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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1908)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 3 LOCAL , And now the football boys are cutting their hair. Mr. Goadge is doing good work with his Bible classes. Miss Wright, of Tulalip, Washington, visited Chemawa Tuesday. Frank Peirce, an ex-pupil of Chema wa, is now at Lebam, Wash. Miss Mamie Still well was a guest of Miss Howard during the week. V Mr. Teabo accompanied the basketball team to Independence and officiated at the game. In the Bible study class last Sunday, there were 32 young ladies present and 31 young men. Mr. Cooper rendered us. a musical entertainment with his graphophone last Monday evening. Ashugak Kentworthy- spent a pleasant visit with her guardian, Mrs. Foster, of Portland, Oregon. We hear of great blizzards raging in the East. Did you hear the meadow larks this morning? Mr. Abraham McCoy, brother of Eve lyn McCoy, from Grande Eonde, Oregon, was a visitor at Chemawa during the week. We were pleased to welcome little Tucker Bullard McCoy, son of Mrs, Mc Coy, of Grande Ronde, Oregon, in our midst Jan. 7, 1908. . r Mr. Campbell took a big fur overcoat with him to Montana. Wouldn't one of them look funny "at Chemawa? Mr. Campbell will need it in Montana however. We had a very interesting entertain ment given with Mr. Cooper's phono graph Monday evening in the chapel. Lee Evans, who was apprenticed to the carpenter shop some time ago, is painting the skylight frames for the gymnasium. Mr. Hatt gave the student body a very interesting talk in chapel last Sun day evening. He advised us all to have a vision. Allen Walton of the seventh grade gave us an interesting account of his visit to China and Japan. Allen used to be a sailor. All the first team football players wish for Mr. Campbell to give them a talk on football. Whv is it that white bovs get hurt so often? The blacksmiths are studying hard this week to learn the different sizes of iron so they may know every size with out any measuring. William Watkins, one of the best workers in the blacksmithshop, is hard at work making hammers. William is a good boy and a hard worker. The Excelsior Literary Society has challenged the Nonpareil Literary So ciety for a series of three debates. The challenge was accepted and the first de bate will take place Feb. 6th. The oth er two will follow two weeks apart. A letter to Mr. Farrow from Antoine Caisse informs us that Mr. Caisse is now with the Agricultural and Forestry Department at Hemet, Calif., at a salary of $1,000 per annum. Mr. Caisse writes that he enjoys his work very much. Hemet is about thirty, miles south of Riverside. The American and their many friends at Chemawa wish Mr. Caisse and family much success.