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is reamed to meet immediate need
vkiul lastly, the left-overs that have
not been touched are taken care of
and served again in some other form.
What about the pig? During the
tew short days left to him before he
will enter the orphanage proper, he
is fed cracked corn, with an occasion
al dainty in the wuy ot pealing etc.
from the kitchen. He has been
promised the honor of furnishing the
substantial part of the Thanksgiving
<1»n ner.
Wood Island & The Mission
.'Iiv Anna I, Campbell
A custom prevails at Wood Island
tlmt every new comer shall write for
publication his first impressions. Hc
*UK the latest arrival this pleasant
task falIs to tne.
In penning these lines I have in
mi ml many in the Eastern and Mid
dle States, whose ideas of Alaska p.re
as v *gue and sliaddowy as my own
before I made the trip.
Io those who for years have been
readers of the News better what I
shall say here will sound as familiar
to them as “He sure and get up when
you hear the alarm*’ sounds to Tom
the kitchen boy.
1° those who have never seen nor
lead of Alaska it is a country ot ice
bergs ml polar bears, no summer,
no vegetation, “Seward’s ice chest”
in fact, as it was formerly called.
One * anuot visit Skag way and say
they have seen Alaska. Five months
anion# the barien snow clad Mts. of
the White Fass prepared me in a
measure for the rigors of a northern
winter hut I had vet to learn that far
to the west lay an island whose fertile
soil produces luxuriant grasses, flow
ers and vegetables of all kinds.
So great seem the agricultural pos
sil iiities of Kodiak that keen busi
((. ontinued pa.^c 3)
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WEATHER REPORT
September
Maximum temperature 63
Minimum ” 35
Mean maximum ” 57.16
Mean minimum M 42. \\
Mean *’ 49-79
Precipitation, inches, 2.7;
Snow fall,
Number of days clear 2, partly
cloudy 23, cloudy 5, rainy it
M. I) SNonr.KASS, Vol Observer