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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1918)
THE CHKMAWA AMERICAN LO CAL The prevocational details changed on Monday. Last week Mr. I. S. Loos made several business trips to Portland. The coal-haulers have nearly filled the basement at the hospital with coal. The large field west of the laundry is being sowed to oats. It is nearly seeded now. The dairymen are engaged at the task of building a fence about a field near the hog lot. Leander Parr, an ex-student of Chemawa, was here last week visiting his sick brother, Robert. Charles Morris was visiting here of late, but has returned to his work in a Portland shipyard. William Johnson secured the evergreens for use of Miss Skipton in redecorating the large dining hall. Jack Pete, a carpenter apprentice, has just complet ed making eight “ nifty” music stands for Bandmaster Loos. Mrs. Ida Lambert, M^s. Genevieve Bresee and Mr. Louis Murray of Montana, are visiting relatives at the school. Keep the home warm, but don’t forget that ventila- tion is essential. Pure air will heat much quicker than foul air. — - Each of the employes who reside in cottages have been issued a cord of wood each as a starter for the winter. The blacksmiths have just finished the task of re pairing and riveting the stovepipes in the academic building. The carpenters have been busy of late taking out the old screens in Winona Hall and replacing them with new ones. Mr. Hobucket was extremely busy last week un loading three carloads of wood for the school, which was sent from Silverton. Mrs. Wheeler came up from Portland a few days ago and enrolled her nephew, Harry. He will become a member of the Junior class. The members of the Small Boys’ Home are very thankful to the carpenters for the good work which they did on their outside porch. A numbers of girls at Winona Hall enjoyed a Hallo ween party last Thursday night. Delicious refresh ments ended an evening of enjoyment. Irving Crawford, one of our former students, stopped over here a few hours last week while enroute to Port land. His home is in the Klamath section. Dairyman Joe Bettles made arrangements with a local farmer last week for nine tons of carrots which ),e intends to feed to the dairy stock this winter. PAGE 3 One and one-half cords of Douglas fir wood has the same heating value as one ton of coal. In general, two pounds of wood equals one pound of coal in heat units. Roy Nuckolls and Kelly Shaw, both vocational boys, have been assisting Mr. Ross during the past few weeks in keeping the campus in fine shape. They have both made good. A detail of three boys in the shoe-repairing depart ment has been handling about forty paiis of shoes per week. They just completed the task of putting calks in the shoes of the football players. The onion house which is being rapidly filled with onions is still having more dry bins put in. The onions are coming in much faster than the bins can be installed. We will see plenty of onions and more this year. A detail of boys under the bucket is employed at intervals the track in order that it may for field-meets when the season direction of Mr. Ho in putting cinders on be in good condition arrives next year. Miss Skipton is in receipt of one of the Mare Island papers, a naval journal of recent date, which contains a picture of the band in which is shown Nick K. Hatch as a member. Nick is a former Chemawa student. Practically all of the work, both of carpenters and painters, is now done in the way of remodeling the sewing rooms. There may be a touch or two required now and then of the painters, but very little remains to be done yet. One of our girls received a letter recently from William Andrews, a former Chemawa boy, who is now in the navy aboard the United States cruiser New Orleans. William says that he expects to visit here next spring. On account of the epidemic of Spanish Influenza it has been practically impossible to schedule any foot ball games. We sincerely hope that conditions will soon to change for the better—really we think a change is already in sight. Deacon Lawton, who started the football season as fullback for our school, took down sick some time ago and was very ill. Deacon has recovered, but will not be able to return to the gridiron on account of the loss of weight. It is evident that he will be out for the season. Mr. Lipps, Supervisor of Indian Schools, was a wel come visitor at Chemawa last week. He was especially welcomed by the Carlisle students of whom he was formerly in charge. They say that it seemed good to see one who has been like a father to them. They are now wishing for him to come often.
