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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1918)
TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 P U P IL S ’ ITEMS Mamie Frisk has just about completed a pairQ)f socks. Lillie Palmer has charge of the mending room and she is doing good work. Mrs. Brewer aud Miss Mitchell are each going to teach a class of girls to knit socks. All the girls who attended appreciated the talk giv en by Miss Cutler at the Y. W. C. A. meeting on Fri day evening. The two stokers in the boiler room of the power plant are now doing all of the work. The other 'boil ers are cut out. Chemawa students were pleased when Bill Farnum, with his usual broad grin and winning Ways, came to visit them in the movies. . Robert Downie gave an oyster supper to some of his boy friends on Tuesday evening. A very enjoyable time was had by all who attended. The Mitchell Club miss their leader and president, Russell Adams, very much, but are proud that he is serving his country. We are having a service flag made to hang in our meeting room. Katherine Matt, one of the sixth grade students, visited with her father in Portland for a few days. Katherine is a good student and has lead the sixth grade for several months, Clipton Tom, ex-student of Chemawa, who has been stationed at San Francisco, is spending a few days furlough “at his home at Grand Ronde. He will pay Chemawa a visit on his way back to his post. A letter written by Earl Nuckolls on the 16th of Feb ruary says, among other things: I am now stationed at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu. We left Mare Island on the 5th , and arrived here on the 13th. I have been here only two days,so I do not know much about the place. T do know, however, that it gets very hot and there are millions of mosquitoes. T,he country , though, looks fine. A bunch of us went out walking this after noon; while out we filled up on bananas and pine apples. We got bananas for five cents a dozen and the pineapples were just as cheap. We have the impression in the corps that we ate to remain here for the rest of the war. John Byers is’at Quantito, but I understand he will soon go to France. Martin Colby is already there. Best wishes to all.—E arl N uckolls . An editor received this letter from a fresh youth: “ Kindly tell me why a girl always „closes her eyes when a fellow kisses her.” To which the editor replied: “ if you will send us your photograph we may be able to tell you.” U N U SU A L PAR AG RA PH S Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs, states that 5,000 Indians have enlisted in the U. Si.,army or naVy since war bega'nv?/ In .addition to this good showing, over $9,000,000 worth of Liberty Bonds have been bought by Indians, he says.. A huge chimpanzee attired in a man’s evening suit strolled into the dining room of a fashionable New York hotel the other evening. No-one noticed that it wasn’t human until a women happened to glanceat its face. She screamed and then pandemonium broke loose. The chimpanzee was arrested and takento the police station. Its keeper, a vaudeville performer, was finally found and also arrested for disorderly con* duct. He said that the animal had wandered away from him while he was at dinner. Prof. Holden, agriculture expert, says there should be no sugar shortage in this country. The average family can reduce its sugar bill 90 per cent by raising only one 20-foot row of sugar beets, he declares. And, he “says, every home can be its own refinery. A fair sized beet soaked in water ¿0 minutes and then boiled will make a cup of thick sirup which can be used for almost any ordinary Sweetening purpose, y Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoo has issued an appeal to the public not to build homes uittil after the war unless the need is urgent. Home building is an excellent thing in ordinary times, he says, but in the present emergency capital, material and .labor should be saved and devoted to carrying on necessary war enterprises. Secret service agents and members of the American Boy Scouts are working together to suppress two ju venile books which'ate said to be a part of the German propaganda to poison the minds of young people here. The titles of the books are “ The Boy Scouts in Ger many” and “ On Board the Mine Laying Cruiser.” , The stories deal with two German youths who accom pany .a mine-laying cruiser and afterward goon a Zep-, pelin bombing raid over England. They are written in such a way as to arouse sympathy for the German cause. Authorities pronounce them the worst kind of German propaganda. The city of Baltimore has been asked to furnish 2,000 homing pigeons for military; use in France. These birds are invaluable for army service, being able to carry messages under conditions which would pre vent the employment of the telephone or wireless. Over 90 per cent of the messages sent out by carrier pigeons^ arrive safely at their destinations, it is said.„\
