Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 27, 1922, Page 2

every time there is a Dollar Day. Be- lieve me, I've got a real buy in any of these bundles!™ Merchants admit that the day was | |one of the greatest in the history their stores and at the close of one of hardest days in the vear agreed that the public had responded to the shopping went by purchasing the mer- chandise offered at prices that will be seen only on days such as Dollar Day when merchants offer bargains to at- tract hundreds to Willimantic and show them that live merchants can boom any city by satlstying the demands of the 1 Anna Moore Hebert and was born on The funeral was held Saturday afternoon from the parents’ home, 71 Meadow street, placed in the recelving vault at St. Jo- seph's cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Ads Chase Hillman were held Saturday at 1 e'elock at the home of Mrs, 275 Prospect street, Rev. Harry S. Mc- Cready was the offiglating was in Spring Grove NORWICH BULLETIN Willimaatic Office 51 Church Street Telephone 1062 The body was Willimantie will take part in a state” to curb speeding of mo- thoroughtares. | B. G. Thompsen! iiam Wesks of South street before the police court Saturday morn- ing on the charge of unlawfully tearing down a certain fence on land belonging to Archille Eremeto, The act is alleged to have heen commit- ted Monday, Feb. 20. Danaher, who appeared for Weeks, had the case continued for one Week. ‘Three cases Which were scheduled to be heard before Curtis Dean Saturday were continued. The case of the Standard Paper Merchandise company was “adjourned to March 24. Manning vs. Philip Borton went over to March 2 and that of Fred- erick W. Fdwards agpinst Horace Rood to March 11, Miss Ethel Morton and Samuel E, Al- guire of Mansfield Depot were married Feb. 11 at the home of Rev. W. C. Nor- ris on Prospect street Willimantio police deé- the mumber Xy on South strest, Connecticut. | Thompson, Harold Thompson and H. R. Arrangements were in ¢harge of Funeral Director Ja¥ Attorney Patrick Edwin E. Fox dled at 5.80 Saturday morning, at his home, 24 Oak street. He known brick mason n Hampton Sept. 15, 1853, son of and Lydia Miner Fox. JTampton untll ha was 16 years old, came to this oity and has re- sided here all the intervening time with three and a halfs years. of friends hera who grieved He is survived by Fox; a niecs, Fox of Hartford, and Cora Lincoln of Middle- Miss Morton is Mansfield Training School and a daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Who is a nurse at the training Mr. Alguire is emploved as sta- On their return they dfed at his! tion agent there. will reside at Mansfield Depot. In the case of Willard F. Macfarlane after five weeks' of Willimantic's tizens and for many years Dean Saturday rendered his decision in favor of the plaintiff, by defanlt, to recover $49.22 $41.81 'and costs of $7.41. was represented by Attorney Samuel B. is the proprietor of Central Garage on Pank street and the sult was the outgrowth of the non-pay- ment of a blll for labor asd storage of He was born in Canada, May 16, 1851, When Springs wher! months and then He was alder- second ward rme and has held other town and city Besides his wife The plaintiff Haven, and Henry of| Fngine Company stin a?nrgn for a chimney fire 25 ir the home of Amanda . 1 responded to a Loulse Lambert Hslen Martin of this city. four sisters and two brotn- Morse on CI of chemicals were used in extinguishing Miss Esther Josephson of Joseph's hos- ss tournament w sorry to learn that she mer is a patient at St. Joseph's hospi- members are tournament which Frederick P. Davoll Hibberd have returned from a visit with teams ranked as of Major Edward T. standing the Glants have 177 night to spend a week at,the home of . and Mrs. Willlam Jen- Miss Jenkins is teach: Taylor is first in the in- ing ‘in Duxbury COLCHESTER A. Lazinsk has pur buikding on South Main street from the The deeds were passed The huiiding is occupied by Top department meeting of Polish was held at the Polish hall, Sunday afternoen, ting was well atal sneakers were from Hart- and New York. sed the Tip Top Dawley estate. the A. & P. r of new lights i ashestos booth is being crected for moving picture is 10 build an additio eph . Hammon ngers and instrumentalists. rooms for the thias as anterooms, paraphernalia room. dining room Sunday evening "0f Middletown administered the rite i1 foxCactam ol Fumeral services for P gilodh preached the Clarence H. No o~ Tames Madden Willimantic Satu visitors herd k Harry Haynes, Malona and James Lane of Saiem were town attending meeting of the K Roderick Hebert of New London spent el Friday afternoon to sew ed 2t 6 o'clock. the audience the ‘members of the Young Peo ple’s society, Edward McKulsky of North W ter was a caller here Friday VENTRY The joint case of Abraham Siiver: Augustina Twordy came up in the town court Monday mornin Twordy with t ter-on him after an argument over a Willimantie's second Dollar Day was morning until thousands came DENTISTS Dr. Jackson, Dr. Strickland NAP-A-MINIT 1es were offered was the slogan nd every one of-them members o charged Mrs in the greatest there was no chickens sold, but dharged vear knew what tha EXTRACTION AND DENTAL X-RAY SPECIALISTS M. TO 8 P her arms, and she that paid the buying pub- was bound ovér in $300 bonds ta next term of the superior court. suit of Eugen Fortune was brought Hawking Wednesday stores were bargains before heen offered in each case jammed When A. Fortune vs. Main Street. D JAY M. SHEPARD Susceeding Filmore & Shepard Funeral Director & Embalmer 50-62 NORTH ST, Lady Assistant ce reserved decision and took the vapers for consideration, no session of sohool in Dis- trict 0. N8 the past week on account of Miss Mabei st bargains ever offered the hundreds of purchasers were heard| Mrs. J. T: Skilton has been confined to past wek with a severe WILLIMANTIC Tel. Connect Lawrence, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newell wasg operated on at the Manches- 1t is hoped that RETHROAT er hospital Thursday 1 now on his condition will improve Killourey Bros. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS Willimantic, Conn. iLady Assistant) , MURRAY'S BOSTON STORE Willimantic, Conn. Wild's Inlaid Linoleum Its High Standard Quality Has Made It Famous for Over 40 Years Durability has ever been one of the strong features of WILD’S INLAID LINOLEUMS. Their superior wearing qualities have been demon- strated time and again. Some Linaleums are cheaper per is decidedly the cheapest per yard of service. Step in and let us show you the patterns just re- The mild weather of the first part of aused a few robins to ap- pear in this locality. STONINGTON e Radio club of Stonington High school held a delightful dance in Com- 86 Union St High School orchestra, which went under the name of Zip's orchestra, and puzzied the dancers, purchasal a radio outfit for the school use by holding dances. The\ members of J. F. C. will turnish the supper for the Father This club has Trumbuil W. R. amd Son banquet to be held next month, Grover Carson is able to be around, having been ill for the past 10 days. . Hemmond has returned from Payl Schepis has returned from Law- rence hospital, New London. Mrs. Gertrude Latham je in Hartford Leon James of Hope Valley spent Sun- day at his home on Clift street. F. W. Coombs of New Haven is spend- i a few days here. Deputy Collector Ernest F. Gates, of New London, will be at the Community House Stonington, Tuesday, the Purpose of assisting Individuals filing income tax returns. —_— Windsor Lacks—Lieut. Gov. Charles A. Tempieton of Waterbury has sold to Frank E. Healy of Windsor Locks a summer cottage at Laural Beach, including power bea: and other equipment. The place is valued at Monday and Attorney General yard, but WILD'S No.S i—=FerY ‘Than* Better uticura THE H. C. MURRAY CO. Eules For Yeunz Writers. paper only, and number the pages. 2—Use pen and ink, not pencil. 3—Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do mot use over 250 words. 4—Original stories or letters only will be used. 5—Write your name, age and address plainly at the bsttom of the story. WIDE-AWAKE POETEY, When Motker Rubs It In I've never seen my mother wearin' such a tickled look, She smiles just like th' angels in & fairy story book. She goes around a-singin’, Wit her voice all keyed up high, Like some one seekin’ vengeance fer a wrong of days gone bY. I don't know What's th’' matter, but she seems to like to hear coughin’ in her ear. THE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE Boys’ and Girls' Department Bulletin business office after 10 o'clock 1—Write plainly on one side of the|Monda: LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, Mildred Tubbs, writing you to thank you for th 1book you sent me entitled Little Prudy’s Captain Horace. I have read it and find 11t very interesting, Foraee Coates of Ledyard—I was very pleased with the book you sent me. vou very much for it. 1t very interesting. Royal R. Gill of Jewett City—I want to write and thank you for my book I have read it through and like it very much, Arlene Fries of Amston—I that you sent me, Lilac Lady, and I thank you very much. the prize book WRITTEN BY WIDE- Abraham Lincoln, Me come from school a-smeezin’ an’ a-| pagr Ungie Jed: Abraham Lincoln was Then she rushes to th’ kitchen, chucklin' sweetly to herself, An’ down th' doggone goose grease comes from off th' pantry sheif. “Come here!” says she, dramatiel “Come hers, @my suffrin’ son; My mother did this same to me—an’ she had lots o' fun!’ Then she starts in a-rubbin’ my neck, my back an’ chest, A ‘fore she's through I'm needin’ 'bout twenty nights of rest. She’ stands oft lookin at me—we're both clear out o' breath— Then shakes her head an’ shudders, till Tm ‘'bout scared to death. She throws a shawl around her head, an’ soon I hear her feet A-trippin'—oh, so gailyl—to th' drug store up th’ street, 1 se¢ her through th' window as she comes across th' yard; ow what she's boughten—it's turkentine an’ lard! - Th' kitchen stove starts heom!n’, th' lard melts in a pan, Then I hear mother vin': mother, lttle ma; 1 ‘Come to Oh, gee! Oh, gosh! Oh, pshaw! Oh, my! That doggome turkentine She splashes all around my chest an’ up an’ down my spine. But she don't seem to think of me—she chuckles with delight, Then says: “When T was voung my mother did this Way ever night!” Vext thing she's in th’ bathroom, where medicine is at, A-talkin’ to herself! Says she: “T'd better glve him that!" An' then it happens! I can feel my soul begin to boll} She's gone an' got—she's got it!—she's zot th' caster oil! y William Herschell, in Indian- apolis News, Your Mother. | Yoy get your mother something she will lke! You get her something that you've — “thought of through Your lova for her—you'rs still her little tke, And all her heart and soul are wrapped in you. Remember her if all the rest must go. And watch her eyes, how wonderful their glow! You get your mother something she can say “My child bought this for me on Christ- mas Day!” And, oh. the music of her veice when <he Speaks of vour gift around the Christ- mas tree! Remember her, however far away, And it will he her goldenest Christ- mas Day! Tou get your mother something, even though Tt isn't much; some simple, modest thing Yet in its unpretentiousness the glow Of your true love and sure remember- ing. Remember her, for mid all change and strife You are her boy as long as she has lite! —B. B. in Baltimore Sun, UNCLE JED'S TALK TO WIDE- ( AWAKES. Probably you haven't seen any great number of the birds that have returned from the south. It is a bit too early for most of the migratory somgsters to be getting back with these climes but with March abeut to open they can be expected soon In large numbers. Al- ready the advance guards have begun to arrive according to those keen ob- servers who are always on the alert to catch the first sight of them or hear their first mote. That means that with favorable Weather the others will be gradually returning and flooding the countryside with song. \ How many boys and girls know the names of the birds which come back to us first ad are able to distinguish them as they appear? By the middle of the coming month of March the first re- lay of our migrating feathered friends will be complete. There is the bluebird for happiness, and the cheery robin, the brisk little song sparrow and the moble kingfisher, the redwing biackbird and the purple finch. Afterward the Test of our bird friends will arrive, according as the Weather gets warmer, but these are the Teal heralds of spring. The world would be a great deal less Dleasant if it were mot for the birds. They give us more than some of us ever and companfonship, there is all the beautiful musie, and the storfes that have been written about them and the plctures painted of them. They are an example of indpstry and happiness, an element of joy In this bustling world. They do a real work too—that of cheek- Ing the growth of weeds by eating the seeds and saving the lives of plants and trees by thelr fondness for insects. The birds are our true friends. We must treat them so tha tthey know we love and enjoy them we should carefully ob- serve and study their ways, their somgs and their handsome plumege. WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS. 1—Agnes Ladd of Yantic—The Prize Watch, 2—Harriett Park of Mystic—The Life of Lincaln. 3—Willlam Durr of Taftville — A Struggle For a Fortune. / 4—Annie Lamb Teddy. 5—Lamra Schleick, of Baltie—The Auto Beys, 6—Susan J. O o T—Clement Dufresne of Taftville— The Boy Scouts With the Cossacks. Boy s Before bort in Kentucky Feb. 12, 1809, in a log His parents were ‘When he was 7 years oid they moved to Here they settied in the dark He worked hard and did all that he could to help bulld his new home. was made of loge. The chairs were rough He often went hunting and brought back many rabbits. turkeys and geese. While they were Hving here his mother dled. He felt very sad. had taught him all that she knmew, and when he grew up he wouid say all that he knew he owed to his angel mother. He was very fond of Teading and often would read in tii¢ ioft, where he siept on a bed made of leaves. died his father went to look for another He married Mrs. Sarah Johnson. It took an ox cart drawn by four oxen lo get her things to where Abrabam Lincoln lived. When she came there she persuad- ed Mr. Lincoin to make the house more She put Abraham and his sistér to sleep in comfortable beds and made them look more human. very fond of reading baoks, and John Hanks, a boy brought up with Lincoln, they would come home from the fields he wouid take a piece of cornbread. lay down by the fire and read. He only went to school one year, for his poor to send him to he read all the looking stoals. After his mother comfortable. said that when parents were too books around where he Later they sta traveled a jong time until they reached d to bhe a business he tried going down the One day he saw an After he had passed id to a friend that thing, T'll hit it hard.” Later he became a clerk in a store. was so honest that some people called He was also a yery Once while he was up two birds ir nest, and an- d for Iilinols, auction of slaves, the place he s: chance to hif “Honest Abe.” kind hearted man. riding he stopned to p that had fallen out of thef other time he stopped to pw:l a pig out Later he became a lawyer and them was elected to the legislature, and then secretary of state; debates with Douglas. president and freed the shaves. After the war Lincoln theatre to rest his mind and While he was sitting in his seat a half crazy actor named Booth_sprang upon the stage and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. He died the next day. There have been many monuments put up here he had many REBECCA SEPLOWITZ. North Franklin. . ir the second e written to the Wide-Awake back of my ho very big snows over the hill I saw it before zoing to sohodl. my mother if T could try to elide it once. 1 was the first one on the hill to sli orm and there was snow In the morning when T asked There Wwas a ma- went into the barn and made The next morning there was It was very icy, €0 we We would skid in places a lot of hump: went very fast. brother thought he was going to slide all day, hut the first thing we went down we bumped the tree with the end of the double-runner and m off. The tree caught him. We thought he was laughing, but he couldn't laugh brother fell LOUTS LAFRANCE, Age 9. Central Villaga St. Valentine's Day Dear Uncle Jed: ago in the ancient city of Rome there Jived a good old man named Valentine. Svery one loved him becauss he was so shared with him all many years earted. They their joys and sorrows, When Valetine died, his people were nearly heartdrokem, and mourned fqr bezan o celebrate the four- the annivers: of his death, teenth of February in a strange way. On that day all the vdung glirls in the clty of Rome had thelr name written on s of paper and wut in a hox in the public square. When the young men of the ity would come to this box and each ‘The girl whose name was written on the skip, became the pro- spective bride of the young man who had draw out a slip. Later the custom of observing Saint Valentine’s day reached England. also it became a day of joyous celebra- As in Rome, young men and women chose each other by drawing slips, but this drawing result in So, though the day has heen lost, it has come down to us in America. We have our way of celebrating i, just as the Romans had theirs. We want our friends to know that wa| Yantle. hgve not forgotten them, and we like to ST fdel that they are thinking kindly of us. So on the fourteenth of February, when love i3 supposed to reign, we send our|y spent Sunday. little love tokens In the form of a post- card. a rare book, a box candy. or an offering of delicate flowers | ag:. to those who have a warm place in our ere very seidom did stop to think about. Besides thelr song} GLADYS LAWTON, Age 1 George Washington. Dear Uncle Jed: George Washington gustus Washington and was February 22, 1 Potomac, in Westmoreland county, Vir- on them and in order to better know them| ‘when His moth- George was 11 years of age. er taught him those principles of relig-| Dear Uncle Jed and Cousins: You al must have thought me very ungrateful When George was a boy he Was very| for not writing and thanking you for the One| lovely, book, "Tabitha At Ivy Hall," of his favorite pastimes was training|put T do thank you and T whl new try to explain why T am so late. T have been preparing for mid-year exama and now that they are over I will try and His trunk was in the boat, | atone for my neglect by telling you about the exciting time of Sunday, January inher| 20¢h. fon and truthfuiness. fond of horses and other animals. of 15 he had obtained a midshipman's warrant to enter the En- but 4s he went to give parting kiss he saw the tears of North Frankln—| eves; he ordered back his trunk and de- termined not to Four years after he Was appointsd mother” a jor. _General Washington's the - office -of chief megistrate the lce for a seal of the Unifed States was ammonnced to| rea ‘home we sst and him at Mount Vernon on April 14, 1787. | while listening to the Victroia, On the 30th of April he became pres- | smelt smoke. The odor was that ident of the United States of America, | buning and we around, z and served two terms. Y¥le dld a lot for | could see mothing % Wianers of prize bodks living in Nor-|his country during the war. wieh can obtain them by calling at The $—Yeo Trahan w'“'a'e'“ — The! ered by the people throughout the country. ‘Washington retired to Mo ‘Vernon, there to spend his life in and quiet. But his life was drawing near to a close and as he was riding out ome day on horseback to visit his farm, he was overtaken by a storm which chilled him through. A cold followed, Which settled In his throat, and hurried him rapidly to his grave, His dving words were: “J die hard, but T am not afraid to dis Belleved from the first that I eould mot mirvie it. My heglth, eatuot~ lagt lon, He sank gradually away on the 14th of December, 1799, two days after his attack. Guns were fired as he was carried to his place of burial, his war horse was bridled and saddled and walked beside his coffin riderless. The land wae hung in crepe. HARRIET PARK, Age 13. Mystie, My Trip to Niantle. Dear Uncle Jed: One day last sum- mer we started for a trip to Niantic. We ot there at night all tired out. So we did not go out that evening. But the next morning we started off early to go to the beach, We went in bathing a while and then we ate pur lunch. We left our baskets standing om the sand and went clam digging. We wera so busy looking for clams that we did mot notice the tide come in and our baskets were all wet and also our coats. It was real fun to see the tide after we no- ticed it coming in. We would dig holes and in a few minutes they would be filled up. After we were tired dolng that we went up to the landing and ‘watched a sailboat race down the rives Then we went home for supper all tired out, after a hard &ay’s piay. The mext morning we bid our aunt good bye and started off to Norwich. I hope I will go again digging clams. LILLIAN L. WILLIAMS. Baltie. Description of a Persos. Dear Uncle Jed: Who is that tall sturdy, queecly-dressed man, Who stands with legs a little apart, hands behind his back, looking with keen black eyes into the depths of the forest? His head s bare, so you can see his crisp, black halr, long face, as well as the high cheek bones and full red lips. The whole figure !s that of self-pos- session and cunningness for he s an In- dian, ELIZABETH BERTSCH, Age 13. Columbla. Beauty, Deax) Uncle Jed ; jlam goingito tell you all about my pet dog. My dog’s name is Beauty. He is a hunting dog. He is not. old enough to go hunting yet, but he likes to run after the chickens. Sometimes he plays with us, too. At first he did not bark at people when they knocked at the door, but now he barks at everybody that passes by. His color is black and white. He eats most every- thing we give him. Sometimes he comes Wwith use to the store and waits for usun- til we come out. MARY CARBONT, Age 13. North Franklin. During Christmss Vacation. Deéar Uncle Jed: During my Christmas vacation I had some fun with my brothers and cousins. The next day aft- er school closed I helped my mother with 1 was thinking what I could give her, until at last T thought of one thing that pleased me, so T went to the store and bought it for her. That night we had such a good time with my mother and my aunt. We all went to bed about half past one. The next day was Christ- mas evy £ot up as early as possible and we began to do our housework and my father, brothers and cousin went to do the farm work. Dur- about something. I tried to listen but all T could hear was about two or three Wwords. At last night came, ali went to bed except my big brother, Michael, Ch way home we saw some children so mer- ry and gay that they coul ing and talking. mas night my aunt began to tell stories. One of them was a Christmas story. we plaved I was always the winner, and my brother James said “I won't play anymore if she wins every Should Feed Birds in Winter. Declally when there are big snowstorms. the housework. While I was helping her fng the noon hour they began discussing my aunt, my mother and sister. They didn't go to bed untll midnight. When tmas dav came we went to church. After we got out of church we went to The first time T went down 1 went wery | INe store and it was full of people. We b 't A few days after thece was sush | (it s "5, NES that we wanted and n't stop sing- We reached home amd thers T saw that anmother of my aunts had come to spend Christmas with us. On Christ- After they finished telling storles we began to play Lotto. In every game that i was They did not see him. He turn all thought for & few min- |ed this way and that way, but they sl utes our home was gone, but thanks to | followed him. He went over a hil and our .young friend and peighbors it is|there was a wild grapevine which reach. stil here, - od to the top of a high tree. He remem- Soon after all of us were working bered how the chitdren used to swing on beavers. I ran to the telephone them, 30 he cut it near the roows and called for heip and men, women Bave @ great swing and landed far away children came running with pails. from where he had started. Then he tarn. fire was gurning through Toof -Ib[h m-r direction’ and reached the our frie my uncle were soon cabin safely. When the Ingj N wmln.‘ifl'flb-g . g i 1 i : ; ne had not eaten anything but meat since his brother left. Most of his pow- 5 o 4 bullets were gone. One evening Heping the cousins will never have | a8 he was sitting in the cabin he heard such an exciting time as to have their |8omeone coming. He thought it might be i & g house afire. Indians. He looked through the trees C. CORA CARPENTER, Age 14. [and maw his brcher riding on ong hores g and leading another loaded with powder, bullets and clothes and other things Ny Do Boone needed Dear Uncle Jed: This is my first at-| | EARL F. BABCOCK, Asq 10 tempt 8¢ writing to you and I hope this - : letter will not go to the waste basket. 1 wish to tell you about my birthday My Birthday Party party that I bad in November, 1921.| Dear Uncle Jed: I am writing There wers lots of people at my house. |you abaut my birthday. On Jew i & eoy Refreshments were served inciuding | ten years 0ld and I invited ten girls Th, sandwiches and cake, and we played | party bagan at four o'clock end a#f the games. Allsof a sudden while some one | girls were present. was telling 2 story one of the party |beautifully decorated and a big ocake in remarked, “What, do you think it was |the middie of the table contained nims me.” It was my eleventh birthday, the |candies. We spent the afternoon bay- cleventh month and the eleventh day of |ing games. I received many hendsome the month for I was born November 11th |gifts. The chiliren went home st siz and sure emough, there were present at |o'clock. my home my pa and ma, my little sis- HELEN OSTROWSKIL, Ags 10 ter and myseif and others making| Norwich. eleven in all. This is something I am proud of, for it is semething that you A Band of Gypsies on't hear of often. o L Dear Uncle Jed: One Sunday after- atCLEMENT DUFRENSE, Ate 11. | noon s liitle girl named Helon, who only five years old asked her mother it she might go out in the back yard and Under the Apple Tree. play. Her mother told her she comld Dear Uncle Jed: I was much surprised | but not to go away from the yard, be- one day to see a large insect come from |cause thers was a band of gypsies in tow, above the fpple tree overhead, with the | and if they saw her they would take her wild dashing flight of the larger buttér- | far away from mamma ard papa. When fiies. Attracted, apparently, by the shelt- | her mother went in the house she went ered and sunny reeess in which I was|away. When she was about two yards sitting, and by the scarlet geraniums |from the house the myysies saw her and which were in full flower in it, the but- | took her away. When they got to the terflies darted downward, and after 8 |tents they let the little girl down. She be- little hovering, settled suddenly on the | gan to cry and said, where is my mother bare ground underneath a geranium |and father?. They sad that they were plant. T them saw that it was a very |home and that she couid not see ‘them handsome one with an elaborate pattern |any more. Then they tock her away and of light and dark chocolate brown. But | when she got biz she was a fartune tell- the margins of the wings had 2 lus-|er| Ome day a lady went to her mother trus vellow color like a brilliant glare [and sald that There was a fortune teller of light. in town. Her mother went and asked her MARGARET WHELAN, Age 8. |0 tell her her fortune When she had Norwich. finished her mother asked what her name, was and she sdid that she did not know. Pocahontas Had Her Way. Then she sald you are my little girl Dear Uncle Jed: Yesterday we read|\When you were about five years old you about an Indian council. It was so in-| Were taken away from me. The band of teresting that I decided to write about It. mw){s‘:lo’ u;;:—'“ s;u how to tell fortumes. As Smith entered. the village where sincevely, lived Powhatan he saw a wenderful LORETTA DUPRE, Age 1. sight. The old chief had prepared a real| Flain@ield. surprise for Smith. Powhatan, tall, gaunt and grim, was wrapped in a robe Chased by » Bear of raccoon skins. He sat on 4 bench be-| Dear Uncle Jed: I am goine to tel fore a wigwam fire. His wives sat at|you about a boy being chased by a bear. his side. Along' the wall was & Tow of |" Once upon a time a boy wanted to go women with faces and shoulders painted |to hunt. But his mother said he was too bright red, and chains of white shells|young to go hunting in such big forests, around their necks. Before them stood |and for him not to bother her any more gome of Powhatan's bravest warriors. | about it This council was held to decide Smith's| So the little boy didn’t ask his mother fate. Two large stones were rolled in|any more but went silently to his room before the chief. A’ few of Powhatan's|and got his gun. Then he-crapt silemtly warriors sprang upon Smith and dragged | back and escaped Into tie Wwoods without Rhim to one of the stones and placed his | his mother knowing it. He ran on Il ha head upon #. Two warriors with clubs|was about a quarter of a mile in the in hand stood ready to slay Smith, but|woods. Then he loaded his shn and Pocahontas rushed forward ‘and threw |went on until he came to s big tree. her arms around his neck and begged for | There he heard s loud noise. e looked Smith's life. Pocahontas had her way, |around but could not see anything so he and Smith's life was saved. loked up in the tree and to his surprise he ANNIE LAMB, Age 13. |saw a great big bear coming down the North Franklin. tres. The little boy was so frightened that he ®dn’t know what to do. Bat the A Fine Time Skating, i bear did not walt for hm to think, he just 8 g 3 came down the tree as fast as he ocould. One Saturday afternoon my sisters and | Was on the ground by this time and you I went skating. ¢ When I first started to|know that a big bear can run faster fl\:- skate T fel many times, but didn’t mind |3 little boy. E\]\ the little boy climbe . K. 1t was a windy day. That is just the | tree, lcaded his gun and got ready i kind of a day I like for skating. \ Some | shoot. Tho bear came growling and ciiob- other girls and boys wers at the pond |®d the tres too. The l\"h-{ boy oo skating, 73 higher and higher, then sat in a e :‘ Later they made a firs to warm-thelr | Sition and fired, but his gun was & dirty hands. T warmed my hands and then I|that it would not go off. So the -‘“,‘ went skating with two other boys. I|boy waited till the bear eame within hiy went up to the other end of the pond and | Te2ch. Then with an "';“‘4 :‘“M:“ the wind blew me back-and almost over |the bear on the rose =nd went BoviOW the dam. After a great deal of fun, we|2Wey. Then the little boy cmbed o the tree and went home. T N e WHTTE. Age 13, *GEORGE PLIBICK, Aee 13 Willimantie. Mansfield. T Tife of Abraham Lineoln My Sister and the Ple. 8 Dear Tnele Jed: My little sister, two| A D®ar Uncle Jed: Abraham Lincoln, the years old is just beginning to walkc. One | 2ixteenth president of the United States, day my mother made some cream pies. | WaS born i Hardin county, K . 13, She placed the ples on the table so that | 1803, His parents. born in Kentucky wemt Rita woold not roach tHe het pise. My |l0 Tndlana in 1816. After having sbout mother went out to get some weod in the | O ¥ear's school T v i goh Ny liue due el e b e the pie while my mother was out but | ¥aS KaTs 4l ame o she couldn't. She pushed the box near | Awpointed nfsf‘::';,fi;:nh,m g the table and got on & and after that on [ 820 o study law, prac Dear Uncle Jed: The birds living in the north should be fed In winter, es- The names of the birds that stay in the north which we should feed are the starlings, juncos, sparrows, downy wood- peckers, nuthatches and bluejays. Every boy and girl ought to care for the birds as they Klll many Insects which destroy crops. A starling will often alight at the door and walt for something to eat and we can feed them crumbs, oatmeal or meat. The bluejays and meadowlarks p § and began his career as a the table. When my mother came in she | tioe in 183 saw that Rita was having some fun on the lawyer at Smh’wfl_ leld. He n‘fs a}cdc.tle‘?ni? e A fon 1o pics. Shewas ving on the | congress Tn 1847 axd wes there dinling- table with her face in the plate eating the :1‘::? for his out:ty ple. My mother laughed to see Rita's s face a dirty like that. She took her off | In 1838 he was a candidate for Trye the table and washed her face and hands | States semator. His opponent =~ lorl and changed her dress. Douglass, won the prize_from o LEO TRAHAN, Age 9. | lature, though Mr. Lincoln reo#tved 4. W n. rii more wotes than his opponent. In 186¢ i and 1864 he was elected president of the United States. He condirted the af- Aniyions fairs of the nation with great wisdom Dear Undle Jed: A young girl who | hrough the four years of the Civil war, haunt the havstacks in search of grain. do. AGNBS LADD, Age 13. Fow I Spent Sunday. but the one we enjoyed the most 2, near the bank of the|!nE. Baltie. JEANNETTE COTE, Age 13. An Exciting Time. He was adored by his soldiers and greatly rev- Some birds might flock to elm trees sc we can hang pleces of suet on the trees for them. When children bring home their crumbs from school thay can feed the crumbs to the birds. Last winter some birds came to my deor and I threw some oatmeal and crumbs to them. One day T found one nearly frozen. T brought it in the house, wrapped it in a blan- ket and put it by the fire. After it be- came warm. T fed it and put it out deors sgain. 1 like to fead birds in the win- ter and 1 hope all other bovs and girls Dear Uncle Jed: This is a story of hiw Sunday morning T got up and went to deliclous | church. ~ After church my friends came me, sa we went out for a walk un- ti1 12 o'clock. After dinner we went out skating. We played many les nr:x snap-the-whip. Soon after it was time for vespers, so we went home and chang- ed our clothes. After vespers we went out for another walk until gupper time. After PRt 5. PAu. | Supper T read a_story book until half 43 the third son of Mr. and Mra. AL | est nine when T retired till nxt morn. Wo had a young man visiting ur frem Springfleld. In the morning we went to a bear's den, crossing a vond to get to adjutant gemeral of Virginia With theit. On the way this young man caused an earthquake hv very gracefully ac- lived in Rhode Isiand asked her brother|and just as it closed was lw‘m% to give her some money to enable her to|the national capital, dying April 15, 20 to college. He replied that he could RAYMOND J. WOODS, Age i8. not afford it, tossed her a nickel, and| Norwich. added: “Unless you can go on that” A story of marvelous pluck followed. Henry Wadsworth Lomgtallew With the five-cemt piece the girl bought - 2 some caties, and feom this she made | Dear Uncle Jed: Henry Wadswesth bonnet which she sold for 25 cents. Then :‘:“0““”“““:‘7'“ ;;‘urm‘ Maine, e nvxm; oo o B hat time a beautiful and busy town, & bonnets. Has SRS biasy Tome fat fhat time s beasititul and busy towm. lars this way, she then determined to '__"B"“irmflhe w’:( e raise potatoes. She did all the work ex- ;'""" R tor (s et e oept low: T et St mecematul. and | 1O7EELs 0 Heherles Bt N on . Porttant sho earned emough momey to start at| K FEEIEC AT USRI e achool. She continued to work, however, | 204 at Bow fre 52 """.“*‘ = and with rare determination borrowed | ¥heTe be had for classmates several Tomey to supplement what she made, | Jouths who afterward became famoms 08 i o '.‘m,."‘"'m' e | oy mnku?:nzmne'm-in Tongtellow's ane Jnton he < college for| T tion, the trustces of the college vomen, auénded a medieal echool. still| UL ided to ectablish & chair ol g e o e onrre) v | modern langusges proposed that this o e ot e oYl Prac. | young graduate of scholarly tastes hould began e e oy - Yot It &l o pimseit for this position. Three years LAURA SCHLEICH, Age 12. Batie he spent in study and travel in Franee, Spain and Italy and Germany. After five years at Bowdoin, Longfel- = fow was invited In 1834 to the chair of Daniel Boone und His Grapevine Swing.|modern languages In Harvard college. Dear Unele Jed: Daniel Boone was one | Again he was given an opportunity te of the first settiers in Kentucky. He|pregare for a year of study abroad. In knew all ebout living in the woods. He 1836 he began his active work st Har- knew how to hunt wild animals. He|vard, and took up his residence in the knew how to fight the Infilans and get | historic Craigie House, overlooking the away from them. All the other men that [ Charles river. a house in which Washing- came with him were killed. One was|ton had his headquarters in 1775. eaten by the wolves. Some were killed | For twenty years Longfeiiow fiMled the by the Indians and some of them went | profesorshl of modern languages at Har- into the woods and no ome ever knew | vard and was one of the best beioved pro- e e i 1ot ] th e atent. aavene Ahviself to. wristeg’ R et a nd |and was sicoseded by James Russell Loweil % In 1361 the, bappinem of Longfellows these things, and Boone had to stay in |home life was en by the death of hls the cabin all alone, but he did mot mind | Wife who was fatally burned. On Ws being alone. He could hear the wolves | seventy-second birthday the children of howl at night and the panthers scream, | Cambridge presented him a chair —ade i 'h.a.. e —mrg m“u& n”e\:z“l:? on ?-".i‘» o B e Taene e Cobin 8t | Th 1082, at the age of seventy-five years ‘WILLIAM DURR, Age 12.