120 years ago this week (1897)
“Groceries for the Klondike” advertises Jacob Brothers Grocers. “Buy them quick. Orders for outfits keep pouring in so you had better not wait too long or you …
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Perhaps the most famous old building in Port Hadlock, this inn is known today as The Alcohol Plant. For many locals, however, it will always carry the name of the “old alcohol plant.” The Classen Chemical Co. used sawdust to make 190-proof industrial ethyl alcohol in the facility. The project failed and the business closed in 1913. Abandoned for many years, the building was eventually converted into a hotel. Photo courtesy of Jefferson County Historical Society
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120 years ago this week (1897)
“Groceries for the Klondike” advertises Jacob Brothers Grocers. “Buy them quick. Orders for outfits keep pouring in so you had better not wait too long or you may be disappointed. We know how to put them up for you, and you will save money buying from us.”
“The City Bakery, on Adams St., leads all other places for business lunches, sandwiches, etc. Lunches for picnics, weddings, social parties a specialty, first class bread, pastry and cakes.”
“Chris Larsen, a Tarboo logger was taken to the Sister’s Hospital last evening suffering from a fracture of the left leg, midway between the knee and ankle, a severe laceration of the scalp and internal injuries, the result of a tree falling on him while he was working in the logging camp of Peter Henning.”
“The Walla Walla will be here this morning from San Francisco with a big list of passengers for the Klondike and a large cargo of freight.”
60 years ago this week (1957)
“Bing Crosby, Phil Harris and two other prominent Californians stopped off briefly here Friday evening to enter customs, en route back to Seattle following a fabulous salmon fishing trip in British Columbia waters.”
“The 26-year old mystery of what happened to Ernie Butler’s 1928 Model Studebaker roadster was solved Saturday when skin divers found it 65 feet below the surface of Lake Crescent.”
A total of 506 persons enter 2,945 exhibits at the county fair, more than in 1956.
New Quilcene School Superintendent Edwin Stemen announces that Quilcene will operate a kindergarten this school year. Buses will transport kindergarten students to school on regular morning routes, but parents must pick them up at noon. One of the new staff members at Quilcene School is Russell Cossette.
10 years ago (2007)
It took a little more than an hour for the FV Aldebaran, the boat noted for ferrying Santa Claus across Port Townsend Bay each December, to sink to the bottom of the sea.
The 58-foot commercial salmon fishing vessel based in Port Townsend had been engaged off the coast of Southeast Alaska near Bold Island on Aug. 17 when a computer GPS malfunction led it to veer into a rock, said skipper Brad Jensen. Aldebaran’s four crew members, none older than 21, and Jensen were able to evacuate the vessel safely.
On Saturday, light rain moistened the extravagant costumes of the Uptown Street Fair. It left the bagpiper gleaming, the Martians glistening, the Kinetic Kweens glowing, and the lone pony dampened – but despite the cloudy weather, practically everybody in Uptown was beaming.
(These “Looking Back” news items are gathered from The Leader newspapers on file at the Jefferson County Historical Society Museum and Research Center at 379-6673.)
