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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1908)
8 THE CHKMAWA AMERICAN TULALIP BAND, Under date of January 27th, James Scott, wishing to surprise Supt, Charles M.. Buchanan, of Tulalip, Wash., wrote the following to the Chemawa American and requested that we publish it: Tulalip Indian School Band is hoping for great success. AH are earnest work ers and have made good progress in their two months' wor?, You see, it requires patienoe, promptness and at. tention to all of your leaderV inptruc tions, No matter how good your leader is in anything you have to do your parfp You gam by your own will and effort, We are proud to foel that our Tulalip band' is on the road to miooesa, Wo We have smoh a good bandmaster, Mr, Fred E. Smith, and then, too, we have the boys, wo are full of ambition, On December 9,' 1907, we received our instruments and on Treaty Day. Jan, 22, we' ga ve a beginners oonoert, We hope yet to get tn'the highest knot of Vahingtnn trees, The older people are rejoicing over the uood instruction their children are receiving, 0r Instrumentation and personnel follows 15flnt olnrinetp, FrnulrRoao and Paul Jonei' B flat olarinet, Albert Charles, Aloypino Rbelton, William James, and Fred Curley; cornets, Hnvth nlomew Pierre, Ales: Bay ley, Rdwnrd Jefferson and Joseph Dumber; Frennh Knrnp, RnhovtPholrton, Alphoimis Wah ingtrm and Joseph Celeptinej slide trom bones, George Jmw and Swuwa fleottj basset, Alpli5nsUB Bob and Alptirmfwa Sampson; snare drum, Solomon George; bass drum, Joseph Jn&; cymbals, Wil fred Steve.. Wprm Spring Itema We are glad to gee the Chemawa Amer ican come again, although we have been too busy or too lazy or having too good a time or something to attend to filling the space they have been kindly allow ing Warm Springs to have in its. col limns, Christmas has passed and a jolly old time we had, too, and a good dinner, Grace Benjamin went on at' a great length about (toasting the turkey" and one of us hoys told her that tho time would have been better spent in learrb ing to toast a pleoe of bread so it was fit for a fellovy to eat when he wae siok, Rhe also said something about us boys needing heads, Heads indeed! Why, we hove have been looking all the year for some nice hlooks to saw beads out of for some of those girls, We have felt m porry for them J ' Then, on New Years eve, Miss Collins and Miss Partow gave a party and some of the boys nd girls were invited and that was another good time, How we did make the old bell ring when the the clock struck twelve! And last night, at the very het soeial of the season, we boys, and our industrial teacher .Mr, John Polk, introdnoed Mte Collins anil the girls to the Warm Mprlnss school colore, And you ought to have seen thoae girls faces; they would have froa water in July, or turned the milk enur, if they had looked at it. Tint alter wa had behaved our very nicest j ami got-. ton them to join in guv school yell tlu,v eondescendcrl to Mniilc again. lUaale, itftadlej never rnvel ! not thi-tWtl but wnoll Altogether! Altogether that's the way we null! Warm Spring School 1 Zip I boom 1 Rah t Warm Spring Solum! ! Hah t tUh! ltnh I
