The Chemawa American, March 01, 1915, Page 27, Image 29

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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keeping, dressmaking, millinery, tailoring and almost any occupation
the student may fancy.
'"This school costs the Government something like $112,000 a year,
besides the improvements,. Congress annually appropriates a sum equal
to $167 for the maintenance of each pupil. That sum is supposed to
pay all expenses of board, lodging, clothing, administration and in
cidentals of all sorts. Professor Wadsworth makes both ends meet
with a small surplus for betterments that the Government winks at and
is glad to do so.
"Remember, there is a farm of 441 acres, about 300 acres being in
cultivation. Remember, also, that it is about as fine a farm as lies out
of doors and none lie indoors. From this farm comes all the vegetables,
fruit, milk and butter about everything of the sort that usually comes
from a farm save the grain for bread. The Government can buy flour
cheaper than it can raise the wheat and have it ground. Last year there
was put up 3400 half-gallon jars of preserves, jellies, jams and preserves,
three tons of prunes were cured and placed on the shelves.
"The dairy herd soon will comprise 100 head of registered Holsteins.
There are quite a number, some 24 head now, and Mr. Wadsworth
thinks that in two years more he will have one of the, finest herds in the
West. A special appropriation of $9000 is available for a new dairy
barn, which will be of the latest style. There were other appropriations
of $5000 for repairs."
Another excerpt follows: '
"Chemawa has one of the finest w7ater systems and one of the best
electrical plants in the state. This is in two units, each separate and
distinct, each of 128 -horsepower.' The power is developed from crude
oil. The water is pumped from a battery of deeply driven wells, which
reach far down into the gravel. The tank is of the latest steel con
struction, is on a steel tower 100 feet high, and holds 500 barrels of
water. '
"No article about the Chemawa school would be nearly complete
without mention of the band and the athletic stunts engaged in by the
students. It is well known that the baseball, basketball, football and
other athletic teams sent out from this school are not only game and
skillful, but they are always and on every occasion commended for
their manly actions on and off the field, while their prowess is attested
to by several score of cups, trophies and medals hanging in the super
intendent's office. As to the band, which has 40 pieces, it is one of
the best in the state, and every Oregonian should be proud of it.
"Just a word about the manner of the dining-room conduct of the
students. They eat together, boys and girls, in one large room, six at
a table, about 100 tables. Usually a couple of the larger boys and a