Digital Bob Archive

23 February 1979 issue

DECEMBER 31, 1913-The Royal Fruit Company, retail and wholesale, opened its doors at 207 Seward Street this morning with James Protopapas as proprietor. Mr. Protopapas formerly had a large fruit stand near the waterfront in Nome but it was destroyed by the terrible storm that struck the town last September.

APRIL 25, 1914-The City of Juneau will not operate the rock crusher it recently purchased and installed on Gold Creek near Cape Horn but will lease it out. Last night?s council meeting authorized the lease of the plant to T. F. Bush and he will furnish crushed rock to the contractors putting up concrete buildings for Messrs. Goldstein, Behrends and Zynda. Gravel and sand for the Messerschmidt Building is being hauled from Taku Inlet by the gas boat Hegg.

MARCH 20, 1917-A handsome new pleasure craft has been launched at Douglas for C. M. Preston, superintendent of electrical construction and repair for the Treadwell Mine. The boat, measuring 35 feet in length and with a 30-horsepower engine, was lowered into the water by the big dock crane. Designer and builder was A. W. Fleek who has built several boats on the channel.

JULY 7, 1917-An old fish which has stood for years on the Juneau Ferry & Navigation Company dock at Douglas has been moved across the channel on a large barge. It will be used by the Alaska Manufacturing Company as part of the buildings for a new shipyard which is being constructed on the tideflats in front of the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company power plant.

APRIL 7, 1920-Yesterday 806 Juneau voters cast ballots in the city election out of the 888 who are registered. R. E. Robertson on the Citizen?s ticket defeated F. Wolland, People?s ticket, for mayor. The vote was 487 to 318. Three councilmen, all from the Citizen?s ticket, were also elected. They were Ray G. Day, W. G. Johnson, and C. W. Fries. Lowers were W. A. Sparks, K. D. McLean and S. J. Arneson. W. W. Casey defeated Cash Cole for the School Board, 383 to 361.

JUNE 12, 1929-A farewell party was given last evening in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church for Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Henderson. He was Juneau?s superintendent of schools, then the first Territorial Commissioner of Education. He also served as superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday School. The Hendersons will go to Palo Alto, California, where he will study at Stanford University.

MAY 9, 1931-The Rev. Harry R. Allen, pastor of the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Juneau, is leaving soon for Seattle and will be accompanied by Mrs. Allen and their son. He will be succeeded here by the Rev. Erling K. Olafson who has just graduated from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Seattle. Great progress has been made by the church during Rev. Allen?s five years here. The Adsit Building at Third and Main streets was purchased and converted to a church, and recently an addition to the building was completed.

APRIL 1, 1932-The motor vessel Prince of Wales, owned by Dr. L. P. Dawes of Juneau and skippered by Capt. Harry G. ?Tay? Bayers, arrived from Seattle last night with 75 tons of cargo and 7 passengers for Juneau. The vessel, which was wrecked two years ago on Prince of Wales Island, was recently rebuilt at Seattle and fitted with a 100-horsepower diesel engine. She will make at least two more trips to Seattle in the near future.

MAY 24, 1932-Wilbur Irving, an employee of the Copper River & Northwestern Railway at Cordova, stopped here overnight with the Curtis Robin seaplane he recently purchased in Seattle and is flying to Cordova. He was forced down near the Glass Peninsula for several hours by a defective spark plug. F. Davis is with him as mechanic and James Dodson as a passenger. They plan an overnight stop at Yakutat enroute to Cordova.

JULY 10, 1934-R. D. Baker of the Standard Oil Company is in town looking for a new location for the company?s wharf and plant. The present dock south of the rock dump is no longer usable by big tankers because tailings from the Alaska Juneau are rapidly filling the shoreline there. A site off Willoughby Avenue is a possibility.

JULY 17, 1934-To serve Sitka and Skagway mail routes out of Juneau, for which the Alaska Steamship Company has the contract, the steamer Kenai arrived here today. She is the former Army vessel General Mifflin and is 130 feet in length, with a crew of 19. The Kenai has accommodations for 12 first class and 40 steerage passengers and is in charge Captain G. Goetz with David Ramsay as purser.

JANUARY 5, 1935-The first member of the 1935 Territorial Senate to arrive in Juneau is Senator Maurice Emille Stephen Brunelle of Cordova, elected in September on the Democratic ticket. This is his first real visit to Juneau since he left to join the Army in 1918. At that time he was employed by the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company and was in charge of the commissary at the Perseverance Mine. Since 1922 he has been with the Copper River & Northwestern Railway at Cordova where he holds the position of Chief Clerk and Dispatcher.

AUGUST 16, 1938-With 48 pages and more than 50 illustrations, the booklet ?Alaskana? is now off the press. The author is Marie Drake, deputy Commissioner of Education and a resident of Alaska for many years. She has been compiling the booklet for a long time. It is published by the Empire Printing Company.