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August 21, 1913: Dr. Shurick of the Shurick Drug and Jewelry Company says the money is coming in so fast that the old register wouldn't hold it so he had to get a new one and while he was at it got the best, of course. The new one is a National and every time you ring up you get a receipt which are redeemable at the rate of $1 in cash for every $20 worth of receipts from that machine.
August 12, 1938: The Aleutian, scheduled to arrive at Wrangell at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning, was two hours late. Nevertheless, F.S. Barnes, president of the Wrangell Chamber of Commerce, E.M. Campbell of the chamber harbor committee and A. Barlow, representing Wrangell trollers, met the vessel to confer with Colonel John C. Lee of Portland, Oregon. Colonel Lee, who is divisional engineer for the North Pacific division of army engineers, came north to investigate river and harbor needs, passing through Wrangell aboard the Columbia on July 25th. At that time he arranged to investigate local harbor needs while the Aleutian, on which he was booked for the southbound trip, was in port at Wrangell. The Wrangell men left at the boat for Colonel Lee, blue prints of the harbor showing the dredging project, the government finished in 1936, an outline of the inner harbor, aerial views, an engineer's blue print of the first proposal of inner harbor development, showing that project for some years, photographs of the harbor and a number of letters on the subject.
August 9, 1963: It was announced by Joel Wing, chairman of the local Cerebral Palsy Fund committee that seven autographed books have been received up to date and will be auctioned off at Elks Hall November 23, with a large number of other items. Autographed books on hand are: “Addresses Upon the American Road 1955-60” by Herbert Hoover; “A Study of Communism” by J. Edgar Hoover; “Tales of Ten Worlds,” by Arthur C. Clark now residing in Colombo, Ceylon; “There's No Place Like Home,” by Artis Palfer; “Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast,” by James Gibbs; “Touched with Fire,” by Margaret Bell; “Soviet Russia in China,” by Chiang Kai-shek. Wing plans, he said, to contact several big book stores in Seattle and elsewhere and hopes to receive some out-of-town bids for the night of the auction.
August 11, 1988: Wrangell fishermen who had planned on launching their boats this summer at a new Shoemaker Bay ramp will have to wait a bit longer. Tom Donek of the Division of Sport Fisheries said he has set a new target date for completing the boat ramp as April 30 next year. “I want things completed before your salmon derby in the spring,” he said. “Those are my marching orders.” Donek earlier this year told the Sentinel he had expected the ramp to be built and ready for anglers' use by July this summer. But he told the Sentinel Monday that paperwork delays have forced him to put off that hope. A backlog of paperwork at the Corps of Engineers' office in Anchorage has added to the delays in seeing completion of the new boat ramp, Donek said. The application process and receipt of a permit from that federal agency now is running nine months. Previous delays also have occurred as local officials wait for construction to begin. The Sport Fish Division's design engineer quit last year, forcing the agency to contract with the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to design and oversee construction of the project. That switch caused a delay and officials said the 1988 derby wouldn't see the new boat ramp as had been expected.
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