THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
LOCAL
Baseball! Baseball!
Study for examinations!
Who will win the class championship?
Miss Strout visited friends in Amity this week-end.
The framework of the new print shop is “knocking’ ’
its way up!
Mr. Klein made a business trip to Corvallis on
Friday evening.
Peter Bighair of the Sophomore class is now attend
ing school in Billings, Montana.
One of the large ranges at the students’ kitchen is
being repaired. The plumbers have the work in hand.
The plumbers are making wash trays for use at the
bachelors’ cottage on the western portion of our cam
pus.
Rehearsals for the operetta to be given at the close
of school must have the “right-o’-way” from now on.
Not any too much time left.
Mrs. Brickell is with us for a few days from Port
land. Her daughter, Virginia, now attending Reed
College, came with her on this visit.
Supt. Lipps was absent a good part of last week.
We understand that official business took him to
Idaho and Montana. His duties and responsibilities
are many.
Mr. Carrow, our mason and concrete worker, has
recently placed two attractive large vases for flowers
in front of the hospital. The vases represent mighty
fine cement work.
Next Friday evening our orchestra and Girls’ Oc
tette are scheduled to put on a program at Oak Lawn.
All are mightily interested in the matter of good
weather for the trip.
During the last few days the concrete work has been
completed on the line shaft in the carpenter shop. At
the present writing this work is just about finished,
including the laying of the floor in the shaft.
Mr. Ross and his yard detail are possessors of a
power lawn mower.
It is operated with a gasoline
motor, and it is thoroughly appreciated by all. A
special garage has just been fixed up for it at the
green house.
Martin Colby, one of our former students who has
spent some time in California, visited us recently.
He is well and states that the world looks good to him.
He was enroute to the Young’s Bay country, near
Astoria, where he will have work in the woods at log
ging.
Rev. Henry Roe Cloud, head of the American
Indian Institute of Wichita, Kansas, was a visitor on
our campus for a few hours on Saturday. He is
traveling under the Board of National Missions of
the Presbyterian Church, making a survey of all the
schools and hospitals which have religious work
under this Board. A group of about one hundred
boys gathered in the Y room shortly after dinner to
meet Mr. Roe Cloud and to listen to a most interest
ing talk from him. It is the regret of all that he
could not have remained with us longer so that all
of the students might have had an opportunity to
meet him.
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The bandboys gave their annual social last Satur
day evening. The gym was beautifully decorated in
music motifs, dogwood blossoms, and the school
colors.
Aaron Isaacs, assisted by Joe Webster, en
gineered the activities of the evening.
At the ap
pointed time delicious refreshments were served. Mr.
DePoe and his aggregation of bandboys deserve much
praise for the good time they gave their friends.
The Nonpareil and Excelsior Literary Societies held
their annual joint meeting in the auditorium on Fri
day evening. The following numbers were rendered
in an all-to-be desired way: Song, Nonpareils; Song,
Excelsiors; Play, “The Bat,” Zelma Johnson, Eliza
beth Codding, Geraldine Dupuis and Pauline Pratt;
Music, Cleo Plasteur, Martha Packineau and Dorothy
Parker; Debate, “Resolved: That Capital Punish
ment Should Be Abolished;” Affirmative, Alfreda
Kipp, John Edelman; Negative, Cleo Plasteur and
Peter Rassmussen; Music, DePoe Brothers. After a
few words from the advisors of the two societies, Miss
White and Mr. Stacy, the societies adjourned.
Supt. Lipps being absent last Sunday evening, our
chapel exercises were in charge of Mr. Carroll, our
school principal. The orchestra played an overture,
Raymond Haldane contributed a vocal number, Wa-
sika Hauser gave a recitation, as did John Cadotte,
and the choir sang as usual. After a few explanatory
remarks by Mr. Carroll the stage was turned over to
Bernice Blakeslee, who played the First Concerto of
DeBeriot. Bernice is to compete at Forest Grove in
the inter-state musical contests of next Saturday and
is entered as a violinist, the pupil of Miss Elizabeth
Levy of Salem. The violin concerto in question is
a very lengthy and difficult number and Bernice de
serves great credit for the showing she made—it is
an immense task even to do the memory work. A
young lady from Salem will be her accompanist. We
all wish Bernice success.
The Y. W. C. A. has had a series of discussions on
“The Ideal Girl,’’ which have proved very stimu
lating and thought provoking, and which have added
much interest to recent meetings. Following is the
basis of the discussion: “The ideal girl is strong in
body, is intelligent, believes in God and strives to
obey His laws. She is not afraid to work and has
courage to meet hardships if they come. She is in
terested in pretty clothes and wants them for herself
and others. She has what she can honestly afford,
and she spends time and takes pains to get the very
best she can for the money she has. She refuses to
be extreme in style or to make herself ridiculous
or conspicuous. She likes fun and good times. She
will not indulge in things that unfit her for her work
or study. She loves her friends and companions and
has as many as she can. She chooses carefully her
friends among girls and boys and lets neither word
nor act lower in the least degree their respect for her.
She looks forward to the day when she shall have a
home of her own, and fits herself to care for it with
intelligence and skill. She is honest and faithful to
present tasks.
She is kindly, generous, helpful,
cheerful—just the sort of girl one would like to live
with every day.”