Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 24, 1919, Page 9

fHE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE Boys' and Girls’ Department Rules for Young Writers. 1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and number the pages. 2. Use pen and ink, not pencil. £ Short and pointed articles will given preference. Do not use Over 280 words. 4. Original stories or letters only will be used . B Write your name, age and ad- @pees plainly at the bottom of the story. and say to ourselvs T “Errands of love are easy to run; Saying sweet words is the dearest fun ing but the best, do we? 1—Raymond Ayer, of Comrades on Winton Oval. Evelyn A. Caron, Wise Mr. Toad. Ruth Fielding and the Gypsie: When toads are sleepy, do you know That they e beds in which tHey go The same as you? That they are covered snug and warm From howling hlast and pelting storm nter through? grow shor Our Fellows. 4—Arlene Bennett, of 5—Doris A. Wood, Bunn; of Brown and His Sh eda Thoma of No ing of Norwich—Ruti nd cold winds sd X Seiiere t0 | Fbel i He just squats down And works his body slowly The earth, and vever cares a pin About Or coat, pe Because b s Thrift Stamp. T'd better say ght spring Grace Harlowe's Fourth 1lege ¢ off | Wil see some | may | m. on Thursday. —Helen M the Minne- | polis Richardson, in you very much for book I received. I" found it very Hannah A Problem. 1 deed o day child would do, Our sad world this comin Would be made over ne Dgar ehiidren. see, jos You r many times Threc the dandy > read it interesting. Bossart, of Hoboken, N. ve read it resting. It was ould not it sount it up—|I aiive ‘ so exciting that o thank you nished | for it. ’STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE- i AWAKES. | | very “Tell me “1 wan I gaw ¢ Who b It made The crutches hear Mamma, when he is dead | Say, won't he get it bac | Mamm: =0 muck 51d%r man 1 but What Happened to Our Dog. _On April 15th when I came from r side and said: “Listen, Iothes tou I want you to clean up th Lena. I've been sitchen.’ her m brother “Yes, darling “You need For when th He'll lew In heaven. And all Our hodies Jacob to bring (for our drinking fresh water ¢ wh name is Bus | than ten minutes they c ob red with with his head covered with blood. Mitchel (my brother) Mamma! Morris good people g0 and fair perfect—so wec “Oh-h-h!" the dog's head was not injured| , only both his ears were s r was slit down two incl > other one inch, How the dog did suffer! | “Maybe he got in a { Mitch o " said Mother. * UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE-| AWAKES. | Do vou kno or a girl happy i only hurts t a t makes | them feel m | song in the well ar Here is sore &pot on d that wi strument And I think so, too. My mother took nd poured some o poor dog sent s throat and ss from %he pa After a while nd when he came ba yulged out from When my_sister il done with some ~like on_roll n up the < his e intense pain. nd_father antic that night v rand Y at supper. But now his cars and only hurt him once in ENA SCHWAF Mansfield When tongue's e peating it vou your heart to Our Earliest Visitors. a Mr. sprin woodpecker, with his birds action ond plea amof Here to helr “Tots How m chisel-like sloom_in NOBELLA M Concerning Our Ages. cems (o mc ot old we o have that wre, another| | wo g | T won o nd rthday loo} and see wdvance ? Wouldn't it be wonderful showed us showed us more wise and charming . we surpasse line into s and for oursel i One will sometime ais 8 n is ed, if ama is. But if pleases he; 1at she been wisdom and gracio For my grown the understar | some things better than T did. and las! Test Proves Value of Preston-Aspirin And Shows Why Public Sheuld De- mand it to Protect Health Against Inferior Products and Help Quickly to Overcome Pains, Aches, Colds and Other Disorders ' people dnpm realize the great ‘erence that may exist between various ‘‘aspirins” and do not seem to appreciate how barmful a worthless imita- tien may be. Impure aspirin may not only fail to give any relief whatever but, on thecon- RS . very injurious to the > system, As an example— w-hcylw acid, which is found in many kinds of upinl:x, is b";{ harmful to the stomach and can.cause serious disorders. want to be suze you are ure in, have this = Pttt s 0 C.C. o ot N e e T sy, Shis tert made: fifi Tron Chioride Sdu:;lnugt::“ tur,xem:%‘]::rp]e, (ra_et salicylic Preston. ' . » | Wl o o e .t nborsoris chow s 1 Jesporpl ebcion b4 Bot care $0 go to this trouble then be sure # &‘_. 'ON Aspirin ©f Proven f no safer surer way can be found to protect L against inferier products 2nd, 2t the same time, quick relief from headaches, colds, grippe, neuralgia, =l i nfl;:nmm’m, sciatica, gout, 'diferent sived m by all good T, amnd is ar Brecldyn, New Let's wake up sweet every morning This is the way to get the best from |’ life it holds for us, and we want noth- THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. Norwich— of Norwich— 3—Joseph B. Downes of Norwich— Preston— Grace Harlowe's 4th Year at College. Eagleville— land Pony.j ch—Ruth “ielding at Lena Schwartzberg, of Mansfield s—Lillian Patnode of Willimantic— Year at Col- Winners of books living in Norwich I at The Bulletin business of- fice for them at any hour after 10 a. Tribun: . ;LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT Bertha Thoma, of Norwich—Thank prize \ and received the book, In a New World. nd found it very in- before I ha much | an, home | hool my mother called me to washing ay, and I am very tired, so 1 agreed, and,soon I asked my little | spring | : came rom a spring), and he ran off with the excitement, and Buster| screamed: | (another brother) said, very es, and said | | This was done| {by a human hand; because there is not | his head but his ears, | sharp | bottle of peroxide| his ears, and the|* ery from | n the road s were ame ! nervous and could hard- | re gotting better| ! find that I am more willing to for- bear. The year before last I don't believe I learned much of anything. But I shall never regret a birthday that finds me farther along the road in the gaining of those good and desirable qualities of womanhood that make the world swhat it should be. BERTHA THOMA, Age 14. Norwic Life in the Country, 1 did not go away during the March vacation. I had a good time and en- ed it very much, We have a pair Of stéers, two cows and two heifers. I milk one of the cows and my father milks the other. My gfandmother has twenty-four | hens, two pullets and one duck. I get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and| feed my grandmother's hens and wa-| ter them. Then I mills the cows and| come help my mother. Then 1| cat my breakfast and go to school. | At school we study spelling, read-| ing, arithmetic, language, history, geography, agriculture and poems. In the morning we have speiling, reading and arithmetic. In the after-| noon we have language, or we have to rn poems, and then we, have hi or geography. On Fridays we vsiology and civ n the fifth grade and am ten | vears old. % 1”1 am to have a garden this sum- me 1 o have an Easter concert up to the Gurleyville church. I am g0ing to speak a piece and sing some {songs. The concert is going to be held Sunday morning, April 20, 1919, The name of my piece is Easter Blos- soms. DORIS A, WOOD, Age 10, Eagleville. A Cold Day. i hc bitter call of the mill whistle jerked through the frozen air. People hurried down the icy paths with faces| red as beets. Smoke could be seen; coming out of the chimneys of all the I country houses around. The crackling ad | wheels through the snow e cry of the horsemen could be heard out on the roadsides. Even the cat chose the rug near the fireplace to stay. Jack Frost has surely done his duty was the reply of old Farmer White as zed in his wood. It was a cold J. ARLENE WEATHERHEAD, Age 12. Willimantic. i My Front Room. In this room are four lovely pic- tures. One picture shows the most lovely sunset ever seen. A man is coming home from his beautiful farm. | The is green and the trees are budding. 'There are many orchards of red apples and other fruits. This pretty picture reminds me of Italy. When I was a boy about five or | six vears old I lived in the land of anges, and grapes. My na- vn is at the eastern end uf the ! in southern Italy. 1 remem- ber the happy sunsets I saw. My fa- vorite cow was always with me when he sun began to sct. These sunsets were indeed beautiful, for vou could look towards the west and see a red ball sctting beyond the peaceful hills. nd picture is also very at- The moon 4s shining. ~very ghtly, and its shadow can be seen in the silent waters. Hardby in a I cottage the candle light is shin- | hrough the dusty curtain. Far- river is a church steeple, ture is of about the 'he last one is ves shows a small strea h a sunny forest. There e trees of oak and pine on the of river. one corne | Vicirola. I study s room is the music and always the records. Some of the: jcontain the greatést singers in ihe | werl, h as the famous Italian sin- gers, Caruso and Galii-Curci ARTHUR D'ELIA, A White Birch, travel through notice the diffe which is strong en pine, the the tall, Age 13 and slender, we first see white birch, | wish, and most farm- quickly. t rown, they m in cut them| in lengths actory. ols, then them. Then and ! This is| | oxes them white bi A\RY BOROVICKA. — | arch Vacation. s out March 28th for| ation. londay my father and T| where we made| d up stones al- | next Mond; to school hool we o nd exp renoo twenty-seven ct three moj e have sp rith the afternoon we ha: »hy or histor o feed the hens MARSCHAT. b of Kindness. i g and to my amaze- | nbled a smail puppy only | t being a Ne H it it home and! s with all baby, he| into a '.IY;F‘,‘ the baby around, | at sometimes we left the baby in dog’s care. One day when we were all out for a walk across | treet 1 looked up and there was an| Gtomsti down the street. | fore ik or act the big imped into the | baby's clothes ier safely to t LILLIAN PATNODE. My Pet Bog. ave a pet dog whose name Shepp.” He is a_Scotch colli lor is vellow He has s 3 round his no: He helps iving the cattle and D of steps. He sometimes catches rats. | hepp is 2 good watcm doz. No stranger can come around the house hut what we know it, for he will bark | and almost tear himself to pieces. My and T enjoy staying with him. E s our faithful friend. INE BENNETT, Age 9. il about | Preston. Fisherman Pussy. Minnikin was 1 Her master | had gone off visiting, and mamma was | and for cook, everyttme she| aw Minnikin she would say, “Scat! sca So there was nobody to feed | Puss 1f she wanted mething to eat It was of no use to watch the mouse hole, though she had looked at it s long, that her head THe bird she tri t saying something that sbunded 1 “Don’t you wish you might?” Minnikin grew thoughful. She walk- ed down the snore where the blue wa d the white sand and sat catch flew a; wn. Do vou think she was admiring the ocean? Oh, no, she was watching for | song (if we would call sent | | when Im_dow | sign and clo lots | ForlInfants,InvalidsandGrowing Children. | Rich Milk, Malted Grain Extract in Powder - The Original Food-Drink For All Ages. OTHERS are IMITATIONS = HOME IN THE COUNTRY, by Alice Johnson of Norwich. Quick as a flash pussy dipped in her paw. When she drew it out there was a liftle fish held fast by her sharp claws. She ate the fish, and felt bet- ter. The next day she was hungry again. She remembered the fish and ran down to the beach. ~This time there was something long and _ black moving about, close to the shore. Minnikin for- got that she didn’t like to wet her paws. She jumped into the water, and brought to land w real, live eel. Pussy must have thought, now I will treat cook better than she did me, for she seized the squirming, wriggling creature with her teeth, and carried it home, into the kitchen, and laid it at cook’s feet. Cook thought it was a enake. How she did scream! Minnikin's master had just come in from the station. He ran to see what was the matter, and it made him laugh to see Cook 50 frightened by a harm- less eel. 1t Minnikin went Sshing after that she did for her own amusement, for her master did not let her go hungry any more. RAYMOND AYER. Norwich. Where | Am Going For My Vacation. 1 am going for a vacation in June, and of course, Uncle Jed, you know all city children like the country, and | all country children like the cil that is just the way with me. 1 like the farm because 1 can feed the chickens and play around in my grandmother’s big yard. I also like to take care of flowers. When my aunt comes home from work I run to meet her. Most every Sunday I go auto riding. So on the farm is wnere I am go- ing. v. Well, EVELYN A. CARON, Age 11, Greeneville. The Song of the Screech Owl. From the peculiar name of the night bird, one would naturally thir hat its a song) would 1oud and harsh, but really, as Lowell “the song of the screes owl the sweete: sound in nature This statement quite surprises us and we stop for a moment to consider. On a hot summer night if we walk through a stretch of wo along a_country road we are iike hear this sweet sound It is like the wiker of coon. but much softer and sweeter, and the sound fools many coon hunters From the name vou would look for heech, but it is not so. 1 hope d a little to the Wid ledge of wooderaft. SEPH B. DOWD) ula or Norwich, Teddy's Store. d Teddy’s mother, one morr anywhere to buy “Dear me! she was dress: ing, “I can't f I never can pin member town.” ull m big lemonade, with ice in it,’ “I'll get you all the pins in_the next month.’ “How?” asked his mother. keeping store,” answered you can u Ted- s mother laughed; but she m the lemonade. and carrie out to a tent in grode back of s house. hen he it ale, a big boy, Who knew write, to put “LEMONADE Ten Pins a Glass,” how on a sheet of paper. borhood were arcund with pins in their hands. ;1 v warm, and lemonas d that Teddy kept busy ting on his d the pitcher was soon empty. Ted- dy had it filled ain and when it was empty the second time, took down 1 d his s He carried he had there were a_month. SDA THOMA tomers to I Bethel. — The Connecticut Dry Milk Products company, now located Waterbury, has given guarante that the first machine for the manu- facturing of dry milk the Andre: will be installed in Bethel. T machine wiil require a minimum of cans a day, and the process of manu- cturing the dry powder will require from six to seven hours. | | was | ; { i | | i | | | BALLOUVILLE Miss Marion Pray has resigned as teacher in one of the schools of South Manchester, and is t g in Tor- rington at a c ble increase in| salary with prospects of further ad- vances. She and her sister, Ellen,| who have ‘been enjoymg their Easterj vacation_here at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Pray, | returned thi r school duties. Miss Ellen is teaching in New- ington. A number. from this village attended Easter services in the Attawaugan M. E. church, Sunday. A cholr consisting of Misses Dorothy Moward, Helen Thatcher, Margaret and Florence Stott, Margaret Caffery and. Mildred Main, also W, D. and T. H. Woodward and Earl Weeks rendered Easter Miss Caffrey sang the offertory tion. Ethel Adams was organist speaker was Truman H. Woodw who has recently returned from over seas, and who spoke from Hebrews 10. Relating some of his experienc- es in the war zone as a member of the 103d_Trench Mortar Battery, he drew lessons of the blessings of suffering in turning men to God. In the even- ing there v concert in which_the | children- of ay school, both | from th Al took ps Ballouville branc hich is ey and ted by Alice da the Adams and ( d ree- | i with vi- ol Woodward. after which r s and readings made up th rogr i offering of mor amounted*to el given to the f menians and Ruth Pr itation, A social dance is to be given at the club house, roceeds to help sweil fund for s unday hing Miss Florence Praw, daughter of Is in mu- ntal e H me I |iting ¥ out Is it 2 Winner? Did you Subscribe? OFcom: placently shirk your patriotic duty and let the credit for the Loan’s success go o others who now proudly wear the Button?, What have you done to ensure the success of the “Vicory” Liberty Loan? 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