THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Mrs. J \mks McWhtnkih,
Superintendent of Alaska Work
510 Tremont Temple, Boston. Mass.
Thk Workers, 011 salary, are
Geo, A Learn, Supt., S. A Cold well,
As«'t. Supt., Miss Elizabeth Craumer,
Mrs. 1*1. G. Campbell.
Tub Purpose of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christian home a ’
training for destitute children.
Th»: Records show that 64 males
anil 64 females (total irSjhuve been
received, 49 mules and $9 femur s
discharged ( by completion of time
and by death ), 45 males and 40 fe
males now enrolled.
Foriy-Six Converts nave been
immersed and received in the church.
Thk Support is provided by The
Woman’s American baptist Home
Mission Society which expends heic
#7500.00 a yeur. It is hoped that the
Contributions marked “Alaska"
will eventually suffice. Therefore,
Every Sunday-school anil every
young people's society of New Eng
land is urged to make an annual con
tribution. Help from all sources
is gratefully accepted. This is the
Only Baptist mission home for
Alaskan children.
Send all contributions to
Miss Gertrude L. Davis, Trens.
510 Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass.
One liny Putin was asked to say liis
multiplication tables from five times
to twelve times. He did it very nice
iy. He was then told to say thirteen
and fourteen times. He rep ied,
“there isn’t nnv thirteen and fourteen
times. ’’
Gabriel Woocfce was greatly p'eased
when he received some picture post
al cards ill reply to the letter he
wrote to the Young Peoples Society
of the Baptist Church of Oakland Cal.
thanking them for his bed which
they paid for
Some of tile hoys went to Salt lake
for herring May 7U1. They brought
home only a dozen but are hoping
for better success next time.
Miss Kieece has accepted the
prindpalshipofthe Long wood School
for another year. The primary
teacher has not yet been selected
At a recent meeting of the School
Board, it was decided for the coming
year to omit the session during the
month of January on nccount of the
usually stormy weather during that
month and the difficulty of healing
the rooms, anti to continue the ses
sion duiing the month of June in
stead.
It will be difficult for visitors to
the Alaska-Yukon Kx posit ion to find
a nicer display of school work than
that from the Longwood District
School on Wood Is'and. where th<
Orphanage children attend.
Those who are interested in the
Wood Island Mission should make
it a point to examine the work done
bv our boys and girls. The teachers
Miss Breecc ami Miss Vinton have
spared no pains in preparing the
exhibit, which will be shipped to
Seattle on the next steamer.
Discovery- Practical View Of I.ife
Predominates. A former pupil from
a neighboring village, visited one of
tile ladie^ here. While entertaining
him she 1 rouglit out a drawing with
which she intended illustrating a
pathetic story. The picture repre
sented a liereaved father howed with
grief, one hand upon the head of the
now motherless child. Would the
Aleut boy recognize and he touched
by tlie picture of his neighbor? The
query was soon answered by the
pertinent question, "Clio* ketcheui
lice, aye, dat man?”