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New straw hats were issued to the boys
during the past week.
The girls of the mandolin club were
prebented with new white suits.
Andy Walker is a frequent visitor to
the different farmers now-a-days.
Mrs. Broom, of Salem, was here visit
ing her children the first part of the week.
Mrs. Segun was up from Portland last
week to see her. children, who are
students here. .
Mr. Van Tassel and family are now
occupying rooms in the employes' new
quarters.
Joe Wiggins has been elected captain
of the baseball team for next year and
Amos Smoker assistant.
Some rain fell here Saturday and Sun
day which was greatly needed by the
fruit growers of this valley.
John Brown and Willie Mose attended
a party given at the home of Mrs. Noren,
who lives near the school.
All of the band instruments are hav
ing cases made for them. Quite a num
ber have already been made.
The small boys seem to enjoy caring
for the rose bushes and lawn around the
south end of the industrial building. .
Harry Queachpalma and Philip Purns
went up to Mr. Westley'3 place Sunday
and returned with a pail full of cherries.
The band has just received .two cor
net solos, Old Kentucky Home and Le
Secret, and one cornet duet, Royal
Guests.
As the strawberries are about all
picked the small boys will now wait un
til the raspberries and Loganberries get
ripe, which are next in order.
Why is it that the reporters quit hand
ing in items from their shops? It keeps
one or two typos busy all week getting
enough news to fill the columns of the
American.
The boys who have been attending the
Y. M. 0. A. convention at Columbia
Beach, Oregon, returned to Chemawa on
Monday evening and report having had
a very fine time.
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The dairy boys put up a heavy gate
in the fence between the dairy barn and
the school farm.
The small girls are cleaning up their
building so it will be in a condition to
move into as soon as it is finished.
Mrs. Mann and her daughter flattie
have been doing a great deal of work in
the sewing room during the past week.
Miss Evelyn Woods finished house
cleaning on Tuesday, which was a great
relief to her, as she was busy at the task
for several days.
Milton George and Louis Pel litier
shingled a barn for Mr. Page, one of our
neighboring'farmers, during the weejt,
and Lee Evans and Haynes Bateman art;
painting it.
Several of the boys are now working
out for the farmers in the country. They
take turns of a week, or two weeks, which
gives each one an opportunity to gt the
benefit which comes from working out.
They are making hay and picking
cherries and berries.