6 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN jjjhTjV A A AAAA. pupics' icems J Paul Lashi returned to school last Sun day Miller Charles is doing'excellent work at the blacksmith shop. Mr. Frye is making three wagons to send to the reservations. The gardeners are hauling twenty-four loads of potatoes a day. Lawrence Gilbert entered the tailor shop on Monday afternoon. Eddie Mann. has organized a football team and is very proud of it. We are all glad to have a little rain since it has been sodry for a long time. Joseph Gardepi says that, he intends to be a good farmer when he leaves school. Andy Walker surprised many of his friends by returning to school last Fri day morning. r All the McBride Hall girls have new rubbers, which are very comfortable these rainy days. 1 Patsie Barrett and Reggie Downie were the field judges at the football game last Saturday, - Alex Wallace likes to haul wood fro n the wood yard to the boiler room. It is plain to see that Wallace will be a hard working man. Tillie Reinkin received a letter from her sister in Alaska saying that she was coming down here to spend Christmas with her. Neta Jones, Myrtle and Maggie John son made a postcard rack last Saturday, which is the largest and the best in the small girls' home, and they are very proud of it. We all think that Henry Darnell and Reggie Downie were very kind in show ing the girls the. machines they use in the printing office and giving them each a little book. Annie Souvigner has recently received some very pretty postcards from her friends at home. She says she thinks she will have a nice big assortment of cards before long. The many friends of Mary Loftu? are always glad to get her nice postal carJs which she sends frequently. Mary had a host of friends while here who liked an(j respected her well. Alice Chalcraft ha a very pretty se lection of music that she plays on her piano The n?me is, "The star of the Sea," and Lubova Siftsoff says it is her favorite of all the pieces she has heard. Miss Skipton has saved enough plants for all the windows in the dining hall. We will enjoy looking at them during the winter and we think Miss Skipton is very thoughtful and kind to make the room attractive for us. A very kind old gentleman visited the class-rooms one afternoon last week. He came into our school room and gave us an interesting talk. He said for us to think when we study and think when we are told to do anything, and for us net to do it without thinking. He said the rea son why some of us are not very good spellers is because we do not see when we look. He wrote the words "see," "look" and "think" on the blackboard for us to remember. He said he takes the Che mawa American and reads it every week. Subscribe for the Chemawa American. Only 25 cents a year.