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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Che Chemawa American
Published WeeKly at tHe United
States Indian Training ScKool.
.Subscription Price, 25 Cents Year. Clubs of
Five or Over 20 Cents.
Kntirpri a the Ohemnwa, Orfifon, Postoffipp as spo
ond-class mail matter.
PRINTING STAFF
Joseph Dillstrom, Benjamin Wilcox
Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans
Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson Frazier
Mecum. Robert Service, Carl Stone.
LOCALS
Mr. Teabo was in Salem, Wednesday,
on business.
Joe Moss is the chief rat killer in the
power house.
Mrs. Theisz went to Forest Grove,
Tuesday, on school business.
Joe Wiggins went to Salem, Wednes
day, after a load of cement.
. Lilac? are now in bloom in front of
Brewer and Mitchell Halls.
Invoices have been received for a hand
some doub.le-oven range for the Domestic
Science Department.
Come out and se,e the ball game this
evening. The Tigers and the Black
Cats will cross bats.
Sam Wwa of Warm Spring is one of
the new comers who made the training
table for the Salem-Portland relay race.
Mrs. McPherson(nee Bowman)who
has spent the winter with her husband
on Fox Island, Alaska, sends greetings to
hr Chemawa friends.
In another column of our paper you
will notice the wrestling match is said to
be tonight. It is now put off one week
making it Thursday, the 29th. "
Mr. Westley is kept pretty busy these
dayb running from one place? to onther.
Our garden is quite large this year and he
has to see to all parts of it at once.
Mrs. Donald Campbell after a visit of
three weeks at Chemawa has returned to
her home in Spokane. She leaves here a
host of friends, who will greatly miss her.
During working hours it does not look
well to see the engineer apprentices sit
ting on the window sill of the front win
dows of the power house putting in their
time loafing when they should be polish
ing up their engines or doing other nec
essary work about the power house.
The biids were not all killed during
the cold snap last winter, as many pre
dicted, for they are here once more, as
numerous as ever Chemavva's stately
firs seem to be a favorable place for the
song birds and each morning our ears are
delighted with the' melodies of the "feath
ered choristers", who warble fearlessly
amid the leafy wood- without dread of
the naughty boy's sling. Our boy at
Chemawa protect the birds as was seen
by their care of them last winter.
The printers are happy in the posses
sion of their new Diamond Cylinder
power press which has been installed and
is now a part of the equipment of the
printing office. This press will supply J
a much needed want of our printing de
partment and will give our printing ap
prentices opportunities heretofore need
ed. Two of last year's printing appren
tices are tilling their vocation, Webster
Hudson as editor and publisher of the
Quilieute Independent, the only paper
in the Northwest, and we believe the only
other one of two in United States . pub
lished and edited by an Indian, and
Jack McCush, who has been working
steadily at his trade in a newspaper of- I
fice at Fortuna, Calii., since leaving
Chemawa. I