Digital Bob Archive

7 March 1980 issue

MARCH 29, 1918-On Sunday morning, March 31, all clocks are to be set ahead one hour to conform to a law recently passed by Congress and signed by President Wilson. The mining companies on the channel have already provided for setting their clocks ahead and their employees will work by the new time.

MARCH 14, 1919-?Nellie,? the faithful old mare used to haul the Douglas milk wagon for the past five years, has died at the age of 24. She worked underground in the Treadwell Mine for many years and was considered the best horse there until she apparently tired of the life. She evidenced this by twice attempting suicide by stepping in front of a moving ore train. She was badly cut and bruised each time but was not fatally injured. She was brought to the surface after the second attempt.

MAY 25, 1927-First work on the new Juneau Cold Storage Company plant was started this morning by A. W. Quist, contractor. Forty to fifty local men will be hired for the job which is to be finished by September 15. Quist was contractor for the Goldstein Building and several other Juneau buildings.

JULY 1, 1933-C. T. ?Tom? Gardiner, Juneau manager for and part owner of Sawyer, Reynolds & Co., logging firm, has disposed of his interest in that company and, at the same time, purchased the interest of the firm in the Juneau Lumber Mills. He has been elected as director and vice president of the sawmill company and will serve as its office manager.

FEBRUARY 10, 1934-After being idle since prohibition came to Alaska in 1918, the 24-foot bar and back bar which did duty in Baritello?s Palace Saloon in Douglas for many years is being installed in Burford?s Corner at Front and Seward Streets.

AUGUST 3, 1935-Everything is in readiness for the opening of the Douglas Inn, a new beer parlor, this evening. John Marin is the proprietor. There will be free beer for the first hour and a dance from 9 until 1 in the Eagles Hall above the beer parlor.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1935-The new staff of the Gastineau Breeze, the newspaper published by Douglas High School, includes Jennie Johnson as editor, assisted by Vera Kirkham, Mary Loken, Ruth Langseth, Agnes Baroumes, Albert Brown, Bob Feero, Arthur Reinikka, Gerald Cashen and Joe Reidi.

JULY 23, 1936-The U. S. cruiser Detroit dropped anchor in Gastineau Channel this morning to mark the opening of Juneau?s Fleet Week for 1936. Five destroyers are due in port on the 25th for a two-day stay. All six vessels will leave for Sitka on the 27th.

OCTOBER 9, 1937-W. D. Gross, theater operator, has made a down payment to the City of Douglas for the old Labor Union Hall ad it will henceforth be known as the Coliseum Building. On July 23 Douglas voters authorized the city to sell the hall. At that time the buyer was expected to be the Eagles Lodge. Mr. Gross is expected to open a theater in the building.

OCTOBER 28, 1940-R. E. Fitzgerald has arrived from Seattle to become instructor for the Alaska School of Aeronautics. Clarence Walter is manager and chief instructor of the school and is now negotiating for an additional plane, an amphibian which Walters will fly to Juneau.

OCTOBER 31, 1940-The new Gross Twentieth Century Theater is opening tonight with the picture ?Hollywood Cavalcade.? This gives Juneauites a choice of three movie houses, the other two being the Coliseum and the Capitol. The theater building, which also has 24 apartments, has been under construction for three years. The theater has 1,250 seats and the property is owned by W. D. ?Dave? Gross.

APRIL 11, 1941-Rod Darnell today was elected president of the Juneau Rotary Club for the coming year, succeeding Dr. W. M. Whitehead.

APRIL 17, 1941-Adding to recent bitter attacks against Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes in his role of ?master of Alaska,? the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today labeled him ?a man who is placing every possible obstacle in the path of persons who wish to gain title to any portion of the public domain in Alaska.?

MAY 22, 1941-Edward L. Keithahn of Wrangell was today appointed Curator of the Alaska Historical Library and Museum, filling the vacancy left by the death a year ago of A. P. Kashevaroff. The appointment was made by the Library and Museum Commission of which Governor Ernest Gruening is chairman. Mrs. Josie White was reappointed assistant Curator.

JANUARY 3, 1942-J. L. Hobgood, principal of the Juneau-Douglas government school since 1938, has resigned the position because of the poor health of his wife. Mrs. Hobgood is also a teacher in the school. They will leave Juneau to make their home in Montecello, Arkansas.

JANUARY 30, 1942-The February tire allotment for Alaska has been announced by the Office of Price Administration. Juneau will receive two passenger tires, two passenger car tubes, five truck tires and nine truck tubes. Douglas will receive one each passenger car tire and tube, one truck tire and one truck tube.

FEBRUARY 3, 1942-William Jorgenson of Juneau has loaned to the Territorial Library and Museum three items: a 14-inch Tlingit bowl acquired by Lloyd Winter at Klukwan in 1894, an incense pot from Sitka and a hand hammered Tlingit copper bowl.

MARCH 28, 1942-The Baranof Lending Library and Book Shop and the Royal Typewriter Company are to be combined, with display rooms in the present book shop as well as the space next to it formerly occupied by the Nugget Shop in the Baranof Hotel building. Mrs. John Newmarker has sold her interest in the book shop to the Royal Typewriter Company and the combined store will be in charge of Miss Mary Stewart.

JANUARY 2, 1943-John Doyle Bishop of the B. M. Behrends Company, Inc., will leave this week-end on a buying trip for the store. He will visit Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.