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Dec. 11, 1924 E. Albright, who came north last week on business connected with reopening of the Columbia & Northern cold storage plant, leaves for Portland on the Northwestern. When seen by the Sentinel reporter, Mr. Albright said he is highly gratified over finding the plant in such excellent condition and that comparatively little work will be required to put the plant in shape to resume operation. “The building is 95 percent as good as new, and the piling under the building is sound and good. The machinery is in A-1 condition. I could not d...
Dec. 4, 1924 A second cold storage plant for Wrangell is scheduled to be in operation within three months after the beginning of the year. E. A. Albright, representing F. Klevenhusen, arrived in Wrangell on Tuesday evening for the purpose of putting the Columbia & Northern cold storage plant into shape to operate again after being shut down for six years. Mr. Albright is the engineer who constructed the Columbia & Northern plant at Wrangell more than 12 years ago. He will make a thorough inspection of the plant and dock and will make an estimat...
Nov. 20 1924 The present week has been observed as National Education Week in the schools. No elaborate program has been prepared but the emphasis in all the regular classes has been placed upon the country’s need of an educated citizenship. Col. Knott, who was with Gen. Allenby on the occasion of the taking of Jerusalem in the world war, gave a vivid picture of some world war scenes in connection with a very inspirational assembly lecture at the high school on Thursday. In the afternoon of the same day, Brigadier Simms, of The Salvation Army,...
Nov. 20, 1924 E.A. Rasmuson, president of the Bank of Alaska, said Wrangell had the best summer it has experienced during the past 20 years. The cold storage plant has done a splendid business, and the lumber mill ran full blast all summer. This mill has a capacity of 75,000 board feet a day. Mr. Rasmuson believes there will be quite a rush into Wrangell next spring, when miners and prospectors will arrive there en route to the new placer gold strike in the Cassiar region in British Columbia. He said miners who have visited the mining...
Nov. 13, 1924 A special meeting of the PTA was called last Thursday evening at the grade school building for the purpose of considering the various phases of building a school gym, and also for the ratification or rejection by the association on measures already proposed by the executive board. The meeting was very well attended and a thorough discussion of the gym plan and the financial side of the plan was entered into. Very little opposition developed and the enthusiasm on the part of the supporters of the gym was unbounded. The president...
Nov. 6, 1924 G. E. Diemart of the Wrangell Dairy received a fine milk cow from the states on the Yukon when it called at port Monday night. The cow is a strong-willed animal. She did not like the looks of the deckhands who had her in tow, so after dragging two or three of them around over the dock she broke away and came uptown. After looking around for a time she decided to spend the night at the Lemieux ranch. She was not obstreperous, however, when taken to the dairy on the following day. Nov. 4, 1949 A thorough study of the feeding habits...
Wrangell resident Sandy Churchill was elected Alaska Native Sisterhood grand president for 2024-2025 Outgoing ANS Grand President Daphyne Alby and President Emeritus Millie Schoonover visited Wrangell to bestow the honors in ceremonies Oct. 24. Virginia Oliver was elected second grand vice president. Both are from Wrangell ANS Camp No. 1, where Churchill is president and Oliver is secretary. The Wrangell camps of ANS and the Alaska Native Brotherhood are scheduled to host the organization's...
Oct. 30, 1924 H. A. Kuehl of the Pendleton Gold Mining Co. was among those who came down the Stikine this week on their way Outside. Mr. Kuehl reports his company made good progress during the past season considering the numerous difficulties encountered, such as having to build a stretch of road in order to get machinery and supplies to the property. They were very hopeful that they would be able to get their dragline into operation before the close of this season but the freeze-up came the day they started operations. However, they are now...
Oct. 23, 1924 After a great deal of discussion pro and con following litigation looking toward procuring a suitable place for high school basketball practice, the PTA executive board recommended that a gymnasium be built on the lot next to the school play shed, provided the town council could be induced to buy the property. Tentative plans for a standard-size playing floor 35 by 60 feet with a 5-foot seating space along each side and 7 feet along each end, with two 12-by-16-foot dressing rooms (eventually to be fitted with showers) at the...
Oct. 9, 1924 W. A. Eberly was in town the first of the week from his fox ranch at Pat’s Creek. Mr. Eberly has recently added a muskrat division to his fur farm. He has secured 80 of these little fur bearers and placed them on his farm. He expects that the natural increase from this initial allotment will produce a profitable harvest within less than five years. Oct. 14, 1949 The high school freshman class is undergoing the tortures and ignominy of being a freshman this week as the sophomores are enthusiastically initiating them into the n...
Oct. 9, 1924 A survey just made of the enrollment in the Wrangell schools compared with the enrollment a year ago shows an increase of 10 students. These figures are based upon the enrollment in grades first through 12th and do not include children of kindergarten age. The present enrollment in the schools is 153, and for the past year on the same date it was 143. The greatest increase has been in Mrs. Bronson’s room, where the registration has more than doubled over the enrollment at this date a year ago. Her present enrollment is 23 c...
Oct. 2, 1924 The Wrangell schools have taken a forward step this year in incorporating a course of religious education in the high school curriculum. The course, which is elective, provides for one hour’s work each week and carries a fourth of a credit each year. The work is given under the instruction of the local ministers during the last period on Wednesday afternoons. Sept. 30, 1949 The first fall meeting of the Wrangell Health Council, Red Cross and Tuberculosis Association combined was held Tuesday, Sept. 27, in the health center. Nine me...
