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THE C HEM AW A AMERICAN
Cfte bmiawa American
Published Weehly at the United
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. PRINTING STAFF
Joseph Dillstrom, Benjamin Wilcox
Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans
Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson Frazier
Mecum, Robert Service, (Jarl Stone.
LOCALS
Reuben Saunders was a visitor from
Salem, Sunday.
A dress parade was held Sunday after
noon. This was the first one held here
this year.
Mr. Campbell, on Tuesday, was wear
ing the first rose of summer, picked from
the side of his cottage.
Chemawa's enrollment for the month
of April was 625. Average attendance
for the month was 614.
Mr. Lowenfeldt was out taking pic
tures of the school Tuesday and Wednes
day for the Seattle Exposition.
The Excelsiors had a social on Tues
day evening. The next morning the
gym looked like a hog wallow. Why?
Hon. Geo. Chamberlain, senator from
Oregon, has been assigned to the Com
mittee of Indian Affairs of the Senate.
On Monday evening we had an excel
lent monthly entertainment. Space
forces us to give an account of this next
week.
Mr. Burdett and his boys have been
buky the pstst week putting up fences on
the north side of the school grounds, di
viding the 'Cam pus from the orchards.
The baseball boys were furnished a
good consignment of baseball supplies?
this week, over a hundred dollars worth
of the same being purchased for the team.
Mr. Mann and the blacksmiths moved
over the new double oven range which
arrived at the school and installed
it in the domestic science kitchen on
Tuesday.
. About sixty of the boys and employes
attended the wrestling match between
Chemawa and the Oregon Agricultural
College which came 1 off in the Salem
Opera House last week.
The repairs at the power house have
been completed and the engineering de
partment is now better than ever in the
history rf the school, and unexcelled
anywhere in the service.
Field Days have been arranged for
meets with McMinnviile College and Pa
cific University. The former to be held
at McMinnviile on June 14, and the lat
ter at Chemawa the first week in June.
Charles E Frye of Flora, Indiana, has
been appointed wagonmaker vice Mr.
George Mudge who was temporarily fill,
ing the position. Mr. Frye arrived at
the school Tuesday with his wife and
little son
Miss Helen C. Clarke fi om Neah Bay
was a welcome guest of the school on "
Monday. Miss Clarke had addressed an
audience' in Salem on the Indian quest
ion on Sunday evening in the Presby
terian church.
. The work of remodeling the small
girls' home is rapidly progressing and
will be finished before the end of the
present fiscal year, giving our small
girls a handsome, sanitary, up-to date,
light and airy quarters.