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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1929)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Mr. and Mrs. Kuehn, business people of Siletz, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Larsen during the week-end. Reno Booth, a graduate of last year’s class, now radio .singing in Portland, visited Chemawa during the week-end. The students of the junior vocational departments will indulge themselves in a declamation contest next Eriday evening. Mr. John Dexter left yesterday for Seattle to attend business matters that will keep him in the northern city the greater part of the week. Mr. Silas Moon, one of our highly respected old- time students, has been visiting at Chemawa for the past few days, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Larsen. Miss Flora Dexter returned to Chemawa last Friday evening from Monmouth, where she is attending the State Normal School; and spent the week-end here. She is getting on nicely in her school work and seems fully satisfied with conditions at Monmouth. Verne Wilson left on Monday morning for Spokane, Washington, to participate in the program given by the large orchestra to be formed there this week from various high school students of the Pacific Northwest. Verne and one other student are the only representa tives of the Salem high school. Best conduct records of last week for boys’ and girls’ companies went to Company “ C,” boys, and C o m p a n y ’ ’“girls?; and they were given distinction by Supt. Lipps at the close of chapel last Sunday and after some commendatory mention by Mr. Lipps were allowed to lead in the recessional. Mr. Edward Wilton arrived in Chemawa last Sunday from the Puget Sound section in Washington and enrolled his 14-year-old son, Edward Jr., in our school. Mr. Wilton is the brother-in-law of our Victor Smith. He was well pleased with our school and had many nice things to say in its favor. Mr. Martin Colby arrived in ChemawalastSaturday evening to pass the week-end with friends at his alma mater; "Martin" has experienced poor health recently and for a period sojourned in a Portland hospital, but he is now as good as new. We old-timers were all glad to see him. He is always loyal to Chemawa. Many of our girls of former years, who are now young ladies, and some of them doing for themselves, living In and near Portland, came Up to Chemawa last Saturday evening to attend the Nonpareil party and pass the week-end here. Among those who came up were: Misses Annie Moon, Elizabeth Shagin, Elizabeth James, Jennie Bell, and perhaps others of whom we have no information. On Monday evening the string quartet gave a pro gram before the sophomore class. It will be the fresh men next Monday evening. Aside from the students present last Monday evening there were in attendance Mrs. Lipps, Mrs. Wilson and daughter, Miss Marjorie, Mrs.Bricked, Miss Gunn, Mr. Kirk and Mr. Moon, the latter being accompanied by Miss Vivian Larsen as he was a guest at the Larsen home. Page 3 This has, so far, been a trying spring for weather guessers. Last Friday evening, for instance, snow was in the air here (most unusual at this season of the year) and the papers of the same day carried a dispatch to the effect that in Illinois the mercury had climbed to 93 degrees fahrenheit. Now, what do you think of that? ~ x 4 • . S' The party of the Nonpareil Literary Society last Saturday evening proved a delightful affair in every way. From the time that Miss Cleo Plasteur gave her talk of welcome to the time for !‘good night’ ’ there was not a dull moment. The large gymnasium was beautifuly decorated and presented a picture of rare loveliness. The orchestra assistedjmaterially in the way of adding to the joy of the occasion, and appetiz ing refreshments were served. Surely the Nonpareil girls and their advisor, Miss White, should feel grati fied with the great success that the party proved to be. Chemawa friends have heard from Tom Anayah recently. Tommie was a member of our graduating class of last year. On his graduation he went to Nome, Alaska, where he accepted a position in the govern ment school as a manual training teacher. Evidently he has made good in every way. He sent a copy of the Christmas program at Nome and it was in every way up-to-date. They enjoyed fire-works, and this to some people may not appear in keeping with Christ mas, as the matter seems more in line with the Fourth of July. However, on July 4th at Nome it is never dark, so no fireworks are possible up there in the summer time. For Nome fireworks are not bad at Christmas time. OUR LAST S U N D A Y CHAPEL During chapel exercises last Sunday evening Supt. Lipps gave a truly wonderful talk to our students. We could not help wondering how the speaker finds time to prepare such excellent talks, for excellent they are in every way, and it seemed to us that the discourse of Mr. Lipps last Sunday evening was in many ways outstanding. He chose to give his talk on “ Ten Leading Events in the History of Civiliz ation,” and gave his subjects in the following order: ' 1. Invention of the alphabet. 2. Invention of printing. 3. Discovery of America. 4. Discovery of inductive reasoning. 5. Invention of the telescope and microscope. 6. Discovery of the law of gravitation. 7. Publication of Adam Smith’s “ Wealth of Na tions.” 8. Discovery of the theory of evolution. 9. Invention of steam and gas engines. 10. Invention of the dynamo, telegraph and tele phone. Supt. Lipps touched upon all of the points and their effect in the march of civilisation—-truly,, he left us something of which to think for many a day. A wonderful talk! In addition to the talk of Mr. Lipps, Mr. Kunkel, our violinist and bandmaster, gave a violin solo and was given such an appreciative recall that he played an encore. Mr. Kunkel is in every way a most able musician. The choir sang a pleasing number and the orchestra was also heard.
