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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1910)
4 THE C HEM AW A' AMERICAN !u gbemawa Hmercian Published WeeKly at th? United States Indian Training School, Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. Cmjbs qv Five or Over 20 Cents t$ Uteres H tte, CtiemaNya., Qregqn, PostQfflce as sec onci-class mail matter, PRINTING STAFF Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Darnell, John Service, Robert Service, Oscar Case, Jasper Grant, Reggie Dqwnie, Harm Stone, Patsy Barrett. FARM NOTES. The farmers finished seeding Monday They have sown the largest acreage ever put in on ths Chemawa farm. The crops are looking fine and this splendid growing weather is making record growths. The farmers claim a model field iust south of the walk to the electric car line, but they had to work for it, go ing over it five times John Robinson made a record one day sowing; he sowed two and onehalf acres in one hour and three-quarterg with a six-foot drill W, basset also ba a breakneck pace for harrowing; he got over eleven aers in one forenoon The first cutting of vetch was made last week, The rye around the vetch is now nearly two feet high. The Farmers have a splendid stand of clover sown this spring. They are now breaking ground for this year's potato crop, BASE-BALL. The Hose Avenue Baseball League have 'commenced their games for the season with four teams in the race; the teams are the Tyees, Tigers, Unions and the Frakes. The last named team tak ing the place of the Black Cats of a year ago, In the race for the cup this year we can say that there will be some interesting games, as the teams are evenly matched. The standing of the teams to date is ass follows; W h pc Tyees ,., 3 I 750 Tigers,, . ,,,, 3 I 750 Unions , . . , . 1 I 50Q Frakes . , , , 0 i 00Q The Unions have two tie games to be played; the Tigers and Frakes have one each. DOMESTIC SCIENCE NO THIS. Esther Napoh on. and Matilda John are taking hold of their dutiej in a way tliat spells success and each one is de, termined to learn all she can while she has the opportunity. It is very encouraging to see the roses and plants around the do" estic science building respond to the excellent care givfen them by Miss Brown and Mrs, Cooper. Mr. Frye made a handsome settee for the domestic science which is vfry much admired by all and strang'Tg will hardly believe the work was done by Chemawa boys, Lillie Patten is embroidering a center piece for the domestic science, NOTES FBOFTHE BAND HALL, In the examination jnst held afameg Olney stood the highest, with Joseph Burns a close second. Look out boygj another one is coming. Get in .and "dig". We have been making up our march' ir.g books for this season and Luther Clements, of the Tailor Shop, has the thanks of the Band for hip work in repairing them Davis Miller, our trap drummer, h the proud possessor of a set of Band bells and can be heard practicing almo?t any time of the day. To practice is to become perfect. How much time do you put in practicing?
