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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1903)
2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN The Chemawa American. Published Weekly by the Pupils of the Chemawa Indian School. Subscription Price, 25 Cents Per Tear. Clubs of five and over 20 Cents pr year. Address all Business Communication. to The Chemawa American, Chemawa, Oregon. Note. If this space is marked with a red cross it means: :that your sub scription has expired. Please renew . Entered at the Postoffiee at Chemawa, Or., as second-class mail-matter. Che Pricillas' Picnics Sew, Sew, Sew, ! Sew, Sew, Sew, !! Sew, Sew, Pricillas ! ! ! At last after months of talking and plan ing fourteen girls and ladies and 'just one boy," the driver, found themselves well on there way to the picnic grounds beside the beautiful Willamette River. The Pri cillas decided to have a picnic a long while ago long before the frost was out of the ground. Every time they talk it over some new confection, cak or dainty was added to the lunch. Small wonder it was then that the major part of the wagonette was taken upon Saturday by a gigantic lunch basket. On the way down most of the remarks, giggles, tnd snickers centered about at the paper gee gaw which Miss Bowman had around her neck. Ladies of the east, north, and south come West for latest styles! Irene Campbell had been appoint ed official reporter for the occasion and she was kept ( busy taking notes for the ''American" ' The heavily loaded wagonette reached the grounds without mishap and in a twinkling hammocks and swings wera up, the coffee on the fire, and the lunch' whs taken from the baskets and arranged fur the "Spread of there leves." The teporter succeeded in getting a "little of each" of the following: Sadwiehes, s'. titled ejr;-?, Boston baked beans, buns, piune butler, potato salad, lettuce, Rookies, silvdrcke, "trimed with turtles" olives, pickles, milk, lemonade, strawberries and cream, cnffce and toothpicks, There may have been a few more things but the reporter was un able to take them in. In spite of this appetizing bill of fare tlm Pricillas had a hard time in persuading Levi Sortor, the driver to partake of it witli them. Twogirls finally led him while Mi?. Cloutier brought up the rear with an enor mous club. Anyone passing the grounds durinj that luncheon wouid have thought that a party of deaf mutes were picuicing. N"i a souud escaped from anyone. My, but a drive does create an appeiite ! Most of tli party finished eating within the time limn, but as long as a crumb of cake orantr;w berry was in sight, Miss B nvmiu reiniiii l true and "staid with it :' perhaps h!, would have been able to rsimiu evci longer had not a goodly pTiion of tli lunch found its way iuto Mary J. SiuMi' big pocket. Then came an hour under the trees. T;, "lazy hour," tby called it. Fin illy ir one, we don't know ho, tnanag d tu far enough away from the remnants of t lunch to quid the swimming hole. Slif an nounced her di covery and a on tin' j; were all in the water. II- re ki:i M Bowman showed a ne w siyle of l ' I. ' suit w hich was voted very . beconiin,'. The water had been a little dm!y f some and a game of base-ball w is st ir; Then while we Were packing iinK home someone discovered nome c.-ki- r had been overlookbd an) a light r t'r. mnt of cake and lem ma le w is sm-'l Unlike most picnickers, thutrpi" was not a quiet one, none of thevki'i nef-s of the day was 1 sr. T'wts notnv band that reached Ohemiwu that ev-i. . but rather the Name, lively, jeliin.'. happy "Pricillas", 1. 1'.
