Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 30, 1918, Page 9

B, dier boys to t.he‘r» every company. the boys seem to lh'lnk evarything of him, whether he is & goat, bearcub or cat. last time I went to Fort Wright gfi see my cousin, the soldiers were [~ x :{ m& the little pet goat like a|. card is lost and found, flmle( % of bees. To tell the truth, I not- claim- it or’ draw the' money. We wn!: d’flxhte:! ' % mus our ;names and_our: routs oneliness of the camp and in R nd state ‘on"the m ted‘llmni of :he !l:lamhas Y.his b%:;s kn ours. version in the companionship oo Jevil rm&“ u“m a|of their dumb friends. These will do card similar to a Thrift - and it mueh gar t.hflr mnstlersf,_and the sol- the | Giers themselves will often go to any 2;;:? tc:Isl :v: 1;n.vsr :v l‘:’u:d::&n&hfl length to pmtecz their pet from dan- | worth. can -only :buy-a thousand | 8er: % ol wofih for cach one in our fam- Vd“w?osl,m REIL, Age 12. If we ‘are smart ‘boys we sam earn v money, ‘If you go to school in the eity | you ean - wark “after .scheol im aflt shops, or run veur father's jitney for him. . If you can't. werk-in: the -city, -work In the country and.earn money chopping wood, and by lofi;s all kindg Lof spring work to help' our fathers. won't be accepted a{iane office, ‘When we get a Wn: Savis cate we can’have it own town. If it is umnu Wide-Awake Letters ‘rewarded with a Thrift amp, with an extra Stamp for very fourth book won. . Bhip your preference, stamp - or lmk. They must be l\hlr 2 8.16 wide ' for single column, and 4 6°16 for double column. The lines must come within these measurs- | ments. L Let Us Help. - P;'lr back in the wind blown hills of old ew England, there lived a young man of a very different type from tie gh-boy sort usually found ther e was a clean cut, energetic young We around them of black and fellow, intensely interested in the mud them together with it. £ 2 3 We in the upper grades have had to .~ _ " _ of “the ‘eagle’s wings, and makes no|They will give us money.: . ern, meehanical world. g . m" | pretence t?nat it can carry anything| .Girls cap wash windows, wash- wn !{h father was a hard ‘working farm- write four- min‘ute tpet;chef” on Lg: help wash. floors” ard-take care of a|er, “who gave his son, a good educa- third Liberty loan, and al one : hut itself, and its power for continus | poionpors baby for them. There a.rq' tion' that he misht practice his talent. many ‘things which you can do.. The kaiser's men. are not civilized. ‘Americans -were- the first: wtu work m Tom Richards left sciool his father tried to persuade him to gat a pesition in a garage in town, but he 01| ous fisht is lmited. It is seldom on war savings stamps. MILDR] '.he wing ten minutes at a flme, and ED GRANDY, Age 12. Yantic. used, to get t we call libert; not | refused to do sp and stayed on the farm Work for Good Old Uncle Sam. w':.l Write your .&i sdtian. | "1t Is apparcnt enoush man was not B ks thd L A0ig Wit | hel i Gl XPhis-ar schiool Dear Toolé Jed: Let's All help to win dress plainly al bottons: of the |made to fly with wings like the birds, | we have a President-and a comgress|he got acquainted with a girl from his this terrible war. 'We do not need to story. 'but from the power of his mind he |to make our laws. 7 aw& town and as they hvedl_closta t?.n be told tmsp tl';k:i'ad]g" ':':]’: ut??o dress all com ufifi ns te T i : “| " We owe our forefathers for. many er they grew very intimate. American wou JedA.dB on Dfi;: “‘n 1 Scle [ihas' combined the plane and tne pro wonderful things. e can nmever fay |the course of time their friends:» peller so that he lifts greater ‘weight than the bird can and equals in speed¢| Lall but the fastest, but man has never | vet flown higher than the birds which have been seen at times 4 mile or two | higher than man’s highest flight. tr?’. > l;‘ntntt&mtgmm starving 3 lust imagine e W'“'-'“r by the roadside, also those that are roaming about the woods, all alone. Those who have lost every one of their relatives and are now without anybne to guard them, Perhaps many of them have seen their parents killed by a cannon or a homb this day. Oh' my dear little friends, none of us can imasine the cruel deeds. We who are safe and sound have a very slight idea of this. ut while we are here without harm and with a field safe from cannon and bomb, lets’ take up our hoes as all of our brothers, fathers, uncles and cousins did their guns, and fight our enemy the weed. ‘Buy thrift stamps. lea our boys the Spirit to g0 over the top and as many as possible march back to his dear old home. I am sure that every ome of us will do his part for every one of us loves our dear old Uncle Samuel. He will them back agzein: ‘We owe them for our glorious liberty. SHERW 00D E: SWAN . grew fo something stronger and it was well known that there was 2an understanding between then At the end of two years Tom left the farm to make his way in the worii Just 4t that time Uncle Sam declarei . war. At the beginning of the first Liberty loan drive Tom came home, gave h's father one hundred dellars and told him to buy a bond, kissed his mother - and sweetheart "oodbye and joined the colers. Tom was a..mong the first to be kill- ed in France. If he should give up happy future and his home for libs why sheuldn't we lend a few dopu for the same cause. BERTRAND BENWAY, Age 16. Sterling. Norwich. She Has a Liberty Bornd. There is something for each oné .of us to do to hel wxn the war. Some of us car buy-] —_— Careful and Kind. Pray be itle, little sister; Softly touch those painted wings! Butterflies and moths, remember, Are such, very tender things! THE WINNERS OF PRIZES. - 1—Dorothy Allen, of Thrift stamp. 2—Floreda Reil, of Voluntown; The Dreadnought Boys in Home Waters. 3—Katherine Taylor, of Norwich Town; ~Motion Picture Comrades Along |, the Orinece. 4—Bertram Benway. Darry, the Life Saver. g i—Ovilla Blanchetté, of Danielson: Motion Picture Comrades in African Jungtes, 6—Donald Curran, of Canterbury: The Hilitop Camp. Norwich:- A} to have a garden My sister has : fand T have a third Liberty bond. We are all anxious to win the war. BLANCE BENOIT, Age. 13, Ballyuville. Carefully, my pretty one, ' Press the sheltsring twigs ulde. Just to view the naked nestlings Safely sleeping side by side. PRI Doing Our Bit We are doing-our bit to win the war if we are buying War Savings Stamps, knitting for soldiers, buying Liberty bonds, -eating less sugar, less bread, or_eating more potatoes. of Sterling: Gently streke the playful kitten, Kindly pat the patient dog; Let your unmelesting mercy Spare the worm, the smake, the frog. Wide is God's great world around us, Birds, Birds are covered with feathers. Their plfmes are like ostrich feathers. There is a long quill through the cen- i v 3 We are anxious to win the war, and | ter with little fibers on the edges. tsgu!lztx:n‘:o;l:s“w:;pss he always does, TRoom enough for all to live: i—Mildred Grandy, of Yantic: Fron-| e should be willing to- help by doimy | Moulting is when they shed their ATIERINE BARROW, Age 13. Mar no creature’s brief enjoyment— |tier Boys in the Grand Canyon. our bit. 1 am going to have a lwtia | feathers in the late summers Ry Take not what you cannot give. §—Marie Angie Roy, of Ta.nwlle garden, and T am going to plant see| A hira hops on its toes. It builds Dick, The Bank Boy. beans and do all I can to help win the | its nest for a home. It uses ifs wings The Birds. - —— lv:\:r let your heart buhter;der. it war. ¥ up and down to fly with. He has a Dear Dnele Jed: Now is the time “or the mute and heipless piead; CELIA FONTAINE, Age 8. |leng beak so that he can get angle- i 5 D Pitying leads to prompt relieving, LERIEREIOr A_CE!OWLEDGMENT Ballouville. worms and insects. -Birds eat angle- birds come to build nests and bnt‘clz Kindly ‘thought to.kindly deed. Florida Reil, of Voluntow: oo worms and cherries and other fruits. ¥ : - : " : their young. We shouh; QM care “t 8. H. Browne, ceived the Thrift Stamp you sent me. How Kitty Found Her Master, The birds swallow their food right Doing His Duty, by George B. Morse, of Norwich: Eighth prize, $0.25, not to disturb them ot let them ge! I thank you very much for Gabrielle Bujak, of Mansfield Cen: ter: Thank you ever so much for the iwo prize books, Andy's. Mard and Boy Scout Afoot in Krance. Fm iate with my thanks, but just as sincere, Marguerite Miller, of Poquetanuck: You were very kind to give me a Thrift, Stamp. It was.my first letter down, The birds'eggs are speckled: some of them are blue, and, yellow, and they are pointeq at one end. The birds sleep under the bushes, between the leaves of ' the bushe They make their nests of grass, sticks and mud. Some of them are made on the limbs of trees and bushes. They lay from three to five eggs. Birds The Chanticleer's Seng. Lesiie Clafe Manclieseer. The cock that ¢fofs in the marning When the whisp'ring pines are still, 1 hear him call through the shadows There under the slope of the hill. The oaks are swaying and swinging With mosses grar amd long: hurt by boys or cats. Different kinds of birds have already begun to appear. Robins, bluebirds, sparrows, phoebes and chickadees are now quite common. They have not begun to build nests yet, for it is too cold for the little birds, One can tell the kinds of birds quite easily by their call. The robin David came home from school through the weods. It was a mnew home, and David had not learned all the turns and openings, vet. There was a littie path through the woods; hit it had been snowing all day and the | path was- covered with snow. The sun, was setting and the moofl wis rising.. David got frightened and coull WIDE-AWAKE POEMS Has a quick little ery when di-t‘ufll’gt o0 you and I did not expect one. I[-not find his way home. eannot_live where there are mo iri To Our Soldier Dezd. Will show the Hun with sword and |The phaebeig call m’v;lndu exactly e AT dhe]laka is wxgil:mi wn.:anm:les thank -you very much. He: called, byt nobedy answered. 2| We don’'t see the birds here in the Sleep softly on, beneath the blue of gun their name, “phee-be.” The chickadees o T ol Al L = shouted as loud as he could, but Was fwinter because it is so cold. They can- Heaven, That he is quite handy. 2lso ery iike their name. From their i STORIES BY 'WIDE- AWAKES. answered by the echo. He called 3 not get anything to eat, and they il i ' dls many have heen named. - 0, million soldier braves! : cal . Aol in, “Father, father!" - Prescntl at 5 vy = Over there, away over there in sunny | Every one should keep birds from the horn I hear in the distance The Robins e eara o feckle Fines estihi e FHE 0 Al Bl"“";“’efi"d tears foF ¥oU logay mce France, harm, as thev do more help than any- A oo m,.g": » “l? gag decp: marly et 1% ing, “Mew! mew!- mew!” He turned|will you not place crumbs on a board | Who lie in lowly graves; Soon our Yankee boys will make the{one in proieeting our crops from in- ar Jer the pine is peeping arly one morning eard the arounl and there was his little kitl¢ [for them to eat, so they won't starve | For us, you ook ihe messengers of SEaup aah ol Be6ts ¢ I the poinsetiias sleep, Sons of a bird, I looked. out| ghe . fiaq heard: her 'young - moiste:'s | from hunger. I also sive them warwm piin 2o Ior when the fight's begun ) INEZ ORNE. Meadiy note and wshgmo { iow and there T saw tWo DI | voiee i the woods:and remembering | water. e o Tocke, he will run Norwich. m the fatm-vard edves; hos, bisgest ene had a Diec: | nig yindness, ran along away throush WILFRED LINDERSON, Age 9. |For us, you sank upon the battle plain | ¥Tom the Yankee boy behind a Yan- - \ ed rwer:cye ves! < ;",.m = l: 5 'mh t !' o;?elx( the snow to find him. } Norwich. To lie in dreamless rest. kee gun! Helen’s Birthday. 2 iopudnee “Were - hagpy because they. fiew |, D2VIA tock up the pretty pussy, and e s MARIE ANGIE ROY, Age 13 . Dear Uncle Jed: T am going to tell S e = L following its footmarks, soon saw a LETTERS TO UNCLE JED. aftvil . " |4 for that arch flend, the Kaiser, |yoy about my birthday., It was Wed- world seems heiter and sweeter through the air to a place and then Taftville. 6 will s R T E iR of thes bAR & i £ e S0, bright light shining through the icca- : He sure wil ome wiser Yetaay, Wkrat Betn 1818, T Invited ot llll,,"‘;‘ s nrstt;ir om pounss rc‘:h L%’x‘l‘le ld.Ckl\;lfidh Some- | en-window. The Wren on the Déum. Hoved When our boys have zot him nieely | ;y friend Marion to spend the night Wik the Lilly Whers suow fe foidar |Toug<tisie, i watched them a | MU L amused himself by Dear Uncle Jed: In the north and |y I Aol canned and sealed! with me. We had a long ride in the It Links the siate and the shadows . | in tHe svenirig I-looked at their nest| (OFMONting and, fnEhienink the” KIY, | weet Is o story of a little wren who | HOOVering! Hooverizing! is all one| - G schoel team. When we got into the o : . i ten s e, e ,,And the bloom of the ife-warm sod: |and it was finished. It was made of | 30U MaY ‘Be sure it Would have Dyl & alion, o|It's the talk of the nation, far and|That he started (h ; Bouge iy baathin cinle hams fifou l" ;I all hh\m creatures hiorse hair and grass. . Inside it -was KATHERINE TAYLOR, Age 13 | bt ni“ 9in5“£;'31va‘”nd“ < dbihe -eorx-i near And had to meet the Yankee in the | * “if you want a birthday present you S e Sika Arlerwasts the bl ser b ool (Sorwich Tow § Sices mufterea very much, Ome. aven. | 10tBer Says ghe's tired of hearing the e will have to 80 down and let Mrs = | gs. vards the bird sat on the| 3 . O P word— 5 & 5 i p Then call, O Bird, in the morninz: riest and laid four eggs. Then she sat ing after a long march they were 0! i . being fed like 4 ReTil t ok o Fa s jo. | J2rvis grease your nose.” e crav of the slumb'rous mi on them and in_ 4 little while there Watching the Clouds. tired that they lay doWn for a short| 20 5 R5 Degls bedie L e SRR T R b e R I e /i, trump to the moon in heaven = |were four little birds. Their weath-| Jans was. sitting in her roll chalr |Sleep, when it would have been wiser - |with oa ry floating proudly |3 pretty chatn and pendadt’ Tt had a I ‘).(m he low sume rosy lsht! |crs grew, then they flew avay.and 1|under the apple troe, -watching cie|and betier had by, swaved awake 10| gooverizine! Hooverizing! Cries siss ¥ the sun— blue stone in it. < e, wa s a e waters; | didn’t see them any more. . clouds. This was her faverite pastim. ny. 3 ter Jane! 2 Our. voices we will raise, in hymns & i + A nd the echoes far, EVELYN 'E. DAVIS, Age 11 |since she.had broken her anxle,anl| Among the soldiers was & littlely yninic it's a downright shame, ot Totky” Hrage Y aT T e COpE v blend with the music Plainfield. today the blue sky was .covered in|drummer boy whose eyes, like those of = 2 Where all sweet me sures are! And it makes me angry to see For 1 can have no sugar in my tea. his elders, were fast shut. Just before | ThunEeiboy; belgnt @ Teakes he fell asleep he had been eating and some crumbs haqd fallen cn the top of the drum. A little wren perched over- I head in one of the trees saw these | crumbs and flew down to eat them. boy many places by them. K Ther: comes a large, white une, fal. lowed by some small enes. I wondet if that could be the mother and these following her children? Thera would ‘When we came back mamma gave us a little treat which consisted of peanuts, oranges and cookies. My aunt also sent me a comb, bar- rette and a pink hair ribbon The Indian on the Nickle. Not many people know the, new five-cent pisce bears the portrait of a real Indian. It is the famous Sioux un TALK TO WIDE-inKES BY UN- CLE JED. De veu know that fpen are not able E. D, I}LAKA.\L i Brother Joe says he does not care Tt Hooverizing is on the bill of fare; { He says he can get along with less Hanover. Y HELEN CONGDON, Age i1 _ | be five in a straight line. A stuff— Summer Time, P o g o Ll ot s i icll;xéer lrnn Tail, who in 1914 was liv ‘ow prettily that gray one contrasts | AS ‘hef hhoppeba on th”e Arum the tap- | 1o i satisfied with corngems and | __ : : Moosup. ne\‘e;' g s J they i fmeim countries the faces of | With the blue. It's trving hard to cov- ping of her beak awakened the little “ mush! Now the winter’s over, kings dnd queens are often placed on | €F the blue, but I hope it doesn't, for |drummer. - And summers a Has Named Twenty Flowers. - It hgs been found t that would mean rain and 1 want to|, e opened his eyes and was startled | g et us not be greedy— Wirds: of alF kinds twitter, Dear Uncle Jed: I have one thrift h n‘~! g h“ : lhyo creatures | the money of the land. 3 T e to see the enemy cominz. Quickly he|Yye can go withugut ,,gu st And sing a summer cheer. stamp and am hoping to get more, I that fly with wings ‘vary greatly in| In the United States we have a pic- beat the signal of alarm which roused 3§ i g0 to the Attawaugan schcol in the . & ture of Lincoln on our new .pennies, There is a-black one floating ma- o . 3 it Some good things that our soldiers| . = e = £ ; their lenith o wig, and"that nuture | (Ure of Tineoln on our mew -penniss | ol " ione” That must be the|ihe Soldiers ~ The skill of the king,| Al Now, we think of playin third room in the fourth grade. The supplies to big birds like the ‘vulture | (o8 C on) our paper money .0 h\';l'- giant's castle, even now he has stop- | wiliam IIL won the day, July Our soldier boys across the sea! All the games we a foot of wing space to each pound of weight of its body, and to the gnat 1699 the Battls of the B e 7 - supervisor brought a little paper and i , the battle o he Boyne, but if i A we, also, love the flowers [ e ve ti TS Iron Tail is the only living man (who | Ped ta grab a little white one. had not been for the little wren, pre Ll e P ot was alive three years ago),~who is| LNt here:comes a great white o 8] tortune of ih fay Misht have b;{,‘g Oh! You ought to see my Pa “’g}‘o‘iv.'"’“ od made them :gme;z potatoes instead and save what is equglts Raatly: 1¥ Past 4 chown in this way. Of course, hig|that will surely set free the smailcr|fortune When he gets his pay! : = 4 - eet 411 -Bpe- | puas s typical ‘of ‘all Indians, so the|One. They are now together and I |different., o But when Ma shows the store bill , i , _ I like my teacher very much. I am portion to its bodily weight per e r used it. But the chief is|hope the white one conquers. 5 IDA FREEMAN, Age 11. |y¢ takeg his breath away; We love to pick U?e berries, getting along pretty well in my les- pound; and.a vulture ean ‘carry a|very proud of his distinction. When| That (the) tree, seems to brush the| Baltic. Zd At Ui S v : ; sheep while a gmat finds much diffi-|anyone asks him for his picture he | clouds. Brushing the. cobdabs from the But the family are all happy, Wo e anu e swort il Tun My teacher is making a flower cal- culty in carrying Itselr. promptly gives them one of the new |Clouds. What a pretty scene one migit Cur School. And what more should we care for—| And some of every sort. endar for the pupils that get the most nickles. On the opposite sxdc of these coins, is an excellent representation of_ the buffalo, which was so eclosqly asso- ciated with the old iife of the Indians. DOROTHY ALLEN, Age 11. Norwich. notice from here. What? Time to go'into the houss? How I do:wish I were well again, but if T had not broken my ankle, 1 would not he watching the clouds. CATHERINE ’\ICVEIGH, Age 9 Norwich. Dear Uncle Jed: Our school three-story building of a gray color and is built of wood. It has eight large rooms, and on the third story is a hall where entertainments are held. On one side of this huilding is a fire escape and sometimes we practice the fire drill. / Every day we sing patriotic songs and pledge allegiance to the Ameri- can flag. We also have a Junior Red Cross, and all the children have contributed. Many children have hought thrift stamps and are tontinually buving them to help win~the war. In June at the close of school we will have our graduating exercises, at- tended by many people every year. The -boys’ play yard is on one side of the school and the girls' on the other. 1In the boys’ yard we play baseball. and basketball, which all are And the housefly we are told to swat makes 330 motions a seecond with its wings while # sparrow makes but 13 a second: and alwo it has heer learn- ed that hirds of greatest winegs are not the swiftest fiyers. There are oirds like the -Golden Plover, which -fiy from Central Amer- For we have all grown fat and wise Since Mr. Hoover taught us to econ- omize. is a flowers. al T have twenty names for flowers. ETHEL F. WARREN, Age 13. Attawaugan. e Give a woman a ¢hance to show off and she will make good. Flow we love the summer hours— L. L. |We love to pi The Yankee Over There. When nur boys get over there, over RUTH Glasgo. A Loaf of Brud 1 am a 10af of bread and just aow ica to "‘aflmmdhna in & night, which | T und nmguxln ;. bg;_';dhhoa Before T am _davour: y the hungry | schivo? make a higher rate of speed than An¥ | childran 1 hear. coming. Perhaps you airplane ean ever be made to: and|would lLike to hear the history of my man is not likely to ever make a fly- | life. ing machine which like the frigate My. earliest recollectigns is when 1 bird can drift. abeut {fh. the air for |found smyselfl with nfany thousands = ; of other companions in a large bag. T davs with as little apparent expendi- | was then a tiny seed. We were thrown ture of energy as it takes for a toy |into a dark corner of the barn and balloon to float. left there. The pigeéns and m doves are One day the owner of the place, War Saving and Thrift Stamps, 1 think all the people who have as- sembled ~here tomght l\now all about the war. We hear (hat the Germrms nre gain- |, ing ‘and then the English; but none of us know for.sure. z If we were in France or Belgium we would be more apt to lend our mon- €y. But you can lend your money to Uncle- Sam now. ‘What -can.you do to help win-the war? Why, you can buy Liberty bonds, War Saving and Thrift Stamps. You can buy. a Thrift Stamp most Where the "shells are fiying thickly in « the air, They will show the brutal Hun What mischief can be done By a Yankee boy Dehind a Yankee gun?! CHORUS, =AY Yankee doodle, he will do Deeds of wvalor grandly, I saw one day. He was a very big' who bird, and seemed to believe that some was a farmer, coming :in picked lag t enemy was around, for while vigorous- among the ewittest bird-fiyers; ‘and | the bag in which we were and carcieq |20V time, if ‘ot you can buy one each 5% VILA BLANGHETTE, Age 13, - |1v_at work pulling out a worm he our little brown sparrows the slow- |us into a large field. week. The Thrift Stamps are only Danielson. looked around at every sound of a ot - green bits of paper, but are worth 25 cents, while a War Savings Stamp is worth $5.00 in 1923. If everyone in the United States|’ bought one Thrift Stamp at-25 cents, it would amount to over twenty-five After having the land ploughed and harrowed, the farmer came to .us Jagain. We were wondering what la- horers coming to the field wita a large machine, drawn by a horse, which was called the reapsr, mowed us down and leaf rustling or the wmd fanning the trees. Aftef working for quite a while (for a robin has a good deal of patience) he finally got his victim out of the soil and flew away to his nest and & It is funny that a humming bird has The Ice Palace. Dear Uncle Jed: A long time ago in the year 1883 my grandmother, went to ‘Canada for a visit. Now in- Canada ‘million dellars. what that | the people have different ways from F'baby birds. Hlot Unonty "l"”‘"‘h“,“v“";;‘“ with | WOUld mean! Many people could by |people living here. The weather is|, 'NORMAN McFALL, Age 11. large wagon and in this we were con- | 20Fe than one stamp, and, would never | also very cold there. In the winter Voluntown. Thogght of all ‘tnase sulering childven thought of a! suffering n over in France and Belgium? Qf c:ur!e vou have: so.da something for them, You can get the stamps at any bank, pestoffice or from any of the Andover schoolboys and girls. Have you all Thrift ul\ls" I ynu haven't it's about time to begin. Hus- tle up: and buy, buy! 5 If you ‘had some property and you veyed tn the raflroad sfatfon from which we were shipped to the factory. Here, after undergoing many process- €s, we wore made into flour and paci- ed in strong paper bags, DORA JUNEAU. Norwich, Why We Should Buy Thrift We sheuld buy thrift stamps our’ eopntry. They draw interes. ! time the people have zood times, such as sleighing, skating, sliding down long hills with tobogzan sleds, etc.; also walking on the snow with snowshoes, hen' the month of January or Febru- ary comes. That is the time the peo- ple there have a great time. They build up a great big house ‘called an ice palace. This palace is made of big blocks of ice. When the | palace is all made the men building it turn water on the palace with a hose: When She Moved to the Country. Dear Uncle Jed: The day I moved back from Willimantic to Wormwood Hill 1 was quite nervous because the day before there was a great fire next to our house. There burned down that day a house and two barns, all next to each other. There were three auto engines and one hofSe engine. There were hun- tamps. help call it Uncle Sam's . Savings Bank. Uncle Sam’s bank is a. good one. This month it costs $4.15 for a War Savings Certificate. Every .month it lcosts sne cent more. We have un- til December 31, to fill our hooks. Congress has issied in the United States. wants us to buy mllllous of dullars worth, There are more than twelve mil- lon children in ca under tae age of 16 years to help America. Wea | children must do our bit and. others will do their bit. 1If the children of America say that they will help; and there will .be vnd. of children's homes filied with the spirit of '76. 3 Littla boys used to flght the battlea with their fathers, and litile zirls and’ ':hou!d die” before the war ended and you had to be.discussed in court, and you didn’t have any meney invested in the United States savings, people would say: “Why he was a pro-Ger- | m: man!” Dog't be a slacker! Buy Thrift Stamps, War Savings _Stamps, and Liberty Bonds. - Start a Thrift book tomorrow. Don’t be a slacker! Don't say you haven't any money just at present.. Just scrape up'a 25-cent. piece _and get a gtamp. Get one! 'l'han two! Get the habit!. . MARY HOROVICR! Ap IL The Soldier's. Love For Pet Animals. Soldiers ‘are szud to be stmng and brave, and so - are. to IMO(KO and makes the. blocks of i 'olf There is a bal adsiat ny also on this hou e-of ice. en all this is flnish there have.a great time like we here on the Fourth of July. the balcony -of tha ice palace, sic while marching. Inside the i right out again. o RON’_AL’D CURRA\" Age 9. . Canterbury. ple believe as they have AS soon as the water is turned on lt\ Then the ice palace is finished. | there is a big parade and the people do The men have torches and march in the parade. {s a band which plays music on There are other bands playing mu- palace there are ladies selling candy. randma says she went in the palace but it- was so cold that she turned dreds of. people there, so anyone who would have lived so near Wculd have got nervous. All day we were packing our goods and half past 11 a man came and ask- ed when the truck should come and we said 3 o'clock. Two o'clock came but no truck; 3 o'clock came but no truck. So my father went to see about it./ The-man came at 4 and by b we were ready to start. On the way near Wormwood Hill the truck got stuck -and began going backwards. -The men got out to see what was the matter. We began to o ‘home. We came home at 7 but the truck came at 8§ o'clock; “but was caught in a shower and wet some of the things. - ‘"The men brought in the thlngn and beds. ce | se | ed | ce S :::y‘s ;Ased thl?:fit “t: mmlg ; !‘:In' enemies in. time of ;Mfls i v The R;u"- A we began to put up the s ¥ Bfi”“ eir fl%“a 0 e painted Tndi- | neces: hud . but : Dear, Unele Jed: I-am to tell | LENA SCHW TZBERG Age 12. ¥ B ans at very doors. .They usedlis far 1t abpens that | the mue.Awaxes e stwryn of *a ‘robin The Wood chopper, by George B. Morse, of Aorwnch.