THE.. CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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WEDDING BELLS,
In the pregence of the assembled
employes, the entire student body and a
few invited guests, in Chemawa chapel,
Wednesday evening, February 12, 1908,
the marriage of Miss Lucy N. Jones and
Edwin A, Smith was solemnized. Rev,
Mr. Babcook of Salem was the officiating
minister,
The chapel was beautifully decorated
with Oregon grape, ferns and asparagus,
and over the center of the stage was
suspended a large wedding bell, Ribbon
wreaths ran along each side of the center
aisle for the entire length, Promptly at
the appointed hour Miss Irene Campbell
played Mendelssohn's wedding march
and the bride and groom, attended
lespectively by Miss Elizabeth Leudke
as maid of honor and Mr, Harold
Blodgett as groomsman, entered the oha
pel from opposite sides of the room and
marched down the side aisles to the
back of the chapel, where they met and
marched up the center aisle to the stage,
where the minister awaited them and
where their responsive pledges to the
impressive ring ceremony made them
husband and wife,
After the ceremony the invited guests
and employes repaired to the reception
room of the employes' building, where
nviny nice presents weregiven the newly
wedded couple, There was merriment
on every hand and many availed them
selves of the honored privilege of kisdng
the bride. The '.bride's cake was cut
and everybody u wished', and extended
congratulations, while quite number
saved a portion of the cake to put under
their pillow.
At a late hour Mr. and Mrs. Smith
took the train to Portland to spend a
brief honeymoon, They have the best
wishes and congratulations of their
many friends, the Amerioan included,
FINE DEBATE,
On Thursday of last week the first
event of a series of three debates be
tween teams representing the Nonpareil
and Excelsior Literary Societies of Che
mawa occurred in the chapel, The sub
ject for debate was "Resolved, That Im
migration Should be Restricted" and the
affirmative was handled by the Non
pareils while the Excelsiors upheld the
negative,
Lizzie Frazier, Louise Murray and
Eugene Williams represented the.
Nonpareils and Fortunato Jayme, Henry
Dillstrom and Helen Harnden the Ex
celsiors, The subject was exceedingly
well handled and proved of interest to
all, in fact, it was of great educational
value, The teams both made worthy
efforts, but in the estimation of the
judges the Excelsiors had slightly the
better of the argument,
A pleasing program of a musical and
literary character was given just before
the debate, Joseph Teabo acted as
chairman and timekeeper, The second
debate of the series is to occur next week,
Carl Cook is now working on the gar
den detail
Antoine Francis is getting to bo a
very good harness-maker,
A number of new boy and gHp came
here on Tuegday from Montana,
Alex Lee is working in the carpenter
shop and likes his work very well,
I like Chemawa Indian school pretty
well. I think better than any other
school.