Yellow Pages
July 15, 1909
Veterans of Whatcom, San Juan and Skagit counties to meet at Anacortes August 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. G.A.R. Park at Commercial and Eleventh streets has been thoroughly rejuvenated and trimmed up by the members of General Emery Post, No. 68, for the reception of the visiting veterans and their friends. An abundant water supply at the park is guaranteed in the ample flow of the newly dug spring, and the soldier-historians will recall that August 2, the opening day of encampment week is the forty-eighth anniversary of the battle of Dug Springs, Missouri, August 2, 1861.
July 17, 1919
Street Commissioner O.A. Lenning appeared before the council with a verbal request from the members of the street gang that their daily wage be raised from $4 to $4.50. Mr. Lenning stated that the mill workers had recently been raised forty cents per day, and that the men on the streets believed they deserved as much and ten cents more because of having to ask for it. The council voted that the wages of the men be raised as requested.
July 18, 1929
When the New Wilson hotel is enlarged to make room for all the visitors at her door, Wallie V. Funk is going to be ready with plenty of clerks to take care of the trade. He already has two boys growing up for this purpose, and Tuesday another son arrived at the Anacortes hospital to be brought up in the footsteps of his father. Both Mrs. Funk and the baby are doing fine.
July 20, 1939
Ferd Brady, former Anacortes councilman, this week became Anacortes’ new councilman from the second ward in the city, taking the position vacated by H.L. Cornell who resigned from his council position recently. Brady won the election to the council in a spirited election held, with Fred Brokens, also a former member of the city council as his opponent. A secret ballot election held during the council meeting held Tuesday evening found both Brokens and Brady drawing three votes apiece from the six councilmen. Mayor Charles Peters cast the deciding vote for Brady who was then endorsed by the council as a whole.
July 21, 1949
“The fishing industry is tied up as tight at can be,” said John Plancich, manager of the large Fishermen’s Packing Corporation plant of Anacortes and one of the leaders in the negotiation dealing with fisherman of the Sound. Plancich’s statement followed the turndown on Tuesday evening of this week by fishermen of the Sound balloting on the price of fish offered by the canners of the Puget Sound.
July 16, 1959
A raging fire exploded through the Edgewater Apartments here today, gutting the 69-year-old frame building. It is the worst blaze here since the November, 1957, Farwest blaze.
The fire started in the building’s rear, and for a time threatened to jump along a row of houses on Fourth Street. Firemen turned it back, where flames speedily ate along the roof toward Q Avenue.
July 18, 1979
The Anacortes Railway has announced that its first run will be during this year’s Arts and Crafts Festival. Tommy Thompson designed and built this coal-fired steam engine. It will extend from Fourth Street to the port dock, down much of Commercial Avenue (on temporary rails).
July 19, 1989
A project to paint a “welcome to Anacortes” sign on the Boomer’s Landing smokestack was approved by the Port of Anacortes Commission last week. Commissioners were ambivalent about the project, which will cost a maximum of $7,000. Mayor Jim Rice said the city will share the cost.
— From the archives of the Anacortes American
