8 THE
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JIbout Kfnmawa j
Miss Lizzie Westley attended the enter
tainment Monday evening.
Thos. Holden has just completed a new
wheelbarrow for the engineers.
The gardeners have over 1455 bushels of
potatoes safely stored away for winter.
The pupils have just finished their ex
aminations and all are glad that it is over
with. , ' ' - ' ; .' :
, Mr. Pieard .and the shoemakers have a
dozen pairs of shoes to make for the small
boys' ' '. : '", ' ' ''
We had to reproduce Mr. Overman's
lecture' on Thursday morning in the fifth
grade. ' '. ""
Miss Crete Johnson spent a ' few days
last week at Chemawa, visiting her sister,
Mrs. Williams.
Mrs. Godwin accompanied her husband
to Portland last Saturday to witness the
football game.
Th girls all like the M gymnastics " they
hate every Tuesday evening. They say it
is good exercise. ; 'A ;:' ' , 'V
Miss Odessa Dodsoh is back in 'school
after an absence of about two weeks on
account of illness. ' ' '
A large number of employes and pupils
were iA Salem , Saturday afternoon doing
their Christmas shopping.
Mr. Cooper's sister is cook in the mess
kitchen and the employes and kitchen
girls all seem to like her very much.
' Miss Eva Woods is' home from the
Sacred Heart School at Salem, and will
spend the holidays with her parents.
The gardeners sent the following pro
duce to the kitchen during the past quar
ter, besides storing1 away a large amount
of vegetables for winter use: 475 bu. po
tatoes, 66 bu. parsnips, 398 bu. celery, 402
bu. cabbage, 65 bu. squashes, 33 bu. beets,
148 bu. carrots, 424 bu. onions, 256 bu.
apples and 565 bu. corn.
V A AMEPJOAN.
John Benson and Bishby Lawson have
completed some strong and well "made
trestles for the blacksmith and carpenter
shops.
George Olney is making new shafts
while Aphis Goudy is giving one of the
heavy farm wagons a thorough overhaul
ing and will treat it to . a fresh coat bf
paint. . . '
Mrs. Farrow left on Wednesday's over
land for Sacramento, Cal., where she will
spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs.
Zimmerman.
Miss Hattie Mann visited the States
man office in Salem last week and was
very much interested in it as she is one of
Chemawa's printers. - - '
Misses Francis Newcomb and Dora Win
ans, students of the Willamette Universi
ty, attended the, entertainment given by
our pupils Monday evening.
Herbert Campbell is spending the holi
days with his parents at Chemawa. He
will resume his studies at the State Uni
versity at Eugene after New Years.
Bessie Chiliquin told us an interesting
story about the Crater Lake which is near
her home. She promised that she would
tell us more about it some other time.
The wagonmakers are busy making re
pairs and doing odd jobs in their line.
This is excellent training for the boys, as
they will get a wider range of experience
than by doing some one thing all the time.
Bandmaster Stoudenmeyer is the proud
owner of a C. G. Conn's B Flat, tripple
gold plated cornet which was presented to
him by the Chemawa Indian Band as a
Christmas present. It is a beautiful in
strument and cost $125.' During the few
years Mr. Stoudenmeyer has had this
band in charge he has made it one of the
best on the Pacific coast, despite the fact
that many of the boys have been at the
school but a comparatively short time,
some of whom coming from their reserva
tion and had never seen a musical instru
ment before. The boys have shown their
appreciation of Mr. Stoudenmeyer's efforts
by making him this magnificent present.