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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1923)
T h e C H E M A W A A M E RICAN LOCAL W ade M inthorn, class ’19, was a visitor over S unday. M rs. E ato n is again at h er desk in the main office af te r a tw o week s visit w ith her d au g h ter in Idaho. Miss G ertru d e S o u th w o rth , of P o rtlan d , arrived on S unday to fill th e position vacated by Mr. G riffith. 1 he state legislature convened on M onday. O u r advanced classes will have the o p p o rtu n ity to visit the capitol d u rin g the session. W ith the exception of several days in N ovem ber the therm om eter has not registered lower th an 34 d e grees above zero th is w inter. PA G E 3 D u rin g chapel exercises on Sunday evening the orchestra, by request, played “ C athedral C him es” by A rnold-B row n, Roy C ourville sang “ I Passed by Y our W in d o w ” by B rahe, M r. Bruce played tw o clarin et solos, C arrie A nderson recited “ T h e H appy L ittle C ripple by R iley, the choir sang “ N earer and D ear er by W ilson, and S u p t. H all gave those assem bled a very stro n g talk on “ P ay in g the P ric e ,” w hich was a w orth-w hile lesson for all, as it was on practical lines and ably given. SALEM VS. CHEM AW A Salem 22, Chem aw a 21, tells som ething of the g r u M r. H en ry Iu rn e r, o u r p o u ltry m an , expects to elling basketball gam e played here last W ednesday p u t his incu b ato rs at w ork soon. H e in ten d s to hatch evening between our varsity and the Salem high school o u t a crop of at least 2,000 little chicks th is sp rin g . team. F or forty long m inutes th e score see-saw ed back and forth, first w ith one team in the lead, then East S atu rd ay evening was a n ig h t “ off” at Che- the other. W ith but one m inute to play the score, 21 m aw a. E verybody w ent to bed early in order to catch to 21, R ein h art of Salem converted a foul giving them up after th e stren u o u s holiday week and “ w^eek” after. the deciding p o in t. A d o rm ito ry to cost $35,000 has been provided for It was a fine exibition of basketball on the p a rt of Chem aw a in the In d ian appropriation bill passed by both team s, but especially on the p art of our boys who both houses of Congress and is now in conference. It were playing th eir first gam e on th e varsity against is for the sm aller g irls and will have a capacity for 100 a q u in tet of veterans who are p laying th eir last year pupils. for Salem and were ru n n e rs-u p for the S tate hig h ' L ittle V incent M arcell, whose hom e is in Id itaro d , school cham p ionship last y ear. A laska, passed aw ay after an illness of several m o n th s K now ing th a t we had only “ g re e n ” m aterial Salem on T h u rsd ay last. H e has a sister N ellie atten d in g felt justified in th e rem ark published in the local p a school at C hem aw a and also a sister in the blind school pers to the effect th a t W e will win h a n d ily ,” but at Salem . the fight and d eterm ination exhibited by ou r “ g re e n ” T h e h ig h w aters of this week prevented about 2,000 players kept Salem w ading in deep and hot w ater till stu d e n ts from re tu rn in g to the O regon U niversity at th e very end, and changed S alem ’s m ind early in the E ugene in tim e to take up th eir studies. E lean o r H ouk co n test. m ade two attem p ts to get th ro u g h , but was com pelled T he work of our entire team was most com m end to re tu rn to C hem aw a and aw ait the abatem ent of able. C harles B uchert and D andro G eorge, forw ards; h igh w ater. played stellar ball. “ Je w ” converted five out of th e H eavy rain s the past few days has interfered w ith six fouls attem pted and G eorge scored the m ajority of all railroad and electric trains. R ivers and all stream s our field baskets. R eginald DePoe, our lan k y c e n are greatly sw ollen. In fact, travel eith er by rail or ter, met a man who had him bested bv several inches auto ceased for several days. It is said th a t th e flood yet he played his m an, w ho at no tim e got really d a n w hich reached its greatest height last M onday is the gerous. to a stan d still. m ost serious one since 1890. Both G eorge P h in n ey and Jack A braham played a rem arkable gam e at gu ard , probably th e playing e x G overnor O lcott, who has presented the g rad u ates hibited by A braham was the m ost o u tstan d in g of the at C hem aw a w ith their d ip lo m s tor the past four fix e . H e played a hard, fast gam e from the beginning years, w assucceeded to the G overnorship of O regon on M onday last by W alter M. Pierce. T he practice of to the end and deserves m uch credit for the low score the O regon governor p resen tin g the diplom as will be to which Salem was held. Both broke up com binations for Salem th at looked like points. followed by G overnor Pierce. Team w ork and sh o rter shots will be the program for M rs. Blackw'ood, an experienced teacher who was th e rem ainder of th e season. I here w ere several long sent to us by Mrs. h u l k rson. C ounty S u p erin ten d en t shots th at m ight have been tu rn ed into baskets had the of M arion C ounty, is filling th e position of teacher of shooter resorted to team w ork instead of the lo n g sh o t th e first grade, recently held by Mrs. Baker. Mrs. T eam w ork alw ays wins. Blackwood speaks very h ig h ly of the com plete h a r B eginning on Ja n u a ry 11th the team will play at m ony ex istin g in our school faculty and the w illin g least one gam e each week until earlv in M arch, w ith ness of each teacher to co-operate. It is a pleasure th e m ajority of the gam es on the hom e floor. to have a teacher added to our force who appreciates T he g ir ls ’ team w hich is being coached by Mrs. and co n tiib u tes to t h e harm onious w orking of our Downie will also appear ag ain st som e of the nearbv school. high schools. y
