Kodiak Diary
(continued from page 3)
te cost popular purchases of
Skristtnas shoppers was ice
Keepers. (They have prongs and
pau wear them on your shoes,
Aseehakos.)
What hurt about the weather
ms lack of water. Individual
jaes froze up, dams went dry
md everyone begae running out
>f water. The eity system was
ast to go dry, all Pomes on the
tills running out of water just
m Christmas eve
On the Sunday before Christ*
"mss we went out Brooklyn as
toesual to the flats, to get the
Yule tree, to notice again that
aany trees were chopped down
tad left on the ground which is
ibout the poorest example ef
Christmas spirit we know. Chose
a fat bushy tree this year for a
sfcange and home with it to
—
TAILORING
) ALTERING
• SEWING
Edytlie
Smith
ACROSS FROM
BERT'S
search for the saw atid hammer
to fix the stand.
Then oat with the same orr a*
uaents of last year and the', year
before anal back farther than
that, with even the icicles saved
because there were no new ones
yet, and did decorate same with
the result that the tree this year
was "the best looking one we’ve
had’’ an unusual .remark we
heard often.
On Monday did begin Christ
mas shopping, and seemed to be
plenty of things, even with the
strike and no Lakina until the
day after Christmas.
Merchants were smiling and
some reported bigger Christmas
sales than last year which seem
ed to surprise them. Did start
home with a huge load of bund
les at which a kind gentleman in
bis cups did grab some of them
and walk home to help us out
Did wrap furiously in new wrap
pings that did arrive that day
via pareel post and then to neigh
bors to take a bath.
Tuesday, more shopping, more
wrapping, more running around
on last minute things. Then
Tuesday evening, of course, to
the performance at the Orpheum
of the Christmas snow.
Two trees decorated with bor
rowed lights stood at each side
I of the stage and the girl singers,
wuh Cberie Mornson in front,
stood on the right by the piano,
and the 1 boy singers who sang
| “We Three Kings” stood on the
| left, with Robert Sellgren dis
playing the deepest voice.
First, there were recitations by
Jit Lieut gt Magnusen’s lit t e gul
fid the leverett Koeh’s littler
?irl, tie latter bringing down tht
aouse with her 3 /ear old rendi
tion of the eomplete “Twas the
Night Before Christmas” with
out a bauble but with big gasps
for breath that resounded over
the microphone.
Then the girl dancers from the
Community Center did turns to
Jingle Bells and a skaters danee
and two of the Nelson girls did a
Bolemn danee although they
couldn’t help smiling a eouple
times; then as the singers sang
the students put on a tableau ef
af scenes ef the Nativity.
And then Ken Wade announc
ed Santa Claus was corning aad
he DID eome, down the aisle
with a big bag and stepped in
front and all the little kiddies
and some not so little, went
down and got a bag. Ours con
tained an apple and an orange
and Christmas eandy, that the
Rotary club got at the last min
ute through the good graces of
the Navy.
Tiny Tesarik was supposed to
have been SC but he had the flu,
50 a substitute had to be pressed
into service. Little Susie Rauma
ker, who ueed to live next to
Walter Sipprell. tall Rotary Club
president, left the show maintain
ng over and ever "that wasn’t
3C that, was Walt Sispiel” and
sverybody was arguing with her.
Then we dropped into friends
having an open house and ate a
eouple devilled eggs with a side
of ham and salad and things and
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20 Named
For KEA Ballot
Eighteen men and 2 women
were chosen te run as candidates
for the 0 positions of direetori of
the KEA, by a nominating com
mittee at the Bank of Kodiak
Monday evening.
The KEA election will be held
in Mai eh.
The candidates chosen were:
W. J. Rhoades, Maurice Gunder
son, Walter Taylor, G. W. Bub
endorf, W. i. Wheeldnn, Gerald
ine Sears, Norman Sutliff, I.eraa
Whittington, John C. Hughes,
Mill Vokacek, Patrick Lynch,
Art Kiser, Leon “Ole”
Johnson, Viola Sipprell, €has.
Skinner, Wilton White, Emil
Knudsen, John Gibbons and
Jack Hinckel.
The nominating committee
consisted of O. A. Torgerson,
Paul Herring, Walter Sinprell, L.
K. Wodlinger, Mill Vokacek,
Loran Whittington and William
Lamme.
Barbara Lange writes from
Seattle that she and her hus
band, Charles, have purchased a
new home iu Seattle, at 8511
9th N. W.
Mrs Lange returned to Seat
tle recently after a visit with
Mrs. Lillian Larsen former Ko
diak resident, in McMinnville,
Ore. Mrs. Larsen is the mother
of-Mrs. Dorian Coogan
Juneau—Articles of incorpora
tion have been filed by the Casi
no Sporting Club, fee., Kodiak.
SODD
ilfilfljflfi
In Adam’s Fall by Con
stance Podge. Romance and
drama in this tale ot old
Salem in the days of tbe
witch hunts.
Mister Roberts hy
Thomas Heg§en. A »al
Navy story, close to the
hearts of servicemen.
The Salem Frigate by
John Jennings. Exciting his
torical novel of voyages of
the Frigate Essex in 1812.
Return to Jalna by
Mazo de la Roche, Latest in
the Jalna series begins in
the Fall of 1943, recounts
the diamatie experiences of
the four Whiteoak brothers
who return to their ances
tral home after the war.
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