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What we all ‘need to have is a good word and a smile for everybody. You' will never know how silence 1t can only . in 2,baby costen And S1d wheel A\ coraa NS Tiacer ,_ 3 b ping sumbody will steel it.| has freckils awn his face, awn his noge, ‘he ‘has sum uthir places, % awl the wuns that shows. ‘pritty good and throw a &nd jum the street in 5, His mothir makes grate mulassiz But his fathirs not alive, mother tells him to say, No mam, , ed of saying, Nup, ln!nr-t Kuchle, of Mansfield Cen- he wunts to-be a mounted pleece- | ter: thank you very much for the man nice prize book you sent me. I think %:wn !':- hc.:'row- up. T it is very interesting.® awlweys eeting a* pretsil, ite; - Henry Douda, of Eagleville: I thank O o ao M ‘wbout §| you fof the. Drize book you sent me. I cores of it. He LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Center: I thank you very the prize book:you -sent me. I have much. Alfreda W. Walker; of. Mansfield much for read some of it ang Hke it very|' 1 coming h I i it % H e l F1 g H 14 i F i b ‘;E b i %}, ; }gf!' fs d £ H { i ; % | m' to be the eun u:uuluym«k e The monkey A | il i L race Troop from 3 and for summer work. If rats and mice aboumd, cats should be employed to rid asked to bring tas collar of them, but the entrances Il be used to be closed on any account. b of the demon- As the weather moderates towards stration. % -Rzln‘g. b:m windows of the eolllu- r SNy dok 1 Ve 3t rooP. | Five hundred Boy Scouts from sl and then closed before it is light in| . " - & - ta give them what still remained. the morning. ‘should not be taken e parts Connecticu Sathered “Not by any means!” said tho|fram their cellar quarters until the s Waterbury last Saturday in the first ] meet of its kind ever heid in state. monkey. “I owe justice fo myself as ther ii 'what settled and there. T e e s, | g e ey 2 - oy % due to me as the. lawyer." brcod. Bees that are stron Upon this he thy snd have a good suppl g fnto his will endure considerable cold without ; - found it very interesting, £ you ixpeckt to get a bite. Mary A. Burrill, of Staftord Springs: i, i LEE PAPE. |Many thanks ror'uma nice prize book s, gt ¥o ‘urent me, entitled Stories From e }'K AN 1. Cheucer. I have started to read it and like it. : THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Lillie Marsohat, of Mansfield Cen- ter: Cowboy Dave. < 2—Thelma Boynten, of - North ?‘ w‘ see why she’s got to kiss| Franklin: The Boy Secouts of Lenox. e, ‘because I'm lookin’ like this! | 3 _.porothy P. King, of Plainfield: Shé bites my fingers am chews MY | Ruth FIOINE ot Sver Ran g 0e toes: n savs fo' me, “Oh, goodness knows! ——Mary A. Burrill, of Statora ] don't:ufi how 1 ever got ‘Springs: ~ Jack of the EXpress. Along t my Beauty Spot!” An’ then she grabs an’' hugs me tight, Ar’ rubs my cheeks till they're shiny t. 1 tell you what, I love Ma; 1 think’she's most as nice as Pa. —JESSIE TARBOX BEALS. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- ,“.'.fi.'f.‘," : 8—Almira. Kramer, ‘of Colchester: Bq careful what you say to play-| The Camp Fire Girle. -~ T T T ORIES WRITTEN : T Iy enster to say mean things than | oV Or s :wmtu. BY WIDE T tall you—we've heaps of fun, _an' 1’ She cen mend my gun An' my eart—an' lots of things. ‘Bhe knows jes’ why a bird has wings— An' gll the bestest kinds of games. _Why most ‘of ’em don’t have no names! H # 5—Mildred _ E. Whits, of Staffora Springs: The Cemp re. Girls in After Years. e 6—Jessie Brehaut, of East Norwich; N. ¥.: Tom Tayler at West Polnt. 7—Zelma _ Rocheleau, . of North ?nklln: Ruth Fielding of Sunside T, it & to cure the-hurt or to be sorry for saying them afterwards. September. You may be ‘sure your playmates| september is here again and schools when éngry can say things as mean Children are glad to see as you cam, and .perhaps meaner, so and" play ot “Hiablé ‘to be worse hurt in y t0 work hard 4 are .50 as to he promoted at the end of Your feelings than -they, the year. T You are told about the rewards you| Near the end of the month is har- SWHAT'S IN A NAME? FLOWER STORIES, S~ at Newland's Corner, on What is the most beautiful word in |, Bngland, 3 K the Surrey.downs, one of the: thorn the English language. A college pro-|trecs is enchanted. malidens, fesscr who- has been teaching for a|Who danced und it one summer and never seen . again. t a4 interesting facts concerning the prefer- | years ago two shep) ey ences that sehoolgirls and schoolboys | ting there, when the thorns were whits Sptarthin Sie Giiath’ woeti. | He: haw | WECRIRRy S onp SE O SH1Q, A s made the experiment with some twen- | ¢;ichapted. - I'll dance round it o ty- clisées, all the way from an un-|you sit and watch what happens.” graded clags in a country school to the | Instead of dancing in the ordimary wenfor class in_college. 3 way = about. the . tree, .however, danced round it backwards. When AT the conclusion of a recitation the | had “&’El ‘the earth opened, and teacker has bad:lttle slips of blank | £10en table came up. ~ paver distributed. He has then re~ ""‘;go:’.t‘%t:cl?ultl‘:-lg‘h n.'tr;n ‘t’m‘.“' yueste¢ each pupil to write down the Dboys. < Al Sapaittu) wopd. Jci the Tnotnl, PRp B GHIne cunpusise fearted lapguage, giving consideration Doth 0| lieq sank Into the sarth. He ls now sound.and to_sense, one of the richest farmers in England, Of the six hundred puplils that he|foF thbe food was lucky food, but his R te the . | co:npanion is still only a shepl as bad, 403 wrof e name Mother; | In the Black Forest lived a peasant 82 wrote Home; 22, Father; 18, Daddy; | nemed Hermann. - Going home one 15, Vecation; 11, Baseball; 8 Football; g};;i:lmh.lx-"h' T 151‘":,'; hotv &* 2 carr: 7 Love: A Sister: 2. Auntls, and 2| Lii"% 100 "and chiidren,: who, in. Iheir 4 2 3 heir Grandmother. - The following words re- | pi ladly shared with him their lit- cefved aone vote each: Grandpa, .Vesper, | tle feast. - Moonkight, Hope, Rosc, Hyacinthe,| -Ail night he remained in. the hut, Ansel, Stuse, and St ole, | R10,5 58 Boming W gucht evesled ©Of the remaining 14, one, a response | ished. When Hermann from a. very bright boy, puzzied the Zessor.” That boy wrote “Cellar oor.” “When asked about it, he pro- | g nowzded it “Cellzh doah,” and ex- | Chrvsanthemums, platned, “Oh, it just sounds pretty.” | DoweTE Of, more -;ruhw'u ‘ballots, all for the same amused and perplexed the pro- fesspr. Thay were all hended in at 3 handful, he was then - falt | and dropped into a | FEIUICH hat that ‘ghe teacher asked ome of the Ehase 15 bilinana-to-be deiberately wyote down the ugly-sounding, greasy- locking. - fhoroughly unattractive word “Vietusts." half of a elass of 29 immoartal souls o thought “Victuals” the most beautiful b werd in the Buglish language? omed 1e-Aearish. And ;what higher compliment could |Sied sng Ged Bwas we ity o | b2 paid.to: motherhood and the Amer- | Three days later, e fact that, 527 of | Fose trom, thie [uated on a level spot of ground. steep and particularly dangerous be-| iis | with leaves that were many colors. | at much as any one of the party when, number. of yesrs has collected some |DIBNt Were carried off by the fairies |T -thmmmmhoemm 3 ing. JESSIE L. BREHAUT, East Norwich, N, e to learn for tomorrow ish 00 S64 Ssloibane, 'Phlllp H. Sheridan. Will you please hear me te 162 ‘.n‘thmt u\,n:-pl.“nnr. u’mh . bring- | ond e T N TR He e e < Tarey | oje Yo Rulh. Come aver hére and #e- | 5F /nig ‘umber, Troop No. T, of the uated from West Point in 1553, Upon . 1 just kept still Ruth thor vegan by giving the tilie | JOWish Sypagogue. Herman were generausiy the outbresx of the Civil war he was| The two boys had been forbidden to|qn.qi “If You Please.” ‘The poem was |2Dd, scoutmaster. holds the hopors for the great event. made chief quartermaster of the army | 80 swimming until the weather became | 3o foliows: membership haring the limited num- in the southwestern part of Missouri. | vilder, and they had disobeyed. And ber of 32, befter than 1 expected,” stated He handled his troops so ably at the | When both of them came down With| iy cressed in ¥. a littlé mouse Commissioner E. L. White,” and battle of Murfreesboro that he was|colds at the same tim S xandia-his e within my house; s don't believe I am ting when promoted to the rank of major-gen- And every night and every harn dividual troop camps of which four say that the meet w act as an "?11& R & SRR I cay: “1 wish that mouse yere gope!™ | Were beld. At the Y. M. C. A. eamp | impetus to the development of the Shenandoah valley with thirty thou- |answered quickly. “I guess we must Boy Scout movement in Waterbury.™ sand men. ~ He defeated Early and |huve got in a draught somewhere | Gu'ymhy? A quiet soul s he As any one need wish to see. —— - y— — chased him up the valley. After that| And it was nearly a week later when . he destroyed two thousand barns filled | Rotert's mother happemed to hear | mie ooe GoaiEe, My hearth is wide, GHY HH] le-[s Colchester. e TR T TR T R R T O ] peaidentds - m jour ane n. y that Ty not tol er the v A few days after this. while Sherl- | truth. N B T i e ahgt e o 2y a1 Cotas Croek e e T arged him with nis | ARd help himaeif to what be o on army af A when = mother cl im witl 8 1 - S jpieridan was away. When ho was |decelt? "Why. at once he deciared he FUBORE wts RN "I IR awaee: formed. o battle rode very not told ‘an untruth. Harry was| riis poem suits a child all fast for 14 miles. When he met the [ the cne who sald th had t been refreating army ho shouted: swunming. ™ - giviag. advion. bt X Ui 10 inTur back, men, tarn back! Face | 'fia himeell had never mid word AN s oust Yo Bay. TE:FNY A ud! m ltching sr; k In Three Months Face 3 Not Bothered Sirce. And he did not seem to realize that |SUKSested Ruth. REHA This encouraged (he soldiers. With|fo: him to try to hide under Harry's| paoe Noreich o p SLoHAUT: waving hats they cried: “Sheridan! |fairehcod was just dishonest and < sripiading den!” and followed their leader |even ‘more cowardly than 'to have Johm Wi s army was badly defeated and | spuken the falsehood himself. el ac g driven from the fleld. Sy TThe right aort of boy will néver try P gt s I Brenad e 0 very bravely | to fit by ther” truth. - 4 at_the battle of Flve Forks, where his | © o DONA DUGAS, Age 11 Pl Smigratia th Amisflon;fiigh- tha Se_Tave & SR PRSI0 N 3".'&& captured five thousand Confed-| Verrailles. He was their governer. Another feature of the summer He -dlea in 1858, A Dog Here. 1, He founded BEoston with about one|work wap the pagt, taken by the Doys 7anBOWARD KUCHLE, Age 12. | A young lad in & tawn of southern | " ‘He war disinguished and . highly | There. under the direction of the Mansfield Center, Michigan owes his life to Shafter, his | equcated. council, was established & rest room S Eocpnos it g -y A atia e for the public, and & first-aid tent. at Saybdroak Cne winter Leo, Shafter's master, ! which cut off the Dutch fort at Hart- | This latter, In charge of a picked In 2 lonely spot in the country stood | Was coasting with a small party of | ford. . an old-fashioned house. It was sit- | otner boys. The hill they were on was He planted a ecolony at Saybrook. Around the h grew plants d | cause of several rallroad tracks at its | |iheral wv:urt l{or“c:::u: t. . un: ouse an u shrubs of many kinds. At n‘:eh corner [ foot that the coasters, in their swift xho,:'m KUCHLE, Age 10, has been gained In the descent, would be obliged to cross. Mansfield Center, handling of troops because there are ‘The boys were having a merry time e kept on hand a number of pamphiets thesg bushes stood many rare plants, |and Shafter was enjoying the coasting LETTERS TO UNCLE JED, of various phases of scout work: al- at 3 e B ltards so blanks fnr' hre‘l.:.r:‘llllonhenrolgmk Then came . Maple trees were (a3 they prepared for another descent, What | Did Last Saturday. ete., thus tating the or- plenty around that beautiful . | the dog heard the whistle of an engine | ., Uncle ?:d_ 1 will tell you avhat | FAnization of new troops. Bdre. Annle M. August 3. These trees were covered with leaves the distance. He leaped from the rday. One of the best advantages is the of many colors, which showed that fall | sled_and pulled his young master off q fact that the commissioner's can was at hand. Some of the leaves were | by the coat collar. ¥’ nd information on any , yellow, orange and green. Many The coasters had nearly reached the t wers 3 o trees had shed their beautiful follage |trac when a train came around a R of many colors. On the ground lay |curve. The boy who was steering the leaves, all wet with morning dew. |tried to turn the bobs into the gutter, 3 York. This is & great help to new of-. Also many chestnut, walnut and oak | but the path was icy and the rear bob | “mion” we went to see the kittens, | ficials which the ploneers in the move- trees grew aroind the house. The|saled swerved entirely around and ment can appreciate. burrs of the chestnut trees had started | zlewed so that the pliot of the engine and | The only work officlally planned for to open and the chestnuts were falling | struck it, instantly killing the boy who this winter so far, is a number of to the ground, only to be picked up|haa taken Leo's ,{““- city rallies to be held at the state arm- by some child, or found by some squir- BLEAZER DUGAS, Age 13. Then we went and saw the littie |OrY. At these rallles the general pro- rel. Versailles, pigs, and then we played “horse. gramme will consist of lectures and "Thy onstrations on scout tests, marc] g 4 ound In the twees- chattering as they The Plainfisld School. R e st Sty ot Lot wone |, The Plaineld scohol is a t¥o-story to°a warmer climate for the winter. |PTick Dullding conelating of & eight I ahe apring we shall have them back | [(Crv® yas” bullt n 1912, the second FR ARD story was built in There is a TP \_.._NK T B e o attiy. e 1s aitumied on | MARGARET KUCHLE, Age 10 v er . It is situated on ] . The Fai tb: reain road ne‘l‘.r what is called the| Manafield Center. based on the scout law that New village. “a scout is a brother to every other " ‘Z: yory ;;.l e !ghd Lhe hélr‘vn There are ten teachers besides the P il A R o beg! e first day ing Colum- incipal. This is the school my sister 3 ecom bu: dl!v there was & large crowd. 2R artend. in ! out of dise z“:::. ""‘;’.":‘ offciala t eleven o'cl accompanied My sist to the portable build. J my brother, sister and my mother, :’o u;x.y . T pastor. Appointment of a deputy scout started for the fair. The outside was| I am on the second floor. At Cambridge only church mem- | missioner, when the decorated with American flags. My sister's teacher is Miss Fraser of | bers could vote. In the midway they were raffling off | Mootup. Mine is Miss Helen Moran of He did not approve of this. Teddy: bears, dolls, clocks, and other | WilWimantic. Electric bells have been | Hooker, with about one hundred men -articles. > justalled in the schools. We have fire | drove his flocks lh'vi woods » We got tired walking up and down | dri)ls now. The alarm rung is double 2. (and settled Hartford, Weth eld and 50 we went in the main hall where Indsor. ~ there were all kinds of vegetables, Thomas Hooker believed in the *mbrois ..; 1 it thy B, | “governmen '{h'.' mlmbrlm:!-n it 0 to school people and for the peeple,” like - © to 80 1 SRomH ham Lincoln. Piainfleld. The first written constitution was —————— artford. He came to America as & Puritan |and scoutmas these: : began. very good. They had the hish wire :vflnr: the ostrich race, trapeze per- F P Tog e Gvesssd i3 “pa,ng . =ln sutumn when the leaves are dry 3 are fores - "o g Causes: Hunters set! fires, men ing and farmers burning grass or It destroys forest lumber and some- houses. B