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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
B orn —On December 19, to Mr. and Mrs Emil Hauser, a son.
Not long ago Chemawa people were pleased to have Miss Long of
Lapwai, Idaho, here for a short visit. Miss Long is a very capable
woman and has a large acquaintance among our pupils.
Mrs. Fulkerson, sister-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. Fulkerson of Chema
wa, came down from her home at Hoquiam, Wash., with her two young
sons and spent the holiday season here.
Miss Alice Chalcraft came out from her home at the Siletz Agency
and visited with friends at Chemawa and Salem. She reported of the
people at the agency to be well and everything progressing nicely.
That Mr. and Mrs. Cooper have not forgotten their Chemawa friends
is amply proved by the receipt of Christmas cards from them. They
are now at Tongue River, Montana, where Mr. Cooper is in charge
and they are getting along nicely, we are pleased to note.
There are some real live Indians’’ out in Oregon. They are enter
ing the club work with as much enthusiasm as their pale face sisters in
any part of the country. In fact, the Indian girls from Chemawa
school beat all the other club girls in a three-day contest at the Manu
factures and Land Products Show at Portland last winter. They not
only won the first prize of $50 for team work against several other girl
club teams of the Northwest, but they carried off several hundred dol
lars’ worth of prizes of greater or less utility value that were given by
Portland firms for individual work in canning.—The Farming Business.
Following the first annual Kickapoo Indian agricultural show on the
reservation near here, the Indians have formed a society for the ad
vancement of agriculture on the reservation. Arthur Whitewater has
been elected president; Moses Williams, vice-president; Philip Wall-
wassuck, secretary; and Big Simon, treasurer. The fair consisted of
agricultural products, poultry, Indian craft and domestic science, and
was a splendid proof of the fact that scientific agricultural is being
studied on the reservation and that the Kickapoo Indian farmers are
progressive in every sense of the word. Many specimens of corn shown
at the fair were equal to that produced by Brown county’s best corn
raisers and the wheat on display was fully as good as the average raised
in northeast Kansas. The poultry show included ducks and chickens,
both raised by the Indians, and better breeds could not be produced by
any farmer who is not a specialist in raising fancy poultry. The garden
display included every article that can be grown in gardens in Brown
county, including tobacco and peanuts. The Indian women have
beautiful displays of needlework of all kinds as well as record-making
bread, pies and cakes. The premium winners could successfully com
pete in any county fair.—Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital.