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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Supt. and Mrs. Hall made a short business trip to Portland on Friday. About 1200 barrels of fuel oil were burned under the school boilers during April. Supt. and Mrs. Hall entertained Doctor and Mrs. Wedge at breakfast at their home on Thursday. Doctor and Mrs. Wedge left last Thursday for the Carson (Nevada) school after spending two weeks at Chemawa. Another lot of chicks, 1400 in number, came out of the incubators today and were promptly added to the poultry department. The boys and girls are all agog over the coming Sigma Phi Delta party next Saturday. Invitations were issued yesterday. Mr. Vesper has had his detail planting trees, sow ing grass, and otherwise beautifying the grounds around the power house. Mr. Fred Bruce, now of Silverton, Oregon, spent the week-end at Chemawa and played clarinet in the orchestra during chapel on Sunday evening. Another lot of fat hogs will soon be ready for sale. A little later in the summer about 50 head additional fat ones will be taken to the packing house. The McBride Hall girls appeared last Sunday with new gray uniforms, with green collars and cuffs. Each girl made her own dress in class. They looked nifty. Mr. Bent, our disciplinarian, has been under the weather the past few days with a bad cold. It’s not often that Bro. Bent gives up—he usually is on the job. Mrs. Parks drove her automobile to Seattle last Fri day with two Alaskan girls to catch the steamer Northwestern for Ketchikan. She returned on Mon day. At Hawley Hall the marching of the com panies for the past week showed Cos. G and H equally good. Helen Donnelly is captain of Co. G and Thelma Sandoval is captain of Co. H. It is estimated that the big cherry tree in the poul try yard will bear at least 25 bushels of cherries this year, provided Mr. Turner, poultryman, can keep the small boys and girls out. William Jackson paid his Chemawa friends a brief visit last Sunday. Heis a fine singer and came down from his home in Seattle to sing on Sunday evening in one of the Salem churches. He is now married and is in business in the great Sound city as a dealer in automatic sprinklers. We were pleased to see him and are mighty glad to find that he is getting along so nicely. PAGE 3 It is said that “one swallow does not make summer,’’ but how about hundreds of them? On April 25th whole colonies of swallows arrived at Chemawa. If that does not mean that summer is just around the corner, what does it mean? Mr. James, our affable and efficient tailor, has his boys make a good many citizen suits each year. Wil son Whitefoot, an apprentice, dresses like the prover bial tailor, and the most satisfactory part of it is that Wilson makes his own clothes. Have any of you ex amined the last suit he made? The domestic science department supplied the meals for the Portland Commerce High School and Colum bia University baseball squads on Friday and Saturday of last week. There were 18 Commerce High men and 19 Columbia University men. The girls had not prepared for so many but they arose to the emergency. The eighth grade class gave its annual social last Saturday evening in the gym. It was a well-conduct ed and enjoyable party. Not only was there unusual joy and pleasure, but the refreshments, decorations and program were excellent. There were nearly 200 guests, and all without exception, it would seem, had a splendid time. Miss Strout and her ninth grade girls did the catering. The boys of the masonry department are working on the steps before the entrance of the new shops addition. Recently they have done considerable brick work and some concrete work “on their own,” which speaks well for them. When boys of a detail can successfully carry on the work of their department it speaks well for their attention and interest. A division of ninth grade girls under Mrs. Brickell at the Wigwam gave a formal dinner to Doctor and Mrs. Wedge last Wednesday. The meal wras faultlessly cooked and served as all of these dinners are. Covers were laid for Doctor and Mrs. Wedge, Doctor Rowland, Mr. Camp, Supt. and Mrs. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Iliff, Mr. Fisher, Mrs. Parks and Mrs. Brickell. The talk made by Supt. Hall to the students assem bled in chapel last Sunday evening was splendid. Every word of it was on practical lines and if the message given is heeded all will be benefitted. Some students have “earsthat hear not,” but the “hearers” and “heeders” are the ones worth while after all. As a whole the chapel exercises were all pleasing. The orchestra played a number by Allen, Grace Peterson sang a solo, the octet girls contributed a number and the choir sang an anthem. DETAIL FOR WEEK Sunday escort for girls. May 3 McBride Hall Winona Hall Blacksmith Teacher No. 2 Asst. Seamstress Asst. Laundress
