THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent
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LITERARY SOCIETIES
Winona
The Winona girls held their annual meeting in Room
7 at the usual hour last Friday evening. A very
interesting program was rendered bv the Carnation
Division. Every number alluded to the Indian. An
Indian love song was sung by Tillie Walking Bear.
She is a Crow Indian. Maybelle Bremner—“Sets-
Down too-Often ”— and Miss Grace Johnson—“Snake-
Eyed Suicide”—gave us an interesting prophecy.
Election of officers produced these wonderful results:
President, Harriett Hill; vice-president, Anna Pera
trovich; secretary and treasurer, Charlotte Bremner;
sergeants-at-arms, Martha Orsen and Grace Johnson;
cheer leader, Maybelle Bremner; reporter, Evelyn
Whitebear.
Reliance
The Reliance Literary Society held their annual open
session last Friday evening at the Auditorium. There
being no play, it was all a literary program, which
was as follows: Opening address, Pres. William Mc
Master; Opening song, Society; Recitation, Lawrence
Crofoot; Reliance Star, Royal Holst; Hawaian selec
tion, Keta, Wilson, Peratrovich and Haldane; Reci
tation, Lee Wilson; Vocal solo, Reno Booth: Pro
phecy, Titus Samuels; Hawaian Music, Keta, Wilson,
Peratrovich and Haldane; Recitation, Reno Booth;
Mysterious Performances, Jake Atkins; Two-in-One
Selection, Fred Nystrom; Recitation, Edward Larson;
Jazzy Jigging, Tom Spotteddog and Louis Isadore;
Debate, “Resolved, That Football should be abol
ished in high schools and colleges.” Affirmative,
Royal Holst and Frank Thomas; Negative, Charles
Moon and Percy Woodcock; Hawaian songs, Wilson,
Peratrovich. Keta and Haldane; Song, Reliance Quin
tette, Moses, Booth, Johnson, Keta and Haldane;
Hawaian Music, Reliance Hawaian Quartette; Indian
Pose, Gus Brunoe; Three cheers, Reliance Quintette.
The last on the program was the world ending, but
Saint Peter said he couldn’t collect the tickets fast
enough if they were coming all at once so old Jupe is
“gona” send them in one at a time—so be ready for
your turn.
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DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES
Well! Well! Who are we? The Sophomores. We
are working in the domestic science department now.
If enthusiasm counts for anything we ought to gain a
great deal on this detail.
Yesterday we served our first meal—a luncheon.
It was w’ell prepared, and needless to say, it was enjoyed
by everyone.
In previous lessons we baked bread and made some
cakes. Martha Kinnineck and Josephine Racine took
the prize for bread making. The best cakes were
made by Frances Morrow’ and Aleatha Olney. The
other division of the sixth grade are here now. They
are studying what they should eat for breakfast.
The Junior girls, on their last work day, opened the
new’ domestic science cottage. All of the ladies of
Chemawa were invited to a tea. This was served by
Mrs. Brickell’s girls and prepared by Miss Strout’s
class. The cottage is an example of what can be ac
complished with small expense. The artistic beauty
of the cottage was appreciated by all of the callers.
All of the planning and arranging was done by Mrs.
Brickell and her girls.
Goodbye until next week,
T he H appy S ophomores .
JUNIOR NOTES
Our new’ classmate’s name is Dorothy M. Parker.
She is full of pep.
We all feel like bright silver dollars after our visit
to the legislature.
Another new’ Junior has been added toour collection,
which makes it seventy-nine.
We were proud that a number of our Junior boys
took part in the Reliance open session. That speaks
well for us.
Agatha Crouch received 98 percent in ancient history
last month. We are beginning to wonder w’hat she
will get this month.
We aie beginning to realize that our kind teacher,
Mr. Fisher, is back. We were all tickled when we
saw him in his old classroom.
Talk about new class songs, w e have three new ones.
The favorite tunes are, “Mah Jongg,” “Last night
on the back porch,” “I love you.”
Recently this part of Oregon has had its guota of
rain—and then some! The government report last
Monday morning showed that we had an excess of two
and one-half inches of rain to our credit since Septem
ber 1st. This is quite a bit of extra moisture, especi
ally in a country that is normally quite moist in the
winter anyway. The majority of us can swim in case
of necessity’, so we are not worrying.