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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1909)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 5 ! LOCALS 4 1 i i A AAAAAA A Epther Napoleon's piano solo was very uch enjoyed by the audience on Mon iy evening. Carl Stone, who has been Mr. smith's lithful ofTjce boy for the past two mnths, is now in the printing office do ng his usual good work. March comes in like a iion this year aid will no doubt go out like a duck, s the weather is generally very favor .Me for ducks until the latter part of pril. The British Lion which comes in with March this year frightened the .Ameri can eagle from his perch over the main ntrance Wednesday afternoon. He hap witnessed all the traveling through the gateway, and the coming of Leo for 'thirteen years without a sign of fear. The thirteenth year is the unlucky one which accounts for his misfortune. The Chemawa Second team played two games away from home last week. Playing with the All-Stars of Indepen dence on last Friday night and the All Stars of- Monmouth, Saturday night. They report having had a delightful time on the trip with Mr. Enright, who was with the team, excepting the result of the game, which at Independence was 23 to 21 against Chemawa, and at Mon mouth they received their Waterloo, the score being 28 to However as it. was our Second team,, the hoys do not feel had, as in the ' Monmouth game they were out-classed in s-ize and weight. William Hunt, ex-pupil and employee of Chemawa, and at present industrial teacher at warm Springs, dropped in on a visit to his friend last Sunday. With him were Nellie Polk, Ida Palmer, and Elizabeth Meachem who were pupils from the Warm Spring School. William's friends were glad to see him looking so well. Mr. Bardwell of Washington arrived at the school yesterday on a visit to Clarence, who was very glad to see him, Charley came with him and his . friends were pleased to see him back at Chema wa. Mary S. Gregory arrived at the school last Sunday to go on with her studies. If all pupils had the difficulties to over come in getting to Chemawa that were surmounted by Mary, they would ap preciate a great deal more than they do' the advanlages to be obtained fi'orn an education. CROWS MAKING GOOD. , Alex Upshaw, of the Crow Agency, Montana, made Carlisle a short visit of a couple days this week. Alex is one of a large class of Crows who have left Car lisle and are making men of themselves. He has been, for several years past, a righl-hand assistant to Mr. E. 8. Curtis in helping him gather materia for his great work. " I he North American Indian," which is' to be issued in thirty volumes and to cost $3,000 per set. Mr. Upshaw is one of the foremost men of his tribe, is industrious and a credit to our school and to his race. He was on his way to Washington and dropped in on us to see Mr. Nori, Mrs. Denny, and several others of "the old guard." It is interesting to hear this ex-student tell of his early ex periences, his struggles after leaving school, and of his endeavors to be a cred it to bis Alma Mater. He says that, all the Carlisle Crow students are doing well; as he expressed it: "Everything that is counted a movement of progress on our reservation has a Carlisle man at the head of it." The Arrow. Asst. Supt. Campbell read the above with pleasure as he took all of "the old guard" from Crow to Carlisle, and as he expresses it, "They were my boys, and I have watched with pleasure their stetdy progress onward and upward."