Eodiafc Mirror
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Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
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Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1878.
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Benefit On
Thursday
Due to a last minute change
in date, the Russian Church ben
efit dance will be held Thursday,
Sept. 5, instead of Friday as
previously announced, at Blinn’s
hall.
Music will be furnished by the
Five Bad Pennies, navy orches
tra, with dancing from 8 to 1.
In connection with the dance
tickets are now on sale fora bed
spread raffie.The beautiful hand
made spread, requiring 6 weeks
of work by John Lukin, Afognak
nipple, will be raffled at the
dance if the necessary number
of tickets are sold by Thursday.
The Russian Ladies club, in
addition to the dance, are spon
soring a lunch which will be ser
ved at the Dinner Nook from
11 pm on, with delicious home
cooked food on the menu.
Proceeds will go to the build
ing of the new Russian church.
Because of Monday’s being a
legal holiday, the luncheon meet
ing or the BPW has been post
poned until the following Mon-1
day, September 9.
At this meeting plans will be
formulated for the gala Halluw
e’en carnival for the benefit of
the Community center
The Polar Bear softball team
has been challenged to a game
by the B & B Bar team, and
the game rrill be played today
at the school hou°e, at 6:30.
Club Show
Tomorrow
One of the main events of the
week is the Garden Show, spon
sored by the Kodiak Garden club
held at the Community center,
Sunday Sept, 1, from 3 until 11
pm The program may be obtain
ed from the Variety store and
Kraft’s store (Ladies DeDt). The
show is free and it is hoped that j
everyone who can will visit the
center sometime during tne
hours of the show.
Everyone is urged again to'
participate in order that thej
show be a success. It is hoped j
that interest can be stimulated;
into making this an annual event,1
which will broaden in scoDe and (
originality with the years. At
one time this area was known to
have produced wonderful gar
dens and the main aim of thej
club is to revive again the lag
ging “garden spirit”.
One of the main features will
be an Aiaokau scene complete
with log cabin and surrounding ;
woodlands.
One table will contain small
potted slips of hou^eplants for
sale if anyone wishes to buy,
Participants in the show are
again reminded to bring their
floral arrangements to the center
on Sunday, day of the show,
from 9 am until 2 pm where they
will be received by members of
the club for plac ing in the prop
er c asses. Contributions will be
numbered and catalogued by
name of contestant so that there
FOR SALE.
Banking services are for sale here at a reasonable cost
Just as the merchant who has to make a profit on his sales,
so we have to m*ke a fair charge for our services
When cashing checks on other banks you receive the eash
immediately, while we have to send them to the place where
they are payable, wh:ch takes time and costs money -con
sequently we must be reimbursed for the expense incurred
will be no danger of loss of con
tainer or any article displayed in
the arrangement.
Voting was being carried on
Thursday and yesterday to de
termine if a strike will be
called on all shipping on the
West coast. If carried the date
of the strike has been set as
Sept. 4 and Alaska shipping will
be affected.
A resolution making 350 feet
of the city dock available for use
of the Coast Guard was passed
at the council meeting Mondaj.
W E Donaldson, pharmaceuti
cal ambassador for the Upjohn
•ompany, is calling on the local
trade this week. He hails from
Portland.
Staging a wild hitting melee
that sent eight runs across the
plate in the last half of the last
inning, Marion Sautner’s Aces j
nosed out Alice Madsen’s All-(
Stars in a girls softball game
Thursday night. Sccre was 19 to
18 Jerry Sears, first baseman for
the winners hit a homer with the
base3 full during the rally.
Captain Alice Madsen of the ,
losers got her weekly home run j
in the last inning. She was
;hrown out at home earlier in
;he game when she tried to
stretch a triple. Donna Fitzger
i'd also hit a home run. Fielding
stars were first baseman Sears of
;he winners and Marie Cope of
;he lasers who made a circus
catch of a long fly iu left field.
Fal1 activities at the Kodiak
Community center will be plan
ned at an impoitant meeting of
the program committee at the
center n xt Tuesday at 7:30 pm.
All persons having program sug
gestions are couiially invited to
attend the meeting. Marcus
Meyer is chairman
Larry Keighley, Saurday Ev
ening Post photographer return
ed to Kodiak yesterday He will
spend a few days here fini-hing
his coverage of Kodiak which
he started befoie going noith for
additional material.
Carl Pajoman returned by
plane yes'eiday from his home
in Seattle
Jorgen Fredrickson, who has
been in the Fail banks area on
mining business returned by
plane yesterday.
Tim Chernoff, who has been
working this summer for Heinie
Berger, of Ancho age, returned
by plane Wednesday to enter
school as a Junior
An assault and battery charge,
signed by the wife, was filed yes
terday again t Lonnie Scroggins
U. S. Commissioner Bubendorf
said a drunken diiving charge
was also going to be filed, and
that the defendant’s trial will be
held today.
Mrs. Jack Hinckel returned on
the Denali after visiting her for
mer home city of Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoff
returned to Kodiak on the Cor
dova, and not Mrs. Hoff and in
fant son, as erroneously reported
last week.
Mrs. Hoff, nee Catherine
Naughton,made her home in Mc
Minnville, Ore. while Mr. Hoff,
formerly stationed at Kodiak,
was in the South Pacific.
Three bodies were shipped out
on the Denali- W. C. Hoey,
Chinese cannery worker; John
Merritt, navy man who drown
ed; and Simon Sletton, cannery
worker from Seattle who died at
the local hospital.
W. F Lewis, who has been
employed by the Army at Attu,
visited in Kodiak this week en
route to Anchorage, wheie he
will be terminated.
The fire department was called
thiB week to the Stepan Ander
son residence behind the Bel
mont- cafe, where the roof caught
fire from a chimney. It was ex
tinguished with little damage.
An intruder about 10 am
Thursday broke the glass of an
outside downstairs door in the
residence of Commissioner G W
Bubendorf on Mission road. Mr.
Bubendorf heard the noise and
ran out with a gun in lime to see
a man run arourd the corner of
the building He fired one shot
but the man disappeared in the
darkness.
Calendar of Events
Garden Show 3 to 11 Sunday
Kodiak Community Center
Central Labor Council, Sunday
10 am Union hall.
Volunteer Fiiemen’s Meeting
Sunday afternoon at 3
Rotary Club
Tuesday noon, Victory cafe.
United Fishermen of Alaska
Wednesday, 7:30, Union hall
GM Ladies Auxiliary
dewing meeting. Thursday at
2 pm at the hospital
Kodiak Community Center
Board — Thursday
7:30 pm at The Center
Russian church benefit dance
Russian Women’s club
Thursday 8:00 Blitm s hall
Carpenter s Local 2102, Friday
7:30 pm l niou hall.
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