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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1918)
TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN ■LOCALS Clyde-Fields and Julies Frank left for/ppttland on Monday to work in a' shipyard. Now- that the weather has'moderated’and the rain has ceased the ploughs are going regularly. / The ^fc^ardists have' completed pruning the big -orchard. /Spraying is the next order of the day| Mrs. Perkins left for Portland last week and is, stili' in that city recuperating from her recent illness. ' the new accounting system requiring so much additional labqr, all accounts at Chemawa. are j^ight tjp to dote.- The school has about 50,()00 pounds of potatoes on hand, which will-jbe sufficient to sfippiy/t'he/pupiis during the balance of- the- season. The landscape gardeners hafé j.hst -finished planting several h u n d r^ rp sezb iish es 'along .the front of .thè; „campus, S These bushes- aretw o years old and should bjoonrthis’spring-. The Mandolin and Guitar Club made their first appear^nòe/at ,the enter/ain men t last Friday flight. The girls have Jbeen practising/ faithfully /and' have’ done remarkably well. Mr./ Robéfeon is' arranging ‘to w a g e a bùrlésqtre'1 ^operetta, “ Pocahontas',” sónièfime during March. He will « 9 thirteen Students in the east. The first r e / Jiearsàl took plapp Jqst evening. , Mrs./jpaisy Wasson Codding a graclffàtè in nursbfig from Chester, I Pennsylvania, *hb§pital, has I been " ap: pointed nurse at Chemawà. MrS. Fulkerson will ac: cept. the position of assistant seamstress. Mr. Galbraith has moved all of the pens'at-the hog lot neàrer .together/.constructed feeding platforms and -troughs.and made improvements generally. Another lot of hogs .will be, ready for market dùring' April or I /A 71-2 pound boywas born to Mr. and Mrs'. Pender grass last Saturday evening. Mrs. Pendergrass is now at Salem Hospital and-we are eager - to welcome the little new-comer when he makes-his first appearance at Chemawa. , What is probably the; last -basketball game of - the season ofccUrred at McMinnville last Saturday evening .between the College'teàiù of thatplace and Chemawa/ The final score was 33 to 19 in favor Of Chemawa. | joè Bettlés refereed the gatne'and he'did ’it in his usual fair way. Thè little folks, epjoyed their regular party Saturday night in the gym. /T hrough the thoughtfulness and energy of Mrs. Bre;ve'r- ice Gream and cookies, were served as'a surprise to the little tots and more delighted youngsters would be hard to find. The evening closed with a hearty cheer for Mrst-'Bréwer. | Word, \yas received last week from Mr. Parker in forming us that Mrs? Par kèr,.,nee Margaret Reinyille,-. had met with an automòbile accident. Her face was PAGE 3 badly cut, but no serious injuries were sustained*. - He ststdr, Elizabeth, is with her in- Portland. We are; glad thaf Mrs. Parker is improving.' fames Evans, a fprmer printer on th,e American,- writes us from Metlakatla, Alaska, that he is now' clerking for the Metlakatla,Commercial Company, was recently appointed postmaster, and of evenings he is engaged;as/a /movie operator.” How is that for keeping busyB A^e are glad to hear of his succes'S dnd'" it makes ottr pride in “ Jimmie” /hrOw. -Frank Rosenberger, a one time pupil of this school and afterwards engineer- at Tulalfp School, was accidentally killed through an explosipn of a gap tank at the Tongue Rivet Agency,, M ontana,. a few day4 ago. Mr. Rosenberger and Mrs, Newjove^ teacher at Chemawa, were married about a year ag a .. Chemawa sympathizes with her in her bereavement. ^They/hike” on V/ashjngton’s birthday wasjan excit'- ing#affair.'/vft w,as inhSe-hature of a chase. Company, A leading, in charge of Mr? Downie/ ¿ah^C om panie^ B apjjjfrC pursuing under Mr. Bent and Mr. Hauser. Company A sqattp^ed paper at gyery cross roads , in 'order t,o indicate the direction. *Company A retraced their steps .however and eluded the/ptfrs'uhrs entirely' and-returned home Without being caught. Russell Adams, a senior and one of Chemawh’s all- around at-hleties, enlisted in the navy last week and j B ; for. Bremerton,Navy Yard on Saturday. Russell ‘S jornedYthe nayg from.<asen§e£oj loyalty and duty alto gether. He^tya/one of the most popular students and last year .wgs awarded the. prize for1 the best Student at school. ;While we-dislike to lose him we honor him for thestapeb taken, and realize- that he .will live up to the Best that is in him. Last Friday evening a number of the boys at Mitch-,' ell Hall hlfsqlftbTed and^nj'dyted what they cal/ed," | the las.t supper” in honor of theft, friend RiisspR Adams who left the following day to jojn tkepavy at Bremer ton. “ Henderson’s- best, ” with’toU of coffee, madb a ddftdy'blg supper. ' Around the table, sat th is 'jo lly , little bunch .eating and telling'storied'and relating past incidents until a late hour when all stole quietly/ to their own rooms. Russell had all friends here and wp will miss him very much”. . He tbbk an active' part in all activities of the school and was a leader in all. 1 Our best wishes go with him. M CMINNVILLE-CHEMAW A GAME Last Saturday our basketball team played its last game, ,qf , the season with M cM innville College at McMinqviilS T h e’team played well and won the game with a 33-19 score. In ' Spite' of the fact that Russell Adams, one of our forwards/was missing, the team work and basket shooting was in no w.ay short b /its standard. The game was not a one-sided affair as the score would indicate', but'each basket was reg istered after a hard tussel. The line-up follows; Reginald Downie, forward, Robert Downie, forward;, Frank Chamberlin, penten George Nix, guard; Frank Peratrovich,' guard. Between our 1st, 2nd and’girls’ teams we played 15^ games and have registered 376 points to our opponent« 325.
