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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (June 16, 1911)
I See the Snappy New Styles • • •• AT A ••«• STO CK TO N ’S This is the Best Value Giving Center in Oregon. lowest possible cash price. See Our N ew Chemawa Indian School. S p r in g We always sell at the G oods. ance the last year speaks volumes for the continued prosperity and good name of Chemawa. Now a last word to the Indian parents and Indian young men and women de siring an industrial education at the Chemawa school. If you desire admis sion this term write at once to Supt. Chalcraft, and fill in the following blank, cut it out and send it fo Supt. Chal craft, who will immediately send you application blanks. 8. The Domestic Science department has a separate building especially adapt ed for the purpose and the facilities of Chemawa in this line are equaled by only one other schor l in the Service. 9. In the Literary Department, the instruction covers the branches taught in Grammar schools of the country. The school was established by Major Wilkinson, February 25, 1880, being the second oldest Non-reservation school in the United States. From a small school Name ____ ____ of twenty-five children it haR grown step hv step from year to year. Last year Age--------------------------------- ---------- was the moet prosperous in its history. The total enrollment for the year being Tribe______ ._____ 775 pupils, having an average attend ance of 615. The school year closed Father______________ with 382 boys and 266 girls on the rolls. M other...... ........ ..... Under the new regulations it is now up to the parents and the guardians and P. 0 . ________________________ the pupils to decide which school they desire to attend. Certainly the attend R. R.__