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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1916)
PAG E 3 T H E C H E M A W A A M E R IC A N It w ould be well if everyone w ould p attern after the LOCAL LORE M arial B illings, w ho atten d e d C hem aw a years ago, is teach in g in S o u th ern O regon. several Copy for th e yearly calendar is now in th e han d s of th e p rin ter and will be issued at an early day. M r. and M rs. S m ith, W arren and D onna Mae, were guests of M r. and M rs. H all at d in n er on S u n d ay . T h e roofs of th e various b u ild in g s have had p retty tho ro u g h rep airin g and are now ap p aren tly in good order. Chem aw a has an ap p ro p riatio n for 600 pupils and nearly th at num ber is on the gro u n d and others on the way and in sig h t. T h an k sg iv in g comes on the 30th th is year, in ac cordance w ith th e P re sid e n t’s proclam ation. Prices for tu rk ey are so arin g . N ew lavatories for W in o n a H all are being co n stru cted , so arran g ed th a t th ere will be a lavatory conven ien tly located on each of th e th ree floors. Dr. B yrd H u n te r, connected w ith the A laska service u n d er the B ureau of C om m erce and L abor, sp en t a c )upie of days at C hem aw a last week visiting w ith the A laskan pupils. T h e trees are now d ro p p in g th eir leaves in profusion, w hich, to g eth er w ith th e rain s of the past week, r e n ders it som ew hat difficult to m ake th e cam pus as p re sentab le as desired. F rid a y was “ M iddy D ay ’’ at th e Salem H igh School. Elw ood T ow ner, N ick Orloff and F ra n k Johnson looked very fetch in g w ith th e ir m iddies and b rig h t colored ribbons. A bout 125 sacks of dried p ru n es w ere tu rn ed over to th e com m issary d ep a rtm en t early th is week by the h o rticu ltu ral d ep a rtm en t for issue. T h e balance of th e heavy p ru n e crop raised in th e school orchard was so ld . T h e school choir of 30 voices ju s t recently organized u n d er th e leadership of M rs. M cCrossen favored the school w ith a selection at S unday evening chapel and le t th e general sin g in g . T h e voices blended well and th e harm ony was good. R u th M cN ickol en tertain ed a few of her friends last week in her roctn in M cBride H all in honor of th e b irth d ay s of E lizabeth M urray and Sadie K now les. A delicious cake, w hich was baked bv the hostess, as well as o th er refresh m ?n ts were served. David B illings, a g rad u ate of Chem aw a, ’14, s u r prised his friends by d ro p p in g in one n ig h t last week. H e only rem ained over n ig h t, how ever. David is a mail carrier and has a ro u te of 103 miles. H e was on his way home from P o rtlan d , w here he had been b u y ing hoi.'-es ft r his ro u te. B u lle tin .” T h e A m erican rep o rter saw the follow ing notice, “ D on’t leave th e room w ithout first p u ttin g on your co a t.— S igned, Board of H e a lth .” W h at a fine lot of boys and girls compose the s tu d en t body at Chem aw a, and splendidly do they take up th eir tra in in g in all activities. Surely w ith such sp irit displayed there will be no failures this year. Such u n anim ous rig h t-d o in g is certainly infectious. Mr. S m ith, our physical director, is a busy man these days giving both boys and girls daily physical cu ltu re d rills in the gym nasium in addition to his other duties. T he “ g y m ” is supplied w ith all k inds of athletic equipm ent and used w ith m uch satisfaction by all. Ju st w atch the bearing of our pupils and notice how they carry them selves. Classes of prevocational girls have been detailed for in stru c tio n in the dom estic science cookery d ep atrm en t. T w elve girls from the academ ic divisions will report for d u ty at th e close of th e academ ic session, for one week each m o nth, th u s g iv in g six g irls each day th is fine o p p o rtu n ity . T hese girls will prepare and serve th e eve n in g meal, under th e in stru ctio n of Miss T aylor. Ju st take a stroll th ro u g h the passagew ays in the school “ ro o t” house and view the tons of pu m p k in s, squash, apples, onions, ru tab ag as, etc., stored in the bins for w inter use. T h e celery and cabbages are still in th e g ro u n d . T hen visit the fru it room a d jo in ing the school kitchen and see the thousands of g a l lons of all kinds of canned fru its and vegetables. Indeed, Chem aw a provides ab u n d an tly for its table. FOOTBALL NOTES T h e score of the W illam ette Mt. Angel gam e in d i cates th a t Chem aw a will have a tough proposition in Mt. A ngel n ext S atu rd ay . C aptain L ane was slightiy injured d u rin g the end of th e third q u arte r, but retu rn ed to the gam e at b eg in n in g of th e fourth q u arte r. T he boys at school met the football team at th e O regon-E lectric station on th eir re tu rn from F orest G rove and gave them a royal reception. M artin Colby accidentally cu t his ear badly on F r i day ju st previous to the gam e and it had to be sowed up, b u t it did not seem to in terfere at all w ith his playing S atu rd ay . Russel A dam s and Jam es C rane of our “ v a rsity ” team , who were unable to play S aturday on account of sickness and in ju ry , atten d ed the W illam ette-M t. A ngel gam e at Salem on S aturday. In the F orest G rove gam e our team was penalized for off-side and holding four or five tim es w hile the Pacific U niversity was penalized but once, and th at at the very close of the gam e. O ur boys feel th a t the um pire was very partial tow ard Pacific in his decisions.
