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
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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.
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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” .
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During the meal an orchestra composed of Junior
girls dispensed sweet music in the parlor opening out
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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.