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June, 1909.
Vol. X. No.3
DEPARTING FRIENDS
A nioiij{ the passengers going out
<>r. hr June Steamer will be tljree
1 Wood Island. Miss Craunier
Mi-s Vintou and Mr. Coldwell.
Afier nearly two years of service
Craumer has been obliged to
up her work ou account of ill
health.
is no lignt last to care tor a
use and the twenty nine girls who
upy tt. Miss Cruumer has done
A matron who can keep her
; ise as scrupulously clean and
me tjirls looking neat and nice as
s Craumer has done is hard to
tnid. She carries with her the best
wishes of the Wood Island friends.
June tst. Miss Vinton completed
her year as primary teacher in the
I.ongwood school. During her short
stay here she hcs endeared herself
not only to the children and workers
n tile Mission but to the native
people on the island also She will
■Ait her Brother in McMinnville Ore.
where her mother will meet her and
! 'gather they will go east.
Owing to the fact that the Society
li i' thought it wise for the Superin
:it to try the experiment of do
. about an Assistant Superinten
ds']! and of depending on native
In n, Mr. S. A. Coldwell will leave
in hme at the close of liis five years
•t -ervice as the Assistant Superin
it of ihe Orphanage. He needs
no commendation to the maiority of
the readers of the News Letter who
during the past years have become
acquainted with him through these
columns and know of his earnest
devotion to the interests of the Orph
anage. That he will be greatly
missed by all of us goes without say
ing.
The readers of the News I.etter
will have reason to regret his going,
as it is he who has done all the typo
graphical work of the paper for the v
past year and a half and if in future
the paper does not come up to the
excellence of the past you may know
it is because Mr Cold well is no longer
compositor.
After spending a short time in
Washington and Oregon and tn visit
ing Mr. and Mrs. Coe he will join
Mrs. Coldwell at Itelavan Wis. and
from there they will go to his home
in Southboro Mass. That they may
be prospered and greatly blessed
wherever they go is the sincere wish
of their many friends in Wood Island
atul Kodiak.
Mr. M. D. Snodgrass and his
mother will leave on the June Steam
er for a visit in McMinnville Ore.
From there his mother will go to
her home in Kan. The people of
Kodiak and Wood Island have great
ly enjoyed her few inonths visit in
Alaska.