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July 8, 1915: To say that Wrangell had a glorious Fourth is putting it mildly, for last Sunday and Monday she surpassed any previous celebration that has ever been attempted in the city. The celebration started off with the double-header baseball game on Sunday. The first game being with Lake Bay which resulted in a score of 6 to 3 in favor of Wrangell. The feature of the game being the home run of Dawne and Lewis. Mr. Bidwell of San Diego, California, did the catching for the home boys and L. Rinehart the twirling. Soon after the first game the boys took on the Metlakatla Band Team and Geo. Sylvester was placed in the box and in a five inning game the score stood at 8 to 2 in favor of the home team again.
July 12, 1940: In from his Boulder Creek placer property northeast of Dease Lake with Canadian pilot Dalziel this week was Capt. S.C. Barrington of the Barrington Transportation Company carrying 347-1/2 ounces valued, at current price of $35 an ounce, at a little better than $12,000. If and when the war ends, aided by construction of the International Highway, also if and when, there is a vast area in northern British Columbia which can be prospected and worked with great promise, Barrington believes. Transportations costs being extremely high, (gasoline a dollar and a quarter a gallon) and the airplane the only means of moving freight and supplies, construction of the highway, Miner Barrington reports, would be a boon to the country and undoubtedly would make possible the opening up of rich mining areas.”
July 16, 1965: Miss Trudy Maxand was pleasantly surprised last Friday when she received work through Mrs. Berkeley Sturtevant, local March of Dimes chairman, that she had been awarded a $500 scholarship by the Tongass chapter of the national foundation. Miss Maxand, a 1965 graduate of Wrangell High School, plans to attend Central Deaconess School of Nursing in Wenatchee, Washington. The Bishop Rowe General Hospital was donated a modern iron lung by the Tongass chapter of the March of Dimes Saturday. The lung was transported from its previous location at St. Anne's Hospital in Ketchikan to Wrangell at no cost to the local facility. Lee B. Corkel, an employee of St. Anne's, accompanied the lung and instructed fire chief Gordon Buness in its maintenance.
July 12, 1990: A former Wrangell resident was jailed in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Tuesday stemming from a report to Wrangell's police crime phone line. Police Chief Brent Moody said he notified the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and U.S. Customs Service July 4 after receiving the tip on the crime line that a person would be bringing drugs into Wrangell. Moody said RCMP officers found what appeared to be a quarter pound of marijuana in a vehicle as well as various drug-related paraphernalia. Moody said a drug dog from the Juneau Police Department, Tasha, had been flown to Wrangell this week for use in the event a search was required at the ferry terminal. The U.S. Customs Service also was standing by in the joint effort, Moody said.
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