Digital Bob Archive

SEPTEMBER 24, 1891-C. W. Young has received a shipment of lumber from the Shakan sawmill on the schooner Onyx. E. A. von Hasslocher, manager of the Chican Lumbering and Trading Company, came up on the schooner.

OCTOBER 1, 1891-The Webster mill, operated by W. I. Webster and sons, has made a short but satisfactory run on ore from the Humboldt lode.

M. J. Rawn has purchased the building formerly used as a court house and is using it as a candy factory.

Messrs. Ash and Low the other afternoon killed 105 ducks at the bar.

OCTOBER 8, 1981-Saturday night there will be a grand reopening of the Opera House under the management of James Winn who brought up a theatrical troop on the City of Topeka for the occasion. They will present a complete program. Admission to all parts of the house is 50?; private box seats are 75?.

Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Behrends have just returned from an extended visit in the East and he has leased the Dixon Building on the west side of Seward Street and will soon embark on a general merchandise business.

William McPhee, one of the builders of the Juneau Opera House, who went to the Yukon in 1888, has returned and is greeting old friends. He reported that about 150 men will spend the winter on Fortymile Creek.

OCTOBER 15, 1891-M. C. Miller contemplates organizing a juvenile band in Juneau and will give instruction free of charge.

There is a new advertisement in this week?s issue of the Juneau City Mining Record. B. M. Behrends has joined the ranks of Juneau merchants.

Miss Lily O. Reichling, the government teacher, has opened a night class in mathematics and

Messrs. Dupras and Howard have leased the Van Gasken building at Second and Franklin Streets and are opening it as an armory, gymnasium and band room.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coon left on the City of Topeka to make their home is California. He has placer mined in Silver Bow Basin every season since the discovery there.

OCTOBER 22, 1891-Messrs. Fisher & Tibbitts, operating the ferry Julia, are building a wharf in front of Decker Brothers store for a ferry landing.