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Mr. Antoine Caisse was a visitor at
Cheinawa on Sunday.
The dairy boys cut some of the early
rye for the dairy herd this week.
Mrs. Brewer and Miss Gertrude Brew­
er were Portland visitors within the
week.
The painters have started to paint the
small boys’ home. After this is finished
the little boys will move in.
The decorations in chapel on Sunday
evening were very beautiful and evoked
many exclamations of admiration.
Easter usually marks the period of flow­
ers.
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
we learn that Frank A. Loomis has
bought an interest in Quaker Drug
Co. of the sound city. For five years he
was connected with Woodard, Clark
& Co. of Portland The gentleman is a
veteran of the Spanish- American war,
having reached the rank of captain of
scouts during his service in the Philip­
pines. Some six or seven year« ago he
held the position of disciplinarian at
Chemawa for a couple of years. Nearly
all the old-timers at the school remem­
ber “ Major” Loomis and wish him well.
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OUR FRIEN D
Few there are at Chemawa who will
not recall Mr. J. B Johnson, of Colfax,
Wash., who has visited at Chemawa on
many occasions. We are in receipt of
an article concerning Mr. Johnson, which
appeared in the Spokane Spokesman-
Review, excerpts of which we are pleased
to publish as follows:
“ I enjoy association with children so
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much that I put in the most of my time
trying to make them happy. I know
from letters I receive that my visits do
the children good and have proved
inspirational to the teachers. My wife
enjoys visiting relatives around Colfax
and this leaves me free to travel around
and visit schools.
“I have been in every section of Cali­
fornia, Oregon, Idaho and Washington
and am constantly in receipt of letters
from school children in all of these
states who show apprecia tion of m v visits.
In Colfax I keep open house for the boys
and girls who visit me by the score, and
one of my greatest pleasures is to show
them the souvenirs of my travels, which
consist principally of photographs of
children and letters from them .”
Mr. Johnson is a man of venerable
appearance with a long gray beard. He
is 71 years old, but >ays he is as young
in spirit as ever. He was born near
Valley Forge, Pa., and spent his young
manhood as a farmer and school teacher
in that vicinity. He then engaged in
the lumber and mercantile business for
six years. Following this he was elect­
ed superintendent of schools of Cameron
county, serving in that capacity three
successive terms, or nine years in all.
He then taught school for seven more
years. After traveling for two years he
finally located in W hi’man county.
Twent-ythree years ago he purchased
a farm on Spring Flat, between Pullman
and Colfax, for $5,500, which he sold lat­
er for $20,000. Since then he has made
his home in Colfax. He has visited near­
ly every school in Spokane time and
again and expects to visit most of them
during the week that he will remain
here.