Digital Bob Archive

21 September 1979 issue

DECEMBER 21, 1906-A horse attached to one of the four-horse sleds of the Perseverance Mine fell off the roadway from basin today and landed in the gully 300 feet below. It was killed instantly. It is a miracle that Al Black, the driver, and the rest of the team were not dragged over.

AUGUST 6, 1915-Dr. W. E. Pallister has announced that the building he has erected at the south end of Gastineau Avenue is to be a hospital. The wooden building is three stories high. Dr. Pallister was formerly surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. The new hospital, to be known as the Juneau General Hospital, will open in about two months with a modern surgery, x-ray equipment and ambulance service. (Note: The building later became the Home Hotel and was torn down a few years ago.)

MARCH 24, 1926-Captain C. A. Fisher has purchased the Juneau Music House from Elmer E. Smith who established the business about three years ago. The new owner has been connected with the firm for a year and a half. Only Music House is involved in the deal: the S&F Candy factory will remain under Smith?s ownership.

MARCH 30, 1927-The machinery in the new plant of the Juneau Lumber Mills turned over for the first time today and was found to be satisfactory. The equipment was produced by the Sumner Iron Works and cost $100.000. It has the capacity of 100,000 board feet of lumber a day. The head band saw is 54 feet long and 15 inches wide and runs as a rate of 10,000 feet a minute.

MARCH 7, 1928-The charter of the Juneau Lions Club was received here this week and its being prepared for presentation to the club it was announced today by B. A. Rosselle, District Governor for the Fourth District of the organization. H. I. Lucas, Allen Shattuck and George B. Rice were named a special committee to work on the presentation ceremony.

MAY 16, 1930-John Biggs has become the sole owner of the Gastineau Hotel, having purchased the interest of Captain J. H. Cann. The two men purchased the hotel three years ago from Claude Erickson and Mr. Biggs has been managing it since that time.

APRIL 5, 1933-I. Goldstein yesterday defeated Mayor Thomas B. Judson who was seeking re-election for the seventh consecutive term. The vote in that race was 648 to 603. Goldstein?s Economy Ticket also carried all three council seats. Elected were George B. Rice, Art McKinnon and William J. Reck. R. E. Robertson was unopposed for the School Board. Out of 1,426 registered voters, 1,286 cast ballots.

In Douglas, Guy L. Smith was elected mayor over L. W. Kilburn. Ed Andrews, John Feusi and A. J. Balog were chosen for the City Council and Aaron E. Johnson was elected to the School Board. Ballots cast totaled 196 out of 208 registered voters.

APRIL 29, 1933-The 1933 season of the three team Gastineau Channel Basketball League will open on Sunday, May 7, with a game between the Elks and the Legion and will close, 36 games later, on Sunday, July 30, with a game between the Moose and the Legion. Sixty-six men have filed their intentions to play this year and have been divided among the three teams by President Karl Thiele, vice president George Kohlhepp and secretary J. E. Kearney.

The Moose team, managed by A. F. McKinnon, will have P. Schmitz, J. Schmitz, E. Lindstrom and B. Keaton, pitchers; R. Coughlin, R. Killowich and C. Fraser, catchers; S. Grummett, first base; F. Schmitz, second base; A. Strode, shortstop; R. Bonner, third base; W. Schmitz, J. Ramsey, N. Brodie, Balog, P. Cooper, H. M. Hollmann, S. Orme, A. Blomquist, D. Baker and G. Karablinkoff, outfielders and utility.

The Legion team will be managed by George Worth and on the roster will be J. Manning, K. Junge and G. Lowe, pitchers; R. Boyd, C. Allen and R. Jernberg, catchers; W. Andrews, first base; T. Keaton, second base; J. Ledbetter, shortstop; V. Stedman, third base; J. McCloskey, F. Heinke, G. Shaw, J. Niemi, W. Rodenburg, R. Henning, I. Hagerup, L. Lorentzen, L. West, E. Roller, Borgfelt and Porter, outfielders and utility.

For the Elks, last year?s champions, there will be C. Erskine, A. Koski and J. Nello, pitchers; K. Blake, and C. H. MacSpadden, catchers; M. MacSpadden, first base; S. Baker, second base; A. Garn, shortstop; B. Wold, third base; T. Haines, B. Orme, E. Hermsen, C. Ashby, H. Torgerson, outfielders and utility.

SEPTEMBER 14, 1937-Rod Darnell today marked the completion of his first year as owner of Triangle Cleaners which he purchased from the late N. G. Nelson. Mr. Darnell had been in charge of the cleaning work for the Alaska Laundry prior to his purchase of Triangle Cleaners.

OCTOBER 12, 1938-Dr. John Hawkeworth Geyer has announced the opening of dental offices in Suite 310 of the Goldstein Building. Dr. Geyer is a graduate of the North Pacific Dental College in Oregon.

JUNE 28, 1939-The steamer Tongass of the Alaska Transportation Company is loading approximately 125,000 board feet of airplane spruce at the Juneau Lumber Mills dock. This is the finest grade of clear spruce on the market and this is the first shipment of the product from the Juneau mill in nearly a year.

JANUARY 20, 1940-Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne has taken over the ownership to the Forget-Me-Not Flower shop at Second and Franklin Streets from Corinne Gray.

FEBRUARY 16, 1940-Excavation started today at the corner of Fourth and Franklin Streets for a new church building for the Bethel Pentecostal Assembly. The new building will be two stories plus a concrete basement. There will be a large auditorium on the main floor and a dwelling for the pastor on the second floor. The lot for the building was donated by John Conn. The Assembly is now located at Second and Main Streets, across Main Street from the Empire building. The Rev. R. E. Baker is pastor of the church. (Note: The building is now the American Legion building.)