Digital Bob Archive

7 December 1979 issue

AUGUST 28, 1915-September 7 will be the opening day for St. Ann?s Academy which is being reopened this fall after being closed for the past three years. School hours will be 9 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 3:45 p.m.

APRIL 6, 1927-Thomas B. Judson, heading the Citizen?s Efficiency ticket in yesterday?s city election, defeated Cash Cole of the Citizen?s ticket for major by a margin of 494 to 337. Charles G. Warner and H. T. Tripp of the Citizen?s ticket were elected to the City Council along with Warren H. Wilson of the Citizen?s Efficiency ticket. R. E. Robertson was unopposed for the School Board.

At Douglas, John Kendler, Gus Lundell, Nelson Anderson, Hans Loken, J. R. Guerin, Joe Riedi and Ed Cashel were elected to the City Council and Felix Gray was elected to the School Board.

APRIL 25, 1927-Ludwig Nelson and Mrs. John H. Fremming will open their new jewelry and curio store in the Seward Building tomorrow with a large stock of goods. Nelson has been connected with the jewelry business in Juneau for the past 11 years.

JUNE 20, 1927-The property adjoining the California Grocery, on which the Merchants Cafe stands, has been purchased by Nick Bavard, proprietor of the grocery, from Mrs. E. O. Decker. The property has a frontage of 36 feet on South Front Street and Bavard will use it to build an addition to his store. The cafe has been operated by Tom McMullen and will close.

MAY 20, 1933-Daylight savings time will be in effect in Juneau beginning midnight on Wednesday, May 24, it was unanimously decided at the City Council meeting last night. This will be the first time daylight savings time has been tried in Juneau in many years. It is believed that it was last in effect when President Wilson proclaimed it during the World War. The action by the council resulted from a petition by local businessmen. One of the chief arguments in its favor is that it will make Juneau conform to a time shift at Seattle. That city adopted daylight savings time several years ago and this put Seattle two hours ahead of Juneau instead of the normal one hour.

APRIL 11, 1934-The Gastineau Breeze, Douglas High School newspaper, has won first rank in the Tenth Columbia Scholastic Press Association contest. The Breeze received 903 points out of a possible 1,000. Last year and the year before it ranked in second place.

JUNE 1, 1934-A five-passenger Boeing flying boat operated by Gorst Airlines of Seattle and piloted by Murray Stuart arrived here at 11 a.m. today and will return to Seattle tomorrow.

JULY 15, 1935-First concrete for the Calhoun Avenue paving project will be poured today, according to City Engineer Milt Lagergren. Gastineau Construction Company has the contract.

AUGUST 12, 1935-The yacht Taconite with W. E. Boeing, retired airplane manufacturer from Seattle, is visiting Juneau this week. Aboard are Mrs. Boeing and their son, W. E. Junior. During a portion of the cruise the yacht carried a twin motor Douglas plane which was used for fishing inland lakes. The plane, which is piloted by Clayton Scott, well known here, was left at Ketchikan.

AUGUST 29, 1935-Plans are being made to reopen the Uptown Theater at Third and Seward Streets in the Territorial Building. The lease on the building is held by Alfred Dishaw. Territorial departments which formerly occupied the building were moved to the new capital building in 1931. The Uptown Theater operated for some time but was closed several months ago.

OCTOBER 31, 1935-The Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company, which has operated ferries between Juneau and Douglas for many years, concluded the service today with the 12:30 p.m. run of the ferry to Douglas. Opening of the Douglas bridge makes the ferry service unnecessary. The last ferry run was made by the boat Teddy. The ferries Lone Fisherman, Alma and Amy have been sold and the Teddy will be sold in the near future. The Douglas ferry service started in the 1880?s with rowboats and small sailboats and at one time operated to Treadwell and Thane and sometimes to Nevada Creek as well as Douglas.

OCTOBER 2, 1937-At the City Council meeting last night, Lockie MacKinnon was the sole nominee for the council position of Frank McCafferty whose seat was declared vacant because of prolonged absence from the city. Mr. MacKinnon will be seated at the meeting of the council on October 15. He served on the first Juneau City Council in 1900.

DECEMBER 12, 1939-W. K. Burford has purchased the interest of Emmett Botelho in the Triangle Inn in Juneau and is now the sole owner. This is one of the seven local places that has been issued a cocktail bar license under the new Walker liquor law. Others are John Pastl, The Tavern; Dave?s Place, and Mike Kosoff, The Arctic. Retail liquor licenses have been issued to George Bros., Jim Ellen, John H. Walmer, Boris Magids Co., Edwin G. Sweum and Percy Reynolds. Restaurant license have been issued to the Gastineau Cafe, Emilio Galao and Percy Reynolds.

AUGUST 31, 1940-W. P. Hautala, basketball coach at Juneau High School for the past five years, has resigned his position to accept one in Washington State, probably at the Federal Way School.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1940-Miss Margaret Maland of Moorhead, Minnesota, has been elected to take over the seventh and eighth grade, English, reading and spelling classes formerly taught by W. P. Hautala, according to School Superintendent A. B. Phillips.