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.