Digital Bob Archive

9 May 1980 issue

JULY 5, 1909-There are high class pictures and clean entertainment at the Opera House moving picture show. Admission for adults is 15? and for children it is 10?.

JANAURY 4, 1917-Clarence Skillman, acting for Barney Conrad, has locked up the Hunter Hotel and Bar in Douglas. Conrad holds a mortgage on the bar stock which has been attached for wages by William Prentiss and Sam Keist, the bartenders. This is the second bar closing this week, the Louvre in Juneau having closed the previous day. In both cases the owners are said not to be able to meet expenses, including the high license fees.

MARCH 31, 1917-The first unit of the big mill of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company will be started in operation within the next few days. The machinery is now being turned over for tests. The entire mill has been constructed and up in operating shape in a little over one year of construction work.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1920-The P. H. Fox store building in Douglas has been torn down for removal to Ketchikan and is now on its way there. It is understood that it will be re-erected near Ketchikan Creek. It was one of the older business buildings in Douglas, built soon after the turn of the century. Mr. Fox was the first postmaster in Douglas.

APRIL 25, 1922-The U. S. Weather Bureau station will be moved from its present location on Fourth Street, between Seward and Franklin, to the Dr. L. O. Slone residence on Seventh Street, according to M. B. Summers, meteorologist in charge. The Weather Bureau offices will occupy the first floor and Mr. Summers and his family will live on the second floor of the big residence, next door to the Hammond house now owned by Judge James Wickersham.

SEPTEMBER 5, 1925-James ?Bambino Jimmy? McCloskey, pitcher on the Alaska Juneau baseball team in the City League this season, is to report to the Milwaukee Brewers in the American Association when spring training starts at Palm Beach, Florida, next spring. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James McCloskey and has resided here all his life except for some school years in Seattle.

DECEMBER 29, 1927-The first 1928 model General Motors deluxe panel truck for Juneau arrived on the Admiral Watson and was immediately put into service by its owner, Nick Bavard of the California Grocery.

JULY 5, 1928-A halibut boat race and several marine tug-of-war contests were features of the Fourth of July celebration here. In the halibut boat race, the Emma was first, the Explorer was second and the Louhelen was third. Others in the race were the Fern, Margaret T., Hyperion and Magellan. In the pulling races, Magnus Hanson?s schooner Explorer outpulled the tug Driva, Captain Tom Ness? Emma outpulled Knute Hildre?s Louhelen, the tug Judge outpulled the Driva, the Explorer then beat the Judge, Captain John Lowell?s Fern pulled harder than Peter Hildre?s Margaret T. In other events the Elks beat the Moose 16-7 at baseball and the mill tug-of-war team beat the mine team. There were two parades, one of them for children. Robert Hurley, local attorney, was Orator of the Day, speaking from the reviewing stand in front of the Triangle Building.

JULY 31, 1930-Ancel Cyrus Eckmann, pioneer pilot of Alaska Washington Airways and the first pilot to operate in Southeastern Alaska for the company, has been promoted to Chief of Operations, according to A. B. Hayes, district manager. The company operates seaplanes to all points in Southeastern Alaska and connects them with Prince Rupert and Seattle. It also operates planes at Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria and Port Angeles. It now has three planes stationed in Southeastern Alaska.

SEPTEMBER 27, 1922-A causeway 400 feet long has been completed to connect Shrine Island, site of the Shrine of Saint Terese, with the mainland. The work was done by volunteer labor from the local Federal Jail under the supervision of Guard W. Reed Seivers.

OCTOBER 29, 1934-A blaze which originated in the furnace room at 2 p.m. yesterday, a Sunday, reached into the girders and underpinnings of the Empire Building on Main Street. It took more than two hours for the Juneau Fire Department to extinguish the fire. There was damage to the linotype matrices and magazines, composing room equipment and paper stock, and the main wiring to the equipment was burned out. Crews from the Alaska Electric Light & Power Company made a temporary electrical hook-up so the paper could publish today.

AUGUST 26, 1936-The Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic has opened on the second floor of the Goldstein Building. It includes Dr. W. W. Council, Dr. C. C. Carter, Dr. William P. Blanton, and Dr. R. H. Williams, dentist.

JANUARY 22, 1937-The Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club won its first match with the Petersburg Gun Club by a score of 4,921 to 4,731. Juneau marksmen turned in better scores in all three positions?standing, kneeling and prone.

JULY 8, 1941-Police Chief Dan Ralston today resigned the post and will become Territorial Traffic Officer for the Juneau district under the new highway code enacted by the 1941 legislature. Ralston has served as chief for more than four years.

APRIL 8, 1942-In a very light election yesterday, with no opposition candidates, Harry I. Lucas was re-elected mayor for a fifth term. Ralph H. Beistline, N. Floyd Fagerson and Harry Lea were re-elected to the City Council and R. E. Robertson was re-elected to the School Board. Only 652 voters turned out. In Douglas, Erwin Hachmeister was elected mayor and H. L. Cochrane, E. E. Engstrom, W. P. Cuthbert and Alex Gair, Jr., were named to the City Council. Mrs. Thelma Engstrom was re-elected to the School Board. Total vote cast was 94.