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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.