THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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Mrs.. Mann is now at home again after a second trip to a Salem hos
pital and we are pleased to be informed that she is making a steady re
covery. Xo doubt it will be of interest to many of our readers to learn that
Mrs. Helen R. Witney is now postmistress at Wapato, Wash. Many
will recall her as Miss Renner .who in 1912 was a teacher in Chemawa.
We wish her good luck in her new field.
A card received a few- days ago from Chas. K. Larsen indicated that
he was to tour for a couple of weeks with the Cushman Marine Band.
The Sound country was first in the itinerary. They are to leave Tacoma
on July 4th for San Francisco. Mr. Larsen is most likely with them
as a solo o rnetist.
Not long :'.go Professor and Mrs. F. A. McKenzie visited at Chemawa
while on a tour of the various Indian schools of the country in order
that Prof. NcKenzie could study conditions in these institutions as an
outside expert, he having recently been appointed and sent into the field
by the Phelps-Stokes Fund. Prof. McKenzie was for ten years professor
of sociology in the State University of Ohio. A short time ago he wras
elected president of Fisk Uuiversity of Nashville, Tenn., and has ac
cepted. Twelve years ago he was principal teacher under Supt. Wads
worth at Shoshone, Wyoming.
On Thursday evening, June 24, our Juvenile Band, a knickerbocker
organization under the direction of Mr. I. S. Loos, played a program in
Ye Liberty theatre, Salem, for the benefit of Mrs. R. G. Henderson.
The vocalists of the band on this occasion were Misses Louise Deschamps
and Alma Nelson. A large crowd of our people accompanied the or
ganization to Salem on this occasion and the theatre was packed to the
doors. Everything passed off nicely and the large crowd in attendance
proved most enthusiastic in the reception of every number. Mr. Loos
has reason to feel elated over the success of these little boys. Miss
Brewer played the piano accompaniments to the vocal numbers.
Sylvester Long-Lance, the first full blooded Cherokee Indian to receive
an appointment to West Point, is a member of the class which will be
graduated from the Manlius school on Wednesday. Long-Lance has
been a student at the school for three years and has stood high in
his work and been active in athletics. He is a graduate of the Carlisle
Indian School, which he entered when he was twelve years old, and
sometime ago made up his mind to become a soldier. President Wilson
U-canie interested in him and several weeks ago Long-Lance received
notification that he had been selected as one of the six presidential
appointees to the United States Military Academy. Syracuse (N. Y.)
Herald.