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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.