Digital Bob Archive

18 May 1979 issue

JANUARY 30, 1917-Joe Christovich, known among the miners at Treadwell and Perseverance as ?Big Joe,? has purchased a 7-passenger Buick touring car and will place it on the Juneau-Perseverance jitney run in the early spring.

AUGUST 16, 1920-With success almost in their grasp, according to officers of the Deep Sea Salvage Company, work of salvaging the steamer Princess Sophia is today at a standstill, possibly forever. Financial difficulties of the company are blamed for stopping the work The salvage tug Daniel Kern left yesterday for Seattle towing three scows loaded with salvage gear. The firm is a stock company organized in Seattle and has spent two seasons operating from a base at Bridget Cove. The Princess Sophia was wrecked on Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal nearly two years ago with the loss of every person on board.

APRIL 2, 1924-Mayor I. Goldstein was elected again yesterday, winning 455 to 246 for F. Wolland. He also carried with him all Citizens Ticket members for the council: Gunnar Blomgren, A. F. McKinnon and W. J. Reck. W. W. Casey was elected to the school board over the Rev. C. E. Rice.

APRIL 18, 1924-At a meeting of the Douglas Women?s Council last night it was decided to organize and maintain a public library for Douglas. The City Council has consented to the use of space in the City Hall for the library and the Douglas firemen will build the necessary shelves.

DECEMBER 6, 1924-The rock filling under the Juneau Cold Storage building was completed during the past week according to Olaf Torkelson, street commissioner. The improvement will make the building more stable and will increase the value of the site, which is owned by the city.

AUGUST 13, 1931-Well known in Juneau as the mailboat on the Sitka and Skagway routes for the past four years, the Margnita has now been renamed the Polar Bear. The 90-foot vessel is presently in Juneau bound for Kodiak with Pete Wold in command and Charles Madsen aboard. She was purchased by the Kodiak Guides Association and will be based in Kodiak. Also on board are a number of horses which will be used by the association.

OCTOBER 8, 1931-On her final voyage to Alaskan waters in government service, the U. S. cableship Dellwood, Captain H. J. Adams, arrived here yesterday from Lynn Canal where she made repairs to the underwater cable. She will go south to Seattle to be decommissioned. Beginning on November 1, radio telegraphy will replace the cable and the ship will no longer be needed.

JUNE 8, 1932-Lates improvement made by Joe Kendler of the Alaska Dairy to his farm on Glacier Highway is a concrete addition to the old barn. The addition, constructed by Hans Berg, will take care of 16 to 20 more head of milch cows.

OCTOBER 28, 1932-Captain J. M. Clark has been elected commander of Alford John Bradley Post of the American Legion. Other officers elected are W. E. Hendrickson, 1st vice commander; C. P. Seelye, 2nd vice commander; Claud Helgesen, adjutant; T. B. Setzer, chaplain; E. M. Polley, historian; Roy Noland, sergeant at arms; R. S. Raven, service officer; Robert Bender and A. Bersten, executive officers, and Homer Nordling, department executive officer.

AUGUST 7, 1934-Freeman F. Gosden, the Amos of Amos and Andy, and his wife arrived in Juneau today aboard the charter yacht Caroline, owned by Campbell Church, Jr. This is Mr. Gosden?s first real vacation since the Amos and Andy show started eight years ago. They are stopping at many fishing streams in Southeastern Alaska and will visit Glacier Bay. This is her first trip north.

MAY 20, 1935-Toppled by a sudden wind squall, a large spruce tree fell lengthwise across the new 30-passenger bus of the Channel Bus Lines yesterday near the Auk Bay store on Glacier Highway. None of the three people in the bus at the time was injured and according to Walter H. Bacon, owner of the company, the bus received little damage and will soon be back in service. Bacon, his wife and Mrs. Roscoe Laughlin, wife of the proprietor of the Auk Bay store, were in the bus.

MARCH 8, 1938-A deal has practically been completed by which Jack Warner will take over the A. E. Goetz grocery store in Douglas. Warner has been a Douglas resident since 1930 and for the past two years has worked at the Standard Oil Company.

MAY 3, 1938-To be repeated by popular demand, the original program ?The Lady Who Came With the Taku? will be heard again tonight at 7:30 over KINY. It is a phantasy dealing with a local Alaska legend. Tina Lepetich, Robert Satre, Ned Zenger, Lois Sandifer, Betty Bonnett and Roger Connor will be heard in the production.

JANUARY 5, 1939-It would be easy to drive a tunnel through from the head of Seward Street to Evergreen Bowl as much of it would be gravel. This was the report of Wellman Holbrook, chairman of a Chamber of Commerce committee to study the project. Further plans for the tunnel, which would give easy access to the Evergreen Bowl playfield for school children, awaits the return of L. H. Metzgar of the Alaska Juneau Mine, as one end of the tunnel would be on Alaska Juneau?s property.

JANUARY 28, 1939-A shipment of Eastern Quebec mink, destined for the Glacier Highway Fur Farm operated by Jackson Marsh, arrived yesterday on the Princess Norah. The mink, all breeders, were purchased in New Westminister, B. C., and are from the same herd that topped Vancouver mink sale prices in December.