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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1911)
See the Snappy New Styles STO CK TO N ’S This is the Best Value Giving Center in Oregon. lowest possible cash price. See HU— -U I1 -— Our N ew m i— Ull— Chemawa Indian School. S p r in g » n il« — lill«— UU«— We always sell at the G oods. U H » » M il— »» —— _____ .... ance the last year speaks volumes for 8. The Domestic Science department the continued prosperity and good name has a separate building especially adapt of Chemaw’a. Now a last word to the Indian parents ed for the purpose and the facilities of and Indian young men and women de Chemawa in this line are equaled by siring an industrial education at the only one other schor l in the Service. Chemawa school. If you desire admis 9. In the Literary Department, the sion this term write at once to Supt. instruction covers the branches taught Chalcraft, and fill in the following blank, in Grammar schools of the country. cut it out and send it. fo Supt. Chal The school was established by Major craft, who will immediately send you Wilkinson, February 25, 1880, being the application blanks. second oldest Non-reservation school in the United States. From a small school Name ______ of twenty-five children it has grown step hv step from year to year. Last year Age______ ______ ________________ was the moet prosperous in its history. 1 he 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. Mother ___ _______________ Under the new regulations it is now up to the parents and the guardians and P. O .____________________________ the pupils to decide which school they desire to attend. Certainly the attend R. R.____