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In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. September 2, 1915: According to information given out by F.E. Smith the first day of the week, the Wrangell Shingle Mill will be advertised for sale and sold at public auction in the near future. The mill belongs to the Gano Estate, of which Mr. Smith is administrator. Mr. Gano, who built the mill, died here in 1910 and left a wife and three children who live in Tacoma. Mrs. Gano later married again. September 6, 1940: There’s something about the Bishop Rowe Hospital, or rather the nurses, or a...
Maxi Wiederspohn Occupation: Retired Why do you want to sit on the WMC Board? "I worked there 50 years and I thought maybe if there's another way to help, I plan to start going to their meetings after the election. Maybe I can continue to help in a different way." What would you identify as the hospital's most pressing need, and what role do you feel the board should take in addressing that? "As always, money and patient care are number one on top of the lists, whether as a worker or a board...
Alivia Ann Powell was born to Dominique O'Connor and Jon Powell on June 24 at 1:03 p.m. at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. She weighed 8 lbs and 15 oz and was 21 3/4 inches long....
Marian Kowalske, has received the Alaska Performance Scholarship after schooling at home through the Galena IDEA program. She will be attending University of Alaska Southeast....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 26, 1915: The editor is in receipt of a copy of the book “Alaska Days with John Muir” written by S. Hall Young, who is well known to many of the old timers here, having been in charge of the Alaska Mission at this place for several years. The story is the experiences of Dr. Young while traveling with John Muir and will be of special interest to Wrangellites on account of his descriptions of local people and his trip up the Stikine River if for nothing else, although his accounts of the not...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 19, 1915: What is believed by J.E. Chilberg, prominent banker of Seattle, to be the biggest zone of lead, silver, zinc and copper ore ever found has been discovered on the Stikine River, forty miles below Telegraph Creek, British Columbia. Mr. Chilberg, who has just returned from the find, says the contract is exposed for miles and may reach from British Columbia to Lynn Canal, Alaska. “If this thing is as big as it looks and as rich as the assays indicate,” said Chilberg, “there never has be...
With the start of school today, Wrangell Cooperative Association ensured more than a few local students came prepared. Last week the Tribe distributed 110 backpacks as part of its annual back to school program. Eighty-five of these came from the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, which provides the backpacks to families across the region annually. The brand-name bags are outfitted with notebooks and materials suitable for different ages and include stationary, a new water bottle, a ruler and a waterproof bag....
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 12, 1915: According to advices given out, plans are being made for a new jail building for Wrangell. While only the estimate is yet made, it is believed that it will be carried through and the new jail building will be built on the site now occupied by the old courthouse. The facts of the affair have not yet been released but it is felt that the building will be two stories and will possibly contain a room for the commissioner's office. We have long felt the need of some new government...
You never know what you might see when watching the skies. Local artist Charity Hommel was outside last Wednesday with her husband, Joe, when he spotted a strange flash of light moving in the sky. "To us it looked like a meteor," Hommel recounted. The idea seemed plausible enough, as the annual Perseid meteor shower was most visible from Aug. 11-13. The couple was at their home on Howell Avenue at the time, on the backside of Mount Dewey, looking northward. "It was pulsing," she recalled,...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. August 5, 1915: Mr. Tim Harrington of Juneau came down on the Jefferson Wednesday. Mr. Harrington is an old time miner and mine operator, formerly of Montana, and was a close friend and advisor of the late Marcus Daily. Mr. Harrington left today accompanied by Frederick Bronson for the Iskoot River, a tributary of the Stikine, to look over some mining properties owned by Mr. Bronson, Peter McCormack and others of this place. The property in question is about 25 miles up the Iskoot River and is repor...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. July 29, 1915: The baseball fans of Wrangell were treated to another of those fun-provoking ball games last Sunday afternoon when Leo McCormack’s “Counter Jumpers” went down to defeat before Cash Coulter’s “Has Beens” to the tune of sixteen to one. Although the score was very one sided the game was good and Leo says the only reason his team lost is because Harry Gartley went fishing instead of coming and playing ball. The boys are figuring on another game next Sunday. After the Counter Jumpers and...
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago. July 22, 1915: Geo B. Hull, engineer of the Federal Government of British Columbia, with headquarters at Prince Rupert, will make a trip up the Stikine River about August 2nd. The object of Mr. Hull’s visit is to look into conditions and determine what is necessary to be done to improve the stream that navigation may be less hazardous. The Canadian government is taking great interest just now in the large amount of development work now being prosecuted in the Stikine River country, and are p...
