KODIAK .
DIARY ...
Everyone celebrates the com
ing of the New Year in his own
approved fashion (by the way,
how did you feel the next day?)
but when a woman came into
the office just before the year’s
eve and asked to borrow our
large iron ladle we thought that
was entering into the Spirits of
things just a little too. When
she tried to borrow some of our
precious lead additionally we
had to knew all
It seems a party was planned
and the custom was to be ob
served as follows: each guest,
just after the witching hour of
midnight, would melt some lead
m the ladle, then pour it into a
tub of cold water. The lead
would form in crazy designs,
and the group would try to see
patterns and shapes in the de
signs that would indicate some
thing of the future.
Since we were so tight with
our lead the lady procured sold
er, which worked very well, she
reported on returning the bor
rowed implement.
And each guist took the fan
tastic metal pattern home as a
souvenir. Which made us doubly
glad that we hadn’t made the
“loan”.
A customer went into a local
emporium this week to purchase
a world globe and was amused
no end to discover that 2 out of
about a half dozen of one kind
were definitely and firmly up
side down in their metal half
meridians.
The possibi ities of comment
are numerous. Ours was that
perhaps the upside-down ones
were designed for the Australian
market.
You are privileged to add
your own comment of course.
THE
Victory
Lloyd Smith & A) Miller
Owners
I On ice-covered Shelikof high
way just the other day a small
bunch of soldiers could be seen
down on their hands and knees,
diligently and with great care
digging into the frozen surface
of the road.
Nope, ’tweren’t ice worms.
A driver in a passing car was
so overcome with curiosity that
he stopped and got out to see
1 what was going on, to discover
that the soldiers were digging
for gold Literally, almost. For
firmly imbedded in the ice were
a number of greenbacks. When
the curious one left 8 bills had
been spotted and were being re
covered but rapidly.
How the bills got there is any
body’s guess. Maybe it was
some of them there frozen funds
we heard tell of.
—
Lots of enthusiasts have been
indulging in ice skating off and
on the past few weeks on the
various lakes about town. The
other day, however, we saw two
little girls with their ice skates
on using the icy surface of main
street as a skating pond.
We have also seen a number
use the icy surface of the main
street for skating—without
skates. And sitting down, tobog
ganing, without the toboggan.
All in all it gives one a very
creepy feeling.
The local churches and the
Baptist Mission are recipients of
frequent contributions of soils
from persons in the States. One
of the latest was made by a man,
who, wishing to help the Kodiak
Baptist church, directed that a
number of New Testaments be
sent here for use in the church’s
work.
The testaments duly arrived.
They are printed in Eskimo.
Through coirespondence Rev.
Gregory Morony has found an
Eskimo village over in Alaska
that has sent word that they
can be used there.
They are being forwarded.
Mrs. Beatrice Martz is now
employed as assistant clerk on
the local Selective Service draft
board No. 5. She replaces Mrs.
! Mary Dunbar.
Fountain Space
To Go To Club
Mrs. Vera Pierce, manage*
Pierce’s Fountain, annoow
this week that the fountain
be closed permanently Sundi
evening and the front sfal
space will be added to the T«w
Club.
The Town Club, for tnembs
only, was recently opened ti
back of the fountain and <
new club’s popularity has *
cessitated larger quarters. *1
fountain space will be remodw
Town Club will operate du«i
the remodeling.
| and it is expected the work
be done in about 2 weeks.
U Our way of living'together in America
is a strong but delicate fabric.
It is made up of many threads.
It has been woven over many centuries
by ihe patience and sacrifice of
countless liberty-loving men and women.
Let us not tear it asunder.
For no man knows, once it is destroyed,
where or when man will find its
protective warmth again. 99
Wendell Willkie
in "One World ”
Simon and Scbutter, Inc., Publishers
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