Digital Bob Archive

13 July 1979 issue

APRIL 2, 1913-In the Douglas city election yesterday, with seven council members to be elected, M. G. Rogers was the high vote getter with a total of 153. He was followed by Paul Bloedhorn, 144; M. J. O?Connor, 142; M. S. Hudson, 125; Leo DeMett and Jerry Cashen, each 118, and Frank Oliver, 117. Defeated candidates were Harry Coster, Robert Coughlin, John Feusi and J. S. Minkove.

APRIL 3, 1915-The steamer Northland of the Borderline Transportation Company arrived at Treadwell at noon today and is unloading 2,000 cases of dynamite at the Ready Bullion dock.

OCTOBER 4, 1917-A halibut weighing 260 pounds was caught within 200 feet of the Douglas City Dock last night by Ole Johansen. It was sold to the Alaska Coast Fish Company for 7 cents a pound.

DECEMBER 12, 1917-On cold and windy days such as Douglas is now experiencing, soup is served to the pupils at Douglas School every day at noon instead of sending them home. There is supposed to be a charge of five cents per bowl, but it is served even if the nickel is not forthcoming. Fifteen minutes are allowed for consumption of the soup, after which school resumes until 1:15 when it is dismissed for the day.

JANUARY 17, 1918-The first movie ever shown at Perseverance, at the head of Gold Creek, made a great hit yesterday afternoon. There were fully 165 people in attendance. The movie was ?The Patriot? with William S. Hart.

AUGUST 8, 1924-The seven Juneau transfer companies are today running a joint advertisement offering coal at a uniform price which runs from $13.50 for Black Diamond mine run down to $10.50 for Washington washed nut. The seven firms are Juneau, Reliable, Bodding, North, Ritter, Cole and Davelin.

MARCH 3, 1925-The gas boat Pacific has been purchased by the J. B. Caro Company from E. A. Rasmuson, president of the Bank of Alaska. The vessel will be used for company business throughout Southeast Alaska. The Caro company is a distributor of tobacco and other products. The Pacific is 72 feet long with 14 feet beam and is powered by a 50-horsepower Frisco Standard engine. Clarence Geddes will be in command.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1926-On her maiden voyage on the Sitka mail route, the motor vessel Marganita, Captain H. M. Peterson, sailed from the City Dock last night. The new 90-foot vessel was built at Port Blakely, Washington, for the Coastwise Transportation Company, which recently secured the mail contract from the Davis Transportation Company, operator of the Estebeth.

MARCH 1, 1930-The snowfall last month was the heaviest of any February in the history of Juneau weather records, aggregating 65.5 inches, according to R. C. Mize of the Weather Bureau. The largest fall in any single day was 11.3 inches and the largest accumulation on the ground was 32 inches.

NOVEMBER 8, 1932-The hangar of the Alaska Southern Airways, off Willoughby Avenue, collapsed this morning and crushed the seaplane Northbird, owned by J. V. Hickey. The wings were smashed and several struts were broken and most of the glass shattered or cracked. The engine escaped injury. Strong winds up the channel rolled up high waves which caused the collapse of the hanger shortly before 9 o?clock.

FEBRUARY 8, 1936-City Ordinance No. 228 providing for placing of street signs and numbering of houses was read for the third time and approved by the City Council at its meeting last night. Renaming of two streets was included in the ordinance. The street formerly known as Pipe Line Way was renamed Capitol Avenue. Willoughby Avenue east of Main Street was renamed Marine Way.

FEBRUARY 10, 1936-Bert?s Cash Grocery was moved from Willoughby Avenue to an uptown location at 211 Seward Street, in quarters formerly occupied by The Market Basket. The store is owned by Bert McDowell. (Note: The location is now occupied by the New York Deli and offices of the Department of Transportation.)

MAY 15, 1936-The twin screw riverboat Jeanne, Captain Harry Barrington, arrived here this morning with two barges which are being loaded with freight for the Whitewater Taku Mine at Tulsequah on the Taku River. Captain William Strong is pilot for the Jeanne and George Robbins is purser.

FEBRUARY 8, 1937-W. O. Johnson of the Juneau Cash Grocery has purchased the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and meat market from Don Armour of Ketchikan. The purchase includes the Piggly Wiggly name and franchise. The grocery stock from the Piggly Wiggly store on Front Street is being moved to the Juneau Cash Grocery at Second and Seward. Percy Reynolds of the Juneau Ice Cream Parlor has leased the former Piggly Wiggly store site, which adjoins his restaurant and will enlarge the restaurant to include it.

MAY 2, 1938-Elaborate ceremonies starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Pacific Airways airport on Glacier Highway will inaugurate the first air mail service from Juneau to Fairbanks via Whitehorse. A Lockheed Electra plane of PAA will carry the mail and will be piloted by S. E. Robins and Walt Hall. It is estimated that 50,000 ?First Day? letters will go north from Juneau.

AUGUST 22, 1938-The Moose baseball team last night beat Douglas 7 to 3 in the third and final game of the 1938 ?Little World Series? and became the champions of the Gastineau Channel. The Moose team was also the 1937 champion and won the second half baseball pennant this year. The third team in the league this year was the Elks. Douglas took the first game of the series 6 to 4 but the Moose evened it up 4 to 2 in the second game. Art McKinnon managed the Moose team while Walt Andrews managed Douglas. William Z. Holzheimer is league president.

Playing on the Moose team were Taglund, Converse, Kimball, Snow, Werner, Grummett, Orme, F. Schmitz and Smith. Members of the Douglas team are Roller, Manning, Turner, Grant, Andrews, Erskine, Jensen, Boyd and Niemi.