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The best hop pickers among the
smaller boys are Carl Stone and Frank
Madison, of Mr. Mann's camp.
Dr. Charles M. Buchanan, Superin
tendent of Tulalip School for years, leaves
Tulalip soon to go to Haskell Institute.
Mis Anna Bender, from Haskell
Institute, entered upons her duties as
assistant Clerk Wednesday, Sept. 16,
1908, vice Miss Frances W. Howard,
temporary. Miss Bender will be a
valuable addition to the office force.
The cooks at the Simon yard, Nels
Charles and Albert Scott, are very hos
pitable fellows. Visitors to camp are al
ways invited to take a meal, and even
if you come between meals you find a
nice little lunch set out for you by these
cooks.
Mrs. A. Cooper and daughter, Bertha,
who have been spending their summer
vacation with Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Cooper, left Tuesday morning for Me
Minnville, where they will be in charge
of one of the departments connected with
McM'innville College. The best wishes
of their many Chemawa friends go with
them. '
This week the prune drier is running
both day and night, being looked after
by Mr. Westley and M r. Bowen, while
Mr. Swartz with a large force of small
hoys is delivering the prunes to the
drier. In the kitchen,. Miss Sbipton,
Mrs. Brewer and Mrs. Liphart, assisted
by a large Lrce of girU and all the
help that can be obtained from other
departments, are busy canning, preserv
ing and making prune butter. This
will last for approximately three weeks.
Violet Berner writes that she will soon
return and mentions several new pupils
whom she expects to bring with her.
Mr. Swartz said he would give the
first boy who picked three boxes of prunes
a nickle Aaron Brazille was the winner.
C. A. Bartholow, representing W. D.
Lovell, the contractor for the extension
to the power house, is at Chemawa
with his wife, and is proceeding with
che work of assembling supplies prepar
atory to active constructive operations.
Pickering Chalcraft and George Doh
erty are warm in their praises for the
many favors and comforts Miss Harold
has contributed since their camping out
in the hop fields. Mrs. Doherty and
the Misses Brewer also report favorable
news from that popular carrp.
The McBride Hall girh have com
pleted the picking of hops at the Louis
Savage yard and have- been transferred
to the McNary yard to complete the
picking there. The boys and others
from the school who were working there
have been transferred to Frank Zie
linski's yard to pick the hops at that
place. .
Quite a number of the Chemawa
young ladies and gentlemen had a
great deal of merriment over the sudden
appearance of two gypsie fortune tellers
Tuesday afternoon The comical part
of the program was that none of the
fortune were to be disclosed for 'five
days, but the different one were im
patient to compare notes with the
others, and it was a startling disclosure
when the sadder maids, (thev had -invested
. more deeply) and wiser men
found out th it their fortunes were very
similar.