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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1917)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 R E P O R T E R ’S N O T E S By Robert Downie Wardrobes are being put in each room at McBride Hall. The girls are patiently waiting for the job to be done. Mr. Ross can be seen every day about the grounds with his force of boys picking up leaves and trash. Why not help him in our spare moments? George Barrett, the elected yell leader, states that he expects to get an unusual amount of noise out of the lively student body. Our hopes are high. The Teachers’ Club dining-room and kitchen is un dergoing many repairs and improvements, making a very pleasing change and also greatly adding to the appearance. The gardeners have put in the winter supply of pumpkins and squash. Pumpkin and squash pies will be served at the students’ dining-room for some time to come. Henderson Tatshama and Henry Elk, Chemawa’s last year’s well-known football men, will probably drop in soon. The football boys say that these boys cannot come any too soon. The daily inspection should show Brewer Hall to be up to the standard throughout the school term. This dormitory has just been newly painted and is white and clean. Boys, keep it so. The printing office force is filled up with ‘printer’s devils.” It will be up to these “ printer’s devils” to do their best in maintaining the standard of the Che mawa American in the coming year. Coal is being hauled daily to the power house and elsewhere. On account of the sudden drop in temper ature the last few days the school will need a lot of coal to keep the various buildings heated. The gardeners have just finished training the logan berry vines. On last Monday they started to plow out the potatoes on a ten- and eighteen-acre field on the southeast side of the school grounds. Mrs. McFadden, former matron, is now taking charge at Winona Hall. The girls of that building will appreciate her very much as she seems to be a good manager and fair in her dealings with all. The greenhouse on the east side is now being put to good usejmany pretty plants will be seen in bloom, after the greenhouse is completed Mr. Ross and his boys expect to make the campus bloom next spring. It is quite necessary for every student of the school to purchase a season ticket in order to support the athletic events o f the year. A fine schedule is arrang ed for the various athletic teams. Support your school team. Joe Bettles is taking no little interest in the work at the Dairy. He is busy every day testing milk and doing other work. Talk to Joe about the cows and high cost of living and he will give you a full explan ation of the subject. Thomas Phillips, ex-center on the football team, ar rived on Wednesday. Prospects look good all around for fine first and second teams. Thomas will work in the carpentry department and secure mechanical draw ing under Mr. Everett. A card has been received from Tom Cox, a former student who is now in Brazil, South America. He states that he has traveled over one-fourth of the world and has not found a place like Chemawa. It appears that he is now getting homesick for Chemawa. The football boys wish for a little rain to soften up the athletic field and also to make the grounds a little muddy so that they may be able to put their new foot ball togs to good use and to be in their element, for most of our games are played in mud and rain. LOCALS Major Charles E. Roblin, U. S. Special Agent, like Food Director Hoover, is an old Salem boy. The vegetable house is rapidly filling up with pota toes, pumpkins, turnips, apples and other stores for winter use. Superintendent Hall made a flying trip to Portland the latter part of the week to inspect supplies for the Indian Department. A splendid feeling of co-operation and an apparent desire to give friendly assistance to each other pre dominates among the employes at Chemawa. During the prevailing dry weather, warm days and cold nights, the number of patients at the hospital has increased. With the first rain this condition will soon clear up. Mr. C. S. Heinline, present chief clerk at Roseburg, has been assigned to the Redding, California, district, under the Superintendent of the Greenville School. Mr. L. B. Sandblast, of Roseburg, goes to Fort Ber thold. It is not known at present the post to which Supt. Chas. E. Coe will be assigned. All three of these men are splendid fellows. Plans for new buildings at Chemawa, as provided in the last appropriation bill, were forwarded to the Indian Bureau for approval some time since. They embody three cottages for employes; an employes’ quarters of nine large and airy bedrooms, reception parlor, two baths, two laundry rooms and screen porches; library, office, addition to hospital, and dai ry barn. The estimated cost is about $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 .
