Digital Bob Archive

14 September 1979 issue

MAY 12, 1913-The work of paving Seward Street with rock is going forward rapidly. The rock is being taken from the Behrends lot on Main Street above Fifth, which is being leveled.

JUNE 4, 1915-The Alaska Juneau Mining Company has organized its own fire department, mainly to fight any fires on company property but also to assist the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department when called up. The new department consists of three companies of 15 men each. C. K. White is president of the department. J. Marshall is superintendent of Company No 1 with Ralph Beistline as assistant. H. A. Stephens and A. C. Parker will lead Company No. 2, and R. D. Young and William Hunter are superintendent and assistant superintendent of Company No. 3.

DECEMBER 24, 1917-A fine Christmas program has been presented by the children attending the Perseverance School in Silver Bow Basin. More than a dozen children took part in the program.

JANUARY 18, 1921-The Rev. Charles E. Rice, who with his family arrived here yesterday to take charge of Holy Trinity Cathedral, is an old time Alaskan. He went to Skagway shortly after the Klondike excitement, then when gold was discovered in the Tanana district he went to the new town of Fairbanks and was the first minister to hold services there. From Fairbanks he went to Fort Yukon, then to Seward. Eleven years ago the family moved to Washington State and then to Colorado, from where he returns to Alaska.

JANUARY 1, 1926-More than one third of the gold produced in Alaska during the year 1925 came from the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine. Output was $2,183,496 an increase of $132,496 over the year 1924. Alaska production in 1925 is estimated by the U. S. Geological Survey at $6,150,000. The Alaska Juneau had an average payroll of 557 during the year, an increase of 48 over the previous year.

JANUARY 10, 1927-B. H. ?Dusty? Rhodes, formerly of the Blue Fox Cafe in Ketchikan, has taken a 5-year lease on the Gastineau Cafe location in the Gastineau Hotel. The announcement was made today by Claude Erickson, owner of the hotel. The space will be remodeled and will reopen as Rhodes Cafe.

MARCH 7, 1927-The movie ?Rocking Moon,? from the novel by Barrett Willoughby, is now showing the Spickett?s Palace and features Lilyan Tashman, John Bowers, Rockcliffe Fellows and Laska Winters. The movie was partly filmed at Sitka.

APRIL 30, 1928-The Front Street fill, begun on April 20, was completed today when the last load of gravel was dumped in front of the Alaska Laundry. Practically all dump trucks in town were used in the project which will eliminate the costly piling under the street. (Note: The original high tide line was along the present Front Street and South Franklin Street and the streets were on piling.)

DECEMBER 16, 1929-The first concrete in the construction of the Federal and Territorial Building was poured shortly after 12:30 p.m. today by the N. P. Severin Company, contractors for the building. Among other things, the building will provide quarters for the Alaska Territorial Legislature and hence will become Alaska?s fifth Capitol. The other four are all here in Juneau.

APRIL 5, 1933-The seaplane Mitkof with Pilot M. W. Sasseen at the controls flipped over early this afternoon as it was coming in for a landing in the channel. Sasseen quickly climbed onto a pontoon and was picked up and the plane towed to shore near the rock dump. It is owned by J. V. Hickey. The accident is believed to have been caused by snow on the plane?s wings.

JUNE 6, 1934-By order of the City Council, Ferry Way is now a one way street. Only eastbound traffic will be permitted from Shattuck Way to Franklin Street. (Note: This was the old, narrow Ferry Way and it is believed to have been the first one way street in Juneau.)

MAY 8, 1937-City Engineer Milton Lagergren was reappointed to the position of Engineer and Building Inspector by the City Council at its regular meeting last night. His salary was set at $225 a month. It was decided to continue the office of City Magistrate combined with that of City Clerk and Clerk H. I. Lucas will handle the job at $200 per month.

JULY 8, 1937-J. P. Anderson today announced that sale of The Florist Shop to C. C. Carnegie who has been associated with the business for the past year and a half. Anderson opened the shop 20 years ago. He came to Alaska in 1914 and spent three years at Sitka at the Agricultural Experiment Station. The shop was first located at Front and Main Street, then on Third Street, and for the past several years has been in the Shattuck Building on Seward Street.

JANAURY 17, 1940-The ?Goldstein Skating Rink? is thawing in the present mild weather and is no longer safe, Chief of Police Dan Ralston warned today. Ralston was instrumental in getting the use of the basement of the burned out building on Seward Street for skating use after it had filled with water and frozen. Hundreds of Juneauites have enjoyed its use. ?One or two cold nights will make it safe again,? Ralston said.

FEBRUARY 5, 1941-Charter members of the newly formed Juneau Medical Society are Dr. W. P. Blanton, Dr. Langson White, Dr. L. P. Dawes, Dr. W. M. Whitehead, Dr. Courtney Smith, Dr. Joseph O. Rude, Dr. W. S. Ramsey, Dr. C. C. Carter, Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. Palmer Congdon and Dr. E. F. Vollert.