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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 2, 1927)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL The senior play will be March 25th. Solomon Fleury is again around after being in the hospital with a “tooth.” Pearl Buckles gave an excellent “review” to the Sophomore Class on Franklin’s Autobiography on Mon day. Among the interesting speakers at the Y. W. on Wednesday evening were Harriett Hill and Mabel Bremner. Elizabeth Codding returned from Marshfield on Sat urday. She had been called home on account of illness in the family. The Excelsiors have perfected their plans for their open session on Friday evening, according to the re port to reach us. Miss Aleta Brownlee, connected with the Red Cross work, with headquarters in San Francisco, was a school visitor last Wednesday. We’ve had more than our usual amount of rain since September first—about seven inches in excess of the normal. That is “going some!” Mr. Philip Howell visited Chemawa last week in the interest of the “North American Indian,” a well- known weekly paper, of which he is the editor. Edna Doughty, now attending school in Seattle, and in her senior year in high school there, was a week-end visitor at Chemawa. For several years she was en rolled here. A letter recently received from Mr. Fred Bruce, formerly bandmaster at Chemawa and an unusually fine clarinetist, informs us that he is now located in Klamath Falls and is doing splendidly in every way. Mr. Kline entertained the assemblies on Wednes day by showing experiments in air pressure. The demonstrations were of great interest. Tom Anavah and Charley Moon assisted him. Karl Muller asked current event questions. The Junior Class have elected the following officers for the second semester: President, Moses George; vice-president, Emily Phillips; secretary, Emily Ivan- off; treasurer, Jacob Atkins; sergeant-at-arms, John Edleman; yell leader, Royal Holst. Last Friday evening the boys’ and girls’ octettes under direction of Mrs. Turney provided the regular weekly entertainment at the Y. M. C. A. quarters in Salem. In addition to the ensemble numbers of the two octettes Raymond Haldane and Joseph Kahklen appeared in vocal solos and Rose Smith, Myrtle Rine hart and Harry Frost gave recitations. Quite a large crowd was present and every number on our pro gram was enthusiastically received. PAGE 3 Last Friday evening the members of the Winona Literary Society enjoyed a short program of an enter taining nature and then turned the meeting into busi ness channels, discussing matters of society business. This is “Ground Hog” day. What will his “hog ship” decide to do? Stay out and take a chance on the weather, or go back into his hole for a six-week siesta? We trust that he may remain in the open, if that will effect the weather favorably. At an election last Friday evening the Nonpareils chose the following officers for the ensuing election: President, Grace Peterson; vice-president, Evelyn lyall; secretary, Ferol Porter; treasurer, Mabel Desautel; ser geants-at-arms, Elsie Adams and Margaret Maupin; critic, Flora Dexter. The election of officers by the Reliance Literary Society last Friday evening resulted as follows: Pres ident, William Markishtum; vice-president, Jacob Atkins; treasurer, George Johnson; secretary, Moses George; yell leader, Raymond Haldane; sergeant-at- arms, Percy Woodcock. A demonstration breakfast was given in the Wigwam recently by Grace Peterson and Harriett Hill, who are members of the senior class and who are majoring in domestic science. The guests were Cecile Smith, Edna Crofoot, John Dexter and Harry Frost, all graduates of Chemawa who are attending institutions of higher education in Salem. The event was in every way de lightful. The chapel exercises last Sunday evening were in charge of the girls of the Junior Class with Elsie Adams as chairwoman. The class were happy in the speaker obtained, having no less a personage than Professor Matthews, locally known as the “Grand Old Man” of Willamette University. His talk was on “Dependa bility,” and was of great interest, as well as most in structive. A pleasing number was played by the orchestra, a chorus of girls sang an “Indian Lullaby” by Lieurance, Rose Smith gave a recitation, and the choir contributed a number. Elsie Adams presided with credit to herself and class and the occasion was memorable in every way. On Monday evening there was a rally in the audi torium for the purpose of “pepping up” the student body in matters athletic. It “pepped,” too, for enthusiasm was rampant, if whooping and yelling and hurrahing indicate anything. It was a sort of a preliminary indicating what the Salem Black Cats would be up against out here the following evening. About the time the rally closed we could have whipped the whole athletic world—so great is the power of psychology. Mr. Downie was in charge of the rally and made a stirring talk, introducing the members of his team. Harry Frost and Jacob Atkins were yell leaders and Mabel Bremner was song leader for the girls, and the band contributed its share.
