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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.