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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1909)
2 THE (JHEMAWA AMERICAN 4 LOCALS Mr. Mann and his detail of blacksmiths cleaned the sewer the first of the week. Mr. Smith has a new panama and a new umbrella. You just watch the weather. In the absence of Mr. Smith, Mr. Fickle was in charge of the weekly sociable on Friday evening. Levi Sortor fears that the 50-yai d dash in the coming McMinnville meet will be pretty strenuous on his old age. Nut many sprinklers running. Justa& soon as the sun comes out, the grass wiil all die. It will be too late then. Warren Grant Smith, who is six years old today, lost his first baby tooth last Friday. He says "It just dropped out itself." Judging from the clean condition of the gymnasium after the Nonpareils party last week, it must be an exception ally fine society. Mr. James Burdette, who ha been quite ill for a few days, is again at his post of duty, Simon Matthews was in charge of his detail. Mr. Van Tassel and family and Mr. Frye and family are boarding at the mess for the present, awaiting the com-, pletion of quarters for them. Several employes have recently been the recipients of generous boxes of pansies from Mrs. Bullard, picked from her large bed at the sanitarium. Mr. Kittson, the father of Frank, Ag nes and Salena, is now occupying with his family, the place recently vacated by Prosper Picard east of the school. The next event to prepare an exhibit for is commencement. Lets get busy,, un less we want everything FRESH. After that comes the annual Oregon State Fair. Twenty-three of the smallest girls went out tor a walk with Mrs. Smith on Friday evening and they all had an enjoyable time picking wild strawberries and flowers. Of the 370 boys at Chemawa, there are 188 in Brewer Hall, 84 in Mitchell Hall, 93 in the Small Boys' Home and the balance are living with their parents in other quarters. Passing through Brewer Hall at any time of the day or evening, one can not realize from the quiet therein that there are almost 200 large and medium sized boys housed there. Miss Christine Harold of Quimby is temporarily performing the duties of head cook in the school kitchen during the absence of Mrs. Brewer, and she is staying with the Brewer gin. Mr. and Mrs. Prospt r Picard and family, who have been living east of the school the last winter, returned to the Umitilia Reservation to live, leaving their four children at Chemawa. The party of nine pupils from North em Washington were photographed in front of the dining hail by Mrs. Mann within a half an hour after their ar rival at the school Saturday evening. In marching from the dining hall Sunday morning, upon actual count, 67 boys out of 84 band and company "A" boys from Mitchell Hall, and 16 out of 188 of companies B, C and D from Brewer Hall, were looking or rubbering towards the girls' side of the grounds. Sometimes others see us.'