell, G. Neimi, A. Wilson, E. Guerin and J. Edwards. On the Ketchikan squad were A. Smith, Roy Peratrovich, George Northrup, John Gilmore, Peter Gilmore, Ronald Leask and Stanley Oaksmith.

MARCH 31, 1931-The fiberboard box invasion of the Alaska market, which is sweeping the canned salmon industry, will result in greatly curtailed operations of the Juneau Lumber Mills this season, including the complete shutdown of its box factory. The mill will employ about 50 men instead of the usual 100, according to Roy Rutherford, general manager. The box factory was installed in 1925 and has averaged 550,000 salmon boxes each year, with a high production of 750,000 boxes.

JANUARY 9, 1932-In the first game of this season?s series for the girls? championship of Gastineau Channel, Douglas High defeated Juneau High by a score of 24-20. Playing for Douglas were A. Loken, S. Africh, H. Pusich, E. Lundell, M. Pearce, P. Lundell and R. Africh. On the Juneau squad were M. Whittier, G. Carlson, E. Terhune, R. Minzgohr, B. Winn, E. Rocovich and M. Hanson. Referee was J. Osborne; Lloyd Bayers was umpire; S. Nelson, timer, and C. Shattuck, scorer.

MAY 21, 1932-Charles W. Carter has awarded a contract to R. J. Sommers for the construction of an addition to the Carter Mortuary building at Fourth and Main streets. The new addition will be 44 by 45 feet with a basement and will include a chapel to seat 105. The contract is for $12,000.

JULY 6, 1934-The Adsit Building at Third Main Streets has been leased to the Alaska Laborers? Association and is being remodeled for use as a Labor Temple. It will be the headquarters of the Juneau Central Labor Council of which Dan Ralston is president, Vera Gilligan is secretary and T. L. Allen is treasurer. The building was completed early in 1895 by the late O. H. Adsit, a merchandise broker, for use as offices and show rooms. It is said to have been the first building in Alaska to be lathed and plastered. (Note: Today the building is occupied by Station KTOO.)