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TH E CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.
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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.