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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
EIGHT RULES FOR THE JUNIORS

Use one side of the paper only.
2 Write neatly and legibly, using
ink or sharp lead pencil.
Number your pages.
At the bottom of the last page
write your name, age and address.
Do not copy stories or poetry
and send us as your own work
Always tell whether you are a
Courier Junior or Tri-Weekly Junior.
Address the envelope to Editor.
Courier Junior, Ottumwa, Iowa.
8 Your stories must not contain
more than 200 words.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
SUNDAY SCHOOL. CELEBRATION
EASTER DAY.

1t was just two weeks before Eas-
ter Sunday, and Mr. Remington, the
Sunday school superintendent, was
very much discouraged. He had al
most given up the anthem which was
to be the finishing touch of the Sun
day school celebration on Easter day
He had tested each boys voice, en-
deavoring to find one that could reach
the high notes Of the anthem. Very
much disappointed. Mr.. Remington
told the boys that the anthem was to
be omitted Bertram Highly, who
sings in the boys chorus, exclaimed:
81 know somebody that can sing it,
Mr.: Remington questioned him and
was told that a poor little boy who
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
NY FIRST EASTER.

Once upon a time we lived way
down in the East End where their
was lots of trees in front of our house
and one Easter my mamma boiled me
some eggs and my cousin and another
boy brought their dinner and we sat
under the shade Of the tree and ate
1t and we had fine time. l ate three
eggs and after we had rested we went
down in the woods to gather flowers
That is why like to have Easter
come SO can eat eggs and go into
the woods to gather flowers. got my
postcard and thank you ever SO
much. l go to school every day.
Clarence Luke,
z24 East Holt street, Ottumwa Iowa
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MY FIRST EASTER.

l am little girl eight years old. l
enjoy Easter Sunday very much. Ths
first Easter Sunday I remember we
were living near Mexico, Mo. A little
friend spent the day with US. And we
had good time coloring eggs. We
put George Washington's picture on
one egg. Abraham Lincoln on an
other and William Mckinley on anoth.
er. We colored many others.
Your little friend,
Zaida White.
Bloomfield, Ia, R. R. No. 3.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
EASTER BUNNY AND AN EASTER
EGG,

Easter Bunnies are white and have
pink eyes. They are very cunning
little things, but are not very large.
Most people, large and small, like
to have pretty Easter eggs given them
on Easter morning. They have used
Easter eggs for long time. The rea-
son Of it is the survival of an old
pagan custom. 1t was explained by
the early fathers Of the church. Pass
ing under the Christian rule it repre-
sents the resurrection.
From your friend,
Anna Thorne, age -.
Ottumwa, Ia, R. r. No. 8.
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tell the Jews that the disciples had
stolen the body. This the Jews be-
lieved. Mary Magdalene and other
women came that same morning to
the tomb with spices. On their way
they asked one another how they
should roll the stone away, that large
stone from the front OF the tomb. to
put in their spices. But when they ar.
rived they found the stone removed
and the body Of Jesus was gone.
John WEIGH.
Ottumwa, Iowa.
406 Grant street. ib4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25

Dear Editor
This Easter bunny is taking ride
in his new QUITO. 1t is No. 10. He has
1t full of Easter eggs.
The reason 1t is ITO is because 1t
is the 10th day of the year.
His auto is made Of an egg shell
with wheels on it. 1t has an egg for
headlight.
He is going to the Easter party
The children there never hurt him
and he has found 1t out,
The eggs are piled up around him
until just his head and front paws
show. Good bye. From
Ellery Hughes.
Selma Iowa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
WHY WE GIVE GIFTS AND WHY
WE RECEIVE GIFTS EASTER.

We give gifts Easter to make some
body else happy and also receive
some ourselves.
I think it is nice to give gifts, espe-
cially to invalids who cannot get out
to see any of the outside world.
When Easter comes spring is here.
Yours truly,
Pearl West, age 10.
Blakesburg, Ia, R. F. D. No. 1.
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My idea Of happy Easter is to get
up in the morning and go to mass.
After mass we go home and get our
dinner.
We play and color Easter eggs and
eat them. They are SO good because
they have such pretty pictures on
them. After supper (and we have
Easter eggs for supper too) we sit
around the table and some one tells
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25

Is to get up early in tho morning
and find white table cloth on tho
table and boiled eggs and friend eggs
and eat breakfast. Then go to Sun
day school and then come home and
go and visit my friends and go to the
woods and boil eggs and color Easter
eggs. The colors that like for Easter.
eggs are red, blue and purple and yel-l
low
Your Junior friend,
Faye Lambert, age 10,
Ottuu1wa Ia, st. Joseph Convent.
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EASTER LILIES.

I draw Easter lilies to represent
Easter. The lilies are not always in
bloom Easter but they are some times.
They are very pretty flowers. They
are white, which symbollize purity and
have been used in painting in connec.
ton with the Virgin Mary.
Fannie Johannessen, age s.
Floris. Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
THE First EASTER

The third day had come. The SOL
iders we're on watch and it was early
The earth shook and an
angel came and took the stone away
and Jesus came out all glorious and
beautiful His face shone like the sun
and the soldiers were afraid, ran
away and told the rulers. The rulers,
who were now afraid that the Jews
would believe, gave the soldiers a
great sum of money and told them to
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sToRlEs-LETTERs.
RUTH BOARDS AT ST. JoSEPH's.

l am going to write you little let
ter. l am boarder at the convent.
My home is in Kansas City and my
papa is coming down soon. His name
is w. F. Riordan.
My teachers name is sister Mary
Berchmans.
My playmates are Melissa Schafer
Helen Daggett and Mary Mcmillan.
am in the second grade
My studies are reading, writing,
arithmetic, language and catechism
Melissa and Helen are in my class.
Your little friend,
Ruth Callahan, age Z.
st. .Toseph's Academy, Ottumwa.
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THE EASTER LILY.

The Easter lily is beautiful flow
er. 1t has many long, narrow green
leaves. The stem is long and green
and like cylinder. The flower is bell.
shaped and white. 1t has six petals.
The buds are light green. The lily
grows from an ugly brown bulb in the
ground, which looks like an onion.
Beautiful flowers often come from
ugly seeds and bulbs, which are only
the covering.
The Easter lily brings us a mes.
sage. 1t says: BE pure; be white;
be clean"
Ruah Kramer, age 10.
Batavia, Iowa, r. R. No. 2.
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This is my pet rabbit and he is
eating an Easter egg.
My little pet is hungry. am going
to eat him for dinner for he never
left me an egg and am mad.
My rabbit is pretty old. He Is about
two months old and he is getting fat
There will be some good meat on him
/ like rabbits to eat.
found this rabbit in the woods
running. Here! here! rabbit, wait fol
me.
Master Charles D. Riley.
Sacred Heart School.
Ottumwa, Iowa.
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he knew could sing anything that he

he knew could sing anything that he
heard.
The superintendent told Bertram to
bring the boy. whose name was Jake
Allerton, to practice the next evening.
When Jake tried the song he sang
it through without q mistake. 1t was
then decided that the poor little boy
would sing the solo. Easter Sunday
Jake sang the anthem to house full
Of eager listeners. The Sunday school
celebration was great success.
Edith Shepherd.
Ill South College st.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25

Here IS little rabbit eating Easter
eggs. Perhaps some little girl has
given him his Easter dinner.
Rabbits have very long ears and
bright eyes. They hop about in the
grass.
Rabbits eat green leaves. grass and
bark.
am Eve years old now.
Hazel Johannesen,
Floris. Iowa.
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/ am staying at the convent. but
live in Melrose with my grandma.
Easter Sunday is the day our dear
Lord arose gloriously from the dead.
We give gifts to the poor people on
that day.
am in the second grade in school
Sister Mary Berchmans is my school
teacher.
My playmates are Helen Dagger
and Ruth Callahan and Mary McMil
Ian.
When the girls get up on Easter
morning they have Easter eggs fol
breakfast.
We all go to church on Easter Sun
day.
Melissa Schafer.
St. Joseph's Convent, Ottumwa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25

us the beautiful story of Easter.
About how God gave to US his only
son to die for us, and how after he
was buried for three days he arose
again and came to see his blessed
mother and his apostles. remain,
Hazel Holmes, age 8.
st. Joseph's Convent.
Otutmwa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
DALE is. "A BOY.

You know sometimes girls are
named Dale as we'll as boys. However,
the dale who sent in the splendid
drawing for the Junior. was boy. We
received nice letter from him this
week acknowledging his prize. He
also enclosed his picture. for which
we return many thanks.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25
LAST EASTER.

Last Easter we lived at Selma and
they had a program at the church. The
church was decorated with plants and
Easter lilies. We sang songs and
exercises and resolutions. was In
an exercise and song. We did not
going to have any program in the
church this Easter. My mamma is
colored some Easter eggs for my sis.
ter and myself
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-25

most as much of them as do my
dolls.
/ call one Of them Dick and the
other Daisy.
Will not some Of the dear Juniors
send me a receipt how to keep them
from growing large? l do not think
large ones make as nice pets as the
little ones.
Vera McCarty, age 9.
1902 West Second St
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FANNIE's PET CHICK.

written to the Juniors. received onel
post card. This is my little petl
chicken. His name is Cuddle. My
mamma gave him to me. It Is a.Iittlel
black chicken.
Fannie Brown, age :,
Bloomfield, Ia, R. R., No. 6.
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VERA TELLS OF THE CHICKENS.

l thought l would write something
about my little chickens in the Pic,
ture. They are my pets. think al
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MY IDEA OF A HAPPY EASTER.

Mabel Lasley, age 10,
Douds-Leando, Iowa.
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HudH hfamer, age IL.
Batavia, Iowa, r. R. No. 2.
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ELLERY's BUNNY.

Avery, Iowa.
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CHARLES AND HIS RABBIT.

Floris. Iowa.
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MELISSA LIVES in MELRosE.

1902 West Second St.
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1916 North Wapello st.
Ottumwa, Iowa.
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z24 East Holt street, Ottumwa Iowa
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Ottumwa, Ia, r. r. No. 8.
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nv IDEA OF A HAPPY EASTER.

Agency. Iowa, R F D No 2
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EASTER BUNNY.

Bloomfield, Ia, R. R. No. 8.
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bZ3 WGSL SeCOlu 81.
Ottumwa, Iowa.
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MY EASTER BASKET.

Selma, Iowa.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-29
REPUBLICAN, COMMITTEE
ENDORSES CHAS. T. WILDER

nolncement of Wilder's appointment.
Before the voting there was much
talk and Governor Frear and Treasurer
Campbell had doubtless tingling ears
for the half hour that the wrangling
continued. There was warning that the
course of the Executive was forcing the
Hawaiians to take up the fight on a
color line basis and answering warnings
that they would be foolish to attempt
any such a thing. Finally the matter
was smoothed over and some of the
bitterness of defeat modified by the
suggestion that the appointment of
Wilder would leave vacancy which
could be filled by Tim Lyons.
The practical discharge of Lyons
from the Land Commissioner s office re-
Gently has been ranking in the minds
of some of the committee members,
particularly those who opposed Wilder
so strenuously. But if he can be landed
in Wilder s old job, which carries near
ly as big salary as the assessorship,
things will not be so bad.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-29
CAPTAIN CORWIN P. REES
TO SUCCEED ADMIRAL VERY

the entire reservation made attractive
to the visitor AID comfortable and
pleasing to those having to do with
this station. All tins has been accom-
piished quietly and without osteHtatiOn
and with no expense 10 the government.
The prisoners from the southery have
furnished willing labor, material gath
cred from the dump and refuse piles,
and the seed for sowing of the lawns
purchased by fund raised among the
officers through the enthusiasm Of Cap
tain Rees in his work. Dignifed and
Of commanding presence, courteous in
his dealings with all he has the respect
and confidence of the working and Off
cial force Of the yard who will sincerely
regret his departure. The duty to
which he has been assigned takes him
to one Of the most desirable naval sta
tions of the country, in the most de-
lightful climate of the globe with tropi-
cal verdure and invigorating sea air,
vet withal one Of the most important
stations Of the government. Captain
Rees will be the right man at Honolulu
in any important event which may oe-
eur IN the Pacific ocean.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-29

Portsmouth, \. H.. Times.-The re
gret is general that Captain Corwin r.
Rees, L. S. y, who has been the popu-
lar, courteous and efficient executive
officer at this station since February
10Th, 1906, is about to conclude his tour
of duty here having received prepara-
tory orders to sail from San Francisco
on April 14th for Honolulu, to relieve
Rear Admiral 5. W. Very, L. S. y, com
mandant of the naval station in the
Hawaiian Islands Captain Rees, as
executive officer at this station, has
done more to ornament and make clean
and tidy this yard than all the officers
occupying the same position that have
preceded him. The esplanade in from.
of the administration building, which
when he came here was little else than
a dusty. wind-swept desert, with Jagged
lodges protruding through the thin crust
of earth. is now covered with handsome
well kept lawns, traversed with walks
and edged with cobble stones. All the
thoroughfares and walks about the res
ervation have been regarded and made
smooth. trees have been set out, waste
places made clean, sloughs filed up and
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-29

The endorsement asked by Treasurer
a. J. Campbell for c. T. Wilder, nom
inee for the post of Assessor to succeed
Jas. Holt, over which the members Of
the executive committee of the Central
Republican Committee has been quar-
reling for the past week, was voted by
that body yesterday afternoon on the
casting vote of A c. NJ. Robertson, the
chairman The vote stood four to four,
Lane, Kanuha, Crawford and AHA re-
fusing to change their position and ac-
cept the explanations that Wilder was
really and at heart good Republican,
while opposed to them were Harrington,
Kruger and Savidge. who realized that
to save their faces the committee had
better swallow their medicine and say
they liked it. G. w. r. King, holding
the proxy of Arthur Rice, was also in
favor of sustaining the Governor and
voted his proxy accordingly. This left
the casting vote TO the chair, with the
result that the way is paved for the an
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-29
BEAT
NICE CARNIVAL
B0nine Pr0n0unceS Fete the
Best in Some Respects in
the World.

81 have seen fetes and floral festivals
all over the world, in Nice, on the
Riviera, in the South and on the Coast,
but nowhere did [ ever see such a dis
play including so many original features
and so much dissimilarity of beauty as
that of your Floral Parade here''
R. K. Bonine, the moving picture
man, who came here for the purpose of
enlarging his collection of Hawaiian
scenes and particularly to obtain views
of the Washington Birthday floral
celebration, was the speaker. He is
enthusiastic over the parade and over
the splendid pictures he was able to
get, the day having been an ideal one
from the photographer IS standpoint.
These pictures he has already developed
and viii print positives off the rolls Of
films in order to include some of them
in the next moving picture entertain
ment he will give here very shortly.
In all, of the parade, he has obtained
over eight hundred feet of film and
in addition has scores of stereoptie
views of the best floats. OF these he
Continued on Page Seven.)
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Yet the original statute was framed
before Hawaii was annexed and held
conditions such as could only with
difficulty. If at all, be construed SO as
to include Hawaii in the benefit of the
subsidy. According to the approval
now reported from Washington, all
legal objections would appear to have
been overcome and Hawaii, having
started it's college, will get the money,
At present the Federal subsidy to
each college is $4,000 year-an in
crease of $4,000 since a college for
Hawaii began to be agitated-and
$1,000 additional each year until the
maximum of $4,000 a year Is reached.
Under the local legislation of last
year, providing for the establishment
of the College OF Agriculture and
Mechanic Arts, appropriations from
the Territorial treasury We're made of
$4,000 for buildings and $4,000 for ad-
mfnistration expenses.
As we'll known, site for permanent
buildings has been secured in Manoa
Valley, the college has been started
in temporary quarters in town, with
an efficient corps of instructors, and a
free course of evening lectures is at
tended by nearly fifty enrolled stu
dents. Moreover. as already reported
in the Advertiser, the Board Of Re
gents has good hopes of now securing,
as dean of the college, Franklin sum-
ner Earle, one of the ablest specialists
in agriculture and botany whom the
United States Government has ever
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''This probably means" Governor
Frear said with reference to the dis
patch from Mr.. Babbitt now visiting
Washington, 'tthat the Attorney Gem
erals department has rendered an
opinion to the Treasury department
favorable to US.
when I was in Washington I VI ged
the case of Hawaii in the Interior
department, the Education bureau Of
that department and the Attorney
Generals department. The Attorney
Generals was the only one to be heard
from when I left. Approval of the
Commissioner of Education, who at
first ruled against us. had been gain
ed. The Interior department gave an
adverse ruling two years ago.
GAS the matter has stood until this
message came, the plan was that,
after the College got well under way,
would write to have the money paid
According to the law, before the Leg
islature meets, the Governor gives his
assent to the payment of instalments
of the subsidy. One of the require
ments is that the Legislature shall
accept the money.
81 hope to get the money in the
course of four or five weeks, having
already written fer it,
Each state and territory in the
Union is entitled, under the statute
for that end provided, to share in the
Federal support to agricultural col
leges. Some states have more than one
institution subsidized from the fund
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-29
DEPUTY FOR
DR. uORGAARD
Or. Elliott Commissioned to Act
as Deputy Territorial
Veterinarian.

The movement inaugurated some
months ago by DR.. Norgaard, the Ter
ritorial Veterinarian, to establish an
efficient staff of assistants throughout
the Islands was given an impetus yes
was commissioned as Deputy Terri
torial Veterinarian and Live Stock In
spector for the districts Of North and
South Hilo, Puma and Kau. This is
the first of such deputies to DE ap-
pointed, but it is the hope of Dr.
Norgaard and of the members of tho
Animal Industry committee of the
Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry
Continued on Page Seven.)
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DELEGATE WIRES PARTICULARS.

| monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom,
the United States, by reciprocity treaty
obtained rights over the waters Of
Pearl Harbor. This was the first step
toward carrying out the policy an
nounced by President Tyler thirty-five
years previously.
Coming down to the days of Blaine
and Mckinley. we find those statesmen
repeating the declarations of their
predecessors.
BY the time that President Mckinley
reached the White House, 1t had be-
come apparent that the danger Of the
occupation of Hawaii by a foreign
power had been shifted from European
nations to those Of the Orient.
Finally, ten years ago, when the url-
expected events of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war thrust a new situation upon
this nation, 1t became apparent that 1t
was necessary for the United States
to acquire the sovereignty of the Ha-
waiian Islands. both for the protection
of the Pacific coast and in order to
make it possible to maintain any naval
base in the Far East.
But although this government an
nexed the Hawaiian Islands FOR the
particular value of their strategic loca-
ton. they have permitted almost ten
years to pass without turning a sod
or laying one foundation stone toward
the actual construction of naval sta
tion at Pearl Harbor.
It is true that a magnificent site of
over 600 acres of ground has been ac-
quired for this purpose
The ten square mile Of landlocked
waters in Pearl Hafbor could easily
accommodate the combined fleets of
this nation and of Great Britain, but
that can never give shelter to a battle
ship till docks are built and the chan
mel approach is Strengthened.
The Importance of Pearl Harbor as
a naval and military base has been
urged by men able and ex-
perienced in military and naval
science; among them Captain (now
Admiran A T. Mahan, who pointed
out with unanswerable arguments the
Continued on Page seven.)
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HIGH SCHOOL SCHEME:
Of M'KINLEY ME- MORTAL

Arrangements are on foot for a meet
ing of the Board of Education with
the Mckinley Memorial Fund Trus-
tees. at an early date. to discuss the
proposition of Prof. NJ. NJ Scott to
make the new High school building a
memorial to the martyred President.
A meeting Of the High School
Alumni will be held at o'clock Mon
day evening for a full expression of
opinion on the question of calling the
new school the Mckinley Memorial
High School. All members are re-
quested to attend.