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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent
Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager
Entered at the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as Second-
Class Mail Matter
SUBSCRIPTION
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FITTINGLY OBSERVED
On the evening of February 28th it became very
apparent that something of unusual importance was
in the air. First, shortly after supper the band ap
peared in front of the Superintendent’s residènce and
serenaded Supt. and Mrs. Hall. The occasion was
the anniversary of the wedding of this popular couple
and both of them made a short talk to the band boys
at the close of their selections. The Ukulele Club
followed suit of the band and gave a charming string
number, to the pleasure of all.
Practically every person on the grounds was
pleased to participate in the pleasures afforded by the
“ open house” at “ The Residence” that evening,
with Supt. and Mrs. Hall as host and hostess, in
which duties they were assisted by their daughter,
Mrs. Jaquins. Conversation, games, music—and a
charming number by the Girls’ Octette—passed an
evening all too swiftly and before the writer was
aware of the hour delicious refreshments were served
and it was time to depart.
Supt. and Mrs. Hall were married twenty-five years
ago while at the Wyandotte Indian School Quapaw
Agency, IndianTy., and we had all been pleased to
help in the observation of their “ Silver Wedding.”
At the time of departure there was a world of good
wishes offered Mr. and Mrs. Hall by the guests of the
evening, and the wish of all was that host and hostess
attain their Golden Wedding—and we all be in attend
ance. It was a memorable evening.
LOCALS
Monday was probably the most disagreeable day
experienced this winter. It rained, hailed and snowed.
A cold, raw wind added to the unpleasantness.
Mr. and Mrs. Hall appreciate the thoughtfulness of
the Girls’ Octette in serenading them on their anniver
sary. They also wish to thank the Hawaiian Club.
Sthepen Shoji, who has filled the position of cook
at the Teachers’ Club for the past eight months, left
Monday for Portland. He was forced to give up his
position on account of rheumatism.
Chaperones for girls walking next Sunday, March
10, are Mr. Brace and Mrs. Fratis for Winona Hall
girls and Mr. Roberson and Miss Sarah Brewer for
McBride Hall girls.
Rachel Gould, Mae Adams and Elizabeth Reinville
aie assisting in the Teachers’ Club this week, substi
tuting until a regular cook can be employed. This
will be the latter end of this week.
The Red Cross Auxiliary will meet every Tuesday
evening at Mrs. Hall’s unless notified to the contrary.
At the meeting last week many new knitters joined the
ranks and much good work was planned.
East Wednesday evening a bunch of wild basket
shooters were rounded up and hustled to the Salem
High School gym, where they played a preliminary
game against the high school second team. The
speedy five was composed of Joe Bettles and “ Bub-
bles” Downie, forwards; “ Longman” Shepard, center;
“ Spud” Liphart and “ Wood” Towner, guards. This
speedy five played fast and snappy and with the class
of a college team took the high school boys into camp
by a score of 25 to 14.
This being a “ lean” year financially the school has
been compelled to unload from cars and haul to the
coal shed many thousand tons of coal. This has
made it necessary to use teams which were required
for farm work, besides taking a large force of boys
from departments to do the shoveling. Arrangements
were made however this week for the hauling to be
done by outside parties, which will release the teams
and permit the agricultural work to be pushed, much
to the satisfaction of all concerned.
The bakery is always a busy place, making at this
time about 600 loaves daily, besides 1200 good sized
cookies twice a week, also 1200 hot rolls once a week,
600 snails or cinnamon rolls once a week, large
quantities of gingerbread twice a week, besides 100
meat pies, baking powder biscuit and pies three times
a week—all for the student body. There are no
loafers on this detail. Mrs. Teabo is a hustler herself
and inspires her apprentices with the same spirit.
Baseball season has pushed itself in to the limelight
once more and the balls and mitts are much in evidence
about Chemawa. The prospects for a good team are
brighter now than they have been for some time.
Towner, who stopped the ball behind the plate last
season, is waiting to don a suit. Bettles, our mainstay
pitcher of last year, can be seen daily warming up.
Downie, Nuckolls, Gartiez, Berry and Chamberlin are
all last year’s letter men and with the help of these
veterans Chemawa should turn out a good strong team.
The manager is still looking for a spring training camp
and is thinking strongly of California. Has anybody
any suggestions?