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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1918)
PAGE 3 LOCAL Last week Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin made a trip to Seattle on business. IVIr. Hauser is u p again, after being laid, up for a few days with a cold. , . During the past few days the school divisions have b,een detailed on special duty about the grounds. Mr. Hobucket is now acting as industrial teacher. Although Chemawa did lose about 200 of her young men to défend her country she has again filled her quota. There are &t this time six hundred or more students on the grounds. The addition to the hospital affords us two new up- to-date and airy wards which are now being used. 1 Word comes from Mr. Bent stating that, he is put ting in three, months’ training in six weeks. He tells of his experiences in trench digging. On his return he will be a bighelp to Mr. Blessing’s pipe-line crew. The farmers have just got through plowing a forty- acre tract at the lake, where they intend to plant cheat. Word was received from our friend., Russell Adams, stating that he is aboard a ship bound for the Southern Seas. Each evening two squads of football players can be seen on the gridiron working out for a victorious team. There is a lot of “ pep’f in the teams and it is likely that when they get going they will be a hard bunch to stop. An up-to-date three-horse potato digger recently purchased is now in use digging Chemawa’s pota toes. ■ > ' ■ The old double cottage where Mr. Mann and family lived for so many years has been remodeled and made into five up-to-date rooms in each half. The black smith will occupy one half of .the cottage, while :the other will house thé assistant engineer. Albert Hayes, who recently returned to school, is again back on the job and is a big addition to the engine house forces. This year the school has a large amount of potatoes, onions, turnips, pumpkins, squash, dried prunes, apples, cabhagës, carrots, etc7, which will be used ttoiswinteH - Mrs. Cora Kinninook stopped off for a few minutes on last Sunday to visit friends. She was enroute from Alaska to California. ; Ruth Brewer spent the past week with her mother. She was recently ill but has recovered and will soon return to school at Corvallis. Since the fall rain has sét ih the landscape gardener" has stopped sprinkling the lawn and is now devoting his time in beautifying the campus. : Mr. Devol has beautified the grounds to ho little extent about-thfe; academic building and auditorium. A great deal of his interest lies there. McBride Hall has . been completely overhauled during our summer vacation and the girls of that building now havethe most inviting rooms. A large detail of boys are busy at this time with the school truck hauling in onions from the lake bottom and placing them in the dry house for winter’s use. Mrs. Doherty received a telegram o n las t Sunday in forming her of the illness of her son. She left on the noon train the same day for Tacoma, Wash., where he is located. . ■■ - The members of the Exéèïsîof Literary Society wish to express their sincere thanks to the many friends for: thé .Beautiful floral offerings and'kindnesses rendered during the funeral of their friend, Ivan Anderson, who was president of their organization. One of the biggest, improvements about Chemawa this year is'in the sewing department. AU partitions were changed and the large porches enclosed and fitr ting rooms put in, which gave more room for every demand, the intermediate department as well. Willie Reddie, who was the ’cellist of the Indian String Quartet put out from Chemawa a couple of years ago, ip, now in an aviation band located at Great Lakes, Illinois. For a long time the quartet toured the East under contract with the large Lyceum Bu.-; reaus, but the war broke up the organization. Willie writes that he has been selected as oneof eight ’cellists for a symphony orchestra of seventy men who are lo cated at Great Lakes. -All of the men of the Orchestra are artists who formerly were members of some of the great symphonies of the large eastern çitiçs. ,, , FISH STORIES While fishing in Warsaw sound, on the coast of Florida, P. F. Gleason, of Germania, Fla., placed the line for a moment in his mouth. There waS a sudden terrific tug and a shark rushed away with the bait. Ghe of Gleason’s front upper teeth was torn from the gum. The water in Fox river, Wisconsin, was low. One day Hiram Beverage, of Appleton, saw a great stur geon in a shallow pool,, H e triedAo catch it; by the tail but was not successful. Then he. leaped op its back and a battle royal ensued. With the a,id of a stone he finally managed to beat the fish to death. Hiram’s knees were scraped raw and; his. legs were badly cut.
