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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-11

Well as I am writing you story I
will first tell you how far I went TO:
one dollar
I first went over the Carbon which
is not much over a mile from our
house and then got on train on the
Wabash and went to Ottumwa. as {
could not go very far for one dollar
and that is all had to spend that
day.
When l so to Ottumwa I went to the
five and ten cent store and looked at
the toys and other nice things because
I wanted my money to spend in some
other way. When got through look
Ing at them went and saw the parade
which was there that day. After che
parade was over I saw many other
things and also saw some little chill
dren at play and all were having nice
times. went to the side show and aft
erwards went to the big show which
cost me twenty-five cents. In the show
saw all kinds of animals and clowns
and actresses. That afternoon I went
to the nickelodeon which was very In
teresting. After that looked In my
pocketbook and found that had only
forty cents left to spend for other
things.
That evening I went to the Airdome
and had very pleasant time. / then
rode on the street car and saw part OF
Ottumwa. did not go home that
night but stayed with one Of my
friends and went home the next morn
I was very tired that night but also
had a very pleasant time. think I
will spend another dollar something
like spent this one.
Mabel Skirvin, age y.
r. No. 2, Floris, lows.
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ELvA WRITES TO JOSEPHINE.

Chillicothe, Iowa, June 1, 1910.
Miss Josephine Norton. Mal7s6S, IOWA.
Dear Junior Friend
: XII write you letter and have It
put in the Junior. l would like for
you to write me one and have It put
in the Junior. We take the Daily
Courier. l have sent cards to the
Juniors as follows:
Ruth Foster. Edna Shrimp. Bertha
Stansberry, Hazel Olive, and have
exchanged cards with Juliette and
Desdemona Eisenbeis and you. am
going to send Leona Vest card. My
sister, Ethel, won the March letter
prize. She got q boz Of writing paper.
She thanks the editor very much for
1t. She exchanges cards with Leila
Saum and Helen Welsh. I have been
saving the Junior letters and stories
and pasting them In scrap book. I
will tell you what school / go to, ]
go to the Elm Grove school My
teachers name ia Helen GavVp, MY
schoolmates are Jennie Brown, Olive
Crabb and Grace Neaterour. ! have
received five post cards from the ed
itor and thank her very much for
them. win tai you about my hoppe.
/ live in the country about two miles
from Ottumwa. We have three hosses.
Their names are Nell, Bird and Bill.
My two sisters, Cecilia and Ethel, and
I ride SNem to the pasture every
. - -. Hu
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HALLEY's COMET OF TODAY AND
OF ANCIENT TIMES.

The subject of which have writ
ten is of the comet which is now IN
view and which was in view along
about the twentieth century, and 1t IS
said to have been the cause of great
grief all over the land. It was eonsld'
cred by many as a sign-such as the
sign Of death, good or bad luck. TO
day, 1910, we do not look at it that
way, and I for my part do not think
that it will cause death nor cause
good or bad luck, for both will come
Just as they would if there had never
been any comet in the whole sky
Death will come in its turn. II God
was to call us all on the night or day
that the comet appeared in sight, It
would not be the comet that caused
it. No comet shall rule God, for God
made the world and all 1t contains.
Your Junior friend,
51 Helen Lanman, age IL.
R. F. D. No. 8.
Floris, Iowa.
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ALPHON'S COMET STORY.

Dear Editor
I will endeavor to write short
story about the comet.
The comet is star with long talt'
supposed to be some gaseous vapor..
The report in the paper about me
comets tail sweeping the earth al.
ways had great many people search
in our neighborhood, and now as the
comet has passed us, wonder what
the next rumor will be.
| read in my teachers newspaper
where man sold small pills. He call
ed tbel comet pills, and those that
would take them the comet would not
harm. It said that the man became
rich selling them. The people say that
Halley's comet was seen 76 years ago
and that the next time it will appear
will be in about 76 years. There Will
not be many of us living to see it
then.
l also read in the newspaper that
every time in the history OF Haley $
comet appeared that some great dis
aster followed it.
AS I don't know very much about
comets l will bring this story 70 a
close.
Alphon Wyant, age IA.
r. F. D. No. 2.
North English, Iowa.
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them all round where the sheep are
and at night they hang lighted Ian
terms all around to keep the coyote
and wolves away. Did you ever hear
a coyote bowling as soon as SHUTDOWN.
You can hear them all around. At
night when the sheep comes In to the
bed ground the herder counts his
black sheep and If any are missing
they know there is bunch gone for
the black sheep is the leader of the
flock. Uncle Henry has one old sheep
that butts Florence over. 1t makes
her mad and she says Pa, wish you
would skin that old thoroughbred.
The sheep herder is the one who
cares for the sheep and he lives in a
sheep wagon The wagon is large ana
with canvas top over bows and 1t
turns water. Thee is a window in the
back and door in the front. There is
bed in the back of the wagon and 1t
is made so high that there Is a pantry
under it in which they keep their food.
There is a table, chair and a stove
where they cook their meals and there
is cupboard in which they Keep tnelr
dishes.
The herder has a dog and the dog
goes by the way the herder motions
his hands. They do not keep a
sheep wagon in one place more than
two weeks When was over to uncle
Henrys he moved the sheep wagon
and we went with him and rode In 1t.
It will soon be shearing time anu
then | will write and tell you how
they shear out here.
Blanche Byrum, age 10,
Alyada Route, Belle Fourche, S. u.
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on the railroad. He had three little
children. Mary used to play with
Ello. the Oldest child. ELIAS mamma
was not strong and could not earn
money enough to feed and clothe her
little ones. One day Mary found her
little frisn', Ella. crying Ella was
hungry She had no breakfast or din
ner. II.,r mother waA sick IN Led
Mary cri,l too, when Ella told tey
VIVA: the matter was. But sh5 did
something more than cry, fo- she
went home and told her mother about
it. Thon .he carried ever 80 much
food to the poor woman and her hun
cry children. May wanted to do still
more. She called together Ave OF her
little friends to help her. 1t was early
In the spring and the woods were full
OF honeysuckle blossoms. Mary's two
big brothers helped, too. Before night
they had covered the inside of an old
shop near the house with honeysuckle
vines and blossoms. They borrowed
pictures and other pretty things to put
in the shop. Then the little ones ask
ed the good people to come and see It.
They charged five cents to go IN. At
night they had taken in over nifty dol
lars. They gave 1t to Elias poor
mother and her three little children
were hungry no more.
Well, will close before take up
too much space in the Junior.
Wishing the Junior much success, 1
remain
Minnie Canny, age 10,
R. F. D. No. 1. Box rs,
Agency, Iowa.
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HAD DINNER UNDER A HICKORY
TREE.

Dear Editor
AS l have not written for some time
will write.
School is out now and am very
glad. MY teachers name was Edith
Hasling and she was a very good
teacher.
What do all of you Juniors do this
dreary weather?
/ would like to hear from some OF
the Junior my age, for | like to write
letters when have time.
The last day of school we had big
dinner and program, and what fine
time we had. We ate our dinner out
under big hickory tree.
My chum's name is Ruth Hastings
at school.
1 am going to try to raise some
flowers this summer. My sweet peas
are up and it will not be very long IN
til they are in bloom.
Your Junior,
Carrie Thompson, age Is.
r. F. D. No. 8.
Floris, Iowa.
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Brazil, Iowa.
DOGS AND KITTENS JoHNNlE's
PETS.

Dear Juniors:
AS have never written to the
Courier Junior thought would write
a letter,
! am little boy nine years old. I
live on q farm twelve miles south OF
Ottumwa. have two brothers and
three sisters. For pets | have two
dogs and some little kittens. My dogs
names are Dewey and Coly. We have
one little cold and one little calf. MY
mamma has $50 little chickens. I went
to school last winter, but we have no
school this summer. go to the Pleas
ant Ridge school. My teacher last
term was Miss Beryl Horn. I like to
go to school, have to walk one aud
one-half miles to school. My little
brothers name is Earl He will write:
a letter too. Hoping to receive a post
card, will close My papa takes the
Tri-Weekly Courier.
Johnnie Post, age 8.
R. F. D. No. 2, Floris, Ia.
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IVAN WRITES AGAIN.

Dear Editor
l have written to the Courier Junior
q few times and will write again.
l 60 to the Garfield school and am
IN the fourth grade. My teachers
name is Miss O'Malley. My studies are
language, arithmetic, spelling, geog-
raphy, music and drawing.
For pets have a dog named Bruce
and q pigeon named Topsy.
received postal from the Cour-
Ter Junior the other day and thank
them for it.
I was nine years old May is.
go to the Swedish church on JET.
ferson street MY Sunday school
teacher Is Miss Edna Anderson. If we
are present every Sunday we receive
pins and have got my second pin.
Your Junior friend,
Ivan Carlson, age 8.
1915 Locust st.,
Ottumwa, Iowa.
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LYDlA's 81 JOURNEY.

Gear Junior:
Seeing your contest in the Courier
Junior l wanted to tell of my 81
Journey and what I saw for 81. Last
summer when school was out mamma
and | went to Cincinnati which is over
500 miles from here. OF course we
raid dollar and over to go. Wien
we got there we took the street car
and rode to my uncle's house. The
next Sunday we went to Chester park
with my cousin and her aunt. we
saw many things there of which
will name scme. We went on the
roller coaster which cost us 20 cents.
Then we went to the ticker which
costs us 20 cent. We went on the
merry-go-round and that cost 5 cents.
My cousin and I got an Ice cream conc
which was 10 cents. We got two
glasses of pop which was 20 cents. We
rode out and back on the street car
which was 20 cents. In all had a
nice time.
Lydia Hoed,
639 w. Mechanic St. Ottumwa, la.
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THE BATTLE

Dick and Dot were wakened in the
night by rustling, rafting noise that
came from the direction of the table
in the middle Of the room. Presently
they heard the sound of whispering
and Dick said, II wonder what it can
be? It can't be Tab and the kitten, for
even if they were here they wouldn't
be Whispering"
II know what it Isl said Dot. ut
Is the little men of all nations
saw their box on the table before J
came to bed" 1t was box of
wooden men like brownies, only a
great deal funnier. Their smiles were
wider, their waists shorter, their legs
longer and simmer and their feet
were larger than are brownies smiles,
waists, legs and feet They represent
ed every nation on the globe and they
were very queer lot.
ut is the little men, agreed Dick,
"and of all things in the world, they
are trying to get out of their box!"
Get QUIT" echoed the little Amer
lean man, "of course we are trying
to get out, and we are getting out.
too. You don't suppose we are COM
Portable here, do you? The idea OF
packing so many nationalities togeth-
er like this!"
me no like to be so close to peo-
ples,' squeaked the Chinaman.
"And do ye think it's an honor to
the rist Of us to be SO close to
yellow pumpkin like yourself?" asked
the. Irishman, pulling the Chinamans
pigtail.
'Yah, yah, OATS good" laughed
the little Darkyman.
"You should be the last one to
laugh at such Joke, said the Jap
anese man, who was educated and
quite genteel.
Dat so? Anyhow. my eyes is in
straight and not on de bias like
yours retorted the little Darkyman.
Der English vot you speak ISIS not
goot," remarked the little German
man.
"Did you ever? / am sure never
heard so much impoliteness," OBJ.
served Dot.
The little men were all out of their
box by this time and were showing
everything off the table. Their box,
a vase of flowers, glass Of water,
Dicks sail boat, all went to the floor
with q crash. while the little men,
like two armies, divided and began to
fight each other ferociously. 1t was
one of the most remarkable fights ever
seen and when they were through
there was nothing left Of the little
men but splinters.
"And now they are all spoiled and
we won't have out funny little men
any more" lamented Dot.
Never mind, 1t was glorious
fight" said Dick
But the next morning the little men
were in their box just as they had
been placed the night before. It was
really very queer.
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Dear Editor:
AS I have never written before i
thought would write. MY papa does
not take the Courier but l read my
neighbours Junior page. Her name is
Mildred Smith. have pony. his
name is Dewey. He is bay. can
ride and drive him. l and my chum,
Mildred Smith have planned to drive
him up to Mr.. Halls to take my music
lesson this afternoon. He does not
scare at anything but the motor cycle
and he scares at it. and Mildred
have little mail box about half way
between our houses and sometimes
ride my pony to get my mail.
Pearl Mae Ullem. age IL,
r. F. d. No. 5. Abba. Iowa.
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night. We have some hogs, geese,
chickens, and ducks. We have one
hundred and twenty little chickens.
For pets we have four little water
spaniel puppies and two little kittens.
The kittens names are Goldie and
Bud.
How many cards have you? | have
fifty. have never won a prize In the
Junior, but would like to. Well, JOSE
phine, as my letter Is getting long. !
will close, but will try to do better
next time.
Your Junior friend,
Elva Huffman, age 10,
R. F. D. No. !,
Chillicothe, Iowa.
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The Indian Cigar Sign

Dick and Dot had dime to spend
and they started out to find candy
store. They found the store, spent
the money, ate the sweets and started
home. After they had walked long
way they found that they were lost
and also that they were very tired
They continued to go until one foot
refused to set itself down in front OF
the other, when they sat down on the
step Of little shop, in the front OF
which was an Indian cigar sign. Then
they fell asleep.
I They were awakened by some one
saying In queer, wooden kind Of a
NoSce, "Come, children, get up, get
up!" And bending over them was the
indian Cigar sign. His business was
q stand straight up and hold out a
bunch of wooden cigars, and now he
had stepped down and was able to
.Valk as good as the children, In fact
berter. for his legs were not tired.
sCopa." said he, IT Is dark, let US
"a and have some fun"
I'VE can't" replied Dick, because
we are so dreadfully tired"
"You won't be tried with me-" he
veplied, and without more ado he
,wuag Dick to one Of his shoulders
and Dot to the other and started of
in q trot. First he took them to a
lovely castle made entirely Of pink
ice cream and all the furniture. pic
lures, flowers and vases were either
ice cream or some kind of ices.
"Now,' said the Indian cigar sign,
"help yourselves to any kind, Of Ice
cream or ice, for you will find all
favcrs. It is a hot night and you will
enjoy it."
But we don't see anything to eat"
rrtd Dick, looking about him, while
] was almost crying at the very
/ ton Of ice cream, she wanted it
6, -ucn.
You don. gee it? Why, it's all
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FIVE JUNIOR GIRLS VISIT cHlcA-
GO AND WHAT THEY BOUGHT
FOR ONE DOLLAR EACH.

Dear Editor:
will write an essay about my One
Dollar Journey and visit by five
Juniors to Chicago. It is just an i'm
aginary visit. May 2. 1910, five girls
decided to go to Chicago for visit,
The five Junior girls names We're:
Josephine l.. Norton Of Melrose, Ia.
Hattie Mae Allen, Of Belknap, Ia;
Retta Ruark Of Pennington, Ia; LII
lie Myers Of Abba, Ia, and myself We
all were to spend one dollar for some
thing that we could keep to remember
our visit to Chicago. That Is each OF us
girls were to have one dollar to spend.
We first went to the Chicago House
Wrecking Co., in the department that
they keep clothing and small articles
to wear. Each Of US girls bought a
necklace which cost us Csc each and
this left us 75c more to spend out Of
our dollar. We next went to trinket
store where we bought US each box
of handkerchiefs which cost us loo.
That left us 6Oc to spend. We next
went to q card store and bought US
pretty card, paying 10 cents Ih=s
left us soc out cs oar -. - went to a
store each light a box OF writing
.aper which cost us 10c and that left
us 40c. We brought the remainder of
our money which was forty cents to
,,ttumwa with us when we returned,
May 5, 1910. The things we got with
our 4Oc in Ottumwa were: We first
went to Phillips where we paid loo for
some doilies. That left US 80r. We next
went to the Five and Ten Cent store
and paid 10c for pretty hat pin, and
that left us zoe. We next went to an
ice cream parior and paid 10c for SOME
ice cream. That left us 10c out OF our
dollar. We next went to the niokelod-
con and paid &c to see the pictures and
that left US SC and we took street car
ride with that We exchanged presents
with one another and the out Of town
girls went home while the rest of us
girls who were Lille Myers, Josephine
Norton and myself who were planning
for a visit in Ottumwa stayed that
night and went home the next after
noon. We all had pleasant visit to
Chicago and Ottumwa. Josephine, Lii
lie and I had a pleasant time that
evening and the next day.
Leona Irena Vest, age 10,
r, No. 6, Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Rural Route No. 6,
Ottumwa, Iowa.
HATrlE's LETTER TO CORA.

Dear Friend.-f will write you a let
ter and put It in the Courier Junior.
have no cards now but when / get
home Will send You one. got yours
the other day and thought 1t was
nice.
Have you been to see Uncle Ben
Elder since he moved to Ottumwa? I
have been over to town once since
they~mo<ed but have never got to see
them yet, but would like to.
On POUR card you sent me was the
picture Of the Y. M. G. A. mutlding.
have seen 1t several times when ]
was over there. Mamma and ! have
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sTo3lEs-LErTERs. :
BLANcHE's VACATION PLANS.

Dear Courier Junior:
/ will tell you some of my plans for
vacation.
My school closed April % and my
papa sold our place and moved to
Belle Fourche, where he is going to
work in barber shop, but would
rather stay in the country with my
grandma Bare, where can have more
fun. She is all alone. l help her.
am up at o'clock every morning and
let the chickens out and feed them.
We have thirteen little chicks. like
to watch them eat. help with the
dishes and clean up my ROOM carry
in the wood and bring in pine cones
to kindle the fires with. Then in the
evening gather the eggs.
Grandma says I may have some lit
tie girl friends come out from town
and stay week with me. know we
villa havo good time.
1 expect to 60 home on visit but
not to stay, till school begins In the
fall. I spent one week with my aunt
Abbie and uncle Henry and cousin
Florence. They live about 20 miles
from our place over in Montana. We
live In Wyoming and we go through
the corner Of South Dakota. Uncle
Henry has sheep ranch and has lots
of sheep. He had about 800 little
lambs when l came home.
They divide the sheep In lunches
when they are lambing. They keep
the ewes with lambs in one bunch
Some of the ewes loose their lambs
and the men have to hunt them up,
They are all craving bah, bah, all the
time and running The way some peo
pie find the right ewes and lambs is
to mark the ewes and lambs alike
The regular herder is the one who
keeps the big bunch of sheep. They
make flags of red calico and stick
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EARL IS ONLY FOUR.

Dear Editor and Juniors:
| will write letter as have never
written before.
am little boy four years old.
have two brothers and three sisters.
One sister lives in Bloomfield. For
pets have two dogs. Their names
are Dewel and Coley. Dewey will
drive my little wagon. We have one
little, colt. His name is Barney.
My sister is writing this for me.
Earl Post, age 4,
R. F. D. No. 2, Floris, la.
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The Courier Junior
Published by
THE COURIER PRINTING &C.
sTTUMWA, IOWA. =
MATILDA DEvEREAUx. :
EDITOR.
MANY PICNIC STORIES.

Dear Juniors.-While we have al
ready some splendid picnic stories:
still we want more, consequently will
reprint the rules again:
Today we have an excellent subject
for a Junior contest, and 1t Is Jun
ior's subject, too. Forest Weber sug-
gests that the Juniors use for their
subject an Imaginary Picnic" and
we Immediately endorse 1t. the
contest closes Monday. And the prize,
too. will be a regular picnic basket
filled with delicious picnic lunch.
We want all the Juniors to work In
this contest,
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A COMET STORY.

Halley's comet travels forty miles a
second It's head Is over 100000 miles
in diameter and its tail is 30,0G0,O00
miles long. The nucleus of the comet
consists of a loose conglomeratiOn of
matter, like rocks, with large inter-
stices. The comet first starts without
q tail and it gradually accumulates one
as It approaches the sun. The tail is
not continuous, scientists believe, but
is formed anew each second. The tail
is curved, It's curvature depending
upon the relative velocity Of the mat
ter leaving the head Of the comet on
its course. Halley's comet is trife
when compared with the comet of
1911. which had head of a million
miles in diameter. It is not so large as
the comet Of 1882. which. with head
10000 miles across, had tail 1907
900 900 miles long. with spread at
the end Of 100000 miles. The
course OF the comet was hrst celculat-
ed BY Edward Haley, an English as
tronomer and friend Of Isaac Newton,
who was bora in 1855. HALEY observ-
ed It in 1852, identifying II with sim
flar visitor seen by Appian in 1881,
and by Keppler in 1907. It was observ-
ed on Christmas day, 1859, after HAL
iey's death. since then rs regular ap-
pearance at intervals Of three-1uarters
OF oentury have been traced back
to IL B. G. The earliest appearance
kuown is AZ B. O. It's latest appear.
apce was IN 1885 and its next 10 sched.
uied for 1885. On its present visit It
was first described Sept II. 1909.
Mamma saw the comet Just before tho
sun had risen one morning about 1880
q. M She said It looked like a
large star She also said It was
very much pcettier than a common
star,
Leona Vest age 49,
Rural Route No. 6.
B
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A MAY PARTY.

Once there was a little girl whose
name was Mary. She was dear little
girl.
Her birthday came on May 20. Her
mother told her she could have a par
ty. So she invited ten hoys and girls.
On May 20 about o'clock, the boys
and girls arrived. They all had many
beautiful presents for Mary.
When they reached home that night
they told their fathers and mothers
what good time they had.
Stewart Wood, age 10.
R. F. D. No. 2.
Floris, Iowa.