Weekly Chemawa American., December 02, 1910, Page 3, Image 3

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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BREVITIES.
The roof is now being put on the new
lumber shed.
James Whitehead is making a credit
able showing at the laundry.
Tony Reed returned from Siletz yes
terday afternoon, and his frL-nds were
glad to see him.
The kitchen force put in two mornings
in making sour kraut this week. Two
hundred gallons were made.
Mr. Gillette and his farm detail are
very busy hauling dirt for the rilling of
the foundation at the small boys' home.
Reginald Downie has recovered from
an attack of rheumatism an i has again
taken up his duties at the piinting office.
Air. Saunders has finished marking
basketball limits and circles in the girls'
gymnasium and is now remarking those
in the boys" gym.
The gardeners are now harvesting all
the beets, parsnips, carrots and turnips
this week, so that the ground may be
broken for spring planting.
A new coffee roaster has been installed
in the kitchen by Mr. Van Tassel and
his boys, it works to perfection and
the Christmas popcorn will be pop
ped in it.
The blacksmiths made and put up
somti regulation size baskets in the girls'
gymnasium thi week. The prospects
for a good team this year are very bright
on the north side of the grounds. 1
Lizzie Martin before leaving for her
home recently persented the dining hall
with a beautiful picture. It now hangs
on the wall of that room and adds great
ly to the appearance of the room;
James Benjamin and Eugene Ander
son, members of the senior class and of
ficers of the Y. M. C. A., left this morn
ing for Eugene, where they will attend
a three-day conference to be held there.
Miss HortenseLoundaleof St. Burnice,
Indiana, who has been with us since
June, was appointed assistant laundress
at Chemawa, Oregon. Her services here
were highly appreciated and all regret
ted her departure. The Native Ameri
can. A Baltimore man tells of an address
made to some school children in that
city by a member of the board of trus
tees. "My young friends," said the
speaker, "let me urge upon you the
necessity of not only reading good books,
but also of owning them, so that you
may have access to them at all times.
Why, when I was a young man, I used
frequently to work all night to earn
money to buy books, and then get up be
fore daylight to read t.hem." Success.
COULD FISH
A fisherman of France appeared as the
man who would most have delighted the
heart of Isaak Walton. This French
man was sedulously engaged in his
favorite pursuit when, according to the
Washington Star, a tourist encountered
him, and asked him how long he had
been lishing in that stream.
"Twenty-three years, monsieur." he
answered, calmly.
"Do you get many bites?"
"Eleven years ago, monsieur," he re
plied, without lifting his eyes from his
cork, "eleven .years ago on this very spot
I had an excellent bite."
ALPHABET MUSIC
"The long, smooth zzz-pp of the lire
gliding over the highway is true music to
the trained ear of the motorist." Advt.
in Sketch.
The wretched pedestrian has to con
tent himself with the monotonous jjj qq
of his new boots on the pavement
Punch.