THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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.Fred Wright is now working in the
harness shop. W. L.
Mr. Cooper and. his boys butchered a
cow, which was very fat, on Monday.
The dress makers are getting along
nicely with the girls' summer uniforms.
The carpenters have been fixing the
windows in Mitchell and Brewer Halls.
Mrs. Campbell has some very pretty
roses in bloom around her house. G. C.
John McCush had his turn teaching the
fifth normal this Week and he is a good
teacher, too. The boys and girls like
him very much.
Lewis James ;md Lewis Sanderson are
getting to be expert at making butter.
They say they will make their own
butter some day. A.M.
Willie Friedlander says he is gaining
more knowledge of blacksmithing and
wagon making than ever before. He
says hard work helps, him.- A. C,
The seventh and eighth grades have
some pansies and fuchsias that they will
plant as son as it stops raining and be
comes dry. The nasturtiums they plant
ed are growing nicely L. M.
The Junior Y. M. C. A; organized a
baseball team last Wednesday night and
we are glad of it. And they were talk
ing about organizing a track team.
Lvery boy is anxious to have it.
' P b e 7 1 i 1 grad e pu pi 1 s are woi king- on
the liquid measure in their Arithmetic
and are getting along very rapidly. We
bo)t in ihe near ''future to go out doors
and have work in square.measuiements.
A letter received from Adelia Norris
states that she is getting along very
nicely down at her home in California
and wishes to be remembered by all her
friends.T-M. A.
Reggie Downie is now taking care of the
chicken yard under the directions of
Mrs. Tea bo. Things have improved
verr much since Reggie has taken hold
of the job.
Katie Henry is making a pretty blue
dress for Eva Simmons, which she will
have done next Sunday. M. J.
Some of the girls are studying their
various books during their leisure time
to prepare for the final examination in
two weeks. They are anxious as to what
the questions will be A. B.
PROPOSALS FO R BOILER, S MOKESTACK
AND EXTENSION TO POWER HOUSE.
Department of the Interior,
Office of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C, May 16, 1908.
Sealed proposals plainly marked on the
outside of the envelope "Proposals for Boiler,
Smokestack, and Extension to Power House,
JSalem School, Oregon", and addressed to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington,
D. C, will be received at the Indian Office
until 2 o'clock p. m., June 19, 1908, for fur
nishing and delivering the necessary materials
and labor required to construct and complete
a boiler, smokestack; and extension to power
house at the Saleai School, Oregon, in strict
accordance with plans, specifications and in
structions to bidders, which may be examin
ed at this Office, the offices of The Improve
ment Bulletin, Minneapolis. Minn., The
Construction Newt, Chicago, 111., The West
ern Contractor, Kansas City, Mo., the
Builders and Traders Exchanges at Omaha,
Mebr., St. Paul, Minn., Minneapolis, Minn.,
the Northwestern Manufacturers Association
St. Paul, Minn., the United States Indian
warehouses at Chicago, Ul., St Louis, Mo.,
Omaha, Nebr., New York, N. Y , and at the
school. For further information apply to
E. L. Chalcraft, Superintendent, Chemawa,
Oregon. C. F. Larrabee, Acting Co. turns
siouer. tf
The farmers liave been hauling gravel
from 'the Claggett pit for the gymnasium
the past week. ,