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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1922)
T H E C H E M A W A A M E R IC A N LO C A L PA G E 3 T h is is great w eather for falling leaves, m ak in g b u si ness u nusu ally good for the yard details. We have at last discovered an o th er g reat orato r, A lbert O rsen. So th at m akes tw o, co u n tin g our dear friend, “ G arcia” F ra n k John so n . C arpen ters are busy at the task of b u ilding a new porch on th e n o rth and east of Small B oys’ H ouse. Im provem ents everyw here! T he senior boys are ex p ectin g som ething. W hat is it? O h, nothing! Ju st w aiting to be invited to com e and eat at the D om estic Science, th a t’s all. S upervisor W . W . Coon arrived at C hem aw a a dav or so ago for an official visit to our school. W e are alw ays pleased to have him w ith us. Since the saws and ham m ers have quit there is still a great racket going on, but do not fear— it is only th e seniors sin g ing and yelling their new songs and yells. “ T he seniors are h a p p y ,” san g a sm all voice in school one day. T he reason, it seem s, is that our school paper, T h e C hem aw a A m erican, is back on th e job doing more good th a n ever. Really, w e've had m ighty nice w eather th is fall and an im m ense am ount of crop seeding has been done in th is part of the valley— C hem aw a doing her full sh are. M r. and M rs. H . R. F reelan d of C alifornia and M r. and M rs. H all of P o rtlan d and also Mrs. M. A . F re e land were recent visitors of Mrs. B rickell. T h is is Mr. and M rs. F re e la n d ’s first visit to one of the large Indian schools and they were d elighted w ith the a t m osphere of the place. A m ong th e changes on th e m ap at Chem aw a w hich so far have not been m entioned is th e fact th at all of the cottages on th e road ju s t so u th of M itchell Hall have been moved back ju s t west of our big g y m n as ium . T h e reason for m oving these b u ild in g s was to m ake room for th e large brick dorm itory, co nstruction of w hich is to com m ence soon. Mr. G reene was in M onm outh S u nday try in g to secure a basketball m atch for both th e g irls ’ and the boys’ team s, but th e general opinion am ong b ask et ball fans was th a t th e C hem aw a boys’ team was a little too stro n g for th e M onm outh players H ow ever, P resid en t G ooding spoke q u ite favorably of a ma tell w ith the girls if a gvm ti isium could be secured for th e gam e. Mr. G reene will try again n ex t m onth. A side from the song service in w hich all p articip ated d u rin g chapel exercises on S un d ay evening th e o rc h e s tra played “ Chapel C h im es” by G reenw ald. Eva M ar tin sang “ I Love You T ru ly ” by Bond, Mr. Bruce played as a clarinet solo “ My Old K en tu ck y H o m e” w ith variations by F ish er. M rs. R iddell, vocalist of Salem , sang two num bers, A lbert O rsen gave the “ Reply of S p artacu s to th e Rom an E n v o y s.” the choir sang “ B eautiful C ity ” by Cook, and S u p t. H all gave a talk on “ T h r if t.” I t was a most in te re stin g occasion for all. S u p t H all has never given a b e tte r talk in all of his splendid chapel addresses than the one of last S unday evening. T h ere was p racticab ility and common sense in every word he said. T h e lesion he gave should have benefitted all who were so fo rtu n ate as to h ear him . S E N IO R NO TES Robert Johnson, Reporter Is th ere a rum or of a senior play? C a n ’t te ll! I t ’s o u r m ost gu ard ed secret. Plane geom etry! I t ’s n o th in g th a t the nam e im plies. W e wish it was “ p la in .” T he class of ’23 is g ro w in g like a “ lil’ o l’ p u p .” T h ere are 18 seniors enrolled already and we expect som e m ore. (O k a ) ” My! A ddie is sure a good c o o k .” (C icelia) Yes, b u t she uses the ro llin g pin too ex ten siv ely . ’ ’ W e have all received our new classic entitled» T ale of Tw o Cities. E very-one is confident th at he or she can recognize it anyw here by the secret m a rk ings of our teacher, M rs. R isser. E very-one seems anx io u s to have F ra n k Johnson come back and resum e his studies. H e has been w ork ing at th e new pow er-plant fixing steam pipes so th at we will not all be icicles th is w inter. M orning, noon and n ig h t, n o th in g but seniors are found in the laboratory pressing specim ens of every kind of weed to be found and learn in g th eir nam es. Seems fu n n y th o u g h , the sm allest weed has th e b ig gest nam e som etim es. Miss McDowell is surely puzzled. E very class th a t comes in the room is as q u iet as a m ouse. E specially th e seniors. S h-h-h! W e ’ll tell you w hy. Tw o long sw itches were put up in the w indow box for some of the p lan ts to clim b up. B ut everybody has m istaken them to be for som ething else. See? T h e seniors were quite scared one day last week when th ey w ent into Miss M cD ow ell’s room. Ju st th in k , readers, they had to stu d y “ sn a p -d rag o n s” for botany. But we all cam e o u t w ith a little more know ledge in our cranium s th a n we had w hen we w ent in, so no harm was done. N O T E S FR O M T H E E N G I N E E R S T h e engineers are very proud of th eir honor man — F ran k Jo h n so n. S tu d en ts, listen for the new w histle when th e new plant sta rts. It is a chim e w histle, and a treat to lis ten to. Specially adapted for coaxing fo lk so u t of bed on w inter m ornings. T h e engineers have been grow ing gray-headed tr y ing to keep people warm these nippy fall days. T hev feel they m ust have succeeded p retty well, for the other day one of the teachers sen t in an S. O. S. call for a plum ber to come and tu rn the steam off. T h is d ep artm en t has been w o rk in g very hard lately in stallin g the new oil-b u rn in g p lan t. T hey were a n x ious to have it ru n n in g before cold w eather arrived. It all goes well, steam will be on the new plant S u n day week, O ct. 29. A nd in cidentally the engineering force is looking forward w ith d elight to the tim e w hen the d irty d ru d g ery of shovelling coal and ashes will be over, and they can come to w ork clean and spruced up like th eir fellows. If anyone is at all inclined to doubt th is, let them try shovelling coal an hour or two.
