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.
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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.