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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1913)
THE CHEM AW A AM ERICAN 29 are cruising around there and killing many seals. There are about three hundred people on the island and there is a Greek Catholic Church winch the people all attend and there is a pupils’ school which runs to the Sixth G rade—Alex Melevidov, Sixth Grade. A R BO R D A Y PROGRAM Following is the program given in the auditorium on Arbor Day. which was most interesting and splendidly rendered: Song—The Spring-Tide Hour Brings Leaf and blower - School Arbor Day - Patsy Barrett, Senior Trees - - . . Four Small Boys, 3rd Grade A Spring Song Pupils of 2nd Grade Recitation—The Catkin Glenn Hodge, 1st Grade Use of the forest - - Richard Busby, 7th Grade Which I Like Best Five Boys, Normal Dep’t Arbor Day Song Class of Girls, 4th Grade The Tree’s Dream Geo. Barrett, 5th Grade Why We Plant Trees Four Boys, 2nd Grade \ ocal Solo The Old Apple Tree Esther Spencer, 8th Grade \V hv do We Observe Arbor Day? Ray White, 6th Grade America - - . School Address - " * A • T Peck Professor Landscape Gardening, Oregon Agricultural College. E X C E L S IO R P A R T Y Saturday evening. May 3rd. the members of the Excelsior Literarv Society entertained a large number of friends at their annual reception held in the school gymnasium The building was beautifully decorat ed with pennants, society colors, and boughs. The stage represented a student’s room, being decorated with crossed tennis racquets, pen nants, cushions, and other kinds of bric-a-brac found in a student’s den. The piano in this room furnished music for the evening. Each corner of the gym was made into a cosy corner where friends met for social chats. . The earlier, part of the evening was spent in conversation and danc ing, after which the guests were ushered into the banquet room which had been set apart by screens, to partake of refreshments which had been prepared by the Excelsior boys. Ray White, acting as toast master, called for toasts from Lubova Siftsoff of the Nonpareil Society Mauue Lowry of the Winona Society, and Martin Sampson of the Re liance. 1 he toast assigned Supt. Wadsworth was, “ Our Chemawa.” At the conclusion of the toasts President Barrett of the Excelsior So ciety in a very able manner presented Miss Lecrone, the advisory mem ber of the Excelsior Society, with a beautiful Excelsior pennant in recognition of the faithful and efficient work done by her for the society. The Excelsior Society is to be congratulated on the splendid enter tainment afforded the guests, and the gentility and refinement as well.
