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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.