The Way We Were

April 15, 1920

A deal has been closed whereby Herbert Harvie, recently of Petersberg, becomes part owner of the Wrangell Machine Shop. Mr. Harvie has spent the greater portion of his life working at the machinist trade. He is a Sourdough and well known through Southeastern Alaska. For the past four years he has been connected with the Bob Allen machine shop at Petersberg. The style of the new firm will be Gingrass & Harvie. The business of the Wrangell Machine Shop is growing rapidly and the introduction of Mr. Harvie into the business as one of the proprietors gives added prestige to this most important institution.

April 20, 1945

Dog owners are again warned by city officials to keep their pets from running at large. The city recently had copies of Ordinance No. 114 printed and Police Chief James Lovett mailed a copy to each dog owner listed in the license books. He said today that mailing of such notices should bring the text of the ordinance to the attention of each owner, along with the penalty for violation of the ordinance. Any person who did not receive a copy, and who is the owner of a dog, may have a copy by applying to Chief Lovett or at the City Hall.

April 16, 1970

A number of junior class members have received favorably the idea of forming a College Club. This group has been meeting weekly, at noon in the school library for the past three weeks. Last week they were given the opportunity to discuss college life as seen by Levi Dow, now attending AMU in Anchorage and Robert Armstrong, now attending Whitworth College in Spokane. Also, at this meeting, Bill Turner, now serving in the U.S. Army, shared with this group his views of Army life. The group is setting goals and the kind of topics they wish to discuss.

April 6, 1995

Wrangellites have a chance to meet the 1995 Super Bowl champions, the San Francisco 49ers, when seven team members, including four of the current roster, visit the Island to play Wrangell’s “Alaskans for Drug Free Youth” basketball team Sunday. Purpose for 49er’s visit is promoting a Drug Free Alaska and proceeds from the game will go to Alaskan’s for Drug Free Youth for an all-night drug free graduation party. Although the 49er’s are currently 21-0 in Alaska play so far, coaches Keith Appleman and Todd White, who also plan on playing, have high hopes their team can break the string. Also scheduled to compete are Mark Jeffers, Fred Angerman, Chris Versteeg, Keith Young, Tucker Gillen, Dino Barker and Lucas Messmer.