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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1922)
T H E C H E M A W A A M E R IC A N LOCAL O ur new pow er p lan t w histle is being tu n ed up. It is a trifle below concert p itch , b u t its vibrations are stro n g . A ll in all, it is some “ w h istle .” East n ig h t was H allo w e’en. If Chem aw a was tu rn ed upside dow n w e’ve not yet heard of it. I t m ay have been a little “ sp o o k y ,” but at present all is well. T h e addition to th e g irls’ in d u strial b u ild in g gives m uch needed space to the dom estic art and dom estic scien ced ep artm en ’s and adds to th e efficiency of the w o rk . A lone wild goose attem pted to hom estead one of our school’s grain fields a day or two ago, and, a l th o u g h fired upon a couple of tim es, he was still “ holding th e fo rt” when we last heard of him . M r. and M rs. R uthyti T u rn e y very ch arm in g ly e n tertain ed at d in n e r in th eir cozy bungalow on the school cam pus w ith S u p erin ten d en t and Mrs. H all, Mr. and M rs. A ldrich, of Salem , as th e ir guests. F or several years, at H allo w e’en tim e, M r. and Mrs. T u rn e y have given a d in n e r as a m em orial of th e ir first d in n er p arty in th e ir hom e soon after they w ere m arried , in w hich S u p t. and M rs. H all were th e ir first guests. T h e host and hostess were so gracious th at a m ost d e lig h tfu l evening w as spent. Chapel excercises last S unday evening w ere of a m ost in terestin g character. T he orchestra plaved the “ H om e C ircle” o v ertu re by S chlepegrell, Elovd C lem en ts sang “ T h e C lang of th e F o rg e” by R odney, Millie B ennett recited “ K en tu ck y P h ilo so p h y ,” a sex tet of girls sang “ T h e T rail of G o ld ” by M cD erm id, th e choir sang “ Come U nto M e” by T hom as, and S u p t. Hall closed the exercises of the evening w ith a very fine talk. H e chose “ Being H a p p y ” as bis subject for discussion and he m ade m any features of life u n u su ally clear. M any valuable h in ts were given. On W ednesday evening th e Senior D om estic Science class gave a d in n er h o n oring S upervisor Coon. T h e attractiv e d in in g room was m ade even m ore beautiful w ith large baskets filled w ith A utum n flowers. T h e table w as centered w ith a silver basket of pink rosebuds and pink tapers. T h e g u ests were S u p e r visor Coon, S u p e rin te n d e n t'a n d M rs. H all, Mrs. S h er m an, M rs. C anfield, Mrs. Brickell and Mr. and M rs. Iliff. A ddie M errill did th e serving and th e whole class assisted w ith the d in n e r. T h is is the first class d in n er given th is year. It was such a splendid dem onstration th a t we w onder how it can be im proved upon in later dem onstrations th at are to come. O ur new steam h eatin g plant ju s t com pleted and p u t in operation M onday m orning has given m ore real joy and satisfaction to Cln tnaw a’s large fam ily th an any m aterial im provem ent ever m ade at C hem aw a previously. T h e big chim e w histle aw akened all C he m awa on M ondav m orning for the in itial perform ance PAGE 3 and in th is way notified all th a t our splendid new sy s tem was in operation. M r. M antle, 'c h ie f engineer, and his force have been w orking faithfully day and n ight for some tim e to m ake necessary connections to change from th e old plant to our new system . E very one at Chem aw a is rejoicing, especially th e M cBride H all girls, who suffered the m ost discom fort in the past, and th e coal and cinder shovelers of boys who will no longer have to shovel coal, as fuel oil is now being used. S E N IO R NO TES Robert Johnson, Reporter W e are sorry to say th a t some very u rg en t business has taken Miss H attie S m ith to her home in A laska. In peeking over our class we have discovered a new stu d e n t. John Pesterkoff has retu rn ed to our class to resum e his studies. O u r cu rren t event period is too sh o rt. W e have several m em bers who are in terestin g speakers and we d o n ’t have tim e for all of them . W e have heard th at there was only one grade below a 2 on our E ng lish note books at a recent inspection. L e t’s have some l ’s and no 3 ’s n ext tim e. Tw o of our m ost prom inent classm ates, C arrie A n derson and Sadie Gowen, have been absent the last few d ay so w in g to illness. W e are hoping they will be back soon. W ith tw o official buglers in the class, of course we are alw ays on tim e. T he trouble is the buglers seem to have a hard tim e keeping up w ith us— they are the only tard y ones. On senior-new s-item day one pupil was heard u rg ing an o th er to go to the orchard and swine an apple or com m it a m urder or som ething so th e re ’d be som e news. But they d id n ’t. So there is n ’t. T h ere has been quite a tug-of-w ar in th e senior class. T hey were racing to see w hether they w ould have m ore girls or boys. But there is no hard feelings, as we break even. T here are nine boys and nine girls. W hen the S outhern Pacific train s roared by we used to sit and th in k unkind th o u g h ts of the person who located a school building so near a railroad— now we have learned to use the tim e as a rest period. W e ju st relax u n til the noise is over and then go on w ith our w o rk . (G e o rg e )— “ W h a t’s th e use of going to the trouble of proving som ething th a t anybody can see is tru e?” (C a rn e y )— “ Y o u ’ve been try in g to get your geom e try . Y o u ’d b etter try again and rem em ber th in g s are not alw ays w hat th ey se em .” (G e o rg e )— “ I suppose not. In geom etry noth in g is w hat it is unless you can prove it is .” T ne Room 9 pupils were very curious about the stran g e com binations of letters and figures w hich appeared on tw o sides of th eir black board space on T h u rsd ay m orning. W hen the m ysterious hiero glyphics again appeared on F riday an investigation was m ade. It was discovered th at the m arkings were the records of tw o im p o rtan t business m eetings of th e em ployes
