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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1917)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LO C A LS Mr. and Mrs. Loos and Donald Fulkerson spent the day at Portland on Saturday. Rev. H. N. Aldrich, of Salem, held Protestant ser vices in the auditorium on Sunday afternoon. The Y. M. C. A. had a large attendance on Sun day evening and a fine meeting was the result. One of the two new boilers in the engine room is in action. These boilers are to be supplied with coal by stokers which arrived lately. The Fayas children were called home suddenly on Sunday to be at the bedside of their mother who is lying seriously ill. After study hour Wednesday evening it is under stood that the young ladies of McBride Hall had a little masquerade of their own. From reports a good many weird spooks were in evidence. Mr. and Mrs. Warner and little Jane, accompanied by Mr. Hauser and Mr. Sanders, were spectators at the Marine-Oregon football game at Portland on Sat urday. They drove up in Mr. Warner’s car. A mandolin and guitar club of girls will be formed immediately. The instruments have arrived and Mr. Loos, instructor, is selecting the members. This is expected to be a very popular organization and add much pleasure to the school life at Chemawa. The Christmas benefit social on Saturday night was a success. A goodly sum was raised. The young men, with Reggie Downie at the head, were in charge of the affair, while McBride Hall girls, with their house-mother, Mrs. Perkins, had charge of the refreshment booth. Still they continue to make good! We refer to former students at Chemawa. A good friend, who is himself an ex-student of Chemawa, but who is now a prominent business man, has sent us a clipping from The Yakima Republican in which was printed an ar ticle regarding charter granted to men of Indian blood to start a general banking business. It is said that these men presented the finest credentials ever offered a state official in support of their petition for charter. The bank will be located at Wapato, Wash., and Sam R. McCaw will be cashier and vice-president. Mr. McCaw was the prime mover and organize! of this bank. He was a student at this institution when it was located at Forest Grove and it is thought that he was a member of the party of young Indian men who came to Chemawa from Forest Grove to clear a build ing site, in 1885—under supervision of the late David E. Brewer. For 22 years Mr. McCaw was asso ciated with the North Yakima National Bank—a fine record! Chemawa is justly proud of him and we take pleasure in chronicling his achievement. PAGE 3 The girls’ art classes are instructed by Mrs. Perkins and Mrs. Loos. The football boys are all determined to win the coming games of the season. The regular tailor boys are glad to have Wade Min- thorn and Andrew White back on the job again. The eighth and tenth grade girls had a lesson about an infant’s layette in the sewing room last Tuesday. Edwin Rousselle recently gave the 9th grade class an excellent demonstration on the combination of pulleys. The football squad is well pleased with the deli cious meals prepared for them by the cooks from the 9th and 10th grades. Frank Chamberlin, one of our plumbers, made an improvement on the hot water system which will now supply all the buildings with an abundance of hot water. Preparations are being made for a Thanksgiving program. Thanksgiving this year will be a little sad, as in nearly every household there will be a vacant chair. The orchestra rendered the Grand Selection from “ Maritana” at chapel on Sunday evening, which was followed by a well-sung number by the choir, “ The Heart Bowed Down.” The study of industrial geography in the 7th grade is very helpful in giving first hand information on fall ing big trees. One of our boys told how two lumber men would have contests seeing which could put the other off a floating log. A man is proud of being the champion logger. Mr. Horace G. Wilson, Supervisor, is lying seri ously ill at his home in Roseburg, Oregon, of typhoid fever. His son died recently of the same disease. It is hoped that Mr. Wilson may recover speedily. The bereaved family has the sympathy of all Chemawa. Grade 3 now has an enrollment of 73 pupils. They are well graded and are doing good work. Nineteen of these pupils are excused from study hour, having received averages of 85 or above. Those receiving 90 percent or above are: Ramona Tripp, Minnie Curren, Mary Lavadore, Aloysius Courcliane, George Harris and George Johnson. The two smaller companies, one of boys and one of girls, had their turn at Halloween sports on Friday night in the gymnasium from 7 to 8:30. These children showed much ingenuity and originality in their masking. It was a very impromptu affair and practically every one provided something for a dis guise. They had a good time and the onlookors en joyed it equally as much.
