Digital Bob Archive

28 March 1980 issue

APRIL 1, 1919-The Alaska Fish & Game Club has offered all of its hatchery equipment to the Territory of Alaska if it will set up an agency to engage in salmon culture. The equipment, valued at approximately $1,000, is located in the club?s hatchery building next to the Union Pool Hall on Lower Front Street.

MAY 2, 1919-The Fourth Territorial Legislature adjourned shortly after noon today after being in continuous session for 33 hours, with recesses only for meals. Mr. Bogan?s motion for the House to adjourn sine die was adopted with Rep. E. B. Collins of Fairbanks still fighting to get an appropriation to start up the Agricultural College and School of Mines. The college failed to get anything and will have to wait two more years to open.

DECEMBER 11, 1926-A. P. Kashevaroff was last night elected president of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska, succeeding John T. Spickett who has held the office for three years. H. R. Shepard was elected secretary, John Reck is treasurer, and J. F. Malony and James Connors are delegates to the Grand Igloo meeting. In Auxiliary No. 6, Mrs. Edna M. Haley was elected president, succeeding Mrs. Lottie Spickett. Addie McKinnon is vice president, Minnie Hurley is secretary, Mrs. Arthur Reindeau is treasurer, Mrs. J. Ramsay is chaplain and Mrs. M. D. Berry is sergeant-at-arms.

JUNE 27, 1927-The cruiser Emden of the German navy arrived yesterday for a 10-day visit. The vessel is 516 feet long with 55 feet beam and was launched in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, in 1925. The vessel carries a crew of 25 officers and 490 men.

JANUARY 10, 1928-With 2,300 barrels of herring bait now on hand and more arriving daily, the Juneau Cold Storage Company will have ample supply on hand for the halibut fleet when the season opens on February 15.

MARCH 16, 1929-Charles Sabin and D. E. Scott have purchased Nelson?s Clothing Store on Front Street from N. G. Nelson and will take over management of the store on March 25. Nelson opened the store five months ago. Mr. Sabin was born in Juneau and has been employed at the Post Office for the past 12 years. Mr. Scott has been in the men?s furnishings department of Goldstein?s Emporium for the past 14 months.

AUGUST 11, 1933-Miss Ruth Coffin and Miss Nancy Strother arrived on the steamer Yukon for a two weeks visit with Judge and Mrs. James W. Wickersham. Miss Coffin is a niece of Mrs. Wickersham.

MAY 24, 1934-Arne Shudshift was elected president of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce at its meeting last evening. He succeeds A. E. Goetz who has held the post for the past three years. Erwin Hachmeister is vice president, John Martin is secretary and Guy Smith is treasurer. Hereafter the organization will meet on the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month.

JULY 29, 1936-Arthur J. Ficken had sold his Sanitary market to Ed B. Shaffer, manager of the Piggly Wiggly meat department for the past four years. Ficken was manager of the Frye-Bruhn Meat Company here for 13 years and has owned Sanitary Market for 12 years.

AUGUST 19, 1937-The largest home construction job started here this summer is the residence of Percy Reynolds at 116 W. First Street. C. C. Rulaford is the contractor and the building will cost $7,500 without wiring, plumbing and heating.

DECEMBER 12, 1940-Curtis Shattuck was today elected president of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce for 1941, succeeding Charles Beal. Charles Carter and H. D. Stabler were elected vice presidents and Dr. M. J. Whittier was named secretary-treasurer.

APRIL 22, 1941-The Juneau Lumber Mills sawmill will reopen early in May, according to vice president C. T. Gardner. The mill will employ about 95 men in one eight-hour shift, five days a week.

JUNE 18, 1941-William C. Walther, newly promoted from captain to major, is the new commanding officer of the Alaska National Guard. He takes over the First Battalion, 297th Infantry, from Major Charles G. Burdick, who resigned the post. Burdick will become assistant Regional Forester for Alaska. He came to Alaska with the Forest Service in 1927.

JUNE 21, 1941-Juneau?s iron lung, purchased by local subscription at a cost of $550, arrived on the steamer Yukon. The drive was started early this year after a young miner succumbed to infantile paralysis.

JULY 24, 1941-Construction will start this week of a one-room frame school building at Tee Harbor. The cost will be $2,700. The estimated enrollment at the school is 14. In the past school has been held in a wanigan scow on the beach. A piece of land for the 24 by 28 foot school building has been leased from P. E. Harris and Company, canners, for five years at $1 for the lease period.

FEBRUARY 13, 1942-Minard Mill, Juneau Water Company superintendent, today was appointed acting assistant Chief of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of William Neiderhauser who has gone to the Mayo Clinic for medical treatment.

FEBRUARY 20, 1942-An open house is being planned by the Douglas Island Women?s club for the reopening of the Douglas Library which is sponsored by the group. Members have been at work cataloging more than 200 new books. A paid librarian will be employed by the club.

JANUARY 13, 1943-Since Office of Price Administration regulations forbid the delivery of parcels by taxi cab, Duane Martin has established the Parcel Delivery Service and will carry trunks, baggage or parcels at any time of the day or night.