Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 9, 1918, Page 9

- For-The Bulletin They must be either 2.3-16 wide for single column, and 4 616 for double column, The lines must come within these measurs- Winning Wide Awake - Letters are rewarded with a Thrift Stamp, with an extra Stamp for | every fourth book won. State your oreference, or book. : T stamp Rules _for_Young Writers. you very much for the prize book.. I Sgae find it very interesting. nfig‘b::.!m: ®| Sherwood E. Swan, of Norwich—I d ink, not pencil. have received the prize book, “Red U pen A oied sticles will | Cross Girls in the Trenches.” It s in- be given "“:}““_ Do not use over | teresting. I thank you very much. 250 words. I Patricia Cassidy, of Norwich — I [ storfes or ‘letters only |have read the prize book entitled. will be used, “Polly: A New Fashioned Girl” and 5. Write your name, age and ad- |found it even more interesting than I dress plainly at - bottom of the |expected. Thank you very much for it. story. Agnes Gayeski, of Coichester—Many Address all commiunications tc Uncle tha:ks S eor e et stamps. It is my Jea,_Sainin S fourth one. Il try again: “Whatever you are--Be that! bt (00 Whatever “yeu way—Ee truel STORIES WRITTEN BY ~ WIDE- Straigbttorwardly aet, AWAKES. Be hounest-—in fact, . AT B e Liberty Bond Parade. pobody eise I am gosng to tell the Wide-Awakes about the parade we had in our.town. Tt was held April 22nd. We marched in line. Home Guard first, then vet- erans, Miss ‘Hoover, farmer, farmer- etts, Red Cross nurses, Camp Fire Girls and different societies. Last came the children, Everywhere we looked we saw peo- ple, automobiles, teams, and every- body was looking at the parade. Every one carried a flag. Last of all in back of the peonle were floats riding slowly. Then after marching about an hour we went to the hall. Most children were not let in, but they let me in. If Lady Mab should be so kind First evervone sang ‘A‘meérica,” then As ask you for a kiss, a veteran from town spoke; then Miss Just lock one way with both your eyes, | systin spoke, and Rev, Father Baumis- And place .your lips like this! ter and many other people that are : interested in the war ‘and Liberty bonds. 3 It was very interesting. This parade was held for Liberty bonds, thrift stamps and other things to help win the war. POETRY. DOT TO HER DOLLIES. Now, children, mind your “p’s and q's” (Cassandra! please attend!) For I expect a visit soon From Mab, my dearest friend. Now mind you sit quite stilll and please ... 3 ’ Don't lét The hear a word! For dolls, like other children, Should be seen but mot be heard. Now then, Minerva! Goodness me! Just look at that child’s face! You've been among the coals again, And soifed your nice new lace! I'm tired of talking, I declare! And much my training shows! There’s Ruby with her arm right off, And Pearl has smashed her nose! AGNES GAYESK], Age 11. Colchester. Bee Buying Liberty. Our forefathers saved and kept this land for us. We owe them a great debt. Think what liberties we have here. This is the first country where all men are equal, and free. The foreign men and women who cofme here have rights also. WHEN MOTHER READS ALOUD..| We are fighting not only for our —ghe own country, but for the whole world. ‘We are fighting a_nation where ev- ery man. woman and child counts, and if we expect to win we must count al- s0. The enemy’s plan was to overthrow the whole world when we were un- prepared. They hayve a ruler whose grent ambition is to conquer the world. Think of our privileges now, think how few we would have, and how hard we would have to work: we might all But wait until youre‘!:& comes home! 1 cet ty: shall tell! e ;To 1h:rrt1'g!m:'\-isifors should see— ! My gracious! That's the bell! —TYorkslire Weekly Post. won Woo %\\‘hpn Mother reads aloud the past eems real as every day: hear, the tramp of armies vast, see the spears and lances cast, 1 join the thrilling fray: Brave knights and ladies fair .and proud T meet weien mother réads aloud. When mother reads aloud far lands “Seem very near and true; 1 cross the desert’s gleaming sands - [have to go to the emperor's church, Or himt the jungle's prowling bands, |and perhaps all be slaves. Or sail the ocean blue; The enemy’s soldiers are ruthless Tar heights, whose peaks and cold mists shroud, 1 scale when mother reads aloud. fighters: They dron bombs on-inno- cent ¥French villages at night, lay waste and destroy everything they can, blow up cathedr: and churches, sink Red Cross ships, and do many other things. The people of America must not only When mother reads aloud. T long For noble deeds to do— To help the right. redress the wrong: It seems so easy to he strong, do their “bit.” but all they can. We So simrle to be true. must. deny ourselves many things. 0Nh, thick and fast the visions crowd Three billion ®ollars are a great My eyes, when mother reads aloud. —The King's Own. many dollars. Can you help to raise it? You can spare fifty or one hun- dread dollars if the soldiers can spare UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE |their lives. AWAKES. May is onme of the most lovely months of the year because it is really u ar the first month -of flowers in the tem- | 20° lending i perate zone—the blue and gold month R of dardelion and violet. at the post offite and other places, Start right now and buy a bond. You i public a good interest safe as anvwhere. T IVY FISK, Age 13. Sprinkfield, Mas We always have raw weather - in May, and a cold lamb storm, ana| How We Can Helo Our Country. sometimes the hottest day of the| This great war has been going on for three years, and we do not know how long it may continue, but we hope end soon. = our duty to help cur country be- vear: and because .of its changeabie- ness it has been called the “Weather cock month:” and one of our New fn 3 e, N e cause i as given us our reedom England poets has said of it. “If T} for many years and we are very will- change with every wind that blows, its{ins to help preserve our freedom. only because they made me so.” We did not realize how the Europ- May 1s thé morth of beautiful blos- | ean peovle had suffered, but we do now, soms and the songs of birds, and soon | o oo help our couexrzgybln i the goiden robin will be fitting among | ways. the blossoms of the apple-trees, and| We can knit for the Red Cross the red-breasted grosbeaks will be|Society many things that will keep the i 4/ soldiers comfortable and the young singinz in the elms and the maples. |girig can join the Junior Red Cross sos It is generally admitted there is|ciety. more weather in the month of May| When springtime comes we can go than in most any offier month in the | Ut into the fields and plant our crops; and this will keep us from buying our vear. There is first “a May day and|foof for nent mintes k] June day,” as 1 This will leave a a ‘rhymaster puts|us a litlle more money aiso. Then, . “Snri i er weather, - |too. if ave have a surplus we might i S M Sl e hei f" sell some and this will help the poor ing to rain; going to clear; trying|peonle in the city who .cannot plant hioth together. Flowers are coming! gardens. No, they're not, while the air's so chil-; We should not waste any kind of Iy: first its cold. then its hot, isn't focds, because if we do we shall have (May) weather silly » And notwithstanding all the good |more thrift stamps. things which ‘may be said of May.| It would be a wise plan for the peo- 2 3 le that di i i it has been calleé “a pious fraud of {’hi tb:;:ks otonos;vpemthte‘;:“m?:en; yal:g the almanac and a gasthly parady on|buy thrift stamps. The older people veal spring” can buy Liberty bonds. In doing these The May Queer has shivered on things it will prove that we. are pa- triotic and I am sure that if every- May day all the way down the ages; |one does his share we shall surely and this is the day when peeple in|Wwin in 1lhi terrible struggle and se- some countries move and labor parades | Ure 2 las m‘h Deace, NETTE and strikes. And the maidens in past A -CHABEAT. Colchester. ages bathed their faces in May dew to take the freckles off. And just think how May is sland- ered. These are proverbs: - shortage. If we save we can buy Sl An Unexpected May Basket, Several days before time to hang ay baskets the children at school were planning to hang as pretty a A cold May brings no riches. one as they could make to the teacher. Unlucky are those that wed in May.| All the children liked Miss Brown, May horrows ten days from March |Who was quite small and very pretty. to kill off cattle and old people. The last afternoon they got together We do not regard May in this light; | 2fter school and made candy. They but see the good and useful, ~the|SPent two very happy hours together, sweet and beautiful sides of it, and|then they went home to supper with sing with the poet: : the understanding that they would all “Blithe little bird in the maple tree amte?ll at the same house that evening y That evening after supper they ful- o ’ a J y fu My heart gehoes’ sofll§ :the ,song-<you | 5o thetr promises ‘and were soon on 1t he woods ‘have put on e %4 me a welcome the way to the place where the ‘!eacher ]boslrded. i A little later that evenin Miss this | prown was sitting in her rob%n when there~svas a low rap on the door. When she -opened the door there was a very pretty May basket on - the y door sill. g;d umugéu of !i‘t;‘.nbblng May first. ¥ e ran down _as quickly as ! KNOWLMME“’ possible and was soon eha;uigysev. vty |cral of her school children around the te—T! yara. could run’ considerably faster so it was hard work to catch them. After about twenty ‘minutes - caught all but one boy. 8. doesn’t make the sand song and sing- olunteers R 1 You can get information about bonds | to more and it will also help cause a | This was the first time she | It she had ed impossible to catch him,” so | :"fi‘mmm-m a tew brim with homemade candy and daf- fodils. S ’ ?3 DOROTHY BLAKE. Storrs, X Sy A Liberty Bond. ugh | d to the " A Liberty bond is a piece of paper similar to a fifty dollar bill. They are issued to save :the freedom of the world. the' kaiser. ‘Every bond helps to defeat I think every. home | America could buy a fifty dollar bond. in You can pay on the installment plan, or if 'you have money enough you can pay for it out right. Those who ¢an- not pay outright can pay $2.50 down and pay so much each week. When a man pays a good many dollars worth of bonds they wiil pay for many cot beds or guns, and if w can raise money enough in our town we can buy a warship. ‘We buy bonds to keep our soldiers clothed and fed and .we supply them with guns. It takes 'a greaf deal of money to furnish machine guns and destroyers. E to_kill the kaiser. Every little saving helps We are greatly in debt to our fore- fathers. They warked hard for lib- erty. Now we must keep liberty by buying bonds and thrift stamps. Boys led in front of cannon fire drumming, but we can do just as much by pay- ing bonds and become American sol- diers just the same, The Belgian childreén their hands cut off. America. We erty. preserve our liberty. Such cities as Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, New York can raise a great deal of money. ‘We are trying to st\snf th: kaiser T e Amiens he will divide the French and ‘We are trying to stop and from getting Amiens. British armies. him with our men and thrift etamps. Norwich. Keep the Home Fires Burning. There are many ways in which we can keep these home fires burning. It is now well known that wars are no longer won We can all do our bit. upon battlefield alone. all behind the line; army, are Americans are the first wha have worked hard to get and hold lib- Washington worked to get lib- erty, and we are in another war to bonds SHERWOOD E. SWAN. Strength victory for our and life for our soldiers and sailors all depends upon economical use of our resources. And this means that seven men in uniform the which two workers to support others to produce across the ocexn. army of one thousand Some farms, ete. up. shops, ‘won. of self-denial, point of sacrifice. A supplies is called France there must be six thousand back home in America to back them in factories, That this task that the nation ‘is in must be It is our duty to help win this task. There js but one way. tion must conserve—every man, child, who is under and Stripes must learn the meaning saving even man, the to The ways in which we can show our sacrifice is by buying Liberty bonds, thrift stamps or war savings stamps, or by giving for the Red Cross or Y. Uncle Sam needs this money. does not it to him. back with interest. sk us to give it, but to loan After the war we get it So it is as good as putting money in the bank. bank in the United States of America can be as sound as the Upited States itself. I hope the girls and boys are try- ing to do what Uncle Sam asks them t¢ do? Try. try, and try again! In all ways, for this great war must be won, Let the red, white and blue be car- out of the trenches ried to victory. and “over the top!” Carry the flag to victory. boys! TILLIENNE MATHIEU. Wiilimantic. Carlo. Carlo is the name of a dog T used to He was faithful and clever and have. the pet of the family. One day while Carlo and father were some He told Carlo to go and find He brought it back and out hunting my game. the game. more besides. father So my father went home and fold of When_Carlo died Wegot an- cther dog named Jack. He was brave Carla’s _cleverness. it brought sorrow to us. shot like Carlo and I liked him, too. EVELYN WHITEHEAD, Age 10. Plainfield. Children in Korea. Korea is near Japan and the people Chinamen. They Some wear their shouiders when they are in mourning after the deéath of a father or mother. pots These hats do not keep the rain out, on rainy days These are made of oiled paper and have no handles, ‘When it rains the look a little like wear very strange hats. varieties that go down They look rather like turned upside down. they carry umbrellas. but look like fans. over flower having If we buy bonds it will stop all the kaiser’s dirty work. Our boys want’ to get home gets most him behind the lines in France and four the . America and transport them safely So _you see if an shipyards, great The na- WO- Stars to 7th prize, $0.25. -|{ your bit and do it before it is too late. I'M GOING TO DO MY LITTLE BIT, by Catherine Kirby of Norwich, people open these umbrellas and tie them on top of their hats. The boys in Korea wear loose jack- their stockings. Stockings are pad- ded with cotton and tied to the ankle. The girls wear very pretty little jack- ets of red, pink or green. All kinds of choes are worn, but most people wear straw ones made like sandals, and so worn that the large toe is not cov- ered. 2 for have a strange way of keeping them- gelves cool. They have something like a basket made of rods of hamboo. This basket is long and round and in|{their heads through and down - over their shoulders their bodies. Then they put clothes over it so the basket is inside next to the skin. = The boys in Korea go to school while very young. but unless rich they stay at home, the girls stay at home and help their mothers. it hangs around to ironing their clothes They wrap each piece around a stick and lay it on the floor. Then they sit down and beat the piece on the stick with a wooden club. TIn this way they make their clothes as smooth as can he. Koreans eat a great deal of rite, but they do not drink tea like the Chinese. stead. They have only ene kind of coin. It is a small piece of copper with a square hole in the middle. These coins are put en strings and carried around the neck. It takes many to make a dollar. Eggs are sold in a Gueer way in Korea. They place ten €ggs end to end in a_row and put straw around them. This is called a stick of eggs. When people 2o to huy eggs they ask for one or two sticks of eggs, or as many as they wish, One stick costs less than five cent: GABRIELLE BUJAK, Age 15. Mansfield Center. the They drink rice water in- He No A Piece of Gold. Before T tell you my story I skall in- troduce myself. I am a gold dollar and have had many adventures. I lived with my brothers and sis- ters in the Rocky Mountains, about a mile beneath the surface of the earth. I was in the part of the Rockies that are in central California. - In the year 1848, a man by the name of Sutter was building a mill-race, and, seeing a plece of shiny metal, picked and seru- tinized me over and over, for it was I that he had found. He called his comrades and examined e more closely. “My Golly!” exclaimed Sutter, “If I am not the luckiest man that ever was. I'll give this piece of precious gold up!” After the mill-race had been finish- ed he brought me to Virginia to an old-fashioned jewelry shop and asked if I was worth anything. He learned that I was very valuable. He then laid claim to the California region if which I was found and started to hire miners to go out there. After the reply from the jewels, he laid me in a case with a glass cover where other curiosities ‘Could be found. There I lay for about four vyears. ‘When old Mr. Sutter died, his estate wag left to his nephew, a young, spor- T ets and wide trousers, which go under In hot weather the people of Korea open at the top and bottom. They put their The women have a sirange way of Japanese or ty fellow who cared about nothing but a good time As soon as he saw me, he snatched me up and. exchanged me for a number of bills. I was sent to the treasury in Washington and a small part of me was made into a gold dollar. I was given out to a bank and then exchapged to an old man for a dollar in currency. I was through many cash registers and at last I have fallen into your hands. Now that I have told you my experi- ences 1 will purse. OLIVE ERICKSON, Age 13. Norwich. my grandpa caught years ago. cold weather so they froze Stiff. When they were all caught the owl began to eat the frozen mice. choked him to death. HELEN GREENE, Age 8. Columbia., Ruth Enjoys Country Life. life better than that of the city and play. and fresher than.that of the city. ‘We may secure knowledze studying nature. We may trees. ¥o with a party of giris and boys af- ter nuts. People in the country may fresh vegetables from the garden at {any time during the summer and all city people can not. we have a chance to nick berries. We sell them and so have a little spend- ing mon We may raise sheep, calves, steers, pigs and poultry. We enjoy h RUTH DAVIS, Age 12. Canterbury. A Trip to Hartford. Dear Uncle Jed: Hartford, and I think some of about it. my mother. train. My aunt and my little cousin methus er at the station and we went to -house. In the afternoon we all Colt’s park. cents. I saw some fish in a little lake. We had fun in the swings and “shoot the chutes.” ‘We took a walk around the park and then went to the moving pictures. Sunday morning we went to church and in the afternoon we took a trolley to the depot and came home on the train. We arrived home at 8 o’clock. T was tired but happy. ROY 2 went to AGLE, Age 8. Doing My Bit. Dear Uncle Jed: I heard so much about you I thought I would write you a letter. I am a little girl 8 years old. I have five books of thrift stamps and started another. I am captain of our class. I wish I was a boy and big enough to gosfight for my country. Then I would show the kaiser some- thing. But I am going to do my bit by buying thrift stamps, and I wish all my little friends would do the same. g MIRIAM LOUISE GOLDBERG, Age 8. Norwich. LR Bound to Beat the Kaiser. Dear Uncle Jed: I am in the primary room in the Poguetanuck school. There are thirty-four who have bousht thrift stamps. I have two war stamps and six thrift stamps. I earned the money 5y running errands for people and peddling papers. I wish I could get more. will lck ‘the kaiser, and I am sure it vill! X RALPH BAFR, Age S. Norwich. T We Must Work to Win. Dear Uncle Jed and Wide-Awakes You all know of the sufferings our s0ys are undergoing “over thers.” Not only are they fighting for the liberty »f America, but they are aiso fighting lor the liberty of our allies. And shall ~e at home do nothing for them? No! 1 thousand times no! Not while we 1ave any money or strength left. With >ur money we will buy thrift stamps »r_Liberty bonds, or perhaps both. If we buy thrift stamps we heip ta stamp out the kaiser, and if we huy -honds we help put him in bondage. f every child in e United States rought one thrift p a week just hink of the dollars Yncle Sam wcuid ot The government does not ask us to ive our money, it only asks us to lend and at the end of five years we )t only get back the four dollars and few odd cents we spent for thrift :amps, but we also get good interest. So I am_suve- every one of you will| tonm, 5th prize, $0.50. remain quietly in your LETTERS WRITTEN TO UNCLE| DPOROTHY NANNETTE PASNIK, ; Age 11, J‘ED_ Norwich. The Fate of an Owl. ™ Our Chickens. Dear Uncle Jed: This is a true| Dear Uncle Jed: T am & story about an owl. It is about one He put it in his cornhouse where there were lots of mice. The owl caught more mice than he could eat, so he laid them on the beams. It was | nine. They were so hard that when he tried to swallow one it stuck in his throat and Dear Uncle Jed: I like the country be- use we have more freedom to work The air is so much purer by learn the | different kinds of birds, flowers and In the fall we take our baskets and have In the summer ng an animal of our own to take care of.| I took a trip to the other boys and girls would like to hear 1 started early in the mornmg with We went to Willimantic an the trolley; then to Hartford on the On my way I found five {only one son. agree with me in the fact that buying thrift stamps is a very good and safe inyestment. % . Boubtless many think ¥ou cannot af- ford a Liberty bond; but how many of you cannot afford a thrift stamp? Of course the Liberty ,bonds-cost more than the thrift stamps, but we get much more interest: Don’t you think that every one of us who poss:bly can ought to get a Liberty bond And don’t you think it would look nice to see the honor flag of the third Liberty loan waving over Norwich? Of course you do, but it never will unless you do ‘With all our strength we will werk; on farms and raise food for Uncle Sam and our soldier boys “over there,” for the soldiers need food as well as am- munition to win this great world’s war. MARION ROYCE, Age 13. Norwich. A Pleasant Adventure on Sunday. Dear Uncle Jed: One Sunday I went | to my cousin’s to play. We played ball but it soon grew so hot that we thought we would take a walk. We walked up to Mohegan park. On the way back we suddenly spied a cave.! We crawled into it, finding that it was | about two feet in. diameter. After crawling through it we thought it was about fifteen feet in length. We then! sat down a while to rest. In a little while we started for home. We ar- rived just in time for supper. When we finished eating we played checkers, About ‘9 o'clock I started for home, telling my cousin I had a very nlce’ time. NELSON LEIRICH, Age 12. Norwich. How to Be Rid of the Beast of Berlin. Dear Uncle Jed: I wrote last week about our flag; that we should keep our flag bright and clean, not in color, but in action. This time I will tell you a few ways in which to.keep it-so. We are engaged in a great world | war. If America and her allies do not win this war, we will be subject to human slavery. We surely will win, but it will take years of struggle to be victorious. It depends upon the people of America to save food and shorten the years of struggle. Many of us cannot afford to spend money. But buying thrift stamps is spending but saving. Don’t buy Besides thrift stamps. we ecan cut newspapers 18 by 23 for the Red Cro: ‘We can help by not throwing pape: around on the streets. Then if we have a clean city we can save street clean- ers, and Uncle Sam has a few more men. i We can study faithfully at school, learn our lessons well and graduate sooner. The sooner we graduate, the sooner w in take our places to help win the w. i Try and save in all the ways can, for th r we end this soone: get the Beast of Be: vou about our chickens. bought one by one until he had nine and this spring he has twenty little chicks, so in all we have twenty- They are ali like pets to us, and when I take feed to them they are so tame that t eat right from my hand. 1 wish I lived where I could raise 'a great many more. I would!} have eggs to sell and buy thrift stamps. HARRY J. MORSE, JR. Norwich. \ The Dream of Columbu: Dear Uncle Jed: Here is a beautiful olg story which is told of the boy Columbus. One day he went to sleep on a pile of wool in his father’s shop. He dreamed that an angel stood be- fore him, hold a cross of gold. | And enjoy | Ana whisper aloft of him a half of the cake. 2 ‘When the bey came home he felt very ill. . As he was lying on his dying bed he told his mother that he ate a half of the r woman’s cake. When she heard t! she instantly called for a doctor, but before he arrived her son “Thi umg{t lesson. i b ROSE WEINER, Age 11. Norwich. \ the widow a very good War Werk in Scheol. Dear Uncle Jed: We are doing a great deal of war work in our school noyw. % ‘We are all junior members of the Red Cross and are knitting and sewing for it. . “We are taking thrift stamps, and some took Liberty bdonds. I have started my thrift card, but I have only one stamp yet. We have to make up some time, so we keep Saturday. ‘We usually have our war program Friday afternoon, but last Friday was Arbor day, so we had our program on Saturday. In our war program we have to memorize songs like The Star Span- &£led Banner, America, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, also selections such as Lincoln’s Gettysburg address and Walt Whitman's O Captain, My Cap- tain! . Then we read from a Judd leaflet sent out by the state. Next we have our civies lesson and then we do Red Cross work. I signed the Junior Food -Army pledge for food saving, canning and home garden. I shall plant beans in my garden. VIOLA GREENE, Age 13. Columbia. Glad Spring is Here, Dear Uncle Jed: I am a little girl 10 years old and I thought I woulq like to have a little talk with you and your Wide-Awakes. ) I live on a farm in Ledyard and go to a little school called Geer Hill school. There are fifteen pupilé and we do have some great times. The schoolhouse is a mile from our home, so we have quite a walk. ‘We have a litile calf named Daisy. It is very cute. 'We also have three little pigs. I have three brothers. I am going tc have a garden this ear. I have one war certificate. I know that all the Wide-Awakes are glad spring is here, with its green grass and pretty flowers. So I thought I woulg write a little poem about the beautiful springtime: Hurrah! Hurrah! the children’s voices ring, 'Tis spring! °'Tis spring! The violets peep from their mossy beds, the sunshine over their heads, s the beautiful spring— While voices sing: spring!” MARIAN GEER, Age 10, Ledyard. “'Tis . Spring! "Tis ELMVILLE Opening of School Term—Mrs. Josepk King Returns From Hospital. were K. Litch and Miss Ruth guests last week of rel- ives in Uxbridge, Mass. Mr. and M Howard S. Wood have stored their goods and gone to Prov- idence. and Mrs. Walter A. Raswson of cester spent the week-end and Sunday with Mr. Rawson's parents. Ired S."Arnold, who has been the winter in Fiorida, is on, C. D. Arnold. s I'lora Battey entertained Miss Mildred Tillinghast of Danielson or Thursday. ng chool The "Center after a week’: Term Opens. chool opened Monday. acation. A path like suniight led away from the shining cross. The angel told the boy to follow this path to far-off lands. . HELEN GAGER, Age 9. Scotland. Too Hard a Nut. Dear Uncle Jed: As you are giving out thrift mps, I thought I would try and win one, as I have two now. I am going to telf you ways boys a girls of America can help can the kaiser. It is by buying thrift stamps. For eve! amp that a little American child helps 1 the kaiser. For most everybody knows it takes money to feed our soldiers and buy their clothes and y for their guns. The kaiser's boast is ‘“Paris three weeks, London three months, and New York three years,” but 2s shores and seas are well guarded by submarines I am afraid he will find it too hard a nut for him to crack. EDNA FOOTE, Age 11. Norwich. A Good Lesson. Dear Uncle Jed: -Onca upon a time there lived a very rich widow with This widow baked a cake every week for a poor woman, ‘When the poor woman came for her cake she gave it to her and the poor woman- said: Mr. and Mri daughter F stock Sunday. George A. Davis was home Sunday from Fort Wright. David Hoxsie of Carolina and Harry Underwood of Kenyon, R. I, motored here for a week-end visit, Mrs. Hxo- e and Mrs. Warwick, who have been siting at H, V. Haswell's, returning home with them Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett and Thomas Henderson of the Hill Crest house were in_Providence Sunda; Miss Gertrude Litch of New York is the guest of local relatives. Picked First Cowslips. Mrs. Clayton Wright spent Friday in Foster Center, picking cowslips with Mrs. Betsy Spears, each return- ing to her home at might with half a Charles Myers ané rice visited in Wood- | bushel. Mr. and Mrs, Silas Babbitt of Dan- ielson visited at C. D. Mowry’s Thurs- day. Mr. and Mrs. F. I. Racine of Dan- ielson were guests Thursday of Jo- seph King and family. Clifford Davis was Saturday. Mr§. Joseph King, who has been a patient at St. Joseph’s hospital in Wil- limantic, is improving slowly at her home here. in Pawtucket “Widow, you are not doing it for me; you are doing it for yourself.” Every time the woman came for her cake she would always say the same thing. This rich widow became angry be- cause the poor woman never said “Thank you!” so one day the widow made Up her mind to make the poor woman a cake of poison. 'When the poor woman came for her cake she gave it to her as usual. This rich widow’s son went out hunt- ing that day and did not take any I hope ltl food to eat. As he sat down to rest he saw the poor woman coming with the cake in her hand. #+“Will you give me a piece of your cake?’ he asked. “Yes,” she answered, and handed PENDLETON HILL Fishermen Have Good Luck at Billings Pond. Harrison Kinnear of Clark’s Falls, who on account of illness was absent from the mijll for a week, visited at the Palmer homestead last week. He with B. G. Palmer and John Button fished at Billings pond with great sue- cess. Mr. Palmer and Mr. Button caught 98 of the different kinds of fish. Clark Coon and Charles Cottrell mo- tored to Oaklawn April 30th to attend the May festival held at that church. This has been an annual custom for about 75 years. Bourdon Geer is recovering from il ness. “JUST LOOK!