The Chippeway herald. [volume], April 01, 1902, Image 2

About The Chippeway herald. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1902-19??

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FROM OTHER.
SCHOOLS.
Flandreau School.
March winds and snow showers
Bring forth no flowers.
“Victory is our aim,’’ readeth the
class of the Tenth grade.
Wm. House is taking charge of the
tailoring department at present.
Frank St Jacque is to take Mr. Dox
tator’s place as asstistant farmer.
A public entertainment will be given
by the pupils in the opera house the
22nd. of-April.
Exhibit work is now being prepared
in all the departments for the N. E. A.
held at Minneapolis this summer.
The graduating class will reproduce
“Hiawatha” in realistic style next
Tuesday evening in the chapel. Ad
mission twenty-five cents.
Mrs. Doxtator was obliged to give
up her work in the laundry because of
poor health. She and Mr Doxtator
left this morning for Oneida, Wis.
We regret to say that Mr Joseph
James who has been tailor here for
nearly two years has resigned and
gone home on the coast where he will
probably go into business for himself
Mr. Wheelock has organized a school
band to which we look with great ex
pectation. They practice every after
noon from four to half past five and
have one of the finest sets of instruments
in the Indian Service.
The Indian school choir consisting
of forty mixed voices under the di
rectorship of Mr. Wheelock sang Mo
zarts’s Twelvth Mass in a very credit
able manner at the Catholic church
Easter Sunday.
Proposals are to be opened April 30
for the erection of a new and larger
brick laundry, workshops, and office
building and a frame cottage for the
school farmer’s occupancy. Proposals
are also to be received for a new water
system so that the school will pump its
own water from the river. All of the
inprovements will cost about $22,000.
Pipestone School.
Social every Friday evening.
Base ball shoes are in demand.
Drop a postal to Louis J. Carpenter
for samples of pipestone charms. Any
style you desire.
Miss James was formerly teacher in
the Flandreau school.
Rose Libby is chicken girl this
month, and reports about 50 eggs per
day. Easter will soon be here.
Mr. C. K. Peck, Industrial Teacher,
has just completed the hot beds for the
spring garden plants.
The band boys were out to-day and
gave a concert in the Open air on the
porch in front of boys’ building. They
played their best music.
The boys in this school are proud of
the medal won at the Pan-American
Exposition last summer for the best
collection of grain grown in Minnesota.
The young Ladies’ Band of Mercy
Society has been very successful
duriug the past three years. They
give an intertainment once a month.
Miss Clara McAdams, teacher, has
been away on account of the illness of
her mother for a few days. She will
return to the school soon.
Supt. Harris has just received a lot
of new music for the band. The mu
sic is all written by J. P. Sousa, one
of the famous musicians.
Miss Lucy James,Clerk, is sub stitu
ing for Miss Clara C. McAdam, in the
intermediate, during Miss McAdam’s
absence on account of the sickness and
death of her mother.
It is the intention to have the new
barns completed before time for filling
silo with silage. The silo will hold
125 tons; and we expect more milk and
butter for the children next winter on
account of better facilities for feeding
the cows.
The boys are to plant a half acre of
melons for themselves this year. They
will appoint one of their numbers as
foreman, and a drum head courtmar
shall will be the fate of the boy who
does not follow instructions during the
melon season.
Saturday is drill'practice. The girls
sitting room makes a good drill hall.
The fruit trees and bushes at the
school have come through the winter
in fine condition. The strawberry
beds also.
Rice River School.
The hopes entertained for an outing
on Arbor Day are buried in snow
and mud.
Major Michelet paid us a visit re
cently which we hope he will repeat
when he has more time at his disposal.
Sugar making is about over, and
the visits of relatives to the pupils are
doubly welcome for the sweets they
bring.
Dr. S. H. Smith of White Earth,
was called here in consultation with
Dr. L. A. Parkinson in regard to re
moving a bead which one of our small
girls inserted in her ear.
The many friends of Lillie Gardiner,
a former pupil of this school, more re
cently of Pipestone Minn., deeply re
gret her death which occured March
15, 1902, at the residence of her father
Chas. Gardiner.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Caswell of
White Earth are latest additions to
employe force, taking the positions of
nightwatchman and laundress, left
vacant by the resignation of Mr. L. C.
Uran, and the transfer of Miss Hattie
Lindsey to position of cook.
Your correspondent was mis-informed
in regard to Miss Viola Cook, Supt. of
this school. She is not in failing
health, quite the contrary but was
treated for a sprained ankle which
has now much improved. We make
the correction as your paper goes to
some of Miss Cook’s friends who will
be glad to hear that she is notserionsly
disabled.
Pine Point School.
No new case of small-pox.
The painters and decorators are at
work.
G. G. Holstine and Mrs. Santuer
visited the county seat, the sth. inst.
Truman Beaulieu visited friends and
relatives here for some days, the first
part of the month.
Supervisor J. F. House, transacted
official business at the school on the
24th. and 25th. ultimo.
Dr. Carman and Miss Fairbanks
took spring vacation and spent Easter
with home folks; the former at Minne
apolis and the latter at White Earth.
Miss Cogan took eight of the large
girls to a basket supper at the Stevens
school house, on Friday evening,
April 4th. They enjoyed it very much.
Clem Beaulieu and Willie Thunder
went out for a stroll on Easter Sunday.
Willie g’ot back all right, but Clem got
lost. He wandered around until dark,
and gladly found shelter for the night
at Joe Burnett’s, five miles north-east
of school. A search continued until 9:30
Monday morning when Mr. Burnette
brought him beck to the school.