The Chemawa American, February 25, 1920, Page 4, Image 4

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
IN D U ST R IA I) ITEMS
spirit showing the right kind of training that enables
All fences around the orchards are being repaired. a detail to proceed as they did.
The number of patients in thé hospital at this time
Our new watering trough ià now in use. It is self-
is
considerably less than the usual number at this
,filling
period
of the year. While we had a few cases of la
There is about a carload of bones piled in the pig
grippe or influenza, yet it was very slight and at this
yard ready for shipment.
time it is all cleared up. There were no serious cases.
The blacksmiths are getting ready to fill their show
The painters are greatly improving the appearance
case in the drawing room with exhibits.
of
the prune dryer. There are several more of the
The open session entertainment of the Winona
buildings that will receive attention shortly... The
Literary Society will take place March fifth.
furniture that the carpenters have made is also receiv­
The garden detail has just finished digging a hun­ ing some attention from the painters and will soon be
dred bushels of parsnips which have. been put; in the in use.
root house.
Joe Bettles and his detail have about one hundred
The farm forces always are a busy lot, plowing, disc­ and fifty head of bogs to look after. These boys keep
ing, harrowing, and putting things in shape around their pens and yards very clean considering the wet
our new barn.
weather. At present there are 56 shoats being fed in
The plowing of one of thè orchards is about com­ various pens for the market, from which we expect io
pleted and it is a credit tp the boys who had it to do, gef a goodly sum.
for it is done well.
There is no busier place at Çhemawa than the black­
The blacksmiths are very busy repairing plows and smith shop in the performance ofits various ramifica­
other machinery for the farmers and keeping other tions. It is a pleasure to visit that department and wit­
jobs out of the way.
ness so much work being turned out by the stu­
Active work is now being prosecuted in the bottom dents. Mr. Welch is an able general and a live wire
east of the trash dump, plowing and getting the new and a willing worker.
land ready for seeding.
The domestic science department at Chemawa is a
The educational films that are soon to be furnished by very important and a very busy one, too. Preparing
the Department of Agriculture will be both entertain­ lunches each day for all the high school, business col­
ing and instructive. Watch for the notice of their lege and university students, together with entertain*
ing all visiting athletic teams as well as demonstration
arrival.
The mechanical drawing department,unaer Mr.Iliff, dinners added to the meals cooked for the students
is a busy place every day from ten until noon. The themselves and catering for Various functions, we can­
boys are intensely interested and are making fine not see wherein we could get along without it, espec­
ially as Mrs. Brickell and her force co-operate so will­
progress.
The campus near the office and Brewer Hall has all ingly and carry out requests so nicely.
been dug up and reseeded to lawn grass. Neat wire
DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES
fences are placed around to keep the students out 6f
We find Mrs. Brickell a very good, patient instructor.
the enclosure.
We will be glad when the third-year vocational girls
The implement shed that has been used for a stable
for some time has been partly remodeled and openings who haVe been assisting in the hospital will be able to
made in the east side and will be used for the imple­ join their regular class again.
The third-year vocationals prepared and served the
ments from now on.
The garden force has finished pruning both orchards. dinner for the Vancouver basketball team on Wednes­
It is a big undertaking to prune and burn the limbs day evening. Louise Demacon acted as waitress.
from the trees in the orchards, but the garden force
The domestic science girls have been busy preparing
was equal to the task.
and serving dinners, catering for parties, and in their
Our tractor and plow are busy plowing the ground spare moments making fancy work to be used in the
for this year’s potato crop. The farm detail invites domestic science department.
The second-year vocationals left a handsome coffee
you to inspect this job of plowing, which they con­
urn and an electric grill at the domestic science de­
sider the best ever done on the school farm.
Considerable credit is due the boys of the baking partment after their ten weeks work there. The
detail for the excellent manner in which they did the third- and fourth-year girls hope to leave something
work in the absence of Mr. Chapman. It is the right equally as beautiful and useful.