Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 9

" Rules for Young Writers. 5 — 1. Wgite piuinly on one side of the paper ofily, and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink. not pencil. 3. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words. 4. Original stories or lette will de used, 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the botton: of the story. - Address‘all communications tw Uncle Jed, Bulletin Ofiice. ‘Whatever ycu are—Be that! “Whatever you say—Be wwuel Straizatforwardly act, Be honest—in fact, Be nobody else bui you” POETRY, Her Great Secret. < only E Ladies’ Home Journal. Most every meal, when he’s at home, “Stop squirm- of your chair and off; vou drive me too, he sometimes ng bis patient-fretful tone I try to mind, for he and 1 have one n. deep ot all o Sh-m! and teil ¥ without the leastest He-lets me put his hana to o t of fus: sleep, no- us body knows of it but I wake and Wrig: and I think Tl . never o to sleep aszair e lost I try to geg the covert fixed— i a I!—and then and; comes right through the aark mnd pulls the bedclothes e and straight; one whispers in my ear: vt worry, girl: it isn't late” I just can't help but grab him then; he ots me hug him hard a bit Then goes awav, but leaves his afraid of it! em Hearly A big night terrors are : Andthers a the narrow =ap be- pwee 1d his bi bed He lef: s ach out 1 am aslecp -the goblins fled The last thing I remember i tend- father’s hand's a That T am_inlling off to sleen: then into Dreamland’s sea I fall And know no more till it’is day. So, though he scolds, 1 make no fuss For we've a secret—he and I- but Strickland ows u a person Helpful Bee C. Poole bee, dear friends, 11 useful ends g ‘honey from the flow- Throuchout the golden summer It bears a . beneath its wings, The pollen ect blossoming Ot all the t grow jants and those that zlow richness to delizht their beant: bright azeing its way Over: the zarden and road Tt seatters far ecious load And thus doth sow much fruitful seed Now tfell me A try droning honev-bee. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT _ THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE. " BEYS AKD GIRLS lgnpn'rmf' Keith, and am reading it and find it very interesting. Eva Dickinson, of olchester: I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me entitlel “Hans Prinkers, or The Silver Skates,” and 1 find it very interesting. Rose Weiner, of Norwieh: I thank you very much for the prize book vou gave me. I have almos:t finished reading it and find it very interesting. THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. ), of M sup—A 3 iy 1-—Florence Gall Little Girl of Old 2—Annie Evan, of Mansfield Center —Duxbury Doings. 3—Esther Cramer, of Norwich—Mil- | dred’s New Daughter. - 4—Claud Robinsen, of Norwich—The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie. 5—Flossie M. Rider, of North Frank- lin—A Happy Disicipline. §—Ruth E. Bartlett, of Norwich— The High School Freshmen. 7—lsadore Alperin, of ~Mansfield Four Corners — Bertha's gfummer Boarders. 5—Josephine Schudter, of North Franklin—The Boy Scouts at The; Battle of Saratoga: ! The winners of prize books liv- ing in the city may call at The Bulle- business office for them at any ur after 10 a. m. on Thursday. E UNCLE JED'S TALK TO 'WIDE- AWAKES. - Vacation is almost over and the re- turn to school and study is the next mportant movement in Wide-Awake life. Tncle Jed has no doubt the Wide- Awakes have had a good time in the past two menths, done lots of work, taken many strolls and found pleasure by the lake, the seashore or in the woods, and they must have learned considerable from their out-of-door life, for ther all-have eves to see with and a memory to hold the pleasant ex- periences of life as well as the disa- greeable trials. You know every bird has its note, every tree its character, every stone its crystals, and every experience in life its lessom ! The history of a grain of sand, ori of a rolling pebble or a cast o¥ shell, Lif written in full, would make a book. 'man ears were made to hear fhe sonz of the humming bird as well as the song of the mocking bird: and the | whispering of the cypress tree as well the soughling of -the pines. and the rippling song of water over pebhles as well as the thunder of the billows king on_ the beach; but everrybody does not give attention, so ;mnv',\‘ lose many of the charms of life. i {as bre; t the Wide-Awakes have seen they have enjoved, what they have experisnced, what they have iearned, written into littie stiries will win fo rthem books. If any Wide-Awake prefers a money prize, if they will send word to Uncle Jed, for every three credits of 33 1-3 points of merit for each book won, or 100 merits, he will mail them a dol- lar. Efsie McDa of Mansfield Cen- ter® I receiy prize ook and| Cool weather is near and Christmas am very mueh pleased with it. Will| money will not come amiss. ’f; and é'" another one Wide-Awakes bestir yourselves. nnie Evan, of Mansfeld Center: Ty s 3 b *received the lovely prize book you le‘_pf your own pets and pleasures sent me ent “Tonely HIL" T and e Tead it o once and like it much. LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Esther Shershesky, of Norwich: T = shank you very much for the prize Bonn 500k . 3 ve me entitled “Mildred | Dear Uncle Jed: I told you that I 'STORIES ABOUT DOGS SOME FAMOUS DOGS .. By Mary Hall Leonard. When Washington Irving visited Sir TWalter Scott at Abbotsford he found m -surrounded by his dogs, whicn formed an part of the ousehold. 11 old stag s ound name s the staid and « A his master; there was a frisky srevhound | named Hamiet that barked and cut capers witn the wildest gl and_a Weautiful setter named w large m iong~ curly avorite of parior. salk to Tour-footed they were rational companions, and from b treated in this w y reall ed te acquire more sagacity t dogs. Sometimes the younger doz: would try to entice old Maida into frolie by jumping poa his neck and snap- his silent d n suddenly, 3 hapsted, he would catch one ormentors by the neck ‘and tu 2imm the dirt, etving afterward apolegetic iook at h said_Scott, “I have when Maida is alono with the dogs- he throws dignity as layg the boy as much &s any of them, Lut he is ashamed.to do it in our :ompany.” Onge day when they were ail out for . ramble the younger noticed 1omeéthing which set them into a furi- »us barking. Oid Maida for some time walked silently by his master, pre- tendihg not to notice the clambers of he ether dogs. But at last, giving a slunge forward, he uttered a deep yow-wow, that drowned all the other iises. Then he wagged his tail and ooked intp his masier's face for ap- ywoval. “Ay, ay, old boy,” said Scott, ‘you~have done wonders.”” Then he idded, “Maida is like the zun at Sonstantinopl It takes so lonz to tet it_read the =mail ones can Ife 6ff a dozen times; but when it i0es off it carries ail before it.” When Scoti's dogs died they were wmried with funeral honors, and had aongments erected over them which orm=Bome of the prettiest ornament: t Abbotsford. In front of the hous 1ear the deor is the tomb of old Mai- a, over which is sculptired the im- &e of a beautiful hound. Lord Byron, who was the great ri- al poet in the era when Scott wrote hat is immortal works, had also a dog shich he loved very temderiv. 1t was Newfoundland dog,. cailed Boat- wain, and the elegant monument ich Byron erected to his memory ow forms one of the principal orna- rents of the garden of Newstead Ab- er. % STORIES ABOUT DOGS DOGS AMONG THE PARSEES. By David Banks Sickels It is generally conceded by the stu- dent of history that the Parsees al- ways possessed a peculiar fondness for dogs. The ancestors of the Par- see, it has been alleged, cherished at | the very dawn of civilization such a ! love and reverence for the dog as the | warmest of modern enthusiasts would scarcely dare to express, In certain fragments twhich schol- ars consider to be the most ancient parts of the Zendavesta, the dog is granted equality with man. In the!l rules for burial we read: “The corpse of a dog or. a man,” and in the crimi- nal code we find “The murder of a| ldog or a man” The significance of {these expressions is shown in the Vendidad, the book of ritual. The prophet Zarathustra is thus address- ed: “Tha dog 1 have made self-clothed and self-shod; watchful, wakefu] and sharp-toothed; from man and zoods, born to take his food to watch over man's DIf a shepherd’s dog or- a| house dog is there, pass by the dwell- | ing of a believer.” To give bad food | to a dog as as wicked as the same action towards’ a guest:; to give him hard bones or food too hot was a sin. The civil pen in the ease of a shepherd’s ‘dog was 200 stripes. Kill- {ing one of these was punishable with {800 stripes. In sickness or madness a | dog was to be treated “like one of the faithful,” and if the disease was in- curable, men were required “to pwt a coilar on him and ti> him up to a post lest he come to harm.” If a litter | be born, it was provided that the householder shall feed them and the mother for six months; should any die by neglect he was liabie to a charge of wilful murder. Even th~ ownerless dog was required to be treated with respect, just as was “a holy wanderor,” or 2 bezsing monk. Finally it was laid down in the sa- cred book that if a man or a dog died in a house, the building must he pulled down to get out the corpse in the event of there peing any difficulty in performing thc rites of burial while it remained inside. Such absolute equality of treatment ¢f a man and a dog is difficult to re- alize, and it is certain that no scholar has ‘offered any explanation of the singular code: but the first law of Zo- roaster's creed was absolute truthful- ness as evil was considered to be the spirit of Iying, and as a dog is the impersonation of truthfulness, he came to be reverenced as a symbol.— Our Dumb Animals. | put on would ‘Bonnie Hairn. ‘Bonnie raced while young, but now, as she is get- ting older, she doesn’t race, but she has some speed yet. 2 I have had many rides with Her and the part of the ride I enjoy ‘best is driving her. 2 She is as gentle as a kitten. You can do anything with her. My brother and 1 sometimes take her out to grass, which she enjoys very much. KATHARINE LEE BURNS, Age 12. Norwich. My Swimming Expedition. Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell the Wide- Awakes about nbl swimming expedi- tion. Omne day y aunt took us all down to the river, which is not very far from the house, and we stayed down there about two hours, and on our way back home we met a big buil standing by th-. side of the road. We were ve much frightened and we all scattered behind trees. My brother and two cousins were quite a distance Dbehind us, and we waited for them to come up, as we knew they would be afraid, because he was desperate look- ing. My voungest cousin was carrving the bathing suit bag. He dropped the bag and called: "Up a trea for mine!” We laughed in spite of the- danger. We made a wild.dash past him, but arrived home safe after our adventure. JOSEPHINE SCHUDTER, Age 14. North Franklin. What We Saw on the Hill. Dear Uncle Jed: We crept up to_the nest very carefully and quietly so as to see Mrs. Robin before she flew away. The little ones were just one day old. When she saw us she flew tc a nearby tree. One of the girls said she was going to take the nest, but we would not let her. Afier we had walked a little fur- -ther we came home. the Tittle We went had all We almost forgot about birds until the other day. on the Fkill and found they kown away. WINNIFRED ANDREWE, Age 7. Willimantic. A Visit to the Country. Dear Uncle Jed: I have been away to a farm. There were chickens and cows. There were two brown foxes and turkeys and a lovely dog whose name was Hector. There was a big cage of pizeons. I had a lovely time in {re country. GLADYS BLANCHAT, Age 7. Norwich. A Visit to the Country. Dear Uncle Jed: Last week I went in the country. I started at quarter of nine and got there about twelve o'clock My uacle lives on Wormwood Hill. His farm is very large. It containe foriy-eight acres. It is a lerge house with a large porch. Every morninz I got ap at at five o'clock and watched them milk the cows, and then I drove them to pas- ture. - Monday afternoon I went hay ng and had a lot of fun riding in on the hay load. Tuesday I went to the woodlot and helped tl.em get some weod. The rest of the week I watched them lay a new floor in the schoolhouse. 1 came home Friday with lots to tell. LBEI'T LEFFINGWELL, Age 10. Norwich. STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES. Qur Picnic. Last Wednesday our Sunday school had a picnic on the church lawn. We invited the Sterling Hill Sunday school to come also. I went down about twelve o'clock. We plaved games for. awhile and then | we had dinner. We ate in the Grange hall as it was fog: . After dinner they had a ball zame. About four o'clock we had ice cream. It was very good. After that we had races and con- tests. I went home at six o'clock. We all had a fine time and hopa to have another picnic next vear. FLORENCE GALLUP, AMoosup. Age 12. The Pumpkin And the Acorn. One very hot dav in summer, Jack 10 the o untry. After walking about an-acorn fell from the trea and h nose sharply. His father smiled little as he said: “You must acknowledge., Jack, that od arranged things best. If that acorn had ped from have been been a pumpkin and drop- such a_height, vou would broken. God orders all things with wisdom and fore- thought. and only a fool thinks he knows better than the all-wise crea- tor.” Jack said- no more nbhout what he would do if he made the worid LEONA BERG ON. Taftville. Vacation at Devonshire. pleasant it would be to visiti e at Devonshire. - There are only two rooms in the cottuge- If it had stairs it would lead to a snug attie under the roof. The roof the cottage. heen repiaced it with straw., color. It and warm. Tn vaca How a cotta is the funniest part ol Although shingles have I they still cover a =oft. golden cottage snug making makes the on the children help new roof. Although it is pret:y and serves a long time, they have to put on a new roof quite often. A great dea! of gzrain Is raised in Devonshire, so they get the straw from thi When the grain is threshed the| bovs.and girls have jolly fun putting ] it- into bundies and ca g it up on the voof. After the roof is finished the IM¢- tle 2irl makes many things out of the ieft-over straw. She alwars males erself a- hat and puts a wreath of| flowers around it. She is always proud of her home and is happy at vaeation. ANNTIE EVAN, Age 13. Mansfield Centeor The Death of Prince Arthur. Arthur was the nephew of King Richard and when King Richard died lie left the throne to Arth but Ar- thur was ‘only 12 years old so his Un- cle John took his place until he was of age. But John wanted to keep the throne for himself, go he tried to kill Ar- thur. He put him in a prison at Fa- iaise. One day while Arthur was looking out of the prison window his I'ncle John came in. Ie was ashamed to, loak at Arthur so he looked on the prison floor and said: “Arthur, will you trust your kind and- loving Unecle?” Arthur said: “First give me my i and his tather went on a hike out in-| to | What Tommy Tidd says: I wouldn't like to be a sgrump, I don’t like grumps, do you? I'd_ruther be most anything Than be a grump, it's true! I'd_ruther be a fiddle-bug, 'N fiddle all day long; A griump’'s the wustest thing there is; Don’t be\l grump, it's wrong! 1 like them little fiddle-bugs, A-playin’ in the fall, A-praisin’ all the harvest flelds, I don't like grumps at all; I'd_ruther be a hoppy-toad, ‘N live on worms, 'n_jump N’ keep the insec’s off o' flowers; 1 wouldn't be a grump. I'd_ruther be a valler-tail, N’ set 'n’ drub, 'n’ drum, On one them little catnip twigs, Than be so awful glum, A grump’s contrivin’ all the time For makin' people sad r'd ruther be a fuzzy-w Than be a grump, I had! 2 Herbert Randall. 7 isingdom_and everything that belonss to me. Then 1 will trust vou.” The king went out and went to some wicked councill and asked them what he should do to Arthur, Some s=aid to burn out his eves, and others said to murder him and still others said to poison him. First King John sent a man to burn | out_ Arthur's eves, but Arthur begged so kindly that Hubert, the jail keeper nt the man awav. Then the king thought to murder him, so he ca William de Bray to murder him: but William said: “T am a nobleman, not a murderer.” The king seeing he could not get a nobleman he hired a murderer. When the murderer came to the prison iu- bert asked him what he wanted. The murderer life. who sent Kill him The king knew that Hubert would not do it, so at midnight he took him to _another prison at Roven. One night while Arthur was sleening said he came for Arthur's Hubert said: “Go back to the one vou and tell him that I will the king came up and murdered him and threw hiz body in the ocean. MARY GORDON, Age 11. Springfield, Mas: An Exciting Day. After supper Jamie went straight to bed. He usually said, “Oh, mother, just five more minutes” and that five minutes Jasted a half hour. But this time it was different. Jamies was to go huckle-berrving tomorrow. He planned to o to bed early and wake up at five o'clock in the morning. To be sure he would wake up, he took his father's alarm clock. At five sharp the alarm started ringing. Jamie did not feel like get- ting up, but when he remembered tha ihe was to go_berrying he got _up, dressed, and befor> long vas off to meet the “erowd” with a lunch box full of good things and a large pail for the berries d Jamie, “wouldn't it he could zet cur pails full?” His companions laughed - and said they meant to fill their | went home. =ix ‘miles They were tired and dusty, It took the larger part of the hour €0 they threw themselves down in the | to get to the well-filled berr: bushes, shade of 2 great oak tree to rest. 1 “My,” thought Jamie, “If T could only iE A looked idiv about him, Jack | pick three-quarters, no one-half, or sav pumpkin vine trained on a|even one-quarter of these her 4 | fence from which large, heavy pump-| They picked and picked aw | kins were hanging. suddenly “Fat stopped, and wiping | “Don’t vou think, Dad” he said.|the sweat from his face exclaimed | “That is a very bad arrangement?; “It's after twelve. Oh! but I'm hun- That little frail plant bears such large | gry.” fryits, while this big oak tree. which| You know how fat people like to | makes shade -enough for thirty peo-|eat and “Fatty” was no cXception to ple. has only tiny acorns. If T had|that rule. made the world T wou!d have turned| After lunch, which was eaten by ev- things about and put the pumpkins|eryvone with = faction, the picking on the oak tr#s and the acorns on| was again resumed. the vine” Five o'clock found Jamie home, with As he spoke a full pail of juicy huckleberrie bling over his day’'s adventure: Put Jamie w for when supp was nearly over, mother brought in a huge, huckleherr: pie, an{ Jamie had such a hig piece, and. Oh! it was so good. Jamia could hardly wait to go to bed. ile was so- tired, but he w o satis- fied with his dav’s work, being the biggest he had ever done. ESTHER CRAMER, Aze 13. Norwich. Toodle and Noodle Learn to Save. Once upon a tim2 not so many vears ago there iived out in the cou home and had supper. Afier supper Grandpa Wacker came in, looking very sad. “I have had bad news for you,” he said. “All the aspen trees that were for the winter are gnawed down.” “It must have been the fox,” eried all the beavers; but Toodle stood up and said: “We gnawed them down! We didn’t think it an;' harm.” didn't you know those trees were e winter,” asked Grandpa. said Toodle, sadly. “Never mind,” said Grandpa, after a bit. I know where there are more, but they are farther off. “Oh! We'li_help bring it in!” cried Toodie and Noodle, “no matter how far it is, we'll help, and they did help and they didn’t starve that wint Hadl not Grandpa Wacher lopked ahead and found -two groves of aspen trees instead of one, 1 don't know what they would have done that win- ter. ELEANOR HUNTLEY, Age 11. Norwich. pails berore they ! try two little beaver boys named Too- dle and Noodle. They lived in a large mudhouse in the water. One aay Toodle said to Noodle, | “I's a good thing our front door is under the water as the sly old fox can’t get us for he hold’ his breath like we can.” They lived with their mother and father in the larze house and Grand- pa Wacker lived with them, and he the wisest beaver of them al hey soon got tired of where they vere =liding down hill and were thinlk- | ing what to do when Toodle cried: | “Let’s cut down trees " Noodle agreed, and so they went down by the brook and began snaw- ing the beautiful aspen bark. The kept on until pretty nearly all the trees were gnawed down. | sn’t this fun!” cried Toodle. “The hest fun ever!” cried Noodl» “Oh, I'm tired of thi now,” said Toodic after a while. So they went Sonny’s Guineas. Sonny had wanted some guinea hens for a lomg time so last Thanksgiving bis grandfather gave him a pair. Sonny thought so much of his gui- neas- that he named them Father and Mother Guinea. Sonny then began to think what a iot of little guineas he would have in the spring. ‘When spring came he found that he had made =a mistake when he named them for they weré both male Dbirds. 3 So when his grandfather found it out he gave him a female and told him to eat the other. His father kill- ed_the other_and they ate him. The way Sonny could tell the dif- ference was that Mother Guinea said, “Buckwheat” and the father Guinea made a_different kind of a noise. All of this time Sonny had been thinking about baving some little guineas. The next thing we hear is that old Mother Guinea has a nest with three eggs in it and he has got to wait un til she has laid twenty-four egsg, and then he has to wait four weeks for her to hatch them. Sonny walts impatiently for four long weeks to go by and then old Mother Guinea comes off the nest with fourteen little ones, but they have all gone to heaven but one, who has stayed with its mother to keep her company. Sonny is still wondering what i soing to happen next! FLOSSIE M. RIDER, Age 16. North Franklin, A Day at the Beach. When I awoke last Wednesday it was such a beautiful day I decided to 20 to Ocean Beach. 1 called up my friend Helen and in- vited her to go with me. She heartily agrecd to go with me, so an hour later found us on the 9.15 trolley for w London. We arrived there and boarded a trolley bound for Ocean Beach. . At once we hired a bathing house and went in swimming until noon. Then we had our lunch cénsisting of sandwiches, hard boiled eggs, fruit and cake. We snent the afternoon on the beach knitting. At 6.30 we started for home In New London we had ice cream, af- ter which we continued our journev, 'ing home, tired, but very happy i RUTH E. Norwich. ant day. JARTLETT, Age 13. A Bad Shot. As I stood on the top of the hill, looking down into the vailey at the grass, over a foot high, waving in huge billows at my feet, the wind shrieked, played and whispered over their heads, birds soaring up, then sinking down, | and defily with a turn of grass joining in the mad race with the wind; a| woodchuck crept out of his burrow, sat down on a huge rock which rerved him as a fort and scanned the scene before him. His sleek, round body shone in the sun:; a bird flew by him so close that their wild timid eyes met for a moment; a deer appeared on scene—it seemed as though over to where I had heard her barkin, and there she was, half in a wood hole herself, digging the dirt out very fast The strong sc of a woodck came out through the ho'c. &0 I made up my mind to get that woodchue As the hole was only a little w from a wall. I thought probably lair was under the wa | out a few stones that wern the grourd and listened the woodchuck digging. Finally, I pulled up a Ia stone. Then Trix, my dog, dove forward and after digging a few seconds pulled out the woodchuck by the back and shook the davlights out of him This the eighteenth woodech that I've caughi- this summer. UDE ROBi;NSON, Age 15. Norwich. level I then heard 1ck Death of Miss Laura Douglas—Case of | Bloed Poisoning—Meseting of Silver i Links fociety—Accident. The death of Miss Laura Douglas, ich took place at a8l in | Brookline, Mass.. is a of grief to many here tuberculosis, feredgseveral te Wurs Miss Douglas died from from which she had suf She was a grad- skilful in her pro- ion... She formerly spent her vaca- tions with her brother, Otis Douglas, and’ his family in Pearl street, Ai Douglas has accompanicd the bods ima s to | ! Purcnases Boat. | ilboat from Jere- 21-foot irence aft is hod poison ian | ™h him Mrs. rator | Providence. Capt. John Fish of New recent tor her 1 Elizabeth and anley spending a few days in Frovidence. M H. Mosher is breaking up | housekeeping and is to make her home | with relatives in Weymouth. Mrs. Willilam Rathbun has om a visit in Boston. Silver Link Meeting. | The Silver Link society ing yesterday in the M. E. church. aries Weeks of Jersey City is vis- AMr. and Mrs. Fred Ward in Cove comes to see telephona on- iting in York was a | Specht are returned | held a infant son Hoffman of Mr. has been and named Mrs. Har- | old. Miss to_Prov Mise York Friday for a visit. Stepped on Nail Judge Frederick P. Latimer of Gro- Genevieve Sweet has returned Eleanor Specht goee to New ton Long Point stepped on a rusty nail vecently and drove it nearly through his foot. He is able to gzet about but the wound is still painful Selectman Charles B. Lyman an are on Palmer and an_automo- bile oughkeepsic, N. Y g te Scranton. Mr. and Mrs. Wililam l.undy, Earl Lundy and the Messers. Keely, Joyce and McLearn of Scranton, Pa., have zore to Tarrytown. N. Y., en route by motor to théir home, after spending the seascn at Grotorn Lonz Point. Walter Palmer of the U. S. S. Mi nesota has been at his home here for a short -tay. was calling to the forest and field wild Al e S creatures to come out into the open | noCCRITYEE S had not a dominant factor arrested the | i 23 3 : | Jubilee. Railroad Inspection. A shot rang out on the air and loud | Officiai railroad inspegtion took as the wind screamed the sharp report | piace along this division & the Cen- of the bullet wa louder. The very i ral Vermont railroail Tuesday, when wind was hushed; gently swayving the | bridges and crossir cceived espe- grass, sobbed and murmured in low |cial notice. Yant i and rail- tones: the birds disappeared; the!road yard is always i neat cond woodchuck turned slowly and quickly | tion. so no wworable re vanishel; while the deer swifily was | expected, losg to view in the forest; and a man | On Shore icave. crouching behind a stone wall, hold- | / Officer Charles Bentle has ing his gun tightly, muttered: been atationed FR tha X s St “A bal shot! A bad shot!” | Louis_fo t three months, 18] E ALPERIN Age 11. | spending a furlough at his home | Ma our Corners, Beve. T lews in General, | Digging Out a ‘v‘logdc}‘u‘:k' M ':’C\:V \"vn\. am I\\' Bentley, A few days ago while I was hoeing | 3iss nd. Joni Prectos corn in the garden I heard my Qo | ipent tic Heach, { barking in the woods. Tifinking s nd might have seen some animal, 1 ra After 1 got the wall down I pulled | with | cown of Willow Point has pur- | e Gaanca U T CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castaria YANTIC Freok Squash on Exhibitlon—C. V. Railroad Inspectors Look Over Prope~ty—Officor Charles Bentley on Shore ,Leave. ) A pecu iar freak of nature displ W. E. Manning's general store was | ced in a Yan cden last week species of squash about three ches in diameter and about four feet like estion mark ped aq the <pending 1 his cousin and | su 1k Kinne, Mi arold Kinne Har ford and Mr. ind son Al- hert of Preston wer undpy of | Mr. and Ellas *Mrs, rman and son | Henry Morriz and_Mrs |1Bva Sevin spent Tuesday at O, | Bench, ’ Mrs. John C. Tracy has returned | ! from a few days' stay with relatives | | Mrs. G K. Peckham ent ol {1 efingwell Missionary e | | (Th day). | JEWETT CITY PUTNAM (Continued from Page 2.) tion board are to the effect that ide; fication rickets are to be furnished eac! man of the quota to be sent to Aye: from the district New orders re ceived Zuesday are that only 1 pe: cent., of the district's quota shall be sent out on days next week, beginning Wednesday Putnam chapte Red Cross workers are very busy these days, turning c omfort bags and other articles that re 1o go to soldiers. The execut ommittee of the organization held meeting _Tuesday evenin Mark Wilson v in Worcester o Tuesday to attend a funeral b Taibo received T gular arm infant ng that he had been in the ! recovering from the eff ina [ am. 1on 1ga ) 81 Additional Nam Out of the boa -d for th have nd who ha examination exempiion number will cl pational " ! bosrd Thi 1y may be tified Corner Improvement Men of re er e the o | Polish Band to Be Known as White| Eagle Band—Boerough Young Men to Join Aviation Corps—Death of | John Payne. | he memb of the Polish band| wish to be known as the White Fagie hard amed by its leader, | who ! the first Polish band | known White | He anoth eral na- nd thi o the same name. X 1in ana it is com- of Polish players. | Want to Be Birdmen. | Perle Whitford, the R. I D. clerk sent in his application Wodnesday tc learn to be an aviator for the gov- ernment plates the Dr. S S. after an Iarold F. Spicer contem- me procedure H. Holmes ble illness of two Over 1,000 Mile Trip. nd Mre, Fred Whalley Henry Olson have rom a two weeks automobile hrough the Whit, down the coast of M ed for a week a thousavd miles w the Misses phine 1 and Mis were caller Tuesday. lette and ; be out, | 1o and Mr. | returned | Mr nd Mr camp Over auring n Mountain covered Larrahee and Josa- of Windham Center, Burnhe Hartford, Mrs, cox’s_on and Gil and Emma FIi ¥Awin [ Ars daughter of Colchester nieces from Providence were also call- Wednesday ers at the same pince on Miss Griffin's establishment will | open for business with full line of outing hats this evening.—adv. Momorial Mass. | ‘s mind mass was sung by J. MeCabe Tuesday a 8t church for William G.. Mur- Patrick Sh and two chil- neces and Rick returned to ucket on Wedn . OBITUARY. Jahn Payne. John Payne, the one year old son of Clara (1] #a in orde: that the impro.em inder way might b When the nipleted tha orner will ] f of the smmediate .- ‘changes under ¥ , t around the gr iy T city official that h been let for the sid that that the work wil ince en { The rule regarding the g of Putnam serve ' o e tent from a ! spell of Queen Quality Team Again, Quality team Bosto things that Putnam base fa awaitin 1d it xeem t wish will be gratified sor orzanizations seen k ' m Quiet Hoiiday Forscasted Manufacturing « 11 clo urday noon to remain closed Monday evenir ess thr out the city will ! " of observance fia . 2 the clty it there w . | park Interest in 1024 Company. Putnam people will foilow P cial interest the dnings of Fir nd Second (or fantrs ments, L compans limant hiéh was on guard t here for weeks last eprin rt of the new regimens, which. it s un tond, is slated for early servica in ance. died on Monday in St Mary afternoon, dertaker J. A. Hourigan. Wednesday under the direction of Un- cemetery Richard Allyn and C. L. Avery, Jr, of Groton and Eastern Point are camped for a week at Mumford's Cove. Rev. and Mrs. J. A, 8pideli and fam. ily !Y!ft ‘Wednesday for New Rochelle, N. Y.