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LOCALS. Mary Pierre is also staying at the School where she will receive eye treatment. Martin L. Fuller, school farmer, is suffer ing with a healthy boil on each of his arms. John Roy was called to White Earth on Aug. 23rd by the serious illness of his moth er. Send your news items to the News of fice. All are invited to help in the up-build ing of this paper. A number of young men from this vicinity have recently departed for the Dakota har vest fields in search of employment. Joseph C. Omen and Adolph Barrett, res idents of the Clearwater Country, were transacting business at the Agency last week. Former Superintendent Bishop is now lo cated at Rupert, Idaho, near the famous Minidoka irrigation project in Lincoln county. Kush-kah-jaun and Me-no-ke-zhig-oke, of Ponemah, have a new boy at their home. He was born August sth and has been named John Kingbird. Joseph Green is stopping at the Boarding School for the present where he will be more conveniently located for treatment by the agency physician. Benjamin Lawrence recently submitted submitted to a slight operation for fornucle located on the right side of his face. This affliction is commonly known by the name of “boil.” Mrs. Amos Bigbird returned to her home recently after being operated on for cata ract. Her eyesight has been very much im proved by the operation and subsequent treatment. William Dudley, until recently employed as blacksmith at Red Lake Agency, has mov ed to Ponemah where he is in charge of the government blacksmith shop at Cross Lake School. The summer detail of Indian boys at Red Lake Boarding School are drying sweet corn for winter use. On account of the cloudy weather, experiments are being made in dry ing the corn in the steam dryer of the laun dry. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Moore of Pawhuska, Okla., are visiting at the home of Omar Gravelie at Red Lake. Mr. Moore is an em ployee at the Osage Indian Agency and is spending his vacation here. Mrs. Gravelie will probably return with the Moores and spend the winter with them in Oklahoma. The berry'crop in this vicinity was quite large this season. The Chippewa Trading- Store reports having purchased 184 bushels of blueberries from Indians at an average price of $2.50 per bushel or a total of $460. The wild gooseberries and red raspberries were not so plentiful on the south side of the lake as on the Ponemah side where they were found in abundance. The total value of the berry crop harvested by Indians and marketed at Red Lake Agency, Redby, Pone mah, Blackduck, Battle River, Nebish, Is land Lake and the towns along the Soo Line the past season will probably exceed three thousand dollars. Miss Johnson, the local Episcopal mis sionary and lace teacher, has engaged the services of an assistant, Miss Racoubian, who will remain in Red Lake for five or six weeks giving instructions in the Ital ian cut work. This is an exceptional oppor tunity for the ladies of the Reservation to receive instruction in one of the most ar- tistlc patterns of fancy work, the production of which is not only a delightful occupation but a profitable one as well. Send your news items to the News of fice. All are invited to nelp in the up-build ing of this paper. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Spears, proprietors of the Red Lake Hotel, announce the birth of a daughter to them on Aug. 18. Miss Katherine Kearns of St. Joseph, Mo., sister of Mrs. Dr. Janney, who . has been spending her vacation at this place, will return to her home in the near future. Cah-be-jeen and family, residents of the Leech Lake Reservation, were visiting rel atives here on August 23rd. Ke-zhe-bauuce, the wife, and her sou. Wah-zooze, or Rabbit, were formerly residents of the Red Lake Reservation. Francis Gurneau and Louis Lussier are putting up hay as fast as the weather per mits. The frequent rains the past week have not been favorable to hay making and if this condition continues there will be quite a scarcity of forage the coming winter since the hay crop is rather short this sea son. Send your news items to the News of fice. All are invited to help in the up-build ing of this paper. The many friends at this place of Mrs. Matilda C. Ewing, who has been matron of the Red Lake Boarding School for the past seven years, will be pleased to learn of her promotion to the Genoa Indian School as matron, at an increase in salary. During her employment at this school, Mrs. Ewing’s efficiency was recognized by increases in the salary of her position three different times. While it is a source of regret that she is leaving this school, her promotion is well merited and our good wishes a?e extended to her in the new field of duty. The common house fly is the most danger ous insect in the world. It carries on its body millions of disease-producing germs, some of which are left on every article which it touches. Since flies are so dangerous, we should make an extra effort to destroy them or keep them out of the houses. This may be done without great difficulty in three ways: by destroying all their breeding plac es ; by keeping them out of the house by the use of screens; by killing them. If flies have gotten into the house, they should be killed. A good method is to make a shovel or stove cap very hot aud drop thereon from twenty to forty drops of carbolic acid, ac cording to the size of the room. The vapor from the acid will kill the flies in a short time. A cheap and reliable fly poison, and one which is not dangerous to human life, is made by dissolving one dram (teaspoon ful) of bichromate of potash in about two ounces (one-fourth cup) of water, to which a little sugar has been added. Place this so lution about the room in shallow dishes. Destroying flies is the most important method of preventing the spread of disease. Moses Ward is reported to be working for a farmer at Crystal, N. D., pitching bundles of grain onto the stacks. His wages are $3.50 per day and board consisting of five meals per day and a haymow bed from sun down to sun-up. Send your news items to the News of fice. All are invited to help in the up-build ing of this paper. The Agency office has received a number of catalogues of the Flandreau Training School of Flandreau, South Dakota, the pro- duction of the Indian School Press of that place. It is a very interesting booklet, neat ly and artistically gotten up and made of high grade materials. The industrial and vocational training at this school consists of various branches of farming, stock rais ing, dairying and poultry culture; the trades of tailoring, harness and shoemaking, print ing, plumbing and stationary engineering, carpentry, etc. Dressmaking, nursing, laundrying aud household administration are also taught. “Every wide-awake Indian boy and girl and every thoughtful Indian parent will find much to approve in the ex cellent and interesting work of the Flan dreau Training School.” Applicants for en rollment in this school should write to Supt. Indian School, Flandreau, S. D., or call in person at the Agency. It is said that “Nothing is impossible to industry.” Decide what you want and get busy. a j John Smith, of near Redby, has gone to work in the harvest field near Moorhead, Minnesota. Send your news items to the News of fice. All are invited to help in the up-build ing of this paper. A daughter was born to May-kah-day-ke hay-big and wife, Clara Everywind, of Pone mah, on July 15. Moses Ward and Clifford Sitting are con templating enrolling at the Carlisle Indus trial School next month. George Jefferson is putting up hay near the mouth of Blackduck river. He expects to get up 10 or 15 tons this season. Chief Nay-ay-tow-ub was in transacting business at the Agency on Aug. 23rd. He suffered a stroke of pterygium. His health is improving somewhat and it is to be hoped that he will soon be enjoying his old time robust strength. Nay ay-tow-ub served about fifteen years in the Indian police service and he states that he had a great deal of pleas ure and enjoyment along with his work in the service. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Luce, of Republican City, Nebraska, returned to their home on Monday, August the 26th. Mr. and Mrs. Luce have been visiting Superintendent Dickens and family during the past month. Mrs. S. M. Dickens, mother of Superin tendent Dickens returned to Oklahoma August the 26th, accompanying the Luces to Omaha. Mrs. Dickens will spend the win ter in Oklahoma and will probably return to Minnesota in the early spring. Send your news items to the News of fice. All are invited to help in the up-build ing of this paper. AGENCY NEWS. Work on the new telephone line between Red Lake and Ponemah, around the east end of Lower Red Lake, a distance of about 30 miles, is being pushed with all possible speed in an effort to have same completed be fore cold weather. Mr. Clarence McArthur, an employee of the Cross Lake School, to gether with Alex Everywind, a pupil of the Cross Lake School, and John English and Alexis Jourdain, forest guards, are doing the work. They expect to have poles, brack ets and insulators all in place from Red Lake as far as Blackduck by the 23rd of August. Dr. W. H. Harrison, the trachoma expert, who has been treating Indians with affected eyes at Red Lake for the past three weeks, left for Ponemah Tuesday to attend to any