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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
ARr SCHOOLS.

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 One cent a word for each Insertion,
 or five cents ward for seven times. THE New Haven School of Art 792
 Chapel street, Rooms ll-l2 G, A, Thompson, B. r A., instructor, Daily classes in drawing and painting from tho model Evening classes in drawing and illustration Circulars on .applica- ton. dStf
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RUG WORKS.

NEW HAVEN RUG CO.---Remoyed to
 High street, East Haven. Your old carpets woven into rugs. Drop us postal.
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CITY NOTICES.
DEPARTMENT or rIRE SERVICE
4NtN lidNtIlt NNllA.t l'tt. 70, iIVo,
 PROPOSALS FOR COAL,

DEPARTMENT OF FIRE SERVICE
 Room l. City Hall
 New Haven conn, Dee aS, 1908,
 PROPOSALS FOR COAL.
 Sealed bids VIII be received by the Board of Fire Commissioners until & o'clock D. m Tuesday January 6, l909 for furnishing tho city of Now Haven Wlth 25G gross tons moro or lesa best quality lehlgh cod, as follows,
 100 tons of egg, l96 stove, g nut, the coal to be delivered at tho different en- glue houses.
 The above proposal must be addressed to the Board of Fire Commissioners, en- dorsed Bid for Coal' on the outside of tho envelope, and must be accompanied hN Q certiHgd check of five per cent of the full amount of the bid, payable to Jonathan N Rowe, Controller
 The Board of Fire Commissioners re- serves the right 10 reject aIl bids, Per order
 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS d23 3t S J. METIGER, Secretary PROPOSALS FOR PORTABLE FOLD ING CHAIRS, GREENE STREET SCHOOL
 OHioe of inc Board of Education.
 ST orange Street
 New Haven, Conn, Dec 9. 1908 Sealed proposals will be received ut the office of the Board of Education 6I orange street, New Haven, Conn. mn tl Tuesday, December 20, 1908, at l2 o'clock noon, at which time they will be opened by the Committee on New school Buildings of the Board of Edu- cutipu in public meeting, for furnishing portable folding chairs for tho Greene Street school
 Specifications and form of proposals may be obtained at lh" office of tho Board of Education, ST orange street New Haven Conn
 Tine Committee rosorves the light to reject all bids or waive any defects in snufr 1T fl bo deccmed to thc in- terost of the district SO to dO
 G F. HEWLETT,
 d2t 2t Secretary Board pf Education
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EVERYONE likes a good umbrella for
 a Christmas present Get one for your friend at a reliable place A. Mil Ter, 4A5 State street.
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PHOTOGRAPHERS.
ll9llII IlI1'7'7 77I37I . 77I77
 PRINTERS.

VAN DICK & CO.---96S Grand avenue.
 Commercial Job Printing, Book Bind Ing. etc. If 1t is anything In the print ing line phone or call on IS.
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teen original states. and is known as
the Mother of Presidents five of her
sons having held that office, and as
the Mother of States having been
the first settled state in the original
thirteen. Virginia is also known as the
"Old Dominion. 1t has an area Of FORTY
two thousand, four hundred and fifty
square miles.
The other postal card is the "Old
Mill and Village Street The village
of Valley Forge is nineteen miles from
Philadelphia on the Schuyhiil river-
Many of the existing old buildings used
as headquarters by famous generals
and as hospitals and outposts by the
Revolutionary army are still standing
in quite the same condition as in the
days Of the encampment. The Conti-
mental troops reached here on Decem-
Der 18th, 1777, after the battle OF Ger
mantown and remained through the
severe winter. suffering hardships that
have made Valley Forge the synonym
of heroism. The village nestles amid
st rugged hills and is full of natural
beauty. The postal cards are vrey
pretty and L thank the Courier Junior
for them.
Juliette Eisenbeis
Ottumwa, Ia. 401 w. Park. Ave.
Aged H.
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The Courier Junior
Published by
THE couRlEr. PRINTING CO.,
oTTuMWA, IOWA.
MATILDA DEvEREAUx.
EDITOR.
The THANKSGIVING CONTEST

Dear Juniors: We will celebrate
THANKSGIVING. two weeks from to
:aay. November 26, and as this grand
American feast day happens to 'fal
on the Junior day we want spiendlo
paper. While we have always had eN
cellent stories on Thanksgiving, TINS
year we want them to be better than
the others, because the Juniors have
80 much for which they ought to be
thankful. We want the Juniors tc
write on one of the following sub.
tects:
1.-THE First Thanksgiving
tsThanksgivina In the Churches"
"Thanksgiving at the White House
t tTThankselvlng at Home"
"Why Like Thanksgiving"
t'Why We Have Turkey for Our
Thanksgiving Dinner"
"Mildred's Thanksgiving."
& "Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving"
sWfat Goes to Make up Thanks
giving Dinner"
"The Pilgrims Thanksgiving"
Thanksgiving Pleasures"
This contest opens at once and
closes Wednesday, Nov. 25.. Select
your prizes from among the following
ARTICLES:
A typography outfit, something that
the Juniors can use in making Christ
mas gifts, doing the burnt leather or
burnt wood work, a box ready to deco
rate going with this outfit; silver
Isork; silver spoon; or pen. the
'hind that Is Away filled with ink.
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NUTS.

There are many kinds of nuts, such
as hickory nuts, walnuts, butternuts,
hazel nuts, etc. like hickory nuts
and walnuts the best. In October we
gather our nuts to eat during the win
ter. The squirrels gather their nuts
too. Last Thanksgiving when l was
at my grandma's they had gathered
three sacks Of hickory nuts. and
had all I wanted. We didn't get to
gather any nuts last year and l don't
expect we will this year, either.
Maude Skirvin, age 10
R F D No l Agency, Iowa
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part Of the state as it is a lonesome
place, not very thickly settled ant
nothing much only prairies. You car
see for ten miles distance. 1t is sc
| level and not much land broken.
| My mammals cousin. where we visit
ed had 800 acres. He raised mostly
wheat and 80 acres of corn. 1t was
| very dry out in the southern part and
some of the farmers didn't have very
good crops.
There are hardly any trees, only
| where the people set them out 1t is
such a dry country If they could get
the rain they would have better crops
than we do, because the soil is so fer
! tile. They don't plow as often as we
do for the wind is so high all the time
| 1t would blow the ground away as it
is so sandy.
We only passed over one little
bridge as we went 10 miles to my
cousins house. There are no creeks
like we have here. The most of he
people live in sod houses. They are
cut in strips about feet one way and
foot wide and laid on one another
until it is as high as the wall. A row
of boards are put on top with heavy
paper and then strips of sod put on
top of it to hold the roof down, be.
cause they have such terrible winds
out there
l saw lot of prairie dogs and owls
and jack rabbits The dogs live in
the ground. They pile the dirt up
and make their houses. Mammals
cousin took me and went hunting and
we had a gun.
He let me shoot it two times, but
we didn't get anything.
l brought home some stones from
out there Some of them are so soft
you can cut them with knife. They
made pipe for papa out of some of it.
They saw it in pieces and use it for
fence posts. Another thing seemed
q'leer to me was that the telegraph
line goes over barb wire fences only
where the road is. They have high
sticks to hold the wire up. Everybody
in the city has windmills on the wells
There is one place 20 miles from our
folks where there is a large stone
about so feet high and some are foot
or more thick through. They are
called the mermaids. We didn't get
to go to see them but brought home
some of the rocks that come from
there.
Forest Weber, age S.
1906 E. Main ST., Ottumwa.
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PETS.

For pets have cat, dog, two
pigs, and a black horse My cat is
blue and white. My dog is black with
a white breast.
One of my pigs is red and the other
one is white. My dog will kiss me and
shake hands and run and play when
come home from school my dog will
run to meet me and my cat will run
and new.
go to school every day. My teach
er's name is Mrs. Swanson like
her very much There are forty-three
scholars in my room. | have one sis
ter at school, sit with her. ! am III
the sixth grade. My studies are arith-
metic, language, history. spelling, geo.
graphy, reading, physiology and mu.
sic.
We are going to have program for
Thanksgiving day. My school house
has eight rooms in it. / have nearly
two miles to walk. Hoping ! will be a
welcome visitor, Yours truly
Lille Hall, age 10.
Lucas, Ia, r. F. D. No 2.
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|1Dbat 6 stelle
Goulo % in
an emergency

Estelfe's mother sat at the breakfast
Eternation growing on her face as she
followed its contents. Estelle's father
had gone down town TO his Office be-
fore the postman had brought this mail,
and Estelle and her mother were fln-
fishing their breakfast alone. Baby
d little tot of 2-was still asleep in his
room
Mercy me, daughter, what do you
think? Uncle Ned and his young son
whom we have never had the pleas
ure of seeing-are passing through our
town tomorrow and will stop off to pay
us a few hours visit between trains.
And what a predicament | am in
Bridget called home on account of Z.
sick sister and my laundress late with
her work. There isn't clean napkin
"a clean good one, mean-in the
house. and the best damask table cloth
IS soiled rom the luncheon we had
last week. Now isn't it just the worst
luck, dear? could almost cry, If cry
ing would help me out in this matter.
Uncle Meas wife is the finest house.
keeper I ever knew, nothing ever
seems to go wrong with her house
hold"
4 Estelle sat thinking minute. Then
she said: Tomorrow is Saturday.
That's good luck, anyway, mamma, for
II shall be at home to help you
/ mo, dear, you'll have your music
lesson to take in the morning and your
Sunday school lesson to prepare in the
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MARGARET WRITES TO MYRTLE

Miss Myrtle Price
Dear Friend MYRTLE will write you
few lines. Hope they will find you
well. We have moved since receiv-
ed your last letter. We live In a nice
brick cottage, with large yard. We
had all kinds of flowers, monthly bloom
roses. 1t is raining and sleeting now
and they will all die. We have lawn
swing and what a good time we have.
We have nice grape arbor and peach
trees. Sunday my brother Leroy and
took a car ride to Forest park. We
visited the government birdcage and
saw a great many different birds and
water fowl We visited the zoo and
saw the bears, buffalo. monkeys, deer
and other animals. A week ago some
wild dogs got in and killed four deers.
Your Junior friend,
Margaret Smiley,
1853 Cate Brilliant Ave.
st. Louis, Mo.
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Aged II.
APPLES.

There are many different kinds OF
apples. Some Of the kinds of apples
are such as the sweet apples, the
winter apples, and there are many
other Nldnds of apples. I think apples
are very good and hope that the rest
of the Juniors like them. We have
but one apple tree and it has no
apples on it now, as We ate them all
ZIP. Well | will close. am a Daily
Junior.
From your Junior friend,
Mabel Skirvin. age 10
r F D No l Agency, Iowa.
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long tail and are called magpies.
There are lots of pigeons that stay
at our barn, too.
Gladys, have you got any post
cards? | have got Is post cards and
they have been given to me. They are
all very pretty.
When mamma and go to Billings
again we arc going to have my picture
taken on post cards, and I will send
you one.
I will close for this time hoping to
hear from you soon
From your cousin,
Marie Shaw.
R f D No 2, Hesper Ranch, Bill.
lings, Mont
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WHAT IONA DID HALLOWEEN.

Dear Courier:
] thought | would write about what
/ did Halloween Two of my friends
were here, Marvel Poncher of Chari-
ton and my school-mate. Edna Sparks.
| made a little jack-o-lantern and
my big brother Dell made big one
and put two candles in it. The great
big one had teeth and was awful
scary. We sat 1t on the coal house
and the little one on the gate post.
l like to read the letters in the
Courier Junior and l hope mine will
be in print. Well, as my letter is
getting pretty long;I will close.
Your Junior friend,
Iona G. Hancock, age 10
Melrose Iowa.
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deer and other animals were very
many and the family was well support
ed with them.
Lincolns mother died October ),
1918. She was thirty-five years old
when she died. Two children were
left, Abraham and his sister, Sarah.
Abraham read many books.
I remain your friend,
Lydia Hoed, Age II,
6SS w Mechanic ST.
Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Aged 3.
NUTS.

There are different kinds of nuts
hazel nuts, hickory nuts, butter nuts
and walnuts. | like to eat them all,
They are ripe in autumn.
There are not so very many hazel
nuts, hickory nuts and butter nuts
this year, but there are quite few
walnuts. We didn't get very many
this year.
There are kernels In nuts
Hazel nuts and hickory nuts are
smooth.
Butter nuts are somewhat sticky
and walnuts are rough.
l am Tri-WeelSW, Junior
1vah Swain, age IL,
Unionville, Iowa
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MARIE WRITES TO GLADYS

Dear Gladys:
| will write and tell you that
have been sick for nearly four weeks
but am all right now. | hope you
are well and having good time, play.
ing. You must be good girl and stay
off the street car tracks or the cars
will run over you.
Gladys, have got little pup that
| play with now. We have lots of fun
There are 2,2G6 sheep here now, and
I help to drive them out on pasture
most every morning. l wish you were
but here; we would have good time
playing. There are two pretty birds
that stay around our place all the
time. They are black and white with
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APPLES.

There are many different kinds of
apples. like to eat them very
much. We have a good many of them
this year.
Apples are different in color. They
are red yellow, and are ripe in au.
tumn They are round and smooth.
Some of them are sweet, and others
are sour.
l am Tri-Weekly Junior.
Susie Sammons, age II
r f D No | Unionvtlle. Ia
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SOUVENIR PosTALs.

We are still sending out beautiful
postals, SO we will want the Juniors
to write stories about the subjects
represented on them. We do not want
the Juniors to acknowledge them by
simply thanking us or writing re,
lceipt Either write on the subjects
they represent or else write nice lit.
tie letters telling lis Of your pets,
your home, the beautiful flowers or
something else Of interest.
We will still give souvenir albums
to the Juniors when they have %
,poBtals from the Courier Junior
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ORIN LIKES WINTER.

Dear Juniors:
| have written once before to the
Courier Junior and I will write now.
l am glad winter is coming so can
have my sister and uncle take me sled
rides. | expect all CO you little Juniors
were up in time to see old Jack frost
on the ground ] saw him.
I have one card from the Courier
Junior 1t has "Foxhound" on it. The
dog thinks he will catch fox, but
don't think he will.
| have little hoe, rake and spade
already to make garden in the spring.
| expect all of the garden | will raise
will be weeds.
Your little Junior friend,
Grin Epperly, age 4.
Ottumwa, r. r. No 5. Box 40.
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hged 8.
LAcEYs FIRST POST CARD.

Dear Editor and Junior:
| received my first post card from
the Courier Junior. and l think it is
very pretty.
1t is the picture of two kittens and
rabbit. The kittens are black and
white. One has a pink ribbon around
its neck and the other q blue one.
The rabbit is sitting in it's nest. One
kitten is climbing up by the rabbit
and the other one is sitting by the side
of them. l thank the editor very much
for my pretty postal card.
My sister wrote for me. From your
Junior. Lacey Canny. age 6,
Agency, Ia, r. r. No. /. Box 26.
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A READING LESSON.

Hero is a dog He has fine big
head He has black feet He is black
and white, and he saved baby Mays
life
Helen and a little girl were out in
the yard playing with May. After a
while they began to play tag. May
could not run as fast as they could.
She did not see the runaway horses
that came down the road toward her.
She only saw Helen and the little girl
pulled her out of the way. Wasn't he
a hero?
Grace Barker,
Tokha, Mont
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A NEW ALBA JUNIOR.

Dear Editor;
AS have never written before
will write now.
For pets l have dog, named
Brownie and kitten named Tom.
have one sister and one brother
My sisters name is Martha and my
brothers name is Edward.
go to school, and we both have tc
walk one mile. My teachers name
is Miss Bessie Weilenman. Il like
her very much. My studies are
arithmetic, reading, spelling and
grammar.
/ am Tri-Weekly Junior.
Maggie Cunningham, age 10
R F d No 6. Abba. Iowa.
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CITRON CAKE.

Id. of -four,
u lbs sugar
! ID Lrtter,
u eggs.
pounds citrous sliced thin,
| large cocoanut grated,
2 lbs blanched almonds cut fine,
/ teaspoonful mace. Cream the but
Ter and flour. beat the eggs, add the
stiffly beaten whites, then add all to
the burter and cream. stir in the cit
rons and almonds and lastly the cocoa
nut
Oracle Ellen Rupe
Cabot, ARK.
r. f. D, No 9
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A HYNES JUNIOR.

Dear Editor: have nevef, writtert
to the Junior before so thought |
would write one. l go to school every
day. lam in the sixth grade My studies
are reading, physiology, arithmetic, his
tory, language, geography and spelling.
My teachers name is Charles Tedford
He lives one mile and half east of
Abba. My seat mate IS Willie Davis.
My playmates are Gail Wignall, Frank
Thorn, Frank Haddon, Otto Clark, Basil
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SOME "RlLLY" SUNDAY PosTALs

No doubt many Of the Juniors have
seen the noted evangelist's pictures on
the post cards in the city drug stores.
well, the first fifty Juniors writing the
hest stories ON one Of the following
subjects will receive BILLY" Sun
day postal:
November.
Turkeys.
cranberres and where they grow,
etc.
Pumpkins.
Celery, and how 1t is cultivated,
The Billy Sunday postals will be
sent out as soon as the stories are
received.
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MAUD WRITES AGAIN.

Dear Junior:
have written to the Junior so | will
write this evening. I have two pets,
they are a little leghorn and hen.
My home has fifteen rose bushes in
the yard and two rosebud trees. The
nursery sent us some flower seeds
for q present. Two of cur rose bushes
bloomcd quite a while after the first
frost. Well will close.
Maud Belgard, r. No. l.
Agency, Ia.
Aged 3.
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Dear Courier Junior:
I thank you ever SO much for the
postal card you sent me. 1t has men
marching to camp on it and some
trees. live on a farm of 40 acres IN
Soap Creek. | go to school every day
and we have Sunday school too on
Sunday. We play ball at school
would tell who goes to school but Their
are so many. l have one brother. His
name is Billy. Billy and picked abou
a bushel of walnuts.
Hattie Allen.
Relknap. Ia. z R No. l.
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HER FIRST LETTER.

Dear Editor:
I am q little girl eleven years old,
I have never written to the Junior be-
fore. | live in Kansas. l go to Lib
erty school. My teachers shame is Mrs.
Eva Laird. She is a good teacher.
have two sisters. Their names are
Grace and Lura and four brothers
Their names are George. Ralph, Hes
sci and Charlie. Well I will close.
Lille Moore.
Mooreland Kansas.
Aged II
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Abraham Lincoln was born Febru.
airy II, 1909. When Abraham was
eight years old he was very tall and
strong. He knew how to use the axe
and the rife. He built their new
home in Spencer county. Then the
family settled in Gentryville. The
landscape was very beautiful and the
soil was very rich and in short time
they cleared away the trees and they
raised corn and vegetables. Bears,
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SIX RULES FOR THE JUNIORS.

1. Use one side Of the paper
only.
Q. Write neatly and legibly, using
ank or sharp pencil.
3. Number your pages.
4. At the bottom Of the last page
write your name, age and address,.
Always tell whether you are a
Dolly Junior or a Tri-Weekly Junior
6. Address the envelope to Editor,
Coauier Junior, Ottuwa, Iowa.