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Nov. 29, 1923 The U.S. Bureau of Education boat Boxer, Capt. S. T. L. Whittman commanding, with W.T. Lopp, had in its cargo 92 reindeer carcasses from St. Lawrence Island, near the Siberian coast. When Mr. Lopp expressed his willingness to distribute a few of the dressed reindeer among the dealers of Southeastern Alaska, Harry Coulter, manager of City Meat Market, purchased a nice fat reindeer weighing 180 pounds, which was quickly disposed of to the local trade. All who sampled the reindeer meat were more than pleased. The Wrangell Hotel...
Sabrina Yoder, her daughter Addy and even their dog Isa dressed up for the annual Turkey Trot at the Nature Trail behind Evergreen Elementary School on Thanksgiving Day. Costumes were encouraged, but not required, though many runners and walkers came in fun attire for the 13th annual event....
Nov. 22, 1923 Today at noon at the Wrangel Hotel the accommodations were taxed to capacity by an unusually large group that attended the regular weekday luncheon. Commissioner L.D. Henderson told of the progress of the educational movement and the great need in Wrangell for a better school building. The value of an education and the imperative need for catering to the future through the training of youth were urged in a convincing way. Nov. 19, 1948 O.F. Ohlson, receiver for Alaska Asiatic Lumber Mills Inc., reported that no bids were received...
Dwight Yancey works from the line crew bucket to hang holiday decorations on Front Street light poles on Friday, Nov. 17. David McHolland was helping out at street level in the annual preparations that add a festive look to downtown....
Nov. 15, 1923 Word was received from John Hooper, president of the Tourists’ Society, that in addition to giving a number of newspaper interviews regarding his trip north, he will set different topics for each address, dwelling principally upon Wrangell and Juneau as the great centers from which tourists can head out for scenic, hunting, fishing or other trips. He will also put up a strong argument for the paper and pulp industry possibilities in the Juneau and Wrangell districts. Nov. 19, 1948 Lt. Col. J.D. Alexander arrived in Wrangell l...
Recently retired dentist Dr. Charles Haubrich, known around town as "Dr. H.," explains a wooden spinning top to Kyle Lewis and his kid at the community market Saturday, Nov. 4, at the Nolan Center. The top was among a table full of Haubrich's woodwork. It was his first time at the community market, which generally is held monthly....
Nov. 8, 1923 The returns of Tuesday’s special election show that the people of Wrangell are overwhelmingly in favor of a division of the territory. The vote of the Wrangell precinct stood 199 for and 7 against territorial division. There were 35 more votes polled at the special election last Tuesday than at the last municipal election. The special election was for the purpose of obtaining an expression from the people before submitting the matter to Congress for consideration. Nov. 12, 1948 Col. O. F. Ohlson, receiver for Alaska Asiatic L...
Nov. 1, 1923 W. J. Bradley and family arrived from Twin Falls, Idaho, on the Northwestern Monday night. Mr. Bradley has come north to engage in the ranching business on Farm Island. He brought with him a good supply of farming implements, six head of cattle and four horses. A new settlement is springing up on Farm Island. W. S. Binkley and family and Chester Lloyd and family are already located there. This week the population of the island will be increased by the addition of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Bradley and eight children. Other families who...
Even Halloween tricksters need a treat. Ellie Gillen was among the many children who enjoyed the treats and activities at the chamber of commerce Pumpkin Patch event at the downtown pavilion on Saturday, Oct. 28....
Myrna Torgramsen dresses for the occasion at the long-term care center on Friday, Oct. 27. Wrangell Medical Center staff carved, painted and decorated a wide array of spooky and silly pumpkins for residents to judge. Torgramsen's favorite entry - and the first-prize winner - was "Betty Bacon," a pumpkin dressed up as a pig and surrounded by small pumpkin piglets....
Oct. 25, 1923 Volume 1, Number 1, Buy 1, of the School News of the Wrangell Public School is off the mimeograph. The publication is brim full of interesting reading pertaining to school life in general and the Wrangell school in particular. The School News, like every other publication that has appeared on the journalistic horizon during the past 300 years, “fills a long-felt want.” For the past quarter-century or more, there has been a class in English in the Wrangell school each year, with students eager for an opportunity to make use of the...
(From left) Wilder Harding and Zeplyn Stutz participate in an Alaska Day cake walk at Muskeg Meadows on Saturday, Oct. 21. The event, which was sponsored by the high school class of 2025, featured snacks and carnival games, and coincided with a 1-mile dash, 5K, 10K and half-marathon sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department. Alaska Day commemorates the formal transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States in 1867....
Retired troller John Church has found a new use for the "miles of troll line" left over from his fishing days. He makes "Kostick Stars," named for the artist who created the geometric wire pieces almost 50 years ago. Church started building small geodesic domes - "that was my COVID hobby" - and then "branched out" to making the stainless-steel wire stars. "I just make them and give them away." He was one of several people who turned out for the weekly crafts night at the Irene Ingle Public...
Oct. 18, 1923 The PTA held a well attended meeting at the school house last Thursday evening. A geological cabinet has been purchased for the school by the PTA at the suggestion of the Rev. Corser, and a collection of specimens will be started at once. This collection will be of value to the school as well as of great interest to the boys, especially. The committee appointed at the September meeting to look up a cabinet reported that one could be secured and altered slightly for a small sum, and its purchase was authorized unanimously. Oct. 15,...
The last cruise ship of the season, the 650-foot Seabourn Odyssey, as seen from the Nolan Center, tied up at the City Dock on Sunday, Oct. 8. Wrangell was on the itinerary for more than 130 cruise visits this summer, ranging from 40-passenger Alaska tour boats to several ships with capacity to carry hundreds of guests each, such as the Odyssey with room for 450 passengers. If all of the ships had been full, the traffic would have totaled more than 28,000 visitors, about one-third more than the...
Oct. 11, 1923 Wrangell’s John Hanson has received letters of patent on two inventions that will greatly facilitate the business of trolling. One of Mr. Hanson’s inventions is a gaff hook, and the other a trolling swivel. The swivel relates to an apparatus used by fishermen on a line for catching fish of any kind. The invention includes the provision of a spring within the body of the swivel, thereby permitting a certain degree of resilience when a fish strikes so that the line may give and so that danger of losing the fish will be greatly red...
Benny Johnson displays a frozen 29-pound tuna, one of many that he sold off the fishing vessel Castaway while at the Reliance Float on Oct. 3. He and his fishing partner, Joshua Moore, have been bringing their catch to Southeast Alaska since 2014. They try to make it up to Wrangell to sell their catch every year, but the number of communities they stop in depends on how long supplies last, Johnson said. This year's sales trip brought them to Ketchikan and Coffman Cove before Wrangell, with...
Oct. 4, 1923 For the past 20 years, big game hunters have been going into British Columbia’s Cassiar and coming out with wonderful trophies as evidence of their prowess as hunters. However, it remained for D. W. Bell of West Port, Pa., to get the world’s largest caribou ever known. It was of the Osborne species and was a most remarkable specimen. Its measurements were spread, 55½ inches, and length, 65½ inches. Sen. T. Douglas Robinson shot a grizzly bear 10 feet 2 inches long, weighing over 800 pounds, while his son, Mohawk, shot a carib...
Sept. 27, 1923 Little Beatrice Palmer added several dollars to the Red Cross fund Monday when the Alaska was in port. Mrs. Stephen Grant, the community nurse, and Mrs. Shurick hastily set up a Red Cross booth outside the Wrangell Hotel when the boat appeared and arranged a display of beautiful flowers and Red Cross posters, with the eye to the travelers who would soon appear upon the streets of Wrangell. Just as all was ready, Beatrice, on her way from school, was seized by the enterprising ladies and arrayed with some of the Red Cross...
James Stough selects from frozen containers of jam at the Wrangell Cooperative Association cultural center on Sept. 20. The jams, along with packages of spruce tips, dried goose tongue seasoning and Labrador tea, were donated and prepared by Vivian Faith Prescott for tribal members and elders....
Sept. 13, 1923 Wrangell’s first clown and the first clown for the majority of youngsters here paraded down Front Street Saturday afternoon, leading his “Company” of the youngsters of town who took part in the pet parade. The parade was part of the Chautauqua program and the participants were in costume and carried pets of all kinds. The parade was led by Barney Google (Gertrude Goodrich) and “Spark Plug,” followed by a baby elephant. These mirth-provoking features were the clever work of Mrs. H. W. Gartley and Miss Dorothy Chisholm. Both “Spark...
Sept. 13, 1923 The pictorial section of a recent issue of The New York Times contains some excellent views taken at the time of President Harding’s visit to Wrangell. One exceptionally fine picture is that of Mrs. Harding, Junior Barnes and an Eskimo dog breed. There is also a good picture of Gertrude Goodrich shaking hands with the president. A picture of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover taken while speaking shows the president, Gov. Bone, George H. Harnes and Dr. Diven standing a couple of feet back of the speaker. There is also an e...
Mariah Carney proudly displays a vegetable she picked at the annual harvest of the Evergreen Elementary School garden on Friday, Sept. 8. After planting and tending the garden, students gather the vegetables of their labor and serve them to families at an open house....
Sept. 6, 1923 J. Frank Callbreath, one of the best known businessmen of the Cassiar, arrived Thursday last week. “We are having a good season in the Cassiar,” said Mr. Callbreath, interviewed at the Wrangell Hotel. “The road from Telegraph Creek to Dease Lake which is now being completed means, perhaps, much more to the Cassiar district than it is at present realized.” Mr. Callbreath was asked if there had been any further exploration of the Whiting River since Joe Coburn’s visit last year. He replied: “No, there has not; but the Whiting has...
Aug. 30, 1923 Arrangements for the library benefit program and dance, which will be given by the Civic Club next Monday evening at the Redmen Hall, have been completed. Music by a newly organized orchestra under the leadership of O. A. Bronson has been secured for the dance. The seats will be arranged around the hall for the program, so that dancing can begin immediately at its close. Admission to the program and dance is 50 cents for adults, and 25 cents for children 14 years and under. Super is 25 cents extra. Aug. 27, 1948 City Clerk Robert...