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In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. February 24, 1916: The first of the season’s operators to go up the river is A. Godfrey of Vancouver, who is working three claims at the headwaters of McDames Creek in the Cassiar. Mr. Godfrey last year purchased the Rossela hydraulic plant and his winter men are moving it to his claims. Four men are going in with Mr. Godfrey and will work for him this season who with the men there now will make a crew of nine men. The men have a long trip ahead of them which means some three hundred miles of m...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. February 24, 1916: The survey of Dry Straits is the real beginning of the new route across the Dry flats for which the local Chamber of Commerce has worked for the past two years. Dry straits lies between Mitkof Island and the tide flats adjoining the mouth of the Stikine River, running from Kadin Island (High Island), at a point four miles from Wrangell, into Frederick Sound at the northern end of Dry Island, a total distance of nine miles. The Dry Strait channel will not only help Wrangell but is...
A pair of new businesses opened up on Front Street last week. Above, brothers Shannon Bosdell and Caleb Bosdell stand outside of Notsofamous Pizza where they create take-and-bake pies from scratch Wednesdays through Sundays. Below, formerly of Sitka, couple Rick and Terri Anderson opened up The Whipping Post on Thursday, a second-hand shop with a variety of clothing, books and home goods on offer....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. February 16, 1916: That Dry Straits will be surveyed this summer is practically assured from a telegram received by the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce last Saturday from Cavanaugh Engineers of the War Department in Seattle. The cable reads: Can stern wheel river steamer be chartered by thirty days next summer for Survey of Dry Straits, if so wire collect, probable cost including fuel and crew, also what accommodations for housing and feeding survey party on available vessel. The matter was taken up...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. February 9, 1916: A fire completely destroyed the home of Councilman Chas. Bryant at 2 a.m. this morning. The fire caught from a defective stove pipe is the belief of Mr. Bryant. The house was situated near the head of the bay. Mr. Bryant was up town late last night and upon returning home he started a fire and after getting a bite to eat he went to bed and woke a half an hour later to see that the ceiling was ablaze. He gave the alarm and getting help succeeded in getting all his personal effects...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. February 2, 1916: The Wrangell Fire Department met in regular session at the city hall last Monday evening. A good bunch of the boys were present, and the most interesting feature was the reading of a letter received from Wm. Schnable describing the fire department and conference to which he was a visitor. As February 22nd is the date for the annual fireman’s ball a committee was appointed to take charge of the matter. The committee is Fire Chief Carlson, Ole Johnson and Leo McCormack. January 31, 1...
A vehicle lost control near Shoemaker Bay Monday morning and took out about 260 feet of chain-link fencing around a playground. In a pickup truck on Zimovia Highway northward toward town, a driver reportedly lost control after hitting a patch of ice and slid off the road. "Basically it was black ice," explained Chief Doug McCloskey of the Wrangell Police Department. A witness reported the accident at around 9 a.m. and the driver remained at the scene until police responded. He was cooperative,...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 26, 1916: The Alaska Native Brotherhood gave a big dance at the Rink last Monday evening, which was well attended. The dance was given for the benefit of their band and they raised a good sum to help things along. The Photoshow closed its doors and Manager Richmond donated the use of the Wrangell Orchestra to help things along. The music for the dance was furnished by the band and the orchestra alternating. The boys are trying very hard to get a good band going and they certainly deserve...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 20, 1916: Owing to the fact that matters seem to progressing rather slowly in regard to the Dry Strait survey, Mr. F. Matheson, who has the matter in charge, recently wrote to Delegate Wickersham regarding the affair and received an answer which states, “On December 8th I wrote to the Secretary of War asking about the report of the Engineer on the matter of Dry Strait improvement and on the 14th he wrote me saying that he had not yet received it from the District Engineer’s Office.” An en...
Principals Honor Roll: Jade Balansag, Liana Carney, Laura Helgeson, Jing O’Brien, Sophie O’Brien. Honor Roll: Samantha Acuna, Jimmy Baggen, Jamie Early, Tyson Messmer, Kaydin Mill, Mercedes Morgan, Ryan Rooney, Jacob Dow, Aaliyah Messmer, Bruce Smith, Madison Blackburn, Hannah Brown, John Buness, Kaylyn Easterly, Tasha Massin, Trevor Miller, Hunter Wiederspohn. Honorable Mention: Emma Martinsen, Daniel McIntyre, Elizabeth McIntyre, Kendra Meissner, Rowen Wiederspohn, Logan Ritchie, Karri Buness, Coby Holder, Adriana Larrabee, Skyler Lof...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 13, 1916: Alaska seems to be in the grip of one of the fiercest blizzards that has ever swept the coast. All last night and today the Stikine has howled her defiance and since daybreak the thermometer has steadily fallen. The government register at the Customs House at seven this morning was three degrees, at twelve noon it was five below and at six tonight it read ten below. Several other thermometers at different places in the city register differently but the majority are close to that...
Victoria Ingram has been placed on the Dean’s list for the fall term at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Ore....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. January 6, 1916: Ase Hollenbeck and Roy Murphy arrived from the logging camp of Jimmie Green’s last Tuesday. The logging camp is situated at the head of Burnett Inlet and to get out, the men were forced to cut a channel for the gasboat through ice three inches thick, it taking them two days to get out of the inlet. They report good progress at the camp as they have a hundred thousand feet of logs in the water and two hundred thousand fell in the woods ready to be taken to the water. They will l...
In the Sentinel 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 27, 1940: About 35 shooters and a few spectators turned out Sunday for the first annual turkey shoot of the Stikine Sportsmen’s Association of Wrangell, keen rivalry making it a highly successful affair. Seven turkeys were knocked off by the sharp-eyed crackshots, the birds going to Lloyd Benjamin, Chet Steear, Chad Wyatt, Howard Messinger, Cliff Kilkenny, Lloyd Ripley and Elvin Lindsley. Some very good scores were shot. The leather medal for missing the target entirely went to President Fred H...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. December 23, 1915: The Wrangell Public School held their Christmas exercises this afternoon, a Christmas tree in the primary room, a tree and program in the intermediate room and a party in the higher grades. Mr. Donald Sinclair presented the school with a crate of oranges and a box of apples, which were very gratefully received by all. The children are now out on Christmas vacation until Jan. 3. December 20, 1940: “To my people, our brothers and neighbors, may the spirit of Christmas fill you w...
