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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1921)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 4 L IT E R A R Y SOCIETIES Our four literary societies held their first meeting on the evening of Sept. 30th. Our academic build ing was a busier place than usual on this occasion, because it became necessary to organize a junior society for the girls and one for the boys to accommo date the pupils of the fifth grade and the B division of the sixth grade. mason department is now doing the same kind of a joo at the school kitchen. OUR L IB R A R Y A special effort is being made to have our library used every possible hour during the day. From now on the library will be open for the following hours: I*or Girls 4:00 to 5:00 P. M. each day for the division All boys who were not affiliated with either society that is in school in the afternoon; 1:00 to 4:00 Saturday reported to the principal’s office, where their names P. M., boys’ town day. For Boys—6:00 to 7:00 P. M. were listed and the boys divided into two classes for each school day for the division that is in school in visiting the societies. Twenty-one boys visited Re the afternoon; 1:00 to 4:00 Saturday P. M., girls’ town day. liance and twenty-two visited Excelsior. Fifty-four The library will be open during school hours each girls were received in room 3 by Miss Ahrens and sent as visitors to the Winona and Nonpareil societies. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the session At the next meeting of the societies these students will that the A division is in school. Pupils may be sent have the privilege of visiting the other society to from the classrooms for reference work during these which they are eligible and their membership will be hours. Pupils on the B division, who are released placed the following week with the society of their from detail during school hours, should go to the library and become acquainted with good books. choice. Some Chemawa employees who recently entered the Miss Hauk assisted Miss Gunn in organizing the library for the first time remarked at the splendid girls’ junior society. We have not yet learned the selection of books and asked the privilege of using the names of the new organizations, but judging from the library. We are glad to serve the employees. We enthusiasm of that first meeting we believe it will keep are more than glad to serve our students, for the reading of good books contributes largely toward a the senior societies stepping to keep pace. liberal education. Miss Fee is advisor to the boys’ junior society and, as B A Y V IE W VISITORS one of the teachers remarked, she certainly arouses the Last week all Chemawa was pleased to welcome Mr. right spirit for society work. and Mrs. R. J. Peratovich of Bayview, Alaska, who placed their son and other children in our school. ITEMS FROM TH E TR A D ES Mr. Peratovich is in many ways an unusually pro The fair is over and we are settling down to inten gressive man. He established the first salmon cannery, sive instruction in all departments. A word to the tne first movie theatre, the first electric light and plant, and the first general store in Bayview. boys in the shops is in order at this time: There are power At present he is the owner of the store, the movie house, more boys wanting admission to some of the shops and electric plant—a mighty good showing for any than we have room for at present. Those that do not man, and he is still a young man, too. Mr. Peratovich tells us that he received his edu keep up with their work and fail to make the most of their opportunities need not be surprised if they find cation wholly in Alaska and he is largely what is a self-made man. He is a credit to himself that they are changed and someone else who will try termed and a splendid example and leader for the people of is given the space they formerly held. Stick to your his section. job and do your work well. Bayview is on Prince of Wales Island, the natural resources being lumber, fish, mining, and trapping The senior carpenter boys are working on the in terior finish of the new cottage. Others of the same for fur-bearing animals. There are many possibilities our visitor informed us and he expects that in class are building some book stacks for the academic there time the resources of his island will be developed and building. Repairs and improvements at all points are exploited to an extent undreamed of now. We pre receiving attention also. dict that Mr. Peratovich will be a leader in such development and exploitation. The machinists are working on all the machines now, as the preliminary instruction has been complet Cruz McDaniels brought in the last of the diplomas ed and each boy has come to the place where he can from the Marion county examinations, when he re put up a piece of work and use the machine creditably. moved his conditions in an examination taken in the The boys of the auto repairing division have taken County Superintendent’s office September 1st. He out the worn bearings of the big truck and are ready received his diploma September 7th. The other to install new bearings as soon as they arrive. students who successfully passed the eighth grade ex A new cement porch has been placed at the gym aminations are Roderick Hill, Lloyd Tillotson, Wil nasium and new foundations for piers also. The liam Minthorn, Rebecca Carpenter and Erma LaClair.
