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April 29th Hosted by the Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department...
Contents of the Medalen warehouse spilled onto the beach after the piling foundation collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. Friends and family worked into the evening to salvage possessions before the high tide came in....
Local scouts Owen Anderson, Tausani Ieremia, Reed Anderson, Lathum Johnson and Sean Spigelmyre (front to back and left to right) carry a memorial wreath to mid-channel by the Sons of Norway Hall where it will rise and fall with the tide on Sunday, April 30 at the annual Blessing of the Fleet....
April 27, 1917 Articles of incorporation have been drawn up for the Citizens’ Steam Laundry Company, a new enterprise which is expected to open for business by the middle of June. Martin Kildall is named as president of the company; Paul Lund, vice-president; John Bruce, secretary. The laundry is to occupy the Kildall building, to the rear of the Gauffin building. It is proposed to make a specialty of steamboat and family laundry work; also to have a cleaning and pressing department, and to furnish steam baths. April 24, 1942 – At a spe...
Clinic for women’s health will be held Mon. May 22. Appointments are required. To schedule an appointment, call 772-4611....
April 20, 1917 - J. H. Scott arrived here on the City of Seattle and has taken charge, as superintendent, of the Doyhof Fish Products Company cannery. Mr. Scott reports that some extensive improvements will be made, including the installing of a second line of machinery and the erecting of new buildings, one of which will be a story-and-one-half structure 100x30 ft. Preparations have been made for a pack this season of 36,000 cases. April 22, 1942 – The complete retail line of building supplies owned by Mitkof Lumber Co. has been sold to R...
April 13, 1917 - W.E. Worth came in last Saturday from Whale Pass, where he had been employed for the past six months at the A. K. Foss logging camp. He had intended to return to Petersburg several months ago, but his boat froze in in December and the ice didn’t loosen up until the end of February. His non -appearance gave rise to a report that he was lost or drowned—now happily proven “greatly exaggerated.” April 10, 1942 – Under the direction of Carroll Clausen, local Defense Bond chairman, a Universal Pledge Campaign will get under way this...
April 6, 1917 - Sergeant McLaughlin has asked the Signal Service Office at Seattle for a second operator at the Petersburg wireless station. The business here now has increased to such extent as to make it a difficult matter for one man to handle it satisfactorily, and with the starting up of the canneries and herring fishing this spring the work at the wireless station will undoubtedly reach a volume entirely beyond the capacity of one operator. April 3, 1942 – The following proclamation designating the Territory of Alaska as a Military A...
Underground scanning equipment will arrive in Petersburg today to locate sewer lines that may have failed under the Wells Fargo Bank on Nordic Dr. Business Manager David Byrne said the ductile iron waste line sits beneath the 40-year-old building and has likely been rusting from both outside and inside the pipe. On Wednesday Reid Brother's Construction opened the line under the sidewalk and earlier a camera was used to inspect a portion of the line according to Byrne. Portable toilets were...
Sierra Strueli has been named to the Dean’s List at the University of Montana....
March 30, 1917 – There will be English services at the church Sunday morning at 11:30 o’clock; Norwegian services at 7 o’clock in the evening; Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Good Friday, Norwegian services at 7 p. m. At this service the Lord’s Supper will be administered. March 27, 1942 – With one candidate filing for mayor, and one for the school board, the only contest in the city election, scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, is that for a place on the Town Council. Here there are five filings, with three councilmen to be elected. March 31, 1967...
March 23, 1917 – Ole and Peter Knutsen arrived home on the Spokane, Monday, after a several months’ visit in Puget Sound cities. They are now getting their barrel factory in shape for the season’s operations. Although hoop iron is still a scarce article, they managed to secure sufficient for a couple of thousand barrels, and also have some left over from last season. March 27, 1942 – Crews of the Alaska Steamship Company boats have been ordered by the post office department not to accept mail from anyone, unless there is a mail clerk aboared...
