The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-01-28
20 YEARS AGO
 From The Empire
January 2S. 1913.

January 28, 1913. w. W. Casey, Past Worshipful l Master of the Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. & A. M, was present. ed with a Past Masters jewel. The presentation was made by Past Master R. A. Gunnison in a grace ful and eloquent address. w. H. Case, local business man. purchased the building and lot on the southwest corner of Front and Main Streets, formerly known as the Delaney Building. Mrs. Kath- erine D. Abrahams was the. seller. MT. Case planned to remodel the ,, building throughout and have a store on the ground floor and photograph studio on the second floor. L. B. Adsit had formerly used the lower floor as a sales room.
 Mrs. J. V. Davis announced concert recital to be given at the Odd Fellows Hall on February 4. Others on the program were, E. M. Mcintyre, violinist, Mrs. Rummel and Miss Chapin.
 Sam Hirsh, owner of the Juneau Liquor Company, and Mrs. Hirsh were having the time of their lives in San Diego, Cal, where they had taken bungalow. He had recently purchased a nice ben zine buggy" and was trying to learn the hang of it, hoping in time to make a first class "chof- fer" of himself, according to word received by friends in Juneau.
 Paul Reidel, old-time furrier. who had died at St. Ann's Hos pital January 27, was buried from the Catholic Church, the Rev. Brown officiating.
 Miss Julia Early, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Pete Early, was op- erated on at St. Ann's Hospital by Dr. Simpson.
 Paul Kabler was patient at St. Ann's Hospital, suffering with sore hand.
 Perry J. Wiley was the twelfth juror chosen in the Irene Taylor trial for alleged manslaughter. He was chosen from the special ven- ire Assistant Assistant District Attorney Nye made the opening statement for the Government and z. R. Cheney, attorney for the de- fense, stated the case for the de- fense. Three witnesses for the Government was heard They were Deputy Marshal Schnabel of Wran- gell, where the alleged crime was committed, Knute Anderson and Jack Harrington.
 President J. O. Ford of the Pa cific Coast Company, announced through The Empire that his con- pany was going to dispose of all of it's holdings in Juneau other than those required for the needs of the shipping business of the company. MT. Ford prophesied great things for Juneau in the near future. The company intend ed to give the tenents priority to buy.
 A party of mechanical and elec- trical engineers surveyed the gas plant of the Alaska-Gastineau Co. on Nle beach near Sheep Creek with the idea of Gevising some method of synchronizing the elec- tric current that is generated there with the power then being supplied by Salmon Creek.
 H. T. Tripp arrived in Juneau on the steamer Georgia from Ea- gle River.
 An editorial commenting on a telegraphic dispatch which said that President Woodrow Wilson planned to visit both te Philip pines and Alaska as soon after his inauguration as possible, regret ted that. he planned to visit the Philippines before Alaska, but ex- pressed the hope that the first Presidential trip to Alaska would be made in short order and that the visit would include the Inter for as well as the coastal country.
 The best time had in the history of Douglas Island was reported to have taken place at the Lyric Theatre in Douglas when the local Scotchmen celebrated the birth of the Scotch poet, Robert Burns. An nf ,11y-ruv g