Digital Bob Archive

5 October 1979 issue

MAY 13, 1913-Superintendent Jack Hayes of the Alaska Road Commission now has a gang of 30 men and four horses at work constructing the road to Sheep Creek.

JUNE 14, 1915-The Hill Drug Company, a new firm opened for business this morning in the Goldstein Hellenthal Building on the northeast corner of Second and Seward Streets. The company was organized by Oren F. Hill of Juneau, Thomas M. Mugford of Douglas and Albert Thibodeau of Douglas. Mr. Hill is a pharmacy graduate of the University of California.

FEBRUARY 2, 1921-The first wood pulp ever made in Alaska was brought to Juneau today by W. P. Lass, manager of the Alaska Pulp & Paper Company, from the company?s Speed River plant. The pulp was produced on January 24 and comes to Juneau as part of a shipment being made for California.

JANUARY 20, 1927-An option is being sought by an Oklahoma man for a site on Auke Lake for $250,000 tourist hotel. J. T. Quin of Oklahoma City has telegraphed the Juneau Chamber of Commerce asking about the possibility of acquiring acreage at the lake.

MARCH 28, 1928-Juneau has been designated the Alaska headquarters of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and the offices will be transferred from Anchorage it was announced this morning by B. D. Stewart, Federal Mine Inspector. Stewart has just returned from Washington D. C. where he conferred with Bureau officials.

DECMBER 28, 1929-Radio broadcast station KFIU, operated by the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company, is again ready to broadcast programs after being off the air for some time. A new transmitter has been installed and licensed to operate at any hour of the day of night. It will broadcast on 1310 kc.

APRIL 5, 1933-Alfred Bergseth has opened a second Hi-Line system grocery store, this one on Willoughby Avenue in a building recently completed by Michael Vagge. Store No. 1 is on lower Front Street.

APRIL 27, 1933-No longer will Admiral Line green be seen on Gastineau Channel or the other waterways of Alaska. Blowing three long blasts of her steam whistle as a farewell, the Admiral Watson departed the Pacific Steamship Company wharf this morning bound south. The company is withdrawing from the Alaska trade after approximately half a century of northern service, and the Admiral Watson is the last vessel to make the run. The Admiral Evans departed several days ago after making a run to the westward. The Admiral Watson is in command of Captain S. K. Giliji and Charles Miller as purser.

MARCH 13, 1935-Preparatory work for steel construction on the Douglas Island bridge started this morning. J. R. MacDonald is in charge of the work for the Pacific Car & Foundry Company which has steel work contract.

JANUARY 24, 1936-?Three Cornered Moon? is the Junior-Senior Douglas play at the Douglas High School. In the cast Arthur Reinikka, Gerald Cashen, Jennie Johnson, Betty Sey, Glen Edwards, Olavi Wahto, Ruth Langseth, Frank Cashel and Veri Kirkham.

MAY 3, 1937-With Sam Paul?s Gastineau Grocery moved into its new location in the old Light & Power Company building on Front Street near Seward, contractor B. M. Krafft is remodeling the old location of the store for the new uptown branch of the Home Grocery. John Hermle and Joe Thibodeau are having a new front put on the store which is to be combined with the American Meat Company.

OCTOBER 31, 1938-Several hundred people attended the cornerstone laying for the Shrine of St. Terese at Shrine Island, just off the Eagle River Highway yesterday afternoon. Bishop J. R. Cimont officiated at the ceremony, assisted by Rev. W. G. LeVasseur, Rev. Edward C. Budde and Rev. Francis Monroe. Secretary of Alaska E. W. Griffin and Charles C. Carter, president of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, were the speakers. Sealed in the cornerstone is a history of the shrine and the retreat house from 1931 when the site was selected by Rev. LeVasseur.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1939-George Jorgenson, a resident of Juneau for many years, has opened Jorgenson Motors on Marine Street at Ferry Way and will do auto repairs and locksmithing and sell gas and oil. He recently operated Gastineau Motors near the Hotel Juneau on Main Street.

OCTOBER 10, 1939-J. S. MacKinnon was chosen by unanimous vote of the City Council last night to fill the unexpired term of John McCormick who resigned to become a city police patrolman. Mr. MacKinnon had declined several times to run for the council but says he will accept the appointment. His father served on Juneau?s first City Council. (Note: Although he accepted the appointment, MacKinnon did not serve. He was called back to active duty in the Navy before the next meeting of the council.)

MARCH 22, 1940-A heavy snowfall has combined with high winds to block many Douglas Streets despite round the clock work by the city grader. Through travel by car to Treadwell is halted at the Guys Drug store corner and employees at the Treadwell foundry are forced to walk all the way from there to work.

JUNE 8, 1940-Miss Marjorie Tillotsen, Juneau High School mathematics teacher, has been appointed Merit System Supervisor for the three territorial agencies receiving Social Security funds. They are the Department of Health, the Department of Public Welfare and the Unemployment Compensation Commission.

JANUARY 8, 1941-Dr. Joseph O. Rude has arrived from Petersburg and will be associated with Dr. L. P. Dawes in the practice of medicine here. Dr. Rude is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has been at Petersburg for several years with the U. S. Public Health Service. Mrs. Rude and their children will arrive in a few weeks.