July 15, 1920
What might have been a most serious calamity occurred last week at the local wharf when the cargo of a steamer was being unloaded. Fifteen sacks of spuds were in the sling when one corner of the net broke loose and the entire fifteen sacks were dumped into the bay. Had this accident occurred in years gone by the steamship company would no doubt have stood the loss without making any effort to recover the spuds. Accordingly the salvage machinery was quickly put into operation and in less than an hour the entire fifteen sacks had been fished up from the bottom of the bay. The sacks were opened and the spuds spread out on the wharf to dry.
July 13, 1945
Sentinel linotype came in for its first “face lifting” and overhaul since 1929 this week when A. R. Bowen, expert linotype machinist for M. E. Baragar company of Seattle paid the Sentinel a professional call. Bowen last saw the Sentinel’s Model L in 1929 when the paper was run by Jim Pritchett. Bowen came north from Seattle in December “for three weeks” to work on machines in Anchorage. Since that time he has covered newspaper plants from Nome to Wrangell and is leaving today for Ketchikan. He is accompanied by Mrs. Bowen, to whom he was married last week in Juneau with Secretary of Alaska Lew Williams as witness. Mrs. Bowen is the former Gertrude Copeland, expert linotypist in her own right.
July 16, 1970
Small man, small fish--large man, large fish? Don’t you believe it! With many large men fishing many long weeks, a 12-year-old boy drops a bait over the side of his granddad’s boat and hooks a 56-pound 5-ounce king salmon. He handles and lands it like a seasoned veteran to win the 1970 Wrangell King Salmon Derby. Randy Rasler really did it with a flourish, he waited until just a few hours before the derby ended, with weather so bad between his fishing grounds and the town they had to call Chuck Traylor to fly it in to be weighed. The $1,000 first prize is great; in time it will be gone, but the memory of the battle and conquest of this great beautiful fish will remain with the boy forever.
July 13, 1995
Wrangell’s Native Cultural Summer Program starts July 17 with a kick-off open house. Drawings and refreshments will be served. The summer program will be 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Parents are invited to bring children to the JOM center in the SNO Building the first day for summer sign up and “goodies.” Activities will include picking berries to make jam for the yearly fall potlatch, petroglyph rubbing, Native dance entertainment for tour ships and local gatherings, picnics at Shakes Island with story telling, weaving with Faye Korht, beading with Donna Ward, a smokefish class, arts and crafts, and skin-sewing and regalia making. Anyone wishing to participate or donate fresh fish for the smokefish class is welcome.
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