October 15, 1914: The Moose Orchestra is advertising their second appearance before the dancing public of Wrangell by giving a big masquerade ball on Halloween night, Oct. 31. The Moose Orchestra gave a dance recently at Red Man's Hall and also furnished the music for the Civic Improvement Club dance at the Wrangell Hostel last Friday evening so their class as music makers has been established but for the coming dance they have some new numbers that are something great and without a doubt the music at the coming dance will be the best ever in town. Among the new pieces are, “Over the Alpine Mountains,” “When its Moonlight on the Alamo,” “When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose,” and “Goodbye, I'm Going to California.”
October 13, 1939: Under the stimulus of a new club home and the development of a community center project, 38 women were present at the Civic Club meeting Saturday afternoon, September 30, held in the City-owned building on Front Street. Formerly used as a city hall and later as quarters for the government nurse, the building has been vacant for the past two years. Until officially given a different name, it will be called the Civic Center. Club husbands M.O. Johnson and Ernest Anderson had taken down partitions in the large front room, constructed a cloak room, put the two oil burning heaters in order and in other ways helped prepare the building for the meeting. The room facing McKinnon Avenue was utilized as a club room. New drapes for the windows made by the president, Mrs. M.O. Johnson, and Mrs. Ernest Anderson, gave a cheerful atmosphere. Various plans under way assure funds for adequate furnishings within a short time.
October 16, 1964: Floyd Murphy of Yuma, Colorado, was appointed City Clerk at the organizational meeting of the new City Council Tuesday night, at which Dr. E.J. Wheeler, Martin Nore and Harvey Hodge took the oath of office as councilmen. Murphy was associated with Clayton Schmidt, assistant to the mayor in the Colorado city. Appointments made by Mayor Doris Barnes and confirmed by the council were Schmidt to his present position, Murphy, Edward Palmer, chief of police, Gordon Buness, fire chief, Irene Ingle, librarian, Kenneth Cummings, street superintendent, and Fred, city attorney. In outlining the city financial picture for the council, Schmidt brought out that the city's total debt at the present time, including bonds, interest, red warrants and other obligations was $970,565. He said $140,000 of the debt must be retired in this council year.
October 12, 1989: The British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Lands is working now on a request from the Tahltan tribe to log in the Stikine River drainage. Verne Strain with the agency's Smithers office said the Tahltans propose to log 300,000 meters of logs from the area near Telegraph Creek. Roughly four meters make up 1,000 board feet of timber. The Tahltans have made their case for the proposal, and now the ministry is considering the plan, he said. Internal documentation must be made by the regional office, then submitted to the provincial office in Victoria, he said. Strain denied rumors circulating locally in Wrangell that any timber sales are planned for the Iskut River drainage. Logging in the Iskut valley is not in the ministry's plans for the immediate future, he said. Rumors in Wrangell indicated that Louisiana-Pacific of Canada was negotiating for a timber sale in the Iskut drainage. Rep. Robin Taylor, R-Wrangell, who has been in contact with Canadian officials in the Ministry of Forests and Lands, said he understands that Louisiana-Pacific is proposing a pulp mill near Dawson. He said he understands the L-P proposal involves a large guaranteed volume of aspen off British Columbia government land. Taylor said his contacts in the ministry have not mentioned any logging plans in the Iskut valley.
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