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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1926)
THE CHEM AWA AMERICAN LOCAL Have you overlooked the fact that next Sunday is St. Valentine’s day? The orchestra furnished music at Haysville on Fri day evening and was particularly well received. Next Friday is Lincoln’s Birthday—a day which is becoming more and more important with each passing year. The Nonpareil Literary Society wish to express their thanks to Mrs. Turney for helping them with their Open Session. A letter recently received brings the intelligence that Anna Fagerstrom is now employed at Seaview, Wash., and is getting along nicely. Both pupils and employees are delighted that Mrs. Carroll is recovering from her recent illness and hope to have her back at Chemawa soon. Three of the Junior girls, Gertrude Caisse, Mabel Bremner and Grace Johnson, have changed their courses and are now taking nursing The machinists have been busy the past week over hauling the pumps at the pump house. They also have been fixing the engine on the cement mixer. Wm. Johnson, on Mr. Glover’s blacksmithing detail, has just completed a beautiful lamp bracket for one of the guest rooms. This piece of work reflects credit on both pupil and instructor. The Blakeslee Sisters, Williamette, Bernice and Henrietta, contributed violin and piano numbers at the parent-teachers’ meeting at the Haysville school house last Friday evening and were well received. Mrs. Hall has received a letter from the Chemeketa Chapter of the D. A. R.s, Salem, offering two medals, one valued at $5.00 and another at $2.50 for the two best Indian legends written by pupils of Chemawa this year. These good ladies have given a number of prizes for vaiions objects to our students the last few years. The D. A. R.s, take a good deal of interest in our work. The Reliance Literary Society at their last meeting elected officers, with the following result: President, Royal Holst; vice-president, Raymond Jones; secre tary, Moses George; treasurer, Jacob Atkins; yell leaders, Raymond Haldane and Reno Booth; sergeant- at-arms, Dewey Matt. After discussion of the an nual party which is to be held next Saturday evening, and the “open session,” which will occur on March 5th, we adjourned. During chapel on Sunday evening Supt. Hall made a fine talk to the students in which he particularly and emphatically emphasized the necessity of each student doing his utmost in an endeavor to make him self efficient in some line of activity. It was a good talk. The orchestra played “Chapel Chimes” by Greenwald, Reno Booth sang “Then You’ll Remember Me” by Balfe, the girls’ octette sang “The World is Waiting for the Sunrise” by Seitz, Sergei Bozeroff gave a recitation, and the choir sang “His Name Alone is Excellent” by Woodcock. PAGE 3 The Y. W. C. A. held their regular meeting on Sunday, but postponed the checking of the Girl Re serve Requirements until next Sunday. This check ing will determine for some whether they have earned the much desired ring. We have just received a card from a former pupil at Chemawa which will likely prove of interest to some of our old-time students. We trust that some of our readers, who remember the writer of the card, will answer for us. On the card addressed us was the following data: “I would like to hear from some of my old friends. I left Chemawa 20 years ago. Hop ing to hear from some one, I am, Sergeant C. R. Gillman, 10th Infantry Band, Ft. Thomas, Kentucky.” NONPAREIL OPEN SESSION Grace Peterson, president of the Nonpareil Literary Society, in a gracious way welcomed Supt. and Mrs. Hall, members of the faculty and the different literary societies to the Nonpareil program last Saturday even ing. This was followed by the opening song in which was featured the colors of the different literary societies and was given in an excellent way. The next feature, “The P'loradora Girls,” a new and novel act, was perhaps the most amusing number of the pro gram. The “Floradora” quartet proved to be none other than Josephine Alberts, Lillian Marion, Martha Packineau and Emily Bryan. The debate, “Resolved, That the United States made a wise decision in entering the World Court of International Justice,” was good. Affirmative, Cleo Plasteur and Dorothea Parker; negative, Evelyn lyall and Marian Morgan. All the debaters showed that they had the subject well in hand and all were convincing in their arguments, but the judges, who were the pres idents of the other literary societies, decided in favor of the negative debaters. Matilda and Eva Turcott played a mandolin and guitar duet. They were forced to give two encores. Mabel Desautel gave a musical reading, “That Old Gang of Mine.” Mabel was good and made quite a nice looking “young man.” The tableaux, “Women of America,” was splendid ly given. Ferol Porter read important scenes from the history of our country and the members portrayed these scenes in living pictures. These pictures were beautiful and educational, and further beautified by Flora Dexter playing appropriate music with each picture. Lila Crofoot gave a monologue, “The New Girl at Chemawa,” in an entertaining way. This was fol lowed by an operetta, “The Rose of Savoy. ” The principal characters were Grace Peterson, a prima donna; Oxcenia Hendrickson, a Savoy flower girl; and Emily Ivanoff, a dressmaker. These girls sang their parts wonderfully and were supported by a splendid chorus. The music was beautiful and well rendered by every member taking part. After this number Grace Peterson bade those assembled ‘ ‘Good Night.” Everyone left praising Miss White and her Nonpar eils, and the different societies were certainly volum inous in their yells of praise when the program was finished.
