Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 9

RCLE BOYS AND GiaLs DEPADTHENT Retes for Young Writers. call. -busi- attThe - | Gese office for themiat anyy after | 1. piataly o ane side oxitbe |16 o m. Thursday, styd w "ud number — John Shea of Ni .&n: for the prize book which you sent/me | :MK :!;ha huflwm Trenton., As : ave read it isgvery interest- g::nfl agatn I MLQM you Floreda Reil of Volmtown—I thank you :t RF Do not use cver Origioal -stories or letters only Diniaty st the bottork of the & 1l communicationa . Uncle uch for' thespeize. ey Jent ‘ms entitied Camp mm the End of the Trail I have read through already andlit is very inten- esting. Eleona Frost of Col 1— Please excuse me .for not ‘sooner. 1 am very much pleaged with' my book, entitled Cowboy Dave, and I think it is very interesting. Harry Schatz of Yantio—I (hnkxo\l for the prize you sent me - tled The Boy Scouts in the Rockies. Margaret E. Nosworthy. of ;Ham; —The_two_prizes, the dolar'and Ameri¢an Boys Aboard e Submersible, reached me just about Valentine’s day and were two of my nicest valentine your daddy g [Give his hair ons lest pood pull, wave T o et oheitand Soitng can’ i daddy ery. ! crowing boy, what s knows he of tears, Partings bitcerer death, anguis} oA, hopes and fears? ou:t'mhnn. Joyously, ltle does ruess Soon the darkling war clouds may. make him fatherless. Tam g{ng, 11tth« gon, that in years to {Yon shall, when you understand, not be shamed for me: did his part, so will ing and instructive both, because there's s0 much about the war in it—subma- rines and aeroplanes, and things. I'm enjoying it very much. T'd like to go up in ap aeroplane and down in a sub- marine. Oh! wouldn't'it be fun! BVORIES WRITTEN BY. WIDE- { AWAKES. Winning Her Way. . It was the morning of May the first that Evelyn Carroil's mother passed 3 away. Evelyn was her only child and Baby with the dewey eyes amd the|as she grieved about the death of her rose leaf cheek, .| mother “her mind began - to wonder HHere | make a covenant for my boy |how she would get along. She was to kcap— cnly fifteen, but she decided to try to ‘Through the long, long years to ¢ome | get a position in some factory. Her down along the line. daddy o you mothier had left her with about ten AN the fine, high, noble d-cds daddy |dollars in her pocket did not do. As Evelyn was a neat and goodilook- ing girl she was hired at onee with Hittle baby boy, goodby! Kiss me, |wages of six dollars per week. She lttle pard, 4 ‘was promised more if she would prove Put your arms around my neck, love | capable of it, your daddy ‘hard!" A year had passed sinee the death of her mother ‘and Evelyn began to tiink about higher things. ‘“This fac- tory life wouldn’t do” thought she. ly ery. By dl:,t' of M;d work a.m‘l by saving s~Anne Vicginle , Culbertson, in the|Soney she took a course in a steno- Columbus Dispatch. graphy scheol. In two vears she had finished her course and l“vu ready for i o a position. Of course, she began with A Happy Dollar Bill. a_smaller position but soon her em- ployers finding her accurate, fond of work and trustworthy, gave her a still higher place, Evelyn Carol is now the secretary of a famous lawyer in the United States and is earning her five thous- and a year. In time the world will hear of her. Who, when but a child, raised herself ro higher duties. SADIE PHILLIPS, Age 15. WA happy little Dollar Bill | Went ing off fo town,’ ishtway bought for Mother Some gingbam, blue and brown. Irhe gingham cost jubt sixty cents, #o that Dolar Bill shooting up e chute-the-chute Like cossting up a hill Norwich. *,fll long that happy Bill ‘ent .fi‘ round the store; Our Farm. e bousht just m&fl of . thing We live on a farm and have seven From every single fioor. cows. We did have two little calves, 5 AR but my fntl;‘e‘:hloll'fl um;:o ‘We have it 3 2 ves, ten hens w ave zen - their Some clothesline and a mo':;" combs. | A box of goap and & pudding dish;, | When I was five ‘years old-I had o A necktie and & top. i lien named Bridget, that was so gen- tle I often gave her a ride in my doli's At six o'clock it had to stop; {carriage. She enjoyed the ride, for It couldn’t buy seme more, {she stayed in until taken out. I also Becanse, you see, the folks in charge | Would take her in my arms and rock Were closing up the' store. her in my little rocking chair. We have two cats, one is caileq Top* ‘And'sp it fet the cashier take sy, and the other Whitefoot. Topsy ¢ And tuck it in a stall; is all black and Whitefoot is black Mad there it lay and laughed, because | With white paws and a white breast. » It wasn't spent at all. In the summer I intend to have a flower garden. My father said he would get me. some seeds. T had a flower garden last vegr, and planted some late cosmos which grew six feet high. I had some calHopsis, chrysan- themums and marigolds. = BEATRICE POTTER, Age 9. —Christian Science Monitor. UNCLE JED'S TALK WITH WIDE- AWAKES. f In the war zone over in Belgium and France where the American soidier| 'V oSterly. P::o:lor nbflfltenmflhfl- there | o1} Gan Learn to Go Without Sweets @ but stray pets Wi, One afterncon Anna Sheldon and ire looking 73+ protection and fri her friends, or, “the crowd,” as they | Now here ic o story that eame right |callea themselves, planned to help stralpht from Deigium about a cat, and | their country. They would each by z & a thrift stamp every week until they ftold in Our Dumb Animals: had filled their card, Each irl went “Tmagine an English encampment of | to school so their parents couldn’t al- woldiers somewnere in Belgium—in|loWw them much a week. But this ront wrtillery lookouts, behind them | FO¥J_had certain rules, they were: 1. Never to ride in a street car for infartry treaches, ir the background home, for they could easily walk. artillery officers’ dugruts. Never to spend _their. money for “Th- Jnokout men eaw a cat emerge | ©20dY, ice cream and soda. Erom ..c German trenches in font of | narties sud' cermeoce " 00 EOIPE t0 them, make her way calmly to their| These rules were hard to follow at trenches, pass through, aad proceed to | Bfst, but they besan to find it pleas- e rear, whore she cerefully inspected | 20t 0 assemble nights, with — their > knitting and_sewing. Ehe officers’ billots. Then she retraced | One night as they were assemblod ber steps to the German lines and the | knitting for the Red Cross, one of the Englishmen supposed that they had g’r-l; burst out that there was to be a been the Fust of her. To their amase- |yt "%, Sirerent ramin wvaes org gmeat, ehe reappeared with 4 kitten in|two of these would be picked Sut for ber mouth, passed by-them to the zone | the zame. bf comparative safety in the rear,| -The mext Saz whon they All mit {0 8rogged her kitten in a dugout, went|Grter thes other: 1y iy A mascsomly back fo the German trenches, and got |othar. When he came to this bunch Ppusay number two. : of girls who had been saving he was “Pimlly she had throe kittens safe|VeTY much surprised at their light In the English linesand speculation '“E‘:’".‘ix.‘ci'fa ;;i‘;nh:td::& :;?;:?d‘:. Bs to her reason for the removal of | “How on earth do you girls manage Bhe ‘dttens was in vain. She never told | this after S mimimer bf Seafink;omi foe why she deserted the Germane. T hes ; “The Enslish officers, amused by her h.Tthw EL::;:J;I °§§1'§?.§§£&'.' e prust 2n them, wrote the story home,| It was an easy victory for them, 3 @ mother sent red ritibons for.the |and they made more money for the Red Cross with this one game thas possies. Her son, in writing, said|g)) the others, and only because n.e; that they had named tho three kittens, | had kept the rule, ' Bnipe fue Bomb-thrower, Wheezer and| All can learn to o without sweets, Ginger, apd thet they ‘looked very A RETL, Age 12. Totching as they eat beside him as he wrote hia letter, dsccrated as they were A Story of a Pony. With their red neck ribboas. mll h-?:vmm& Lo cunning pony onths oid. If the cat did not tell the reason why | 07" =%, WAvEs 010, He Wak in a field phe deserted it mai' be surmised that|could. It was growing dusk, about § fhe was lcoking fof better treatment ::l:c‘l:n i:’ summe‘r, ';nflnhlg tm-:‘t:r s way to the field to ”;::"::’n“:;;",:;"“" and it is| DT _home for a night's rest. This 3 pony’s name was Betsey and she had the gtray 4t that has grown poor for [a dark brown coat. pent of fed wnd eldller that citen RUTH LITCH. Age 9. Yreves most dapondable and useful and readie as pets. Voluntown. Danielson. Monday Morning in Japan. A There are no children in all the ¥ME WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.|worlg that have such a good time as - [t 3 1—Otie T. Main of Meatic—Bhil [ pioyPo7e, o2, Sifla of Jepmn, Thelr Bradles’s Snowsace Thall doilo dreased to represent all the df 3—Anca Olesn of Baltic—Ocean | ferent clisses of people Wireiess Suys on War Swept Seas. |lfeagland; kit 3—Egit', rhillips of Varsaflies—Mo- | and shape: wr Xeid Buco, Daye Uke real 4—33oreda Rail of Voluntown—The Boy 1“mevtors Padic Tiegraph. ?l 6—Mildred Grardy of iuntio~Com- | Tho houses are small, The whole 2=Ces. J family -lt: on zrlf- floor for m s:t- §—8adis_ Phillipe_of Norwlol~Phil | ing from i¢s that are 1o high- s Wicatag W animals that are viry and every possible kind Work, gaema llke play in Jaw “it-1s dono on & toy seale, low ay. #r than o Otool, and the Japaneso stove PwLilile Beko of Voluntown—Ocean | 1€ filled with charcoal and is only tho and rinse; on the fioor; with back, o But one of.the charming My little' sister was her to bring the cats up tomy brothe: ang I came up after her. - % My prother started to dig in #he c¢ and tw Jumped out’ and’ Kitty caught o8 Then'my sister and I startsd to dig with my brother. ~After a litle while the two .cats had fifteen_mice. Then we all started to chase around. Fin- ally the dog came into. the she. had a ladder up. elimb up the ladder. My brother car- tied him up.’ Then the dog started to dig and we cleared the mice, ANNA OLSEN, Age 9. Baltle. . ? ! “Jack.” Jack is a great, big heavy horse. He welghs sixteen hundred pounds. He Is of a rat' color, bul he looks ~ vers nige. has’ a yery nice mane which| Jas flies all -around his mneck runs. y One day as I was hooking him off the sleigh shafts he began to fump ‘a little bit becuuse he saw a dog come running dewn « hili by the side of our house. I eould hardly hook him off, but I to get Jack out of the shafts some way. 1 took him into the barn and.took the harness off him and as I took the last plece of harness off, which was the saddle, I told Jack to get up intc Lis stall Jike I always used to do: but instead of going in his stail ho turned around and ran outside and Tolled in the wet snow. After he had a good roll he Jeaped up and started to run 0p and down the field on the sids of the house. I tried to get him bit it was of no use. 'I went into the barn and.gst a measure full of oats and aft- er'a long time [ coaxed him to me. If I hadn’t got the oats I wouldn't have gotten him. RALPH OLSEN, Age 14. when he The First R, F. D. Route Marked. The town of Climax, Michigan, re- cently unveiled a very interesting monument which stands” on,the spot where the first rural free delivery driver in the state of Michigan start- ed out. This town was one of the flrs& in the' United States 1o have rural mail service and the first drivers left the post office on Dac. 3, 1896, One of the most interesting features ebout this monument Is that it cen- tains a stone from every farm cov- ered by the rural free deliveries going out from Climax. There are two hun- dred and forty of these stones in the monument and they are set on a pe- destal of concrete and topped by a shb of this same material. Above the monument is a cluster of four big arc ligats surmounted by a flagpole. ‘The first rural free delivery inau- gurated in this country was put into operation on October 1, 1896, and went from Charlestowa West Virginia, so that the Climax delivery was only two monthz Jater. MILDRED GRANDY, Age 12, Yantic. My Trip to Canada. Last Fourth of July my mother, my brother and I started on a trip to Canada. . We went on the Ceneral Vermont railroad through Brattleboro. We started at four in the afternoon and arrived at my grandmothers house at 1i*o'clock the next night, ‘We ' visted Quebec and Levis which is on the other side of the St. Law- rence river. We fgaw the Quebec bridge, although the. central part was not in place. At my uncle's farm we had:a good time. We used to get up early "in the morning to go and milk the'cows and feed the other animals. There were eight calves, two horses and one colt. The cows were not fed as they stayed in the pasture all sum- mer. . They- gave the cows :salt once in a while as they like it very much. We spent five weeks there.and had lots of fun. PHILIPPE MAURI, Age 10. Baltic. . Odr:Valentine Social. Ohe Sunday. in Sunday school our superintendent told us that on the thirteenth of February, we would hold a Valentine Social. The night arrived and the hall where we held the social was prettly ‘decorated. Three booths decorated with hearts stood in the middle of the hall. The program was carried out by two girls from the town of Daniel- son. 5 One girl recited a “Conversation at the Butchers” and “Mr. Brown Get- ting His Hair Cut” The other girl sang two solos. They both were talented apd aid extra well. Then a quartet of women sang a song, and the men sang, “Way wn Upon' The Swanee River We then played games, ate ice cream and at a quarter to eleven went home after having had a good time. HAROLD WILDE. Wauregan. \ The White Ship. Prince William was the son of King Henry of England. He was a good and kind prince. All the peopie loved him and hoped some day he would become their king. One summer day Prince William and his, father set sail for France to look after some of their land. - The trip was a_very pleasant one. In France they had‘a joyous time, At last the day came when they had to go back to England. The King and his wise men sailed home early in the morning. The prince was in no hurry to re- turn after the good times he had in nce. \ Later in the day the prince and his young friends wént back to Bngland. The day was pleasant und there was no fear Of ‘danger. The sun went down, but there was no fear, the moon was at its full. As the ship was safl- Ing it struck a rock. Then it began to sink beneath the waves. A hoat was brought; the prince and his friends way. ten yards wént in and rowed The, searCs from the sinking ship when the prince hearg @ cry of help coming from the ship. He told the man to row back Boys and the Tost Liner, size to it o good sized doll's house, Monday morning :s wash day in Ja- $—Craristte in of Norwich— 3 - % - '."":“"n - ok | Dun Sust ag 1t ia here: but th wash an cut his arms for his Jittle sistor, As he|found a can took her in his arms the ahlp gave a|on it We The dog couldn’t’ L) ‘When the king heard this he was so grieved that it was said he 'never smiled again. SUSAN HATTIN. Mansfield Centér. £ LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. Working for Uncle Sam. Dear Uncle Jed: Bvery Friday after- noon we have a “War Program.” First we Salute the Flag and sing Patrio- tic Songs. Next we recite on topics that we find about the war during the week. Then we talk about = Thrift Stamps, Soldiers and Red Cross Soc- leties. ‘The rest of the afternoon we spend cutting rags for comfort pillows. So that our heroes who fall on the bat- tle field or battle ships shall be prop- ped up comfortably. ‘We are getfing up a Junior Red Tross Society/in our school room. We are doing all we can to get a quarter apiece. Then we will belang to the auxiliary,’and each will receive a Red Cross Pin and a Red Cross Banner for the school. We began doing thi only two weeks ago and have already two dollars and a half picked up. I think this is a good beginning. Don't you? 1 hope many other schools are doing as much as we are, or even more if they can. JENNIE-KEIL, Age 9. Voluntown. % A Little Helper. Dear Uncle Jed:—I am a little girl of seven and have heard of your wide- awake friends, and I too would like to tell them how I pass my time, Of course, I go to school and when my school hours are over, I go home and help mamma. You know mamma has a great deal of work and little brother Carl to tend to, so you see she needs my help very much. I am little, they say, to do the work I have to do, I hang up mamma’s clothes, I take care of brother Johny and brother Frank. They are both smaller than I am; and I do help mamma in lots of other things. They say in school, it makes one bappier, who helps, than the one you are doing it for. Dear Uncle Jed, I hope you can read my writing, It is the first time I ever wrote with pen and ink, and I know it is poor, but some day I will be able to do better. I shall try very ‘hard anyway. ‘WOHLLEBEN, Taftville. How He Will Do His Bit. Dear Uncle Jed:—I am going to tell you how I can raise my quota in school to buy my Thrift help our government to clothe our soldiers in the training ips all over the United States. I am going to cut wood, clean cel- lars, weed onions and other small vegetables, and tear down ‘old build- ings and cut them into kindling. I can sell papers and many other things. JOSEPH E. L. UNDERWOOD, Norwich. - ed that while riding on a trainacross the prairies, the grass caught fire, It was in autumn and I was going from Colorado Bprings to Sait Lake City, accompanied by my parents and sister, to attend my aunt's funeral I was very tired at the énd of a two days' ride ‘so I retired to my berth very early this night, just a1 nine o'clock. My head had hardly touched the pillow when I heard the cry “Fire! Fire! Fire!” I looked out of the win- dow and what met my gaze? The prairies were blazing.. A farmhaus was in danger of being burned. Quicl ly the passengers and train crew gath- ered shovels and brooms to fight the flames. I gazed, horror stricken at the sight. But hark! Rain pitter patters against my window. A storm ("im” which .quigkly extinguished the re. Ding! dong g! dong! Tt was the school beil. Ida. Alda. get up! Then I knew thst I had been dreamine. ALDA Age 11 ° TAFTVILLE Playing.in the Fields. Dear Uncle Jed:—On Thursday af- ternoon my girl friend and I went out in the woods to play. In an open field under a walnut tree we found a fine place. 8/ e THere we also found an oM _tree stump to cook on, We also found ng pans and Kettles I that had the word sugar Then my girl friend looked around to she could find any snow. At some in back:of a rock, UNCLE SAM, by Dona Howard, of Westerly, R. I - faco clothes, We save all el 2 £ i Hs yarn. 5o that we are the, money we can get. ‘ I hide myselt' and then .|my dog Wsunie ‘runs and. trles to Bind me. ' I have a little house for,him and I iput a lot of straw in his house so he at night he besins little pupple. So I try to_keep him warm. \ 1 got Wennie from my cousin. He said. T coyld have him for a Christ- mas present. - - I toke good eare =0 give him good , SARAH SCHATZ, Age 10, My Pets. Dear Uncle Jed: I am telling you a short story 7.bolit my pets. a duck, and a cat. The_ cafis nepe is Cunning, and the duck’s name is Cute. _ Cunning is yellow, zebra and white mixed with a white nose, and. fou- of my dog and al- Yantie. | white feet. we\'““d it for sugar. cut down. went home. CHARLOTTE BENJAMIN Age 11 NORWICH A True Fish Story. Dear Uncle Jed: When I was five years old .my father took me down to the drawbridge. He bought a piece of rope from home to tie me to the I bad a fine time watch- bridge with. tng the trains go by. s When 1 wasn't looking my father put a fish on my fishhook. For a long time 1 thought I caught-that fish; but when I reachied homo that afternoon I heard: him ‘tell. mother that he' put that fish on my line and I was dis- appointed. RICHARD BUCKLEY, Age 7. Norwich. " & My First Fishing Trip. had never fishing in the afternoon. I did my chores rapidly so that could start out just’ after dlnner: ter. T waited for about three or fous minutes when I felt my line jerking, and, like all beginners, swung my lina out so hard that the fish came out, swinging high in the air, and get ting entangled in some bushes. I tried to get the line and fish from the bush, but in the end, had to cut the line. The fish I caught was perch, about five inches long. After baiting my hook again and swinging it out in the water I began to wonder what kind of iish I-would catch next, when I felt the line jerk. without getting my Jine tangled in the bushes, I pulled “in this time for T did not want to have the sam troublesome time as when I caught th other fish. This time I caught pickerel , about six inches long. by its sharp fins. T let “Ouch!” as ‘it pained me. out After putting it in my basket with the other fish, I started fishing agair. T caught six fisiRin one hour, three perch, one pickerel, and two pumokin seeds. When 1 got home and weighed the fish, -1 found they weighed two and one-haif pounds. I had a good suppe: that night, after “enjoying a = ‘good day’s fishing. © “: HARRY SCHATZ, Age 12, Yantic. Dling Things Backward. Denr Uncle Jed: It seems sometimes. 28 though the people of other coun- tries_do things in a very topsy-turvy -| manner. though I suppose it all seems quite natural to them. Our manners would doubtless strike them as being just as queer. Tor instance, in our countrv, men take off their hats when they. come into the ‘house; but in India they keep on thelr turbans, but take off their shoes. bands turned inward; with them turned outward. last .page and reading toward place we' were playir was 2 pohd in which we coul Around the pond some trees had been My girl friend picked up some qf the chips and dipped them in mud and water. ‘We played they were roasted meat. We had a fine time and played until almost dark and then get water. Dear Uncle Jed: It was a -eloudy day, just the day for fishing. As I gomie fishing before, and having fishing tackle good -enough for the first try-out, I thought I woull go b . dug some worms, got my pols anl basket and started eut for th» pond. When I reached the pond, I baited my hook, and swung it out in the wa- In getting it off my hook, ‘1 was stuck and ‘We beckon with the palms of our they . beckon They read their books beginning from the the front, and they write ‘their accounts Cute, is all white except around his eyes, and his bill. Cunuing is a verv Dlayful kitty, and she botkers Cute al- | most to death. Some times Mr, Duck is walking very proudly along,” when Miss Kit- ty will walk very carefully alongsifle of him, then she will quickly jump in front of him and rub against® his breast almost’ pushing Mr. Cute, over. This makes Mr. Ducky mad. Sometimes after Miss Kitty haz both- ered Mr. Ducky awhile he gets very much provoked aftd tries to bite her soft coat of fur. B : I suppose he thinks that she will soil his ‘nice white breast, but all the same' they are very loving playmates and make us all ‘laugh to see them frolic. ~ They are-my pets. I wonder if' the other Little "Wide- Awakes have such loving pets. I hope so for they bring sunshine to every home) where they are, to couniry or city, boys or_girls: OTIS T. MAIN, Age 11. Mystie. ,BRIEF STATE NEWS Farmington.—At its meeting Tues- day night the Farmington grange or- ganized a war savings association. Norwalk—Fire Chief George W. Bogardus' is recovering from His_ ill- ness and was able to be down street yesterday for a short time. Bristol.—A wrist watch was pre- sented Esteemed Leading Knight Barl T. White, who' left ‘Wednesday for 8““5,‘,’.“”““" by Bristol lodge, B. P. : ¢ | Essex.—The members of Company I, Sixth regiment, C.: H. G, were inspect- ed by Adjutant General George M. Cole of Hartford at the public hall Wednes- - | day evening. Bridgeport.—Among - the passengers sailing Tuesday on the steamer Arapa- hoe of the Clyde line for Jacksonville, Fla, were Mr. and Hugh E. Wagoner of Bridgeport. New Britain.—E. Burlingham Schurr, curator at the New Britain institute, will give a course of weekly nature talks before the class of normal stu- dents at the Academic High echool. Westport—Willlam S. Hart, the movie picture man with the extremely bad-bad face and a large heart, is figuring on retiring from the screen and making his home in Westport. Hartford—A city service flag with four stars will soon fly from the home of Louis Udolfsky at- No. 361 Fromt street, signifying that he has_given four sons in the service of the United States. Cromwell—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mey- ors have received word from their son, Corporal Frank R. Meyers, that he has arrived safely in France. He reports » fine voyage, all well, and a beautiful eountry. Middletown.—Georze A. Tierney of the war savings committee of the local war bureau has secured Prof: William Lyon Phelps of Yale to speak at the ber of. Commerce dinner tonight (Thursday). 1 e e a r Norfolk.—By the use of dynamite, the ice blockade in the Blackberry river, between West Norfolk and East Canaan, was broken up, thus making the highway, which was badly flooded, passable’ for traffic. Southington.—~The members of the Good Will club of ‘the First Baptist church at their meeting this week dis- played a regulation size quilt which was knitted by the members with a N ALGmonths old o NTS Wuuv Ot — For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA knitted American flag in the center of the quilt. Those who worked on the quilt knitted their initials .into the work .also. It will be sent across to the soldier boys in France. Avon.—This (Thursday) evening will be Thrift night at Avon grange. A thrift program has been arranged and a silver collection will be taken for the purpose of adding a war savings stamp to the grange building fund. Hartford.—The jury term in the court of common pleas, which will last “/|for eight weeks, will be opened on Tuesday morning. Twenty-three elec- tors of the county from fifteen towns have been drawn to report for jury duty. Norwalk—Thomas A. O'Keefe, inter- nal revenue officer, will be at the city hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of this week until 9 o'clock for the purpose of assisting local peo- ple to make out their income tax blanks. Winsted.—John H. Slocum has been appointed by the selectmen superin- tendeént of police to succeed the late Stephen C. Wheeler, who held that of- fice for 30 years. Wheeler, who died about a week ago, was also health of- ficer for 15 years. Dr. S. G. Howd was appointed to that vacancy. The new superintendent has been a member of the police force for nine years. Bridgeport.—Burglars blew open’the large safe in Lee Brothers’ Furniture company and got away with $1,200 «n cash and a $50 Liberty bond. Burglar tools were left behind, aithough there | was no evidence of haste on the part of the safe blowers, who used blankets from the etore to deaden the noise of the explosion. Entrance was made through a second story window and eseape was made without observation. NORTH LYME es Reynolds and Mrs. Fosdick e guests at J. L. Raymond’s Satur- day. Mrs. Fosdick has a new car. W. H. Sisson, Ir, is able to be out after an attack of grip. Miss Dorothy Simon was a week end visitor at M. J. Stark. Miss Gladys Miner was home from Lyme Sunday. A TURKEY GOBBLER, by Agnes Gayeski of Colchester. Rev. and Mrs. Francis Purvis were in “Middletown last week are ill with grip. N. S. Strong were in Lyme Thursday. YANTIC Village a Little Slow in Purchase of War Stamps—Sale of Barber Farm—s | Service at Grace Church Friday Evening. Targe thrift stamp and war savings % stamp posters were received here.last 3 week and Postmaster Manning has devoted space in the front window to them as well as dis- tributing them in public places. To date only $583.95 worth has been sold. Government Meat Inspector. Eugene T. O'Conmors, a gov!mmen: meat inspector, is located at presen as inspector for the Bronx Finishing company of New York. Able to Leave Hospital. Mrs. Ella Beswick who has been a he-wita] for several weeks, left the hoepital last week for patient at Poio-e a few days' oy w. wee and Mrs. day Mrs. Beswick, Rev. J. Welling Areson, New York to spend a few weeks with ! her niece. Farm Sold. James Barber has sold his Pleasant View, to a Polish family and has moved to Mr. Appley's tenement Mr. and Mrs. J. Rogers | and family, who also lived at Pleasan View farm, have moved lnhro one of th the at Bean Hill. village tenements on road. At the Sunday morning service in Grace chiirch Miss Lucy Bishop was soloist and greatly inspired the war-'| Lenten eervices will be held shippers. Friday at 7.30 o'clock. Mrs. Hannah Kingsley, who has been ill for some time ‘with a_severe attack of grip, is able to sit up for & few hours each day, Frederick K. Kingsley don spent the week end at his home here. Frederick Kingsley, Ir. by the Connecticut highway depart- ment as operator of one of the sta road trucks in thig vicinity. ¥ ‘and Edward Strong! Charies Carpanter. accompanied by , is employed Lieatfyameyhennaress s e aamiry ) ‘Wednes- | * Willlam E. nome of, Mr. | Tues- | left town for' farm, | Franklin | of New Lon- OH! THAT AWFUL BACKACHE IT’S YOUR KIDNEYS An unhealthy body, and the unhap- piness and misery which follow, may be prevented by ordinary judgment and care. Keep your stomach ~and kidneys in shape and you will have good health. The kidneys’ work is to throw off the poisonous matters which enter the body. If they perform this work regularly and automatically the other organs will take care of them- selves, . Diseased conditions of the bladder or kidneys are indicated by nervous- ness, sleeplessness, that tired, worn- out feeling, dizziness. nausea, back- ache, lumbago, rheumatism, pain in the lower "abdomen, many so-called | “female troubles,” severe pain and In discomfort or suppressed passages. nature’s signals to warn you of diss ys* cased kidneys or bladder, which may lead to fatal Bright's disease . : Don’t wait until the donger is upon’ you. Go to your druggist at once. Get a trial box of GOLD MEDAL They are made ©of the pure, original, imported Faer- Haarlem Oil Capsules. lem Oil, the kind your father used. About two capsules each | day will keep you toned up and feol~ Money' refunded if they do - not help you. But remember to osk for the imported GOLD MEDAL brand. - 'In sealed packages. ing fine. when - urinating, cloudy and stringy urine, too frequent bloody, All these are I L LR A L) great-grand- S .