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June 25, 1908
There was all kinds of class in the baseball game with which opposing bunches of married men and single men entertained a howling multitude at Recreation park last Sunday afternoon, the multitude paying $20 net for the experience. The rooters were far more attractive than the game itself, one bunch being a choice collection of the most charming married ladies of the city and the other a bevy of beautiful debutantes. The game was hotly, almost fiercely, contested, and the married men won out with a score of 8 to 5.

June 27, 1918
The dedication services for the Westminster Presbyterian Church will be held at the regular hour of church services Sunday morning. The Rev. W.A. Major, D.D., of Seattle will give the address. The reason that the dedication has been delayed so long is that until recently there still remained a debt on the building which has now been removed. The corner stone was laid Oct. 3, 1915.

June 28, 1928
The 1928 Chautauqua, with Miss Helen Ramsay as superintendent, opened Monday evening with a well-filled tent and a splendid attraction in the appearance of the monologist, Mrs. Jessie Rae Taylor, whose work was that of a finished artist. She was assisted on the program by Lon Johnson, radio star, who answered encore after encore in his musical program, giving many of his own compositions.

June 24, 1948
Investigation of the possible construction of a scenic road to the summit of Mount Erie, just outside of Anacortes, is being conducted by the Chamber of Commerce, it was announced this week. Mel Holland, general chairman, cited the project as a tourist attraction as well as a possible television point because of the high altitude.

June 27, 1968
A funny thing happened in the shower to Bud (Dr. E.A.) Strom the other day... Bud, who summers at Guemes, was in the basement shower of the dental clinic when he became aware of rapid footsteps and he peeked out in time to see Dr. Ray Pinson rushing out with a fire extinguisher. A fire? Oh yeah! Except it was in Bud’s Kharman Ghia parked in the lot and nobody knew how to raise the hood to extinguish it.

June 28, 1978
Space for boat moorage at the Port of Anacortes’ Cap Sante Boat Haven may eventually almost double, according to a preliminary land use plan for the marina presented this week by Port Manager Bob Keller. The plan shows as many as 468 new moorages possible north of the 500 which now exist at Cap Sante.

June 24, 1998
The Seafarers Memorial monument, now located just west of the city’s commercial fishing fleet in Cap Sante Boat Haven, will find a new home at South Harbor Park. The Port of Anacortes is seeking a shoreline permit to move the monument primarily because the ground underneath is unstable, causing the heavy structure to list.

— From the archives of the Anacortes American