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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1938)
■ 3 The GHEMAWA AMERICAN LOCAL NEWS Early Chemawa scenes: Upper left, Academic building in 1907; right, Dining hall (now the Catholic church) 1902; lo w er left, Industrial building in 1898; right, Hain entrance in 1907. are busily preparing for Spring. Some are working in the machine shop repair ing shovels and hoes. The others are H ome E conomics : Dorothy Hayward all busy digging post holes for the posts •and Anne Plasteur are busily painting for their string beans. chairs, a table and a cupboard. The fur A uto S hop : A1 Bighorn and Matt nishing of the Seniors Practicing Cottage Mireau have just completed over-haul is progressing very smoothly. ing the project boy’s fruit sprayer. The House Hold Furnishing class un Preston Bell and Benton Juneau have der the supervision of Miss Cronk ¡stak replaced a broken transmission housing ing up Color scheming which proves to on one of the cars. be both an educational and interesting C arpenter S hop : Fred Lodge and subject. George Bell have almost completed two The G-2 class in productive sewing small huts for Pigville. have arranged a weekly schedule. On Some of the carpenters have been busy Monday and Tuesday they do productive tearing down the old greenhouse and work, on Wednesday they do fancy work clearing a spot for a house. for the approaching sale, and on Friday E lectric S hop :, Duane V a n Pelt, they are allowed to do their own mending. Adam Bearcub, and Herman Redelk Other classes in productive sewing have have been busy installing a new tele similiar schedules. phone line from the telephone exchange Both classes in Family relationship to the high school building. with boys and girls are anticipating a P aint S hop : The paint shop boys meeting at which class members will dis cuss the question, resolved: Women have been all over the campus repairing and replacing all the broken windows. Should Work After Marriage. B akery : The bakers have been busy Most of the senior commercial girls have completed their bedspreads in Mrs. figuring out tastey recipes for Chemawa’s Jame’s class. They are hoping to make birthday cake. So with all hands busy the cake should be a tasty success. We use of them in the near future. The senior cottage has now received all hope so as we’ll have a taste of it. B arber S hop : The barbers have all its last coat of paint and is ready for the taken an interest in their shop and have two seniors to live in it. P roject B oys : All the Project boys been giving the floor a coat of varnish. Religious classes have been established for the freshmen and sophomores. The Catholic groups meet in room 4 at the academic building and the Protestant group meets in the chapel of their church. Wilma Adams journeyed to Portland recently to spend a week end with her mother, who is ill. Wallace Clairmont, former student of Chemawa, from Polson, Montana, now employed in Seattle was a visitor on the campus. Girl's Adviser, Mrs. Cassutt, acted as a substitute teacher in the grade school during the illness of Miss Bradford. Miss Semannski, Girl’s matron, was confined to her bed for several days re cently because of an illness. Mrs. Nancy Heitner, former Chemawa student, was recently added to the Hos pital Staff at the School. Mr. and Mrs. James McKay,both gra duates of Chemawa, passed through on their way to Klamath Agency where Mrs. McKay, formerly Ruth Snyder, will be employed as nurse. “ In the days that wuz” Twenty-nine Years Ago R euben S aunders has gone out to th e m oun tains for a little recreation—Ju n è , 1909 Twenty Years Ago M rs. H auser has been filling th e place of assistant seam stress tem p o rarily .— Oct. 1918 Thirty Years Ago M rs. Teabo, Miss G ertrude Brew er (M rs. R u th y n T u rn ey ) and E rn e s t Brewer left T ues day m o rn in g for th e Brewer farm n ear Tacoma W ash., w here they w ill sojourn for a m onth. —Aug. 1908 Eighteen Years Ago Mr. G eorge B ent an n ex ed him self to a law n m ow er one day last w eek and m owed th e law n south of Brewer h a ll. They look m uch b etter. —A pr. 1920 Twenty Years Ago M r. an d M rs. E . R. M ason are h ere v isitin g relatives. M rs. M ason is th e d au g h te r of M rs. B rew er and th is is h e r first visit hom e for m ore th en two years. T hey are m ak in g th e ir hom e in M ontana.—Oct. 1918 T ailor S hop : The tailors are now busy making CIS penants to be sold at the coming scrip sale and have just about completed them.
