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CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
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H. L. Lovelace,
Manager,
Published Weekly by the Pupils of the
Chemawa Indian School.
Subscription Price, 25 Cents Ter Year.
Clubs of five and over 20 Cents pr year
Entered at the Postoffice at Chemawa, Or.?
as second-class mail-matter.
Address all Business Communications to
The Chemawa American,
Chemawa, Oregon.
Old-Man-In-The-Tower's Corner.
This rain reminds us that we are in Ore
gon. .
Alex Bayles is assisting in the farm
department.
Edward Bellenger and Robert Davis are
in school again.
The sixth grade is proud of their tenor
singer Joshua Gibson.
Nicholas Lewis is making a suit of
clothes for Dr. Cartwnght,
Miss Ethel Parrish of Salem was the
guest of Miss Dohse this week.
The tailoring department received a new
stove for heating the tailors' goose,
Yeppie Nelson . and William Lovelace
entered the sixth grade last Monday.
Do not be controlled by circumstances
but control circumstances and success
will follow.
Mrs. Jackson and her daughter, Mrs.
Pague were Chemawa visitors last Mon
day. Simon Ellis, Jason Wannasy and Walter
Kates are apprentices in the tailoring de
partment. Alfred, Mollie, Emma and Josephine
Cayou arrived from Washington State on
Wednesday.
Regular military drill in the Small
Boys' Home commenced on Monday even
ing, Nov. 4th.
The halls and music room in the Girls'
Building are being treated to a coat of kal
somine which will greatly improve the
same.
A.n electric bell placed over the front
door by Johnnie Raub now gives warning
to the Commissary General of any one en
tering. So please be careful.
The membership of the Band is growing
larger as nearly all the old band boys are
now in and new ones are being added,
Mr. E. Bristow arrived yesterday from
Lumml Reservation, Wash., with five
boys, Henry Balch, Sebastian Kwina, Da
vid Mike, Angelo Jefferson and Francis
John.
The farmers have just finished housing
a little over 1850 bu. of potatoes and some
thing over 1000 bu. onions from the lake
farm, nd are now plowing it for the
spring crop.
t James Bradley won the knife in the
spelling contest in the mixed grade.
James is from Alaska and is a very earnest
student. Aaron Austin, another Alaskan,
ranked next highest in this contest.
.The small boys have their evening stories
each evening. They have gone through the
lifo of Mohps and the Prophets and are
commencing; the life of Christ. They are
equally as enger for the news of the day.
Tommy Potter w.s six years old last
Tuesday. Sophie Pattee gave him a birth
day party, and Miss Miller presented him
in a nice pure as many cents as he was
years old, which pleaee dhim very much.
John Stacy is going to the Y M. C. A.
evening school in Salem, taking the Com
mercial Course, He rides to and from the
school on his wheel. John is a boy who
does not wait for opportunities but makes
tlifm.
Th Excelsior Literary Society has lots
of snap. Business was conducted in an
expeditious manner on Thurpday evening.
They are fortunate in their President Chas.
Larsen who is a young man of energy ami
ability.