Digital Bob Archive

12 December 1980 issue

FEBRUARY 21, 1905-The largest steam-heated laundry mangle ever shipped to Alaska is now enroute to Juneau where it will be installed at the Alaska Steam Laundry on Front Street. The machine was built by the A. T. Hagen Laundry machinery Company at Rochester, New York. The linen is run through the machine once and comes out ironed and dried.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1922-The new U. S. Bureau of Fisheries patrol vessel Widgeon arrived here this morning from Seattle in command of Captain Earle Hunter. The twin screw vessel is 86 feet long and has a speed of 12 knots.

SEPTEMBER 11, 1923-The large tent in which the Southeast Alaska Fair will be held reached Juneau this morning on the steamer Alameda. This is the first tent of its size ever brought to Alaska and is what is known as a three ring circus tent. It measures 80 by 160 feet and will be erected on the Juneau playgrounds on Willoughby Avenue with the main entrance to the tent on Ninth Street.

NOVEMBER 15, 1923-With 11 delegates in attendance, the Southeast Alaska Convention on Territorial Division was opened this morning by Mayor I. Goldstein. Ralph E. Robertson of Juneau was elected permanent chairman and B. A. Rosselle of Juneau was named permanent secretary after J. G. Barber of Ketchikan declined the office. Present were Barber and George W. Woodruff of Ketchikan, Henry Roden representing Petersburg, Howard Ashley from Skagway, J. S. Davis representing Haines, F. A. J. Gallwas from Douglas, R. W. De Armond from Sitka; Robertson, Rosselle, Robert Simpson and John W. Troy, representing Juneau, and George H. Barnes representing Wrangell. Present plans are to draft a memorial asking Congress to make the First Division of Alaska a separate territory and to prepare an Organic Act for the new territory, to be introduced in Congress. A delegate may be elected to carry the two documents to Washington and to lobby for their adoption. It is understood that a letter is on the way from Cordova asking that that section be allowed to join Southeastern Alaska in the movement.

SEPTEMBER 2, 1943-By a margin of one vote, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today adopted a report of its legislative committee incorporating the opinion ?that the time has not yet arrived for Alaska to be admitted to the Union as a state, and that all efforts to pass the pending bill should be suspended at least until the present war is ended and until we can see more clearly the conditions which are likely to confront us.?

JULY 1, 1944-Miss Betty Nordling will reign over festivities in Juneau on the Fourth of July as Miss Liberty. Those elected as the Four Freedoms are Betty Mill, Lois Allen, Ruth Kunnas and Mary McCormick.

SEPTEMBER 6, 1944-Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne has assumed her duties as postmaster for Juneau. The Presidential appointment, without term under Civil Service, was made on June 22. Mrs. Jenne, member of the Territorial House for two terms, was nominated for the Senate this year but tended her resignation upon her appointment as postmaster. She succeeds Mrs. Lillian Mill who has been acting postmaster since January 1, 1943.

OCTOBER 30, 1944-One of Juneau?s oldest buildings, the Franklin Hotel at Front and Main Streets, has been purchased by Tom McCaul from the Olds estate. It was built in 1897 and the hotel was opened the following year. The building has been vacant for the past 10 years and will be razed. The lot will then be leased to the Cowling-Davlin Company which will erect a modern service station and storage garage extension.

MAY 12, 1947-Sale of the California Grocery and Market, the second oldest grocery store in Juneau, has been announced by Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Bavard. Only the grocery department of the B. M. Behrends Company is older. The California, then a grocery store only, was opened in 1917 by Steve Lazos, an uncle of Nick Bavard. Shortly afterward Nick and his brother Mike took over the business. Mike died in 1933 and Nick and his wife, the former Mary Connor, have operated the business since. The new owners are Les Fragner and Ray Mansfield. The store is located on Front Street at Ferry Way.

APRIL 2, 1948-The Juneau League of Women Voters held its third revival meeting last evening in the Council Chambers and elected the following officers: Mrs. Ernest Gruening, president; Mrs. Roy Avrit, vice president; Mrs. Wilfred Goding, secretary; Mrs. Edgar Carlson, treasurer; Mrs. Ruth Metcalf, Mrs. Wilfred Johnson, Miss Lois Jund, Mrs. Helen Roberts, Mrs. Carol Rivers, Mrs. Katherine Nordale, Mrs. Mary Sundborg and Mrs. Harriett Wood, trustees.

MAY 3, 1951-Purchase of the Warfield Drug Store on South Franklin Street by John H. Graf has been announced by C. E. Warfield. Graf worked in the store in 1940 and 1941 when it was the Guy Smith Drug Store.