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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1921)
T H E C H E M A W A A M E R IC A N LOCAL C harles B uchert is the school barber and he is a busy fellow , too. E llen W y n n , prevocational, made all the cakes for S unday n ig h t supper. Roy N uck o lls is in ch arg e of th e p ain t shop d u rin g th e absense of M r. Sanders. N ick Orloff and Jacob M y n u k , e x -stu d e n ts, spent th e week end a t C hem aw a. A le tte r has ju st been received from A nnie S ex to n , ’20, from Tacom a, W ash in g to n , w here she is now em p lo y ed . W e are inform ed th a t N ick Orloff and Jacob M ynuk are now enro u te to Cordova, A laska, in te n t on m aking th e ir fortunes. W e hope they do. M r. B ettles speaks m ig h ty well of th e boys of his dairy detail. A lth o u g h th ey are all little fellows they do the w ork in first-class style and in “ jig tim e .” E dw in L iljeg ren , president of th e senior class, is m aking a fine lot of fu rn itu re for display, perhaps at com m encem ent. H e is a good w orkm an— a cred it to him self an d the school. Miss K ath e rin e W ild er and M iss Rose Goff, C he m aw a g rad u ates now hold in g positions in P o rtlan d , w ere visito rs at th e school d u rin g the past w eek. T h e y are g e ttin g along nicely. Mrs. O llie E . T u rn e r and little d a u g h te r left last w eek for th eir hom e in H u m p tu lip s, W ash in g to n , after a visit of som e d ay s w ith relatives at Chem aw a. M rs. T u rn e r is a sister of R eginald an d R obert Dow nie of C hem aw a. C ath erin e W ilder, class of ’19, and Rose Goff, ’20, were w elcome visitors the past week. T hey are em ployed at the W averly Baby H om e in P o rtlan d . T h e su p e rin ten d en t of th e H om e speaks very h ig h ly of these you n g ladies. M r. B ent is devoting a good deal of his tim e each m orn in g after b reakfast d rillin g our raw re c ru its in the m anual of ar-ms. A s soon as th e w eather settles outdoor d rillin g of our n in e com panies of cadets will begin. C hem aw a is alw ays ju stly proud of the fine appearance and accu rate m ovem ents of th e tw o b at talions em bracing o u r stu d e n t body. Miss M ollie V . G aith er, day school inspector in the U m atilla ju risd ictio n , is a visitor th is w eek. Miss G aith er entered th e In d ian school wot k in 1886 and has been p rom in en t in educational affairs. A t one tim e she was principal at C hem aw a. She also was su p e r in te n d e n t of the go v ern m en t boarding school for girls at Springfield, S outh D akota, u n til it was abolished last year. F or ten years she was su p e rin ten d en t of o u tin g at C arlisle. PA G E 3 A n o th er dem onstration d in n er was given by a senior since last issue. T h is tim e by Miss C atherine L oftus. C atherine distinguished herself not only in faultlessly p rep arin g .and serving a splendid d in n er to eight m em bers of th e faculty, but by her w om anly m odesty and g entle dem eanor. As a hostess she stood out also. W e co n g ratu late C atherine on the success of h er Dom estic Science dem o n stratio n . E lean o r H a u k , senior in high school, H attie M artin, ju n io r, won first places and will represent th eir re spective classes (senior and ju n io r) at the an n u al de clam ation contest to take place n ex t m onth. M arguar- ite C ham berlin received second place for the ju n io rs. W e consider this achievem ent on p art of our girls a g reat honor for Chem aw a and its high school stu d en ts, to win o u t against th e best talen t in Salem at the tr y out. OUR CHAPEL SERVICE D u rin g chapel exercises last S unday evening th e o rch estra played a selection from the opera of “ M ar th a ” by F lotow , M aude C raig sang “ T he E lf-M an ” by W ells, L ouis Colby recited “ S p artacus to th e G la d - ia to rs ,” C ruz M cD aniels gave as a baritone solo “ Alice W h ere A rt T h o u ” by A scher, th e choir sang “ I ’m N earer My H o m e” by L ew is, and S u p t. H all gave a very fine ta lk . In every talk given by S u p t. H all th ere is “ th a t so m e th in g ” w hich holds th e atten tio n of all. I t is th a t w hich com bines all the elem ents of tr u th — philosophy, logic, the lessons ta u g h t m ankind by experiences of countless ages, and the m anner in w hich each talk is given. T hese talk s are fine lessons for all of us. Y. M. AND Y. W. C. A. NOTES N e x t S unday afteroon Rev. H . E. Pem berton of the S outh Salem F riends C h u rch will be the speaker at the reg u lar m o nthly preaching service in the auditorium . A t a recent m eeting of the I .T .C . Mr. Bent gave a m ost in te re stin g and in stru ctiv e talk on “ Old In d ian G am e s.” M r. Bent had spent a g reat deal of tim e and effort in m aking the equipm ent for some of these gam es to illu strate his talk and th e in terest was keen th ro u g h o u t th e m eeting. M any of these gam es are alm ost obsolete, and M r. Bent hopes to see the In d ian boys revive some of these skillful and picturesque gam es in place of the m ore m odern gam es of w hite boys. T h e topic of the Y. W . C. A. m eeting last S unday was, “ O ur R esponsibility to our A sso ciatio n ,” and m any in terestin g suggestions for im proving th e A s sociation and its m eetings w ere given. T h e Y .W .C . A. is th e recip ien t of a splendid gift of tw elve M ission S tu d y tex t-b o o ks from the Y . W . C. A. of A lbany College. T h e te x t is “ A ncient Peoples a t N ew T a s k s ,” a very in terestin g presentation of In d u stria l M issions in Ja p an , C hina, In d ia and A frica. T h e stu d y of th is book w ill be ta k en up a t once by both th e Y .M . and Y .W .C A .s.
