THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN
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The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School
Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent
Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager
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ATHLETIC NOTES
The game scheduled to be played with Salem high
school last Saturday afternoon was postponed until
this afternoon on account of inclement weather. The
game will be called promptly at 3:30. Salem is still
stinging under the collar because of the game they lost
to us in basketball and are coming out here today with
blood in their eyes and are determined to do business.
The opening game for the class baseball champion
ship was played last week between the senior and junior
classes. The juniors walked away with the seniors
easily toward the end of the game and won by a 7 to 2
score. The fore part of the game was a pitchers’ duel.
Though both sides got several men on bases, mostly on
errors, each time the pitchers would come out of the
hole by retiring the remaining batters. Atkins start
ed in the box for the juniors and Eddie Sanderson for
the seniors. This week the sophomores meet the fresh
men. Hereafter the games will start promptly at 2
o’clock and the teams will play five innings.
WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?
Dr. Wedge, in his lecture last Sunday evening,
“What Are You Worth,” made the following inter
esting statement: “Marked down to 98 cents” would
be a queer and insulting tag to put on a man. Yet
that is what a man amounts to considered in terms
of his chemical contents. The analysis has been made
by some technical sharp and this is the astounding
report:
The ingredients of a man plus water are as follows:
Fat enough for seven bars of soap.
Iron enough for a medium sized nail.
Sugar enough to fill a shaker.
Lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop.
Phosphorus enough to make twenty-two hundred
match tips.
Magnesium enough to make a dose of magnesia.
Potassium enough to explode a toy cannon.
Sulphur enough to rid a dog of fleas.
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
The plumbers are placing the heating system in the
new shops. They are also covering tables for the
kitchen and lining the new refrigerator for the Senior
Domestic Science cottage.
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The painters have finished the Domestic Science
Building and are painting the print shop at present.
The mason detail has repaired the walks about the
campus recently and are now busy straightening up
their new quarters.
The work of the farm and garden details is moving
along in good shape. All of the early potato crop is
planted and some of the garden is up.
All the boys of the carpentry department are inter
ested in their demonstration problems and are doing
good work. The prospect for this department the
coming year is bright, owing to the increased space
that will be available for bench work.
Pigville has undergone quite a change since the
civic improvement organization began work. What
was a drab community before is now much in evidence
as the famous “Spotless Town.” It looks fine from
a distance and better closer up. Our compliments to
the detail.
LOCAL
Chemawa has undergone a slight epidemic of “Flu.”
No cases at present and all well at our school.
Both patients and nurses are complimentary of the
food at our hospital since Mrs. Snapp has been diet
ician.
Mr. Clyde Cardy of Platteville, Wisconsin, is here
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Vesper and daughter, Miss
Marie.
Mr. Friske, assistant engineer, was operated upon
last Monday at the Salem hospital for the removal of
a large fibroid tumor in the leg. He is doing nicely
and will soon return to his duties in Chemawa.
Tulips, narcissus, lilacs and other varieties of flowers
are blooming. It takes an abundance of flowers to
supply the school, and our smaller boys are kept busy
at odd times gathering wild flowers which abound in
profusion in this locality.
Lawrence Merculief and Jacob Mynuk, former Che
mawa students, spent the week-end at the school. The
former is now employed at a lumbering concern in
Montesano, Wash., as a log scaler and is getting along
nicely. The latter went to California where he has
been promised work at carpentry.
As usual, the Winona Literary Society annual party,
given last Saturday evening, was a most successful
and enjoyable affair. It would seem that ideas in dec
oration would become exhausted at Chemawa, but
each new event brings a change. Last Saturday night
was no exception, as many original and unique inno
vations were introduced for the entertainment of the
200 guests. It is superfluous to say that these young
ladies entertained royally.
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