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THE CHE MAW A AMERICAN
, The football goals were put up last
Friday.
Fred Lewis is the best quarter back in
Chemawa.
John Steele is the chief engineer on
the morning detail. 1
John Ammon is making clothes horses
for the small girls' home.
The friends of Mary Gebeau are ex
pecting her back to school soon.
Fannie Adams is one of Miss Brown's
new pupils in the sewing room.
Inez Brewer is taking lessons on the
violin and is getting along very nicely.
Martha Alfaro is now workihg for Mr.
Campbell and does her work very nicely.
Miss Bertha Cooper is now assistant
laundress and all the girls like her very
well.
At the begining of the school term, on
last Sunday, the battalions were in full
uniform.
Tillie Reinkin is working in the hos
pital and she says she likes the work
very much.
Joe Simpson is very busy this week
cutting out some uniform trousers in the
tailor shop;
Peter John and Billy K. Dale, who
came last week, have now joined the
school band.
Mrs. Campbell says that the pupils
are getttng along very well in their con
duct at school.
Maggie Desautel is kept very busy en
tertaining her little friends, the mice.
Most people are afraid of them, but she
thinks they make nice pets.
The first football game of the season
was played on Monday afternoon be
tween two teams selected from the bovs
John St. Peters arrived a short time
ago and is now working in the black
smith shop, and is doing well.
We are all glad to see Gertrude and
Rachel McCoy return to school again
after having spent a pleasent vacation at
home.
Anna Buck is teaching the little girls
and boys in the afternoons and she is
getting along very nicely. She is learn
ing to be a teacher.
We are all glad to see so many boys
coming to the school. There is hardly
a day passes but some pupils get off the
train to stop at Chemawa.
Last week a letter was received from
Eva Seymore saying that she will soon
be back to Chemawa. She is on a visit
in Southern Oregon during her vacation.
Mrs. Dolly Tea bo has a pheasant for
her pet at the hospital. At first it was
very wild, but it is getting tame. Mr. Tea
bo shoots every pheasant he sees, but that
one.
William Dell, a new student at Che
mawa whose home is at Ketchikan,
Alaska, has entered the tailor shop to
learn the tailoring trade. This young
man will succeed, as he exhibits a
love for labor a very necessary quality
to succeed at this trade.
Annie Buck is very much interested in
her music and is trying hnrd to be about
the best player at McBride Hall. She
can be heard all over the building sing
ing and amusing the girls. She is good
at singing, for she took vocal lessons dur
ing her vacation, and since then she has
been practing every day and every chance
she has. Mrs. Theiz is proud of her.