Weekly Chemawa American., January 17, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

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THE 1 OHEM AW A "AMERICAN
. Mr. Pickles : in Califbrma ;
Continued from page one.
I was informed that owing to the greed
of man for gold this great belt of red
wood, the only one of its kind in the
world, is rapidly being cut away and a
few, generations .hence the fame of this
great forest, through the shades of which
the Indian first trod, will seem almost a
myth. Indeed on every hand the stumps
of monster trees stood as silent . monu
ments of form er glory an d m an 's d e
structiveness. . ;: y ;
On the trip I lear n ed m uch . Espe
cially interesting was. it ,to f me as was
born of a plains tribe where big trees
were unknown, but where a couple of
generations"' agb1 thousands" of buff alo
gr a&d frkrwilhn I The passing o& the'buf
jfalq asya, sarnple-pi tber .wantonness of
!tih.e"liitet man and .the destruction of the
mighty redwood . forest, will. be. but . an
,pthe;r incident vto , seryevas4 .aj reminder
that man is awful, Ayhqn h,e; desires-to -be.
LO.C A L
Do it now!
Have you a vision?
Some, letters this week.
, Mrs. .Qhalcraft has !a,bad cold. ;
Alex Lee made a tool , box ior himself.
. , Mr, Woods 4s making, ventilators; -i or
the gymnasium.. , , . ; , i , y ;
; Mr. Hatt of Salem -gave us fine talk
on Sunday night. o; I: ; i!
; Mr. , Campbell left , for , Montana;', on
Saturday evening. v ;; ? t
. Charley Michel 3 is: now; working on
the gardeners' detail - ;r V , ij , i i
The class of '08 elected their officer:
last Mon day morning. : v
A blue, rainy Monday followed i
bright beautiful Sunday. ,
Our.schoplrooms are as warm as toast
' Thank vou, Mr. Fickle. V,
Walter Haight made new steps for ; the
mess kitchen this week. fi ,u .ri--.s : r ;
; Mr. Fickle is now a ; critic for the
. EsteUe. Reel Literary Society. ;i
Miss Brown and a party of; girls1 .were
-Salem visitors on Saturday. ' ' ,
'James 'Sloan and Philip Sorahan were
visitors of the schoorbn' Sunday f I
Mr. Hulden has made a movable rail
road to be used in the wood'vard
GeorgejGoss, of Browning, , Montana,
arrived last week and was admitted. ,
; The ; boy s ;sa ng pret ty wej 1 on( Sunday
night,, but they required a little -urging.
. Floyd Hayden jand5Joe Gorraseo are
firemen in the school building this week.
We had1 quite a number1 of visitors
' from Salem on '-Sunday', as; ft-Syay'riice
day. . '! '' ' ; ;y;-HiJi..V'i.
. Mr. Cbialcraft bought 'a-new engine for
the coal draft in the firing room in the
engineer department .
- Mr, Blodgett is taking charge of the
wood shed in addition to his duties as
assistant disciplinarian. ;
We have had no cold wreather yet.
This has been a very, mild winter all
over , th e; United . States so far. , v f ;
The Eighth Grade miss Sara 'Brewer
very much. Sara is one , of "our bright
est and. most industrious pupils.
. Edward :Berner, Alvin Poliock, Ernest
David, .Davis Miller and -George Wilson
were cleaning up the windows at the
new; hospital Monday afternoon.