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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1934)
T he CHEMAWA AMERICAN Troubadors’ said they intend to keep their name all through the year. The Troubadors, intend to provide music for many other dances and are working extra hard so that we may present the best music on the market. We hope you will like our music. Y. M. 0. A. The Y. M. C. A. is getting a wonderful start. It now boasts 35 members, most of which are new but all have proven to be game sports as members. Sam Scott, the president of the Y. M. C. A. club, presided at the Sunday school church Sunday morn ing. Rev. Cochran of Salem, gave a very inspiring message to the congregation. On October 14, the club called its regular meeting. A huge sum of $4.00 was collected by the treasurer Eblyn Weeks. An informal entertainment was held and business was discussed. After James Andrews’ “pep” talk, the meeting was adjourned. P AG E 3 McNary hall, the purpose of the meeting was to elect officers. The following boys wTere elected: Louis Orr, president; James Dupuis, vice president; Louis Jami son, secretary; William Majhor, treasure; Archie Jami son, sergeant-at-arms. The McNary hall reading room is to be the tempo rary meeting place until some other place can be se cured. Mr. Allen, sponsor, stated that boys who wish to be members of the club should attend church at least once a week. A few matters were discussed. One of them being that a joint meeting will be held once a month, it was also suggested that at the next meeting we would de cided whether we would meet once a w’eek or every two weeks. In the discussion of plans for future meetings a sug gestion was made that a joint meeting be held once every month. Y. W. C. A. At the regular meeting of the Y. W. C. A., on Sun day an interesting letter from Lena Leighton, former Y. Secretary, was read. Lena is attending high school in Portland this year. Betty Shawver resigned her position of President. Her resignation was accepted and Naomi Mesplie was elected to that office. Fol lowing the business meeting a discussion was held on “Everyday Problems of Etiquette.” Helen Shaughnessy, a former Chemawa student, writes that she is attending high school at Vancouver, Washington. She states she is sure of graduating in the spring and is very happy. Esther Madzawayer, Nellie Hughes and Woodie Ball are attending the Indian School at Santa Fe this year. Elizabeth Wynaco, Loris Ponzo and Laura Win- nier have enrolled at Sherman Institute. WINONA HALL NOTES One of the girls, Juanita Frye, thought she would have some fun wuth Mr. Allen’s horse last Sunday and tried to ride it to the Winona Court. When the horse got in the hall it fell down. It took quite a bit of coaxing to get the horse out of Winona. Mr. Allen and his boys finally assisted in getting the horse from the girls building, by removing the back door. AGRICULTURE NEWS The agriculture students took a trip to Portland to the Live Stock Exposition last week. They gathered seed samples of cereal and forage crops, also, several ears of corn to judge. They have already finished this interesting study. They have also finished the study of cereal crops, corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, etc. LITTLE FLOWER SOCIETY A LETTER OF SYMPATHY The Little Flower Society held its first meeting Tuesday evening. The main purpose of this meet- ting was to elect officers. A considerable number of new faces were present at the meeting. Every one showed the old Little Flower Society spirit which goes to prove that the club may exect a very successful future. The following were elected as the officers: Mary lyall, president; Josephine Reynolds, vice-president; Alice Cross, secretary; Dorothy Henderson, treasurer; Alice Alexander, song and yell leader; Laura Walters, sergeant at arms; Gertie Adams, reporter. It is with pity we print the tragedy which has be fallen Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hammang, proprietors of the Kick Back store, over the lost of their only daugh ter. Their young daughter is said to have wandered out to Hazel Green Park with a group of younsters and while swinging on a rope lost her hold, falling into deep water. We express our extreme sympathy to the bereaved parents who we feel are connected with our school. The students and employes have expressed their condolence over their loss and have received a script gratefully acknowledging and appreciating our kind expressions from them. C. B. A. On the evening of Oct. 14, the Catholic Boys Ass’n., held their first meeting in the reading room of WORK WANTED There are girls who have not been able to secure funds for the purchase of athletic tickets. Employes who have work to be done should please notify Mrs. Wilcox and arrange to have one of these girls to do the work for you.
