Digital Bob Archive

25 May 1979 issue

FEBRUARY 1, 1917-Juneau?s four movie houses are showing some new attractions. At the Palace is Al Jennings in ?Beating Back.? The Coliseum has ?The Snowbird? with Mabel Taliaferro. ?The Old Homestead,? with Denham Thompson is showing at the Dream, and the Orpheum has ?The Bondsman? with William Farnum.

AUGUST 23, 1920-Because the market is so poor, the John L. Carlson Company cannery at Auk Bay will not can herring this year, according to Mr. Carlson. Last year?s pack of canned herring is mostly still on hand. The company will, however, put up a pack of salt herring, for which there is good demand, and will continue to make oil and fertilizer. There is a good market for the fertilizer in Hawaii.

APRIL 3, 1924-The five-masted barkentine Russell Haviside, which cleared from Juneau last November with a full load of lumber from the Juneau Lumber Mills, bound for Australia, had a very fast passage down the Pacific and made the voyage in 72 days. Captain C. Melberg, in a letter written February 26 and received here today, reported that he had fine weather except for a few days off the Alaska coast. Earlier in the year a sister ship, the Phyllis Comyn, also laden with Juneau-cut lumber, took 128 days for the same voyage. She left Juneau several weeks ahead of the Russell Haviside.

OCTOBER 4, 1924-W. McMayburn and T. Shelly, Shelter Island farmers, were in town from their ranch yesterday to market their summer strawberry crop which they have put up in cans in the form of jam. The cans weigh almost two pounds each and are attractively labeled. The quality is said to compare favorably with well-known market brands.

AUGUST 24, 1931-C. H. Bowman, the new superintendent of the Douglas schools, has arrived from Petersburg with Mrs. Bowman. She taught in the government school at Petersburg and has transferred to the government school in Juneau.

NOVEMBER 19, 1931-The motorship Boxer, Captain E. L. Bush, operated by the Office of Indian Affairs, is in port from her summer voyage which took her as far as Barrow. She is carrying 200 frozen reindeer carcasses which are being sold along the way as she heads for Seattle. This will be the Boxer?s last northern voyage in government service as she will be replaced by a larger vessel next year.

OCTOBER 8, 1932-A private roadway which runs from Carroll Way north alongside the Pacific Steamship Company wharf has been offered to the city for a street by its owner, the steamship company. The city will accept the gift and it will be known as Marine Way.

DECEMBER 12, 1932-The Alaska non-resident troll fishermen?s license tax of $250, enacted by the Territorial Legislature in 1929, was today declared invalid by the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 9th District. W. G. Smith, the Territorial Treasurer, was also permanently enjoined from collecting the tax.

AUGUST 10, 1934-Norton Clapp, Tacoma capitalist and principal stockholder in the firm which is now at work salvaging the Islander, and Wilbur Wester, Jr., bookkeeper for the company, who has been in Juneau for the past year, left for the south on the Princess Charlotte.

MAY 23, 1935-For the first time in history the Alaska Juneau Mining Company workers in the mine and mill were on a walkout today. Affecting between 800 and 900 men, a verbal mouth-to-mouth walkout order was issued shortly after 7 o?clock last night by 19 trustees of the Alaska Mine Workers Union. The order was issued after L. H. Metzgar, superintendent of the mine, rejected the union proposals which included a 48-hour work week, a $1.15 raise per day, and hospitalization for all employees and their families.

JUNE 20, 1935-A new enterprise, the Alaska Air Transport, Inc., has entered the commercial aviation field here. The company is equipped with a four place Wright powered Stinson seaplane and will operate from the float at the Juneau Commercial Dock at the foot of Main Street. Two flights were made yesterday with pilot Sheldon Simmons at the controls, one to Sitka and one to Lake Hasselborg.

MARCH 15, 1938-Several Alaska paintings by the late Katherine Delaney Abrams have been donated to the Territorial Museum by the artist?s husband, D. C. Abrams, according to the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, museum curator. Mrs. Abrams was the daughter of A. K. Delaney, Juneau?s first mayor. The paintings include a view of Mount Edgecumbe, a Sitka street scene, the interior of the Russian Church at Sitka, and totem poles at Kasaan.

APRIL 6, 1938-With three full tickets and a group of independents in the race in yesterday?s municipal election, City Clerk Harry I. Lucas was elected mayor with 783 votes to 459 for his nearest opponent, G. H. Krause. Lucas headed the People?s ticket, Krause ran on the Economy ticket. A. F. McKinnon was an independent candidate for mayor. A total of 1,555 votes were cast out of 2,514 registered voters. The entire People?s ticket was elected, including Ralph Beistline, John A. Krugness and John McCormick on the City Council.

Losers in the council race were Wallis S. George, Oscar Harri, Wyatt Kingman, George I. Jorgenson, Henry Meier, Lloyd H. Bayers, Emmet M. Botelho, Joe Sprague and Jack Westfall.

Walter P. Scott easily beat Charles L. Crozier for the School Board. There was also an advisory vote on municipal ownership of public utilities and this brought 789 yes votes to 414 no.

JANUARY 9, 1939-Governor John W. Troy gaveled the House of Representatives to order at 10 o?clock this morning and administered the oath of office to the members. He followed with the same ceremony in the Senate at 11. Usually these duties are performed by the Secretary of Alaska but that office has been vacant since the death of E. W. Griffeth on December 30.