In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
April 29, 1915: Mrs. Cornelia Templeton Hatcher, the
lecturer for the W.C.T.U. held a good audience at attention last Friday evening at the Rink. Mrs. Hatcher spoke at considerable length on the prohibition movement for Alaska and her lecture was illustrated with some 50 slides. Mrs. Hatcher is a very able speaker and knows her subject from the start to finish and tells it in a way that holds her audience. Mrs. Hatcher left on the Alki Saturday for northern points. Capt. Strong expects to have his river boat Winifred ready to start on the river run by the last of the week. The river is reported to be clear to Telegraph and there is considerable freight now in the bonded warehouse for upriver points.
April 26, 1940: It's Hiyu Potlatch and don't forget your blouse on Saturday night, May 18, at the ANB Hall. The Potlatch Central Committee at its meeting last night approved a plan for a big, colorful Potlatch dance to be sponsored by the Finance committee on the above date. Everyone will be required to wear a Potlatch blouse or will be charged an extra admission charge. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes and early indications point to the largest and most colorful dance ever put on in Wrangell. Young and old are expected to attend, dressed up for the Potlatch. If you can't dance you can watch the brilliantly dressed hoofers swaying to the melodious tunes put out by Walter Bidwell and his orchestra.
April 23, 1965: After nearly a half century of printing Alaska's oldest continuously published newspaper, The Wrangell Sentinel, the Country Campbell, last of its kind in operation in the 50 states, is being retired as a museum piece. It is being replaced by a modern, high speed M-G-D 22 offset press, right off the production line. The Campbell, patented in 1866 by the Campbell Printing Press & Mfg. Co., is the last of countless thousands of its kind which made country journalism in America a readable commodity. Installed in The Sentinel in 1916, the Campbell prior to that could look back on a career. It had originally printed newspapers in Tacoma, Wash., and later produced an early day paper in Ketchikan before losing its ink fountain and coming to establish headquarters in Wrangell with the Sentinel. In heat or cold, flood or drought, the old Campbell ground 'em out. Today it was “30” for a great old piece of machinery.
April 26, 1990: Wrangell General Hospital has joined the growing line of agencies seeking funding increases from the City Council. The Hospital Board has approved a budget plan that anticipates $112,494 more from the council in the coming fiscal year. The money would be used to bring hospital employees into the retirement program offered to other city employees. The hospital's request-along with a $340,000 funding hike requested by the school system and about $25,000 in additional money sought by the Wrangell Council on Alcoholism-would amount to about a 7 mill increase in property taxes if approved by the City Council. City Manager Darrell Maple, appearing at a fireside chat about his draft budget April 18, said he had not included the hospital funding in his spending plan. The requests for funds hit City Hall on April 17, the day Maple's budget was released to the public. But Maple said even if he had received the hospital's budget in advance, he would have deferred the funding decision to the City Council.
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