AMERICAN
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Published Weehly at tHe United
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PRINTING STAFF
Corbett Underwood, Benjamin Wilcox,
Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans,
Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson, Frazier
Mecum, Joseph Dillstrqm.
LIVE ITEMS
Monthly home letters have been writ-,
ten and mailed this week.
Abraham BredelPs friends were glad
to see him when he arrived from Lapwai.
Mr. Chaloraft made a flying trip to
Siletz to confer with Supt. Egbert of
that place, ,
Word has been received that the de
partment is contemplating the purchase
of an additional piano for: Chernawa.
Why wras it that 28 hoys of Brewer
Hall had to be sent out from inspection
on Sunday morning to polish their shoes?
MissLtilu M. Evans resigned suddenly
owing . tf poor health and her place is
being temporarily filled by Miss Ger-
trude Brewer. .
We hear that Mr. W. H. Bishop who
has been clerk. at Warm Springs agency
for a number of years has been pro
moted to the Superintendent at Red
Lake, Minnesota, :
The school was recently visited by
Professor S. F. Brum formerly of Cor
nell and latterly of Stanford University.
Prof. Brum was very enthusiastic and
surprised at w hat he saw at Chernawa.
Quarterback Stine, of the Oregon
eleven, had the misfortune to break his
collar bone just before the close of the
game. The injury was attended to by
Dr. Lieurance, assisted by the nurse
girls of Chernawa.
The Oregon football men who played
our team last Saturday were a gentle
manly set of young men. They were
good sports and took their defeat very
gracefully although they had expected
to win the game.
We have had many delightful days
the past wek. It is a pretty night to
look on the horizon and see Mount St,
.Helens, Mount Jefferson, Mount Adams
and beautiful Mount Hood, looming up
clear and bright in the distance.
We certainly had lots of music at tho
game last Saturday. In addition to the
band -two" phonographs held forth; one
on each of the bleachers.. The Original
record ''Hold them! Hold them Ci e:n
awa ! etc," brought dovn the crowd.
Contractor LovelPs men are rapidly
pushing the work on the engineering
department to completion. The brick
work is livv completed exoepting tln
stack which will loom up 80 feet in tht
air. These improvements will give Che.
niawa a first class, up-to-date depart
ment This is one of the most valuable
departments from an instructive point
of view at the school.
Authority has been received for tho
purchase of additional ba nd instruments;
Three clarinets, two slide trombones, a
melophone and a helicon. These instru
ments are to be triple-plated silver, satin
finish, low pitched to correspond with
the other band instruments. This will
add very much to the instrumentation of
the band, which under Mr. LarsenV
management is rapidly improving.