The Chemawa American, February 27, 1918, Page 4, Image 4

T H E CHEMAWA AMERICAN
PAGE 4
PUPILS’ ITEMS
Martin Colby, Louis Tellier, John Pablo and Sher­
man Young, all.ex-students, are in France serving the
! - Sixth Grade
colors. -
Mr. Mitchell is giving his daily boys interesting
• Florence Hoover, a member of the ninth grade, re­
cited “ Mercy,” .a selection from “ The Merchant of
talks bn cattle diseases and their cure.
Venice.”
Mrs. Perkins left for Portland on Tuesday. She has
The ninth grade has just finished reading ‘ ‘The Mer­
been ill and will remain in Portland until she re­ chant of Venice” and has taken up “ Webster’s Reply
toH ayne.” I
covers.
All the boys are looking forward for the baseball
The boys of Brewer Hall are sorry their good friend ,
Reginald Downie, is not with them any more. He season to open. Many of them are seen playing
catch during spare time.
has moved, back to Mitchell Hall.
A letter has been received from John V. Adams, who
with Company K, 162d Infantry, American Exped­
' Seventh Grade
itionary Forces, in France. At the time of his writ­
Some of the seventh grade pupils are Working hard ing he was in a British, hospital recovering from a shell
Over spellers. Wonder what that means? ' 'V
-shock. He was very anxious to get back to his reg­
The seventh grade is just about through with Rip iment, which‘is training, ] He.says that letters are cer­
Vail Winkle. They have been studying it for the past tainly welcome “ over there.”
two weeks.
R E P O R T E R ’S NO TES
A letter wTas recently received from Healy Jones of
By Robert Downie
Ft. Bliss. He says that he and David Forsman are well
Mr. Bent, our disciplinarian, seems to be the mam
and expect to go across'soon.
for the position which he now holds. He is well liked
Honor pupils only may crochet, knit, read books; by the students and there is no doubt about his be­
ing successful with the work. \
draw or write letters during study period. Not many
Our old gym is. now destroyed. It was recently torn
are doing these things this month.
down and the lumber which was in Jt will be pux to
The class of ’21 are glad to have their classmate, some other use.- This is much better than having it
Nellie Brigham, with them in the classroom again. lay idle in a useless building.
The new porch which is being constructed at Brewer’s
Nellie has been ill for a few weeks..
and Sanders’ cottage is almost completed. It will pre­
The study of agriculture has been taken up by the sent a much better appearance than before. They ap­
class of -21 and seeds have been planted for experi­ preciate the work that is being done on it. /
ments; This makes the study very interesting.
On Friday last Harriet Verney, one of our nurses;
left for her home in Alaska. She stated that she
Eighth Grade
hated to leave before .the end of the term, but it became
Mr. Stuart and his force of boys are busy installing necessary for her to do So. She expects tS* return as
early as possible.
a new hot water system.
Washington’s birthday was a holiday at Chemawa.
The McBride Hall girls are glad to welcome Mrs.
Several
people went to Salem, others took hikes, and
Brown as their house mother.
the evening was set aside for the Washington-Lincoln
? Mr. Stdart, the school plumber, gave the furnace at Birthday program. We all certainly .enjoyed ourselves
the hospital a complete cleaning.
to the fullest extent.
On Saturday otir ’varsity basketball team will play
! Florence Hoover, a ninth grade pupil, is in charge of
the small girls’ sewing-room and is doing fine. - the strong McMinnville College team on our floor.
A good game is always had from these boys and we
Ninth Grade
hope this game will be no exception. Colne and back
The mandolin club made their first appearance at up your team. ; It will be the last game of the season.
Don’t miss*i,t.
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the'George Washington Is Birthday program.
On Friday last the boys’ battalion took a long hike
When passing the orchard don’t fail to lo o t at the out in the epuntry about Chemawa. At 1 p. m. Reg­
trees which have just been pruned by the garden boys. gie Downie, started with Company A, followed up at
A letter has beeir recei ved from Lawrence Frazier 1: 30 by Mr. Bent with Company B, who tried to
whose company is stationed at Leon Springs, Texas. trace them. The weather was fine, wjiich caused a
great many miles to be covered and much sport was
Archie Freestone, having passed the physical ex­ had.
amination for the army successfully, expects to leaye
Archie Freestone, the. tallest boy in our school,
recently passed the draft board examination and will
soon.
be called for duty sometime later. Although he will
Miss Flint gave an interesting talk to the members not enter the regulars, he will be taken for some other
of B Division? Much to the little folks delight, she service, such as cook or baker. He is a good baker
dwelt on the stories of giants taken from “Jack and the and he will most likely mix the dough for the “ dough
boys” soon.
Bean Stalk” and “ The Pilgrims’ Progress.,”