THE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER
THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
The Wukkkks, ou salary, are
Geo A Learn, Superintendent,
Mrs. Mac Arthur, Mrs. Learn.
Tiib Purpose of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christian home and
training for destitute childien.
The Records show that 69 males
and 69 females (total 138) have been
received, 43 ina,es and 42 females
discharged ( by completion of time
and by deuth ), 25 males and 28 fe
males now enrolled.
Foriy-six Converts nave been
immersed and received in the 1 hi.rch
The Support is provided by The
Woman's American baptist liome
Mission Society which expends here
<7500.00 a year. It is hoped that the
Contributions marked "Alaska”
will eventually suffice. Therefoie,
Every Sunday-school, and every
Young People’s Society in the
land is urged to make an annua! con
tribution Help from all sources
is gratefully accepted. This is the
Only Baptist mission home for
Alaskan children. And the
Only Baptist Orphanage on the
Pacific Coast.
Send all Contributions from New
England to Miss Gertrude L.
Davis, Ford Puilling, Boston, Mass.
Contributions from other
parts of the country are to he sent to
Mrs. A. H. Barber, 2969 Vernon Ave.
Chicago, 111.
On account of ill health Mrs. Mc
Ginley has been obliged to (jive up
her position in the Kodiak School.
Miss Hammond, who has been teach
ing the Afognak School, gave up her
position to take Mrs. McGinley’s
place and Mrs C. Pajuman of Afog
u..k took Miss Hammond's place.
Mrs. A. C. Goss is confined to t'ne
house with a light uttack of pneu
monia.
On Wednesday Jan 5 at 2 o’clock
two distinct earthquake shocks weie
felt. No damage was done.
Gabriel Wooche is quite ill with
typhoid fever. Me is having the l est
care and nursing we can give him.
The ice crop has been harvested,
we have 107 blocks measuring about
2 it. each way, well packed aw.y iu
the ite house.
Our we.-.ther report is incomp'ete
this month as the maximum ther
mometer was bioken. and most un
fortunately the one sent to rcpluie
it was broken also, when it reached
the h uds of Mr. Snodgrass.
Should anv of our friends have
Stereopttcou slides you do n 't care
for, we wou d 1 e glad to have you
send them to us. we have a fairly
good lantern and could use some
slides to good advantage
11 is not often we can get ahead of
the peop.e in the States, but iu being
aloe to see Halley’s Comet we have
the start of ou. friends “down below”
by several months. It has been vis
ible here in early evening for some
days.
tVe ofteu tell people that the weath
er does not «et vei v cold n this sec
tion of Alaska. That the meicury
seldom goes down to zero. >t is the
unusual that has happened this
month for several days the thermom
eter registered 2 below zeto in the
front porch of the mission and one
day was down to 8 below.
This is the coldest weather that
has been known here in many years
In spite of this cold snap we have
had very little trouble from the freez
ing of the water pipes. Not as much
indeed as we hail last year though
this is a muih colder winter.