THE CHEMA WA AMERICAN
5
INDUSTRIAL NOTES
James Findley is now working in the
harness shop.
Martin Sampson is working on night
shift this week. .
Edward Berner is plowing down at
the lower farm. :
The gardeners will soon get through
spraying the orchard.
Lillian Stensgar did some fine work
while in the sewing room.
The farmers are almost through plow
ing down on the lower farm.
The sewing room girls are busy cut
ting out their every-day dresses.
Leo Barnaby is working in the bakery
and he savs he likes work very well.
Mattie Zimmerman is working in
the laundry and does her work well.
The carpenter boys were putting; up
curtains in the new hospital last. week.
Clara Robinson did some very nice
hemstitching in the sewing room last
week. ,
Mr. Bowenis planting trees around the
new hospital and we all hope that he
will he successful in getting them to grow.
Mr. Westley went to Polk County to
gee some maple trees to put them out in
different parts of the grounds so that the
grounds might improve in appearance.
DEBATE
The second debate between teauM
representing the Nonpareil and Excel
sior Societies occurred last night. Levi
Sorter, Bessie Boles and Martin Samp
son represented the Nonpareils, with
Levi Sorter as leader. The Excelsiors
were represented by Peter Seltice, prin
cipal speaker, Robert Cameron and
Thojrias McCully.
The subject of debate was "Resolved,
That the Fifteenth Amendtmnt was
Justifiable." The Nonpareils had the
affirmative and the Excelsiors the Nega
tive. The decision was given in favor of
the Excelsiors, but it was a verv close
debate for the reason that the judges
were not unanimous in their decisions.
The judges were Mrs. ' Cloutier, Mr.
Cooper and Mr. Fickle. This was the
second debate of a series of three between
these societies.
LOCALS
In a letter received we see that Mr.
Richter, assistant engineer at Chemawa
a couple of years, has been transferred
to the sanitarium at Miles, Washington.
We hear that Dr. E. F. Slater has
been made Superintendent of the Sani
tarium school at Miles, Wash., We wish
the doctor success and will have a great
interest in the Sanitarium, inasmuch as
the doctor served his apprenticeship
in the Indian Service at Chemawa's opn
air Sanitarium.
BORN FEBRUARY.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 1865) our
President during the Civil War, savior
of his country, and emancipator of the
slaves. . . ( .:
Longfellow (1807 1882) America V
greatest poet. He wrote many beauti
ful poems, among which are "Hiawatha,"
"Evangeline," "Tales of a Wayside Inn1',
and many others. You should know by
heart his "Excelsior" and the "Psalm of
Life." Learn as much as you can about
Longfellow and study some of his poems.