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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1918)
THE CHEM AW A AMERICAN LOCAL The orchardists are spraying the trees this week. A couple of very young heifers were sold on Sat urday for $75.00 each. The masonry detail has been cleaning out the drain age canal the past few days. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford visited their niece and nep hew, Alicia and Duane Kimball, last week. Rev. J. W. Perkins of the M. E. Church conducted services at the school on Sunday afternoon last. Several Chemawa people attended the Red Cross benefit supper at the Haysville school Friday night. Mrs. Pendergrass and „ little son received a hearty welcome upon their arrival at Chemawa last week. Mr. and Mrs.. Hall and Mrs. Jaquins had dinner at the Teachers’ Club last Sunday as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Daly. The plumbing and engineering departments are al ways busy making improvements in the steam and water systems. The heavy wind on Monday littered the campus with limbs and other debris, giving the yard detail a good two-days job of cleaning up. Mrs. Daisy Wasson Codding, of Marshfield, Ore gon, arrived on Sunday to assume the duties of. head nurse in the school hospital. Miss Irene Howard from Salem spent a few days with MissSkipton last week. Miss Howard was clerk here temporarily a few years ago. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Sanders on Monday, the 11th, an eight pound boy. Mother and son are doing well and father' receiving congratulations. The sixth detail for. the year went into effect on Monday. There was a general changing around'of prevocationals and some rearrangement of vocationals. Gilbert Connei, an ex-student, who resides in Idaho, is spending a few days at Chemawa visiting friends. He has enlisted in the Navy and will report for duty this week. Patriotic sentiment pervades all Chemawa. Our young men of proper age have nearly all joined the colors and the girls are knitting and otherwise contri buting to the cause. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Parker of Portland motored down Sunday evening. Elizabeth Reinville accom panied her sister, Mrs. Parker, to Salem and remained until Monday morning. Three more of Chemawa’s young men—Frank Peratrovich, George Nix, and Joseph Belgarde— have joined the colors. These young men will take .up training soon at the Bremerton Navy Yard, near Seattle. PAGE 3 The new onion house is rapidly taking shape. This house is tobe used for the purpose of drying onions this season, for many thousand bushels are expected to be harvested from the 18-acre tract to be planted soon. The various roadways through the campus have been pretty well covered with cinders. In spite of this fact the heavy teaming cuts through in places. Oregon “ mist” maintains a pretty wet surface a greater part of the year. The Sigma Phi girls are arranging for a benefit evening soon whereby funds may be raised for the purpose of purchasing material to be used in the manufacture of articles for the Chemawa boys who have gone to war. Reverend Alexander Hood and wife expect to take up work in another field next year. The Presbyterian board will be urged by Reverend Elliott of Salem to send an educational expert to fill the vacancy, most probably a lady especially trained for religious work in schools of this kind. The chapel program on Sunday evening consisted of a number by the orchestra, “ On Mountain Heights,” by Kiesler; solo by Rose Deschamp, “ I Know a Lovely Garden;” a reading by Rose Hamilton; choir, “ Old Folks,at Home;” Kipling’s “ if ” by Joseph Jackson, beside several hymns by the school. The Indian Appropriation Bill for 1919 as reported to the Senate contains an item of $250,000 as a deficiency fund to enable the Commissioner to maintain the var ious schools through to the end of the present school year. The same item is in the Deficiency Bill report ed in the House. It is also noticed that the Indian bill carries an increased appropriation for support of the various schools over the present year. The author of “ Keep the Home Fires Burning” was killed as the result of a German air raid on Eon- don, England, on March 11th. This inspiring com position has been sung in every English-speaking country since the outbreak of the war. Mrs. Lena Guilbert Ford, an American poet, was the composer. She was born at Elmira, New York. Our male quar tet made this stirring composition popular at Chemawa. Work is progressing on the “ stump patch” and it is slowly losing its stumps. Mr. Daly will soon have his plows going and a splendid piece of agricul tural land added to the cultivatable acres on the Che mawa farm. At the commencement of winter the many o bstacles against clearing this tract seemed insurmount able, but by hard and constant work many hundreds of immense stumps have been dynamited and bushes and trees removed, representing an outlay in labor of many hundreds of dollars. We still have a large amount of land to clear, which in course of time wil be accomplished.
