Digital Bob Archive

23 March 1979 issue

OCTOBER 26, 1893-Presbyterian services are now being conducted at three different places in Juneau. At the Log Cabin Church, at Third and Main, the Rev. Mrs. J. C. Nickerson olds services each Sunday evening at 7:30. She is assisted by the choir. At 2 p.m. each Sunday in the same place Mr. E. Otis Smith leads the Sunday School services. Mr. and Mrs. Smith also conduct meetings for Natives at Jack?s house, on the bluff overlooking the Native village, at 3 o?clock each Sunday afternoon. Services at the Presbyterian Native Mission Church on Seward Street between Fourth and Fifth are conducted each Sunday morning at 11 by the Rev. Eugene S. Willard.

OCTOBER 24, 1914-Jaxon?s Rink, Juneau roller skating rink and amusement center, was sold yesterday by P. E. Jackson, the builder of the place, to W. D. Gross and his partners, Armstrong and Brown, of Douglas. Mr. Gross is proprietor of the Grand Theater. Mr. Jackson and his family will leave for the south at an early date. The rink will be closed for five days for repairs, the new owners have announced.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1917-The Douglas Dairy, owned and operated for the past six years by Mr. and Mrs. Al Eagen, has been sold to Messrs. Altmueller and Smith of Juneau. The new owners will move the 40 cows to their place at Salmon Creek. Milk will henceforth be delivered to Douglas on the ferry.

JUNE 29, 1929-Rich & Ahlers Company, plumbing, heating and sheet metal firm, today announced the purchase of the building they occupy at the corner of Third and Franklin Streets. The purchase was made from B. M. Behrends. Rich & Ahlers will make a 50-foot addition to the building at once. The company is owned by George B. Rice, John Ahlers and Ira Tucker.

MAY 9, 1931-Juneau?s newest women?s clothing store, the Hollywood Style Shop, will open for business next week in the Horseshoe Building at Front and Main Streets. The space was formerly occupied by the U. S. Cable Office, which has moved to the Capitol Building. Herb Coleman, well known dry goods merchandiser, is owner of the shop.

JUNE 15, 1931-The Canadian National Lines? flagship, the Prince Henry, arrived yesterday on her first trip of the season. She has 100 passengers who visited the Mendenhall Glacier and the Alaska Museum during the four hours the ship was in port. Captain Harry Neddon is her skipper and her next stop is Skagway.

APRIL 5, 1932-With the arrival from Seattle today of the seaplane Chichagof, Juneau is established as a commercial air base. The plane belongs to Alaska Southern Airways and was brought here by pilot Ancel Eckmann with Gordon Graham as mechanic. A. B. Hayes also arrived and will be Juneau manager of the new company. The Baranof, a seven-place sister ship of the Chichagof, will arrive in about six weeks.

JUNE 9, 1932-Prices on 9,900 pounds of king salmon sold here yesterday and today were three cents a pound for large reds, one cent a pound for small reds and whites. Low prices are being quoted all along the coast.

JULY 18, 1934-With a total of 360,170 tons of ore mined and trammed to the mill during June, the Alaska Juneau operation netted $182,000 or 50.53 cents per ton, according to L. H. Metzgar, general superintendent. Gold production, at $25 per ounce, amounted to $384,500 or just over $1.06 per ton of ore mined.

JULY 18, 1934-The Seims Spokane Company was low bidder on the Douglas road project at $92,322.80, according to the Bureau of Public Roads. Included are 1.8 miles of 14-foot roadway and a steel girder bridge 304 feet long across Lawson Creek. The bridge will have concrete piers and a concrete floor and is the first of its type built in Alaska by the Bureau.

JULY 25, 1934-At low tide this morning the famous old ship Islander of the Canadian Pacific Railroad fleet, wrecked August 1, 1901 sat high and dry on the beach of Admiralty Island. Workmen of the salvage company were able to walk entirely around the vessel. The big job now will be the saving of the gold said to have been aboard the vessel. Estimates of its value run from $50,000 to a million and a half dollars. The Curtis-Wyley Marine Salvage Company raised the vessel from 35 feet of water with the help of two barges, the Forest Pride and Griffson.

AUGUST 17, 1934-Ten seven-ton Martin bombers arrived at the Juneau airfield at 5:35 yesterday afternoon from Fairbanks and left at 11 o?clock this morning for Seattle. The planes averaged 180 miles per hour on the flight from Fairbanks and except for two Army observation planes which landed on the field a month ago, are the first planes to use the field. The squadron is in command of Lieut. Colonel Henry H. Allen.

JULY 19, 1938-James A. Farley, Democratic National Chairman and Postmaster General, arrived aboard the Alaska Steamship Company vessel Aleutian this morning while on a tour of the territory. He is accompanied by his daughters, Betty, 16, and Ann, 13. He was greeted at the dock by Governor John W. Troy and Collector of Customs James Connors who have been his friends for years and closely associated with him in Democratic politics.

?We are doing everything we can to get air mail both in and to Alaska,? the Postmaster General told a crowd, ?but it is up to Congress to appropriate the necessary funds.?

MAY 6, 1939-Harley J. Turner will become Juneau City Clerk on May 15, succeeding Walstein G. Smith who has resigned because of ill health. Mr. Smith, long time territorial treasurer, was only recently appointed to the clerk?s post but has been in the hospital most of the time since. Mr. Turner has worked for 29 years as cashier and accountant at the B. M. Behrends Company.

MAY 12, 1939-Kann?s Five & Ten Cent Store is moving back to its old location on Seward Street next to the Goldstein Building, according to proprietor Louis Kann. The location was heavily damaged during the recent Goldstein Building fire and has been completely rebuilt. The Five & Ten Cent Store has been in the New York Exchange building on South Seward Street since the fire.