Weekly Chemawa American., October 09, 1908, Page 3, Image 3

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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has been selected as a tackle on the All
Northwest team, so if Chemawa is fortu
nate enough to secure his services we
feel sure that we will be heard from,
, LOC A L S
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Wm. Towner came over from Siletz
this week and brought his children back
to school.
The band boys had a meeting Mon
day and rehearsed some new music.
Mr. Charles Larsen will be band di
rector this year. The prospects are
bright for the band.
Wm. Bailey and wife of Bay Center,
Wash., have been visiting at the school
during the week. Mr Bailey is greatly
interested in our school.
Little Florence Thompson of Hadlock,
Wash., visited Miss Dohse's class on
Monday to see her cousin, Warren Grant
Smith, begin his first day of School.
Supt. C. W. Goodman, of the Phoenix,
Arizona, school, has been a Chemawa
visitor during the week. He is not only
an affable gentleman, but is a man of
superior attainments. We boast of ex
ceptional tennis players, but Supt.
Goodman does not have to take his hat
off to any of us. He is making a tour
of the coast. .
New students have and are still being
enrolled at Chemawa at an astonishing
ly rapid rate this term. During ' the
vacation many new pupils were admitted
to school, and we opened school this
week with over 80 pupils more than last
year, and have an attendance at the
present time nearly equal to that in
January of former years.
Mrs. W. F. Thompson and daughter
Florence arrived from Hadlock, Wash.,
the latter part of September with the
following pupils: Dora, Ruth and Roy
Olawsen, Raymond Johnson, William
and Lyall : Wood ley and Chester Wil
liams, arriving in time for the pupils to
begin school promptly. After paying
her brother, E. A. Smith, a week's visit,
she and Florence returned home.
If you want to see a choice lot of
apples you should go to Superintendent
Chalcrafts office and see ten varieties of
choice apples 'which were brought over
by Mr. George Lansing of near the
School, Chemawa, Oregon. they
consist of the Jonathan, Oregon Red,
Ben Davis, Spitzinbnrg. Bedenheim
er, Graverstein, Twenty-Ounce Pippin
King, Rambo, Baldwin. They cer
tainly are a choice lot of apples.
OUR "TOMMY,"
Under the caption of "Famous Ball
Player" the Salem Statesman of yester
day printed the following:
Thos, C. Downie, a former student at
Chemawa and a member of the Salem
baseball team im 1903-4, was in the city
yesterday iiting among friends. Mr.
Downie is a crackerjack ball player and
some tim'H ago signed with the Cleveland
team of the Northwest league from which
he went t the Kansas City team of the
American league. During the winter he
will be located in California with his
team and took advantage of the oppor
tunity to run up into Oregon to see some
of hi old friends. He expected to leave
last -night for the south.
Mr. Westley and his gardeners are
busy sacking prunes for winter use.