Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198?, June 23, 1911, Image 13

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lowest possible cash price.
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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.____