Digital Bob Archive

23 May 1980 issue

AUGUST 1, 1909-The Juneau baseball team is the champion of Gastineau Channel. Immediately after the Fourth of July, the Douglas team challenged Juneau to a five game series, each team to put up $250 cash and winner take all. There has been some very heavy betting on the outcome. Juneau took the first two games, 9-2 and 8-5. Douglas beat Juneau 8-6 in the third game, but today Juneau ran up a 13-2 score to take the series.

JANUARY 3, 1913-In order to make room for a larger barroom at the Occidental Hotel, the Alaska Steamship Company is moving its offices from the hotel building to the Malony Building on Seward Street.

JANUARY 10, 1917-N. P. Madsen, owner and skipper of the passenger boat A. E. Hegg, plying between Juneau, Kake and wayports, will on her next trip leave Juneau on January 16, call at Warm Springs Bay and will remain there for two weeks.

MAY 9, 1919-The Boyles Anchor Works, headed by C. H. Boyles, now has a plant in operation on the Alaska Steamship dock, just south of the Pacific Steamship Company dock. The plant employs 14 men and is turning out 25,000 pounds of anchors, weighing from 1,000 to 8,000 pounds each every day. The anchors are of steel and concrete and are to hold floating salmon traps. The plant also produces every day about 8,000 pounds of concrete trap weights, used on the leads of floating traps. These weigh from 100 to 300 pounds each.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1920-Elmer E. Smith, proprietor of the Front Street Drug Store in Douglas for about 20 years, is closing out his Douglas business and moving to Juneau where he owns the Juneau Music House and has purchased Dyers luncheonette.

MARCH 21, 1922-The Juneau High School basketball team arrived home yesterday aboard the steamer Queen after being transferred from the gasboat Judge at Taku Harbor where the Judge had been stormbound for three days. The team made the trip on the Judge to play Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Wrangell and Petersburg and were accompanied by Coach Howard G. Hughes, H. Sperling and James McNaughton. Members of the team making the trip are Barragar, Janiksela, Britt, Case, White, Ellingen and Holmquist.

APRIL 21, 1922-Four navigation lights to guide small boats will be placed across Mendenhall Bar sometime after July 1, according to W. C. Dibrell, Lighthouse Service superintendent at Ketchikan.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1925-The Southeastern Alaska Fair, occupying all three floors of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall on Third Street, opened its door at 2 o?clock this afternoon. It will run this afternoon and evening and the same hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The program includes band concerts, vaudeville shows and a fireworks display and there are many booths and exhibits.

JULY 25, 1928-Preparations are now being made for the construction of a three story concrete building on the triangle corner at Front and Franklin. N. G. Nelson, Ketchikan businessman, is owner of the property. The new building will stand next door to the Hellenthal Building and will have 52 feet of frontage on Front Street. The lot has been occupied by several old wooden structures.

AUGUST 29, 1928-The Juneau plant of the Union Oil Company of California is now open for business on the Thane Road. Five large storage tanks have been stocked by the company?s tanker Elinda. J. E. Boyle, marine division agent for the company, is here for the opening. William McAllister was engineer in charge of construction. E. M. Basse will be the local agent with Peter Martin as the dock man.

JULY 15, 1930-The New Florence Shop, the beauty parlor operated by Mrs. Florence Holmquist, has moved to a location on the Franklin Street side of the Triangle Building. Mrs. Holmquist has operated the shop for several years.

MAY 11, 1933-The U. S. Signal Corps is calling for bids for the construction of a two-story tuning station on the beach side of the Glacier Highway just north of the Switzer property. The building will house Signal Corps receivers and signals will be brought from there to the office in the Federal and Territorial Building on the 11-pair cable. (Note: The building was later taken over by the U. S. Forest Service and has most recently been headquarters for the local chapter of the Civil Air Patrol.)

SEPTEMBER 4, 1934-Work has been started on the new Douglas Highway by the Seims-Spokane Company, contractors. Equipment for the job, including two large tractors and a 30-ton gasoline shovel, was unloaded from a barge at Cowee Creek this morning. Work on the highway, to connect the site for the bridge across the channel with Douglas, will start at the Cowee Creek end.

OCTOBER 10, 1935-The Northern Air Transport, tri-motor Ford plane flown by Noel Wien and Vic Ross of Fairbanks, arrived at the Juneau field at 4 p.m. yesterday, enroute to Fairbanks with six passengers. Although Wien has been flying in Alaska since 1924, this was his first visit to the Juneau field.

MARCH 26, 1937-Dr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson and Miss Minnie Goldstein, owners of the Nugget Shop, have purchased the Malony property at the corner of Second and Seward Streets and plan to erect a modern building on it. The lot was formerly occupied by the Malony Building, owned by the late John F. Malony, Juneau attorney. The building was destroyed by fire on April 22, 1930.

JULY 10, 1941-Radio Station KINY has been authorized to increase its power output to 5,000 watts, which will make it the most powerful broadcast station in Alaska. Power output has been 1,000 watts.

JULY 7, 1942-Linn Forest, Jr., 14, cadet aircraftsman who has just finished his first year at the Juneau High School, has a model plane in an exhibit in Washington D. C. It is a model of a Grumman F4F-4 U. S. Navy fighter and was built as part of a program at the high school last year.