THE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
The WORKERS, ou salary are:
The Pur wish of the Orphunage is
to provide a Christian home and
training for destitute children.
Tmt Records show that 75 males
and 78 females (total 153) have 1 een
received, 52 males and 57 females
discharged ( by completion of time
and by death ), 21 males and 11 fe
males now enrolled.
Fifty-six Converts have been
immersed ami received in the church.
Thh Support is provided by The
Woman's American liaptist Home
Mission Society which expends here
f85uo.no a vear. It is hoped that the
Contributions marked "Alasku”
will eventually suffice. Theiefore,
Kvurv Sunday-school and every
Young People's Socib-. y in the
land is urged to make an annual con
tribution Help from all sources
Is gratefully accepted. This is the
Only Haptisi 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 Building, Boston, Mass.
Contributions from other
purls of the country are to he sent to
Mrs. Hiiiiiii C. Marshall rqbp Vernon
Ave. Chicago, 111.
Geo. A. Learn, £
Miss Jenuie Johnsen,
Miss Lena Gorrell,
Superintendent
Matron
Matron
WB IIAVK FOR SALK A SKT OF 12
BEAUTIFUL POSTAL CARD PICTURES
OFTHK MISSION, AND VIEWS TAKEN
SINCE THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
Wk WILL SEND
YOU A SKT FOR ONE DOLLAR. SEND
US AN ORDER
A Perilous Trip
Ihiringthe winter season a j»1« »isiir«•
trip bv small boat in Alaska is a very
uncertain venture. Witness, tin- four
recently stranded on W«mmt Island
About which was two hours
after dark they landed, wet to tin
skin, chilled to the marrow and
thankful to tin* bottom of their hearts
that their feet were once more on
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kredonburg,
Miss Gladys Kredonburg and 1 .111
renre Kelly, dairyman at the Agri
culture Experiment station had start
ed from the ranch on Calcinsky Bay
at 11 a. m., having been more than
seven hours coming fourteen miles.
The trip down from Kodiak had
lieen ideal but troubled waters had
prevented their returning until near
ly a week later when the bay was
calm. After rounding Thick Point,
about six miles from the ranch, the
voyagers encountered a squall which
kicked up a chop that chopped the
mote out of their motor, necessitating
switching over onto armstrong power.
As some squalls have a way of doing
this one became colder and wetter
and windier.
Approaching night and the near
ness to treacherous reefs inspired still
greater strenuosity and suggested the
real seriousness of their danger until
it Beamed to he nip and tuck between
the devil and the deep sea as to which
would get them.
The dory shipped water and the
clouds spilled water until the point i t
saturation was reached. The young
women, who had gone prepared for
hunting, clad in blue mollies, Jorsies
and caps, sought refuge from the
si^ht of the reefs and the splash of
the sea in the bottom of the boat. So,