August 21, 1919
Major Jack Hamilton, “soldier of fortune” and veteran of the late war, who has been travelling through Alaska for the past ten weeks on a lecture tour, arrived here from Petersburg last evening accompanied by Madame Hamilton. He will lecture in Wrangell tomorrow night.
Since coming to Alaska Major Hamilton has received considerable publicity through the press of the Territory, and there is probably not a person in Wrangell who is not already familiar with the story of his life and adventure.
“Major Hamilton touched on other subjects than the world war,” says the Anchorage Times just after his lecture in that city, “but in the main the lecture was directed to actual happenings, well told. In a conversational manner Major Hamilton interwove the trials of trench life, gasses and their effects, with humorous tales bearing on the great conflict. Throughout his hour and a half talk the fighting major would take his audience shuddering from a scene of horror as the result of atrocities, that came under his personal observation, to the realm of humor, always a happy solution to the lecturer and relief to the audience.”
August 25, 1944
Largely because of smaller runs of fish, the pack of Alaska canned salmon- the Territory’s most valuable product- is running about 20 percent below last year’s production, the Office of the Coordinator of Fisheries reported today.
The pack of all species of salmon in Alaska has reached a total of 3,120,000 cases by August 5, compared with 3,791,000 cases on August 7, 1943. The Alaska salmon season will be practically completed by the end of August, later catches amounting to only one or two percent of the season’s production. The relative scarcity of salmon was predicted last January by scientists of the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service, who reported that severe winter conditions in the spawning streams several years ago killed large numbers of the fish that would have returned this year as mature adults.
August 21, 1969
Nancy Dow of Wrangell, recently elected Grand Worthy Advisor of the Grand Assembly of Alaska at Alaska’s Seventh Annual Grand Assembly held at Seward in mid-July, is prepared to devote full time to the activity.
She will be taking a semester off from Idaho State University, returning to school in January, in order to fulfill duties of the office of Grand Worthy Advisor.
Holding the office means she will be corresponding and visiting assemblies in Alaska throughout the year, with visits to the California and Washington Grand Assemblies programmed for the months of April and June.
Dow was the head of the Statewide Organization for one year preparing for Grand Assembly in Ketchikan and joined the Rainbows in 1963 and held the statewide offices of Grand Page to the Grand Mother Advisor, Grand Patriotism, Grand Faith and Grand Charity.
August 25, 1994
Anyone interested in the King George proposed timber sale on the northern portion of Etolin Island is invited to attend an open house on August 30 in Petersburg on September 1, 2, and 3 in Wrangell.
Members of a planning team will be available to discuss issues and preliminary alternatives for the King George Timber Sale, said Margaret Mitchell, planning team leader. Proposed for a fall 1995 sale will be 10 to 25 million board fleet of hemlock, spruce and cedar.
Interested persons may come to the Wrangell Ranger District Office to look at inventory, maps, and preliminary alternative maps and discuss the project wit the team members. “This open house is set up to be on a very informal one-on-one basis,” said Mitchell.
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