THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The girls have an excellent Mandolin
Club, the instrumentation consisting of
violins, guitars, mandolins, cello, double
bass and piano. Vocal music will be
taught to those desiring it and piano
lessons can be secured by those wishing
to take them. ' . ,
8. The Domestic Science department
has a separate building especially adapt
ed for the purpose and the facilities of
Chemawa in this line are equaled by
only one other school in the Service.
9. In the Literary department, the
instruction covers the branches taught
in Grammar schools of the country.
10. Some information about Chemawa
might be interesting. The school was
established by Major Wilkinson, Febru
ary 25, 1880, being the second oldest
Non-reservation School in the United
States. From a small school as then
established of twenty-five children it
has grown . step by step and year by year.
Last year was the most prosperous in its
history. The total enrollment for the
year being 775 pupils, having an aver
age of 615. The school year closed with
382 boys and 266 girls on the rolls.
Under the new regulations it is now up
to the parents and the guardians and
the pupils to decide which school they
desire to attend. Certainly the attend
ance the last year speaks volumes for the
continued prosperity and good name of
Chemawa.
Now a last word to the Indian parents
and Indian young men and women desir
ing an industrial education at the Che
mawa school. If you desire admission
this term write at once to Supt. Chalcraft.
If you want to enter Chemawa as a
pupil fill in the space below, cut it out
and send it to Supt. Chalcraft, who will
immediately send you application blanks.
Name : .
Age
Tribe
Father..: :
Mother
P. O.
R. R. .
FRUIT CANNING.
The fruit season is now on and has
been running for the past two weeks.
The busy points of interest are Chema
wa's orchard, prune dryer and kitchen.
In the orchard a large force of boys are
busy under the supervision of Messers
Fickle and Gill gathering'prunes which
are being rushed by the farmers to the
kitchen and the prune dryer at the rate
of 200 bushels per day.. In the kitchen
a . large force of employes and girls
are busy cn nning and preserving and
making butter of the fruit, while, in the
prune dryer Mr. Westley and his force
are turning fruit a hundred bushels
each day into the dry product. We have
an exceptionally large crop this year and
Mr. Westley pi edicts that he will have, if
weathar conditions continue, about two
weeks yet to run. We print a corner of
Chemawa's fruit pantry which is now
two thirds full and before we again go
to press will have been completely replenished
Volume 2, Number 1, of the Hitchcock
Sentinel has been received. It is pub
lished at the Military School, San Rafael,
California, and is a newsy little paper.