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i No. 21 DAY SCHOOL ITEMS The Indians received their annual per capita mony at Allen on the 13th. A large crowd was present and two ball games were played between Al len and Martin teams. Gardening is the order of the day at No 21. Mr. Blake, Forester, has been spending some times in these parts. Mr. Charging Bear has a piece of ground in fine shape for his potatoes and garden, he also has his premises very neat and clean. Henry Turning Holy is building a house, his nephew David Red Thun der, of Sissiton, is assisting with the work. Miss Helen Owen is expected here on the 23rd from Princeton, Mo, where she has been attending, High School. Mrs. Joe Ross and daughter Alice' visited several days during the month with Rev. Amos Ross and family. Levi Long Bull is going to make an effort to raise some chickens, at pre sent he has four hens setting. Mrs. Frain of Sioux Falls, is visit ing with her daughter Mrs. Watkins. Rev. Lindsey's son and daughter, also the Misses Myrtle and Mabel Boesel, will return from school at Huron about the 10th of June. J. G. Owen and family accompanied by Rev. Amos Ross made trip to Pine Ridge on the 15th of the month. Mr. J. J. Boesel was quite sick for ser- Day School News Items 36. veral days during the month, Dr. Lindley of Kyle attended him. Mr. & Mrs. Ben Lessert Mr. & Mrs. John Cottier and Mr.& Mrs. Geo. Cot tier were hereon the 11th to attend the funeral of Mrs. Gilbert Cottier John Black Cai, and Mrs. Edgar Fire Thunder made a trip to Gordon dur ing the month. Mrs Gilbert Cottier died at the home of her father Henry Turning Holy on the 10th of May, she had only been sick a short time, and her death was a shock to her many friends, her fun eral was preached the following day by Rev. Amos Ross and interment was the cemetery near by. The first prize of $100 donated by the Albert Steinfeld company, and the Tucson Farms company, as well as a cultivator given by the Tucson Seed company, and the second prize of a stout young pecker, given to the winners of the corn contest in Ari zona, were awarded to Victor Bail and A 1 o n z o Flores, both Papago Indians, at an entertainment held at the San Xavier Mission Saturday night. The prizes were won by the Indians working under the tutelage of W. O. Hodgson, agency farmer, in competition with more than 275 members of the Arizona Corn Club scattered throughout the state, Bail the winner, harvested a total of 51 bushels af grain making a net profit of more than $65 on his single acre of ground. Flores was close behind him with a production of more than 4 5 u s e s w i e e n e a e s competitors of the Indian youths were far behind.—Tucson, Arizona, Daily Star. I