Weekly Chemawa American., April 21, 1911, Page 9, Image 9

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CHEM A WA
The gardeners hoed the straw berries
on Monday.
Lt. H all went to Southern Oregon on
W ednesday for the school.
We have been visited by frosts latelv,
but no dam age has been done to the
fruit thus far.
The Excelsior-R eliance debate occur­
red last night. A full account will be
given in our next issue.
Miss A ugusta Sawtelle, of Pendleton,
Oregon, left for her home on W ednesday
after a long visit with Miss Skipton at
the school.
Pascal J. George, a form er Chemawa
Rtuden», is now em ployed at the Coeur
d'A lene Agency, in W ashington, at a
salary of $50 per m onth.
Mr Mitchell and his force of in d u strial
workers are busy m aking a flower garden
along the 10-foot fence near the root
house and prune drier road.
Mr E nright accom panied the m em bers
of the baseball team to Dallas last S a tu r­
day and has m any praises for the boys
and th eir conduct while on th eir trip.
W alter H aight arrived at Chem awa
on S unday m orning from Pendleton
where he served a short while as
in d u strial teacher in the Indian School.
The gardeners are busy plowing and
p u ttin g in condition the school garden
tract.
The pupils have long wished to
see this done, as they enjoy the school
gaiden instruction.
O ur first team , accom panied by \ | r.
E n rig h t, went to Jefferson yesterday to
play a gam e of baseball with the Jeffer-
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son A thletic Club. An account of the
gam e will appear in our next issue.
We are in receipt of inform ation! to
the effect th a t Josie W illiam s, a form er
Chemawa stu d en t, was united in m ar-
riageon Feb. 8,1911, to E rn e st M cDonald.
The m arriage occurred in Crescent Citv
Calif.
Mrs. Irene M cLean,of H arm ony, Neb­
raska. form erly Irene Sorter of this school
and H askell In stitu te, w rites th at she
and her husband are gettin g along very
nicely. At the w riting her husband was
getting ready to send the last paym ent
foi a patent to a hide stretching m a­
chine which he invented. We wish them
continual success.
Gordon Hickox passed away on T ues­
day night as the result of tuberculosis.
He was aged 17 years an d had been ill
for a period of th ree m onths. He was a
good boy and d u rin g his school days at
t ’hrniaw a won m any friends am ong his
fellow stu d en ts by his man I v co n d u c t.
The funeral services were held in chapel
at 3 oclock on W ednesday afternoon.
The services were conducted by Rev. P.
I . M artin and were u n u su ally im pressive.
In term en t was m ade in the Chem awa
cem etery. Mr. Hickox, father of the
deceased, was present at the last sad
rites and has the sy m p ath y of all in his
hour of bereavem ent.
Are your hay tools out in the field
where you used them last? And th a t
hinder—isn t it still stan d in g out in the
oat field where you unhitched it when tiie
last bundle was bound? Do you alw ays
leave your plows, cultivators and harrows
scattered around the barn th at way d u r­
ing the w inter? Broken handles hnd lev­
ers and ru«t galore will be your portion
when you run them out for use in the
spring. All things considered shed room
is m ighty eheap. — Ex