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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1931)
I 1 he CHEMAWA AMERICAN Page 2 CHEM AWA^)AMERICAN PublishedWeekly at the U. S. Indian School, Chemawa Oregon. <IAddress all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager 50 Cts per Annum Subscription LOCAL Seven rainy Sundays awaits us as the result of rain on Easter. Dr. Sisco was a business visitor in Portland last Thursday. Supt. Lipps will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Salem Chamber of Commerce next Monday. The Southern Pacific is busy at present in laying heavier rails on the track at Chemawa. Great business is railroading! The records at the shoe shop show that 606 pairs of shoes were repaired during the month of March. Quite a number of “kickers.” The band gave us a treat last Sunday afternoon in the way of a short concert. Thanks to Conductor Vos- Burgh and his bandsmen. For a couple of weeks our farm details could not operate in the fields, owing to rainy weather. How ever, they have been enabled by the recent change of the weather to resume plowing and other out-of-doors work. Robert Johnson, who passed the winter in this sec tion, and who is a graduate of Chemawa, will sail from Astoria, Oregon, tomorrow for the fishing waters of Alaska, with headquarters at a cannery located at Chignik. During the past few months, owing to the pressure of school work, band uniforms, etc., the tailors refused to accept orders for civilian work. Now all is well again and Mr. James says that his boys can accept work for outsiders at reasonable prices. Following an annual custom of many years Miss White and her class of Seniors hied themselves to the woods just east of our campus about four a. m. on Easter morning for a campfire breakfast of eggs, steak, potatoes, bacon, flapjacks and coffee—some breakfast and a wonderful time for all! Miss Idaho Lipps, who is teaching in the schools of Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, made a week-end trip home to visit her parents, Supt. and Mrs. Lipps. She had a young lady friend with her. During the week-end Miss Elsie Lipps was also home for a visit; she is attending the Oregon State College at Corvallis. Dr. D. A. Thompson of Portland, Superintendent of Mission work for the Synod of Oregon, was a guest at Chemawa for Easter, conducting the Easter services at the Protestant church. A class of twenty-five stu dents was baptized at this service. Dr. Thompson also addressed the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. meetings during the day. The Junior Girl Reserves have spent several after noons recently making Easter greeting cards and remembrances which were sent to former members and friends, and to the school hospital. Annie Stevens, a member of the group, delivered a number of these greetings, in person, to the children of the Shrine Hospital in Portland. Among former students who attended the senior play, ‘ ‘ A Lucky Break, ’ ’ given here last Saturday night were the following from Portland: Mrs. Julia (Grom- off) McCarty, Mrs. Julia (Fratis^ Morgan, Mrs. Julia (Mills) Miller, Mrs. Frances (Fitzpatrick) Meyers— all of the above with their husbands—and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Beauvais and Miss Martha Fratis. The Chemawa Trio played last Thursday evening for the “Feast of the Passover,” a ritualistic cere monial supper of the Scottish Rites Order of Masonry. It proved in every way a most impressive ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Lobdell, Miss Burrell, Mr. Melovidoff, Mr. and Mrs. Turney represented Chemawa, the lat. ter three constituting the Trio. Mr. Lobdell had the responsibility of a part of the program. Supt. Lipps has been advised by The Bruce Pub lishing Company of Milwaukie, Wisconsin, publishers of his Daily Lesson Plan Books, as follows: “The Bureau of Education Research of the Ohio State Uni versity recently issued a list of textbooks which ap peared in their Annual Textbook Exhibit. Among them was Daily Lesson Plan Books. ” M ore than 40,000 copies of these books are in use in public and private schools throughout the United States. Last Sunday being Easter, Supt. Lipps devoted a part of his time during the chapel exercises to a dis cussion of the history back of this world-wide obser vation. It is truly an occasion of great spirituality, or should be, for it marks a time for contemplation, for taking stock of one’s inner or true self, for communion with nature and the forces of Almighty God. Following this subject Supt. Lipps devoted some time to local matters and expressed his good wishes and hopes for all of the people under his supervision. In addition to the splendid talk, the orchestra played a selection ap propriate for Easter, and the choir gave a fine selection by Hay entitled “Behold the King;” Mr. Melovidoff rendered as a violin solo “Souvenir de Lubeck” by Riecken—it proved a great hit.
