Weekly Chemawa American., November 20, 1908, Page 4, Image 4

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
tin Cticmawa Hmerican
Published WeeKly at the United
States Indian Training ScKool.
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Five or Over 20 Cents.
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( ond-class mail matter.
PRINTING STAFF
Joseph Dillstrom, Benjamin Wilcox,
Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans,
Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson, Frazier
Mecum, Willie Fisher.
Gratitude! Certainly you would not
expect it in a school tramp!- We have
in mind one of the latter class on whom
the Chemawa School showered excep
tional favors. He went home. Was
helped by Chemawa even after he was
home. Tried to get back. Did not.
Had to get out of the home .country.
Did by going to another school and
knocking the school that wasi his best
friend. Shame! We predict that he
will be knocking the other school inside
of six months.
Jleademic
Mr. Wertz's lecture was reprodueed'by
the pupils of all the grades.
Margaret Lo wry is doing good work
in the Fifth- Normal. She will make
an excellent teacher. " !
The seventh grade boys were glad to
see their classmate, Ed. S.tehsgar, return
to Chemawa last Tuesday.'
Tuesday the fifth grade liad an inter
esting argument on the care of clothes,
after which we were; given some valu
able points on. the suhject by our teach
er The boys of the 8th Grade reproduced
the lecture on apple-growing,, which was
given in the chapel, on Monday night.
Many good papers were handed iff,, but
that of Lee Evans" was certainly the
best. It showed his careful attention, as
he brought but nearly every point given
by the lecturer, "
SOCIETIES
Progressive.
Members of the Progressive Literary
Society held their regular meeting last
Thursday evening. The house was
called to order by the president after
which the roll was called. The mirintes
of previous meeting were read and stood
approved. New and old business was
next called for and settled, after which
we had a good program. Our critic then
gave a few words and we adjourned.
V. W. C A.
The members of the Y. W. 0. A. held
their regular "meeting last Wednesday
evening. The president being absent,
the vice-president presided over the
meeting. The meeting was opened by a
song entitled, kI love to hear the story. "
Miss Royer then led in prayer and an
other song was sung. The roll was
called and the ,minutes of the previous
meeting read. ;The reports of the dif-.
ferent committees were called for and
the business was transacted., The topic
for the evening was "Repentance,",
which was led by Miss Royer, who
then gave an .interesting talk on the sub?
ject. A number of the members read
verses from the Bible vhich referred to
t he topic. After hearing from the dele
gates who attended the Willamette
Valley Student Association Conference
which was held in Salem we sang the
closing song,, repeated our vatchword
and adjourned.
iiKamona. . " vi! ":'
The Ramona. Literary Society met; in
their usual hall last Tbursdav evening,
. The house came to oider and th roll:
was called. Old and new business was
brought before the house and disposed
of. There being; no , other business we
f proceeded with .the following debate:,1
''Resolved, That there is.more benefit
derived from the fetudv of History than
Geography." ; The affirmative was up
.held by,,Alyine Dale, Violet Broivn, and
: Sarah Matthews. The disputants on the
negative were Jennie Luke, Annie John
son and Martha Andy. The judges de
cided in favor of the negative. We then
, adjourned..