July 31, 1919
Those who have had large caches of liquor which they are selling at enormous profits have no just claim for mercy. They are not in the same position as those saloon men who had on hand, when they were out of business, wet goods the possession of which was originally lawful.
The latter bought their goods to sell according to the law and they would have gladly sold it before the clock marked the ending of legal liquor traffic in Alaska. There is a spirit of fair play that tells us that these men should have had an opportunity to get rid of the stocks they had on hand.
Those who are making liquor for sale, or importing it, or who bought it for the purpose of reselling it at a profit are deliberately violating the law. They are simply sordid lawbreakers and plainly subject to the hazards assumed when the law is knowingly violated.
August 4, 1944
Last week in The Sentinel an item appeared in which a message, sealed in a bottle and dropped into Coyote creek near San Jose, California, was picked up by an Army sergeant on the shores of India. Never to be left behind, Wrangell can tie to the event.
Noting the item in the paper, this week Bert McCay, well known Wrangell fisherman, brought in a card he had picked up on the beach at Snow Pass in 1942. It was an apparently official Japanese message to test currents. A number, 142750, appeared on one line and the date June 14, 1929. Longitude and latitude were undecipherable, due to the water having leaked into the bottle.
If the date of its release was June, 1929 and McCay picked it up in the fall of 1942 it would be 13 years that the bottle had drifted or lay on the beach. There were several lines of Japanese writing and a Japanese signature.
July 31, 1969
Friday marks the opening of hunting season for a variety of game species for Panhandle hunters.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game said hunters have a choice of deer, elk, goat, grouse and ptarmigan.
Deer hunters must have deer harvest tickets this year, said Don H. Strode, regional game supervisor for Southeast Alaska. Deer season in Units 1, 2, 5, and 5 is open Aug. 1 to Dec. 31 (provided antlerless deer may be taken only from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31) and there is a bag limit of four deer.
Southeastern hunters desiring to take an elk may take them in portions of Unit 8 (Kodiak-Shelikof). A bag limit of two goats is provided in Unit 1, 4 (except Chichagof Island).
Grouse and ptarmigan hunters in Units 1 through 5 may take five grouse a day with a possession limit of 10 from Aug. 1 through May 15 and 20 ptarmigan a day and 40 in possession Aug. 1 through May 15.
August 4, 1994
One of the changes in Wrangell School District was elimination of the title, “Principal.” While this action created many new possibilities, the tasks performed by principals still remain. It is important for all to know these tasks will be covered during this transition period as well as in the future.
In the past, Wrangell schools had three administrators, a high school and middle school principal, an elementary principal and a superintendent.
Today we still have three administrators with the flexibility of doing tasks across the district.
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