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AMERICAN
On Friday evening the Girls’ Sextet furnished three
musical numbers for the Portland Extension Club ban
quet, a group of about five hundred Portland people.
The girls sang beautifully and responded graciously
to their encores. Matiy compliments were received
on their singing. Mr. Bent, Miss Judd and Miss Eakin
furnished transportation for the girls and accompanied
them to Portland.
LOCAL
Everett Sandberg has won “merits” in science and
library work.
Miss Roddy returned to duty recently after a vacation
of a week or longer.
Illness on the part of relatives occasioned the return
of Irene Diaz last Friday to her home in Porterville,
California.
As the holiday compelled us to go to press early we
shall have to report our Armistice Day activities in
our next issue.
Violet and Gertrude Adams returned to their home
in Browning, Montana, last week on account of the
serious illness of their father.
The topic for the Y. W. C. A program last Sunday
was, “Friends of Other Ports.” The program was
short and snappy and was very good.
Dr. E. Blanche Sterling of U. S. Public Health
Service arrived at Chemawa last Friday morning for
an official visit of a few days’ duration.
The carpenters are repairing a trunk that has been
in the family of Mr. Bailey, our neighbor, for the past
sixty years. What a repository it has been!
The members of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet were lunch
eon guests of Miss Eakin last Wednesday, as they met
to make plans for the meetings for the coming weeks.
Miss Lemley, formerly field matron at the Yakima
Agency, Washington, reported for duty here last
week and is at present detailed to a position as nurse
in the hospital.
Supt. Lipps left last Monday for a trip to Ft. Hall,
Idaho, and other points under his jurisdiction, on a
tour that will necessitate his absence from Chemawa
for about a week.
In the month of October our shoemakers enjoyed
considerable patronage, as the records show that they
repaired 548 pairs of shoes during that time. A pretty
fair daily average.
At the last meeting of the Little Flower Society,
the following officers were elected: Sylvia Peterson,
vice-president; Edith Doore, secretary; Armenia
Plouffe, treasurer; Lillian Halsey, reporter; Alice Slat
er. sergeant-at-arms; Melba Arnoux, song leader.
Rosalia Grounds is president of this society.
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA
A Proclamation
OTWITHSTANDING that our fore
fathers endured the hardships and
privations of a primitive life surround
ed by dangers and solaced only with
meager comforts, they nevertheless bequeathed
to us a custom of devoting one day of every year
to universal thanksgiving to Almighty God for
the blessing of life itself and the means to sus
tain it, for the sanctity of home and the joys that
pervade it and for the mercies of His protection
from accident, sickness or death.
Our country has many causes for thanksgiv
ing. We have been blessed with distinctive evi
dence of divine favor. As a nation, we have
suffered far less than other peoples from the
present world difficulties. We have been free
from civil and industrial discord. The outlook
for peace between nations has been strength
ened. In a large view we have made progress
upon the enduring structure of ou rinstitutions,
the arts and science that enrich our lives, and
enlarge our control of nature have made notable
advances; education has been further extended.
We have made gains in the prevention of dis
ease and in the protection of children.
Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, presi
dent of the United States of America, do here
by designate November 27, 1930, as a national
day of thanksgiving and do enjoin the people
of the United States so to observe it, calling up
on them to remember that many of our people
are in need and suffering from causes beyond
their control, and suggesting that a proper cele
bration of the day should include that we make
sure that every person in the community, young
and old, shall have cause to give thanks for our
institutions and for the neighborly sentiment of
our people.
In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my
hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the
United States.
HERBERT HOOVER
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