Yellow Pages
Aug. 26, 1909
Yesterday was a red letter day for the Anacortes public library, as Mrs. Geo. B. Smith, treasurer, received a draft from Mr. Carnegie for $3,000.
Aug. 28, 1919
A sanitarium, the only one in the United States offering the goat milk treatment for tuberculosis, has offered to come to Anacortes and is being investigated by a committee from the Chamber of Commerce. The proposition has the backing of the doctors of the city who claim that such an institution would be of great medical value to the northwest and that it would be of particular value to Anacortes on account of brining a great number of people here from all over the United States.
Aug. 22, 1929
The matter of a hospital for Anacortes is again brought to the attention of the general public, as the owner of the present hospital headquarters, Ray B. Lowman, has requested that something be done to find other quarters for the Anacortes hospital. The hospital has occupied the home of Mr. Lowman since fire destroyed the building of the Anacortes Physicians & Surgeons, on Thirty-second street, and it is only through his courtesy that the building was made available.
Aug. 24, 1939
With the fall hunting season just around the corner, there is nothing like some good target practice to get the old shooting eye in order and your trusty rifle or shotgun ready for action.
The Anacortes Rod and Gun Club urges local and Skagit county sportsmen to join them Sunday morning in a field hunt on predatory birds and game such as crows, owls, hawks, etc. which menace and prey on game birds.
Aug. 25, 1949
The Xenial brought in a queer looking critter the other day.
Given to the cruise boat by a seiner whose operations the passengers were watching, the ocean denizen measured some six feet in length and looked like nothing anyone there had ever seen before. The Walla Walla college Biological Station here has identified the beastie as an oarfish, an extremely rare example of oceania often attaining a length of thirty feet. Anyone wishing to view the fish may most likely do so for another few days at the biological station.
Aug. 27, 1959
Five new classrooms and enlarged physical education facilities will be initiated Tuesday at Central Grade school.
The wing is on the south end of the 22nd Street schoolhouse. High school students will use six new classrooms on the second floor of the addition there. Physics and chemistry labs on the ground floor have not been finished in time for the first day. Officials expect construction work there to continue for about a month. Still scheduled are locker and laboratory equipment installations and minor electrical, heating, painting and general finishing activity.
Aug. 29, 1979
Re-routing of westbound traffic in the vicinity of the Swinomish Channel bridges on Highway 20 was scheduled to take place this week, as construction proceeds on the second high-level span. The new bridge, which will be identical to the existing structure which normally carries eastbound traffic, is under construction at a cost of about $12 million.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American
