The Chemawa American, February 06, 1918, Page 4, Image 4

T H E , ÇHEMAWA .AMERICAN
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Eighth Grade
Marina ^elson led the? eighth grade in the final
Mamie “Frisk is giving 'the prevocational hospital history test with an average of 98 percent’.
The Mandolin and. Guitar Club is practicing every
girls lessons in cooking.
evening now. They will be heard from soon; r
Joseph Kipp and Albert èpencér returned to their
A card has been received7stating that Louis Towner,
homesin Idaho on account of ill health.
an ex-student, has arrived1 safely “ Somewhere in
Boilers number two, three and four, at the power' France.”
plant, are now cutout, as they haven’t sufficient work
A very interesting talk was given by Mrs. Risser to
for them .
the' B Division bn her trip td th’e Hawaiian Islands'
. Sophie Rpinertseu left Chemawa, last Tuesday for and Japan.
The eighth graders hacf a test in “ Meats’ ’ last Thurs­
her home in Washington on account of ill health. W,e
day.
The eighth grade class is now studying sails and
shall miss her very .much..
Soil fertility. r
The sixth grade m studying about the Alaskan
Our: ¡classmate, Fred Charley,,,is fighting under.,the
territory this week, and it isvery interesting, especially Canadian flag. He says that though he is fighting
to the ones who aré from different parts of Alaska <■
under the flag of Canada, he is still loyal to the red,'
Mr. Mitchell, who is in charge of'the dairy,' fs •white arid blue. <
The members of tiré Nonpareil Society met in school­
teaching the boys how to test milk. The highest
room No. 5 Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock for the
cfeám producing cow is No.’20, which'tests 45'per purpose of making up original yells and,songs fpr the
cent butteri at.
society. Many lively.,yells were handed in.
Seventh Grade
Ninth Grade
, yiola Spenper., an ex-student, is attending public
Everyone is eagerly expecting the movies.,,
school at Kooskia, Idaho.
!-AThegardetìers are now busy pruning the orchard
Sadie Kripwles is now in charge of the small gjrls’
’trfefesA;'
sewing room and is doing good. work.
The Seventh Grade will soon begin Commercial
The vocational sewing-rooiri girls are busy making
white uniform dresses!for Company C.
Díácóürit,. '
William Eràzier is helping to plow the new pièce of
The Guitar and Mandolin Club is working hard Qn
different selections for the Washington’s Birthday
land on the Pacific Highway ? ■
The seventh graders are getting down to regular program. /
The Juniors realize more fully the worth of their
work after the excitement of the geography final'.
motto, “ There is. no. Excellence Without Great La­
The two new stoker feed ^oilers and one. of, the old bor, ’ ’ because their final examination in Physics show­
boilers are doing all the heating service 'for the school.. ed the results of lgbqr.
yisions of snow fights, sleigh riding and skating flitt­
Thè McBride Hall girls are*doing .excellent work
now. Every ope does her part, and if necessary, ed* before the'eyeS* of all Chemawa on Friday morning
as d few flakes of snow floated through the air accom­
little- m qre,,.
panied by a fall of rain; ■
The 7th graders are taking , up agricultural botany
During the final examination „fpr Physips in the
and are,planning on doing a lot Of thinking, and that Junior class, Julia Gf'omoff received an average of
100. This is something that happens very seldom and
means hard work.
the Juniors'are; very* prbud of Julia. 1
The plumbers’ shbp has been recently overhauled
and is being kept nice and clean. The ol.d pump pit
A recent ■ letter from Robert ÍJ. Seryice states that
he i§ now bugler in the army and is getting, along
tower is also being kept clean. (
A letter from Henry Lange, now in North Carolina, nicfeiy ? ‘ life ¿fends his regardsAo all at Chemawa add
especially to the Excelsior Society.
states that he expects to leave soon, for. Franc^. He
Recently the’ carpenters, constructed a small strufe-
is working in Uncle Sam’s repair shop.
1 ure at the hog lot which will be used as a tool and
The seventh grade study hour class went out and gr’ain house. Mr. Galbraith who is now taking com­
looked at the two moons of Jupiter through ike field plete charge of the hogs iá making a number of'im-
pra veiri entis.
¿.glasses. They sorely enjoyed it. ,
A partition’ was constructed last Week at 'the power
Healy Jones, who | | now with Troop,C, 7th Cavalry, plant which cuts off the fire room from the coal shed.
stationed,at F t Bliss, Texas, wishes tobe remembered This was I done for the reason that the cold weather
to his classmates of thp, class, of ’21 andato his other had an effect .on the boiler which made it somewhat
difficult to keep up steam.
friends at Chemawa.
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