(Continued from front page.)
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.
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
thi term write at once to Supt, Chalcraft.
f 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. 0.
R. R.. ,
GREAT SHELL BANKS.
The , ancient shell heaps are . huge
banks of oyster shells, on both sides of
the Damariscotta river, 13 miles from its
mouth, in the towns of Damariscotta and
Newcastle. The Damariscotta bank is
one mile long, 300 feet wide and 18 feet
deep. The Newcastle hank is a half
mile long, 100 feet wide and 32 feet
deep. In the largest heap, 18 feet deep,
it is estimated that there are 120,000
tons of shells. Every four feet weighs
one ton. It is also estimated that
20,000 tons have been taken out, to be
ground and sold to feed hens.
It is supposed that the Indians depos
ited the shells there, since arrowheads,
spearheads, and various Indian imple
ments, including pieces of stone pottery,
have been found.
The shells that are exposed to the at
mosphere are decaying.rapidly, but those
that are buried in the river bed are still
hard and retain their natural forma
tion. Ex.
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