September 13, 1917: The town council met in regular monthly session Thursday night. The school board was authorized to purchase three typewriters and a microscope. The school board was directed to submit plans for a shed for the school playground. H.D. Campbell was awarded contracts for a walk on Church street and roadway on Case avenue, also a bridge on Case avenue. A communication was read from a Front street resident complaining that two houses of ill repute on Front street are a nuisance. Marshal Earl West was summoned before the council and directed to notify the tenants of the houses mentioned in the complaint to abate to the nuisance at once, and that if they did not do so the council would take steps to force them to do so.
September 11, 1942: Wrangell merchants topped the Territory in making their cost of living commodity reports, according to a message received this morning from Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann. Alaska OPA director. “Congratulations to Wrangell for being the first town in Alaska to achieve 100 per cent rating on cost of living reports,” said Mrs. Hermann’s radiogram to the local rationing board. The local board issued the following statement: The local board is grateful to the merchants of Wrangell for the fine cooperation they have shown in carrying out the provisions of price control. We appreciate the additional burden which has been placed upon all in meeting the requirements of war and we are proud that Wrangell has come through, as we felt sure it would to point the way for the rest of the Territory. This is an example of the spirit of united effort which wins wars.
September 8, 1967: There is a lot of different kinds of progress going on in Wrangell these days. At the Totem Bakery a new electric oven is being installed. It’s had its day Lee Stella remarked. “We estimated baking around a million loaves of bread in it.” The Stellas came Wrangell in 1951 and started operating at the present site since 1952. Mrs. Kay
Stella and daughter Cerrina are in the middle west visiting family and daughter Madelyn is attending college in Germany, taking a concentrated language course.
September 3, 1992: The work repair on the break water is now complete. Ritchie Transportation, under supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers completed the work in about eight days. The Corps was experimenting with a new technique called “shotcrete.” Concrete was pumped into the existing breakwater through a hose. The concrete not only patched holes in the breakwater, but penetrated the rocks beneath, making it one solid mass that water can’t seep through.
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