6
THE C HEM AW A AMERICAN
LOCALS
Did you enjoy the Rose Show?
Mrs. Theisz's roses and other plants
look beautiful.
We have beautiful flowers in our
chapel every Sunday.
A big crowd was at the game on Sat
urday in spite of the rain.
This has been a busy, happy week;
something going on every night.
Mr. Campbell and Miss Irene are busy
early every morning playing tennis.
The A, B and C companies are out
every morning drilling from six to half
past six o'clock.
Mrs. Chalcraft and Hal lie have re
membered their friends with pretty
. cards from Seattle.
The school chapel had some beautiful
flowers on the reading desk and piano
on Decoration Day.
The farmers have been busy hauling
bricks from where the old barn formerly
stood to its present location.
Miss Lena Hirsch, of Salem, and Mr.
Brady, of Rhode Island, were guests of
'Miss Irene Campbell on Sunday.
Chemawa people are lucky to have
had the chance of hearing Damrosch's
orchestra and the great singer, Nordica.
Trains on the S. P. and on the Oregon
Electric were all crowded with people
going to the Rose Festival in Portland
this week. '
ome people came down from Silverton
in an automobile to witness the game on
Saturday. The Silverton pennants de
corated their auto.
Y. M. C. A. gave an ice cream social
last Monday night in order to raise
enough money to send delegates to the
Y. M. C. A. convention at Long Beach,
Washington. ,
We are pleased to acknowledge the
receipt of an invitation to be present at
the closing exercises of the Sitka Train
ing School, which occurred Thursday
evening, May 28th.
Mr. Stoudenmeyer will help, our band
very much. Our boys will feel confidence
in such an excellent leader and take ad
vantage of the opportunity offered them
of perfecting themselves and bringing
the Chemawa band up to its former
standard of excellence.
The main walk in Chemawa has been
called "Rose Avenue" for a number of
years roses grow on both sides of the
walk. But we will have to call nearly all
our walks Rose Avenue Rose Avenue
No. 1, Rose Avenue No. 2, etc. There is
a beautiful Avenue of roses leading from
the old hospital to the main walk, another
.beautiful one leading to Mr. Campbell's
house, another one down to Mitchell
Hall; in fact the whole place is a Rose
bower with avenues of roses everywhere.
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And now let us get busy with some
good exhibit work.
The Seniors had an official ballot and
all voted. They defeated female suffrage
(too bad!), but voted for prohibition.
The office in the Academic building
was cleaned and put in good order by
Mrs. Campbell and the . seniors on
Friday.
The geraniums in the Seniors' flower
bed are looking rather chilly, but this
warm sun will soon warm them up, and
then we will have beautiful red and
white geraniums (school colors) around
the fountain.