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LOCAL
Yesterday was ‘ ‘All Fool’s Day.”
Did you escape?
William Brown is now drum major in the band,
and we hear that he is an especially good one, too.
Well “March came in like a lamb” and went out
the same way in spite of the old saw that she should
go out “like a lion,” with her tail just cracking.
Freddie Freeman visited friends here last Monday,
while enroute to Siletz, where he has property hold
ings. In the distant past his father was a tailor at
Chemawa. A year or so ago Freddie graduated from
Washington University in Seattle and at present he
has a position in one of the banks in that city. Pret
ty good, we say.
Mr. Bent was the speaker last Saturday evening be
fore the Campfire girls’ organization in Salem.
The
meeting was held in the Y. M. C. A. building and in
every way it was a memorable occasion.
Rosalia
Grounds accompained Mr. Bent and gave recitations,
using the Indian sign languagetoconsiderableextent.
She reports having had an unforgetable experience
and one that was most pleasureable in every way.
Supt. Lipps is in receipt of quite an interesting
letter from Frank Corbett, who will be remembered
by many of our former students. Frank is now in
the service of the government in the capacity of head
advisor and physical education teacher at the Cherokee
school in North Carolina and is getting along nicely.
He has innumerable friends in the great Northwest
who are interested in his success and advancement and
who are counting on him as one of the leaders among
his people. We are back of him ourselves.
Supt. Lipps left yesterday on business connected
with his duties as District Superintendent.
He was
joined in Portland by Mr. George La Vatta, Place
ment Agent, and they proceeded from there to the Yaki
ma Agency together. They will be met at Toppenish,
Wash., by Mr. F. W. Boyd, Agricultural Extension
Agent, and the party will travel together in Mr. Boyd’s
car via Ellensburg, Wennatchee and Chelan, Wash.,
to the Colville Reservation. Mr. Lipps expects to be
away for about ten days or two weeks.
During his
absence Assistant Superintendent Mote is in charge
of affairs at Chemawa.
Mr. Kunkel and his band boys were in Salem last
Thursday evening and were featured in the Spring
Opening parade. The organization also played selec
tions in front of many of the prominent business
houses and everywhere they went they had a crowd
with them. They were given refreshments and also
tickets to the show at the Capital. On all sides com
plimentary comment on the work of the band was
heard and it rejoices all of us that it should be so.
Mr. Bent accompanied the band on this occasion as
one of the cornetists.
We cannot recall a year when so much interest has
been shown by our students in the declamation con
tests as this yeai. Interest was high on all sides and
the results were in everyway most satisfactory and we
are certain that even the losers in the final contests
were in truth the winners. Their efforts and interest
made it so. All four of the literary societies had repre
sentatives in the contests. Last Friday and Saturday
evenings were devoted to this work. The judges were
from both Salem and Chemawa, and the result was,
Nonpareil first, with 14 points; Excelsiors second, 13
points; Reliance third, 5 points; and Winona fourth, 4
points. Principal Mote and his assistants should feel
fully satisfied with the results of their work this year
in the way of the declamation contest—mighty fine!
During chapel exercises last Sunday evening Supt.
Lipps gave a wonderful account of an address recently
made before members of the Salem Chamber of Com
merce by the Japanese Consul who is located in Port
land. He spoke of the terrible earthquake in Japan 11
years ago and of the courage of this admirable people,
of their success in rebuilding, and of their complete re
covery from the awful disaster. Supt. Lipps drew a
wonderful lesson from the rapid rise of the Japanese
as a nation from almost a state of barbarism to one
of the highest civilization on the globe in about three-
quarters of a century, and pointed out the lesson that
we should learn from the history of this great ad
vancement. As a nation these people “have arrived”
because they willed to do so. Mr. Lipps also gave some
good advice to our students regarding the school work
of the next two months and of the vacation days to
follow. The choir gave a special number and the or
chestra played a Schepegrell overture.
Miss Martha Fratis was hostess for a delightful
afternoon affair for a large number of former Che
mawa students and friends last Saturday afternoon at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Miller of Portland,
honoring Mr. George P. LaVatta. Pleasant talks
were given by Mrs. Miller and Mr. LaVatta. Miss
Fratis was assisted in receiving by her sister, Mrs.
George Morgan. Miss Olive Skipton, who fora num
ber of years was a valuable employee here, presided
at the tea urn. The guests for the afternoon were
Mr. LaVatta, Miss Tate and Miss Steinbeck of the
Portland Y. W. C. A., Miss Massey and Miss Skip
ton, also of Portland, and Mrs. Aklina Fratis. Those
present from Chemawa were: Mrs. Brickell, Mrs.
Brewer, Mr. anti Mrs. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. Dcwuie
and Sarah Francis Chamberlin. The girls to attend
who are now living in and about Portland were:
Mrs. Julia Fratis Morgan, Mrs. Nancy Mathieson
Cline, Mrs. Gertrude Caisse Newport, Mrs. Lydia
Davis Covert, and Misses Grace Pepion, Elizabeth
Shagin, Jennie Tom, Edna Gabriel.