The CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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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.