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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1906)
fJIE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 7 Mrs. Chalcraft, Pickering and Alice " iv in Portland on Wednesday. Miss Dohse went to Portland Friday '.vningand returned Sunday night. Mr. Charles Henderson is visiting his r.ri.ttier Robert, the Post Master. Mr. and Mrs. Spink spent Sunday i n -ilnii with their daughter, Claudia. What was wrong at the Club? Banker Hutchinson was receiving prunes by the nvelopeful. .Misses Gertrude Brewer and Lizzie Wcstley spent several days in Polk County visiting friends. Tlic boy who never enter a saloon way miss a little experience, but he -capes a whole lot of heart-ache. l!;ims Horn. .Miss F. Newcomb of Willamette Uni versity is here spending her spring vaca tion with her mother, Mrs. Newcomb, the little hoys' matron. The representative of the Secanton Cor-p-pondenee School was out Tuesday to nil on Mrs. Spink, who is thinking of' taking a course with that school. On a trip, over the plant, one early nuprning, Mr. Campbell observed several -mull hoys under Mr. Spink's cottage hunting chicken feathers. Mr. Spink i-a Southern man and has weakness for chickens. Miss Reel seemed much pleased with the l'lioenix school on her recent visit an I noted many marked improvements. She especially complimented the class room work and the school gardens and remarked on the neatness of the children, ami their good singing, and the beauti ful school grounds, and the efficient and guild looking band of instructors, all of which is concurred in by thrt Native American. Mr. Beck, the tailor, received last week a certified check for sixty dollars from the Eilers Piano House in Portland; Oregon, which he won as one of the prizes in their word contest. Dr. Winslow, of Genoa has been suf fering from an attack of lagrippe. A number of his employes and pupils have been ill with the same disease. The Indian Leader. Retailing a Pig Chief Clerk, Spink ordered pigs feet, spare ribs and pork chops last month and his pig was only completed when he re ceived by mail recently the part of the pig he had forgotten to order and which usually conies last, the tail. The north bound train Saturday after noon was over six hours late, conseq uently many of the employes and pupils ivho were in Salem had to walk back from the Fair Grounds, and John Ben son had a long wait before going to Portland to attend the Y. M. C. A. Con vention. Alex Bayles, for many years a pupil of Chemawa, writes that he still remem bers the school. He sent best wishes to the Excelsior Literary Society of which he was once an active member. Alex is working in a logging camp near LaMoine in northern California and doing well financially. He says he would like to visit Chemawa, and may in the near future. Glad to Come Back to Chemawa. Mr. Adolph Farrow, who resigned last December to look after his propertv at Umatilla, has been reinstated and lie returned last Tuesday to his old post as shoe and harnessmaker. Mr. Farrow learned his trade at Che mawa and has been a very efficient in strutor in shoe and harnessmaking here for the last four years. A heartlv welcome awaited his return to Chemawa.