| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NOETH ZD-HHCOT-H. BiU'IiMEE. 3 Local News. A Merry Christmas to all! What did “Old Nick ” give you? Now is the time to make resolutions for 1898. A new feed-mill has been put up ir. our mill-house. The pupils had an enjoyable time skating Saturday. A unique picture of Santa Claus has been drawn tor the primary class. Mamie Cavanaugh got the sad news last week of the death of a friend. Henry Lombnes expects his father here some day to make him a visit. We sympathize with the people of Grand Forks in their recent great loss by fire. Gabriel Grant was made happy by receiving a letter the other day from his sister. Ethel Grady knitted new fingers for the gloves ot one of the teachers the other day. A friend of Hattie Graaven’s kindly remembered her a few days ago with a new dress. May Newton received a letter from Miss Whedon Wednesday sending us Christmas greetings. Willie Messner’s sister had her nose and ears frost-bitten on her way home from school the other day. Christine Schneider has received from her aunt and uncle a roll of red ribbons of which she is proud. Ida Carlson has quite a budget of papers with short stories. She received them from her sister last week. Bells jingled Wednesday for the first time with our new sleigh. Snow to the depth of two inches fell recently. Effie Smith has a letter from her baby nephew which it is quite amusing to read. Ask her to let you read it. Willie Messner has been showing a ring with a brilliant imitation stone set in it. He won it in a prize contest. Leister Williams bought among other things a climbing monkey to be sent to his brother as a Christmas present. Some of the girls have been doing fancy-work and working on other things to be sent home as Christmas presents. A sister of Grace Ziegler stopped over here Saturday to see Grace. She was on her way home from Bottineau. She left the same night. Lulu Helms was extremely happy when she saw her sister here Friday. Her sister has secured employment in one of the hotels in town. We are wondering if August Klebe, one of our pupils who left here last fall when his father moved to Kansas, is attending the school in that state as intended. Nothing has amused the boys ot late so much as the animatiscope which some of them purchased down town the other Saturday to be sent home as presents. Several of the pupils have heard from Joseph Upham several times and also from John Clarke. They have not gone to the Montana School yet and wc do not know why. With the new mill-house completed we have more room to store away things. During last week the boys y helped clean out the attic and carry things out to the mill-house. Gilman and Emma Nordhougen were glad to see their brother Tuesday. He came from Aneta to attend Rev. Aaberg's school, but went to DeGroat to stay over Christmas with his aunt. Mabel and Clarence Sharp heard from their home Wednesday. They were glad to learn that a number of improvements had been made and that their father was at present building a sheep shed. Carrie Lemke left Thursday to spend the Christmas vacation at her home She was accompanied by her brother and sister who attend college at Grand Forks and were coming home lor the same reason. As we go to press our household is' giving full vent to their joy over the presents received from Santa Claus. Owing to the date of the present issue we will have to put off chronicling the happy event till after New Year’s. For several Saturdays past the weather has been such as to make outdoor exercise desirable, so a number ot pupils have taken advantage of it in going down town and making Christmas purchases. Skating was indulged in by the stay-at-homes. Magnus Johnson is looking among the musty papers and books for the language ot his mother land, Iceland. He was born in that country; and as his mother speaks the Icelandic tongue, he thinks he would like to learn it, so he could communicate with her. The children are anxiously awaiting the results ot their Christmas hopes. It would be a sad thing to see a child’s dear dream shattered by finding that it has been forgotten by Santa Claus. We hope all will be kindly remembered in some way or other to-day. There is an extensive vein of coal near George Kreidt’s home and last summer he used to mine it. Now his brother is working on it presumably to sell it, besides using some as fuel at his home. George has visions of future riches made out of it when he leaves school. The McIntosh Republican, a paper published at Ashley, this state, December 17th, printed Pauline Donner’s letter written to her father, dated November ist. The letter was written as a monthly letter, but it so pleased Mr. Donner that it obtained space in the paper as a specimen of the letter the primary pupils write home. / With the exception of one pupil all of the children will enjoy Christmas at the Institution. A neat programme has been planned for the holidays which we hope will be carried out successfully and make the occasion as enjoyable as possible without getting into the regular work of the school. There was no school yesterday and there will be no school on Monday. The weather has not only been giving us opportunity for Christmas shopping, but has enabled the boys to make a large skating rink. With the help of our hose, one hundred and fifty feet long, we have been able to make a large rink. Besides the fact that the winter so far has been mild and pleasant, it is but reasonable to expect real pleasure and benefit from it if the weather continues as it has been for the past month.\ --- •— --- THE MASCOT OF “ THE SUCCESS.” Continued from First Page. wages he u’ould pay. Then he became very courageous, “ My heart and all I have and a home for the little brother, too,” he answered, recklessly, forgetting for the moment that almost all his worldly possessions were sunk in the Success. That very day the gold nugget went to Indiana by express and the proceeds of its sale paid for little Jimmy’s passage out to Cheyenne where he went to live with his sister and his new brother. The stenographer must have been a fairy god-mother or a witch, for from the day she married its owner the Success took a sudden fancy to pan out in a wonderful way. It brought a fortune to its possessor, who thinks it is all owing to his wife, and never tires of saying that she was the mascot of the Success.—Selected.
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