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.
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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