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THE CHE MAW A AMERICAN
LOCALS
Maud Lowry writes that she will be
here for the opening of the fall term.
Mrs. W. P. Campbell spent her an
nual vacation at "The Breakers" and
in Portland.
Mrs. Lizzie Henri, who for the last
seven months had been the cook at the
employes' club, left on the 13th inst. for
her home in Portland. Miss Bertha
Cooper is now filling the vacancy.
Col. R. N. Pringle, supervisor of the
engineering department, and wife, and
daughter, Marian, were at Chemawa
during the month. Marian is a bright
and sweet little. girl and made a friendly
impression to all those she met.
Matilda John writes from her uncle's
at Tacoma that, "George Kross, Andy
Walker and myself are counting'days,
getting rather anxious to go back. We
are planning on leaving here on the last
Wednesday of September.
Miss B. E. Oliver, of Salem, who tempo
rarily filled the position of nurse at Che
mawa hospital for the last five months,
left last month on account of health.
Miss Margaret Salvey, of Salem, is now
acting in the capacity of nurse.
Approximately eighty tons of hay
have been put up this year. There are
24 acres of sweet corn for the table use
of our boys and girls. The forty acre
potato patch looks very promising. Mr.
Westley stated that there are more vege
tables this year than we can use.
The engineers and plumbers are hard
at work connecting hot water pipes to
the kitchen. After this they shall also
make the same connections with the
Brewer Hall, Mitchell Hall and Small
Girls' Home, removing the hot water
boilers from these buildings to one cen
tral point, at the base of the tower,
where steam shall be used for heating
water. This will be a great improve
ment over that of the furnace system.
When this is completed all these build
ings will be supplied with hot water at
all times.
Miss Irene Campbell arrived at Che
mawa last week from "The Breakers,"
Washington, where she took part in the
Invitation Tennis Tournament held at
that place. We are glad to inform our
readers that Miss Irene was successful
in winning two beautiful silver, cups at
this tournament, one in the ladies' dou
bles, first prize, and the other in the
ladies single, second prize. Mrs. H. E.
Judge, of Portland, being her partner in
the ladies' doubles. They also won the
first prize in ladies' doubles at the Fall
Irvington Tournament in PortUnd The
papers stated, "They have a clear title
as one of the best teams ever seen on the
Irvington courts."
It is with the deepest regret that we
record the death of Mrs. Antoine M.
Caise. It was a great shock and an un
pleasant surprise to her many friends
here at Chemawa, when the sad news
reached us, as she was visiting here a
few weeks previous of her death. She
died in Portland on the 26th of August.
She is survived by a husband and four
children, two boys and two girls. Mrs.
Caise had been a pupil of Chemawa for
many years and Mr. Caise filled the po
sition of a clerk. The American joins
the many sincere friends in symphatiz
ing the bereaved family.