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SOT PULA,

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This is, as you all know, the first edition of the “Sointula Seuttlebutt."” This also is my first editorial. In fact I have had a very hard time beginning

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The purpose of this paper, "Saintula Seuttlebutt", is to give the students of this school valuable training for later lifes. It also serves as a newsheet and & sounding beard for the voice of the people.

in a short time we hopa to have a wide cevernge on the Island. With hard work along with persever~

ance and enthusiasm we vill do this.

Theouzh the paper we alse hope to raise funds for school use. These funds will be raised threugh sales of, and advertisements published in the paper. i believe we can acconplish both hopes.

The support of the students body, the teaching staff and the 4ndividuais that have been informed has bean very encouraging « I thank them ~ for we will need every bit of support procurable from | all individuals and organizations in the village. Without your end thelr support, the papers wiii 08 a disnal effort destined to dis in the wastebasket.

EDITOH

histery of halcolm Iolund

& mambor of pcople came frem . inland to Comeca to Lock for a lace to lives it was sugsesicd by the jovernment that they could se to talcolm Island ani if thoy catablished a cemmamity there

'“€Hey could have the deland froe.

so in nineteen hundred the people came to Maleolm Islands. They cleared & smalt piece cf land and bezan te build buildings, they called the small scttle- mont scointula becarec of Lts culetnosse.

Between the years ninetccon hundred ang ninctcen hundred five the roo; 1c mado Pielde, slcorcd lend, built raade, end made a wharf. in ninetcen hundred two the first echool was built. Then in the year ninetcon hundred four the Pirot Community Hall was built, but a few months lator 4% burned down. ohortly aftorwards the pec-le began te build another Commmity Halie About thie tine the Liberty liall wae tutlt. it 1s now uscd sa a net loft.

some of the firot settlers in sointula were: Makela, iannor, Rikeman, Hr. and Ure, John fynjela and Kurikke, hurikke wus tne first icader ef the comaunity, and aftcr him wee Kekeles Mekola waa the oditer and publisher of the fireat solntulica

peper. Ho came to 2cintule ut the age ef ivonty-six and died at the age of sixty- nine ¢

Mere people came te Sointula and the ui velSAunt bOgen Lo @pTeedir Paleto aie named by Ilmen. ihe kalova school woe built in nineteen hundred ten. Hou_h Bay was named by the surveyors.

in nineteen mmdrod twenty=- five the forest firc awept across the ieslame ihe pocple vers able to check ths fire bofore 4% could de mach damace to Sointula.

In ninetcen hundred twenty-aeren the necreaation Hall was builte ‘the bali ground wes cleared by Sree latour. ‘The prosent echool was conctructed by Voluntary labours

in the ycer nineteen hundred Terty-

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