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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1909)
4 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Cbe Cbcmawa Hmercian Published WeoKly at the United States Indian Training School. Subscription Prick, 25 Cents a Year Clubs of Five or Over "20 Cents, ffintered a the Chemawa, Oregon, Postofltice as second-class mail matter ,( PRINTING STAFF Benjamin Wilcox, Henry Darnell, John Service, James Evans, Louis Hudson, Robert Service,' Henry Evans, Oscar Case. - THANKSGIVING DAY. Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in the usual manner at Chemawa. In the morning at. ten o'clock the employes and students assembled in the school chapel for our usual Thanksgiving exercises. The following program was given: Hymn "America" r - - School Prayer - - - - - - Scriptural Reading "Ninety-fifth Psalm Hymn "We Plow the Fields and Scatter" - ... . . . School President's Proclamation, James Benjamin Recitation "Story of Thanksgiving" . - ' - - Seventh Grade Twenty-third Psalm - - - - School Doxology -i ' - - - School Before the Doxology was sung, im promptu addresses appropriate to the occasion were made by Mr. Chalcraft, Mr, Campbell, Mrs. Campbell, Mr. Swartz, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Woods, Mr. Smith, Mr. Westley, Matilda John, Wal ter Haight, Mr. Lovelace and others. The chapel was tastily decorated with ferns and products from our school farm and garden: big pumpkins, beets, cab bage, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, etc., predominated. Beets, that weighed 9 lbs. carrots that weighed 4 and 5 lbs.and over; 3 lb. potatoes (early rose.) We certainly have a great deal to be thank ful for at Chemawa, because these mam moth vegetables mentioned, which we have in profusion, are not only large in size but the quality of them is first-class, not pithy nor stringy, but luscious and edible. Then came the great event cf the dav turkey dinner- and we cannot better tell you what was there in profusion than to give the menu. Menu cards were plac ed at each plate together with a list of "Doh'ts". " MENU ' ' Roast Turkey with Dressing Giblet Gravey Cranberry Sauce Pickled Beets Mashed Potatoes , Scalloped Onions Cabbage Salad Mince Pie Pumpkin Pie Cake Prune Marmalade -Apples v . Coffee Bread Butter - Clvmawa's pupils cert'.iiily did th m selves creditand there was nothing much left of the turkey especially to tell' the tale after the meal but: the bones. The employes, as is the custom at Chemawa, all assembled in the Dining Room, helped carve and serve the turkey and the sweet-meats and to see that every pupil was well supplied on this one of the day of days. . Then came a football match between two local teams of the boys which was interesting. At three o'clock all pupils assembled in the Gymnasium and were entertained by the basket-ball game be tween two teams which was the first game of the season and was well played. Aft er the game everybody went home to rest up and enjoyed the balance of the day. The committee on decoration for the Chapel consised of the following: Mr. Cooper, Mr. Westiey. Miss Royer, Miss Dohse and Miss Leader. The decoration at the Dining Room was very artistic indeed and Miss Skip ton and her dining room girls deserve a great deal of credit for the very tasty decoration.