In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
Sept. 26, 1912: The long looked for machinery for the Columbia and Northern Fishing and Packing company's freezing plant was shipped north on the Spokane and landed on the company's wharf Sunday. The apparatus, consisting of a 60 horsepower boiler, direct connected engine and ammonia compressor and Sharpe freezing outfit, will be installed immediately and made ready to take care of the fresh halibut catch which heretofore has been shipped packed in glacier ice. Mr. Albright at the Wrangell Meat Market last spring had charge of the installation of the plant. In addition to the brewery building, which has been greatly altered inside and out, a cooper shop and a repacking room and a house for the boiler and engine have been started at the other end. With the completion of the building and the installation of the freezing machinery and private electric lighting and telephone service, the Wrangell plant of the Columbia and Northern will be one of the best equipped of its kind in Alaska and able to take care of the fresh and salt fish that will naturally be returned in this direction.
Sept. 24, 1937: After spending years prospecting for gold in the Cassiar, Percy Peacock at Boulder Creek this year discovered to his embarrassment that his cabin has been resting on ground running 35 cents a pan right down from the moss roots. The dirt banking the cabin and covering the roof was worth a tidy sum in itself. Two or three seasons ago Peacock built a nine by twelve log cabin on his lease down Boulder from the Vern Shea ground. He built on a long bar so as to be handy to the creek and from the cabin began prospecting the creek starting about two or three hundred yards from the cabin and working down. He was getting fair values but one day this spring panned the dirt alongside the drain from his cabin and discovered high values in front of his doorstep. He took out over $1,000 in a short open cut from the drain. Further prospecting made it evident that pay dirt was under and around his cabin so he took it to pieces, moved it back two hundred yards, proceeded to put in a Chic Sales and discovered he was still on heavy pay, with the find so rich there seemed to be no place for the cabin or the other building, to put it delicately.
Sept. 21, 1962: With filings closing Wednesday, eight candidates are in the race for seats on the City Council to be decided at the October 2 city election. Candidates for a three-year term, two to be elected are Richard L. Ballard, Duke Chase, Marjorie Guggenbickler, Donald J. House and Kenneth Mason. Candidates for a one-year term, to be elected are Alan McCay, Russell Patrick, and Gus Zimmerman. McCay, who has served on the Council the past year, was automatically dropped under provisions of the City Charter which provides for automatic vacancy of a seat on the Council if a given number of meetings are missed. Council last week reseated McCay on the council pending advice from the city attorney. For the one five-year term on the School Board, Mrs. Marjorie Sharnbroich is unopposed. Also on the ballot will appear a proposition to amend the City Charter by changing from City Manager form of government to Mayor-Council form of government.
Sept. 24, 1987: Don McConachie of Wrangell was flown to Seattle last week after being exposed to chlorine gas. Wrangell Fisheries spokesman Mike Miyagi said McConachie was working to winterize the plant's chlorine equipment when the accident occurred. Miyagi said chlorine gas apparently leaked from the equipment, exposing McConachie to the gas. McConachie was transported to Wrangell General Hospital by volunteer emergency medical technicians.
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