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LOCAL
Wesley Larson is here for a brief visit.
ing for the I ECW in Washington.
He is work
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Melovidoff and their two chil
dren were guests at the employees’ club Nov. 30.
The Misses Charlotte Jordon and Josephine Pease of
Linfield college, McMinnville, Ore., spent a pleasant
Thanksgiving at Chemawa with friends.
Mrs. Charles E. Larsen’s Thanksgiving was made
very pleasant by the visit of her mother, Mrs. E. A.
Loughrey, and her sisters who make their home in
Indianola, Wash.
Edward Nanpooia, a former student, is working,
presumably with the I ECW, surveying land between
the Coulee dam and Nespelem, Wash., preparatory to
building a road between these two points.
Miss Antoinette White and Georgie “Pumpkin”
Bent were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hauser and family
on Thanksgiving and in the evening they attended
the program of the music clubs at Winona Hall.
Mrs. Philip Olney, accompanied by her daughter,
Marie, and son, Willard, and lady friend, Amy Kelly,
motored down from Yakima, Wash., to spend the
Thanksgiving holiday with her daughter, Miss Gladys
Olney.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Mason recently attended an ice
hockey game in Portland between the Portland Buck-
aroos and the Edmonton Eskimos. They are ardent
hockey fans now that they have discovered the fastest
and most exciting game known to man.
The tailors, under the critical eye of their instructor,
Mr. Tames, are up to their cars in work, mostly suits
and trousers for various members of our large Che
mawa family. We are informed that Frank Amyotte
is expressing his passion for flannel cloth in a pair of
flannel trousers of a striking design.
A host of employees and their guests enjoyed a very
fine dinner on Nov. 30 at the club dining room.
By
actual count there were some 52 persons served which
caused the club kitchen mistress and her staff no little
amount of work but they were amply repaid for their
labor by the generous and sincere praise of the meal
by the people fortunate enough to be present at that
time.
Mr. Joseph Matte and Mr. Arnold McKay were
Portland visitors last Saturday.
Margarete Drew left Chemawa last Tuesday for a
visit at her home in Grand Ronde.
Bernice Clairmont visited in Woodburn during the
Thanksgiving holiday with friends.
Miss Newell had as guests for Thanksgiving dinner
Charlotte Jordan and Josephine Pease.
Mary lyall left for her home in Nisqually, Wash.,
for a visit with her parents and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Shawver, we learn, entertained sixteen
relatives at dinner Thanksgiving evening.
Mrs. Wilcox was visited by her daughter and grand
children on Thanksgiving and the week-end following.
The student dance last I'riday was a success, as
everyone will attest, although the regular orchestra
was engaged elsewhere.
Emma Celestine, a former student, returned last
week and informs us that she is here to complete her
vocational course in home economics.
Miss Semanski was the guest of Miss Wallacs, dean
of women at Willamette, on Nov. 24, and visited all
around the university where she has numerous friends.
Lenora Harris spent the week-end following Thanks
giving in Salem with her friend Alice Jones. Doro
thy Parker was the guest of Lucy Billy who also works
in the capital city.
Marjorie Melovidoff enterained five friends, Francis
James, Mary Hauser, Betty Mae Allen and Betty and
Kathryn Shawver at a birthday dinner party re
cently. The evening was spent in playing games and
singing.
Mr. Shilling and Mr. Smith left for Klamath agency
Klamath, Ore., on a combination vacation and duck
hunting trip. They are expected to bring home
enough birds for a holiday feast. At any rate we hope
they have a good time.
Mesdames Wilcox, Smith, Carrow, Mason, Hauser
and Shawver and Misses Hoffman, Lundquist, Judd
and Strauch, were formerly initiated into the Y. W.
C. A. as honorary members Tuesday evening Novem
ber 28. After the service a light lunch was served.
Last Tuesday Miss Semanski and Mrs. Wilcox
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Ryan
at the home of the superintendent. Both ladies de
clared that they never had a more cheerful and sat
isfying turkey dinner and were especially pleased
with the way the entire meal was served by Bernice
Clairmont. Incidently, they informed us that Mrs.
Ryan is looking very much like her former self and
feeling just that way also.