Eodiak Mirror
“&{ems of (America's Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Entered in the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Alaska Steamship
S.S. Lakina
INCOMING:
Fay Allen
Mrs. D. P., Denton & Lois An
drews
Jim <fc Keith Berry
Mrs. John J. Bruner
Mrs. J W. Cooper
M's, Rebecca, Joe C. & Annette
Dawson
Mrs. L. A DeCou
Albert Donathan
Mrs. T. R Edwards
Murray Fields
Lawrence Finley
Mrs, Edith, Carol & Nancy
Hah'o
Mrs. Marie, Adolph & Vonnie
Jaokinsky
Mrs. C. Kamp
Marco Kiilsgaard
Mrs. Ben Luque
Mrs Dora J. Manring and in
fant
WaDda McBride
Mrs. Clara E., Duane & Eugenie
Miller
Mrs. Mabel Miller
ffm. C. Robertson
Mrs. C. E., Dicky, Jack & Mi
chael Rojan
Mrs. Jauet & Craig Saunders
Mrs. Lawrence Shaw
Mrs. 0. D. & Delios Ann Smith
Edwin Swartz
Ruth Thompson
James H Travers
Mrs. Emma, Janet & Gail Zieba
Pacific Northern
Airlines
INCOMING:
Judge Dimond, Ruth Haley,
M. E. S. Brunelle, Anna May
Thomas, D. A. Noonan, William
Olson, Dorothy Breilenfeldt,
Raymond Plummer, Mildred
Ostrom, F. F. Fletcher, C. A.
Gail, Hal Fairhurst, Bishop Fitz
gerald, Effie Stepetin, Chris
Paulson, Mr. Russell, De la Kin
ports, Mary Matherly, Dorothy
Panamaroff, Alice <fe Gary Card,
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Mr. Ellis, C.
Jorgenson, D. Burt, R. Humph
rey, Clyde Leman, Mrs. H. H.
Sebring
OUTGOING:
Mr. & Mrs A A. Sumerlin,
Leo Mark Anthony, Wm. Me j
Nair, Mr. Dawson, Stanley
Johnson, Jack Coffey, Arthur j
Boe, Mrs. Du Vail, Cecil Hovey,
D. Noonan, Eugene Harding,
W. J. Wheeldon, O. V. Kukkola,
Nick Frund, Robert Bennet,
Chas. Gunter, James Cleghorn,
E:mer Ollstad, Bishop Fitzger
ald,. Wm. Ange'l, Earle Brown,
Harold Johansen, Nicholas
Schmidt, Ralph Elstad, Andres
Daton, F. E. Capshaw, Clyde
Ellis Dan Clancy, Mrs Jan
Kirk, Al Johnson, Wm. McNair,
Jack Groke, D. W. Wilcox, W.
J .McKenzie, Helen & Lynn
Maurfield, Guy Spellman, J. H.
Dob in
Archie Austad and P. Patricia
Kelly were united in marriage
September 12 by U S. Commis
sioner G. W. Bubendorf. Attend
ing the couple were Edna Ruth
Murphy and R >bert Phillips.
Three fire hydrants have been
ordered by the city for the Mis
sion road area.
Merchants of Money
This is a money store and we offer you complete
financial service
We serve about 4000 people in our various departments,
from cashing their pay checks to lending them money, in
suring their businesses, their homes, their personal effects, to
and taking care of their entire financial problems ™
We welcome the opportunity of serving you
Company Offers
Dock Operation
An offer to opera'e the city
dock in conjunction with Ersk
ine’s dock was made at the
council meeting Monday by P. J
YVatkinson, vice-president of W.
J. Erskiue & Co , who said his
company has “no interest in ac
quiring the dock or forestalling
the city owning the dock” and
that he felt the Erskme company
could operate the dock cheaper
than anybody else.
Such operation would avoid
duplication, he stated. His com
pany, he said, would be willing
to assume operation on the basis
of the $100 a month payment asi
handled previously by Ben
Kraft, and Jim Travers, again
with Erskine’s, would be put in
charge.
Claiming that the “city dock
a- a commercial proposition can*
not make money for any operat
or” Mr. Watkinson said he knew I
the city lost money on operation j
of the dock over the weekend
during unloading of the Lakina.
tllS suggestion Diougui. a ueai
ed and blunt reply from Mayor
Lee Bettinger, who said as may
or he would have nothing to
do with Erskine’s operating the
city dock Claiming that the city
had wired Jim Travers, wharf
inger, an offer to operate the
dock, that Travers arrived on
the Lakina at the base, came to
town and talked the dock deal
over with the mayor and various
I courcilmen and agreed to the
i proposition Mayor Bettinger
: said Travers then returned short
ly after to say that Mr. Watkin
I son had rehired him.
Thus “left in the hole” Mayor
Bet Unger said Glen Robinson
and others, many willing to vol
unteer, pitched in to help in get
ting the boat unloaded. The city
would not lose on the unloading,
Mayor Bettinger added, even if
'he had to "dig down into his
own poeker to see it didn’t”.
Mayor Bettinger said the peo
ple of Kod ak wanted to acquire
the dock and wanted it operated
for their benefit and that as rep
resentatives of the people he and
the council were working to that
end. Outside of the mayor’s reply
to the suggested offer there was
no other discussion and no ac
tion was taken
The city still has no'arrange
ments made for operation of the
dock, and is now advertising for
bids from operators Ben Kraft,
previous owner of the dock until
taken over by the Army, oper
ated it from the time the city
leased it from the Alaskan De
partment until he withdrew from
the arrangement a few weeks
ago.
At the regular luncheon meet
ing of the Kodiak Business and
Professional Women’s club Mon
da}1 noon President Lilian Moi
ris reported that the dub s char
ter has been received from na
tional headquarters. Plans are
being made for its formal pre
sentation to the members.
At the request of the school
the club will furnish and decor
ate a room in the school building
to be used as a fi st-aid station
and restroom. Irene Brooks is
chairman assisted by Peg Sutliff
and Mary Sorum.
Miss Ruth Thompson, house
guest of Miss Morns, was a guest
at the meeting.
The program Monday night
is in charge of Georgia Norman,
International Affairs chairman,
and will be a dinner meeting at
the Victory cafe.
Test Case
(continued from page 1)
blood and will be of far-reaching
influence.
The suit will ask that the def
endants be adjudged to have no
right, title, interest or demand
or control over the said proper
ly, and that the cloud upon the
title, caused by the restricted
deed, be removed.
Mr. Nachand bought the land,
part of Lot 8, Block 18, from
William A. and Stella Anderson,
who in turn acquired title in fee
simple from William Anderson’s
mother.
The mother, in turn, received
the title from her husband on his
demise, and the husband,
Andrew Anderson, got title in a
conveyance from Leonidas Vol
koff dated Apiil 25, 1889. The
title of Voikoff, according to doc
uments still in existence, was
given to him in fee simple as a
“Russian subject” by P. S'ak
sontoff, late governor of the
Russian Colonies in America, on
I May 23,1868.
It is the contention of tht
complaint that as a title from £
Russian subjeet, the land office
never had aDy right or title or
! applies to the Secretary of the
j Interior
j A voluminous brief prepared
' for the case points out that at
! the time of the purchase of Aias
, ka rights of all Russ:an citizens
who remained in Alaska were
guaranteed, and not to beabrog
I ated in any way, and that the
title of the land, deriving from a
| Russian citizen, should not be
I subject to any alienation, by re
' stricted deed or otherwise
Time for the hearing in the
case will probably depend on the
action of the defendants
Tht re were 30 arrests in Aug
ust, with $612 50 collected in
fines, Police Chairman L. K.
Wodlinger reported to the coun
cil Monday.
A taxi business license has
been transferred from Stanley C.
Johnson to Katherine I.afollette
Della Kinports, local beauty
operator, returned by plane yest
erday after several months’ vac
ation in Wyoming with relatives,
and in California.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Sumerlin
left by plane yesterday to re
turn to the States, after their
employment this summer at the
McConaghy cannery.
V’illiam Angell, who has been
visiting his son, Jim Angell, local
chef, left by plane this week to
return to his home in Denver.
Mrs. J. Anderson has resigned
as custodian of the city hall
building and Kenneth Berg has
beefl appointed in her etesd
Maiian Sautner has resigned
as secretary-treasurer of the Run.
sian Women’s club, and the of*
fice has been divided and Nettie
Metrokin is secretary, and Mrs.
Lena Metrokin, treasurer.
Calendar of Events
Business & Professional Women
Dinner Meeting Victory cafe,
Monday, 6:30
Rotary Club
Tuesday noon, Victory cafe.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tuesday, over Men’s store
Carpenter’s Local 2162, Friday
7:30 pm Onion hall.
International folk-dancing 13
rapidly becoming one of the pop
ular activities at the Kodiak
Comunity Center, Director Kea
Wade reports. The folk dancing
group meets Monday nights at
8:30. All interested adults are in
vited to attend but the group
will be limited to twenty coup
les after it is formally organised ,
for the winter. Membership will
be on a first-come-first-served (
! basis.
Members of the group are now
working on the Ukrainian hopak
and advanced square dancing
and have learned the l.ussian j
tzyganotchka, English dorritj
waltz, and other dances
Formation or an advanced jun
ior folk dancing club also is an
I nounced by the Center. Charter
members are Marie Cope, Sally
Heitman, Alma Nelson, Nancy
Norman, Becky Smith, Harriet
Olson, Martha Olson, Vivien Pa
gano, Gladys Pagano, Geneneva
Owen, Hazel-Marie Owen, Stella
Scroggs, Helen Beukersand Ger
maine M adson. This group will
give an exhibition at the weekly ^
square dance Oct. 9. Classes are .
held Tuesday and Thursday at 4
o’clock. . jS
Anew beginners junior folk
danuing class is now meeting at
the Center Wednesdays at 4 pm.
Volunteer librarians who will
serve at the public library at**
Center during the coming week
have been announced as follow*
by Marjorie Gunderson, chair
man of the library committee:
Sunday: 3 to 6 pm
Mrs A A Owen
Monday: 7 to 9 pm
Louise Coon
Tuesday: 7 to 9 pm
Lillian Lamme
Wednesday: 2 to 4 pm—
Sister Hilary
7 to 9 pm—
Dorothy Haag
Friday: 7 to 9 pm—
Mabel Fenner
The 4000 books in the library
are now available to all resident*
of Kodiak and vicinity. The fee
for a library card is $1 a year.
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