Digital Bob Archive

11 April 1980 issue

APRIL 3, 1919-Only two of the three salmon canneries at Douglas will operate this season. The plant at the James sawmill site, operated last year by T. E. P. Keegan, will not run this year. Superintendent Long?s cannery on the City Dock and the one on the Ferry Dock, with Tay Bayers as superintendent, will run.

JULY 29, 1927-Installation of a new bathhouse in the Scandinavian Hotel, opposite the City Dock, is being completed today by Mr. and Mrs. Eli Tanner, the owners. They have recently renovated the entire hotel, which will be known as the Crystal Steam Baths.

FEBRUARY 9, 1928-Reopening of the fur manufacturing department of Goldstein?s Emporium, discontinued about four years ago, was announced today by Charles Goldstein. The department will be on the third floor of the big store and will be in charge of H. J. Yurman, furrier, who recently came here from the Hudson?s Bay Company in Vancouver, B. C. All types of fur garments will be manufactured.

FEBRUARY 11, 1928-The low bid for construction of the Masonic Temple was $46,672, entered by Peter Woeck of Seattle. Thomas, Grainger and Thomas, Seattle, are the architects. Woeck was also low bidder on the Juneau High School building at $59,548. The total for the Temple, with plumbing, heating and wiring, will be $56,505 and for the High School it will be $82,368, plus an additional amount for a gymnasium if one is built. (Note: The High School building is now the Capitol School. It was completed in mid-November, 1928, and the Temple was finished a month later.)

SEPTEMBER 8, 1928-Construction of the new Willoughby Avenue bridge over Gold Creek is scheduled to start tomorrow morning, Mayor T. B. Judson announced today. It is expected that the street will be closed to traffic for four or five days.

MARCH 18, 1929-J. Wilfred Leivers was sworn in this morning as Deputy Clerk of the District Court and began his new duties today. He had been with the Thomas Hardware Company as bookkeeper for several years.

APRIL 20, 1929-The 10-passenger Leoning amphibian plane of Gorst Air Transport Company arrived at Juneau at 1:24 p.m. today with 6 persons aboard, including Van Gorst, president of the company. Clayton L. Scott is the pilot. The plane stopped at Campbell River and Prince Rupert, B. C. and Ketchikan on the way north. It has a boat hull and a 450-h.p. Wright Cyclone engine which gives it as air speed of 125 miles per hour. The plane will fly back to Seattle from here.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1933-The Hilary McKanna homestead in the upper Eagle River Valley was sold yesterday to John Ackerman. The homestead is one of the original locations in the valley and adjoins one now owned by Lockie MacKinnon.

JUNE 1, 1934-The Universal Bond & Mortgage Company of Portland, Oregon, has opened offices for Alaska in the Valentine Building. The firm engages in selling securities and mortgages and acts as general brokerage agents for clients. Fred H. Rowe is resident manager.

SEPTEMBER 20, 1935-J. W. McKinley, local electrician, has opened a modern electric shop and service department in the Winn Building on Seward Street below Second.

JULY 25, 1936-Fred Mattson, oldtime Juneau watchmaker and the present proprietor of the Mattson Rooming House, will open a jewelry, curio and watchmaking business on Seward Street opposite the Charles Goldstein Fur Store in the near future. For many years Mattson was connected with the Valentine Jewelry Store and later he had a shop of his own on South Franklin.

NOVEMBER 22, 1937-After five years of operating Channel Bus Lines, which he founded, Walter H. Bacon has sold the business to Tom Cole and Forest Fennessy, both drivers for the company. Bacon started the line with a five-passenger Studebaker car and now has two large buses.

JUNE 17, 1941-The Forest Service tomorrow will plant 8,600 eye trout eggs in Peterson Lake. The eggs arrived today from the Forest Service hatchery at Ketchikan.

AUGUST 9, 1941-A tax rate of 17 1/2 mills, lowest rate since 1918, was set for Juneau by the City Council last night. An increase of $154,750 in total assessed valuation permitted the decrease. The tax rolls, including real and personal property, for 1941, are $7,383,395. Just under $134,000 must be raised to meet the 1941-42 budget requirements.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1941-Members of Alford John Bradford Post No. 4, American Legion, have elected new officers for the coming year as follows: Post commander, Claude C. Carnegie; first vice commander, Fred Cameron; second vice commander, Alfred Zenger; post adjutant, George Gullufson; post chaplain, Leo J. Jewett; post historian, John H. Newman; sergeant-at-arms, Jim Soufoulis; executive committee, R. R. Hermann and Ernest M. Polley.

DECEMBER 1, 1941-A Sydney Laurence painting of Mount McKinley measuring 7 by 13 feet arrived here on the steamer Yukon and will hang in the Territorial Library and Museum on the second floor of the Federal and Territorial Building. The painting is owned by Frank I. Reed of Anchorage and formerly hung in the lobby of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. It is on loan to the territory for an indefinite time.

JANUARY 28, 1943-G. E. Allen was elected president of the Retail Clerks Union at a business meeting last night. William Erickson was named vice president; Harry Sturrock, second vice president; Thelma Tew, secretary-treasurer; Evelyn Brown, recorder; A. H. Hendrickson, guardian; Robert Everitts, guide; Mary Rhodes, Edna Melvin and Mrs. Jo Hutchings, trustees.