2/26/2006

February 10, 1893 INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School Newspaper - page 3.

February 10, 1893 INDIAN HELPER, Carlisle Indian School Newspaper - page 3.

(p. 3)
Let's move!
Let's hustle!
Let's vibrate!
Let's scintillate!
If we would accomplish anything.
Only one boy and five girls spoke Indian last week.
Miss Caryl spent Sunday among friends in Washington.
The Cutters were guests of Miss Anthony to tea on Wednesday evening.
Little Harry says "I know how to skate now; first time I fall down easy."
Robbie and Bruce are in their first long pants and appear quite like little gentlemen.
The girls are rejoicing over a new piano for their society room, through the kindness of a friend.
Miss Barr has been suffering with a severe cold but has not "given up the ship," on account of it.
The substance of a very interesting talk given by Dr. Lippincott last Friday evening will be given next week.
The entertainment to be given by the Invincibles this evening is looked forward to with pleasant anticipations.
Several of our teachers and officers attended the Metzger reception on Friday evening and reported a very pleasant time.
Mr. Standing aroused the enthusiasm of all, in his talk last Saturday night on the World's Fair and the part that Carlisle was to take in it.
The percentage of attendance for the month of January in No. 10 was ninety-eight and nine tenths, which is considered a remarkable showing considering our interruptions.
Nellie Carey has returned from Boston school of nursing having given up on account of illness. She now has other projects which may carry her West in a few weeks of which we will speak at the time.
Herr Schilling, late of Germany, who is residing temporarily in town comes out every Wednesday and Saturday evening of which several of the teachers are taking advantage to brush up their German.
The young ladies of the Endeavor Literary Society discussed the question, "Resolved, that students should not be compelled to report the misconduct of their fellow students," last Friday night. Miss Minnie Yandell won the laurels for the best address.
Two new presses in the printing office, in exchange for two worn out Universals have been the cause of renewed interest and enterprise on the part of the apprentices in this department. The presses are the Eclipse, of Lazenby & Co. make, of Baltimore, and they are beauties.
The school baseball nine has reorganized with the following officers and players: Captain, Ota Chief Eagle; Treasurer, H. W. Warren; Umpire, John G. Morrison. Roger Silas, p; Morgan Toprock, c; John Baptiste, 1b & p; Ota Chief Eagle, 2b & c; Oscar Warden, 3b; Henry Warren, ss; Felix Iron Eagle Feather, l.f; D. Turkey, c f; William Lufkins, rf.

To do so no more is the truest repentance - *Luther.*
The disciples of Gutenberg in these parts enjoyed their holiday as much as any.
For a description of photographs on sale at the Carlisle Indian School, address HELPER.
Some of the boys interpreted "Sprechen Sie Deutsch" last week, "Is there to be a sociable?"
A kind friend in Massachusetts has sent an excellent picture of Phillips Brooks to be placed where we most desire.
The balance wheel on one of the new presses is a veritable dynamo, generating a perceptible and continuous current of electricity when the press is in motion, quite to the annoyance of those who go near the machine.
Miss Shaffner came in from her country trip among the girls on farms to spend Sunday and brought with her Regina Cree Girl who was ill. Miss Shaffner had a recent delightful visit with Miss Rote who is at the Friends Boarding School at Westtown.
The young ladies of the Normal Department and their friends, fourteen in all, with Miss Cory as escort visited the steelworks at Steelton, on Saturday. They also took in the Capitol at Harrisburg, the florist, the five-cent store, had lunch and a most enjoyable and satisfactory time all around.
The handsome picture "Mrs. Fry at Newgate" has been presented to the Girls' Literary Society by their esteemed friend Miss Collins of New York who visited the society some time ago and was so interested. The young ladies are ever grateful for such kind remembrances.
At the Dawes Bill meeting on Wednesday evening, Dennison Wheelock and Richard Davis made telling speeches in addition to Mr. Standing's remarks, which are always in favor of the main points of the Bill. Dennison cannot see much in the Bill that is helpful for his people, the Oneidas, while Richard Davis is disposed to think that Mr. Standing's views are about right.
Little Miss Rebecca Little Hawk was baptised recently in the St. Marks Church at Salt Lake City, producing quite a novel spectacle for that section of the country. The child is the daughter of ex-pupil Samuel Little Hawk who belongs to the army and is stationed at Ft. Douglas.
Miss Bessie Patterson who has been teaching for some time at the Sisseton Agency Indian School, N.Dak., has been transferred to the Otoe School, of the Indian Territory, of which her sister Miss Ella is the Superintendent. She thinks the country there beautiful but is somewhat fearful of the climate. The Otoes at present are suffering from La Grip.
A confidential letter from Detroit, Minn., gives thus happily an item of news: "I saw a HELPER recently that said something about 'poor Maggie Beaulieu' being *alone.* Poor Maggie is no longer alone. She was married last Monday to a good hard-working Norwegian - Mr. John Darco." Mr. and Mrs. Darco have the best wishes of Maggie's friends at Carlisle.

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