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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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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.