Digital Bob Archive

2 March 1979 issue

MAY 19, 1914-The Alaska Bindery, recently established by George M. Simpkins, is now ready for business. It is located over the store of Epsteyn, Gilmore and Company on South Seward Street. Mr. Simpkins was formerly with the Customs Service here.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1914-The plank roadway that has been named Willoughby Avenue is practically completed. The cost was $20,000, according to Councilman William Geddes. Yesterday automobiles passed over the new roadway and on out to Salmon Creek by this sea level route. Most of the roadway is on piling, with a plank decking. The portion that fronts on the Auk Village was built without cost to the village property owners, the money for it being raised from other sources.

JULY 26, 1917-E. J. Margrie has resigned as manager of the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company effective August 1 and will move to California, it was announced today by J. P. Corbus. He will be succeeded by W. S. Pullen who for the past several years has been in charge of the electrical department of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company. Prior to that he was an assistant to Mr. Margrie. The latter came to Alaska about 25 years ago and installed the first electric lighting system in Alaska at the Treadwell Mine.

JUNE 13, 1918-Mail contracts for both Juneau-Sitka and Juneau-Skagway routes have been let to Dr. E. H. Kaser of Juneau. They will be served by the newly built boat Estebeth. Dr. Kaser recently sold his other vessel, the St. Nicholas, to the Hidden Inlet Canning Company which is building a cannery at Hood Bay. The Estebeth is due to arrive from Seattle, where she was built, in time to start the contracts on July 1.

APRIL 20, 1920-L. S. Ferris, who has been connected with the Treadwell Company for 18 years and for the past 13 years has been in charge of the company?s housing department, will soon move to Ketchikan. Last Saturday he closed an option with J. R. Heckman and Martin Bugge, owners of the Stedman Hotel in the First City and will purchase that property. He will take over operation of the hotel on May 1.

JUNE 17, 1929-Two carloads of Diamond Portland cement, the first Alaska cement ever received here, arrived today on the steamer Queen. G. E. Krause is local agent for the product which is manufactured by the Pacific Coast Cement Company from limestone quarried at Dall Island.

APRIL 22, 1931-Rox and Moody, general contractors, have erected a dwelling in a single day. The structure was put up for Michael Avoian, whose family numbers six persons, at Fourth and Harris Street. ?Construction of homes while you wait, and you don?t have to wait long,? according to Lee Rox, senior member of the firm.

JANUARY 22, 1932-J. M. Saloum, proprietor of the Junction Shoe Store and Men?s Clothing Store is moving from Front Street and Franklin to a location on Seward Street near Second. He has been at the present location for four years and was previously located for nine years on the site of the present Triangle Building on Front Street.

JULY 29, 1932-The Juneau Business College has perfected its organization and will open August 29 on the top floor of the Goldstein Building. There will be day school 5 days a week and evening classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Courses will include bookkeeping, accounting, shorthand, typing, business English, spelling, and penmanship. The school will be managed by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lennecke, who will also teach. Other teachers will be Miss I. M. Chenoweth and George Baum, while John H. Newman, long the court reporter here, will teach some secretarial courses.

JULY 11, 1934-C. T. Gardner, vice president of the Juneau Lumber Mills Company, has purchased the interest of the Owens brothers in the Juneau Logging Company which is now operating in the Wrangell Narrows area. Gardner thus becomes joint owner in the logging firm with Roy Rutherford, president and general manager of the Juneau Lumber Mills.