October 19, 1916: F.M. Fenton, manager of the Dease Creek Syndicate, arrived on the Iskoot last Thursday afternoon. The Dease Creek Syndicate, which is controlled by Victoria capitalists, has been for several years operating an hydraulic mining on Thibert Creek, which empties into Dease Lake about six miles below the mines. When seen at the Wrangell Hotel just before his departure for Seattle on the Princess Alice, Mr. Fenton said: “There isn’t much to be said about our operations at present. Since I became manager for the company three years ago we have been operating on a moderate scale. Next season we will operate on a much more elaborate scale. The past season has been a bad one for water. It has been unusually dry where we were operating. We were also handicapped by the poor transportation facilities into the country.”
October 17, 1941: The 13 men from Wrangell selected for service in the Army as announced by the local draft board this week are: Joseph Lynn Newton, Chester Rhodes Maleski, Leon Merton Wies, John Adamoli, James Clement Ford, Carl Frederick Johanson, Cecil Fred Wentz, Lloyd Egbert Goodrich, Roy Williams, Jr., David Dennis Sandman, Harry Ukas, Vernon Axel Anderson and Robert Y. Urata. The men are to report at the local draft board at 10 o’clock Thursday morning, October 23, from where the Board will provide transportation to the induction center which was changed this week by the Juneau office of Selective Service to Chilkoot Barracks. Wrangell’s army selectees and men who have voluntarily enlisted in the armed forces since registration will be honored Tuesday night at a going-away party.
October 14, 1966: Fire which broke out in the rear of the Wrangell Laundry building on Front Street Tuesday morning destroyed the structure and its contents and caused two families living in apartments on the second floor to become homeless, losing all their personal effects. Immediate cause of the blaze was not determined, Fire Chief Gordon Buness said. A representative of the state fire marshal’s office was due here today, the chief said. The Kenneth Nauska family and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Puntin were routed from the apartments by the conflagration which spread rapidly through the apartment section before the fire department could contain the blaze which they battled for more than two hours. Puntin, operator of the laundry, estimated the loss at $50,000. Long a landmark on the waterfront, the building is one of the oldest structures in town.
October 17, 1991: Wrangell may see its share of gray skies, but you can’t blame it on Alaska Pulp Corp.’s sawmill. The sawmill has passed a major emission test for its refurbished power boiler, “easily passing all regulatory requirements,” APC officials announced this week. “We’re pleased with the test results,” mill Superintendent Rick Klinke said. “We put a lot of emphasis on environmental controls when we modified the boiler last year. We expected low emission levels for all regulated air pollutants, and that’s what we got.” The final test report showed that the mill’s boiler met state and federal standards “by substantial margins” for particulates, carbon monoxide and visible emissions, said Tom Hanna, a Juneau environmental consultant. The company also tested for dioxins and furans and also found those levels extremely low, he added.
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