Image provided by: Library of Congress; Washington, DC
About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1933)
P age 3 T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL Miss Earlougher, who was called away on account of a death in her family, has returned to resume her duties as librarian. Mrs. Katie Brewer former girls’ matron at McBride, is here visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. Brewer now lives at Puyallup, Washington, in retirement after rendering a long and useful service here. Mr. M. D. Henning is Chemawa’s new station agent. Mr. Henning was previously employed by the Southern Pacific in Gervais and Woodburn. We hope that Mr. Henning shall find Chemawa an enjoyable place. Mr. Ruthyn Turney, retired printer and orchestra leader, had to be taken to a hospital last week to under go a serious operation. The latest reports from the hospital indicate his condition as being favorable. A legion of friends are anxious about his condition and pray for his early recovery. Mr. Merritt S. Fisher recently gathered up his world ly possessions and moved into the royal suite on the second floor of Old Winona Hall. After living a life of semi-seclusion for some years across the track it is good to see his jovial countenance mingling with those of the common people again. During the chapel exercises Sunday, Feb. 5, the girls’ chorus sang a special number intitled “Sing To The Lord.” The orchectra played the selection “Trust In the Lord,” by Gage. Supt. Ryan made a few re quests in which he asked the students to keep off the lawns during these rainy days so that they will be kept attractive. Mr. Albert P. Westhafer, assistant superintendent of Sherman Institute, and Mr. Herman G. Snodgrass, head of vocational training for boys at the same school, while on a business trip in northern California decided to journey on up to Chemawa to visit their old friend and ex-fellow-employee Mr. Gilliam. They ar rived here on Sunday and for a few days we had the pleasure of entertaining these gentlemen. They at tended chapel on Sunday, the vocational meeting on Monday and during the early part of this week visited the various departments. «« Indian Service News The Indian Leader of Dec. 17 contains a learned desertation on that mystery to all new-comers to the Haskell campus, the Haskell “slanguage.’’ If all the Indian school idioms were compiled they would make a strange and interesting volume. ♦ * ♦ David C. King entered the Service as chemistry teacher at Haskell on Jan. 5. Mr. King was formly principal and teacher of science at high schools at Montro, Mo., and Nucla, Colo. He replaces Robert C. Starr who is on an educational leave of absence. ♦ * * W. W. Leighton, known to many in the Service probably only as “the sewing machine man,’’ died in Green Bay, Wis., on Dec. 22 of a heart attack. Mr. Leighton travelled all over the country for years repairing sewing machines and visited Chemawa several times. He will be recalled affectionately and missed by those who knew him. * * ♦ A course in Indian Art Craft has been inaugurated at Sher man. The course will instruct in making imitation pottery, Indian blankets, blanket weaving etc. The purpose is to prepare Indian boys for summer camp work, a job at which they are peculiarly adapted and at which those who have had any special preparation have invariably proved sucessful. * * ♦ When Gets-the-Knife, 100-year-old Crow Indian woman, died, a life that spanned the entire conquest of the west by the “pale-face’’ ended. She witnessed thedeatruction of the bison and saw her “play-ground’’ diminish year by year until only a little plot remained. Still, until the very end, in the words of Chief Max-Big-Man, “she smiled to her pale-face friends.’’ * * * Sylvas Lubo, ex-student and ex-employee of Sherman In stitute. Mr. Lubo, for 28 years an engineer at the Riverside school, retired recently from the Indian service. He is truly one of the “old settlers’’ having helped to move his school from Perris, Cal., to its present site. G. P. Langdon, a new appointee from Chin Lee, Arizona, takes his place as assistant engineer at Sherman. ¥ * * Associated press dispatchs of this week carried the news that Chief Joseph Shunatona, orchestra leader and radio star, had been invited by the Roosevelt-Garner Inaugural committee to lead his all-Indian band at the Inaugural Ball in Washington following the induction of the new administration on March 4. Shunatona traveled through here a couple of years ago on one of bis jaunts and paid the school a visit. He played for the 1928 inaugural ceremonies also. * * * Supt. O. H. Lipps, of the Sacramento agency (Cal.) has been receiving many complimentary notices and letters, among them a lengthy and eulogistic editorial in the San Francisco Call Bulletin by its president and editor, Fremont Older, on the context and attractive appearance of his recently published essay on the California Indians. We take a personal interest in the fate of the booklet because the Chemawa print shop had the honor of putting into printed form the sentiments so nobly expressed by Mr. Lipps.. * * * Thinner and thinner grow the ranks of the old timers. Miss Jane R. Hendricks terminated 24 years of teaching a few days ago at Concho, Oklahoma, where her fellow-workers gave her a testimonial dinner in farew’ell. She served many years at Phoe nix, where she entered the service. Then she came to Che mawa for a time, later being transferred to Chilocco, Okla. Her last position was at the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency, Concho, Okla. Her influence has been as far-flung as the ter ritory of the government she represented. During her career she has had approximately 8000 pupils, and representatives from all over the country, some even from Alaska. GIRLS’ VOCATIONS Mrs. Kirk’s 10th grade girls at the Wigwam are pre paring a series of dinners to which different boys will be invited. This project is for the purpose of helping the boys become better acquainted with table eti quette. Each of these dinners will be followed by a lecture.
