Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 18, 1920, Page 9

THE W“, oK Boys’ and Girls’ Depurhneut. the part it played In crifié and blackened oné #ide of the | futures. Doing things on the m is simply de- 1t is endeavorin‘ to do what is Do not use over. 250 | well recognized as belrg Wrong under the | Rules For Young Writers. 1—Write piainly on péper only, and number the pages 2—Use pen and ink, not wencil, 3—Short and pointed articles will be glven preferevce. words. 4—Original stories or letters only will be used. plainly at the bottom of the story. WIDE-AWAKE POETRY. Sunshine Song. The thing that goes the farthest T'wards making life worth while, the least and does the most, a pleasant smile. The smile that bubbles from the heart, That loves its fellow man, Wil drive away the clouds of gleom And coax the sun again There is room for sadness we a cheery smile, the same It fll\,n\ h good look, It's never out of style It pervy ns ofh to try again W flure makes us blue; The dimples of encouragement Are good for me and you To smile When s very easy, bright oft We o are and clear, forget the heart ary ds sorrow, trings s them ON, it's full wortt oodness, too, Wit end It's worth a miflion dollars And it does not cost a cent —Wifbur Nesbit. JED’S TALK TO WIDE- AWAKE UNCLE acher of a school named It but great in 0ol where due stre Sawney. school in size It was a sct mpottance of ¢ trained where future » graduated. ter Lo punils as to of the ar- minds were and oolina sense 1e allows ie builde d in keeping there- ed that such a teach- things to d6 Stch n fact just the don’ts, do and dlways ¥s, do't do any- one e ion and nunils with to evil ¢ 20000608 § Ends Stibborn Coughs in a Hurry For real offectivencss, this old tiome-made remedy has o eqrial. Easily/and cheaply prepared. now how quickly a 2l can be c mquurml intil you made rem- has coughed alt 1l say that the Imost like iy prepared, tter for coughs, nstead of su the full pin Fith two-tk of the money usually sperit for cough ations, and ives effective and nntlr. aling the m(er'\ne! ssages. t promptly it e n"h nd soon the phlegm thin out A day’s usc will usually dinary throat.or chest also splendid for brnn~ eness, and bron- 3 & most valuable concen- trated compound of genuine Norway ne pxtract, the most reliable. rem- edy for throat and chest ailrients, isappointment, ask your 2 otinces 0f Pinex” nd don’t accept any- . aranteed to kn;- abso- ute gatisfaction or nioney refunded, The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind, P e DRIVE YOUR The Norwich for his | 1 mnortarice of REMEMBER A FULL CHARGED BATTERY WILL NOT FREEZE AND WE WILL GIVE YOU A FREE TEST 42 Franklin Street WAKE ception. idlea that Sorheorié else Will gét thé blame for it. clon. ing that hones(y is the best policy, for persisted in there is no telling Where it Wil lead to. The Tennésses school teacher had an old-fashioned policy but having drilled it into his pupils it was not for lack of knowing better if any of his boys went wrong. Every normal childs can easily disti» guish between right dnd wrong, and how much better the whole world would be it frank honesty were thé rule! WINNERS OF PEIZE BOOKS. 1—Rath Sellew . of New Léndon— Campfire Gir’S In the Woods. >—Francls Hopking of Central Village | —Boy Scouts in Europe. 3—Peter Ghilardl of Galés Ferry—The Potter Boys i the Front Line Trenches. 4—James Riley of Norwich—Winning in the Afr. S—Helen Breawlt of Taftville—Camp- fire Girls at Long Lake. 6—Marion Kenyon of /Westerly—Boy Scout Automobilists. Prize winners living in the cify can obtain their books by calling at The Bulletin buSiness office after 10 'a. m. on Thursday. LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Wiltiam . Sledjesky of Kagleville—I thank you for the good bovk you Sent me. I have read miost of it and it is very in- teresting. { Helen T. Greens of Plainfleld—I wish j to_thank you for the book you sent me. 1 like to read {liem very much. Elinor M. Howard of Nofwich—Thank vou for the ook, The Campfire Girls at | the Seashore: I krfow I shall like it very much. IiSther Resnik of Yantic—Have re- cd the prize book entitled Campfire il After Yedrs, and I thank you o much for”it: Kathleen Ryan 6f Norwich—That book you sent me i§ 0o zood for words. It is the most inter: have ever read and ever (and | far_it, liked their books ¥ Diles over) so much s well as I did. LETTERS WERITTEN BY WIDE- AWAKES, ! A Snapping.Sunday! i Dedr Uncle Jed: Last Sunday we i snapped pietur nearly all day long. | The first w © out fine. went to Norwi h for the fun g i srapped the . Candy Kitchen ur snapped the picture of my sis- her house and board. your: THIERESA ADAMS. Taftville. Brave Dog. Jed: On t Unele bank of the His little dog. hing and lhp boy. . Age 8. Deat Uncle Jed: vill tell you about two Loys. George and James wers play- ing ball afid Dball hit a window and the maii ran and hid and after 2 while '\n ¥ then They their mother Don't you know Vo, the nd tola the man and said they were willing to pay l'or it. Canterbury. Dear Uncle Jed: Is fra derful art I meah I don’t mean pictures ned in gilt and painted by that readire i large fee. e 1! Y¥ou cannot buy or Surely you hdve imagined plices nd people you never saw. These are pictures I mean, “for no matter how dtiful your tho S ¥ them or can you bu I mill try to d most i i | ! Beautiful and Costly Pictures, | | | i g rdom ds Iohg s it is It must though, tdke ¢, big, and wide and-the log nding forth heat and light of d ruddy color. this co: CAR ARCUND Electric Co. Tl moulting hen needs good heal! digestion. No disease where Pan-a-ce-a Sulletin Building HINK of the amount of hen energy, nmxéy #nd red BY to grow a thousand feathers—the Dr. Hess Poultry Pan-a-ce-a lielps poultry through the moult and starts pullets afd moulted Hens to laying. It containg tonics for the appetite, tonics to aid It tones up the dofmant egg organs. It contains iron that gives a moulting hen moulting lens Dr. Hess Poultry 2 We handle the Dr. Hiss Line. Call oq ws. THE HOUSEHOLD e 23 how Midny hens you have. We have a package to sabt, - average plnm:lz‘l thi—-good appstite—good digestion. It is knowingly being dishonest §—Write your name, age and addresd | and fotting others be subjectéd to suspi- It 18 directly agafhst that old say- ng, delightful story that | E 1 thank you ever | and .1 hope .all the Wide-Awakes also The ! OnHead.tched andBurned. Cuticura Heals, “T was troubled with #n scalp and scratched it umfl% eruptions on my head. The erup- tions festered and scaled over and itched and burned, causing great irritation, and I lost sleep on account of it. My hair becamme lifeléss and and it came out by ‘handfuls. “1 tried different rémédies, without succéss, and then used Nflmn Soap and Ointment. When I had used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes. of Cuticura Ointment 1 was hesled, within four weels.” (Signed) Miss Juuanoghmdmook Ave., Roxbury, Mass. Give Cticura Scnp. Ointment and ‘Talcum the daily care of your skin, rest of /the family sits a dear old lady, @ grandmother, perhaps. Her hair silvery gray and falls softly about the head. { wrinkles express a mother's WorTies. eyes once a soft blue, now of a grayisi hue, body erect and stately. black silk ‘dress,. trimmed with many tucks and frills. It is plenty wide around tiie bottom for grandmother likes room to step. Across her shouldérs is She wears d those same sweet hands that patted pil- lows and made her loved ories happy. Her vear-old grandson. She wears mo jewelry save a sllver brooch, a dedr and others passes uietly away to the hum of needles. Grandmother i her needles cease on the chair b Her knittmg has “dropped from her lap to the floor where a gray r ¢ kitten immediately un. revels stitches. The big old s just comfortable like her fast asieep. e more peep at her. Doesn't she #ive the picture of content and | peace? RUTH SELLEW, Age 15. New London. The Right Kind of Pride. Dear Uncle Jed: Once at a bBoards school some were trying to_humili- a_ ne holar e hands were nd who looked as ¢ knew how They were hoasting of what do, apparently ashdmed of beiniz a working could be said one of them, “I never did my life.” 1 the country girl how to wash. dishes?” id (mé of them, “I made an apron once, but it was so poorly done that my n'mh(‘r l\ad to rip it all out.” 1 the country girl, “I would | be a vg to be as helpless as you are—! i to be like a bal a ¢ some one to it on me You m alk about your thers being worth money, but worth something in myself. I cook, E fon and milk and d of what I can of boasting of HELEN BRE Tattville. LT, Age 11. Our Ifallowe'en Party. Dear Uncle Jed: First we drew some witches in baske! On the back of the paper Wwe put Some one's address and sent /it to them to invite them to tha Hallowe'en party. Each boy did this. cake, pies, or banam feel like it they don’ was going to my Schosl party 4 woman but if they don't gave us each a pumpkin. At school T made a Jack-o'-lantern out of mine, The other boys brok irs but I did not. We | went lobkihg for leaves and we put them | arouna When Friday | | came w party. All those the i came. My sister had to tell 14 ‘stéry to the older people. Then the dcher drew some pumpkins without amy nose, eyes or mouth, and we boys had to_draw them in without lobking on. A boy named James did the est, and he won the prize. Another game we had was an apple tied with a string and some one held the string and we tried td bite it The one biting it Was to get a prize. The boys tried in vain. Afterward the teacher said “let the older people try,” but it was in vain for them, .. After a niinute 4 hoy named Gildo bit the ap- ple aud he had 2 prize.. Another game we played was an apple relay race. Aft- er we were through we ate some cake the people brought. — Then we went home. That is all I hive to tell you. PETER GHILARDI, Age 11 Gales Ferry. A Visit te Putnam. Dear Uncle Jed: Last week 1 went away again. Maybe you think I go away quite a lot, but I don’t neglect my studies in music. This time I went to visit my uncle and aunt at Putnam. We all went, grandpa and grandma, papa and mamma, Baby Lewis. Aunt Alice and L We had a very good time and a nics chicken din- ner. My teacher said I had a good mu- sic lesson. Last Saturday she gave mie la piece called The Spinning Song. It f§ very prettys _— It will soon be. cdld Weather but I'm golfig to try and go to school every day as long as I can. I don't have a great ways to school so I guess I'll be able to g0 most of the time. I have my friend, Esther, to go.with. Yours with best wishes, HELEN TURNER GREENE, Age 8. Plainfield. My First Fishing Trip Dear Uncle Jed: 1 am writing you & story about my first fishing trip. I have been happy .many times in my life, but never more so than when my father put a fishing pole in my hands. One fine day in summer my brothef knew where the fish were, so 1 threw my line out.. After a while I pulled up ch, red blood and a red coiil x’fed B By all meaus fecd your ce-a. 74 Franklin Stres a tangle of weeds. Then I went a lit- tle way from the place Where my broth- er was. There I had my luck, and every time I drew in my,line 1 pulled up a fish. When I had twelve fish we went home. My father said that T had good luck in_fishing. Yintie .EDNA JELLO Our Kids Our schesl is named st Patrn'_l\’t school, the Apostle of Ireland. It is vloc:(ed on_Broddway between . the rec- tory and the. parish church. The loca- tion is_oné of the finest in the city of Norwich. It f§ built of brick trimm with brown stone, W S s T i Her' shoulders are still broad and hép 4 kmnted shawi of black and white, made by | vbands are knitting a pair of socks for I'm; wash, | Then those the boys invited bring somel have to. When I} Her face s a peaceful 100k of content. Her cheeks are pink, even thougif Hez nd, the click of her} etting tired and| ¥ ! Norwich. her head begins to nod and finally rests:i’ PRACTICAL POSSIBILITY FOR YOUR SELF -— BUY SOME FOR 72.INCH ROUND TABLE CLOTHS $61.00, $29.00, $31.00, Lunch or Tea Cloths thé most désirable we havé éver seen. 28INCH .....cun....... $7.75 to $13.00 iiieeesin.. $14.00 to $22.00 45INCH .............. $21.00 to $25.00 $47.25, $51.00, $28.35; 36-INCH The Values We Offer Canfiot Bs Excelled Yoii probably have coveted for ssiqiisite table [i bave been so 'nmmczsme IT DOWN TO A. your 6w iiss, some of this éni, with its delicets embroidsry: The Mmmdae éotisidersd prices it to be BUY SOME $65.00 $33.00 Dell tower with a statue including an angel and child. This roof symbolizes the object of the Catholic school Wwhich: is to lead its plipils to a higher life by | educating . the mind and heart. | In front and on both sides are large| lawns, They are beautified by shrub-! bery and flower beds. The rear has two playgrounds, one for boys and the other for girls. Thesé are often scenes of fun and frolic. The school house has two entrahces in front and two in back with staircases leading from both. It contains twélve rooms each with a dress-| ing room attached. gt of these rooms dre occtpied by chilren of dif-| ferent grades. 'The other four are mu-i gic room and offics, dining room, store room and nurses room. JAMES RILEY; Aged 12 . Armistice Day Dear Uncle Jed: Two years ago today ! tarm " said the boy, States Grint.” n His name is Uniled!dense crowds lined the beach at Shore- The loys gave him thé| jafi whén the ceremony took place. name, Unclé Sam Grant. The éntrance to the harbor had beén He was so shy that the boys madé Jrédged, ahd six powerful tugs were fun of him. he would fight thern. He hecame a great soldies in' two wars. north and the soug, notth. The first thing he did was to_take fl fight lasted fdr a long time. | When it was over the North was glad. the soldiers | a hero. fort. The When the War wds over went home. Grant was ¢ The people made him. pr T, ARCELIA BAYO\I Gldsgd. The Mystery Sh One of the towers whic admiraity rucied by the -4 from Shorehd: mouth. The towers ips. h_have be LEave beent When they made fun of himi used in_ the femoval of the tower, it leing the intention to move her near He fought the Nab hgnthnuse in the Solent and In thé war betweefi the|ibere sink hér to the bed of the sex he fought for 11 the structure from its moorings _at ven o'clock. Two.tugs undertook his task and with a long, steady pull hé miofister gradually yielded and ingh by fnch moved towards the mouth of {Hé hdrbor. The séamanship if getting her. through the harbor mouth was marvellous, as there was only a §-fdt cledrante—i:@, 2 feet 6 inches st eath side! dnd yet so tdrefhlly wid the whole thing carried out that not n_a_ pile Was scratched. Loud rheeri were rdised and syrens were blown as'the ship passed the gates of the hirbof; (Nov. 11, 19i8) pedce was declared. 1.°” ect of much cariosity and comec- | " ores ouf in the roadstead two more z ture as to their ul te use, and as $d It A i was atleep in bed. When I heard an' a result Lhe\' have becomie Kiown ad | tuss assisted in the propdlsion of noisé I 5ot up ou: of bed -but AUPARE 5 @ thé great craft, while tWwo more took ¢ sece anything, o I went down ity or%e of the uppihcxr ;;'osmon dasl rn as -.c%nn-om city 4s the noise did fiot stop. Tha TS is to bé used at Purxs'noulh for t may be stated now that the orig- ren had stockings filled with powder. y would hit evefybody that went by. ope they have such a good time yedr, a8 they hdd two years ago. I am golng to march in the parade. I am' ad of that for 1 would do anything for y country. I think America is the best plice on edrth and is worth dying. for I remiain your friéad, : ARTHUR RL\'EHART‘ Age 11 Norwich. _Our Hallowc'en Party Dear Uncle Jed: Last month the 29th, | at school we had a Hallowe'en party. We all took our costumes. I carried a| bag to wear, & black mask, with a beard| .. and a mustache of white wool Then| 1 pasted a & of black -wool on ai; piece of paper to cover my head. I} was 0 look like a sheep. At half past! two we all went out and dressed. teacher, Miss Caffery decorated the in- side of the school house, lighted the jack o'lanterns, Hiing apples on strings, put ap- | ples in tubs dnd fiid pédnw:s. E Otlier children looked like ghosts. Al-| fred had a tdll straw hat with orange| crepe paper arourd it. e had on a long blagk coat with an old whist broom in his hand. He represented a witch. An old Woman came in with a stick for!| a knife. We hunted for peanuts and ate thém, bobbed after apples, tried to bite those on strings, had apple and, peanut raqe;.' Alfred bad a witch to_hang up on the wall. _THere was a white pumpkin op the end of a breom. We pinned black pumpkins on top of the white one. ‘We had peanuts apples, cake, cookies and pop corn td eat. We. had.our pic- tures taken and a good time. At the end Miss Caffery told us a ghost story I hope all Wide-Awakes had as much fun a8 I did Hallowe'en. I like fo play Indians. Will any Wide Awake who likes to play Indians write to me and t%n me how he plays? ANCIS HOPKINS, Age 1L Central Village. The | A Visi Dear Unéle Jed: time 1 have written. 11 years old. I went up_to see.a farm Sunday and they have got pigs, horses, cows, chick- ens and 4 du: And - when they took us out ifi the Zarden I found a ripe straw- berry. I kept it and brought it Home. The dog was an. ugly dog. When we started for home it was five mindtes past 5 and the car left dt 25 inutes after. We had to walk almost a mile t0 get the car. It is hard for my mother td run but we got the car and We got Néme safély after hiving Eooa tifhe. . e MARION KENYON. Westerly. to & Farm, : This is the seécond I am a little girl Ulysses 8. Grant Dear Unecls Jed: VUlysses S: Grant Was born in an old house on the banks of thd OHi river. There was a tan- vard, near_the Jouse, & tanvard is al placd Wwhers leAtfier is fade. "Grart did not like this tdnvard but he diked the farm. ke most boys he liked Horses. When He Wis eléven yedrs old he could ride a horse better than ahy other man il that part of the ceuntry.. Washingtop he was a great lead- er. le was fond of hunting and fish- ifig. After his farm work was done he d to go to the river for a swim. He n&fm to school when his fatiér could spare w: m that 1e aid lwt umh %{, !é WS Sev- énteen his father thought né wou ke i soldter. ol gm b3l 4t West o e A place Where boys train to become sol- Wiieh. fie_ESt UiBFS NS B 165 068 asked him what his name was. He said, “U. §. Grant,” “Here is a boy from the defense and as 4 ndvigation mar! -Bach of the towers is 185 feet in of of reinforced concrete; Nearly 109,000 of T déded in each ship, and the total weight of, coticreta steel work of the super. structure weighs; roughly, anothér 1,080 tons. of ail this, the draught when afloat is only 14 feet, so that almost 170 feet ve the surface of the water: Score of pipes lead from an emerg- ency deck ou the steel super structure in the concrete. decks, and when the ship is im position height, the first fodr _ti hexagonal in shape. these blocks have bé sed is’ dbout 9,000 tons. to holes concrete will be poured in thé “hull” ally_sunk until she rests o of the sea—a block of concrete sol! cenough forever. rlant to work the top deck of all is open for the searchlight; wire! electric crane, and control rossihle, however, to mount gung there These craft Were de- signed by a Scottish en | Menzies, while H. A. Clift, a Cn to . buil and was sent to Shore] ui luovp;flzh Titer if requireq. engineer; , ships, Jupe, 1918; with orllers twithin six months—: armistice maumbd. gixteen weére required. voluntaered The - la\mchlng Wa$ 6f 2 pFivaté nas ture, but, notwithstanding Wm. 2 !::f Wontan Proves Ot tee far N Yvrk"g;u. m 'flm’&'fl s being The In spitd into 0, the botto cgna-é.nn light an ub.n. It order Altoget e A “liclh Hguid these koles to fil] every hollow conhcteté block Thus she will be gradu- id appareitly to renigtn there Inside the steel surmounting | tower are half a dozenr dscks contdin- ing living quarters, and in the cenmter 3. very powerful eléctrital sear faysterious secret contrivinces, bl The :fld bare, nve inal intentioni waos to build sixteen of thése concrété sHips dnd to sink thém in position across the Straits of Do- ver in order to fasten submarine nets to them_ and thus protect the channel from Subméarines. The second, tower shi complete at Southwi ledve ustil néxt year. s _nearly Pbul will not A Conspicuous Achiévement. Leniie's mdst conspicious achievement as a terrorist lies in the gzood scare he gavé Trotsky by sending him to the front.—Washington Star. i Sotinds Tmprobable Thiftk 6f “voting schools for women.” when they’ve been telling men hoy to vote a1t alorg—Atianta Corstitation. Triéd thé Plamb Plan Those Italian workers who seltéd & rafirond and started to run it have given it Bask —Dctroit A W faponifiis -’m\ BRIEF STATE NEWS New Britain—Sixty-eight throat cul tures were tzken ULy health authorities at the Smitd school Monday in an effort te determine the presence of diplitheria car- riérs. Ivotyton—The Parents' ‘and Teachers club held an open meeting ‘Wednesday evening in the Ivoryton grummar school. Miss Rose Heavren, t nurse, spoke ‘Ofl Chlid Welfare, and Miss Marths Porch of Bristol.—George n New York to attend the ion of the National G. i |68 tr. Rober ndent of the gas department of istol and Plainville Tramway co Home Bn. k Treasuréer to go to Bump of Great beeq_secured ta take the by Mr. Newcomer. Middletown.—At Middletown _ex the city court room last wesk a letter was read from thé Douglas Hode company offering the use of their rooms to the jocal ser- vicz mien Herénfteér a8 4 plite ™t which to hold their meetings. New Havei—Owirg to inadequate stu- dent patronage, the Yale dining hall, com- mionly known as Commons, il be closed after Nov. 23 by order of the Yale oor- poration. Financial loss would result from its continued operation. Less than 700 men are éining at Commons, while the Staff and plant could handie at least 500 more without an increase in the over- head expense, according to Superintendent Fragier of the hall With & Single Meaning, Prince and pauper—often in these days, two words with 4 single meaning —Nor- folk Virginian Pilot. Koréan women are taking up business lines and have incorporated a com- pany with $200,000 capital to introduee and popularize howsehold _conventenoes now obtainable" ln that country. ' " For Over Thirty Years — GASTORI __YWE CENTAUR GORPANT, KEW YORK STV, e S S s S S £ s b S BCE AR LSO sas crmsmmmvas. -