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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1919)
THE CHKMAWA AMERICAN The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, M a n a g e r Entered at the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as Second- Class Mail Matter SUBSCRIPTION - 25Cts PER ANNUM THE SPELLING CONTEST The annual spelling contest between the societies took place Friday evening. This is an annual event and was scheduled for December 27 but was postponed on account of defective lights. The representatives of the Winona Society were Agnes Lambert, Julia Gromoff, Veltha Frazier and Ann Sexton. The Nonpareil Society offered Effie Davis, Dorcas Minthorn, Alicia Kimball and Eliza beth Montgomery. Fred Wilder, Lawrence Tillot- son, Clarence Edwards and Peter Gardipe represented the Reliance Society and the Excelsiors insisted that Logan Fann, Duane Kimball, Charles Williams and Isaac Other Medicine were the best spellers in the school. It took two hours and thirty minutes to decide that the Winonas had the best spellers. The words were pronounced by Mr. U. S. Dotson, Principal of the Park Street school, Salem, while Mr. Roberson was chosen to be on hand to settle what ever troubles might arise. The review words in the fifth and sixth grades, and practically all the words in the seventh and eighth grades in the Bailey-ManlySpeller, Book Two, were spelled, after which the Pierce Speller was used. The winning society was given a silver cup on which will be engraved the name of the society and year. The Winona society will keep this cup until it is lost in an annual contest. The society that wins it three annual contests in succession will keep the cup permanently. _____ SENIOR LUNCHEON The Senior class was royally entertained at a lunch eon given in their honor by the Juniors in the do mestic science quarters on New Years Day. The Jun ior girls cooked and served an elaborate course lunch eon, assisted by the boys of the class in the decora tions, making ice cream, etc. All the decora tions as well as the menu were carried out as far as possible in the Senior class colors, blue and gold. Place cards were hand painted butterflies, done,by the Junior class and were significant of the seniors’ fond ness for “ bugology” . . During the meal an orchestra composed of Junior girls dispensed sweet music in the parlor opening out 4 from the dining room. Between courses various members of the Junior Class gave stunts in the nature of very clever jokes pertaining to the dignified Seniors. At the close of the luncheon the Juniors gave yells for Seniors as well as singing appropriate songs. Robert Downie, president of the Seniors, responded on be half of the class and the class as a whose gave answer ing yells and songs. Miss White and Arthur Johnson, president of the Junior Class, presided at the lunch eon. Altogether the occasion was a joyous one and much appreciated by the 20 members of the Senior Class and their teacher, Mrs. Risser, as well as the other guests present. LOCAL Mr. Oscar B. Chapman, a professional baker from Salem, is acting as baker, since the marriage of Mrs. Teabo. From the sample of bread so far furnished the students it is equal to any baker’s bread made. Fifty-six of the school hogs were sold last week, bringing in a goodly sum to be added to the miscel laneous receipts. Fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents per hundred pounds was received for the hogs in the pens. Word has been received that Darwin Watts, a for mer pupil of this school who enlisted in the army and who is with the famous 91st Division in France, has been severely wounded. It has also been reported that Martin Hartless was killed in the Argonne Forest. He was with the same division as Darwin. Both boys are former Chemawa pupils. Last Sunday evening chapel service was of more than usual interest. The orchestra played Cupid s Garden” by Eugene, the Octette Girls sang Alice bv Ascher, and the choir sang “ All Through the N ig h t” an old Welsh air, the composer being un known Supt. Hall delivered an exceptionally good and timely talk on being“ Out of Step.” We hope to print his remarks in our next issue. The weather for the past ten days or more has been clear and cold and part of this time there has been good ice skating on the near-by ponds, and our stu dents have not been slow in taking advantage of this unusual condition. It is amazing to find how many pairs of skates have been resurrected for such occasion. Chemawa is used to roller skates, as the students use them at all times on the sidewalks, but ice skating is unusual. This is the first time in three or four years that sufficient ice has been formed. Tillman Holliquilla of Warm Springs, Oregon, an ex-student of Chemawa, writes us that so far this fall and winter there are twenty deaths reported from the agency as the result of pneumonia and Spanish Influ enza He went on to speak of his Christmas dinner as follows: The Chistmas Dinner here at my home was a bountiful repast and was greatly enjoyed by our relatives and friends. This dinner was prepared almost entirely from subsistence raised on the farm. The vegetables, meat and fruit were of our own rais ing.
