KODIAK .
plARY • • •
the evening of a quiet,
,yday, Oct. I8, 1867, three
’ of the United States, the
the Resaca and the
jestown, lay in the harbor of
[trough the streets of the
jDt old Russian town bille
ted soldiery marched to the
^ of the Baranof Hill where
,y were drawn up in front of
ci,jef manager. Russian
„ps formed alongside.
[be Imperial flag of Russia
ied lazily in the light ocean
>eje. At 3:30 pm, to the ac
npaniment of a salute from
.artillery of both nations, the
issian ensign was lowered. It
lied in the halyards. A marine
jsent aloft to release it. He
tit loose and flung it down
the heads of the Russian
diers.
[ben the Stars and Stripes
ieraised to the booming of
! cannon, and Alexei Pest
niroff, the Commissioner of
,Czar, spoke a few words of
Kfer. General Rous3eau, for
'United States, signified his
iptance
[be land we cail Alaska pass
to the dominion of Uncle
n,and became a part of our
mtry.—The Story of Alaska
Id Wednesday the Stars and
ipes, and the Blue and Gold
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of Alaska e flag, were displayed
here in observance of that mo
mentous day.
This little item, about Bob
Korn, Cordova, and Bob Lun
day, Kodiak, just bobbed up.
Bob Lunday, local manager of
the Orpheum theatre, used to
own the Imperial Pool hall in
Cordova. In 1936 Bob Korn
managed the place for him, and
later bought the business from
him.
From 1936 to 1944 is eight
years (you’re welcome) and dur
ing that time Bob Korn has had
plenty of occasion to use the safe
that went with the sale.
Which is what makes so funny
the wire Bob Lunday received
from Bob Korn this Monday. It
said:
i'lease wire combination or
Imperial safe. Regards. Signed,
R. VV. Korn.
After 5 years of not using the
safe Lunday was a little hazy
about the combination but wired
back an answer. Only lie u.-ed to
work at the bank in Cordova; he
is afraid he might have the
combination of the vault of the
bank mixed up with the other.
Somebody ought to warn the
bank officials at Cordova to
watch out for a guy with a
Korny memory.
An oil lamp, consisting of a
large stone, ei udely carved out
with a shallow place to hold oil
and a floating wick, is on display
at the Bank of Kodiak.
The artifact was found by
Carl Lagerberg, who left recently
for Seattle, on a trip he made to
the southern end of the island.
He discovered it on the beach of
Sitkinak island and a second one
was found at the same time.
Ruth Pratt, formerly of Kod
iak, writes from Fairbanks that
she is now employed at Slater
Camp, where the feminine Ladd
Field workers are housed.
In her letter she says:
I’ve just read “Lord of Alas
ka’’ and recalled that the Mirror
ran an article on Father Herman
not too long ago. Do you have a
copv of that paper? If so, would
you send it to me? (Note: We
printed extras, too, but every
copy has been sold.)
I see quite a few Kodiakans
here I see Gradelle Leigh (beauty
operator formerly associated
here with Della Kinports) and
Jack King (former fire chief) fre
quently. I see Warren Taylor
ever so often. The other day I
met Leonard Campbell and
Glenn McMurray (both former
ly of Kodiak). Ellen Berlin, for
merly at Wodlinger’s here) is
pharmacist at the Co-op Drug.
I certainly enjoyed my auto
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ride over the Richardson high
way. (The one in which she drove
into a moose, as chronicled in a
recent Mirror.) It was made at a
very nice time of year.
I’m quartered right here at
camp, which will he very conven
ient when the temperature stops
dropping and it looks like it has
no intention of stopping now.
I’m fortunate to get into Slater,
too, as the housing situation in
Fairbank is impossible.
Give my best regards to my
friends.
Things Coming Up—In Click
magazine, a picture spread on
the city of Fairbanks.
Edna Ferber’s new novel,
which will be of additional in
terest here, as the setting for it
is the Pacific Northwest, and
particularly Seattle.
Before A. (for Adelbert) Verle
Collar, deputy collector of in
terual revenue, from Anchorage,
came to Kodiak on his current
trip, he wired ahead for reser
vations at the Sunbeam lmtel,
asking for a room “with bath’'.
As Verle well knew no rooms at
the Sunbeam have baths
However, he g t fooled this
tiip. Charles Madsen, hotel own
er with the connivance of one of
his daughters, was ready foi
him. When he arrived, on the
bureau sat the cutest little, blue,
toy 3 piece bathroom eusemble
you ever saw. And so there
would be no doubt, a hand-let
tered sign, saying “bathtoom”.
We’d like to make a comment,
but we don’t want to tax our
imagination with a deputy col
lector around.
There is a lady in our town
who has some canaries.
For some time she had been
feeding them a piepared bird
feed, and every time she did it
made her hungry. The prepared
feed had an odor of licorice to it
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