TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published W eekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARW OOD H ALL, Superintendent
Address all com m unications to R uthyn Turney, Manager
Entered at the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as Second-
Class Mail M atter
SU B SC R IPT IO N
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25C ts P E R A N N U M
O. A. C. VS. CHEM AW A
The basketball game between the Oregon Agricul
tural College and Chemawa on Thursday last on our
floor resulted in a haid-earned victory for the visitors;
score 27 to 25. Seldom have we witnessed a faster,
harder or cleaner fought game. It was anybody’s
game until the final whistle was blown. Both teams
showed class in their passing as well as in their de
fense. First one team would make a basket and then
the other, keeping the score nearly even throughout.
Hence the crowded galleries were keyed up to the
highest pich. Our team has shown much improve
ment in every respect. Mr. Emil Hauser is the coach.
FIR ST Y E A R VOCATIONALS E N T E R T A IN
AT D IN N E R
The first year vocational class in domestic science
served a most delectable and well prepared dinner on
Wednesday evening last. Covers were laid for twelve.
The guests were received by Dorcas M inthorn and
Rose Fisher, who acted as hostesses at the table.
Seated also at the table and assisting in entertaining
were Minnie Jones and Rosalie Lambert. The dinner
was served by Myrtle Murree, Irene Curl, Anna Holst
and Elizabeth Churchill, Mary Morgan, Millie Ben
net and Delora Keeler. Each girl of the class prepared
some dish included in the delicious menu.
Mrs. Vandagrift and her first year girls deserve
credit for a splendid demonstration of the work now
being taught. The guests were Supt. Hall, Mrs. Hall,
Miss W hite, Miss H endrix, Mrs. Canfield, Miss
W ootton, Miss Carter and Mrs. Vandagrift.
REPO R TER ’S NOTES
By Allan Shepard
The garden detail is nearly through with the w ork
of pruning in the orchards.
Annie Hall is reported as Mrs. Brewer’s brightest
pupil—on the kitchen detail.
Mrs. Ratzeburg and two sons are home again after a
two-weeks visit with relatives.
Miss Emma Poorthunder was ill for a day or two
last week, but is now herself again.
Review of mathematics is giving the seniors a touch
of high life at this time.
A new stoker has been installed for furnace No. 4
at the power house. It is giving satisfaction.
Besides working on the new implement shed the
carpenters have been busy of late in making furniture.
Mr. Welch recently removed the hedge of trivet
from around his cottage. He intends to beautify the
premises.
Miss Skipton reports in favor of the bread recently
turned out at the bakery—and her opinion is sustained
by the pupils.
Mrs. Rath, cook at the teachers’ club, informs us
that her sister and three sons are soon to arrive in
Salem from the east.
The farmers have just finished plowing the field near
the Oregon Electric depot. We understand that this
field will soon be seeded to oats.
Joe Belgarde is in Georgia enroute to France. He
recently met Russell Adams and James Thompson.
The latter had just returned from France. All three
mentioned above are Chemawa boys.
Pipes are to be laid over the lawns between the aca
demic building and the hospital in order that water
will be available to keep them fresh and green
next summer. At present the ditch digging is in
progress.
Mrs. Woods reports that for speed and all-arouud
good work the present laundry detail beats any she
has had this year. Such a report as this is most pleas
ing to hear. It should be the same in every depart
ment.
Everything being up-to-date in the laundry last
week, in fact a little ahead of the schedule, work was
started on a large washing order of overalls. This
was something of an undertaking for Mrs. Woods and
her detail.
On the morning after the basketball game last week
the boys on the O. A. C. team remained here and
visited the various departments of our school. They
were a nice party of young men and we were pleased
to entertain them.
William Andrews, a former pupil who is now in
the navy, was last reported as on his way to China.
Many of our boys are seeing a bit of foreign land as a
result of the war. Alas! some had gone to that
“ bourne from whence no traveler ever retu rn s.”
Between halves of our gam ts of basketball with
the O. A. C. team last week Mr. Bent refereed a
game between the orderlies and landscape gardeners.
In some way one of our printer “ devils” got slipped
into the fold of orderlies. Despite all the devil’s
tactics the orderlies lost. It was some game!