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November 28, 1918 In a letter from Reverend Corser, “I have happened to run into some important inside history of the war which has never been published. It is a special reason for thanksgiving, and I will speak about it at that service. My great regret is that I could not have been in Wrangell to have helped in the celebration. It began here at five o’clock in the morning. I was awakened by the blowing of whistles. I knew that they proclaimed victory because we were all looking for it. Conningsby Dawson was here and spoke in the evening. Hea...
Evergreen Elementary School hosted a "Friendsgiving" lunch last Tuesday afternoon. Students and their friends and family were able to enjoy a meal together and share what they were thankful for....
Wrangell's Lady Wolves rode in style the morning of Nov. 27. The Wrangell Fire Department gave them a ride through town to the airport, where they left for Anchorage for the state tournament this week. This is the second year in a row that the Lady Wolves have made it to state....
November 21, 1918 The pool rooms are closed here at present except to customers who make their purchases and leave immediately. The picture show has already been closed for the past two weeks, Manager Cunningham being unable to secure films for Wrangell while the flu ban is on in neighboring towns. Now that Wrangell has a full-grown epidemic of her own, even movie and rummy enthusiasts are glad to remain at home. November 19, 1943 A letter to The Sentinel from J.W. Mendenhall, Secretary of the U.S. Fisheries Experimental Commission gives...
The 106th Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand Camp Convention was held in Ketchikan. The new ANB Grand President is Joe Williams, and the vice president is Heather Gerko. Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand President is Paulette Moreno. Grand First Vice President is Sandy Churchill, of Wrangell....
November 14, 1918 Monday afternoon P.C. McCormack of the Wrangell school board acted as courier and read the proclamation that the war was over to the pupils of the various rooms and the school bell began the celebration. After the singing of “America” and the “Star-Spangled Banner” by the assembled school, the pupils were dismissed for the remainder of the day. Meanwhile, other bells, church bells, fire bells and Government school bell, were ringing joyfully and the whistles from the Columbia and Northern, the shingle mill, the cannery...
November 7, 1918 The committee in charge of the benefit dance given by local Moose last Thursday evening spared no pains in their endeavor to make the affair successful. Redmen hall was beautifully decorated in bunting and flags. Beneath the stars and stripes, on the wall opposite the entrance, hung the honor roll of the Wrangell Moose organizations with its nineteen names. The committee had secured good music and floor manager Ned Lemieux arranged the dances so that everyone had an enjoyable evening. The dance netted the sum of $138.90, which...
SEARHC ran a flu shot clinic at the Nolan Center on election day. The clinic was right across the hallway from the polling place....
A deer strung up at the basketball court by Evergreen Elementary School. Brian Merritt, a teacher at the school, taught his fourth-grade class how to skin a deer last Friday morning....
November 7, 1918 The small boys at Wrangell are very warlike. Recently the town marshal there was ordered to disarm all the children and confiscate all slingshots, air-guns and firearms found on their persons. If this did not curb their war-like ardor it was ordered that the boys be arrested and fined if they did not quit shooting within the city limits. November 5, 1943 The Ways and Means committee, after approving a raise from 3 cents to 4 cents for mailing out-of-town letters, later decided to leave the charge at three cents. The Committee...
October 31, 1918 The Common Council shall appoint a health officer, who will hold office during the pleasure of the Common Council. The health officer may, whenever he deems it necessary, examine all persons entering the Town of Wrangell, from any place when said officer has reason to believe there are any cases of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, or other contagious or infectious diseases. The health officer shall make it his duty to investigate all cases where it is alleged that cases of communicable, infections, or contagious diseases are sa...
