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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1928)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Mr. Bent made a business trip to Portland last Sat urday. Cleo Plasteur and sister spent the week-end with their mother in Portland. Frances and Lincoln Van Alstine were surprised recently by a visit of their mother. Elizabeth Codding was pleased to have her mother, from Marshfield, Oregon, call on her a few days ago. Mrs. J. M. Dickson, from her Ashburn farm, near Shedd, Oregon, passed the week-end with relatives at Chemawa. Well, the ground hog was able to see his shadow in Chemawa on Feb. 2nd, so lookout for six weeks of bad weather yet to come. Letters have been received from Mrs. Woods. She mashed her finger on the way to Oakland and that ac counted for us not hearing from her sooner. Mr. Andrew Davis, who is to act as foreman of con struction on the new unit of Winona Hall arrived in Chemawa last week and is ready for business. Mr. Kelly of Spokane, Washington, visited his son James this week-end. Mr. Kelly was well pleased with Chemawa and the progress his son is making. Mr. Turney, in Wednesday’s assembly, with appro priate remarks, presented Joseph Alexander with the dollar Joe won in the monthly Chemawa American “Best Article Test.’’ Mr. Stancil and his mechanical drawing classes are putting the buildings on paper for practice. The drawings of Mitchell Hall by Russell Hayward and John Davis are excellent. Mr. Klein had charge of the Wednesday assemblies. Lila, Crofoot and Terrence Booth asked current event questions and Mr. Klein talked most interestingly on the topics of the day. Dr. Johnston gave timely re marks to the students on health. They were good assemblies. Miss Skipton and Mrs. Holmes, of Portland, were guests of the school last Wednesday. They were din ner guests of Mrs. Brewer and Miss White. Miss Skipton was retired from the service during the past year and her many friends at Chemawa are always glad to see her. Chemawa should be pretty well covered for news, as we have a couple of reporters for Salem papers on the grounds. John Copeland is reporting for the Oregon Statesman, and Lawrence Bozeroff is doing the same work for the Capital Journal. The world should hear from Chemawa henceforth. Yesterday at the time of “going to press” some of our people were scheduled to broadcast over K. F. I.F. at Portland. It was to be an “Indian” program. Mr. George W. Bent was to deliver an address on “Indian Boyhood,” and our orchestra was to play the four numbers of Mr. Turney’s “Second Indian Suite.” Supt. Lipps being absent on business, our school principal, Mr. Carroll, was in charge of our chapel exercises last Sunday evening. «In addition to the hymn service the orchestra played an overture bv Schlepegrell, Aaron Isaac gave a vocal solo, the choir sang a special number, and Mr. Turney related a few incidents in connection with Skagway, Alaska, during the Klondyke gold rush of thirty years ago. PAGE 3 Mr. Omar Bewley has just recently erected a very fine residence in Salem. It is an up-to-date-home in every particular and Mr. and Mrs. Bewley are to be congratulated on their lovely property. Supt. Lipps departed icr Toppenish, Wash., last Friday evening to look after business matters in that section. The particular object of his visit was to in vestigate matters relative to the construction of a $60,000 hospital at Toppenish. This is a Yakima Reservation project, but the hospital is intended to serve all the Indian people of the State of Washington. The money for the building is now available and the hospital is to be completed by the 30th of next June. Last Wednesday evening Miss Grace Johnson de parted from Chemawa for Flandreau, S. D., where she will have a position under Supt. McGregor. Miss Gracie is a product of Chemawa and a graduate of our school and the good wishes of a host of friends and former schoolmates accompany her to her new field. She was accompanied as far as Spokane, Wash., by Mr. Joseph Lambert., who was enroute to Rapid City, S. D., where he is to be employed. During a resi dence of about a year here Mr. Lambert made many friends who wish him success in his new position. The Reserve Officers of Marion County were the guests of the school last Thursday evening. Colonel Carl Abrams presided, at the head of the table, at Capt. Stacy’s request. Supt. Lipps gave a most interesting talk on the “Relation of the Indian and Indian Service to the Army.” The officers were loud in their praise of Mrs. Davis and her girls. A number of students provided an excellent program for the visitors during the evening. After the dinner Lt. Herbert, instructor at the University of Oregon, gave a wonderful talk on China. Lt. Herbert is recently from China. He told how Capt. Woodbridge’s life was saved when there with Lt. Herbert. Capt. Woodbridge will be remem bered by an interesting talk he gave the student body last year on China. games will cause the teams to bend every effort if they win. Columbia won over us here by a single point earlier in the season. The Chemawa wrestling team, under Coach Sanders, defeated the much-touted Benson Tech team in Portland Friday after noon, thereby fulfilling a prophecy made by the writer a week or two ago in these columns. They showed great improve ment over their first meet, winning seven out of ten fast matches. Tom Anayah, Chemawa; started the fireworks by winning two straight falls over Henderson in what developed into a lightning affair. Not that the falls were gained quickly, but by the speed with which these two boys worked. George Nicholson, Chemawa, followed close on the heels of Tom and pinned Kates’ shoulders to the mat twice. Charles Fagerstrom, Chemawa, emerged with two decisions over Davis. Davis slipped in and out of holds like a slippery eel. He had to be slippery to get away from Charles, for he generally gets his man in the end. Dan Collins, Chemawa, put Francis to the mat with a sizzling airplane spin and won when Francis failed to come l>ack for more. Aaron Isaac, Chemawa, won two straight falls over Powell. Clifford Meachem, Chemawa, two falls over Leab, and Moses George, Chemawa, won a de cision and a fall over Patterson. Though Charles Morgan, Karl Muller and Bill Johnson, Chemawa, lost to Howell, and Kanniblas and Nuttey of Ben son, they were chuck full of fire and action and as they say lost only to the better man. Next week the boys will meet Corvallis Hi at Corvallis.
