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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.