THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Tup Worki*:rs on salary, are
Ge v A Learn, Superintendent,
•Mrs. M. G. Campbell, Matron.
Miss L. b Krgenzinger, Matron.
Mrs Anna 1. .Campbell Teacher
of Cooking.
The Purpose of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christian home and
training for destitute children.
1 Hi Records show that 70 males
and 71 females (total 141/have been
received, males and 49 females
discharged < by completion of time
and by death ), 21 males and 24 fe
males now enrolled.
Fifty six Converts nave been
immersed and received in the church.
1 hk Support is piovided by The
Woman's Ametican Baptist Home
Mission Society which expends here
$8500.00 a year. It is hoped that the
Contributions marked “Alaska’
will eventually suffice Therefore.
Fvhrv Si'ndav-scnoou and every
Voi no Peopi.k’s Society in the
land is urged to make an annual 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.
S ad all Contributions from New
Fn ;r.\nd to Miss Gertrude L.
Davis, Ford Building, Boston, Mass.
Contributio n s from other
parts of the country are to be sent to
Mrs. Kuima C. Marshall 2969 Vernon
Ave. Chicago, 111
Mike is rather a quiet boy when
grown up people are about, but given
a clear coast, and a few more boys to
help, and he can have more fun and
make more noise having it than any
three other boys put together
He has beautiful brown eyes w
a merry twinkle in them, which 1
speakes his fun-loving nature, i
hair is black aud straight. His c<
plection somewhat dark. 111 stati e
he bids fair to 1 e a “low” man. i e
has an obliging disposition, and
dorn grumbles. For several years e
has been the janitor of the school,
itig his work '/ith a cheerful spiri*
One day when out duck hunting ti
his eagerness to get some game he
did rather an unsportsman like tin
in shooting before the duck rose
fly. He made a good shot, but \s t
was his chagrin to find that he h 1
been aiming at and had shot a k a
head instead of a duck.
Thomas H. Devine Jr. was 1 ti
Aug. 2, 1895 at Sand Point, Alas
His mother died when he was f< ir
years old. The l\ S. Commissioner
at Sand Point brought him to the
mission in Dec. 1905, that he might
have the advantages furnished l \ ■
mission home.
He is a (juiet lad with a pleas -
but rather serious face; he has bl. k
hair and very dark brown eves his
compaction is somewhat dark t
clear.
No boy in the mission is as I
of reading ami does as much of it
Tom: and the effect of his reading is
shown in his English and le'ter
position
For a year and a half he has w ik
ed iu the kitchen out of school horns
and is doing finely in learning to i .ok
under .V.rs. Campbells instrui a
You should see how nice he looks in
his white coat and apron when he
waits on the table, and his sei vim, is
fully in keeping with his looks In
the manual training class he isd' ing
good careful work.
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