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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1925)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Three of the academic teachers are off duty this week on account of illiness. The carpenter boys have nearly completed a garage back of the gymnasium. Mr. and Mrs. L- P. Aldrich, of Salem, paid Chemawa friends a visit on Saturday evening. The Junior Class is indeed glad to have Flora Dexter and Charles DePoe with them again. Victory at last! Every car on the place has been re paired and are in proper running order. The auto mechanics claim Strom, Jackson, Rassmus- sen, Bedard and Brunoe to be first-class mechanics. Father Gall held a Sunday afternoon meeting with the Catholic children the first Sunday in November. We are pleased to report that just as we were going to press Supervisor W. W. Coon arrived for a visit at Chemawa. Alfred Desautel, who spent his vacation at Omak, Washington, has returned to school. Alfred is now in the 8th grade. The “Y” boys were delighted at Sunday’s meeting by the reports the boys gave who attended the con vention at Woodburn. Mr. Ross has delighted the “women folks” in sever al of the buildings by sending them some beautiful blooming potted chrysanthemums. Again the Willamette Valley is enjoying a season of very foggy weather. It is an exceptional winter season which does not bring its quota of fog. Chemawa was saddened this week by the death of Merton Dupuis. Merton was in the eighth grade and will be sadly missed by his classmates and friends. Mrs. E. Doran and son, Everette Doran, of Portland, Oregon, are visiting friends and relatives here. Mrs. Doran was formerly Miss Anna Miller of the class of 1920. The question of the hour is, “Who will win the football championship, the Juniors or the Freshmen?” The Juniors so say the Juniors, but we are not so cer tain about it. Rose Gray of the class of ‘22, and who graduated from Salem High in ‘24, recently married Arthur Motanic, an ex-Chemawa student. They are now liv ing at Umatilla. While Misses Judd and Thomas have been out of school on account of illiness, Williamette Blakeslee, Josephine Alberts, Edna Audette and Marion Morgan have filled their places. The Sigma Phi Deltas held their regular meeting on Thursday evening with Mrs. Hall. In the course of the meeting it was learned that Luella Williams, a sister member, had entered a hospital as a nurse at her home in Montana and is doing well with her work. The Sigmas wish her every success. PAGE 3 The last few mornings at Chemawa have been frosty and have spelled death to a large portion of our out- of-doors flowers. Too bad, but it is now close to De cember and not many flowers bloom all winter in any country. The carpenter boys have accepted the challenge sent out by the painter boys for a game of basketball to be played on Thanksgiving day. This promises to be a good game, as both teams have some “Old War Horses” in their line-up. The Boy Scouts held their regular meeting on Tues day evening, November 17th, 1925. Mr. Ware, the Scout Leader of Marion and Benton Counties, was pres ent and invited the patrol leaders to attend a meeting in Portland on the 27-29 of November. The Scouts studied first aid and used the entire period for bandag ing. The rash that one or two of the Junior class have had has been diagnosed as “horse measles” by Freshmen team boosters. The Juniors think it to be an apt di agnosis, for they know that the Freshmen team will think them “horses” when they hit their football line tomorrow. The Freshmen claim a few “whales” on their team. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Doke from Chiloquin, Oregon, were visitors at Chemawa this week-end. Mrs. Doke was formerly Miss Opal Pearson, and has a young sister and brother attending school here. She is a member of the class of ’21. After finishing school here she attended the Sacred Heart Academy in Klamath Falls and graduated from there in 1923. A delightful eight-course dinner was served on Thursday noon by Violet Mahone and Agnes Pera- trovich. The table was beautifully decorated in autumn leaves and flowers. The guests were Mr. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Brickell, Mrs. Parks and Captain Stacy. These girls prepared and served the meal all alone and the “proof of the pudding was in the eat ing of the pie,” and these girls certainly reflected credit upon their teachers. The assemblies on Wednesday were of a patriotic nature, in accordance with the literature on National Educational Week sent out by the American Legion. Claude Parazoo and Louis Orr gave the Pledge of Allegiance and Zelma Johnson gave the Preamble to the Constitution for the first division, while Grace Marshall, Agnes Marshan and George Jackson did like honors for the second division. The second divison had an added treat, for Mr. Goodnough, a brilliant pianist of Portland, played Paderewski’s Minuet and an encore in a masterly way. During chapel last Sunday evening Supt. Hall gave a fine talk on the necessity of our students indulging in self-help if they really want to place themselves ad vantageously in life. The talk made a profound im pression on our students. The program was to some extent in observation of Thanksgiving. The orchestra played “Singing While Weeping” by Moreno, Anna Peratrovich sang “Grateful, O Lord Am I” by Roma, a mixed octette sang “Praise Ye the Lord” by Wood cock, Louis Dupuis gave a recitation, and the choir sang “Praise Ye the Father” by Gounod. It was a pleasing chapel.
