THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
In a short time all the branch line
railroads of Japan will b3 electrified.
Norway boasts of the first electric
smelting plant in the world to produce
pig iron.
The Sterling Electric Company of
Sterling, Col., produces both ice and
electricity.
Mexico is covered with a network of
telegraph lines which are controlled by
the government.
During the past year the Niagara
Falls -hydro-electric plant saved the
equivalent of more than a million tons
of coal.
A submarine telephone is to be laid
across the English Channel to afford
better communication between London
and Paris
Improvements to the various plants
of the General Electric Company will
amount to several hundred thousand
dollars during the current year.
It takes more than fifteen million
miles of single wire for the people of this
country to cammunicate with one an
other over the telephone and telegraph.
Thirteen million miles of this wire are
used for telephoning and the total length
of all the wire would circle the earth at
the equator six hundred times.
The new sixty-inch universal plate
mill at the Gary plant will soon be in
operation, contracts having been let to
the General Electric Campany for the
driving motors for this and the twenty-six-inch
axle mill. The plant mill mo
tor will be the largest ever built, being
capable of producing 6,000 horse-power.
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DALLAS 40 CHEMAWA 19.
On Thursday our basketball team Went
to Dallas and played the famous Dal.
las team. Early in the season this team
defeated our boys by a score of 68 to 6
so with this defeat against us we decided'
that if we couldn't win we could at least
hold them to a smaller score. In the
first ten minutes of play we held the
champions to a score of 8 to 4. The game
was allowed to become rough and from
this time on Dallas added to their score
the first half ending 23 to 10. In the
second half Dallas secured 17 to 9, mak
ing the total 40 to 19 The referee was too
eay and allowed the game to get beyond
his control!, which gave the heavier team
the advantage in roughing it. Our team
displayed as good team work, but when
it corms to getting the ball in the net
the score speaks for itself.
Excelsior.
The members of the Excelsior Club
held their meeting in their usual place
on Thursday evening, Feb. 10. The
minutes of the previous meeting were
re.id and st od approved. Old business
was called for, there being none. New
business was called for and the question
of a public debate was brought up. Our I
challenge being accepted by the Nonpar
eil Literary rociety we elected our speak
ers who are as follows: Principal, M.
Swanson; first colleague J. Benjamin; sec
ond colleague, E. Morrigeau; substitute E
Anderson. After we elected our speak
ers we proceded with the program. Aft
er our program was finished a motion
was made and seconded to adjourn.
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