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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1930)
7 he CHEMAWA AMERICAN Page 2 CHEMAWA^AMERICAN Published Weekly at the U. S. Indian School. Chemawa Oregon. Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager Subscription ....... 50 Cts per Annum LOCAL The farmers are doing their utmost in preparing ground for spring planting of grain. St. Patrick’s Day is the next important calendar date. Get out your Shamrock and your Irish. The shoe shop boys repaired 515 pairs of shoes dur ing the month of February. This seems to have been a trying month for shoes. Margaret Baine left last week with her mother for her home in Tulalip, Wash. Poor health was the cause of her return home. The Junior Y. W. girls hiked to the woods a few days ago and told Bible stories, and played games, and had a good romp generally. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk are now driving a Willys-Knight car, a sedan, which they secured a few days ago. It is certainly a nice looking car. Arnold McKay andMike Solomon were dinner guests of Mrs. Herlits last Thursday. This was a courtesy greatly appreciated by the boys. The Y. M. C. A. boys have changed their place of meeting from the reading room in McNary Hall to the Y. room in the Protestant building. Miss Virginia Brickell was up from Portland to spend the week-end with her mother and friends here at the school, where she lived for so long a time. Our cross country runners have been out for the past two weeks getting themselves in shape for our annual race with Washington high of Portland. Frank Johnson, president of the Y. M., has been appointed to act on the attendance committee for the Marion County Older Boys’ Conference which will convene in Salem on April 4th and 5th. After the girls’ game of basketball with Canby last Saturday evening the older students remained in the gym and enjoyed a social time of an hour’s duration. It proved a very nice social in every way. Scoutmasters Bent, Francisco and Carl Turner took a number of Scouts to Portland last Friday evening to attend the big Scout Circus put on by the Scouts of the metropolis. It was a commendable act on the part of the Scoutmasters to afford our youngsters such a trip and the never-to-be-forgotten experiences of the occasion. Little Marjorie Mote, daughter of Principal and Mrs. S. R. Mote, was the “gue>t artist” at both of the school assemblies last week. She gave recitations and acquitted herself with credit in each of her num bers. Miss Eakin has organized a new girl reserve club of 20 members. This is for the members of the lower classes and is the third reserve club at the school. It will meet Tuesday evenings and is to be known as the “Blue Triangle Club.” Mr. William Rogers, our assistant engineer, has just finished the task of overhauling and repairing a vacuum pump. It will replace the one in use recently and it is hoped that in this way our heating plant will be rendered more efficient. Miss Eakin entertained the Y. W. C. A. cabinet members at a luncheon last Tuesday. It proved de lightful for all. Those in attendance were, Anna Jackson, Christine Muller, Emily Seelatsee, Eleanor Sanderson and Flora Harper. The official photographer connected with the com ing issue of the Senior Annual was out from Salem last Sunday afternoon taking pictures of various em ploye and student groups. There is no time to waste if the Annual is to be out on time. Mr. Grant Teter, our dairyman, who has been suf fering with a bad hand for many weeks and unable to attend his duties, has so far recovered that he is again back on the job. This relieved Mr. Ross, who sub stituted for him, and the latter is again in charge of affairs about our campus. On Monday spring football was started. Some sixty candidates signed up, but the lack of equipment made it impossible to entertain that many. We hope to do much that will be beneficial next fall. There is no question but what this group will put in some good licks before this short session is over. We note with pleasure the arrival at our desk of “Wotanin Waste” (which means “good news”), a paper sent out from the Pierre (S. Dak.) Indian School. It is an interesting volume, clever and unique in more ways than one. It is well edited, and—well, we’ll await the appearance of the next issue with our expec tations at fever heat. Mr. George P. La Vatta, who is here at our school in an official way, is certainly doing business on worth while lines. He is meeting our students in classes and collectively and explaining to them in plain and unmistakeable terms just what life in the great busi ness world means. He has no illusions, no false ideas, and he has no patience with those young folk who are given over to the frothy things of life—he wants some thing of a substantial nature. By his very attitude his visit will prove a blessing to our students. It will be well for our young people to bear in mind the plain truths that he has unfolded for them.
