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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.