Digital Bob Archive

24 August 1979 issue

JANUARY 18, 1909-Vic Lindquist, who has conducted his blacksmithing and horseshoeing business at the corner of Second and Franklin for the past 11 years, today sold his shop to Ed Cavanaugh and is retiring because of ill health.

APRIL 30, 1915-Superintendent P. R. Bradley announced definitely today that the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mining Company will erect an 8000-ton milling plant on a site adjoining the present test mill just south of town. The announcement came after the United States District Court this morning decided in favor of the Alaska-Juneau in its suit against the Worthen Mill Company involving title to a wharf site. The mining company will build an immense wharf on the tide flats now used by the sawmill company for storing logs.

DECEMBER 21, 1917-The steamer Princess Sophia made an unaccustomed stop last night at the Douglas City dock. She did so to load 15,000 feet of high quality spruce lumber cut by the James sawmill. The lumber will be discharged at Vancouver, B. C., will go by rail to Halifax, and from there will be transported to France for use in aeroplane construction.

MAY 8, 1930-Two sites in or adjacent to Juneau are available to the Cameron-Chandler interests for their pulp and paper manufacturing plant, it was revealed today at the Juneau Chamber of Commerce meeting today. One site is just north of town and is held under permit by the Sawyer & Reynolds logging firm. The other borders deep water off the Casey-Shattuck addition, just north of Gold Creek, and is held by that development company.

MAY 16, 1936-Through the efforts of Mayor I. Goldstein and Attorney H. L. Faulkner, Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., will donate a cannery tender to the Juneau Sea Scouts. Announcement of the gift has been made by Archie W. Shiels, president of the company. The Forester, now at Excursion Inlet, will be brought to Juneau in the near future. The vessel is about 65 feet in length. Lloyd ?Kinky? Bayers, head of the Sea Scouts, started the move to acquire a boat some time ago.

JUNE 13, 1936-The Bartenders first annual picnic is to be held tomorrow at the Treadwell Beach. It will start at high noon and last until the beer runs out. There will be a beer drinking contest, a board sawing race for women, a tug of war for men and women, a pie eating contest, and a bar maids? waiting contest.

MARCH 26, 1939-The year 1938 was an exceptionally good building year in Juneau, according to city records. Among the large buildings constructed are the J. J. Klein apartments at 235 Gold Street, the memorial Presbyterian Church at 8th and E Streets, Sam Feldon?s Feldon Apartments at 412 Calhoun Avenue; R. J. Sommers? building at Seward Street and Marine Way, and the Hillcrest Apartments at Eighth and Gold Streets. Some building permits were as follows: Ken Junge, 604 W. 11th, $6,400; William Rodenburg, 925 D Street, $3,000; Dr. R. M. Coffee, 1711 Evergreen Avenue, $8,700; Burr Johnson, 407 W. 11th, $3,500; Louis Delabecque, 709 W. 10th, $8,700; Arthur Reindeau, 506 W. 10th, $6,490; H. J. Hansen, 623 W. 10th, $5,000; George F. Alexander, 134 W. 1st, $7,500; James Larson, 719 W. 12th, $6,000; H. C. Timmerman, 525 W. 10th, $5,000; Al Dishaw, 631 W. 10th, $5,000; C. C. Rulaford, 546 W. 1st, $6,500; Don Abel, 623 Alder, $6,500; Percy Reynolds, 116 W. 1st, $6,500; Edward A. Herron, 511 W. 11th, $4,000. Others with preliminary permits for which no amount is stated include John Halm at 524 W. 10th, H. G. Nordling at 544 W. 12th, Hugh J. Wade at 626 Basin Road, John Olson at Fifth and Park, and Jake Cropley at 368 Willoughby Avenue.

APRIL 4, 1939-Construction of a new approach to the Douglas Ski Trail has been started by a small crew of Civilian Conservation Corps men, the U. S. Forest Service announced today. The crew is clearing a right of way a quarter of a mile long across the patented mining claims from which an easement has been given by the present owners. The trail, which starts at the Douglas Highway, will be straight in contrast to the present meandering route. (Note: The route cleared is now Cordova Street in West Juneau.)

APRIL 17, 1939-Nearly a ton of crated moose was unloaded from the steamer Baranof this morning; consigned to the Territorial Museum. The giant moose was shot on the Kenai Peninsula and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. for mounting. It is a gift to the museum and came here from Baltimore via the Panama Canal. The crate measures 10 feet 8 1/2 inches by 8 feet 4 1/2 inches by 5 feet and weighs 1,470 pounds. (Note: The moose, a favorite of two or three generations of Juneau school children, unfortunately grew motheaten and mangy and was discarded.)

APRIL 29, 1939-The Juneau Linoleum Store, carrying a full line of floor coverings, opened its doors today at Front and Main Streets in the location formerly occupied by the Channel Apparel Shop. Nick Rocovich is manager of the new store.

JUNE 30, 1939-Ray Peterman, Juneau contractor, today announced the purchase of the Fyre & Company property at Front Street and Shattuck Way. It is a two story building on a 30 by 100 foot lot with store space on the ground floor and 10 rooms and an apartment upstairs. Ronald Copstead and Harold Bates of the Twentieth Century Market have taken a three-year lease on the ground floor. (Note: The building now houses the housewares department of Ace Hardware.)

AUGUST 9, 1939-The General Construction Company?s big dipper dredge went safely under the Douglas bridge at low water this noon with only inches to spare. The dredge measures 63 feet from waterline to the top of the superstructure and will begin work at once digging out a boat harbor for the channel area.