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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The gardners are busy sorting potatoes.
Harry Busby makes a good i captain
of company "D".
Violet Berner is making a pretty blue
silk waist for herself.
Lillie Burns is hemstitching a very
pretty stand cover for herself.
Eleven girls went to Salem Mond ay
night to a musicial intertainment.
Dollie Case made 96 percent in her
monthly grade in the seventh, grade.,
Miss Rover and some of her boys plant
ed some beautiful ferns in our room.
Lillie Patton is working in the laun
dry and says she likes Miss Steponeck.
Harry Sexton, an ex-Chemawa studnet
writes that tie is having a fine time in
Australia.
The third grade boys and girls are
studying very hard to get in a higher
grade. '
Laura Wilson has a banjo and she
takes great pains trying to learn to
play. it.
The Sunbeams met last Wednesday
evening and they had a very interest
ing meeting.
The eighth grade pupils are having
practical measurements. They learned
how to measure circles.
Ella Flemming is one of the best
readers in the fifth grade and her teach
er is very proud of her.
Miss Royer read to the third grade a
piece out of the newspaper about the
United States battleship. s
Allah Madison does very good bead
work. She is going to make Mrs. Cooper
a very pretty bead chain.
We are learning all kinds of trades at
Chemawa, by which we can make a liv
ing when we leave here.
A letter received from ; Effie Olafson
states that she is married and her name
is now Mrs. R. O. Kenvon.
Roy Frazier and Johnnie Darnell are
now working at the office. They say
its a gjod place to work,
MikeTelkia is getting to be a good
hand drawer. He says he, "is going
try and send some of his pictures to
the East.
Mr. Swartz gave interesting lecture
Monday evening on farming and rais
ing chickens which interested the girls
as well as the boys.
They must be learning how to march
in the third grade judging from, the
steady tramp heard in that room every
morning and afternoon.
We Cour de Alenes are expecting Mr.
C. 0. Worley, the Superin tendent, tobe
here by next week and hope he will
bring some of our boy and girl friends
with him.
Miss Troutman says that she is very
glad to have Millie Freelander on her
detail, because she darns more stookings
than any other girl She darned twenty
one the other day and was proud of it.
When I left Montana about a month
ago can you guess what my occupa
tion was? Well, I was a lumber jack
alright, paddling in the snow to unbiiry
the saw-logs to skid next spring, for
the sawmills in that country. Then
along came Mr. Campbell and! came to
Chemawa with him.