THE ORPH \NAGE NEWS LETTER.
THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
M KS. J \ M !•!S M WHINNI K.
Superintendent of Alaska \\’» rk
io Tremont Temple. I'oston. Mass.
Tiik Workers. on salary, a i e
Curtis I'. Coe. Sup*., S. A. Coldwell,
Ass’t. Supt., Mis. M . C». Campl.ell.
Miss >1. Edna Coe.
Tiik lh'R.oSK of the Orphanage is
to provide a C1:ris11 11 home ..ml
training for destitute, chid.cn.
To.: Ri:o»:u»s shoes til 6i nodes
and 62 females (total 12 , h..\e keen
received, $6 males ..tnl }■> iemales
discharge/! ( by completion of time
and by death ). 25 males anti 2y fe
males now enrolled.
T\v kn 1 v-fix i: Conv it8TS hi. ve been
bap i/.ed and received in the church.
Tiik Si pport is piovided l y The
Womans American 1 ..ptist Iome
Mission Society which expends here
$6000.00 a year. It is hoped that the
CoNTRmrrroNS marked “ Ylaska ’
will eventually suffice. Therefore,
Evkrv Stndav-school and every
young people’s society of New Ing
la nil is urged to make an annual con
tribution. Help f.oin all sources
is gratefully accepted. '1 his is the
Only IJxptist mission home for
Alaskan children.
Send ;ill contributions to
Miss (tKRTRI'DK 1.. Davis, Treas.
510 Tremont Temple, lloston, Mass.
WHOOPING COUGH
Did you ever have whooping
com;!’ in your family? Rather tire
some to both p.itien* a ml nuise isn’t
it? Well can you imagine theeifect
of fifty cases at the same time in the
same family? That is the experience
we are in tlie midst of.
Kittle Christine Oliver had some
hereditary troubles aggravated by
the cough and died Jan. 21. Andrew
Ainiknuk has been very sick with
pneumonia and several others in
cluding Annie Bell Coe have been
dangerously ill. Some are still not
out of <langer. School has keen sus
pended four weeks.
WEATHER. REPORT
l/IX'HMHl-K.
Maximum temperature 44
Minimum ” >4
Mean maximum " 32.1
Mean minimum " 26
Precipitation, inches, 4,2'
Snow fall, 4.5
Number of days, clear 6, partly
cloudy , cloudy 25, rainy 9.
S. A. Cou>WEU„ V01. Observer.
January weather has I een (Ii44ht
ful. The ground has been froze 11,
there has been little snow or wind,
and the lowest temper.,tiue has been
24 above zero.
“The Sign of the Star,” Cont’d.
/ling silver cords and colored paper
ribbons.
Now can’t you see them? H w
the bright eyes dance and sparkle
until you are carried back to the
time when you were “to-be-in-a
piece", and isn’t it a pretty picture,
with the Ch.istnius joy overall? Vnd
ain’t von gl d r. n made it possible for
mote than eighty hiiditn and many
oldt. peiscus. who have little to re
lieve the monotony of their lives, to
come into this joy? Arn’t you glad
that the ‘in-as-much” verse has be
t ( ire a ] ;,it cf \( UV hci itage?
A very pretty part of the program