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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1924)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN PAGE 2 The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager 50 Cts PER ANNUM SUBSCRIPTION LITERARY SOCIETIES Nonpareil The Nonpareil Literary Society held their usual meeting in room ten on Nov. 21. A Thanksgiving program was rendered for the evening, which was as follows: Opening song, Society; Thanksgiving story, Antoinette Moss; guitar solo. Adell Sam; recitation, Emily Johnson; duet, Oxenia Hendrickson and Jennie Allen; riddles, Dolly Flynn; monologue, Lila Crofoot; debate, “Resolved that a Turkey is more enjoyed than a Xmas tree; ” affirmative, Edna Crofoot and Lyd ia Davis; negative, Cecelia Smith and Marion Mor gan. The judges were in favor of the negative side. After a few snappy songs and yells, our advisor gave a very interesting and helpful talk. The house then adjourned with happy hearts to meet Dec. 5. DOMESTIC ART NOTES Well, well, well, the old saying is proving itself to be true: “You can’t keep a good woman down,” because we Senior girls are climbing stairs these days. Can you beat it! Stripes to match—seams to sew— hems to put in, too! Now, let me see. Ah! now I have it. Gingham uniforms for Co. A and Co. B. They are both very good looking Just wait till you see them. (We accept any criticism you wish to offer.) So long, folks, we’re busy. W e M erry S eniors . DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES Well we have changed places with the Seniors and are working in the domestic science department now. We feel fortunate to have the opportunity to work here for the first time this year. Our class is so large that it has been divided between Mrs. Brickell and Miss Strout. Our aim is to make this depart ment more famous than ever by the ’eats” weare going to cook. Marlieta Davis and Florence Murchison cooked for the football boys recently, as did Iva Dupuis and Vernita Burland. We know that the boys appreciate the efforts of the girls to provide good food and we have the pleasure of doing the cooking. The dainty lunches which the high school students received last week were prepared by Lavina Mont gomery, Josephine Sommers and Ida Escholt. We must not forget to mention the sixth grade girls who also work here for half a-day—Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. They baked cakes and cookies. Some of them were favored with be ginners’ luck and produced some fine looking cakes. With best wishes, T he J uniors . JUNIOR NOTES Evelyn Whitebear is taking a special course in penmanship. Peter Rassmussen, one of our most active men, was reported very ill at the hospital. Our Junior girls who are installed on the McBride sleeping porches received a raise of one blanket apiece. We are very glad to have had Miss Eakin for our Ancient History teacher because she makes it most interesting. The Junior girls’ basketball team is progressing very rapidly. We will soon be able to defeat any team on the campus. Clarence LaFleur was at the hospital for some time, but he reported to school Tuesday morning. We are very glad that he is back to school again. We are quite interested in our music. We are studying operas. Josephine Nelson told us about the opera Natoma by Joseph Redding and Victor Herbert. We are all glad to know of such a great opera. SENIOR NOTES The Senior boys have already organized their basket ball team and they promise the “Juniors” a run for their money during the Xmas holidays. Mrs. Leavenworth gave us a splendid talk last Wednesday on Book Week which we know will help us all. Todav Miss Judd has the floor and we know we will be well entertained. During the entertainment at the home of Mrs. Hall, three of our Seniors took active part in the program. Anna Peratrovich and Reno Booth both sang solos, and Edna Audette gave a recitation. The Seniors in the machine shop are doing fine work, especially Henry Kitka, who has nearly built up a new lathe. George Johnson is doing a lot to build up things since he joined the detail. In organizing our class basketball team of girls, Grace Johnson, who had never played before, was told to be running center. She went to the middle of the floor and said, “Alright, where shall I run to?” We have very strong material in our basketball team, as you will find out when you see us in action. One player, after getting knocked out while we were practicing, jumped up and said, “That was a good one.” Hurray! We Senior girls are proud of ourselves. Our average in general for last month was 85 percent. That wasn’t bad. We average one percent more than our boys. Isn’t that grand? Perhaps you were not aware that our symbol is a star. During the month of October there was not a Senior who failed to make a passing grade in his studies. Edna Audette, Flora Dexter, Harriet Hill, Anna Peratrovitch, Archie Greycloud, John Kalarak, W. J. Williams and Raym md Haldane were on the honor roll with averages aoove 90 percent. If you hear the names, “Jack,” “Billy,” “Jerry,” “Shiek,” “Stacotr.b,” “Teddy,” “Babe,” and “Harry” you’ll know that’s the Senior basketball team in action. We don’t go much for height and weight, but we’re rig ht there when it comes to speed. We challenge any of the heavy weight or skyscraper teams. ’
