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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1901)
CHBMAWA AMERICAN. these transfers do decrease the enrollment and attendance, they must be made. It is " not the policy of this Office to maintain reservation schools for the purpose of re taining pupils on the reservation. - AH agents and superintendents are ex pected to carry out this policy, loyally and earnestly, as the great majority have done in the past. ' Very respectfully. W. A; Jones, Commissioner. Old-Man-I n-The-Tower's Corner. SOCIABLE to night. .7 . Alex Bay les has returned to school. Nellie Davis sprained her thumb Sun day evening and it does not feel very pleasant.- - " t ',.,,..- Mr. Pierce, Mrs. Bigger and . Mrs. Kraus se.visited Mrs. Campbell one afternoon last week. , ..-, - The girls have reorganized their basket ball teamr so we can look for some good games. - ; ' :; The, painters nave painted Mrs. West fall's room; "'"" : -; Charles Hilburn has been placed in the blacksmith shop. The tailors are hard at work making coats and pants. -' The little boys and girls of the first grade have the banner school line, and march like little soldiers. To the geological cabinet in the Princi pal's office has been added some interest ing specimens collected by her while in Alaska this summer. We miss Charles Larsen's cornet in chap el exercises, this year. . ., ': There wre five new pupils admitted to Miss Bowman's room this week, and they . are reported as doing nicely. . What about a crysanthemum show this : : fall?: From the appearance of the gardens' at Chemawa, one would think we could '""rival Portland in this line. "Mr." L. C. Henderson, recently baker at the school is now taking a course in veterinary science in Kansas City, We hear he ranks first in his class. Julia Grinder who has been out working arrived Monday evening on the 6 o'clock train.- Several new students have been enrolled this week. Mary Decker and Lucretia Beale have been added to our choir singers. Both girls sing soprano. Ex-Sheriff Knight and W. L. .lenks are frequent visitors at the school while at tending to the shipment of their onions and potatoes from this point. Floyd Lovelace of Stayton, Oregon, for merly of the Chickasaw Nation Indian Territory, has been enrolled as a pupil, Boyg and girls remember the story of "Dan" which we heard from Mr. Burt. The second team will play again9t the Willamette University tomorrow while the first team plays Corvallis Agricultural College. Alfred La Chance is a new pupil from the Grande Ronde school who entered this week. , Herman Bourgeau arrived from Daisy, Washington. ... v v - Miss French gave, an interesting chapel talk, her subject being ;the Signature-o' our President. ' The new Girlg' Society has been named the Nonpariel Literary Society. New and old pupils get off nearly every passenger train. . If they keepon our school will soon be fuller than it was last year. Moses James writes from Carlisle that he is veiy well and getting along all right. The carpenters fixed several broken win- dows at the large boys building this week, Why is it that we have so many careless .. boys? Now that work has commenced on the new Girls' Dormitory, Mrs. . Tbiesz and her girls can hardly wait until . they can move in. V ''' . : '. :-. (Jh as. Alexis arrived from Port. -Madison with a paity of new pupils.-, In the party were Henry Coriirarp, Joseph. Alexander, Yeppie Nelson, Geo. Nelson, and Petrina Nelson. ...,.-' ' Harry Holt is taking the Business Course in'WiHamette University. George Bernier the Latin Scientific ana Victor Graham the Normal, '