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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1901)
CHEMAWA AMERICAN. 5 We are making the email boys' uni forma. Willie Blodgett is making a suit of clothes for Dr. ClarK. Miss Lockhart's chapel talk Monday was very interesting. The flowers in the star at the fountain are still in bloom. Joseph DupuisJeft Monday for Montana, after a few days visit at the school. Mrs. Adair and Miss Woodin were in Salem Monday evening. Sixty-two pupils ware enrolled during the month of October. Several attended the musicale in S alem given by the faculty of Willamette. Boys keep your coats buttoned, and don't chew gum when marching to school. Farmer Childers contemplates visiting bis old home in Illinois next week. Mr. Freeman from the Puyallup school, visited Mr. Brewer the first part of the week. The Small Boys' Home is rapidly filling up with small pupils. The enrollment is 92 at present. Adolph Farrow, our nightwatchman, was a visitor during cbapel exercises Tues day afternoon. There is another piano on the grounds at Mr. Wood's home. Chemawa is surely a musical plwe. Andrew McKay, Daniel Oaks and Willie Archamuaiilt were new pupils who arrived on Wednpsday from Washington State. Messrs. Pugh and Van Patten are have ing a great deal of their material for their nw buildings at Chemawa iVvered by rail, which will require a train "f nr con siderably over a mile long. Silas Booth and Henry Coitr ir now apprentices in the tailor shop. They be gan their trade under Mr. Fre l rick Free man, a graduate of Chemawa. Poor old Sol, after makinsr our hearts glad for a long tune with brightness and sunshine, has at last been compelled to r tire in favor of the Storm God. Tha pupils of the seventh grade will give pen pictures from tha Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and a brief review of the author for Friday afternoon's chapel program. The old farm team Ben and Bud took a spin by themselves through the school grounds the other day, but fortunately no damage was done otherwise than to slightly disfigure the wood rack, The new Course Of Study for the use of Indian Schools, by Miss Reel, Supt. of Ind. Schools, has arrived and all of the class room teachers are very eagerly, scanning its pages to see what it is like. : George Shattuck, a former pupil, writes from Seattle, that he is studying hard and has a new teacher, himself. George will take the engineer's examination this month and expects to get the position as chief engineer on the boat, where he has been doing such excellent work as an assist ant, for some time pa9t. Any bony desiring a choice Dutimng lot will do well to purchase one in Est Chemawa. The town is growing rapidly. Several new dwellings are under construc tion, a large hotel with good accommoda tions, has j ust bten thrown open to the pub lic, and we notice many other improve-' ments that will make this town a leader. Asst. Supt. Campbell, conversed over the line with Supt. P fter who n stopping at Puyallup school a distance of about 200 miles. Isn't it wonderful, B ys and Girls, to know that you can plainly hear and un derstand a voice that distance and much greater, but we live in the age f great im provements aud advancement. Col. Hofer , of Salem gave us a fplendid lecture on Sunday afternoon last. It was a descriptive talk, compnrinor the military systems of England and the United States, as shown by the late wars in South Africa and with Spain. The choir and baud dis coursed patriotic airs and Col. J.L. Stock ton, of Salm, whom, as Co?. Hofer, put it, had been up against the real thing during the rebellion, made a short and pleasing address.