THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
5
Brevities
Mr. Picard, of Umatilla, is here visiting
his daughter, Pearl.
The Black Cats and Unions played
the only tie game. ,
Minesinger has canceled every hit he
made with an error.
Levi Sortor makes a good umpire for
the Rose Avenue League.
Henry Shaw makes a pretty good
driver for old Chuh and Blondy.
The Tigers is the only team that has
two pitchers who have never lost a game.
The Tigers have two kittens, Jake
and Darnell (H.), who promise to he
real Tigers.
All of the relay runners had their
pictures taken last Wednesday over in
the gymnasium.
We were all sorry to see Agnes Steele
leave us last Saturday. She went to her
home in California.
Lloyd Westley and his force of boys
are working around Mitchell Hall car
ing for the rose bushes.
Another new John Van Cooker has ar
rived at the school to be installed in
our culinary department.
Tom Andrews fixed the radiator in
Robert Cameron's room. He will now
have no water to mop his floor.
On Wednesday Mr. Mann took snap
shots of each of the members of the re
lay team and also one of the group.
There was quite an eruption in John
Taylor's room last Sunday morning
about the time of the inspection hour.
This is the day that many of our
Alaskan boys wear a big smile on their
way to the dining room. Can you guess
why?,
Do you first team baseball boys know
that you must get in the game and not
up in the air or you will get something
else(canned)., s
Leon Reinkin is proud of his wood
shed force. Leon is the right one to see
to the delivering of the wood ' to the
different kitchens about the grounds.
Violet Berner was visiting the black
smith shop last Wednesday with her
uncle, Mr. Picard, and while there showed
her brother Edward how to swing the
sledge.
Misses Hutchinson, Koester, Steponeck
and Leader have moved from the Small
Girls' Home and are now cosily installed
in the residence formerly occupied by
Mr. Woods.
The maiden ladies who are rusticating
temporarily in South Cottage will have
to improve their cooking ability judging
from the fumes that filled the air in the
neighborhood of their retreat on Wednes
day evening.
A reed band is now practicing in Micth
ell Hall. Look out for it soon. It
means to be heard. It consists of a bari
tone saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto
saxophone, . soprano saxophone, bass
clarinet, alto clarinet, two Bb clarinets
and one Eb clarinet.
Haynes DeWitt is busily at.work mak
ing a model open air day school for the
Alaska-Yukon Exposition. It is made
over the working plans as drawn in the
Office, reducing the scale. It will be a
perfect model of the day schools that
the Commissioner is establishing in the
Southwest, being the exact model of a
government school house put up in Cali
fornia sometime in 1908.