Digital Bob Archive

SEPTEMBER 8, 1892-The Longfellow Literary Society has elected new officers. Mrs. J. J. Calhoun is president; Mrs. Lou Blackburn, vice president; Mrs. George T. Snow, secretary; Miss Nora Calhoun, treasurer, and Mrs. C. E. Snow, critic. The society meets each Friday evening at the Log Cabin Church. The topic for debate tomorrow night: ?Resolved that labor unions are detrimental to the laboring man? and the topic for next week is ?High license is preferable to prohibition.?

SEPTEMBER 15, 1892-M. Wadleigh, president, and John W. Tuthill, vice president of the Juneau Mining and Manufacturing Company have been inspecting the company?s mining property here. Their homes are in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

SEPTEMBER 22, 1892-The Aurora lode claim in Silver Bow Basin, owned by William Bennett, has been bonded to J. P. Corbus and Robert Duncan, Jr., manager and superintend of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company, for $50,000. The Aurora joins the Fuller First lode, owned by Archie Campbell. The Aurora was staked on April 9, 1881, by Mike Gibbons who subsequently sold interests in it to John McKinnon and Bennett. The latter is now the sole owner, having bought out his partners.

OCTOBER 20, 1892-The first fall of snow on the lower levels took place on Saturday. Mining will soon cease in the Basin because of the snow.

B. M. Behrends has purchased Dr. Wyman?s commodious house at the corner of Third and Seward Streets and will soon move his mercantile business across Seward Street to the new location. Dr. Wyman and his family will leave Juneau on the next steamer to make their home in Olympia, Washington. Dr. Wyman has been a resident of Juneau and Treadwell for the past seven years and was the first physician for the Treadwell mine. He came to Alaska as doctor for the Navy establishment at Sitka and married Miss Henrietta Cohen of that city. In Juneau, he developed the Dora mine above the first falls on Gold Creeks and has been active in the affairs of the community.

NOVEMBER 10, 1892-Miss Leonora Calhoun became the bride of Edward Webster in a ceremony at the Log Cabin Church on Saturday evening.

George Landerking was busy last Tuesday taking pictures of the school children and those at the Presbyterian Mission.