Weekly Chemawa American., July 09, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Cbc gbemawa American
Published Weehly at th.e United
States Indian Training School.
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Joseph Dillstbom, Benjamin Wilcox
Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans
Calvin Darnell, Louis Hudson Frazier
Meoum, Robert Service, Carl Stone.
Chemawa has just closed the most
prosperous year in her history. The
total enrollment for the fiscal year, 1909,
was 775 pupils. The average enrollment
for the year was 615. The total enroll
ment for the last quarter of the year
was 382 boys and 266 girls, and the aver
age attendance for the fourth quarter
was 614. In view of the new regulations
which put it up to Indian pupils and
their parents and guardians to decide
which school they desire to attend, the
above figures speak volumes for the con
tinued prosperity and good name of Chemawa.
In this issue we publish the address of
President Harvey of the National Educa
tion Association as delivered at the Con
vention this week at Denver. He made
Industrial Education his theme, and a
careful reading of the same will show that
we of the Indian Service have been blazing
the way for the white man's education a
long industrial lines for the past thirty
years. The methods employed during the
last three decades at Carlisle, Haskell
Chemawa and their sister schools have
done much to mold sentiment in educa
tional circles in favor of industrial edu
cation in our public schools.
LIVE ITEMS
The school had a pleasant visit last
week from Honorable Charles Meserve,
President of Shaw University, Raleigh,
North Caiolina, who was attending the
National Baptist Convention at Port
land and ran down to spend a day at Che
mawa. Mr. Meserve was for several
years Superintendent of Haskell Insti
tute and still takes great interest in the
education and welfare of the Indian
youth. His friends here were glad to
see him and only regret that his stay
was of such short-duration.
The second baseball team spent the
3rd of July - celebrating at Lebanon,
Oregon, where they crossed bats with a
bunch of Lebanon stars picked up from
all of the towns ranging from Salem to
Albany. Our boys went to pieces in the
6th inning and lost. The final score
for Chemawa's second team being three
to nothing against us. Mr." Frye ac
companied the party. All report hav
ing had a very pleasant time and were
loud in their praises of the courteous
treatment received at the hands of the
Lebanon committee!
The band, 25 strong, and the baseball
team went to Stayton, Oregon, to help
celebrate July the 3rd Mr. Enright
accompanied the party The baseball j
team played Stayton team, but it was a
one-sided game. Our boys winning by j
the score of 11 to 4. From the . local
papers, the band received high words i
of praise, both for their superior playing j
as well as the gentlemanly conduct of i
all members of both the band and '
ball team. It was a hard trip going to and j
from Stayton on account of the train
schedules It was necessary to make the
trip overland. But it spite of the hard-
snips tne Doys report naving an en.
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