The Word Carrier of Santee Normal Training School (Santee, Nebraska), 1922-03 - 1922-04

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The Word Carrier
of Santee Normal Training school.
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VOLUME LI
HELPING THE RIGHT, EXPOSING- THE WRONG
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SANTEE, NEBRASKA.
MARCH-APRIL, 1922
FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR
Fire at Santee!
PERKINS   HALL  BURNS
DOWN FEB. 28
Loss Over $11,000, Mostly in the
Printing   Department.
With the form complete and this issue of The
Word Carrier about to go to press, Perkins
Hall, the home of our two papers, the Iapi
Oaye and The Word Carrier, also the Episcopal paper Anpao (The Daybreak) was burned to the ground.
Owing to the presence of mind and quick
work of our printer, IV'r. Lawson, he and his
student assistants saved most of our type and
samples of the files of our publications which
were entirely destroyed. We lost both of our
presses, our paper cutter and office furniture.
This number of The Word Carrier is being
printed in Springfield, So. Dak., by the kindness of Editor J. W. Bordevvyk of the Spring-
field Times.
Perkins Hall was one of our first buildings,
built in 1877, before there was any house
plastering in thh part of the country. The
interior covering was paper-board, which is
very inflammable. The fare probably started
in the second story ceiling about 7:45 A. M.
It seemed to run along the ceiling clear across
the building. Within ten minutes the whole
upper structure was a  roaring furnace.
Beside the printing office, the first floor of
the building was occupied by the apartment of
our white pastor, Rev. John Wright, and his
family. By hsroic work on the part of students and teachers, their four children and
most of their household property were saved.
However, their losses aud other personal losses
Avill probably amount to several hundred dollars. The Bible Department lost bedsteads
and bedding valued at $280.
The New Artesian Well
It's a glorious success, a big flow of perfectly clear water! We thank all the good
friends, who have had a share in the getting
of it for us, very very much. In the Word
Carrier for Nov.-Dec. we made a very urgent
appeal for water, and friends of Santee, in all
directions, have been coming to our rescue.
We went on with the drilling of tbe well.
The winter stopped our work before the entire
completion of it. But we are using the new
well now by temporary connection with our
water pipes.
We are lacking $200. of paying for it. We
appealed before for a hope. Now it is for a fact,
a good investment for sure! Now, therefore,
we hope that our friends will help us fiuish it.
One of our friends with the sending of his
contribution for the well made the following
remarks:
"Inasmuch   as  your well  has  succumbed   to the
18th amendment and gone dry, to save you from the
I perils of the bootlegger or from drinking  varnish, I
I enclose a small contribution".
We appeal to those from whom we have not
! yet heard, to do likewise.    F. B. Riggs, Prin.
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INDIAN  MISSIONARY TRAVELS TO jj
SANTEE, NEB., IN MOTOR TRUCK  jj
Wanted at Santee
An exceedingly good second-hand or new
job press, size 12x18, combination foot power
and belt power, or electric motor power, D.
C. We also want a paper cutter, size 30 inch,
a galley press, bindery press, lead cutter and
mitering machine. If any other school has
any such, machines that they can spare, or if
any of our good friends know where such can
be gotten, please let us know immediately.
F. B. Riggs, Prin.
Santee Alumni Association
Recently the Santee branch of Santee Normal Training School Alumni Association gave
an evening entertainment and supper which
was very much enjoyed by the school and
all the community. It was a beautiful winter
evening and the Chapel was crowded. Mrs.
Eunice Kitto Baskin is president of the Santee braneh of the Alumni Association and she
put this event thru with great energy and
good management. She was ablely assisted
by Mr. Baskin and by the faithful and dependable members of the alumni: Mrs. Emery,
Mrs. Julia Bear LaMeir, Mrs. Albert Frazier,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown, Mrs. John Jones,
Miss Lucy Campbell, Mrs. Alice Conger Keeler ; These all brought together the very best
supper that was ever served in our chapel.
And the Dakota Home girls made candy, the
sale of which added much to the earnings of
the occasion. Mr. F. B. Riggs showed two
reels of motion picture and Mr. Frank Black-
hoop's orchestra performed so well that it was
encored again and again.
Santee Former-Student Making Good
in Training to be Nurse
Miss Irene Mitchell is in the nurse training
course at the Norfork, Nebraska hospital and
the chief physician there writes the following
high commendation of her, in a letter to our
Dr. G. J. Frazier :
"I wish to write to you about the little
girl, Miss Mitchell, whom you recommended
to us as applicant in our hospital training
school. She certainly is one ot the most
promising girls we have had in a long time.
She is very charming, has a very pleasent personality, and the hospital, staff and all the
nurses are very fond of her. I think it is
very commendable in the young lady to take
up this line of work to be able to return to her
people and give them services as she will be
able to give them. I think she is a very remarkable girl and has a very promising future. We will take a special interest in her
and will do our level best to make her stay
here pleasant and profitable. If you have the
opportunity I wish you would express our
appreciation of her true worth to members of
her family."    Signed, S. A. Campbell, M. D.
American Indian Institute
Hoav good it seems to realize a great vision,
to see with our own eyes the fulfillment of the
ideal for which we have prayed and worked.
Few and blessed are they who have succeeded
in this, men like general Armstrong and Booker T. Washington, who did not pass on untill
their respective schools had been firmly
established and known from one end of the
country to the other.
It was my privilege the other day to visit
Henry Roe Clond and his wife and to see onee
again history repeat itself. Not that Henry's
and Elizabeth's dream has all come true as yet;
whose ever does anywayf No, but there is a
real beginning. Their vision is an Indian
school for the training of Christian Indian lead
ers. They own a hundred acre farm, three
buildiDgs besides a barn and silo; they have
about $50,000. on hand to build a new dormitory ; they have this year sixteen Indian
boys in their school and a splendid assistant
principal (Rev. Burr, formerly assistant superintendent of the Congregational Conference of Northern California).
They are hoping for a bigger plant and a
much larger enrollment, but they have a fine
start. The school is Christian, but undenominational. Its usefulness, therefore extends
to all the Protestant churches among the Indians. Let us all, then, stand behind them
with our prayers and be ready to help them in
any way we can. Rudolf Hertz.
Mr Hnrd's "trip diary", which began in
the September-October number of The Word
Carrier, concludes with this instalment. We
Avish to thank several of the people, to whom
we have been sending the last four copies of
this paper on Mr. third's subscription, for
continued subscriptions on their own accounts.
We trust they will find our paper well worth
fifty cents a year and hope all will continue to
subscribe for it.
In this number we are including the text, of
our new leaflet which Mr. Ourd has written
about the school so that our circle of subscribers may have the opportunity of reading it.
Altho his specialty is the teaching of agriculture, his duties as Assistant Principal have
given him ample opportunity for learning
that about Avhich he has written We would
recommend that you read his article and then
act as you see fit.—Ed.
Diary:  From Massachusetts to Nebraska
via Ford Truck
Aug. 27. Agaiu I have humbled myself and
accepted assistance on a hill.    That is to say I
i rather compelled it this time.
We were ascending a steep pitch from a river
bottom—detour of course—and the road was
very narrow. I was telling my wife that if
anyone wished to pass me he Avould have to
whistle—I wouldn't turn out at the risk of
beiug ditched—when a car came up behind
and proceeded to "whistle". I kept on in the
middle of the road for a few yards till Lizzie
became prostrated by the heat in the steepest
place. I jammed the brakes, my Avife blocked
the wheel and I went back to ask the kind
assistance of the man behind in getting me
started when Lizzie should recover.
He was a rather sore Iowan because I had
so deliberately blocked the road—perhaps I
would have been, tho not according to my
preconceived ideas of Westerners—but a fliver
with five huskies in it drove up behind him,
and he graciously made one of the half dozen,
to give me the necessary impetus.
My childhood faith in Western hospitality received another blow tonight when it took
nearly five minutes of deep consideration,
aided by persuasive talk on my part, to convince an Iewa farmer that we were a fit crowd
to allow in his grove of trees for over Sunday.
If it had not been so late and the place so ideal
I should have thauked him for his kind attention and driven on, but some conditions
make unwilling beggars of us all.
At any rate, here we are.
Aug. 28. We began the Sunday with onr
Bible reading, and we have rested as much as
the heat and flies would allow ever since.
A party of picnicers(stopped for dinner and
and insisted upon my profiteering to the extent
of accepting twenty cents for a loaf of tread
I purchased for sixteen yesterday. I also gain -
ed the valuable and pleasant information that
I would strike some more steep pitches on a detour tomorrow. They were De Moines people '
and sincerely wished me good luck.
I shall keep to the middle of the road until
I'm out of Iowa.
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