THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
The WORKKRS, '>n salary are
Thr Pcrposk of the Orphanage is
to provi'le a Christian home ami
training for destitute children
Thr Rkcokos show that 77 males
and 79 females (total 1561 have been
received, 57 males and hi females
4ie< harwed 1 hy completion of time
and by death 1, I’ males and ty fe
males now enrolled
Pi FT V-81 X C()N V K RTS have been
immersed and received in the church.
Tint St'PPORT is provided bv The
Woman's American Baptist Home
Mission Society which expends here
$8500 00 a year. It is honed that the
Contributions marked ' Alaska"
will eventually suffice. Therefore,
Rvttrv Si'Nns V-SCH001 and every
Vot’Ni: I'hoi’i.r’s Socihtv in the
land is urged to make an annual con
tribution Help from a 11 sources
la gratefully accepted. This is the
Oni.v Raptist mission home for
Alaskan children. And the
Oni.v Baptist Orphanacsk on the
Pacific Coast.
Send all Covtrimotions from New
Snc.i.ani) to Miss Okrtrupk L.
Davis. Ford Building, Boston, Mass.
Contributions from other
parts of the country are to he sent to
Mrs. Emma C. Marshall 2969 Vernon
Ave. Chicago, 111.
Ceo. A. I.earn, £
Miss Jennia Johnses,
Miss l.euu (iorreil,
Superintendent,
Matron
Mat roti
The new printers are doing all the
mechanical work on tile \ews Uett.cr
tliis month. They have even hud the
experience of rending proof. John
Tjowell has persisted in practice until
he can set type well with his right
hand.
The Iceman’s Joy.
The ice in the hikes 1ms been grow
ing thicker and thirl er since 1 Tore
Thanksgiving, being now nearly two
feet thick, although the temjsrature
has not been to zero this winter.
When it wns about ti f<*ot thick
..tike < 'hipbednoy, assisted by Nnk
pavlnff, j»ut over nine tons into the
Mission ice house. They took it
from Ice Lake which was formed
many years ago by the Russian Ice
Co by building a dam.
The iee was so perfectly clear that a
newspaper could he easily read
through the blocks edge vise or
through two feet of iee.
Responsive Ileus.
Thi‘ lii'iis nf Alaska cnini' as near
Living golden eggs us thi- In'll* of my
other j> irt of the world, es|.. . 1 y tli"
hens whirh ciin lie induced t" lav in
winter when eggs sell in the market
at seventy cents a dozen or higher
K. B. O. hens have responded rt
nmrknldy well, during December
and January, to a dry nuiah egg n
tion such as is fed in the liest poultry
plants.
Philip Olsen, who has charge of the
poultry now, begun in November
feeding this ration in non-waste hop
pers made by the boys at the train
ing school. lie also gives them
scratch feed and makes them scratch
for it.
By a well known system of selec
tion the laying hens will soon he se
lected for the mating pens and the
eggs saved for the spring hatching.
John L. Davis Dead.
Eleven years continuous service as
jail guard at Kodiak, with many years
as a sailor in various parts of the
world including Alaskan waters, is