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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
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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.