Kodiak Diary
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timely. And we are sure the
prospective winner would agree.
A hoy in the 8th Grade in a
Redding, Calif, school, has writ
ten a letter to the 8th Grade
here, in which he says he would
like to correspond about this
“country”.
I u his letter he vouchsafes in
formation about there being “48
states in the union” and tells
what the stats and bars of the
American flag stand for. Re also
comes through with the amazing
information that “our national
authetn is the “Star Spangled
Baijnef” and that “California is
located on the extreme western
coast and is a large state”.
We can see where the little 8th
Grader might not have know
ledge ©f:the exteht -of geography
taught in Alaska schools, but it
does seem that even a young
Californian would have confid
ence in his vaunted state Cham
• her of Commerce and would rea
■ lire that even in Alaska school
children would know about Cal
ifornia. its oranges, sunshine and
.super-jumbo olives.
The letter writer also sends a
sample of the California state
flower, a pressed California pop
PK
It's a poppy, ail right, because
it's just like those that grow
here
We had the pleasure of mak
ing a cruise Sunday on Charles
Madsen's new 42-ft. Chris-Craft
which arrived recently from
Seattle
Making the journey were 8 of
the Madsen family, the O. A.
Torgersons the Dr A. Holmes
Johnsons and we. We enjoyed
the trip especially because we
went to Ouztbkie, and although
we ijad got a good glimpse of the
town on a previous trip we had
never put ashore there.
After the snow of the previous
Saturday the weather cleared
marvelously Sunday but the sun
etilbhad to play hide and seek in
the clouds. Just as we skimmed
into Ouzinkie, however, the sun
was shining, and the village loos
ed peaceful and serene The view
was dominated by the small Rus
sian chu ch, which was in the
pro : ess of being painted wire,
with the odd-shaped spires paint
ed a bright yellow.
We tied up next to the h ing
General Pershing, which a.'fer
sinking near there was pa*cl>ed
and floated in, and is now hav
ing equipment removed. We
walked up the long walk from the
cannery to the shore, and the
railings on both sides were heavy
with 6sh net, redolent with t.ar
Two little boys were in a big
dory, one on each oar, rowing
with all their might with result
ant great splashings. They
weren't getting very far, as the
prow of the boat was fast ashore.
The end of the dock came out
by the store, with the church up
a hill to our right, the school far
ther back straight ahead, and the
Baptist Mission school up a trail
to our left. We went up and look
ed at the Mission, a large white
building built similarly to the
Mission buildings in Kodiak,
stopped to take a picture of the
school, and then went up to the
church. The gentleman (Shera
tine?) in charge of it, who lived
nearby, saw us and came and
opened the church so we could
go in. It was a beautiful little
church inside, with the sun slant
ing through the windows across
the carpeted floor. The rear wall
(iconaatasis). is completely cover
ed with icons, and the predomin
ant color in the ornamental
cloths about the room is purple.
We tried taking several pictures
inside in color (with the cable re
lease forgotten on tne boat) and
finished the roll outside, where a
man with a beard was busily
painting the crosses white in the
graveyard adjoining the church.
We went back to the store
then, which was opened especial
ly for us, and browsed around
Mrs. Torgerson bought a bag of
candy for her husband and Mrs.
Johnson tried to buy some nut
Hershey's for hers, but there
were none. We tried to spend a
n ckel, too, in the table model
juke box. But it wouldn't take
nickels. It was bioken, we were
told, and no one had “gotten a
round to fixing” the nickel-tak
ing device, but they turned it on
and it began playing “Missouri
Waltz” foi free. Which we there
for enjoyed.
The store is the prst. office too.
and Hender Toms told us when
we remarked on the formal word
Amandas
Hand Laundry
505 Beach Road
We give excellent service . .. Call & Deliver
We do wet wash, rough dry & finish work
Leave Orders at Dinner Nook or P.0. Box 347 j
cAmanda Trice, cMgr.
ing of the sign over the door—
“Do N.»fc Spit On The Floor, To
Do So Wit- Spread Disease”—
that such a sign was furnished
by the government and that
posting of it was required by
Postal Laws & Regulations. We
made a mental note to tell our
postmaster about it, because our
post office lacks such a sign.
There was quite a bit of kid
ding among us the way business
was combined with pleasure on
the trip Mr. Torgerson went in
to a huddle with A. L Rogers,
cannery superintendent, over the
insurance on the General Persh
ing, Dr. Johnson visited the
Blake Wyman’s little girl who
was ill, and we got a story.
And what a story! The Gener
al Pershing, it seems, was under
water most of the time for about
10 days; when they got it to the
dock and pumped it out, the first
man down inside of the hold
found a lantern that was lit. It
had been burning, apparently, all
that time, under water. The lan
tern, as though giving truth to
the story, was on display at the
end of the cannery mess hall,
and a sign in the store announc
ed that it could be seen for 10
cents a peek. A. L. Rogers
vouched for the story, as did
cannery foreman Benches (we
forgot to ask him how to spell it)
so we were immediately suspi
cious. (Because of Rogers—it,
was the first time we had met |
Benches.)
The story was a put-up job, of
course, albeit a clever one. Ben
ches is supposed to have handed
the lamp out of the hold, fully
lit, and we werj told that half
the people in Ouzinkie believed
the story. Will our Ouzinkie sub
scribers please pass this issue of
the Mirror around?
It was getting close to 5 o’clock
so everyone was called to the
boat by a couple of toots on the
siren and we cast off. It started
raining as we entered the channel
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