Digital Bob Archive

10 August 1979 issue

MAY 31, 1913-The law partnership of Judge R. A. Gunnison and Ralph A. Robertson is now in effect. Robertson has been court stenographer in the U. S. District Court here and his successor, S. H. Millwee, was appointed this week. The law firm has offices in the Decker Building on Front Street near Seward. (Note: This was the beginning of the firm that is now Robertson, Monagle, Eastaugh and Bradley.)

JUNE 28, 1913-The steamer Jefferson arrived at Treadwell at 7 o?clock this morning carrying the first excursion party of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. There are 120 in the party, from Seattle and many parts of the Pacific Coast. They inspected the mines at Treadwell before the steamer moved to the Juneau side of the channel just after noon. The ship sails for Skagway at midnight.

APRIL 13, 1915-A duplicate of the large Norberg air compressor has been ordered for the Perseverance Division of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company and is expected on an early boat. The unit will have a capacity of 28,000 cubic feet of air per minute and will be directly driven by a 540-horsepower General Electric motor.

DECEMBER 8, 1917-S. Howard Ewing, agent at Juneau for the Pacific Steamship Company for the past eight years, has resigned the position and will be succeeded by his assistant, Hugh P. Gallagher. Ewing has been in the steamship business for 21 years, most of it with the Alaska Steamship Company. Gallagher came to Juneau in 1914 as agent for the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company, the old Admiral Line, which has since merged with other lines to form the Pacific Steamship Company.

DECEMBER 31, 1917-Four deer appeared last evening in the vicinity of St. Ann?s Hospital, having been driven into the city by deep snow. One of them went into the yard and up on the back porch of Royal Shepard, looking for food. J. P. L. Graves of the Juneau Music House captured one of the deer and will feed it until spring.

NOVEMBER 29, 1924-The Juneau offices of the Alaska Steamship Company have been moved to the Seward Building on Front Street. For the part nine years the company has occupied offices on Seward Street next to the Behrend?s Department Store.

MAY 2, 1930-H. L. Arnold has purchased the remaining shoe stock of the Goldstein Emporium and is opening Arnold?s Bootery in the Goldstein Building. He has been in the shoe department of the Goldstein Emporium for the past nine years.

JULY 1, 1930-W. W. ?Billie? Taylor, for more than a score of years one of Juneau?s most popular residents, has closed his business and is moving to Goddard, near Sitka, to make his home. He has operated a confectionary shop on the northwest corner of Third and Main Streets. For many years he also raised hunting dogs and it was through his initiative that pheasants were introduced to this area.

MAY 1, 1936-Pacific Alaska Airways opened a Southeastern Alaska charter service today with Juneau as the operating base. A Fairchild 71 seaplane equipped with a new Wasp SC1 engine and a controllable pitch propeller will be used for the service, according to Lyman S. Pack, vice president and general manager of the company. R. E. ?Bob? Ellis will be the pilot with Paul Brewer as flight mechanic. A. B. Holden will be traffic agent with offices in the Gastineau Hotel and will handle reservations for both the charter service and for scheduled flights to Fairbanks.

JUNE 6, 1936-A crew of 11 steel workers arrived yesterday on the steamer Northwestern to dismantle the big mill building at Thane. It is estimated that there are about 1600 tons of structural steel in the building and dismantling it is expected to take two and a half months. The steel will be available for construction work at the Alaska Juneau Mine.

MARCH 8, 1937-Juneau won the last two games of a three game series with Petersburg to become champions of Southeastern Alaska on the basketball court. The Petersburg squad weakened by the loss of its captain, Norman Heimdahl, who had contracted measles. Playing for Petersburg were Eldor Lee, Ed Hagerman, Roger Naze, Rung Stenslid, John Stout, Ernest Enge, Thomas Wandberg, Dave Ohmer and Kenneth Oyama. Members of the Juneau team included Harold Hanson, Roy Smith, Gilbert Devault, Bud Brown, Joe Smith, Ed Hildre, John Krugness and Vern Hussey. Petersburg took the first game 38-36 and Juneau won the other two 35-31 and 32-19.

MARCH 1, 1939-Alterations which are now nearly completed have put an almost entirely new front on Bert?s Cash Grocery on Seward Street. A new display window and a new vegetable display rack have been installed under the supervision of Bert McDowell, the proprietor. (Note: The store occupied the space now occupied by the New York Deli and Department of Transportation offices.)

MARCH 9, 1939-Telephone service from any home in Juneau to the wide world will be inaugurated tomorrow night. This will allow anyone having a phone to make long distance calls without the necessity of going to the radio office in the Federal & Territorial Building as in the past. Persons wishing to place a long distance call can do so by ringing 044 which will connect them with the Signal Corps office.

JUNE 16, 1939-Ernest Parsons today announced that he is resigning his position with the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company and will head his own firm as an electrical constructor and distributor. He will feature Westinghouse electrical supplies. Mr. Parsons has been with the power company for seven years as manager of its supply department.