The Chemawa American, March 12, 1919, Page 4, Image 4

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
CHEMAWA NOTES
Martha Eratis spent the week-end in Portland, the
guest of friends.
Vesta Bildaback is a new acquisition to the detail at
the big kitchen.
The gardeners are through with the pruning of one
of our orchards.
The “ Hoover” potato digger is in the hands of the
blacksmiths for repairs.
Jack Pete, a vocational carpenter, has just finished
a large gate for the field just east of the cemetery.
Candidates for track honors are already showing
“ pep.” They are practicing in the gym of evenings.
The baker reports that the students can consume
1,500 cookies in about five minutes—and we believe
him.
Cake and ice cceam for Miss Wootton’s birthday
celebration were made by the prevocational cooking
class.
Jacob Mynuk has been detailed of late to the task of
repairing furniture in Winona Hall. He is a conscien­
tious worker.
The coal haulers have put in quite a bit of time of
late scraping the road they use in order to keep it in
good condition.
The girls of the prevocational cooking class all made
good averages in the recent examination on the
cooking of meats.
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A new engine has been installed at the ice plant
and the probabilities are that it will help make ice
while the sun shines—the coming summer.
Miss Juana Holmes, a cousin of Miss Skipton, is in
Chetnawa theguesiof the latter. She is always pleased
to .be at Chemawa and we,are glad to have her here.
One of the old fir trees which stood near Winona
Hall was blown over by the recent high wind and it
was cut into cord wood. Its an ill wind that blows
nobody good.
The blacksmiths have completed the work of making
two wagons. The painters followed along right after
the blacksmiths and now have the priming coat of
paint on the wagons.
The gardeners have just finished the task of sorting
12 large bins of onions in .the root house. It seems
to us that we have a pretty good supply of onions for
this season of the year.
The carpenters have just finished putting in windows
and window panes in Brewer Hall. At present they
are putting in a storm porch at the residence occupied
by Mr. and Mrs. Welch.
Of late the tailors have been almost wholly engaged
in the making'of uniform trousers. Eogan Fann, one
of the advanced tailors, made a pair in three hours.
To,us this seems pretty good.
A call has been issued for baseball players in order
that a team may be selected for the coming season.
Mr. Bent issued the call for players, but in all proba­
bility Mr. Hauser will be the coach.
The plumbers have been engaged of late at the
task of repairing radiators in Brewer Hall. The
painters also have had a hand in the repairs at this
dormitory, for they have plastered some of the walls
of this building.
GUESSES
Sooner or later the average boy or girl in school
learns to write out some kind of answer to every ques­
tion in an examination, reasoning that they can’t get
less than zero on those answered incorrectly and that
the teacher may give them some credit for having tried.
Such guesses are more frequently wrong than right.
On the whole, however, it probably pays to “ make a
stab” at every question- whether you are sure of the
answer or not for not only may your average thus be
rated but your, answers are likely to furnish consider­
able amusement for the examiner.
A Nebraska teacher has recorded some of the funny
answers that have been turned in to her on examina­
tion papers^ on grammar, history, geography, etc.
These are reported in the Omaha Bee as follows:
“ Ammonia was the food of the gods.”
“ A plagiarist is a writer of plays.”
“ A parasite is a kind of an umbrella.”
“ Alias was the name of a good man in the Bible.”
“ A franchise is anything belonging to the French.”
‘ ‘Republican was a sinner mentioned in the Bible. ”
“ An idolator is a very; idle person.”
“ Erudition is thè state of being erude.”
Perennial means every seven years.”
“ Mediocrity means the science of the Medes.”
“ James Russell Eowell, Henry Wordsworth L,ong-
feliow, Whittier and Hawthorn have all written pieces
of some note.”
“ A sort of sadness kind of shonein Bryant’s poems. ”
“ it was thè fugitive slaves who formed the Con­
federacy,” according to another historian, who issaid
to be the best first baseman at that school.
Continuous watering has been shown by experi­
ments conducted by a French botanist to produce a
better and more satisfactory growth of plants than the
application in the ordinary manner of a copious
amount of water to the soil at daily intervals. Water
is supplied drop by drop, by placing near the plant
a large-mouthed jar of water with one end of a strip
of cloth dipped in the water and the other end lying
onthe ground near the plant. This method was
shown to be more economical of water than the ol.d
method of intermittent drenching.