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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Cbe Cbemawa American
Published WeeKly at the United
States Indian Training School.
Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Clubs of
Five or Over 20 Cents.
Entered a the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as sec
ond-class mail matter.
. PRINTING STAFF
Joseph Dillstrom, Benjamin Wilcox
Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans
Calvin Darnell, Loots Hudson Frazier
Mecum, Robert Service, Uarl Stone.
Brevities
Joe Wiggins is busy discing-the plot of
ground back of the school building this
week.
Eugene Williams was kalsomining in
Mr. Campbell's cottage Thursday after
noon. Willie Flett and George Gorbett were
sowing parsnip seeds east of the track
Wednesday afternoon.
Jesse and Frank Wheeler of Grande
Ronde agency were visitors at the school
during the past week.
The farmers are very busy this week
with all of their seeding, plowing, disc
ing, and clod mashing in full force.
300 sacks of plaster and 18 barrels of
lime arrived last week for use in the
remodeling of the various buildings.
Some of the plumbers have been as
sisting Mr. Bowen's detail during the
past week in caring for the school lawn.
Mr. Burdett was laying squares of
grass along the edge of the lawn between
Brewer Hall and the dining room yester
day. John Morrell is off from his duty at
the woodshed this wreek on account of a
mashed foot, received by letting a stick
of wood drop on it.
The new helicon is a very handsome
instrument and John Taylor looks almost
a midget within it coils, however its size
does not prevent him from getting music
out of it.
In locking up a door keeper at the
sociable on Tuesday evening in was found
that there were four disabled male em
ployes, laid up with colds and other
minor ailments for that evening,"
fltblctic
The boys held a base ball meeting
Wednesday evening in which a try-out
for the first learn was discussed and it
was settled to have a try-out in the near
future.
Last Friday night there were two bas
ketball games. The first game was
played by the Woodshed boys and the
Junior lailors' team which was won by
the Wood boys 14 to 13. The other
game was played by the Farmers and
the Kitchen boys and was won by the
Farmers by the score of 25 to 18.
The game of basketball played last
Saturday evening decided the cham
pionship of the school among the various
departments. The Farmers not having
suffered defeat this season and the
Plumbers being defeated by the Farmers
onl.y It was a clean fast game and at
the end of the playing period the score
board showed the figures 34 to 30 with
the Farmers in the lead.
CHALLENGE
The Band Boys do hereby challenge
any one company for a game of base
ball.
Robert Cameron, Capt.