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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1930)
The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Pagre 2 CHEMAWA^AMERICAN Published Weekly at the U. S. Indian School, Chemawa Oregon. <1,Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager 50 Cts per Annum Subscription LOCAL Mrs. Walker was a week-end visitor in Portland. Mrs. Brickell was a Portland visitor over the last week-end. Dr. Sisco and Mr. VosBurgh made a trip to Port land last Monday on school business. Mr. Chas. B. Steward came down from The Dalles and visited Mrs. Steward here last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Gatlin of Corvallis spent the week-end at our school, the guests of Miss French. Mrs. W. Turner of Corvallis spent last Wednesday and Thursday here at the school, the guest of Miss Merle French. Our orchestra is engaged to play for a “Christmas Fund” entertainment, given for the benefit of the Brooks’ school children tomorrow evening. Miss White accompanied Georgie Bent Jr. to Port land last Saturday in order that the latter could see old Santa face to face. They returned home on Sunday. The brick masons started laying brick on our new gymnasium early last week and they are making good progress. This will be good news for many of our readers. A number of boys from the painting detail are en gaged at the task of kalsomining the interior of the Catholic chapel. Report has it that the boys are really doing a splendid job of it, too. Coquille Thompson, who is a prominent player on the O. S. C. first football team, paid us a visit last Sunday. He recently visited the East with the great football team representing the State College. Juanita Rinehart, formerly a student at Chemawa, returned recently to her home in Wrangell, Alaska. She has written to friends here that she is now attend ing school in her home town and is getting along nicely. We are advised of the death of A. M. Reynolds, formerly Superintendent of the Warm Springs reser vation. He died at his home in Kent, Washington, on December 8, following four days’ of serious illness. He had been in poor health for several yeais past, but had served his town as Police Judge for some time up to June, when his health again demanded that he give <p all work. The school just recently purchased 300 bushels of apples from Mr. Archie Beardsley, a farmer in the Keizer district. They have deen delivered and dur ing the past few days our garden detail has been pretty well occupied at the task of storing the apples properly. Bids will be opened on December 22nd for the pur chase of a turbine pump for the new well recently drilled at the school. It will be sort of a combination pump, to provide water for domestic use and also for irrigation purposes. We will all breathe easier when the new pump is installed and in operation. The orchestra provided music last Saturday evening for “Excuse Me,” a comedy farce presented under the auspices of the Keizer school. The M. W. A. hall near our school had been secured for the presen tation of the play, so the orchestra did not have far to travel to fill the engagement. The entertainment was well patronized and the order was unusually fine. It brought quite a little Christmas money for the Keizer youngsters’ “tree.” The senior class and the committee assisting them are to be congratulated on the start they have made toward the publication of the class annual next spring. The first step, of course, was to get the photographer busy, and this they have done. Last Sunday after noon and evening were largely devoted to this work, and many school groups have been photographed al ready, so it is hoped the engravers will soon be in action in the making of plates. Peter Emmons and Fred Sandberg were delegates from the Chemawa Y. M. C. A. to the State Older Boys’ Conference, which was held at Albany during the last week-end. This conference is sponsored by the State Y. M. C. A. and they had secured speakers of outstanding reputation, among whom were Mr. Abel Gregg, from New York City, national secretary of the Y. M. C. A., and Dean Deback of O. S. C., al ways a popular speaker with boys. Fred and Peter made most interesting reports of their trip at the “Y” meeting Sunday evening, giving synopses of the main addresses. Last Sunday evening Supt. Lipps introduced Mr. Yeppie Nelson as the principal speaker during our chapel hour. Mr. Nelson left school at Chemawa 28 years ago and this was his first visit here in all those years. He has seen much of the world, its problems, and struggles, since his school days at “C. I. S.” and he gave our young people some really good advice and he received most respectful attention during his remarks. He is soon to accept a position on a boat of the Robert Dollar Steamship Co. that is to visit the Orient. Supt. Lipps made some closing remarks that were of more than ordinary interest. In addition to the above talks the choir and orchestra contributed numbers.
