September 10, 1914: The fire department was called out last Sunday to extinguish a fire in the house occupied by J.R. Bender, back of the St. Michaels Trading Company store. The fire started from distillate being spilled on a hot stove which flamed up and set fire to a tank used to supply an oil burner stove, which in turn flamed up and set fire to the house. The house is owned by P.C. McCormack. The fire came very close to being a disastrous one, but for the ready response of the fire boys, who extinguished it in fine shape, but only after the entire inside of the house was burned out. Mr. Bender states that his loss in clothing and personal effects is somewhere near two hundred and fifty dollars. One thing that was made apparent by the fire was the need of some kind of regulation to keep the crowd back as at the fire Sunday people crowded around close, thereby hindering the work of the fire boys. This matter should be taken up by the authorities and some police regulation to take care of this.
September 8, 1939: Fisheries hearings of the subcommittee of the House subcommittee on Merchant Marine Fisheries are scheduled to begin in Wrangell at 9 o'clock Friday morning, September 15, Fisheries Warden A.P. Romaine has been informed. The congressional party is due to arrive at Wrangell Thursday, September 14 at 6 p.m. aboard the cutter Ingham. The hearings will be held in the Legion Hall. Notified that the congressmen wish a large attendance of fishermen, cannery workers, cannery operators and all other interested persons who may wish to appear, local unions are preparing to present their views on fishing matters. Today, information was received that if President Roosevelt calls a special session of congress on September 18, all scheduled hearings will be canceled and the Ingham will rush the Congressmen to Seattle, immediately upon receipt of such notification.
September 11, 1964: Today Harbor Seafoods winds up its hand-pack salmon canning for 1964. The salmon are packed in 4-pound cans in this special operation. They ended the season with one of the biggest packs, 28,000 cases. Marcus Dailey, skipper of the boat MRS, was high boat among those serving the cannery, bringing in 61,000 fish. In addition to the salmon pack, the plant put up 37,000 pounds of salmon eggs for the caviar market in Japan. Cannery operators Ben Engdal and Harry Sundberg expressed great satisfaction with the cannery's record this year. “It is very gratifying,” they said. The cannery employs about 50 people in its summer salmon canning operation. Beginning Monday, September 21, Harbor Seafoods will begin its regular shrimp processing operation.
September 7, 1989: Staff changes at Wrangell's schools this year bring new faces to the community as well as some new assignments for some employees familiar to students and parents. Joining the school system this year are Joseph Robidou, Jeanne Foy, Monty Buness and Marcia Miller. Buness is familiar to Wrangellites. The son of Ole and Connie Buness, he was born and raised in Wrangell, graduating from high school here in 1978. He graduated from the University of Alaska-Anchorage last spring and had been seining this summer, hoping for a job to come along in the Wrangell school system, he said. Buness replaces Myron Myers as seventh and eighth grade science and health teacher. Myers has taken on duties of elementary physical education teacher and part-time athletic director for the school district. Buness said he hopes to coach girls and boys basketball in the middle school athletic program. Former aids Vicki Buness-Taylor and Sue Brown are joining the instructional staff at Evergreen Elementary. They are replacing Sandy Watson and John Martin as kindergarten teachers. Martin will be teaching fourth grade. He replaces Dean Jaquish, who has moved into the fifth grade teaching position vacated by Leroy Fennimore, who retired last spring. Buness-Taylor is another local born Wrangellite and sister to Monty Buness. She attended the University of Alaska-Juneau, graduating from the University of Alaska-Anchorage in 1983. She has worked as a substitute teacher, pre-first aide and speech aid in past years. Brown was employed by the school system last year as elementary computer aide.
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