Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 9

Rules for Y. n| Writers. Write ph&nlynnon'dduo!m only, aumber the bupm“snclnk.mt Short mprmrenoe. Do not use over 18 the grestest and close to his study window he a large clump of undightly (N & - heads to which they comie evary b o _: to feed; but the white-throated ik } . Jrows which just arrived thia menth POETRY. from Labrador, ltke to feed upen the Along the Way. seeds which Bave fallem from the - -3 plants upon the ground. | s are iang e e The seeds the birds Arop take rodt 5 ong life's way. the following spring and all Unele Hipgto e But e, | e O e e that bird feoa| U. 8. 8. Delaware, by Austin Smith of Yantic. Eo many troubled hearts to soothe, does not spread all over hisg. garden. BSo many pathways rough to So many comfcrting words to say 40 we ran down the stairs and|ferns one may find, a partridgeberry | my cousin’ s, nestling beside a rock. How delighted we were to see each To hearts that falter along the way. : rs, of Colchester: The T the street we talk- | The skumik cabbage grows nearer |cther. Auntie had supper ready when Here is a_lamp of hope gone out omen at Work. . mmsa that un house | the brook and w&w.n I look into the 1 -Al;ruh'ed. = . Alo the way. 2—Charles Frtonville: ',:fi ‘T ‘water can see sleam ana shine T eéating supper was asked Somen:ne :!Illlb‘ed lnfl fell, no deubt, Boy Alhll-fl !:fl.‘“ e l“ VG it thejof a fish swimming away. many qll?:fionl about lx:lny xongl;‘ I.n(d\ But, brother, stay' s LPE] tiresome urney over the rough an . Out st thy store of ofl reall; e e Ry Of Magievitle: ® !%"‘SKY Age 10. | Mansfiela K‘: Comers - AB® 16 | iiddy road. I was very tired so I re- An Artist, by Nelson Hulme of Baltic. V. TION Kindle the courage that smoulders 2 L. tirsd early. Lo 14 do toda T oy sttier on"he BommTantic: i The Eider Duck. i et o A Rt Think what Jasus would do y 4 . Hew | Wen My Pri k. . ue ed. r my. cousin Bessie's work For one who has fallen beside the way.| 5—Alf Walker, of Mansfield| Ay the sohools iu Beseah heia a| The name Eider comes from lcelandWas done she showed me about the | PCOPIC cut the corn by hand, then load |have o double significance. = They Center: : ldred . Keith. spelling contest &t Fitohville w, Gast [and is pronounced as if speiled i-d-e-r. | farm where she had spent most of her | [ ORtC (arts And bring \¢ o the Barn | elapsed since Kossovo was How many lifted hgnds still plead 6—Helen Wisniske, of Yantic: [ year. Several spellers were be | The elder is an ocean duck. In size [life. Waiting to cut it mto the silo fought. and secondly, the five colors of + " Along lite's wa: !n Three Little Women's' Success. | icked_out reoes overy schoot “From |it is between our common duck and| I was interestea in the animals— | A 12 CUE I O S S0 o [TRSRE0G SEhe sien of Bope (hat ons The old, sad story of human need Agnes M N our mehool, I was pleked out. Our |£0088. It is a bird that lives in Arctic fcows, sheep, horses and chickens. St el Sl Ge ntddey 1K b6 o1d Montencsrin Reads on for aye. i Avges Jheten: ot Kotwich: e e et or | regions. A oot e Siee: S0 caws - en | D10 80 cudiges chaia (o easry the ent [day (BE MYANS of ¥0e. of But let us follow the Savior's plan— [ ie Girls on e W‘ It you look on the map of Europe | horseback every night, because we |08 Into Whe sio. ¢hat bl R reh s aiftarent: inalgnis Love unstinted to every man tudy th Fhes and find Spitzbergen, which lies be- |Bad to cross.a wide brock, and as a| SOome people have blowers that biow AEEENSTIRGESG R, pret 8! to study the words over. A we corn up through a pipe into the silo.}of army rank are worn c% the rim of Tomtent 1, at most; the worid shouia o ey Deraeteet Ashiosd: | siudied them over we started for ths |Yond NOTWay, you will see where many |reward for getting them we each had | 2"y 1 “SC00EN %" (o™ tut, araw, | tte kapa; from the different combina- - A Little Girl in a lass of warm milk. say, 3 - e ducks, or eiders as they are s a v “He helped his brother along the way.” | 9—Catherine MaVi st Norwich: ; ARSI T T easte had a small garden in which Zj';;}] L L L e Llae of AL oberrar, —James Buckham. | (Gratuity) The Play utes ?fl‘ ‘When ten minutes passed 1n America they are rouna in La- -hohn;ed to spend a couple of hours "RANK M. GRAY, Age 10. |Also, the Montenegrin soldier wears s us!- e up. e i 5 the front of the cap instead o his The Urchins. ness office for them at any hour affer |lined up We besan to mareh up the ;’lm’, R e s Dol o, sato- What | Did Labor Day. tinic. as with the soldiers of all other Bufldeg lronll amnl;le :; nna.fl % > .~,_._.. people were sitting in the back seats. ‘makes her nest ar it. Then when-she I Wzsdve'l;y ’];orry for the summer to x Do.’]\)r Tncle Jed: The day b:focsa {,a; nations. TRERE - BRlADT oW & cantls e TT m“ (1 is sitting upon her eggs, and has to [end and the last week of August to|bor Day my two cousins of Central . " ith its moat and winding stair, LETTERS OF WLEDGMENT “Y'A"-‘m'flc“:f” Btelt SN Diiepe txte (kin o fing 7050. $i Eoyers [come ‘when I must return home ang|Fells oame over to see me. T was| West Hills, Huntington, L..I, N. Y. the esgs with more down to keep them | take up my school work, £1ad to see them. The next day we henr THEORA MAE BENNETTE, Age 12. |s5ot ready for the fleld day. Anisal Residences. “The father e’dgr never feeds the Ashford. There was ice cream, soda, candy, D Unele_Jed: I ht I 14 miother when she is sitting on her _— and ndwiches to sell. ‘We had a Eaft ncle, o ;\lo\xl‘ [ Jrn:émto exEs, but lets her hunt her own meals A Noble Girl. time. LR LI i Al And a turret here and there, Melen R. K,m By tanding guard beside the sea, many thanks, the spellers formted a line in fronmgt of ings t:::r] .:::l:n: :x‘:dp;?-}’-::'. t::e'w. Isadore - Alperin, g 2‘: fl:l:*“'“‘fhen !ho“ lne::;u be&:l;- for Besmelf When T sot there a friend of mine |Make nouses for themselves. e i v again and again and t mother has lezzed race with her. I told her yes. 73 4 oldiers to the kings are they. you f°r the prize hook you um me. foight ana I was one. ;toluck that from his breast to give for Elena had a kind heart and wonder- | (¢ String had not hindered us when '?r'x‘m ‘:“'; e oW hov Shiek and i Husmcpgp~0d he nest. 0 7 we were half way. . Two:and two they marching go. STORIES WRITTEN BY THE WIDE- |, 3¢ ISt il Were Somted mxceps & &l | ™ Ine own 1s a soft aray in color. It | foe il She Souldn’t help some one of | ™7 (oi® ol (ieq when T got home, |lfEh to build the dome of his water- Soky ThHe. oy, Graws aigh. E ‘ AWAKES. - . The words B 80 very USht Shi SUEeMoRstia oSl o one yard sat a little lame girl | thovah I B by B I s trost of the cothing e ich T made |an ounce a very larse hatlune could not walk and her mother STELLA BOLIEAN, Age 11. | yinter and the floods of the following Flow the shélls and pebbles fiy! Terror-struck. they turn and run, So ‘the victory is won. One day Daniel Web-ur ms Lrother went ifi the gas: '?Mr Goodye: Danisl W, . foolishly. than while two or three pounds may be ebeter i % AP et alone. Bhe | Srushed intoa bali that can be heid in | 5nd father were too poor to buy her an | epring. e the hand. Since an eider's nest ylelds i The wood-chuck's house has'twe or Je? oy Cno hall bard e e Flelas I TNy WOndsred 1r she could Mansfield Fair. Hxas. ‘dopvs. - e the ' sauivfels ‘ross the maat.and through the door, | that a woodentick m spelling Mr. Young, our yo‘g’ e ‘;‘; ina Fow's 4 % |Delp her. She thought of this all the Dear Uncle Jed: Th> Mansfield ®ir|dwelling is providéd with a good bed T L R & D R R e T ider-a. it S00d | Way home. She would save her week- | was on the 29th of Septémber. I'saw |and a_convenient store-house for nuts Soon the tire crept up and then, So Dantel “.‘ his "‘,flm. we sAng sgain. When we weére done :?a,ll et :—ng'"l qui CUNES & 3w ty allowance and buy her the chai things I had never seen be-!and acorns. Softly crept :t back asain, » for the woodéhuck, At fast '_{“ e. t | with the singing the supervisor gave Th‘:mgn"who i i e Toanay That evening when she tooi her One was the hees working| The sportive otters have to wb"m And the castle tall and grand? nim. Datitel's brothér wah! “ the prize books to their winnhers. I T walk she carried a bouquet of flow industriously; and others were|slide in front of their restdence; and Pebbles in a pile of sand. it, But Daniel told him not $o kill i, |§0t the boy's fSrst prize. The name | dif holes in rocks facing the ocean, | * i ”1fi e lame siri, : beautiful horses tractor, and f inter mak ‘vard —Christian Science Monitor. |as it was & living creature, and God|Of the baok was Mr. Pickwici’s |21d in large numibers the eiders md¥e | ““wit, che had saved money for the K':"n,}iméh'ei-" psten Al A T (U s T T L Bt it ot - ae b - ristmes, There were four books, |thelr nests in these.’ Before the €8S |enair aie housht i S pLioe Ml . ” . Ja my scheol won three. *{are 1aid the owner rebs the nest of its | mn ought it and took it to her.| When I had seen most of the things | fortably and find shelter for sleep. UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- Ris brother dfdn’t want ft to live, HARRY SCHA' 28 soft lini _The mother makes an- Elena said: “I enjoyed seeing her had to demonstrate canning toma- But there is one thing lacking in all He said: “If he lives any lotgér he'li T2, Age 11. | Cther and another, and she is robbed | JAPDY more than I couid have enjoved One girl was always talking | these various. dwellings—a fireplace.. ‘hile the others were workinz. There . HELEN ROGERS, Age 12. three teams. Thd names of the| Colchester. other-members in my team were, Eliz- abeth Parker. from Four Corners, and Collaction: of Postage - Stamps. AWAKES. the mone. - 4 4 ry féw days. The owner knows <. sa “Father, Fzekiel e NANCY THETREAULT, Aze 14. Here it is mid-October and Uncle| wants to kill the woodehuck, and God My Vacation. B her s B et T SNV EL . arnstin Jed has seen two young birds, a gold- | ade him to live upen earth, mot for| One Sfluruy my mother and I|younsg. cation. Ezekiel to iill him. :1:::. :er;d an E:flllh sparrow, within | “R e 00 O h e inonis ey !mmd on & }ifil;‘sxa.“ o i HBELEX WISN_E'SKE_ LETTERS TO S{NCLE JED. % m:fflrrl‘”r:r_s;g(r]rswg&xag‘s; o] -1 Uncle Jed:T am olri to tell e molatncnes ag fced themselves. | when Daniel spoke. —“Eseklel” sald cor s Sour An8 went v6 Plainfeia, then < The Mansfiold Fair. ferelved the first prize on judg- |FOU about my stamp collection. Tr all nches do u e ., et the woodchuck 6. | we tosk the train & to Providence, ar- : s sfie s the Rockvill 3 2 B nests-and lay their eggs until the stik| Be kind t&_all livi ks Hying thers dbouc haif past’ Signt Tommy's Lemonade Stand. e bt B Bt b oy ks “Mansfield fair 1 entered one[ There are stamps from the United is in’the seed pods of the thistle and| (pionestor < |Then we went to my cousts Houss e & !‘tfl;: The Storrs school had the hest ex- |10af of rve bread and got first prize, | $tates and Canada. 1 havea few rare . é me: ‘wen! an auto oral boy. i > whicl sie hh e, s = thie i why they raise a late brood and okl ¥ ohae T Ty T SULD | tieted. under the leee DDl tres SRl T R L ey e oL e T all’ the ' Central - American countries. . 34 ' N Vi . ok o e S ere are many colors ai lesign re also called thistle birds. The Twe good time.l hated to ieave. In ome corner of the big lawn in front | o8, LR, o e ife Sonoor. got hom to give me a priz e woadiig 1 saw some beautifu The next week 1 visited different of Tommy's house. It is constructed second prize of five dollars. parts of Rhode Islahd and Massachu- | 0f tWo packing boxes, oné on top of | 570U Prad B/ Ave COiers - was Cre: the other. The boxes are ‘smeared ak Crescent Park and| %, % little biue and green paint, the | PCCts, DOD corn, first year's sew somg boad sewing and| "y jave stamps from nearly ‘all. the nEant i eae countles in South America, including The English sparrows, who are such| Once upop & time tl ! e ‘,! There were two uvrizes offered. for| ), ganting . Peru, Ecuador, . Colombia, | i i B quarreling tribe that they fight|an who had a6 children. shamelesgly among themselves, as well | 48 & hard working fitan. One da: he was going t» work he . squagh and beans to the fat he hest ,” and’ the: next i la, Ui P Brazil s qu:rrel with afl their neighbors | by an auto and dted. When the t by auite rast ama Kd-'&':;r:':i:c?%; hiad siven t':::g"é ‘;:! I got third prize on potatoes, sec-|best. The col ‘got-the first i} oNeTUOA, HIUSULY, Boraguay, Drasil. ‘Bave four and five broods of young|am heard of it she tell to go home I did s - ond prize on carrots, third nrize on| Axd the Gur-| “mp . camps from Egypt and the oth- mes . They calle not want to o, but was promised I|fhe front of the stand are the words: e, $ o sew SNe a year, and this little fellow came uke}; o n‘: a doatfr ';gtd‘ ll‘{a_ conld oo .again next summer. Lemonade—five cents a glass. N0 Towms. Mem Brize on sewing and{ put of a hole in the swamp maple in| g e were born, “"‘V‘ We left Providenee on a Monday| Althoush the words are printed | third cn beans. which these sparrows have lived and|° A week after that she died and the ok e e | e o ey attract| o N ot e ol - attention of many grown up Deo- e fair. There taised hundreds of sparrows In the|twins Becamé orphans. 4 1 ple who often stop fer ..r"-. a‘; 1‘;..._ ‘was a veéry large, black piz there, black cat with three black kittens which T attend, had the e African countries ate very pecullar. o out the best|, In myv collection are mafy stamps goinz to try to ge he St | trom C)“En:' Japan, dsM'“' France, Tt & Russia, Enfiand (and colonies). V5 SRR, Aue il T have a few stamps from. Austrolia, Thilippine ' Islands, Cuba, ' Dehmark, A ast ten or fifteen years. . The next day the nurses advertised P i onade to please the little owner with Tnsis: Jedihas ino ‘Ghence t6)&0) to :aon‘m. papers if anyone wanted to|%® past Beven. Tt @il soeciin grin on his facs. were in a cage. Threy had red rib- Norwdy, and sweden. T alse have a the fields to study the birds, so he has | About & week afterward Food " to" sse’ Norwich again. The ehildren who visit his stand are | Pons around thefr necks. e S S o L e 5 Pk, B Arterward & womax AGNES MORAN, Age 10. |too numerous to mention. Theére were some rabbits in by : Dear Unele Jed: 1 would like t8 tell| T have a few 'stamps from the less &: n, and in dresséd entered the hospital and He keeps the lemonade in two large| I saw two sheep dogs drivinz|you how I have opened school. 1 have|important countries of Furope and said shé wanted to adopt a baby. This o I is v i v pails in one of the boxes. His money | sheep. |i2d a very good time this vacation. I|scme other islands. I think it very woman’s husband was a thief. is put in a small woodén box with a ‘There was a hauling contest and| ‘e been to the beach many times, [interesting to collect stamps. oiLter a very rich woman adopted the The Woedland Grov. sitding cover. there was a stone boat with a larze!and now that summer has gone all my CHARIAE PRUSH. ier, baby. One day while on a fishing trip 1| On the whole Tommy's lemonade | stonie and six men on it for the oxen to| £0od ({imes are over. The good old| Fitchville, vy TE Years passed and the twins saw & beautiful spot. Save for theitand is a very popular piace. oy jPiod)itimes areaver TS it Jéea 18 viars ol ;I'he one which wa. n;mnnocwoum make & splendid Y & Dtetwmr. BN h e e e | CORIPL AT have comelaRuins, L b oy R SRR ey Sn amd worksd very Rard WG sven | Hof by resting on the soft moss BADees e from that was =oing o the Red Cross | o stay there Dear Uncle Jed: Last Fridav we Sometimes had to stéal, while the Sther [ {8 &5 THiGk 48 & mattress on Th e L e CATHERINE MCVEIGH, Age 9. |y3q a school fair at Gurleyville, There Was (réated good and ha Wil she | The shade of the trecs serve s '”mk’ My Visit to the Country. There were some good lpoking cat-| Norwich. was a _Mangfleld fair at Storrs Friday wanted e otien 1om he E tha ad . ci e e e Aftorndon. "1 went home and got’ the One day about 12 o'clock at night t;“ only sound ' 18 the .&'.‘&;“’i;:fl: kn:sv‘v';:g ‘}}H‘x."ui‘:fif tgoth:aflfz!u 121‘)‘" B e e The Montenegrin Kapa. horse and wagon. Then I went to girls Sach who demonstrated how to| poqp {ipele Jed: The round cap, or | school agaln and took the vegetables the thief awoke the girl ewd told her | 6f the brook -nd a long drawn out { My cousin, who lived in the country, | can tomatoes. herseif, ng very | whistle by & invned me to join her for my summer The fair was very zood and T had t:red and sleepy, wouldn't 4o it, so the| It is & P sl yoodsy grove. {vacation, My mother giving me per-|q nice time. FR Y 2 2 uk @ lafge -#tiek and beat her | The trees are tall and the long aisles |mission to go, I could hardly wait for |~ " A7 FRED A. WALKER, Age 13, remind me of a cathedral school to_close. Mansfield Gente : o e Fist was dorced to dréss Borseit. | ¢ & e P R L T . was finished arches. A e school closed I packed my trunk and Oiving the Cows. V.,, riéh m Then | ¢arpes and bel my father hired an auto to take me to 4 2 1pa.” wor Iontenegrin soldiers |and flowers to Storrs. history of their country in minia-| Saturday my brother and T had to Jeople of Montenegro, in- | draw stones and water with our horse. saving that “kapa talks,” | We stopped drawing stones at 12 o'- Wot far wrong.. 1It.is|clock. Then we got ready to go to the ~addvess for war, and | Mansfield fair. nce and peasant.| At the fair we.saw about twenty he' ““ Dear Uncle Jed: I would like to tell ,,, ol Vivid. crimson. but it |oxen. We also saw three ponies. One thin you about my adventures with our % deep black border, which only |was in a little wagon and two had on a 3 m h el taue - i cows. | es 1 crown of the foundation | saddles. y L4 Our._corn s cut down and the cows | rater visible. i T went home about four o'clock and huirry ba Posstb ible The girl 3", an ifi: ‘Wis t6ld. She S like to eat it. _The fence that leads| The hlack border is a sign of mourn- | €6t the cows. My brother and sister w and when to the corn is broken near the swamp. |ing for the terrible battle of Kossovo, [came home then, too. I ltked the fair There the cows trespass and cross the)when tie old Montenegrin and Serb | very much. < As soon she saw the room lit swamp. then they go to eat the corn.|empires were overthrown by the Turks FRITZ STEL and a swéet voice said: ‘“What are you ‘We have to'drive them out, of course, | and tneir armies annihilated. The —_— % doing. theéré?” Thén a cm about her B - not eat the . One|red crown signifies “the fleld of Depends on Point of View. Age stood near her and seld: “You 3 o 2 @ in twe €orn|Liood,” of the same great fight What & man calls enthusiasm in ook exactly tike m"mm: enoul)\ and my maother was ceéupicd “h| On the red crown, in ome corner,|himself he calls gush in others, — they Aukfe iaistarsl work which she could not lcave. So|are five semi-circles in gold. - These | Cincinnati Enquirer. The poor girl became mad and said: T and my brother had to go to drive 4 ‘1 do not.” and wanted to run away. s The rieh girl sai n't gor | 1 It was 8.30 o'clock when we went to 3 " |and she zave her a sitk night gown] drive them out. I stood near tiie woods 4nd they. went to bed : while my brother was trving to drive Later they tound '1‘»%"" they were HEA them out-of the corn. I saw that he Shn ™, MEYER, Age 10. tw.43 and they M ever .n.r. wasn't getting alonz alright. so I went to help him. We got the cows a3 out through the sate walked home = safely. The Haunted Houie. It w;: Mr;t o'clock when we gotfe v = hewe ywn the naughtv cows. mohe bright Bunday T was sitting on We reached school in fen minutes A But eaunn T gaw two of ey ey Iareby. [ and were quits happs not to be late. :mx,'er" s \"o""i Unels 'Sim, by 102 coming up ths waik. and on. sneing STELLA GRSKA, Ase . * o the porch they eaid:' “We're goftz for Jewett City. a walk. Do you want to join us? A September Day. ) ly put on m 3 4 14 e Dear Uncle Jed: It was a beautiful | Norwich. — and we were woo; 9 Afler w-mmgn?;; u“:m::yum. we P dav in 8eptemben The sky was of mpmmficm‘r came to & large deserted house with a . a bright azure , tinted here and thero hpunud appearance. 'y with a speckless white cloud. The sun say this house is haunted,”! il shown .down with its glorious splen- said one of the girls, while another dor from the blwe dome of the sky. The “ prizes Evm Second laughed ard said there was no suchi branches of the. trees hung ‘ow with many leaves. M h E Jack Frost had wasted no time Ir Month The d g open, we walked in. changing the fleaves into the most We found ourselves in a large hall brilliant colors. The sumac had Its whose walls were covered with dark k parnet coat to be sure. Piles of hay and corn lay stacked up-in the corn Pictures to the width of a col- [|red paper. =~ = R a The sunflowers cast thelr face: 5 roken chandelier was still E R AR 3 o un:n of The Bulletin or of two on fl” ceiling. On one side 4 towards the magnificent glow of ¢ columns. ot the hall was & large door that steod g sun The upturnsd pumpiins lay slightly opén. First we peeked in, then lazlly grinning in the garden. , The Pencil or ‘ink—no. celer e enterod. We were surprised to find apples 1ay in piles which glitteréd ltke 'h & h&hdsomeé room in such a house. rubjes in the =ig. - . _— The large windows reached from the . 3 NFLLIE MeCARTHY, Age 14. Write name and address plainly f§|celiing to the fll‘,’,‘}l'u‘,"‘,‘}‘:;’u"“;f 3 : Mol on back of drawing, otherwise §l ror. : How They Cut Silace. you may not get credit. Atfter we to . Dear Uncle Jed: I wonder how many Py city boys and gitls know how ensila is_cut, or how silos ars filied PRESENT CONTEST CLOSES 16 W lg:fl up 5 3 My father selects the best corn for OCTOBER 23rd 4} of eeed. He puts it into a machine and But was 7 plants it in hills or drills. In the fall = Wwhen the eorn is ready to cut most| Kat and the Fiddle, by Clifford Moody of Norwich.