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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1917)
i TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCALS As usual the evening chapel exercises were held on Sunday. The Nonpareils will give their annual party on Sat- day evening next. Dr. Wedge and family are now visiting at the Phoe nix Indian School. The little folks will have their bi-monthly social in the gym on Friday night. The school gymnasium continues to be the center of athletic and social activities. It is hoped the Brewer Hall boys will take more in terest in their rooms hereafter. Mr. William Ratzeburg, brother of Mrs. Henderson, was a dinner guest on Monday. Chaperones for girls who go walking next Sunday afternoon are Mrs. Doherty and Miss Scholder. The girls of Winona Hall deserve praise for the neat and cleanly appearance of their entire building. On May 29th the dairy force at Chemawa will attend a stock sale near the state penitentiary in Salem. The girls’ garden back of McBride Hall is growing nicely. It is about time for the girls to secure the hoes and rakes. Mrs. Fulkerson and Donald were called to Portland on Satnrday where some intricate dental work was performed for Donald. Mrs. Fratis, our trusty and faithful assistant laun dress, chaperoned a small party of girls to the movies on Saturday afternoon last. A reorganization of the girls’ companies was made on Sunday last with changes of various officers. Eaura Squiqui was made adjutant. Mr. Erixon, the contractor, advises us that the two 150-horse power boilers are made and will be shipped from Louisville, Ky., immediately. The regular inspection took place as usual on Sun day. The gill officers of Winona Hall and Mrs. Es- tabrook accompanied the inspecting officers. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Warren and Donna Mae and Mrs. Teabo made a trip to Portland and return by auto on Saturday. Mr. Smith was on official business. A game of baseball between Chemawa and Pacific College was scheduled to be played upon our field Saturday, but on account of rain it had to be called off. Henry Campbell, Lieutenant of Company A, left on Tuesday to join the navy. They go one by one, un til Chemawa has a big delegation in the country’s ser vice. Loulin and Ruth Brewer, students at the Oregon PAGE 3 Agricultural College at Corvallis, spent the week-end at home. Chemawa is always glad to see these young people. Martin Colby and John Beyers, two of Chemawa s boys, enlisted in the navy last week and passed through on the Southern Pacific for the training school at San Francisco. Nick Orloff writes from Mare Island, near San Fran cisco, that he is getting along well. He asks that the American be sent him, as he is anxious to be in touch with C. I. S. Mr. Carrow and the mason detail have torn down the high fence surrounding the tent houses in the rear of the hospital, thus adding to the appearance of that part of the campus. The alternate section of the prevocational class in cooking—6th grade—gave a particularly fine demon stration exhibition in the students’ kitchen under Mrs. Brewer on Monday. A committee from the Grand Army post in Salem has written to arrange for a meeting in our auditor ium on Friday of this weak, at which time they will deliver patriotic talks to the students. Mrs. Helen Kincaid, sister-in-law of Mrs. Brown, stopped off at Chemawa last week to visit. Mrs. Kin caid has spent the past winter in Southern California and is enroute to her home in the East. The call of the outdoor and out-of-school life has come to many of our students with all its appealing power these days when enlisting is inorder and spring time is here in all its beauty and attractiveness. John Pablo, who enlisted in the army and is sta tioned temporarily at Camas, Washington, secured a day off on Sunday and ran down to Chemawa to visit his friends. John made a good appearance in his natty uniform. Members of the 5th grade gave their demonstration exhibit on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Brewer deserves a great deal of credit for the splendid showing made by her girls of the prevocational classes. The high quality of the exhibit and the attractive manner in which it was displayed, with materials used from the ordinary government supplies, is a demonstration of what can be done. This is no time to let up on our school work with only a couple of weeks more before literary work ceases. The excitement incident to enlisting for war on part of certain boys, together with the much her alded need of farm labor, has stirred up a desire to “ go home” among a certain number of our students and lose credits for the entire year’s work. Boys, do not be“ quitters.” Some have already acquired this title.
