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ORPHANAGE
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-'he lip-ares on your ..duress slip
t; .mate tiic mom’-', .ui.l year which
tc ...o your suhsor.- '..on. l’iease
o Mono -.hem .....; renew accordingly.
Vi e first nun:’, .r received or t!ie
eh--: ;e o: -.ly ures on the .... iress slip
is ■. receipt tor your subscription or
renewal.
...' .. gentle reminder, a red mark
will be ■ ...codon your address slip
your suascription nas ox
aired.
V.\s make mistakes. If you have
evidence of it, favor us by givin. us a
chance for correction, it; all corres
pondence remember that frequently
three months may p-ss before you
receive
b. mix . ■ 1%.. meat . -
T::O.. ;>;i a.vags M,:ws I.i.vv.at.
V.'e elm 11 eu.ie-vo- to admit ads from
reliable parties only.
Address all communications and
atnict all money or.iers (on Kodiak
P. O.i payable* to Cl »tis I*. COE,
Worn; Islaxd, Kotiiak. Alaska.
Flcaeer Gone.
SO
ilr. W. J. I-'ishe:, one o: the oldest
mo. t highly respected citizens of
lb. died at his home Xov. 17.
Ke came to .-.i, 1.-.. soon after the
transfer. tie '.eaves a wife and three
■.laughters to mourn his loss.
-'he First Separation.
The first .hi.;;, to mark the differ
et.ce between .. sober man and a
drunkard is the first drink. Not
every man who h:.s taker, a drink
becomes .. drunkard but he has turn
ed his face toward that end and has
taken One step in that direction. On
the other hand, the one who always
resists the temptation to take the first
drink ncicr becomes a drunkard
Winter Mail.
Sevc .-.il letters have been re-reived
stating -lint packages of freight and
t:’.;.il f..: tile Orphanage have been re
fused y rail road and postal author
ities because of "the close of nuviya
tio. Tile close of ravitraticn so far
a.> • .e whole Southern coast of Alaska
is concerned exists only in the mind
of the uninformed. Two r ail, p..s
seu.nor, and freight boats touch at
Kodiak every month and there is no
reason, .or delaying shipment.
Conic to Wood Island.
It would ajve us pleasure to see
tha summer, at the Orphanage, some
who have been iate.ested in the work
so mar.y years. U'e think it would
ai.-o _■ '..enciicial to the cause ..s no
re’).-t >eut..tive of the Society has ever
sce.i Wood Island. At io-st a more
plcas-nt I. ip would be di.iicu.t to dud.
The ..ertim, ... 1. do., leaves Seattle
about the tenth of each month and
makes the round tiip to Kodiak in
about twenty three days.
A \7o.-kar CcmLr.g.
Miss Augusta Curtis lias written
that she wi.i accept an appointment
to the work in the Orphanage, pro
vided proper ar.uup'c.items can he
made tor other work in which she
now is ime.es.e.i. She was a ch.ss
mate with Mis. Coe in the Mission
ary Training School, Philadelphia,
and has declined an appointment in
the Orphanage several times, ovri.ip
to her interest in an academy tor Xe
procs which she organized and prac
tically has supported.
Miss Curtis will receive a hearty
welcome here and we bespeak for her
a place in the prayers, and sympathy
of the workers in the lias,.