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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1919)
T H E CHEM AW A AM ERICAN LOCAL Merry Christmas! About fifteen of the Cheinawa ladies were guests of Mrs. Hall at an afternoon tea Thursday. These little affairs of which Mrs. Hall is hostess adds much to the social life of Chemawa and our ladies appreciate it. On last Sunday was the first day of the present sea son that we have been hard hit for fuel. The railroad company saw fit to pull one of our cars through to Salem and it was impossible to have it returned until Monday morning. Every dormitory, dining hall and other buildings are beautifully decorated with greenery for Christmas. Joe Bettles and Wallace Beebe had a busy time for a couple of days securing Christmas trees and fir boughs for the needs of the numerous buildings. The Junior Y. W .so f W inona Hall at their meeting on Sunday afternoon, directed by Miss Eakin, rendered a most pleasing Christmas program for the pleasure of the members as well as quite a number of visitors from Salem and Chemawa. The little girls did themselves proud and gave a most delightful hour to the guests. Prof. John R. Sites, head of the music department at W illametie University, and Mrs. Sites, and Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich of Salem were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Turney on Sunday evening. They attended the Christmas pageant held in our auditorium and were loud in their commendation of the vocal work of our choir. Our last issue came out at the end of a wintry blast that shook Oregon from one end to another, said to be the deepest snow and the coldest weather ever exper ienced here. But the snow has disappeared and the thermometer now ranges from 40 to 60 above. The Oregon “ m ist” is in evidence and we are again under going normal conditions, and we like it. Mrs. Brickell and the second vocational class in domestic science entertained a few of the campus ladies last Fridav afternoon in their parlor at a daintily served luncheon. The ladies reported a very pleasant hour and desire to compliment Mrs. Brickell and her girls upon a splendid demonstration of instruction in connection with the home training given. The second year vocational gave a class program in one of the school rooms Monday evening. The room was tastefully decorated with greenery and class colors. A beautiful Christmas tree stood in one corner, which was filled with “ presents” for the large class of 46 students. George Thomas, president, was master of ceremonies and made a good speech. The program consisted of Christmas songs, music, etc. This is a wide-awake class. As we went to press yesterday afternoon we learned of unique invitations that were issued in the form of a Christmas stocking to the Seniors and their teacher, Mrs. Risser, by the Juniors and Miss W hite, their teacher, for a social time in the old auditorium, aca demic building, last evening. Other guests were in vited to the function. There were games, recitations, shadowgraphs and music. There was also a Santa Claus who distributed presents. Beyond doubt every one had a most enjoyable evening. _______ F A G E 3 ATH LETICS—W ILLAM ETTE VS. CHEM AW A The basketball season opened at Chemawa with Willamette University. Willamette, having just been admitted into the Pacific Coast Conference, made the contest one of keen interest for the supporters of the Red and W hite. This game gave us a line on how wTe w’ould stand against one of the Conference teams. W illamette has always been the rival of the Indians in all the branches of sports and the contests have been stubbornly fought. Willamette had the support of three of her last year letter men while the Indians had two of their old men in the game. The game was a clipper from the start, with both teams roughing at times. The first half was so close and fast that it was a spectacular game. The first half ended with the Varsity two points ahead of the Indians, 14 to 12. The second half opened with Willamette taking the lead in points, for it seemed that luck was against us in basket shooting, Downie and Bettles, forwards, oc- casionaly got the right angle, which netted us more points but the lead of the Varsity gave them the game, with the score 32 to 22. Downie was not in his usual form for basket shoot ing; luck seemed against him, chances came but he did not have the range and his sights were set for shooting “ Jerrys” instead of the basket. Bettles, the midget forward, put up a fast game but was a little nervous, this being his initial game. Nix and N uck olls at guards played a good game and kept the Varsity from piling up the score they had anticipated. John son at center m ust be given credit for putting up a good brand of ball, for he was pitted against one of W illam ette’s best letter men. He, too, was playing his inital game. The Statesman came out with the account of the game, giving “ Poor E o” the credit of having put up a rough and a necktie game. The writer failed to see that some of this belonged to the other side. A new team just entering the conference must put up some e x cuse to show the reason why they were held to such a score. Requests for games for the holidays have been com ing in to the Manager but there will be no outside games until after the holidays. The home games will be the attraction. We hope that each contest will be well attended and you will give your favorite team your best support. The coming week will see some of the fastest con tests this year in basketball when the Shop Eeague opens in its race for the Championship and the Cup that is offered by Hauser Bros, of Salem for the win ners. The following teams are slated as the contenders: Blacksmiths, Dairymen, Carpenters, Painters and E n gineers.
