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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1917)
I T H E CHEM AW A AM ERICAN The sewing room girls are now making new school dresses of blue gingham for Company B. R E P O R T E R ’S N O T E S By Robert Downie A w inter’s coat of white wash will be put on the in terior of the dairy barn. Miss Roberts left for Salem on Friday. located there for a while. She will be Agnes Swanson takes great interest in the lower grade. She is well liked by her pupils and is doing excellent work. Miss Gertrude Brewer states that the piano pupils are advancing rapidly. The choir, under her direc tion, is also showing good results. Miss Skipton takes as much interest on the outside of the dining hall as she does on the inside. She was busy last week with the grounds in front of her quar ters. Julius Frank and Andrew W hite are the latest ad ditions to the second football squad. Both of the boys are of great help to the team in our evening scrim mages. Simon Fratis, ex-student, paid relatives and friends at Chemawa a visit last week. Simon is located at Coos Bay, Oregon, where he is at the head of the night force in a restaurant. Mr. Stewart was at work last week at McBride Hall putting in new shower baths. This is a great improve ment to the building. He states that the girls’ laun dry will soon be completed. William Johnson is very ambitious. He says that he will start a bakery wherever he may be after leaving school. He takes great interest in his work and it is certain that he will make good. Mrs. F. W. Steusloff and Mrs. W. L. Skipton, of Salem, were guests of Mrs. Skipton last week. They brought with them several magazines for the girls. The girls appreciate the kindness of these good ladies. There are many good obliging cooks in the ninth and tenth grades. The football boys are the only ones that are fortunate enough to obtain more than samples. They prepare the delicious meals for the boys under the direction of Miss Skipton. At present Thomas Phillips is the photographer about the campus. He is noticed in his spare mo ments taking pictures of the beauty spots about the c unpus. Beware, or you may be shown a snap of yourself in a grouchy moment. The domestic science girls are busy with the cleaning and cutting of pumpkins to be canned at the large kitchen. They will be glad when the pum pkin season H over. They also have time to prepare a meal in the class work each day, which they enjoy. Robert Service, who recently enlisted under the head of the Aviation Corp, was transferred on Tuesday to a training camp somewhere in the South. Tuesday evening a Red Cross meeting was held in the auditorium for the purpose of organizing an au x iliary to the W illamette chapter of Salem. Those who have purchased season tickets are going to witness six dollars’ worth of athletic events for one dollar, from the present view of the coming schedule. Captain Archie Lane of the football squad enlisted in the Aviation Corp last week. The members of the squad regret his leaving, but respect his patriotism. These cold evenings the girls’ Ukelele Club of Mc Bride Hall gather around the stove which has been set up in the assembly hall and engage in keeping every body cheerful. The tenth grade had a class meeting and elected new officers for the year: Frank Peratrovich, president; James Crane, vice-president; Alicia Kimball, secretary; and Leona John, treasurer. Those in the eighth grade with a general average of 90 or more are as follows: Effie Davis, Logan Fann, Nicholas Petellin, Marie Stone, Ruby W hite and Fred Wilder. Effie Davis leads the class with an average of 94. Elwood Towner gave a party on Hallowe’en evening. During the evening a vocal solo was rendered by Mas ter George Barrett which was much appreciated and a patriotic speech by Irving Shepard was received en thusiastically. Sweet cider, cakes, candy and nuts were served. RED CROSS MEETING Representatives of the W illammette Chapter of the Red Cross held a meeting with the older students and faculty at Chemawa after study hour last Tuesday night Mr. H uckinstein, postmaster of Salem, gave a stirring address on the war and its problems, followed with a solo by Mrs. A. J. Rahn. Mr. H. W . Meyers gave a talk on financial needs and Mrs. Meyers exhibited dif ferent articles to be manufactured by the Red Cross. Mrs. Doctor Fisher, chairman of the membership com mittee, talked on organization. A good many of the pupils signafied a desire to join, so Mrs. Risser was selected as chairman, Mrs. McCros- son secretary, and Mr. Turney treasurer, as temporary officers, pending the permanent organization. Nearly all of the lady employes are already members. The choir rendered a selection and Mrs. Rahn a reading.
