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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

the saws and axes flew! Then they
hustled around raking the yard,
making garden, doing chores, build
ing, hammering,' humping and de-
lighting in the noise, raking hay,
hoeing potatoes, planting corn-in-
deed, they did almost everything
boys can do.
Alas, that all good things cannot
last forever! One day of hard work
tired some of the Juniors so they
did not want to work again very
soon, and they demanded a play
time which lasted several days.
Cool, bright days in spring, summer
and fall were generally ideal for
outdoor work; the workers felt alive
On such days, and delighted in ac-.
tivity no less than in the beauty
of the weather. But cold, stormy,
winter days and gloomy, rainy,
thundery summer days were also
ideal. Then it seemed so comfort
able within doors that busy work.
ers did not miss the sun or their
freedom.
Papers from Fergus Falls were
not available. as they were on the
Minneapolis topic. Cokato please
note that no grade below fifth is
eligible. =, =
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
n FRIEND IN NEED
e Pair of LUitiing Hands That Helped Hunt
and Uncle Out.
(Fifth and Sixth Grade Pri

(Fifth and Sixth Grade Prze.)
MUST have jumped the that
morning for felt bright and happy. hair easily
arranged, and then SAID "Uncle
wants you home with him. you want to
go?''I sad "Of will be ready SOON" It
lovely morning. dewdrops sparkling
the clear the which
had probably rolled from the right side OF the bed
shining brightly.
When reached uncles home, we found that my aunt
fallen spraned ankle She said there much
be done she did know what to do Vera,
bring and vii; work and let auntie
direct said When had tied the began to
Continued Page Two) So
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

A'more land than a king could ever
own." Perhaps the majority ia
vored park-like gardens with vel
vety lawns, shade and fruit trees.
and flower beds Of various shapes
mounds, circles, stars, hearts, horse
shoes, crescents, pyramids, flags,
squares. diamonds and triangles.
Then there were comfortable, con-
Venient and artistic additions in
the way of summer houses, ponds
of water plants and gold fish, GRO
Quet grounds and tennis courts,
statues of favorite characters, and
one had an automobile shed. Paths,
either graveled, sanded or paved,
wound in and out and around, ar
riving finally at some charming
nook among the flowers.
Some Of the Juniors preferred
vegetables, berry bushes and fruit
trees solely, but the most popular
were the flower gardens. Among
the loSg list of favorites were roses
pansies. sweet peas, carnations,
lilies, verbenas. asters, nastur
tiums, lilacs, heliotrope,. poppies.
morning glory, foliage plants, sweet
alyssum, phlox, peonies, marigold
candytuft. mignonette, sweet Will
liam, daffodil, bleeding hearts, hya-
cinths and daisies. Several Jun
1ors reserved a plot for wild flow
ers, and here ferns. violets. ane-
mones and hypaticas grew in
Woodsy profusion.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

THEORY PRACTICE.
Those forget we
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
The LUeek's Roll of Honor

MINNEAPOLIS PRIZE WINNERS. .~.z
Florence Parlin, B 7th Grade, Clinton School. s24s
Third Avenue ,@ -E@@, -s.1@S
orpha La Crox, A 9Th Grade, Whittier School, 26A
Garfield Avenue. .,-- II ~= @ ~
~. ~. .-e- HONORABLE MENTION.
Grace Lnehan, B 7th Grade, Garfield School, 2426
Fifth Avenue S. @E e-szs -
Ruth Erickson, A 7th Grade Washington School, sos
Fifth Street s. -
Virginia Chase A 9Th Grade, Calhoun School, $500
Fremont Avenue S. .-s-.3-
Mildred Coffin, A 9Th Grade Bryant School, 1912
Clinton Avenue
NORTHWESTERN PRIZE WINNERS.
LIE Grande Dyke, 9th Grade, Prairie du Chien, Wis.
Geneva Duncanson 9Th Grade Stewartville, Minn.
HONORABLE MENTION.
Isaac D. Dick, sth Grade, Mountain Lake MINI,
Bessie G. Allen 7th Grade, Chatfeld. Mimi.
Joseph F. Russell, 5th Grade, Madelia Mimi
Dorothea Rich 9Th Grade Central School, Red Wing.
Z MINI. i@r
HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT.
Theadore Gronert, 11th Grade. Prairie Chen, Wis
Gina c. Wick 18th Grade, Grafton, N. D.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
OF POSY PLOT $
Minneapolis Juniors Delightedly Plan
Ideal Gardens as Big and Expens-
i've as They Please. = = =
TOPIC-YOUR IDEAL GARDEN.
as They Please.

GSPITE the fact that no two gardens were alike
because no two Juniors possibly could be, each
Junior was confident his ideal garden would be
the most beautiful of the beautiful, thereby
leaving not the least loophOle for the rest
of Juniordom to crawl thru in the search
for ideal beauty. One thing is sure: if the
Junior gardeners were turned loose to plan and
dig around. Minneapolis would undoubtedly
be the garden spot of the earth-providing all
ideal gardens blossomed exactly planned.
In size, the gardens ranged from a small
bed of glowing pansies to farm five miles
square. Some of the larger divisions would
I'VE to be knotty problems to budding landscape
amateur gardeners; but nothing in the way of
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

velvet extends wide where croquet set
rolled prepared for
tennis ground.
little brook thru miniature valley with rocks
overhanging and buebels growing from
1t babbng and gurgling along the
pebbles might think it the brook that Tenny
about.
in a cool, sheltered nook my garden bower is
little house is covered with and
the the mouth of brooket as it
runs little lake bordered by weeping willows
swim about this little lake, and here
little boat painted yellow and white and
called Water Lily. -
of is used for od-fashiOned
which thyme sweet marjoram, bach
buttons sweet and all the old time plants and
flowers together in rich profusion.
rustic garden seats here there, a
servatory may have flowers in winter, make
garden complete. Here spend many pleasant
hours with my book sewing. So
B Seventh Grade, Florence Parlin,
Clinton School. 3248 Third Avenue.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
O NE WORK DAY
Northwestern Juniors Bubbled With
Such Cheerful Energy They Ac-
complished Wonders. T. = =
ToP1c-AN IDEAL WORKING DAY. WHY?

HEN Juniors felt like working (Which isn't very
often because they said so), mother smiled at
the busy 'streak" and wished they would feel
SO delightfully."- energetic more often. At such
times their "spirits put on their very best man.
ners,'' and they so bubbled over with joyous
and ambition they simply had to do some
thing worth while; mere play would never have
been satisfactory in the wide world. Juniors
worked, and what is more they accomplished a
great deal Junior girls donned big aprons.
rolled up their sleeves and rushed into such a
whirl of sweeping dustng, arranging, ,scrubbing,
rubbing shining washing. baking. cooking. that
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
FIT FOR II KING
n Rarely Beautiful Cour!
Of FloWers.
(PrizeI)

nay ideal garden is one that
Nl kings might envy. One acre OF
land is set aside for this purpose.
and in this space hedged in with
fragrant box and roses my ideal
garden is situated.
Wide paths strewn with white
sand wind in and out among gi
gantic trees and beds of flowers. A
beautiful fountain Of clear, spark
ling water FLASHES and tinkles into
a marble basin and sends d little
stream thru my garden.
Everywhere masses of rare and
beautiful flowers sway in the
breeze. Green grass like emerald
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
>@ AN ELEGANT .4UENUE OF P.RLMS
Il Thinking Fountain and Fine Big Trees Mai


(Fifth and Sixth Grade Prize.) =
M would be large fountain Of white
lN BILE would its thousands Of sivery drops in
garden Broad stone walks, shaded by tell
palm that head forming archway would
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

picked busy The birds picked busily did but
their picking did not help to fill boxes; they only
made surroundings cheerful and work lighter
At last birds all
light was giving to twilight stopped and found that
had earned dollar and four and had passed
pleasant working day play day had enjoyed
It working day such dreams Of because of the
harmonious blending sights about me-
the thought Of the pocket money, but the
the character OF the work itself
lie Grande Dyke,
Eighth Grade. Prairie Chen, Wis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
PERFECT HARMONY
& Symphony Of Natural
Sights and Sounds. -
(Prize.l J

hH Y ideal working day I expert
Iva enced last summer when every
thing seemed to be in perfect har-s
mony--birds were singing, bees
were humming and all nature had
on its most beautiful raiment. On
this particular day my work was
picking cherries. Cherries!1 I am
sure everyone likes to pick them
for it is not work. One never gets
hungry picking cherries; that counts
with boy. was to receive cent
for every quart picked and of
course I was out early, about four
o'clock in the morning. But was
not the first in the tree. The birds
were singing as merrily and picking
as greedily at four o'clock as if it
were breakfast time, but suppose
it was their breakfast time.
All day long the birds sang and
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

it almost makes breathess think of the works
girls Junior boys kept abreast
the girls They fairly astonished the woodpes and how
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

extend many Locusts with
their white blossoms would the in the south
eastern
Caalpas would another and in the shade
of their large might sit read hot,
drowsy day. be stripes
of white geraniums, the blue would be blue
violets with white geraniums for stars,
Lilies of the valley nesting green leaves would
form shaped bed. Mignonette heotrope
would Pansies yellow tulips would
scattered there. Great Of Gala lilies
would be placed all around alternating with beds of
that look fairy had spread her
silver them OF would be friends
the peas, nasturtums peones.
without covered with climbing.
would regular little it,
pink white yellow and red think
could happy in such a garden -Orpha La Crox,
ASixth 2644 Garfield Avenue.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11
ROWS OF SUNNY SMILES


is for describe garden for have in
lovely simple It is situated in the
large green vevety Around the edges of
garden grow green waving it
Continued Page Sky
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
BLAZING OIL
Sends 500 People in a Mad
Rush for Safety.
Mfg. Cos. Tinware Plant a
London, Ont, Burned.
No One Seriously Hurt-The Loss Is
About 100000.

London, Ont, Jan. 9.-One of the
most disastrous fires in the history of
this city, and one which almost re-
suited in loss of life, occurred today,
in the immense tinware plant of the
McClary Mfg. Co.
About 5 o'clock boy working in the
stamping department and whose duty
it is to put sheet iron through oil roll
ers for the purpose of preventing the
sheets rusting, struck match to light
the gas. He dropped the burning match
and it fell into the vat of oil. With a
report like a cannon the oil went up in
a sheet of flame and spread on the CELL
ing of the room on the first floor.
About 500 men, women and boys
were in the building. There was a
rush for the elevator and the stairs
and in terrible crush, they reached
the street. natless and coatless, but
none seriously injured.
The fire burned furiously for hours.
The hydrants were frozen, and when
the water was finally obtained the
pressure would not throw the stream
so feet. The fire burned itself out.
The net results of the fire are 500
persons out of employment and loss
of 100000.
Some of the best machinery of the
kind in Canada is destroyed, the Nc
Clary firm being practically the only
stamping firm in the Dominion and also
one of the largest in America.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE
Will Be Stamped Out, This Winter
Farmers Dissatisfied.

Washington, Jan. 9.-In a report re-
ceived, today, by Secretary Wilson, DR..
Salmon, the chief of the bureau of ami
NAL industry, who is in Boston direct
ing the campaign against the foot and
mouth epidemic, says that the disease
will be stamped out this winter, unless
1t has been carried to some other part
of the country where it is yet undis-
covered. The experts have only two
herds on hand which were reported
within the last two or three days. The
largest of these herds was to have
been killed, today.
DR.. Salmon speaks of irritation
among the farmers because of their
failure to receive as recompense the full
value of the animals killed but says
the government methods We're en-
dorsed in a resolution passed by the
Stockholders Association of Massa-
chusetts at Worcester
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

AS mas been customary in years past,
this year, there will be an athletic exhibit
ton given by the boys in City hall The
exhibition VIII come off sometime in
March.
There will be, as usual, basketball
team, this winter. Harry F. Doe, 1906.
is the captain. Among the candidates for
the different positions are Ramsdell.
Briggs, Doe, Parsons, Staples, Croker
and Williams.
The debate, which is to come off, some
time this winter, between the young Ia
dies OF Bates and the young ladies OF
Boston University, will be upon the fol-
lowing question. Resolved, That in 81
Years Russia Will Be the Great Power in
the Eastern Hemisphere The girls to
represent Bates are Misses Marmel Don
ham and Cooper.
The first society meetings for the term
were held Friday evening.
The two new dormitories, which were
undergoing the process of completion dur
ing the winter vacation, are now occu-
pied by the girls, so that four houses are
now used as dormitories for the girls
Cheney House Millken House Quilt by
Hon. Cnas. Miliken of Augusta, Frisbee
Hall and Whittier House. The four
houses accommodate 100 girls.
The cage work for the baseball men
will begin in about two weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

EX-COngreSSman ii. r. II. BrOm-
we'll died in Denver Col, Friday. He
was elected TO Congress from Illinois,
serving from 1866 to 1869.
The body of RI. Patrick Moran, vet
eran Of the Cival War and an inmate of
the Soldiers Home at Tilton,. N. H.,
was found in the Plains district Fri
day noon. Death had evidently result
ed from exposure, as the body was
frozen.
Dr. Roy w Griswold was, Friday
night, at Bay City, Mich, found guilty
Of manslaughter in connection with the
death of Agnes f. Kerstein, a Battle
Creek young woman, who died al a Bay
City hotel under suspicious circum-
stances some months ago. and for
whose death E. Il. Bennett, former
prominent newspaper editor there, is
already serving a term in prison.
Active work has been begun in New
Hampshire by the National Woman's
Suffrage Association to secure the
adoption by the people in March, of the
amendment to the constitution submit
ted by the convention recently in ses-
sion in Concord The campaign will be
uIlGSf tnG QiTtCl peTSOidl SUPERVISION
of the national president. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. assisted by Mrs. Mary
c. Hay OF New York.
Gustav Kannabell, so years old, is
held by the police at Greenwich, Conn.,,
who believe he can tell how Charles
Kelly, "a, met his death, Friday Both
men drove to Greenwich from West
Farms, n. Y, and when a short dis
lance from their destination Kelly
was thrown from the truck, receiving
injuries from which he died a short
time later. Kannabell was arrested,
but he said he was unable to tell how
his companion fell.
Charles Waldo Haskins, head of the
public accounting firm of Haskins &
Sells and the founder and first dean of
the New York University School of
Commerce, died, Friday, at New York,
of pneumonia, aged fifty years. In
1898, Mr. Easkins and his business
partner were appointed experts under
the joint commission of the 53rd Con-
gress to revise the accounting system
of the United States. At the close of
the Spanish american war his firm
was selected by the United States au-
thourities to investigate the finances of
the city of Havana and, later, the ac-
counts of the island of Cuba. Up to
the time of his death he was secretary
general of the National Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
A COMPARISON.
In Money and Food Value.

Coffee had been used in our family
| for years, and we all drank it except
husband. who gave it up some years
| ago because it injured his health,
writes a lady from Granville, Ohio.
Last year we spent the summer in
the northern woods. Among our table
supplies, unknown to my husband, !
had taken along several packages OF
Postum Food Coffee, but it was stored
away and forgotten for weeks, during
which time we used coffee.
| lone day my husband said: 1 wish
it were possible to get some Postum.
would like to try it. Two hours later,
at dinner. l served him a cup, brewed
according to the directions on package
His surprise was complete; the taste
pleased him and he drank a second
cup From that hour we continued to
u.s.. Postum with gratifying satisfac-
| ton, and not another cup of coffee has
ever come to our table.
MY husband found that it did not
produce the distress that forced him
to renounce coffee and that it strength
ened his nerves and stopped all his
stomach trouble. Its effect on me was
no less gratifying; though l had
drank coffee but sparingly, I had suf-
fered considerably from it. 1t dis
ordered my nerves and disturbed my
| liver Postum corrected these evils
and proved a sedative and most whole
some food.
| I'VE were both interested in the COM
parative cost of coffee and Postum. We
had always paid 35 cents a pound fol
coffee. A large package of Postum
costs rs cents and weighs one pound
and a quarter. Though we drank
Postum more freely and frequently
than we had coffee, we found that the
large size package of Postum lasted as
long as two pounds of coffee a differ
ence of As cents in favor of Postum.
In year this saving of money was
consijerab BILE. and this fact recon-
mended Postum to all people who be-
lieve in economy,
Even a person prejudiced in favor of
coffee would admit that Postum prop
erly brewed is as pleasant to the palate
as the best coffee. l know that some
people have been dissatisfied with
Postum because they did not make it
properly,
| Another advantage of Postum that
makes it vastly superior to coffee for
family use is that it can be given free
| ly to children, being real food and not
a stimulant like coffee. 1t will not
harm the most delicate child nor create
habit which leads only too easily to
indulgence in stimulants of a stronger
nature.
! Il believe that if every one knew that
Postum is so much cheaper than coffee
and SO much better for ones health
they would use it instead of a drink.
which. being stimulant entirely with
out food value. is SO very harmful
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
WONDERFUL MARKSMANSHIP. .
Mark Hit at 8 Miles With Shot from
Big 12-lnch Gun.

San Francisco, Cal, Jan 99.-Extra-
ordinary accuracy in Workmanship
has cut short the heavy gun practice
at the Presidio, the government reser-
walton. Twelve-inch guns were to be
brought into play and the target was a
wooden structure, pyramidal in shape,
about IL feet long at each base line and
about eight feet high. 1t was towed
oceanward by a tug with a long tow
linc ana while moving at seven miles
an hour was to be fired upon. When
the target was about three miles from
shore and under tow it appeared to be
a bout the size of mans hand
1t was then that Corporal Regain
fired a Pinch gun. The shot struck
about eight yards astern Of the moving
mark. Carefully Regain aimed the sec
ond missile and scarcely had the roar
Of the discharge ceased when the tar
get disappeared. The shot had hit the
enemy" amidships and shattered it in
to splinterS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Skowhegan reported "a below, Thurs
day morning, with 20 at Clinton and
about u at Augusta. Up in Aroostook.
Wednesday morning, it was below at
Van Buren,, and Thursday morning, 3
below at Island Falls.
Alden Gerry, a farmer of Smyrna
Mills, filed, Friday, at Portland a petit
ton in bankruptcy. His total liabili-
ties are $780, of which 1872 represent
unsecured debts. His schedule of as
sets states these amounts: Household
goods, S55; vehicles, SIS; due on open
accounts. SIS; claimed exempt, se2. Ly-
man A. Irish, Bancroft. telegraph
operator. Unsecured debts, STAG, Sc
cured debts, $227; stock, SIS; household
goods. $685. animals, 800; vehicles, $40:
machinery and tools, s12; other per-
sonal effects, s25; due on open accounts,
$50; assets claimed exempt. $14S.
Charles NJ. Robsipsop, Caribou, loco
motive engineer; total liabilities, 1857,
of which s26 are secured claims; assets,
household goods, SIS, claimed exempt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
THE COAL SHORTAGE.
Easier to Buy Of independent Than
from Railroad Mines.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The Senate
committee on the District of Columbia,
today, continued its investigation into
the shortage of the coal supply in
Washington.
A. !. Zeh, q. LEGAL dealer, said that it
is much easier to secure coal from the
independent companies than from the
mines owned by the railroad compan-
les, and in this connection an effort
was made to show that the large COM
panies were disposing of their product
through the small ones in order to keep
prices up but no definite testimony
was secured to this effect.
The fact was brought out that there
are now in the bins Of the Capitol
about 800 tons of coal. but it was
stated that there had been days when
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SHE HAD FAITH.
But It Wasn't the Kind that Cures
Dying People.

Ithaca, N. Y, Jan. 9.-Mrs. Louis
Hanson died, today after having been
treated by prayers of so-called elders
in a society which has obtained a firm
foothold in Ithaca, known as "the
Church of the Living God" or holy
Ghost and Us Society" She was a
devoted member of the sect and de-
spite the entreaties of her husband and
daughters she refused to be treated by
q physician. Coroner Jud stated that
death was due to pulmonary conges
ton and heart failure. This is the sec
ond recent death of members of the
society in ithaca who have been thus
treated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
A little white bread is safe.
Much, is a menace and danger.

A man who had appendicitis, brought
on by the use of starchy food that
kept up a continual irritation of the
intestinal tract, because he couldn't di-
gest the starch. worked and expert
mented for about two years in perfect
ing a food in which the starch should
be first changed to grape sugar Gin
other words, go through the first form
of digestion) so that he could have the
required elements of food and not suf-
fer therefrom.
This was the origin Of Grape Nuts,
and the man followed exactly in the
line of Nature in changing the starch
of tde cereals into grape sugar.
There are absolutely no foreign in
gradients in or about Grape Nuts. 1t
consists entirely and wholly of wheat
and barley, containing all of the VAL
liable food elements of these nourish-
ing grains.
The food is granular in shape, pur-
posely made little hard in order to
bring down the digestive juices from
the gums and preserve the teeth by
proper use. 1t is softened by cream
and is one of the most delicious dishes
ever placed on the table.
We unhesitatinsIy say, and the state
ment will be verified by the great ma
jority of physicians all over the world.
that Grape Nuts is the most scientifi-
caly prepared food in existence. Made
for purpose, it accomplishes it's pur-
pose.
It furnishes the system the valuable,
much needed carbo- hydrates, the ele-
ments that make brain, nerve and
Drawn, and it is presented in a form
ready for immediate and easy diges-
ton.
It can be handled by the weakest