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.
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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?
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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.