Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 7, 1917, Page 9

Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly oh one side of the' paper_only, and number the ;(énm?‘u&_‘ 3 rt and poinfed articles will ¥ civen preference. Do not use over 0 words. 4 Original stories or letters only will be umed, . 5. Write your name, age and ad- | aress plainiy at the bottom of the story. Address all communications tc Tncle | Jed, Bulletin Office. “Whatever ycu thatt onatevar rou Sey—be/traet Straigntforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody sise but youw* POETRY. ROCK-A-BYE SONG. | Me Miss Moon is er rockin’ in de sky | der littls star chillun is er shiain’ closo by: Ole Marss Sun done shet his eves to leep; An d: lkvipde frogs_is er hollerin’ “Knee Setr:> De hoot owls er callin’ to each udder in de wood. Yo better shet yo' eyes up tight and be mighty £00d, Fur, sho, is you is born, Sumpln's gwine to ketch' yo' Long before de @swn. Hush-a-gye, ma Baby. Bye-lo-bye. All de mammy birdies is er singin’ rock-a-bye; Raby squirrels safe in de treetops hyy p Lots of de baby stars is ip mighty iate, Br waitin’ fur Marse Sun ter open up de gate; ttle Aiowerkins tucked up tight baid, set vo' eves dls minit an’ kiver up yo' haid, P An’ doan vo' eav anulled word. i But shet vo' eves up tight, iFur de witches an’ de gobblins sho’ trables in de night. By-lo, hush-a-bye, Bye-lo-bye. +-Nellle Robertson Cannon, in the Southern Woman's Magazine. DREAMS FOR THREE. THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE . BOYS:AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT Three little dreams flew in from the south, AnA they flaw in a swift, straight line, One was a dream of peaches and cream. And that little dream was mine: T dreamed that a pretty white cloth was spread With the round moon set for a dish, And T ate in state of peaches and cream As much as my heart could wish. The next little dream funny one! It came to Molly O'Leaf; She thought that she rode on a great green zoose Thet bucked like a Texas steer Tt flopped about until it knocked her off, And it cackled, “Gingerbread joke!" And Moily wondered what that could e, And while she was wondering woke. was a The last little dream was best of all, Tt flew to Elizabeth Lee. She swung in a hammock, embrofd- ered with snalls, Way up to the top of a tree: And there she found all cuddled away, In a sort of a cottony nest_ The Little Lost Princess of Shut-Eye town, Ko wonder her dream was the best. —TYouth's Companion. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKES. Evervthing is not exactly what it seems to be to us. The earth is whirl- ing around at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour and we do not kmow it: but how we spin In an automebile going 25 miles an hour, or just ome-fortieth as fast A glass or globe of water sitting on the table is called still water: but it isw't. Water is composed of oxvgen and hyfrogen gases and these are al- wars active in it. A drop of ink in water will show you it moves, and it il keep moving until the whole water is discolored. This is a simple ex- periment to try. 1 vou sit out of a warm evening and look at the stars you will notice that they move: but the earth is going through space fifty times as fast as 2 cannon-ball and you do not know it moves. Heat changes water Into steam, and in this vaporous form one inch of water becomes 1,800 inches of steam, and the pressure of the gases forming it is s0 great the worid's heawy work is done with it. Tn this way mills and | factories are operated and boats and fiying machines are propelied from 50 to 150 miles an hour. We talk about the heavenly bodies when we look at the stars, and many people live and die without ever having been made aware our earth s a heavenly body revolving in space just like the planets we behold in the sky. Every thing in nature moves—not even the rocks are stock still; but are changing all of the time. Every- thing is alive, but nature éreates no racket in most of her wonderful and mysterious realms of industry. LETTERSIGR ACKNOWLEGEMENT. Miriam Shershevaky, of Norwich:— 1 thank you very much for the nice prize book you gave me entitled ~Ruth Flelding and the Gypsies.” 1 have Tead some of it and have found it very interesting. Irene Stewart, of Jewett City:—I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me entitled “The Boys of the Bfble” T find it very interest- ing. Bertha Adeiman, df Yantic:—I read the prize book and was very much satisfled. Thank you very much. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Sarah Schatz, of Yantic—In the Big Woods. '/ 3—Puauline Welff, of Mansfiedd Cen- Girls at Rainbow Lake. other 3 %(hcr had locked him The Automobile Girls Along the Hud- son. 8—Louie Ziegelmayer, of Norwich— “The Bobbsey ‘at the Sea Shore. 7_Mildred B. Ellis, of Willimantic— Unele Jim's Bible Storles. $—Beatrice Ableman, of Norwich— The Out-Door Girls of Deepdale. Winners of prize boeks living in the A ey el st The Bulletin business for them at any hour after 10 & m. on Thursday. STORIES WRITTEN AWAKES. A May Basket. One day we asked my mother if we could hang a May basket. My m said, “Yes. That night we sat down and made one. On Thursday_night, May 17th, 181%, we hung it. We hung it to our nt_glhhon’ door. at night we started at seven o'clock and went to the store first. Then on the way we put candy in, and many violets; afterwards we hung it. y sister, Sophie, went to hang the May basket while my brother and I bid. Then my friend came out to find us. We hid behind a stone near an ap- ple tree quite near the house. When they were quite near the stone, we ran away. I was caught last because I hid again behind the barn. They did not come there, so I came out agamn and began to run. They saw me. At last I was caught. When we came in my friend gave us some candy, Afterwards we played games. The games were blind man's buff, tag, and hide-and-seek. After we had played quite long in the house we went out to play. After we got tired of plaving we went down the road. We saw a light. We dia not know it was an auto. Then we saw such big lights that we ran away as fast as we could. _Those lights were so big that we fachight they were wolf's eyes. When we went up again the auto was standing by their house. We. played tag around the auto. We went home at nine o'clock. NELLIE MUSIAL. Mansfield: Center. BY WIDE- A Fussy Little Violet. Once upon a time a little violet grew in the woods. It was blue with white in_the middle, and thin black lines. The birds sang songs, kissed it and said: “Be glad, oh, little violet.” But the violet was not zlad. It wished to be big and strong like the other vio- lets. 1t wished to have large leaves and most of all it wished to go with the big violets. But where did the¥ go? One day the violet asked the tree, “Tell me, dear tree, where do the vio- lets go?" The tree sald, “I do not know, little violet.” Then it asked the birds and the breeze, but they did not know. This made the violet sad. “Will no one come and pick me?” it said. One day a Jady came by. When she saw all the violets she said, “T will pick pick some of these violets, and so- she did. The little violet she picked, too. Then the little violet laughed. She was very proud. She did not say zood bye to her old friends. The old tree sighed but she only Iaughed But one day she cried. Her blos- soms were faded and the maid threw her away. “Oh!” "she cried, but the maid did not hear her and threw her away with the rest of the violets. Then she said, “I shal] never be proud again.” BLIZABETH SIMMONS. South Windham. Buying a Coat. One day my mother called me and ophie, you need a new spring coat, come with me and buy one.” As we were walking down the street we saw a beautiful blue coat trimmed with white. Mother said, “Do you like it?” “Yes,” I replied. So we entered the store to look at the coat “What do you want” asked the saleslady, as we entered the store.’.a cclored powder: “I would like see the coat that in the window,” said my mother. “I will get it,” said the saleslady, and she took the coat down and show-. ed to my mother. ~Fit it on my little girl,” she said. She did and it was just a fit. “How much s 17" asked my moth- er. “Five dollars.” My mother paid the money and the lady wrapped up the coat. “Thank - vou,” said the “Call again. Good bye. _ELEANOR HUNTLEY, Age 11. Norwich. lady. Catching the Foxy Fox. The hens were clucking vigorously, because they saw Tommie coming with their breakfast. The geese and ducks were swimming on_the pond. The farmer was feeding his cows and = savory smell came from the kitchen telling the wife was prepar- ing breakfast. e family were sitting down to breakfast and talking about the fu- ture, when they would harvest and sell their crops, when all at once a terri- ble quacking was heard from the hen- yard. Tom rushed out to see what was the matter and then shouted, “A fox, = ox.” Father ran to get the gun. but it was too late. The fox ran off with a chicken. “T will watch for him. and so he did. In the morning he took the gun with him when he went to milk. While straining the milk In a can he saw the fox on the ledges. He quickly grabbed his gun and fired. The fox dropped. We all ran out to the place and found, a large, grey fox, shot dead in his scarch for another chicken break- fast. So ended the life of a thief. The town clerk pave father the bounty of one dollar and a half and said father, :he Wx was buried with much rejoic- ing. LOUIS RABINOWITZ. Lisbon. w My Pet. We have a cat named Tommy. He is yellow and white, and has double paws. He can do many things. Here is one which I will mention. One day when we were in bed, we heard the door bell ring. We waited a while then my sister and I went to the door. We asked, “Who is there Then we heard a meow, and - we knew who it was. We opened the door and in bounded the cat, and gave an- meow, as if to say: “Thank you for_letting me in." - Next night he did the same and my “in barn. The Adventure of a Tack. 1 was first a slim plece of iron. 1 { was then put in a machine which cut me into inch pieces and made’ a flat head and pointed end on me. Then I was put in a box with several of my companions and shipped away. : The next thing I knew I was taken out of the box and somebody was pounding on my head. Then a string was hung around me and I was hold- ing up a chart in a schoolhouse. After the chart was taken off I was there for a nundred years. At last the timber began to rot and I fell out. Then 1 got stuck in a little boy's foot. He pulled me out and threw me in the fire. ‘Here I got redhot. 1 was then put in a dump-pils with the ashes and knew no_more. DUDLBY BURR, Asge 10. Baltic. ¢ 3 The Lungs. The lungs are two large, spongy organs which surround heart and the large vessels, &nd il up all the rest of the chest cavity. So light and spongy is their structure that a piece of a lung, unlike any other tissue, will float in the water. The right lung is the larger of the two, and has three parts or lobes. The left lung has only two lobes. Esch lobe is also made up of many groups of smaker parts called lobuies, each with _its little bronchial tube, air sacs and blood: vessels. “The chest is lined and each lung cov- ered with a smooth, delicate lining called pleura. These two surfaces rub against each other when we breathe. The lining secretes a fluid which keeps the parts always moist and prevents their bubbing on one another.” MARY BOROVICKA, Age 13. West. Willington. The Adventures of a Chestnut Tree. Oh, T wish T was-as large and. tall as the other trees, said a small chest- nut tree. My brother and I are so small_and the other trees are o tall that they make us seem very small, in- deed. The other trees keep saying: You are not patient. When we were small like you we were patient. We waited a long time. Now we are large and tall. You are not patient like we were. We did not believe them at first, but one day my brother said: Let us *ry o be patient for just one year. Then if we grow any more we shail be like the other trees. We started to be patient that very day. When the vear was over we found we had grown a whole lot, 8 we thought we would keep on being pa- tient until we were like the other trees. . One sunny day two men came int the forest. After talking a while they cut a mark on the bark of my brother and I After a while a wagen came and some men cut my brother and 1 down. 5 After shaving my bark off they took me to a house and put me into a_hole in the ground and they put some things on me and called me a telegraph pole. They made railroad ties of my brother. CAROLINE BRITTIN, Age 11. Norwich. Woods. The wood of the cedar is strong and reddish in color. The wood of our iead pencils are cedar. Manufacturers use cedar for some kind of furniture. Cedar chests are mothproof. Mahogany is a valuable wood, brown in color, and used for making- furni- ture; aiso, black walnut makes fine furniture Rosewood, which Is used in making piano cases, has a beautiful color and odor. There are many varieties of maple which are useful in making beautiful- Iy grained furniture, while the tall white pine produces useful wood which is used for building masts for ves- sels. Some ho@isehold furniture is made from éhestnu Oalk is very durable wood and used for shipbuilding. Barrels, posts, fences, shingles and other things are made from ash, birch, beech, cucumber, hemlock and hickory. 4, [ some regions wood is the oniy uel. THEORA MAE BENNBETTE, Age 12. Ashford. How the Indians Made Paints. Before the white men came the Tn- dians made their own paints. Some- times they found red clay or stones which, when they were burned, made sometimes they used Then, too, they stain- other minerals. ed bark of certain trees. The juices of certain berries also were used to color their skins. But white men brought paints which they wished to exchangze for furs, and the Indians liked the paints much better. They used to carry their paints in little sacks made of buckskin. The painis were generally in the form of dry powder. When the Indians wanted to dress up to receive company they took a lit- tle of this powder and mixed it with some tailow from the buffalo or with the oil which they obtained from cer- tain other amimals, and rubbed the grease and paint over their faces. A Smart Handkerchief. One fine day in June Jack went into the woods with his father, who was going fo mend a strip of fence. They had just got fairly ‘into the woods when there was a loud whir-r-r-r! and a mother partridge flew up almost into Jack's face, tben fluttered off among the @ry leaves and bushes and made a noise and a great fuas. “She has some little chicks, I dare say,” said father. On, look, quick!” said Jack. ‘“There and there! ' See the little chicks!" “The little darlings!” whispered Jack under his breath. The mother partridge knew well how to call her brood together safely. Jack only saw them an instant, for they all disappeared among the leaves. The very next moment they found the nest full of empty esg shells and one egg that had not hatched. “Don’t you suppose it would hatch, father?” asked Jack. “It might, if she stayed on it longer. I believe I will carry it home and put it under old Speckle.' She’s almost ready to hatch.” So father wrapped the egg carefully in his- handkerchief, carried it out to the edge of the woods and laid it on a rock where the sun would shine and keep it warm. Then they went back.-to the woods to mend the fence. When the noon whistle_blew. father was all- through. “Come,_ Jack, we must go for dinner. Aren't you hungry?’ - “I believe I am,” was the answer. “It makes me awful hungry t& work In the woods. Ob, father, we musn’t forget the esg.” “We'll go right to it now.” salq fa- ther, and they did, but what do_you think? The handKerchief was there, all unrolled, and the empty eggshell there, but the little partridge had hatched out amd gome. “I wonder if it's mother came and found #?” asked Jack -after looking for it in vain. twins. their faces with juices from the | ‘We have two Angora ‘They are Their names are A lady in Boston gave them to us when they were Kkittens. They are Food hunters, “When they kittens one of them brousnt 2 gnake to the house ‘hey off in the woods hunting and ook 80 much like foxes we are afraid someone will shoot them. One morning my father saw a fox and he had Purr. up a tree. MYRA G ‘R, Age 10. Leonard Bridge. « Early Days of Connecticut. In the early times of Connecticut thére were very large animals. The lava came down three times and buried these animals up. There was one found on the bank of a river north of Hartford. It was said t0 be a very anfmal e first settiement that was made in Comnecticut was made by the Dutch in 1614. Soon after the English came and settled and drove the Dutch out. was the first to go up the Con- necticut river. Blok was a Dutchman. The English that drove him out came from Plymouth and some from Boston. There was only 1,200 Indians in Con- necticut. These were half Pequot Tn- dians. The Pequots were so bold that they kept killing the white men. That brought war y of the Pequots were killed. The forts wére burned and when they rushed out they were killed by the white men. The Pequot war started in 1687. Next came King Philip's war in 1675. This war ended by the death of King Philip. attte | TOMS ALMA DESUTH. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. The Poor Little Bluebirds. Dear Uncle Jed: Two bluebirds made a nest in my backyard in a crabapple tree. They were very pretty and my mother and father and 1 watched them from our window, and we ail thought they were just lovely; but when the sparrows found out that the biuebirds were nesting in that tree they came in great numbers and started making it very unpleasant for the littie blue- birds.” The poor little things! They would try eo hard to keep the spar- rows away from their nest and to drive them away from the tree; but the sparrows would keep coming awi 1 am sure they made the little blue- birds very unhappy. There was a tiwer-colored cat that tried to get them, too. The bluebirds are not in their nest and we do not see them any more, so I don’t know whether they flew away to find a new home or the cat caught them. 1 hope that the cat did not. MILDRED BLANCHE BELLIS, Age 9. ‘Willimantie. The West Chel: School. Dear Uncle Jed: The West Chelsea school is situated on a_rather high hill and may be seen a few miles off on & bright, clear day. It is a large wooden structure paint- ed yellow, with white triminings. It is 4 two-story building, having three en- trances, including an exit to the fire escapes in back. There are two large haliways upstairs and the same num- ber at the bottom, used chiefly for passing into the large and spacious rooms, and also for dressing pur- poses. Running through ali the large rooms are a number of pis, heated by two large furnaces which are at- tended to by a janitor. The school is chiefly used for edu- cational purposes and occasionally for meetinge. ABRAHAM MARKOSF, Age 14. Norwich. What They Do at School. Dear Uncle Jed: Eisie McDaniels is the janitor at our school. She builds the fire and sweeps and dusts. She gets here about 8 o'clock every morn- ing and she washes the boards and puts the chalk on. Sophie Musial sweeps out the entry in the afternoon. 'If any hats and coats are down, she comes in and tells us and we go out and hang them up; and if our rubbers are not in position We £0 out and fix them the right way. Mildred does the same as Sophie, only she does it in the forencon. 1 clap the erasers, open tad ven- tilator and shut it, and fir the lunch boxes right. In arithmetic T have muitiplication eéxamples, long division, short division, subtraction and addition examples. Nellie Musial passes the papers and T collect them. HAZPL McDANIELS, Age 9. Mansfield Center. Her After School Play. Dear Uncle Jed: Afternoons after sohool I sew for my dolls and make them dresses and hats. And after that I play with them. Sometimes when it rains 1 stay in the house and play with them, but when it is a good day I put them in their carriage and_ take them for an airing. And then I bring them home and play with them in the vard. CATHERINE McVEIGH, Age S. Norwich. The Flag. Dear Unecle Jed: T will tell you about the flag. We hgve a flag in school and every morning we hang it up, so this morning my teacher let it drop, and Mr. Newton came in and told her it would break, and she wiil rever do it again. BENNTE BRUCKNER. Domestic Science, Dear Uncle Jea: Thinking you would be interested in hearing about our domestic science class I am writ- ing to tell you about it. I am in the B division, Broadway school. The girls in our division take their cooking lesson on Wednesday from a quarter past one to a quarter past three. Each division has a closet in which the aprons and caps are kept. In the cooking room each girl has o gas plate and a chest of drawers in which are kept the cooking utensils needed by each girl. - Miss Grace Rogers is our cooking teacher. Besides teaching us to cook instructs us about the value of foods gnd the proper way of setting a ta- le. In September and early October when the vegetabies and fall fruits were in season, the girls in the eighth grades of the Norwich public schools canned and preserved the following: Grape conserve, apple jelly, orange marmalade, seckel pears, peaches, pears, pepper relish and tomatoes. These preserves were kept until vis- iting day last March. They were then sold at reasonable priccs to those desiring them. The money received from the sale being used to purchass necessary articies for the cooking room. ° At present we are being tausht to met the table properly. These lessons are very interesting and heipful. TRENE KIEDASCH, Age 14, Norwich, William King. Uncle Jed: Barefooted, in the rainy weather of the early spring and driv- ing a pair of twa-year-old steers, his total capital, William King, who be- came Maine's first governor, and who was born at Scarboro, Feb. 9, 1765, left ‘his boyhood home at the age of 18, to make his fortune. 'he steers were his portion of his father's estate, of which a division had been made. He was a stronz CASTORIA | m m and Children. Mothers Know That INFAN ——— Facsimile Signatare of For Over Thirty Yea: GASTORIA THE GxATAUR SomPANy. HEw - —~p A (eoto '] i35 Dosrs - 33 tions After we have the dishes, and don't seem to me that anything could beat it. The perfume from the apple orchards was o sweet one could hard- would do with the money he earned with them. Although he offered his services at farms along the road, King could get no employment, and he only stopped in his journey eastward when he reached the broad waters of the Kennebec river at Bath 4 He was profoundly impressed #ith the noble stream, but as he could zet no work at Bath he directed his for steps inland, and retraced hig steps westward to Topsham. Here he se- cured employment in a sawmill Such was the beginning of a career noted for its stirring incidents and its activities in public affairs. King, al- though a self-made man, was one of those rugged Americans who Jleave their country better than they found it, but whose lives are barely men- tioned in the nation’s histor: E. T. LIBBY. Dry Mills, Maine. Her Schoois and Studie: Dear Uncle Jed: I thought T would write to you about my Westford Hill school. My teacher's name was Mari Her mother was sick so we had an- other teacher named Mr. Bismal: but after her mother got better she began to_teach azain. We had nine girls and five which made fourteen scholars school. - The name of my school Is the Ledze school hecapse we had a large ledge back of our schoolhouse. Our supervisor's name is Mr. who lives in Willimantic. Cow we have moved to Chaffeeville Lipps. boys in the Bond so we go to school at Gurleyville. In this school there are thirty-seven scholars. YWhen I went to the Westford Hill school we had to study geography, history and language in the afternoon and in the morning we had reading, then arithmetic, writing and spelling. If we missed a word in our spell- ing we had to write it one hundred times after school. When I went to that school T had four teachers. My first teacher’ name was Mr. Bignal. the second May Cooper, the third Lillian Amidon, and then Marie Lipps. . WOLFF, Age 11. PAULINE Man: A Fishing Trip. Dear Uncle Jed: It was a warm day and a fog was just lifting. I thought it would be a good day for fishing. 1 went to a friend of mine who's name is Harold and asked him if he would go_fishing with me. Harold asked his mother if ha could go fishing. His mother toid him he could. My friend and I went into the gar- den and dug some worms. Harold and 1 took fishing rods and a minnow net. ‘We started for Fitchville pond where we thought it would be zood fishing. We bezan fishing. In a little while my line began to shake. 1 knew it was a fish that was trying to get the worm. 1 instantly pulled in my line and caught a large black bass. About two minutes later my friend felt a nibble on his line. He instant- ly pulied his line in. He caught a ! l nows and put one of these on my hook. In about five minutes later 1 felt a_queer jerk on my line. I began to pull in, to my surprise the cord broke and I didn’t know any more of the fish. 1 added some more cord to the line which I had left and put an- other hook on the line. Then T put the bait on and I began fishing again. In a little while I had a bite, pull- ed my line in and had caught a pick- erel. SARAH SCHATZ, Age 9. Yantic. A Robin’s Nest. Dear Uncle Jed: Saturday morning I went into the shed and a robin flew up into the corner with its beak full of ary grass, and it went back and forth ‘many times during the day Sunday_morning 1 looked again and there was a nice big nest. I never thought a bird could bui'd a nest in such a short time. It is in a good place where crows and_ hawks can’t get the little ones. I love to watch and feed the birds VIOLA M. WATSON, Age 8. North Franklin. A Trip to North Stonington. Dear Uncle Jed: Last Sunday was such a pleasant day to me that 1 want- ed you to know about it. Uncle Henry came from New Bedford in his Buick car on a short vacation and as he was born out North Stonington way on a farm, n he was anxious to make a trip out there, Maybe we weren't glad! The day was perfect, and at this time of the year, with all the trees in bloom, it THE WONDERFUL FRUIT MEDICINE Thousands Owe Health And Strength To “Fruit-a-tives” “FRUIT-A-TIVES”, the marvellous medicine made from fruit juices — has relieved more cases of Stomach, Liver, Blood, Kidney and Skin Troubles than any other medicine. In severe cases of Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago, Pain in the Back, Impure Blood, Neu- ralgia, Chronic Headaches, Chronis Constipation and Indigestion, “Fruit. a-tives” has given unusually effective results. By its cleansing, healing powers on the climinating organs, “Fruit-a-tives” tones up and invigor- ates the whole system. 50¢. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25¢. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit- a-tives Limited, Ogdepsburg, N.Y¥, ly realize it wasn't heaven, which Uncle Jed & We had lunch under tha trees, and | Two Boy Gold Mine then Mr. Davis, Who 1ives on the same | I am in the middie of farm, invited us to look the place over. | where it tells about Je He' has planted every foot of avall- | hols. " able soil on the place and it looks as MARY STEINMEYE thoush he would have enough to feed | Bagievilie. a #00d many when the time comes to — harvest. Gabrislle’s Employments Dear Uncle Jed: I make time at home. In spring I he plant as well as hoe potatoes. In summer T rake hay. The Farming is &reat, and 1 hope soms day T will be able to have a farm of my own. ‘After an hour's run_ we got home about 6 o'clock, well pa®l for our day's outing. huckleberries, blackberrie LOUIS ZIBGELMAYER, Age 9. |herries City. I plant my garden w of flowers, and then William Has Been Very Busy. pull the weeds out Dear Uncle Jed: 1 have been very| In autumn I dig p gather the vegeta to the cellar. I plck & mother make el At home T help mothe ner, sweep the fioor feed the cows milk the cows crochet, sew a very little none at a I thank vou ver Iy prize book Ruth Field it through ine. busy taking care of my hens and chickens. 1 have fifteen hens and a rooster and twenty chickens to take care of. Last week I started to plant my garden. 1 have a garden all. my own and 1 planted some potatoes, corn beans, beets, carrots, radishes and let- tuce. Don't yon think I will have some work to take care of all that? I hope I will have a good harvest be- cause we need the food very much Our school will be out in a week and then I will be busy working in m: garden, keeping the weeds out. I bo all the Wide-Awakes will have a gar- den this_summer. WILLIAM BOUREY, Glasgo. GAP Mansfield Age 10 My Papa’s Flag Dear Tr Jed: 1 my papa’s flag week. It is ve & iful. Tt is three Janitor Work. Dear Uncle Jed: A few months ago Orin Whitehouse and I were janitors at school. He had to make the fire | every morning and then he had to help me. We had to sweep, dust clean the erasers, and was boards. We had to work tw and each got $2.50. T am janitor now the de the black- | Ive for the third time and 1 get $5. I have it all alone, with | Glasgo. the same work, which T like. g e T cannot let the children in until it 15 half past eight I T N T o MOTHER GRAY" Bde ot Doy ek TR Thaty SWEET POWDEF does. ILDR T buy my own shoes, and I think T FOR CHILDRE will buy me a nice new summer hat e At night when I come home I help mach Trousl . my mother et supper When she 18 tired I get it mymelr but T have to ask Rer many ques- Used Automobil FOR SALE § - One 1916 large 6-cylinder Buick, A1 con One 1916 small 6-cylinder Buick Couplet, A1 cond One 1914 6-cylinder Franklin Touring, A1 conditi Ome 1916 4-cylinder Reo Touring One 1916 4-cylinder Stuts Bull Dog Special One 1917 6-cylinder Chalmers Touring, good as new One 1911 4-cylinder Pope 5 Passenger Touring One 1912 4-cylinder E-M-F Touring One 1910 4-cylinder E-M-F Touring One 4-cylinder Jeffreys 5 Passenger Touring One Prices range from $100.00 up on above cars. T TR 0 D P T 1910 4-cylinder Peerless 7 Passenger Touring All of these cars belong to our customers which we are to sell for them. Some of them are still at their homes. The A. C. Swan Co Norwich and New London