Digital Bob Archive

26 October 1979 issue

JUNE 11, 1915-Work on the 2,500 foot prospecting tunnel on the property of the Alaska Gold Belt Mining Company in upper Sheep Creek Basin, commenced this morning with Arthur Riendeau, tunnel expert, in charge. Mr. Riendeau will have 35 men at work on the tunnel by next week.

FEBRUARY 9, 1921-Johnnie Harris, who is said to have arrived in this vicinity shortly after Mount Juneau, has drawn one of the cartoons for which he is famous. It shows old time firemen and their apparatus as he remembers them from the days of 1888 down to the present. The picture will be displayed in the window of the Sanitary Grocery Store to advertise the 15th Annual Dance of the Juneau Fire Department which is to be held Saturday night at the Arctic Brotherhood Hall.

JULY 15, 1925-The Winn Hat Shop will reopen tomorrow in its new home at the corner of Second and Seward Streets. Mrs. Anna Winn, owner, has a large new stock to greet visitors. The shop was formerly on Second between Seward and Franklin for many years.

MARCH 31, 1928-With an eight piece orchestra furnishing the music, the annual Moose Baseball Dance will be held this evening in the mess hall at Thane. The road to Thane is said to be in good condition and extra ferries will be run between Juneau and Thane by the Juneau Ferry & Navigation Company.

APRIL 3, 1928-The new $15,000 Kimball organ installed by Manager W. D. Gross in the Coliseum Theater will be heard by the public for the first time tomorrow night. Denzel Percy, organist, will pay for a half hour before the start of the show, which is ?The Vanishing American.? (Note: The organ was later moved to the 20th Century Theater, and after having been rebuilt, is now in the 8th floor lobby of the State Office Building.)

NOVEMBER 14, 1929-Halvorsen?s in the Triangle Building has installed a neon sign, the fourth of its kind to shed its light on Juneau. The first was on the Nelson Store, the second on the Imperial Billiard Hall, and the third and largest of all on Coliseum Theater.

APRIL 22, 1933-Latest boat to be built and launched in Juneau is the Mary J., a riverboat built for Hackett Smith by Woodman and Bernstein on their Willoughby Avenue ways. The vessel is 30 feet long with a 75-horsepower engine and will be used by Smith in connection with his Taku River lodge.

MAY 7, 1934-After seven years in the Juneau school system, the last four as superintendent, R. S. Raven has resigned to take a position in the schools at Marysville, Washington. Mr. Raven came to Juneau as high school principal in 1927.

JUNE 28, 1934-Simon Hellenthal, prominent Juneau attorney, was today appointed United States District Judge for the Third Judicial Division by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He will succeed Judge Cecil H. Clegg who resigned two months ago. Judge Hellenthal expects to leave Juneau in about 10 days for the headquarters of the court at Valdez.

MARCH 13, 1935-C. H. ?Mac? Metcalfe, formerly with Rice & Ahlers, has announced the opening of a sheet metal works in the building formerly occupied by the Irros Company on lower Front Street.

MAY 7, 1937-Bringing the Marine Airways Fairchild 71 plane north from Seattle, Chet McLean, new Marine Airways pilot, arrived here at 12:30 p.m. today. The ship has been completely rebuilt and painted with the Marine Airways colors, black and yellow. Accompanying McLean was Donald Shoemaker, mechanic who is in charge of service for the company here.

JULY 15, 1937-Two of the U.S. Navy?s heavy cruisers have been paying visits to Juneau. The Northhampton arrived two days ago and left this morning for Yakutat. The Chicago tied up at the government dock as soon as the Northhampton left. The Chicago carries four seaplanes and a 17 piece band.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1938-Juneau Public Schools will open September 6 and Superintendent A. B. Phillips has announced the faculty, as follows: For grade school, Floyd Dryden, principal; Cynthia Batson, Iva Tilden, Dalma Hanson, Mabel Monson, Velma Bloom, Margaret Abrahamson, Frances Wheeler, Margaret McFadden, Marion Edwards, Margaret Colwell, Helen Webster, Alice Johnson, Emma Olson, Helen Parrott and Gerald McLaughlin.

For the high school: A. S. Dunham, principal; Zore Brown, K. R. Ferguson, Henry Harmon, Edna Harpole, Kathryne Long, Myrtle Moe, Pauline Monroe, Marjorie Tillotson, Dorothy Whittaker. Walter Hautala will teach physical education in both grade and high schools and Alice Palmer and Robert White will teach music in both schools.

NOVEMBER 14, 1939-All necessary test have been completed and the new 100-watt transmitter at KINY is now licensed, according to Vincent I. Kraft, construction engineer. The new transmitter will be dedicated this evening. During the tests word was received from all parts of Alaska and from some of the states that a strong radio signal was being received from Juneau.

APRIL 3, 1940-Mayor H. L. Lucas and his People?s ticket of three council candidates easily won in yesterday?s city election. Lucas defeated Edmund J. Krause for mayor and R. H. Beistline, G. Emil Krause and Harry Lea were elected to the council. Grover C. Winn, a school bard member since 1915, was defeated for re-election by R. R. Hermann. Voters decided 753 to 564 to adopt Pacific Standard Time as official local time.