July 28, 1910

The new steam turbine for the Anacortes water company arrived from the factory Monday. The shipment that arrived is what is known as a turbine alternator unit of 500 kilowatt capacity. It is of the General Electric company’s manufacture, and is believed to be the most perfect type of electric current producing machinery that is made today.

Its power is about six times that of the generator heretofore used at the electric plant, which means that it is capable of doing the lighting for Anacortes for a number of years and also of driving probably all the machinery in Anacortes outside the mills. One of the features of this type of machine is that it is capable of long continuous runs without stopping. This feature the Water company counted on as a means of furnishing a day service. It is expected the 24 hour service will be started within a short time.

July 22, 1920

Shots fired over his head in the hope of halting a miscreant who had followed a couple of young girls from the theatre, failed to stop him the other night, and Marshal Fleming mourns the failure to capture a scoundrel, who, it is believed, has accosted others in much the same manner.

The other night two girls left the theatre for their home, when just back of the Empire they were accosted and frightened by a man in the darkness.

The skulker dodged back to O avenue, and was seen there by the marshal, who ordered him to stop, but he had forgotten what the word meant and kept going. Fleming then took a couple of shots above the fellow’s head, but this simply acted as a stimulant for his legs and he disappeared.

July 24, 1930

You’ll be able to walk across the Deception Pass bridge in time to enjoy Christmas dinner with island county friends, December, 1932. Evidence to indicate this probability was supplied Wednesday afternoon by Roland H. Hartley, governor of the state of Washington, in a public address at Deception Pass park; and by Samuel J. Humes, state director of highways, in an interview with the American.

The occasion was the twelfth annual Deception Pass picnic, which was attended by between 2,000 and 3,000 men, women and children.

July 25, 1940

First of a series of popular Fishermen’s Dances will be given this Friday evening in the Eagles Hall at Anacortes with the Goff Brothers’ nine piece orchestra playing.

One of the most popular events of the summer season, this series of dances given to entertain members of the purse seine fishing fleet who spend each Friday and Saturday in Anacortes and for the pleasure of the local dancing public, the dances will be held in Anacortes on each Friday evening for the next two months.

July 27, 1950

Guemes Island may be back in the picture as possible site for a proposed $38,000,000 Experimental Hoof and Mouth station to be sponsored by the U.S. government.

With the reported rejection of Rhode Island’s request for an additional $2,500,000 for installation of a power station on Prudence Island, named earlier this year as the location for the experimental laboratory, other prospective sites are being reviewed again this week, it is said.

Chamber of Commerce President Henry Harris and Gust N. Dalstead, chairman of the chamber industrial committee, have begun renewed efforts to corral the project for this area.

July 28, 1960

Rumors that the Fidalgo Shopping Center at the south end of town might fall by the wayside were squelched today by Hugh B. Mitchell, president of the corporation that is building the business development.

The proposed center is located between 29th and 32nd streets. Accesses to the stores will be from Commercial and N avenues and 29th and 32nd streets.

— From the archives of the Anacortes American

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