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LOCAL
The carpenter boys are assisting Mr. Davis in the
task of laying floors in Kola Tepee.
All four clubs of our Girl Reserves are working hard
on a program which they expect to give next Sunday.
Nancy Sam and Lucile John left last week for Ft.
Bidwell, California, their home, on account of ill
health.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Larsen and daughter, Miss
Vivian, passed the last week-end in the Siletz country,
combining pleasure and business.
Miss Cecile Smith and a young lady friend of hers
came up from Portland last Sunday and passed the day
here as the guest of Miss Peters.
The carpenter shop has just received a consignment
of 500 feet of fine native alder lumber for furniture
making for Winona Hall and Kola Tepee.
Rev. James Eakin Smith of Dallas has given a num
ber of pre-Easter talks to our Protestant students of
Chemawa and has aroused unusual interest here.
Mr. Ross and his details have been busy of late in
tidying up our lawns and putting out plants, etc., to
beautify our landscape during the coming summer.
Last Thursday evening there was a meeting of the
boys’ industrial teachers. The meeting was called by
Assistant Superintendent Mote and it was short and
snappy.
Four of our boys represented Chemawa at the Older
Boys’ Confeience in Salem last Friday and Saturday.
They were, Frank Johnson, Fred Sandberg, William
Brown and John Frenier.
Just recently Misses Eakin and Judd were accom
panied to Salem by a party of our git Is to attend a
meeting of Girl Reserves in the First Presbyterian
church. The girls were, Mylie Lawyer, Eveline Eyall,
Flora Harper and Anna Jackson.
Mrs. Larsen reports that a few evenings ago some
one left water running at the students’ dining hall.
She says that a surprise awaited her detail of girls on
their arrival early in the morning for duty. Duty
there was and plenty of it. Blisters are still in evi
dence.
AMERICAN
Mr. George Wasson and his son, Wilfred, visited
Mis. Codding a few days ago. They are from the
Coos Bay section and Mr. Wasson is a brother of Mrs.
Codding.
Mrs. Lipps and her son, Pete, and daughters, Ruth
and Helen, motored to Portland last Saturday. They
had an ideal day for the trip, and come to think of it,
it is truly a fine motor trip to the metropolis.
Mr. Paul Carrow took a bus load of our girls to Salem
last Thursday evening to see a couple of whales that
were on exhibition there. There were fifteen girls in
the party and they had a “whale of a time.”
Supt. Perkins of the Warmspring reservation in
Eastern Oregon brought four boys to Chemawa last
week. He was accompanied on the trip by Mr. N.
J. Folsom, chief special officer of our service.
Miss Elizabeth Codding has written her mother, one
of our nurses, that she is doing nicely at the West
Chester Nursing school in Pennsylvania; that she is
getting along splendidly and is very happy in her
work.
Coquelle Thompson, now a junior at the Oregon
State College, and a member of the college baseball
team, visited friends at Chemawa over the week-end.
The Willamette-Oregon State game brought him to
Salem.
The carpenters just recently put in two doors and
laid a cement walk connecting their department with
the paint shop. This move was necessitated by the
affinity of the work of these departments. They are
also giving quite a bit of attention to lawns about
their shop.
Last Monday Georgie Bent reached the age of six
years and there was due observance of the event.
There was a party attended by Peter Herman Hauser,
Robert Sanders, Robert Downie, Dwight Mote, Billie
Herlits, Billie Sherman and possibly other young lads
who will eventually add to their country’s laurels.
The series of ‘ ‘ Chamber Music Concerts’ ’ which have
been a feature of our school year came to a close with
the program given last Monday evening. From now
on until the close of school it will be necessary for our
musical people to center their interests on the operetta
which is to be a feature of our commencement exer
cises.
On March 30th there was a joint meeting of the Y.
W. and Y. M. Associations in what was known as the
“Spring Vesper Service. There were in attendance
110 members. Many good addresses and readings
were programed and there was a great deal of special
music. The whole affair must have meant a lot of
work for Miss Eakin.