THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
LOCAL
The masons, carpenters, and machinists have been
busy at the hospital remodeling the operating room.
Mr. Woodard, farmer, met with an accident the
other day, hurting his knee so that he has been unable
to attend duty.
John Eminoff, who was a student at Chemawa
about five years ago, dropped off the S. P. train a few
days ago for a visit here. He has now arrived at
man’s estate and seems to be getting along nicely.
Since leaving school he has been following the sea,
mostly in Alaskan waters.
Our school would be greatly handicapped if it were
not for the fact that our junior and senior boys and
girls enjoy taking classes during the absence of teach
ers. Archie Graycloud and Grace Peterson taught
the fourth grade while Miss Lepel was absent in Port
land; Williamette Blakeslee taught the third grade
during Miss Stanley’s absence on Monday.
During chapel last Sunday evening the orchestra
played a number by Schlepegrell, Florence Murchison
sang “The Sunshine of Your Smile” by Ray, Agnes
Ponchene recited “The Wreck of the Hesperus,”
Frank James played the “Melodie in F” by Rubinstein
as a baritone solo, the choir sang “Nancy Lee” by
Adams, and Supt. Hall gave a splendid talk on the
matter of living down past mistakes and rising above
them; the policy should be to profit from the lesson
taught by mistakes. This was a fine talk along prac
tical lines.
Last Saturday night the senior class put on their
annual play. “Aaron Boggs, Freshman,” was the
play selected and it proved most entertaining because
it was excellently presented. Quite a large cast was
required to properly present “Boggs” and we wish
to congratulate all who took part. Their work was
most commendable in every way; Miss White, senior
teacher, also is deserving praise for her work in
staging the play. A large attendance greeted the
efforts of the class and enthusiastic approval was in
evidence everywhere.
Arrangements had been completed to play the Che
ney Normal School team here on Tuesday evening,
but some unforeseen things arose that made it impossi
ble for them to come so Mr. Bent, our manager, has
completed arrangements for the fast American Legion
team of Silverton to play here tonight. The game
will be called at seven-thirty and will be a good one
without question. The Silverton team has made quite
a record already this season, which is to be expected
when they have such players as the Latham brothers
of University of Oregon basketball fame.
ATHLETIC NOTES
An exciting evening of basketball was had in our
gymnasium last Tuesday when our girls defeated the
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high school team from Stay ton 23 to 4, and the boys
oi our second team took a well-earned victory from the
Salem high school second team 35 to 21.
The girls’ game was fast and well-matched in spite
of the score. Stayton compelled our girls to extend
themselves for every point they made and naturally
forced the maneuvering and best basketball played
here by any girls’ team in a long, long time.
Cecile Smith and Edna Crofoot are responsible for
the small Stayton score, for they put up a brand of
defense almost impossible to penetrate. One field basket
and two foul throws are all these stellar guards would
allow. Nellie Reinhart and Alice Flexible were on the
scoring end of our machine and were ably assisted by
Susie Hart and Clarinda Quinnell from the center and
running center positions. These four girls started and
completed some of the best team plays ever executed
in our gym.
Miss Snook, physical education teacher at Salem
high school, officiated and kept the game clean and
fast as usual.
A return game has been arranged with Stayton and
it will be a keen pleasure to meet them, for they are
real sports.
In the bovs’ game Salem started with a bang and
rang up nine points almost before our boys could get
a foot loose, but that burst of speed did not dampen
the spirits of our “Hotshots” and from then till the
close of the game they made a steady climb to the top.
At halftime the score stood 17 to 12 in Salem’s favor.
When the whistle blew to start the second half there
were five of our men on the court dashing, passing
and shooting baskets with such speed and accuracy
that Salem rushed in player after player to check their
rally, but there was no checking to be done, for Pete
Rassmussen, center; Eldred George and Willie J. Wil
liams, forwards; Paul Keta and John Milne, guards,
played the kind of basketball it does us all good to see
and kept Salem on the defense during almost all of the
second half while our team played like of stars, yet
they maintained team work throughout.
Rassmussen was our high point man, with 17 mark
ers to his credit, while Eldred George garnered 11.
Paul Keta 4, Willie J. Williams 2, and John Edelman
1.
Last Friday our girls’ basketball team and their
coach, Mrs. Downie, made the trip to Toledo by auto
mobile to play the high school team of that place.
Mr. Bewley, our machine shop instructor, very gra
ciously offered to drive part of the team over and Mr.
Downie took the rest in Superintendent Hall’s Ford.
Though they lost the game by a 21 to 19 score the
girls all declared they had a wonderful time and
enjoyed the trip immensely. It is a little over a hun
dred miles from here to Toledo, but it seemed like a
very short drive for the cars made good time. All
planned on getting up early and driving out to New
port so that they could see the “Grand Old Pacific,”
but two of the girls forgot to wake up, so that part
of the trip had to be called off on account of the late
start home. The girls making the trip were, Cecilia
Smith, Edna Crofoot, Susie Hart, Alice Flexible,
Nellie Reinhart, Clarinda Quinnell, and Mabel De-
sautel.