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TCERNING J. L. Harris of Lawrence has re cently accepted an appointment as Manual Training Teacher at Haskell Institute. Supervisor Peairs has been a re cent visitor in and about Haskell. Mrs. Ella Mc Knight, has recently been transferred from the Riverside School, Anadarko, Okla. to Haskel Institute where she went on duty as matron December 31. Father Ketchem, the head of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions was recent visitor at Haskell. We note that Mr. Millard F. Lynch, Supervisor of Construction has been visiting various schools and agencies in the middle west. Inspector W. W. McConihe was a recent visitor at the Kiowa Agency. Miss Jessup is the new music teacher at Sherman Institute. Mr. Fred Bruce, has been appoint ed issue clerk at the Fort Totten School, N. Dak. Mr. G. News Items of General Interest HIS DEPARTMENT IS OPEN FOR CONTRIBUTIONS CON THE INDIAN AND HIS PROGRESS EVERYWHERE F. Williams has been trans ferred from Sacaton, Ariz., to Phoenix as gardener. Dr. C. I. Spannare has resigned as physician at Leech Lake Agency, Minn., and will enter private practice in North Dakota. Mr. Moses Wilkie, has been pro moted from assistant engineer, Fort Totten, N. Dak., to engineer at Stand ing Rock, N. Dak. Mrs. Jane Spinks, who was for 18 years an employee in the Indian school at Hoopa Valley, Cal., died in Riverside, Cal., a short time ago. 33. J. L. Suffccool, who has been financial clerk at the Lower Brule Agency. S. Dak., for more than three years, has been transferred to the Coeur d' Alene Agency, Idaho, as chief clerk. Mr. Foster, engineer, and Miss Lyons, assistant matron at the Leech Lake School. Minn., have resigned. Mrs. Kennedy is now the assistant matron: Alex Jourdain engineer. Alex Whitefeather, who graduated from the commercial department of Haskell last summer, and who has since been taking special work while acting as night watch has been appointed assistant clerk at Bismark, N. D. Chas E. Larson has been transfered from the Tulaiip to the Cushman schools as disciplinarian. Mr. Henry Lang is filling the posi tion of assistant engineer at Chemawa. James Whitebull a full blooded Sioux from Pine Ridge, South Dakota was recently elected President of the of the Haskell Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. Bulletin of Haskell has this to say about iiim: "Jim—as Haskell knows him— should be a good man for the place, because he realizes that the one thing necessary to the process of making better Indians is Christianity. He knows the perils of the reservation life and he believes that a school of fers the greatest opportunity to get a young man started in right living."