THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
LOCAL
Rev. Father Raymond of Siletz was a campus
visitor on Friday.
Miss McFadden, an ex Chemawa employe who re
sides in Salem, was visiting old friends on the campus
last Friday.
Martin Colby was down from Portland last week-end
visiting the school and friends. Martin is always a
welcome visitor.
Solomon Fleury, a new student from South Dakota,
arrived Saturday night and is welcomed among us.
Solomon has entered the Junior class.
Now that our basketball schedule is past the half
way mark Manager Bent is preparing for us the base
ball and track schedule which he expects to have out
soon.
Mr. George Stewart, who for years acted as plumber
at Chemawa, but of recent years was employed in Cal
ifornia, died at the Deaconess Hospital last Saturday
of Brights Disease.
The Boy Scouts have organized a basketball team
and are meeting all comers of their size. They hung
defeat on a team from the Parrish Junior High School
by a one-sided score recently.
Our cross-country runners are hard at work getting
into shape for the race against Washington high
school of Portland which is to take place soon. It is
expected that the first trial run will be held this com
ing Saturday.
Mr. James took his tailor shop detail on a picnic
Saturday. He is very proud of his boys and has been
heard to say that his force of boys are the very best
and most trustworthy of any boys at Chemawa. This
speaks w’ell for the tailors.
Mr. Henry Turner, school poultryman, has the
incubators in operation with about 1300 eggs. On
March 3id the first hatching will be completed. It is
expected to complete three hatchings this spring with
a production of 3000 chicks.
Mr E. L. Chalcraft, Superintendent of the Siletz
Indian jurisdiction, which covers all official matters
pertaining to Indians in Oregon west of the Cascade
range, spent a night at Chemawa last week while on
an official trip in his territory.
A recent letter from Charles Buchert, a graduate of
the class of ’24, and an all around athlete, tells us that
he is now playing on the Metlakatla basketball team
which is to play off a tie with the Ketchikan, Alaska,
team for the territorial championship soon.
Sunday, being a balmy spring day, the school truck,
driven by Mr. Briggs, was kept busy giving the Mc
Bride Hall girls an outing. The rest of the girls went
out walking into the country with chaperones. All of
the girls look forward to the auto truck rides in their
turn.
This evening at 7 o’clock our team will play the
Oregon Normal School team. To date the Normals
are leading the Willamette Valley Non-Conference
League and have a speedy combination. No doubt
this will be one of the best games we will have this
season. Saturday we will play the Northwest National
Bank team of Portland here.
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Mrs. Vesper has been reinstated as cook at the
Children’s Mess. She took up her duties on Monday,
February 9th.
Miss Gunn sent a basketful of corsage boquets of
violets to her various friends on the campus Saturday
as Valentine remembrances. She is our florist and
always has flowers in their proper season. She seems
to know when and how to plant and take care of flowers
for best results. She uses a small plat of ground around
Cottage Hall.
A group of Northwestern (Chicago, Illinois) Univer
sity students visited Chemawa the other day. Seldom
has it been that more interest was manifested than by
these young men. One of them is captain of the
varsity lootball team and another is captain of the
baseball team. The college glee club is touring the
coast and rendered a program in Salem.
Child health work in this county is in charge of Dr.
Walter H. Brown of New York. After a complete
health survey by trained workers there will come to
Salem a director of medical activities, a director of
nursing service, a director of health education who
will work with the schools; also a special corps of nurses
to be put on as the health work progresses. Che-
mawa is to have the benefit of this health educational
work. It is understood the health program of the
Child Health Demonstration Committee covers a period
of five years and $50,000 has been set aside for this
work. Dr. Brown spent some time recently looking
over Chemawa and getting acquainted with conditions.
The Senior annual Valentine party was most suc
cessfully given on Saturday evening in the gymnasium.
The hall was aglow with red streamers and hearts. A
class program opened the happy event; there were
numerous guessing games and cross-word puzzles as
well as amusements suited for all. Mr. Bent and Mrs.
Turney and the boys’ orchestra furnished most excel
lent music throughout the evening. Supper was
served by the Juniors in the dining hall of the Junior
domestic science department under the direction of
Miss Strout. Covers were laid for over one hundred.
The table decorations were gorgeous and the menu
ample and daintily served. All in all the Seniors did
themselves proud. Miss White, senior teacher, and
her class, received many compliments by the guests
for a well planned party and a delightful evening.
The first demonstration dinner in the Senior Domes
tic Science department, which is called by the girls
“The Senior Homemakers’ Wigwam,” took place on
Thursday evening last, given by Florence Shuraveloff
and Grace Peterson of the 1925 class. The beauty of
the dining room is difficult to describe. The soft
lighting effect produced through the use of artistic col
ored lamp shades and lovely standard lamps, together
with the furnishings, hanging baskets, a conservatory
arrangement of plants and the general assembling in
this room shows the work of an artist. Every article
as well as the room itself is the handiwork of the
students- -boys and girls. There is no prettier room
in this state. The dinner was par excellent and by
far the best cooked and served of any dinner given at
Chemawa for some time. Mrs. Brickell, Principal of
of Home Economics, expects to handle all senior dem
onstrations usually given during the last semester
each vear.