THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
LOCAL
Mr. Bruce was again a Sunday visitor and played
with the orchestra during our chapel exercises.
On account of the work being done on the stage
settings in the auditorium by the carpenters and paint
ers there will be no school assembly this week.
The English department has some legends of Indian
origin written up for the contest inaugurated by the
D. A. R. ladies. These legends are said to be very
interesting.
Miss Roach, a school teacher of the Molalla district,
was among those who attended our chapel services
last Sunday. She was most enthusiastic over every
thing she saw and heard.
On all sides we bear favorable comment on the fine
appearance of our students when they march by com
panies about the campus. It always pleases us and
should spur our students to greater endeavor.
The primary grades are having their final exams this
week. The prevocational and vocational departments
will take their exams from May 25 to 30. Then comes
the operetta, the athletic events, industrial demonstra
tions, followed by the exodus for home.
Mr. and Mr. Paul Petri and Mrs. Jeffreys, mother
of Mrs. Petri, motored to Chemawa from their home
in Corvallis and spent Sunday with friends at our
school. They are all most loyal supporters of Che
mawa and all that it stands for. Mr. Petri is now
dean of the school of music at the Oregon Agricultur
al College, while Mrs. Petri is the head of the course
in piano and harmony. Mrs. Jeffreys has just returned
to the Pacific coast from her home in New Jersey.
During chapel last Sunday evening Supt. Hall gave
one of his finest talks, in which he emphasized the
necessity of serious purpose and right living, coupled
with industry, as a course to be pursued by our young
people if they hope to succeed in life. The orchestra
played a number by Schumann, Reno Booth sang
“You in Gondola” by Clarke, Edna Dean gave a reci
tation, the boys’ quartet sang “Soldiers of the Cap
tain” by Spohr, and the choir sang “Nancy Lee” by
Adams. It proved a pleasing chapel service.
Seventy-five titles were submitted in the contest
recently held in the vocational department. The
Gunnell studio submitted four beautiful photos of Che
mawa students dressed in Indian costumes and posed
to represent typical Indian scenes, with the offer of
a prize of $5 each for appropriate titles. From these
titles a committee will select the one which most aptly
applies to each photograph, and the prizes, amounting
to $20, will be awarded. Won’t it be jolly for some
chap who needs the five dollars to receive one of these
awards at the Jolly-Up?
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Another lot of fat hogs are ready for the buyer.
Employes are arranging for vacation periods this
summer.
Picnic supper on the lawn for students on Friday
evening of this week.
Mrs. Parks entertained 25 or 30 of her lady friends
from Portland on Tuesday.
Mrs. Iliff has her hands full these last few weeks of
school, preparing for exams and other matters in con
nection with her academic work.
Onion growers in this vicinity use many of our boys
to weed their onion patches. The boys slip off at all
odd times to make a dollar or so.
Drilling on the part of boys these fine mornings and
evenings, before breakfast and after suppei, seems to
be the chief order of those periods.
Mrs. Downie is a busy woman, looking after Mc
Nary Hall and drilling the hundreds of girls for the
outdoor exhibition during closing week.
Mr. H. W. Camp, traveling auditor, is with us offi
cially, and is nearing the end of his work here. Mr.
Camp is certainly a conscientious and faithful auditor.
Splendid rains of late insure a fine strawberry crop
on our six-acre patch. The farm and garden certainly
appear well. Never before have we had a better pros
pect for all kinds of crops.
The Excelsior party last Saturday evening was the
last special one of the season. As usual this society
gave a splendid social. In the management of the
function, Mr. Iliff, critic of the society, and Mr.
Downie aided the committee in charge and there were
no dull moments at any time.
The ninth and tenth grades gave us literary treats
that we shall never forget in their interpretation of
sketches from Shakespeare’s plays, Burn’s poems as
beautifully sang by the ninth grade girls, and Scott’s
“Lady of the Lake.” The well-known characters
selected from the collateral reading and presented, life
size, in the “Freshmen’s Waxworks” made a pleasing
impression. Each student should have a good store
of literary gems gleaned from these exercises given
each Wednesday; if no more lasting benefit is derived,
they should help through the final exams, and, judg
ing from the anxious faces, this is quite an item.
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