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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1918)
PAGE 3 THE CHEM AW A AMERICAN LOCAL Who will be Queen of the May? Mrs. Fulkerson spent Saturday in Portland. William Chuck arrived from Alaska a few days since. Mr. William Towner of Portland visited his son Elwood on Sunday. Our girls were all out in their new white uniforms at Sunday evening chapel. Miss Celestia Brace had as guests several high school girls from Salem on Sunday afternoon. Eva White and Agnes Swanson attended the Busi ness College party in Salem on Friday evening. Mr. Bradley, superintendent of construction, left for California on Friday to be gone a few weeks. Quite a number of Chemawa boys took a day off last Saturday by spending the day and night at Port land. Several Chemawa people attended the Red Cross benefit supper given at the M. B. A. hall on Thurs day evening. Dr. Dickasoti, Indian Service dentist, advises us that he has been drafted into the army and has gone to Tennessee. Miss Skipton, dining-hall matron, who has been ill for some weeks in Salem, returned to the school on Sunday evening. A large party of high school students motored out from Salem on Saturday to witness the Salem High School-Chemawa game. The little folks managed to “ get in” their party on Saturday evening. The little girls in their new white uniforms, and small boys in blue, presented a pretty sight. Thelma Orsen and Louise Demacon did themselves proud in the rendition of their readings on Sunday evening at chapel. They were trained by Mrs. Risser and reflected much credit upon her. Perry Bowman, a California boy who attended Che mawa a few years ago, visited here on Sunday. He is now stationed at the Vancouver Barracks, hav ing recently been transferred from Camp Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Daly left Chemawa this morn ing enroute to Carson, Nevada, to visit relatives. Mr. Daly will then proceed to Beikely, California, where he will take up training in connection with the avia tion service. Lawn sprinklers are now operating in full blast. For two weeks there has been no rain. Mr. Ross expects to maintain the usual pretty appearance of our lawns and in consequence the irrigation of grass and flowers is being pushed. Mr. Loos made a hurried trip to Wilsonville on Tuesday to return a couple of deserters. About six bushels of rhubarb were gathered on Sat urday, the first product of this year’s crop. The disciplinarians are busy these days directing the gym work and drilling both boys and girls. Chemawa defeated the Salem High School baseball team last Saturday. Score, 7 to 0. Joe Bettles ap parently toyed with the visiting team. Miss Eakin, of Salem, has been appointed by the Presbyterian Mission Board of New York, as expert religious teacher at Chemawa. She made her first visit on Sunday and all who met her were delighted with her personality and enthusiasm. Mrs. Duncan T. Ritchie and a little son Duncan Dean, arrived Saturday from Canada for a short visit with Superintendent and Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Ritchie is known to many friends throughout the Indian Service as Margaret Dean Kant, as she made her home with her sister, Mrs. Hall, previous to her marriage to Mr. Ritchie of Toronto, Canada. A letter was received not long ago from John Fritts, a former Chemawa boy, who is now stationed at Scho field Barracks, Honolulu, H. T., as a memper of Co. E, 32nd U S. Infantry. He speaks well of everything in connection with army life, and also speaks of the im portance of the drilling the boys at Chemawa get. He reported Earl Nuckolls at Pearl Harbor, fifteen miles from Honolulu. John’s letter was most optimistic and we were pleased to receive it. The Octette girls, with Miss Gertrude Brewer, their teacher, accompanied Mrs. Hall to Salem on Friday in attendance upon the State Sunday School Convention when Mrs. Hall read her paper on “ Un recognized Force.” This musical organization gave the audience a surprise in the splendid rendition of two numbers. Rose Deschamp sang a solo which was also well received. These girls made a splendid impression and are still hearing complimentary re marks by those who had the pleasure to hear them. MONTECELLO By the terms of the will of U. P. Levy who pur chased the estate some 10 years after Jefferson’s death it was to become the property of the people of the U. S. but the will was contested by the heirs. A few years ago a movement was set on foot to have the government acquire the property by purchase or con demnation. The owner agreed to sell it for $500,000 on condition that it should not be turned into a mus eum but should be used as the Virginia home of the presidents of the U. S. A bill to authorize the pur chase of the properay is now before the public build ing committee of the house of represenatives.
