Digital Bob Archive

5 September 1980 issue

JULY 5, 1918-Miss Helmi Aalto has returned home to Douglas after teaching a term of school in Afognak. She has been hired to teach at Douglas for the coming term.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1918-A. J. Sprague, secretary and manager of the Juneau Fish and Game Club, with the assistance of several members, has planted 20,000 Colorado brook trout fry in Lawson and Cowee Creeks on Douglas Island. Many of the fry were planted where Lawson Creek joins the Treadwell Ditch and it is expected the ditch will soon be stocked for its entire length. Additional trout will be planted in Nevada Creek next week. Its is reported that trout fry planted at the Salmon Creek dam a year ago are now six to eight inches long.

NOVEMBER 4, 1919-The John L. Carlson cannery at Auke Bay has closed for the season after putting up about 9,000 cases of kippered herring. Earlier in the season the cannery had canned salmon but got only about half the expected pack.

JANUARY 1, 1923-During the year of 1922 the Alaska Juneau gold mine trammed 2,316,900 tons of ore and had total production of $1,344,354.92 in gold, silver and lead, General Manager P. R. Bradley reported today. This was an increase of 600,000 in tonnage and $355, 577 in value over 1921. The company now employs 370 men in its operation.

JANUARY 22, 1923-A strong basketball team from the Metlakatla Athletic Club made a clean sweep of a Gastineau Channel series, winning five games in six days. Playing on the Metlakatla team were H. Atkinson, A. Dundas, H. Benson, R. Atkinson, R. Booth and T. Benson. The first game was against the Douglas Fire Department, represented by Garn, Gallwas, Brown, Manley and Manning. The score was 22-21. The Juneau City team, with players Sperling, Wittanen, Hughes, Joe George, Parmakoff, Sabin and Burford, was defeated 32-20. The Metlakatlans then defeated the Juneau Alaska Native Brotherhood team by a score of 21-11 and the Douglas High School team by 26-22. Playing for Douglas were Garn, Kronquist, Manning, Valson, Graves and Vesja. In the final game, the Juneau High School team, represented by Barragar, Scataglini, Britt, Orme, White and Janiksela, was defeated 32-21.

NOVEMBER 6, 1925-Marking the completion of the Glacier Highway to Eagle River, the Eagle River section of that route was accepted this week by the Bureau of Public Roads from the contracting firm of Seims & Spokane. The new section is 8.26 miles long and cost approximately $175,000. Work on it was started July 3, 1923, but the job was closed down during the winter months.

DECEMBER 28, 1925-The Northern Light Presbyterian Church at Fourth and Franklin Streets was virtually destroyed by fire yesterday morning and is believed beyond repair. The Sunday morning alarm was turned in about 11 o?clock when fire was seen pouring from the windows. An overheated furnace is believed to have been the cause. Services were to have been held in the church at 11:30. The church was built just before the turn of the century to replace the old Log Cabin Church.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1927-The Alaska Mendenhall Fur Farm, owned by Bruce Brown and Jackson Marsh, is shipping 323 live mink south on the steamer Yukon this week. The animals are valued at $14,580. Most of them will go to the U. S. Silver Fox Farm near Minneapolis, with others going to fur farms in Washington, Nevada, Wyoming and Ohio. Brown and Marsh started their farm on the Glacier Highway three years ago with 36 mink and thus far have shipped 623 animals and have 350 left on the ranch.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1936-Alaska Air Transport has purchased the white Lockheed Vega seaplane which has been operated by Irving Airways, it was announced today by Sheldon Simmons, manager of AAT. The purchase also includes all equipment and business of Irving Airways, including several mail contracts. The purchase gives AAT three planes, including a 4-place Stinson and a 6-place Bellanca Skyrocket.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1936-Excavation for the new Juneau Dairies building, to be put up by the Warrack Construction Company at Twelfth Street and Glacier Avenue was started this morning. N. Lester Troast and Associates are the Architects for the $30,000 building which will measure 45 by 95 feet. Juneau Dairies was formed three months ago by four local dairies-Juneau Dairy, owned by L. Smith; Alaska Dairy, owned by Joe Kendler; Mendenhall Dairy, owned by George Danner and Glacier Dairy, owned by Frank Maier.

APRIL 13, 1945-The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman has been elected president of the Juneau Rotary Club for the coming year. Edward Keithahn is vice president, John Young is secretary-treasurer, Homer Garvin is assistant secretary and Henry Harmon is sergeant-at-arms.

JULY 23, 1946-Tomorrow will see the opening of A. S. Glover?s locker plant and self-service meat market in connection with the Spruce Delicatessen on Glacier Avenue. The plant will be the only one of its kind in Alaska.

JANUARY 14, 1947-Several portraits of Alaska Natives by local artist F. Seymour Faurot are attracting attention in the window of Shattuck Insurance Agency on Seward Street. One shows a group of Southeast Alaska women and others are of Eskimo men at Barrow. A show of a dozen paintings of Natives from various parts of Alaska is planned for later this spring and Faurot will show several marine oils at the Arts & Crafts Exhibit in the Scottish Rite Temple later this month. He has been a resident of Juneau since October.