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.
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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.