THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
LOCAL
School business took Mr. Iliff to Portland during the
past week.
The Seniors are now eating together as a class in
the dining room.
Baseball is the campus talk—closely followed by
men on the track.
Many of the students attended the 3:00 o’clock
Mass on Sunday morning.
Alfred Colgrove was surprised by the arrival of his
mother and father last Friday evening.
The social last Saturday evening was fully up to all
expectations in the way of a general good time.
Harvey Adams went home Friday evening in re-
sponce to a telegram announcing his father’s illness.
Miss Della Body, a teacher in Longview, Wash
ington, was the guest of Miss Foster the past week
end.
We’ve heard of some pretty good local egg-eating
feats which were pulled off as a part of our Easter
festivities.
Mr. Woodard recognizes that every moment is of
value now and his farm details are simply making
things hum. Really, there is no time to waste—and
none is wasted.
The Senior class had their annual Easter morning
breakfast on Sunday. The details would be long and
tiresome to a non-participant, but the Seniors had a
wonderful time.
It was reported to us that the chapel decoration last
Sunday evening was the work of Miss Gunn. The
Easter motif was apparent and the picture presented
by the stage was beautiful.
The Alumni on the campus are planning to give the
visiting Alumni a hearty welcome during Commence
ment week. Mrs. Downie has sent very forceful and
attractive letters urging the “old Chemawaites” to
return.
Mr. Ross has just completed a bit of landscape
gardening on a plot in front of Cramton Hall and it
certainty looks at present as though it will grow into
a beauty spot within a few short years. When man
kind and Nature co-operate great results are certain
of fruition.
Last Sunday being Easter, we regret for many rea
sons to state that it was not a nice day, and that it
rained. There is an old saw to the effect that if it rains
on Easter we shall have seven rainy Sundays. Let us
hope that there is no truth in it, but just the same
those who are interested can now keep account of the
next few Sundays and satisfy themselves regarding
this old saying.
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Charles Edwards, one of our students, was a victim
of quite a serious accident while watching a recent
practice game of baseball here between our boys and
the Willamette University Bearcats. He was struck
in the face by the ball and his nose was broken and
both eyes blackened. He was rushed to a doctor at
once. At present he is getting along nicely.
Last Friday evening our orchestra and the boys’
octette provided entertainment for the community
club at North Howell. livery thing passed off nicely
and our organizations again proved a credit to the
school they represent. Next Friday evening the
same organizations are scheduled to put on a pro
gram at Marquam, eighteen or twenty miles east of
Chemawa.
Many are the signs of spring at Chemawa, chief
among them being plowing and seeding. But that
spring is near is attested by the leafing out of the Che
mawa maples, the cleaning up and cultivation of vege
table and flower beds, etc. Another sign noticeable is
the housewifely sport of window washing—that rare
old pastime game at which they all take a fling. Well,
let spring advance—we are all ready.
The prevocational declamation contest held here
last Friday evening proved an interesting event and
one of real value to the participants. Misses Shroeder,
Taylor and Johnson, all teachers in the Salem high
school, were the Judges, and they awarded Gladys
Parazoo first place and Frances Goff second for the
girls; for the boys the first place went to Sergius
Bozeroff and second to Victor Sisson.
At a special assembly called by Supt. McGregor
recently, Captain Earl Hammond, the explorer, pre
sented the school a historic souvenir from an air
craft that flew over the north pole. This air craft was
the dirigible, Norge, under command of Amundsen.
Captain Hammond, by trading, collected practically
all the material left at Nome when the historic craft
was dismantled and returned to Italy. The souvenir
is a picture showing the Norge as it first touched the
ground, and a printed copy of the log of the craft as
it flew over the pole on the voyage that began at
Rome, Italy, and ended at Nome, Alaska. The pic
ture frame is the tubular alloy metal used for the
framework of the ship and the printing is on the
aeroplane cloth that covered the dirigible. This his
torical souvenir is appreciated by the student body
and will always be kept zealously by the school, and
as time goes by its value will increase and the interest
in the historical event grow. On account of so many
Alaskan students it is of special interest to Chemawa
and is certainly appreciated. Thanks to Captain
Hammond!