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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1919)
PAGE 2 TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN BAWA AMERICAN ' w — ----- 7.“1, ; *—:■ -r- Published W eek ly a t th e Salem Indian Training School Ohemawa, Oregon, HARW OOD H A L L Superintendent Address all com m unications to R uthyn Tn™ «y, M m tg « , Entered at th e Ohemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as Second- Class H ail M atter SU B SC R IPT IO N 20C ts P E R A N N U M GIRLS* SOCIETY E N T E R T A IN S ladies that the audience was convulsed. Louise and Rose took the part of husband and lover while Mar garet represented the dainty, delicate little wife. The program lasted over an hour. There was not a dull moment. Miss Antoinette White is the advisor for the Nonpareil and she as well as the society merit our thanks for a most delightful evening. SE N IO R NOTES We are enjoying “ As You Like It” and wish we had more time for it. From the Question-box: “ If Rose wore a rose, what would Mary D. Ware?” The scales showed a large gain in the Senior class directly after Thanksgiving. Several Senior girls took prominent parts in the Nonpareil open session on Friday night and did honor to themselves. The open session meeting of the Nonpareil Literary Society held on Friday night in the auditorium for which invitations had been extended to members of all of the societies together with the faculty and others, was very interesting and enjoyable to those who had the pleasure of being present. The three visiting so The Senior Mixed Double Quartet made its first cieties were seated separately, with the Nonpareil girls in front on the girls’ side, each member wearing appearance last Friday and was an immediate success. a purple or gold cap, the society colors. Previous to They also sang at Sunday chapel. the opening of the session the three visiting societies Those long outlines for insects and their remedies vied with each other in giving complimentary yells are now Complete and we may smile while we make and cheers for the Nonpareils. For about ten minutes decorative covers for our “ bugology” notes. - enthusiasm was in the air. Eleanor Hank, president, A lively little debate with Annie Miller and Fred . presided, and Effie Davis, secretary, called'the roll’ each member giving a quotation as her name was an Wilder against Marguerite Chamberlin and Gus Gar- , nounced. tiez was won by the first named team at “Friday’s u' ’ The president welcomed the visitors in a neat little session. speech, after which the girls stood and with much spirit sang their Nonpareil society song. This was RELIG IO U S NOTES followed with a very sweet and touching song by thè On Monday morning from 7:30 to 8:15 solemn ser Nonpareil Octette, composed of Catherine Wilder. vices were held in honor of the Immaculate Conception Julia Fratis, Mary Motanic, Mary Belgarde, Laura Wann, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorcas Minthorne and of Mary in the Catholic chapel. Maude Potts. These girls’ voices blended splendidly On Friday afternoon Rev. Dr. Notker.O. S. B ., and and the harmony was excellent. Effie Davis declaimed' Rev. F. Sinderhow, Rector of Woodburn, received Man's Best Friend,” followed by a guitar solo by confessions from the Catholic pupils. Nancy Matthison, who was compelled to respond to an The Y.M.C.A. held a very interesting meeting encore. A humorous recitation by Elizabeth Mont gomery, Wadin’ in de Crick,” created merriment, Sunday evening, discussing the subject of honor, in being followed by a couple of splendidly executed school life, athletics, business and in private life. A numbers by the Nonpareil Orchestra of eight girls. vocal solo by Arthur Johnson was much enjoyed-.* Margaret Lewis gave an impromptu talk about her The Protestant Sunday School has been very active favorite author, which showed that she has done some the past two weeks in the Christmas drive for the Ar good reading and understood what she had read. The menian-Syrian Relief. Fifty-one dollars have already vaudeville stunt, “ Jokes in Dialogue Form,” by Mary been raised. Since sixty dollars will keep one child Damon and Victoria Sansaver, as well as the concert for a whole year, the Sunday School expects to raise at act by Gertrude Todd and Catherine Loftus, were least that amount before Christmas, and thus assume performed in a very professional manner. It was re the responsibility of keeping one child from starvation . marked that Chemawa did not have to go to Salem to A new Y.W .C.A.was organized last Sunday after see vaudeville. These girls’ acting brought down the noon among the older girls of Winona Hall. Both house. Eleanor Hauk gave a reading. Eleanor always delights her audience. She was at her best on the Senior and Junior Y .W .C .A .’s have such a large this occasion and did full justice to the recitation membership, that it has been necessary to form this new intermediate organization. It has a charter of Lasca.” membership of twenty-one, and the following officers 4t *Tke feature of the entertainment was a plav called were elected: President, Carry Anderson; vice-presi- High Cost of Living” in which Margaret Chamber dent, Viola Beyers; secretary, Mildred Hoover; treas lin, Louise Demacon and Rose O’Brien were the ac urer, Freda Liljegren. Mrs. Turney, Miss Judd and tors. It was a burlesque on H .C .L., an up-to-the- Miss Eakin were made members of the Advisory minute play and so cleverly acted out bv the youujg Board.
