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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1902)
4 CHEMAWA AMERICAN. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Albert Scott has entered the school aud I een assigned to the Small Boys' Home. Miss Gertrude Brewer and C-ra Puttee will play at the Public RcltHl it) Salem, February, 17lh. The d s tire growing B0 much longer, we will soon eat our supper without elec tric light. The largest boys in the Small Boys Home are reading Hiawatha ami beg for "another chapter'1 every night. Who is responsible for the cows running Ht large on all the lawns on the school grounds? Gates should be kept cloned day and m?bt. Miss Claudia Ohilders of Salem, went to Portlan to-day to hear Nordica. We wish we were bo fortunate as to be able to ei Joy UiIb great musical treat. We are not the only "wab foot" in the country. Donald Campbell writes from Stanford UniveiBilv Ihnt it hits ben rain ing there Tor a long time. And that in' "Sunny Calitoruia." Mr. Overman has become thoroughly acclimated as any o.ie can nee who notices him walking through the rain wring his umiireila as a cane. Nothing of the tender-foot afcout mtr Mr. Overnan. Mr Campbell hud letter forwarded to lliu. addreated to Mr. Campbell, upt. Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Penn sylvania. Wonder what they thought about it back at Carlisle. Hueh is fume. The school singing on Wednesday was very good. The pupils sang the songs "BattleHymn of the Republic" and "Bed White and Blue" as though they hilly appreciated the beauty and patriotism of the words and music. We are pleased to hear of the 8a fe arrival of Mrs. Adair and Miss Laufman at Dea Moines, Iowa. They were only delayed four hinre on the trip. They are now pleasantly located and like their surround ings, Both are well, with the exception of a cold contracted by Mr, Adair. Boys and girls! hurry up and send in some. pretty Indian names suitable for the name of a country home. "If you will notice, the little violets are peeping from under their green leaves to welcome the sunshine." Bo sayB Mrs. Pat tee, who was fortunate enough to befiretto welcome this pretty little flower on its ar rival, and who sent the-offloeadainty bunch of the little fellows as proof of her say, McMinnville College has written an in. vitation for a field and track meet during the spring. Our athletes are donsidering ' it, a meeting will be calltd and the matter of organizing a team will be fully discussed, One of our draw backs now is the lack of a track. We Have good material for a fast teaman ought to give old Tom Hill a hard rub. We overheard Mr, Stoudenmeyer. say that be wished he had a small shed built on the bark of his house, to put. wood in, so as to got it in out of the wet. Keep on wishing hard, and maybe one might grow up in the night .while you sleep and sur prise yon in the morning. But someone stigtrewt1 that Mr. Studeomeyer borrows a few. boards and turns in and puts it up. Clias. La rue n of the Commissary has moved his desk from (he rear to ttie tront door of that department, and now you have to face the Commissary General when you go there on business, If lie Is not other wIsb engaged in some other part of the building. A call bell Is also planed conveniently upon the desk and all are re quested to ring if the clerk is not In sight and be will respond immediately to your call. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Sam B. Davis, are pleased to note at Chemawa, the arrival of a small stranger of the male persuasion at their home at the Rapid City Indian Industrial Hohool, 8. D. Mr.Davia, who Is the present Supt., of the Rapid City school, was formerly clerk and Asst. Sup'., and MisB Florence Wells, filled the po , sition of teacher at Chemawa. Congra tulations are extended the happy parentR by the Supt., and employes of this school.