6 THE CHE:IAVVA AMERICAN.
AVork on new cement walks will begin
soon.
The band serenaded Col. and Mrs.Prin
gle in front of McBride Hall Wednesday
evening.
Miss Bagnell and her dressmakers will
start to making the new uniforms for the
girls next week.
A sociable was given the little folks in
the gymnasium last Saturday evening and
they enjoyed it immensely.
What girl of the junior class was it who
asked if James Smith was exchanged (dis
charged) from the hospital?
A room is being fitted up over the print
ing office for a manual training room,
which will be in Miss Hultman's charge.
A consignment of bedsteads and mat
tresses arrived Thursday morning for
Mitchell Hall and were at once placed in
the building. v
Miss Logan, of Eugene, delivered an in
teresting sermon in the chapel last Sun
day evening. She will be with us every
other Sunday evening.
A ventilator is being placed in the din
ing hall, extending up through the ro of,
which will s.upply more air for the' large
room without causing a draught.
The 5 o'clock north bound train was
over four hours late Tuesday evening ow
ing to a freight car being derailed and ly
ing across the track near Salem.
The farmers and dairymen are busy
clearing land on the east side. A loud re
port and a shower of roots and debris in
dicates one stump less, and these reports
are heard at close intervals.
Hon. Robt. M. Pringle, Supervisor of
Engineering, and Mrs. Pringle arrived at
Chemawa Monday last. Col. Pringle will
inspect the plant and supervise the plans
for increasing the water supply of the
school for which $3,000 is now available.
Miss Bertha E. Cooper is expected to
arrive at Chemawa this week. She will
take charge of the culinary department of
the Mess.
The Chemawa football team will meet
Astoria and Multnomah sometime in the
near future and hope to add another scalp
or two to their belt. These games will
probably close the season for our team.
Senator Mitchell has introduced a bill
to ratify the treaty with the Klamath In
dians to pay them $537,000 for their lands.
The bill is identical with the one which
has been before congress for a number of
years.
The boys are happy to have the steam
heat connections made with Mitchell
Hall, where they are now comfortably
housed. We hope they will e.ndeavor to
keep their new home as nice and neat and
clean as McBride Hall. ;. . .
A visitor to the small boys' home Thurs
day morning would have found a row of
little boys sewing buttons on their clothes
and doing other slight mending under
Miss McFadden's instructions. Sewing
on buttons is a simple little trick that
will come handy to them sons day, as
every bachelor can testify.
Mr. Cooper delivered a very interesting
address before the school in the chapel
Wednesday evening on the subject of ag
riculture and its influences upon civiliza
tion. The subject was well handled and
illustrated by two pictures representing
two-different Indian homes that had come
under his observation on a reservation.
One being a tumbled down shack sur
rounded by weeds, while the other was an
up-to-date farm, displayirg a high degree
of civilization. Mr, Cooper also spoke of
the evils of more than one family living
in one home. At the close of Mr. Coop
er's discourse, Mr. Campbell heartily en
dorsed Mr. Cooper's advice to the boys
that whea they were married they should
have a home to themselves and clinched
his argument by a story of an Indian who
had lived with his mother-in-law. Our
readers can undoubtedly guess how the
poor fellow fared.