THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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EDUCATION COUNTS
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price—to exert themselves.
There are all sorts of chances for the boy or girl who
has backbone, who is self-reliant, and determined to
make something of himself or herself. But if you are
a w’eakling, if you have no grit, if there is no lime in
your backbone, if you have no desire to be somebody,
to stand for something in the world, you will take the
lazy person’s chance—slide along the line of least re
sistance—and very soon you will be with the rest of
the nobodies, the floaters with neither life nor ambition.
Students, develop this staying power. Stick, hang
on, and acquire faith in your own ability and the glor
ious opportunity of every day’s work.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
The dairy force are building a new bull pen.
The engineers are painting at the power plant and
impoving the appearance of things greatly.
The laundry, bakery, and trash house came in for
special attention by the painters recently.
The truck crew is busy hauling dirt to make a fill
around the new Senior Domestic Science building.
The masons took a couple of days off recently and
cleaned the drainage ditch from the road on the north
of the school ieserve to the railroad fill near the pow
er house.
The electricians are wiring the new shops for light
ing. The mains are carried directly over the top of
the building and the feed wires come in from a pole
at west of the shops.
Recently the writer had occasion to stop at “Pig-
ville.” It was lunch time and the inhabitants were
out in force. Among those present was a family of
eight, exclusive of the mother, and a fine lot of
youngsters they were. Each industriously working
to make a hog of himself, and from indications they
were on the road to success. The whole appearance
of pens and population shows excellent care on the
part of Mr. Gibson and his force.
DOMESTIC ART NOTES
“As you sew, so shall ye rip.”
This is a very busy week, but we’ll let you know in
a few lines what we are doing.
First, if you want to see some nice looking construc
tion dresses, ask the Junior girls.
There are tunics, slip-over, sport and every other
kind of styles of dresses, made from serge, voile, ging
ham and even silk. Some of the styles have just come
across the Atlantic.
East Wednesday we had a very interesting lesson on
color value, which ought to help us in the near future
in selecting colors that will harmonize with our type
and build.
A charming nursery is made from the small room
adjoining the prevocational and vocational sewing
rooms. It is beautifully decorated with children’s
dresses and articles that would no doubt lavish baby
Moses if he were here.
The busi-bees,
J uniors .
DOMESTIC SCIENCE NOTES
Good morning, friends!
Well, another week has gone by and we are busy as
ever. Last Saturday six of our class made biscuits for
tea at the “Wigwam.” We hear they were greatly
enjoyed.
The lunches for high school students are being made
this week by Aleatha Onley, Alice Flexible and Hazel
Boyd.
We had the menu for the Nonpareil party on hand
and it w7as a good one. The cakes were made by our
department. We ha<^ been practicing all week so of
course we were successsful.
Adieu till next week,
T he S ophies .
LOCAL
During the past week or two there has been much
activity in the “great outdoors” atChemawa. In our
fields teams have been plowing early and late, and the
tractor has been kept busy, too. It is planting time
for nearly everything in field and garden—and then
there is the flower garden, which is expected to prove
a thing of beauty if not a joy forever.
A letter just received from Mr. Eoos, formerly band
master at Chemawa, states that all is lovely with him
self and wife. They own and conduct a hotel in
LaPorte, Indiana, and report fine success financially.
Mr. Eoos has been very much in demand as a band
instructor in EaPorte and has under him two boys’
bands and a girls* band, altogether 105 students.
The Freshmen held a meeting in the auditorium on
Tuesday, March 10. The meeting was held mainly
for election of new officers. The officers elected are as
follows: President, Eldred George; vice-president,
William Brendible; secretary, Merceline Farlow; treas
urers, Ida Audette and Paul Ketah; sergeant-at-arms,
Samuel Delorm; cheerleader, Gus Brunoe; song lead
er. Zelma Johnson; reporter, Robert Hall. A short
business discussion followed, and then wTe adjourned.
DETAIL FOR WEEK
Sunday escort for girls, March 22
McBride Hall
Winona Hall
General Machanic
Teacher No. 3
H. M. Mitchell
Painter