Digital Bob Archive

1 August 1980 issue

JULY 2, 1919-A special Fourth of July feature at the Coliseum Theater will be Olive Tell in the seven-reel production ?To Hell with the Kaiser.? The admission price for the show, ordinarily $1.50, will be only 50 cents. Also showing will be Charles Ray in ?The Claws of the Hun.?

FEBRUARY 9, 1922-Thousands of dollars in damage was done in Juneau and Douglas last night by the Taku wind. The 12 by 50 foot sign on top of the Zynda Hotel was blown down, breaking several windows in the hotel and taking down the 2300-volt power line. The clubhouse of the Juneau Shotgun and Rifle Club, in Last Chance Basin, was blown to pieces. Many windows were broken in both Juneau and Douglas, including two big windows in the Valentine Building, all windows of the Juneau Company, and windows and several display cases in the Brunswick Building. The Winter & Pond Company building lost half of its tarpaper roof and three chimneys. Three smokestacks and the whistle were blown down at the Juneau Lumber Mills. Telephone service was out in several areas of Juneau and some boats were swamped on the waterfront. A number of advertising signs disappeared on the wind. At Douglas, a large leaded glass window in the Congregational Church was smashed, and streets were littered with broken glass on both sides of the channel.

APRIL 19, 1922-The Alaska Steamship Company freighter Juneau, Captain J. Newlands, arrived on the channel yesterday with 75 tons of dynamite for Dupont; 100 barrels of lime for Treadwell; coal, carbide and paint for the Alaska Juneau; 102 tons of oil and gasoline for the Standard Oil Company, and eight tons of general cargo for the city dock.

SEPTEMBER 19, 1930-A new wharf and improved facilities are now in operation at the Standard Oil Company plant on the Thane road. The wharf is 30 by 120 feet and has a least depth at the face of 35 feet at the lowest tide. Work in the new structures began early in July.

AUGUST 22, 1933-The Totem Grocery on Willoughby Avenue, owned and operated for tens years by J. T. White, was purchased today by Wilbur Irving of Cordova. He plans to remodel the store and to open on September 1.

NOVEMBER 6, 1933-The silver Lockheed Vega seaplane of Alaska Air Express arrived here today from Seward, piloted by H. W. Barnhill. Another of the company?s pilots, Chet McLean, accompanied Barnhill, who is a member of the corporation and met here with Mrs. Thyra Merrill who is also a member. It is their plan to operate out of Juneau on a year around basis.

OCTOBER 1, 1934-?The Signing of the Alaska Treaty,? copied in oil from the original painting by E. Leutze, has been received by Governor John Troy, presented to the Territory of Alaska by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. The original painting hangs in the National Museum in Washington, D. C. The copy, which measures 4 by 6 feet, was copied by Lynn Fausett and Helen Wessells as a Public Works Administration project.

OCTOBER 19, 1936-The first flight of a new air service between Anchorage and Seattle is being made by Pilots Don Glass and Gordon MacKenzie who arrived at the Pan American field on the Mendenhall Flats yesterday in a Sikorsky amphibian with eight passengers aboard. They took off this morning for Seattle by the way of Prince Rupert, B. C. The plane is owned by W. J. Erskine & Company of Kodiak and it is planned later to operate it from Nome through to Seattle.

SEPTEMBER 18, 1942-Classes at Juneau High School have completed the election of officers for the coming year. For the seniors, Anna Lois Davis is president; Joe Kendler, vice president; Marie Hanna, secretary-treasurer; Erma Meier, secretary-treasurer; and Miss Edna Harpole, advisor. For the sophomores, it is Janet Carl, president; Douglas Gregg, vice president; Bob Ditman, secretary-treasurer and Miss Evelyn Olson, advisor. The freshmen chose Betty Lou Hared as their president; Anna Neilson, vice president; Mary Wendling, secretary; Lois Standafer, treasurer; and Mrs. Norman Cook as advisor.

APRIL 23, 1943-Andy Bertelson, owner of the Juneau Iron Works since 1915, has sold the business to Frank Yarnot. Mr. Bertelson came to Juneau in April, 1911, and worked four years for Frank Forrest, then owner of the business, before buying it.

JANUARY 14, 1944-William A. Holzheimer, United States attorney for the First Division since 1933, has sent his resignation to Washington and will retire from government service. After a vacation trip, he will enter private law practice in Juneau. A resident of Alaska since 1915, he is a former U. S. District Judge of the Second Division, headquartered in Nome.

MARCH 1, 1944-Flames swept through the main mill building of Juneau Lumber Mills yesterday afternoon, doing an estimated $200,000 damage to the building and equipment. The fire started as workmen were engaged in thawing pipes at the edger on the main floor. The mill had recently been completely overhauled and was to have started operation next week after being shut down since last fall. More than two million feet of logs are on hand.

JANUARY 12, 1945-Big game guide Fred Henton, now a resident of Seward, was startled when he walked into the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel and viewed a scene of which he had been a part some 32 years ago. On the wall is a large painting by Eustace Ziegler showing men wading a supply-laden boat up a stream while a man on horseback leads the way into the mountains. The painting was done from a photograph taken in 1913 of a mining supply outfit going up Tuttle Creek toward Ear Mountains on the Arctic side of the Seward Peninsula. Henton was the man on horseback. He and his partner, Teddy Winfield, were taking a party of English tin mining people in to look at a prospect they had discovered. Henton, at one time a dog musher for the explorer, V. Stefansson, has been operating the VanGilder Hotel at Seward for the past two years.