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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1913)
20 THE CHEMAWA AM ERICAN States to visit this park and tour it during the summer time and enjoy the scenery, fishing, fresh and pure mountain air, and the water. The climate is cool and pleasant all the summer long.—Peter Fountain, Sixth Grade. N O T E S OF R E T U R N E D P U P IL S Laura Siddle is in receipt of a letter from Mrs. Esther Havard, bet ter remembered as Esther Napoleon, of the class of 1910. She lives on a fine farm near Wapato, Wash., and is very happy in her home. She mentions the enjoyment she gets from her piano and guitar. We all recall the pleasure her music gave us while she was a student here, and are sure that Esther appreciates the musical advantages she had in Chemawa. Mary Costa, 1912, writes the girls here that she is teaching in Kla- wack, Alaska. We are very glad to hear of her success. Mrs. J. R. Brown, formerly Nellie Shepard, writes from her home in Ship Creek, Alaska. Her husband is in the Government Forestry Service and Nellie enjoys her life out in the wilds very much, her let ters being filled with accounts of her skill with gun and snowshoes. TW O G R E A T M E M O R IA L S Just south of the White House, in Potomac Park, a beautiful and fitting memorial is to be erected to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. In February congress appropriated $2,000,000 for this purpose. The plans are all completed and the work will soon be begun, so that the national capital will have a fitting memorial to our martyr president. This memorial is to be built on a slight eminence, in the form of a beautiful Greek temple, the material throughout being white marble. A flight of broad and graceful steps will lead up to the temple. All our nation honors this great man and we, too, are interested in it; but let me teil you of another memorial being erected that is of as great interest to us, as Indian boys and girls, that is, the great mem orial statue that will stand on the Atlantic coast. Almost the last thing that President Taft did before leaving office was to turn the first spade ful of earth on the ground where it is to stand on top of a hill at Ft. Wadsworth, at the entrance to New York harbor, as he stood beside a group of Indian Chiefs clad in all their native costumes. The memorial will be erected under the direction of congress, and
