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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1925)
PAGE 3 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Miss Skipton returned to duty Monday, having been a month in Portland on account of illness. Charlie DePoe, one of last year’s graduates, arrived a few days ago from his home in Neah Bay, Wash., to attend high school in Salem. Mrs. Evelyn Samson of San Francisco, California, is here visiting with her mother, Mrs. Woods. Cali fornia must agree with her, for she looks well and hearty. Mr. Ross, landscape gardener, and his detail have worked of late on the highway in front of our campus. They have inaugurated a drainage system and regrav eled a part of the road. The engineers have started in to take the head out of one of the boilers of the old power house and intend to make a hot-water tank out of it. This will prove a good move if they can work it. Frank Johnson, better known on the campus as “Garcia,” will soon be an alumnus of the Salem high school. Frank aims to continue work along mechan ical lines and we are sure he will make good. The masons are putting a concrete walk in the run-away between the two boilers at the power house. This will be quite an improvement. Last week, ow ing to a poor consignment of oil, the engineers had a strenuous time of it. The Climbers’ Club of Chemawa will play a game of basketball at this school next Saturday with the Salem Tigers. Our hopes are centered upon “climb ing” all over the Tigers without getting “scratched.” Turn out and see us “climb.” On Monday afternoon the ninth grade girls of the domestic art department held what they termed a Style Show. It proved both an interesting and an en tertaining feature. As we understand it, each girl exhibited her own work, which was a good idea from every point of view. Last Friday evening the orchestra took part in a pub lic meeting at the Haysville schoolhouse. A chicken supper was one of the attractions of the meeting and every member of our orchestra was feasted, and all return thanks. Our musical organization made good with a plus as is attested by the fact that during the auctioning off of cakes and chicken pies at the close of the evening a lady in the audience, Mrs. Paige of Sa lem, bought a fine cake and presented it to our musi cians. This was a courtesy that was much appre ciated. During chapel exercises last Sunday evening the orchestra played a “Minuetto” by Lack, Grace Peter son sang “Dreamer of Dreams” by Fiorito, the girls’ octette sang “Mail Lindy Lou” by Strickland, George Johnson recited “Choosing a Friend,” the choir sang “Closer to Thee” by Morris, and Supt. Hall gave a a fine talk on “Carelessness.” He set forth in unmis takable terms the various phases of carelessness. He pointed out that there is such a thing as “criminal carelessness”—where the results of carelessness are as great a crime as though they had transpired through premeditation. It was a splendid lesson. ATHLETIC NOTES Last Wednesday evening our basketball team defeat ed the Silverton American Legion team 46 to 20. Though the score was somewhat one-sided the game was evenly played, and above all, it was interesting. In picking the winner before the game the Legion team was the favorite, but throughout the game our team excelled in passing and basket throwing and gradually slipped beyond the clutches of the Legion’s desperate efforts to hold our five in check. To even our own folk our team w*as a revelation. They play ed a wonderful passing game and their basket throw ing was deadly accurate. Dewey Matt amassed 23 points for himself; Captain Depoe 12, Rassmussen 4, Charles George 4, and Dandro George 3. On Friday evening the team journeyed to Silverton and opened the eyes of the town folks of that place when they defeated their high school team 52 to 5. Someone said it was the fastest basketball seen in Silverton in a long, long time. Well, we shouldn’t wonder, for our fellows dashed around like greased lightning and shot baskets like—well, we don’t know what, but anyway they certainly did roll ’em in. On Wednesday night the team played like a house afire, but on Friday they were faster than that. The secret of the team’s success lies in the fact that there is excellent harmony among its players and that they have developed the short pass system up to the point where it is hard foreven veteran players like the Le gion men to combat it. Against the high school Matt made 26 points, Rass mussen 14, DePoe 8, and Dandro George 1. The stellar work of Dandro and Charles George at the guard positions was largely responsible for the small Silverton score. The first half ended 34 to 0 and that can be attributed largely to the way these two men played their defensive game. As a curtain raiser to Wednesday’s game our second team lost to the Quinaby aggregation by a 23 to 21 score. This game was a scream, and though it was not played strictly in accordance with the rules, it was enjoyed thoroughly by all. Even the players had to stop and laugh. In a preliminary to Friday’s game our girls were defeated by the Silverton high school girls 38 to 8. Too bad! With the hardest game on the schedule just ahead some of the girls took every excuse possible to miss practice and were badly beaten. We will admit that Silverton has one of the fastest and classiest girls’ teams in the state, and probably would have beaten us if we had practiced every minute of the time, but even that is no excuse to lay down on the job.
