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The floods have washed out trails
but every train is bringing in more
gold seekers.
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BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE
All games in the National league
were postponed on account Of cold
weather and rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Philadelphia-New York-Phila-
delphia game postponed; rain.
AT Detroit-St. Louis-Detroit
game postponed: rain.
At Boston (first game):
r. II. K.
Washington ........ l 3
Boston :. ............ 2 5 2
Batteries-Oberlin and Street
Cicotte and Carrigan.
At Boston (second game):
r. II. r.
Washington .... 4 6
Batteries-Johnson and Street
Wood, Hall and Carrigan.
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BY w. T. ALDEN.

SUDDENLY THE CITY HALL CLOCK STRUCK g. AND A
NURMUR FROM THE LIPS OF THE WATCHERS ANNOUNCED
THAT THE CRISIS OF THEIR FATE WAS AT HAND"
CHAPTER IL.
the month of July BY the first Of
collision had been abandoned
which divided scientific tho hour
would This became matter of the
day the would strike
the opposite hemisphere and then hoped that the
all injury Most
scientific blow would fall the tenth
the immediate point of contact would be in the plains
Continued Page Seven.
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FAvoRs WEIGH AS REFEREE.

flrrn
Rckard Gleason
selection Welch o. &
a
Welch
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LINER A TOTAL LOSS.

LONDON, April 19.The liner be a
loss according wrekers who
vessel They declared there little of
the wrecked liner
the portion of their personal effects.
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MARK TWAIN STILL WEAK

REDDING, Conn, April 19.-Mark Twain passed a fairly c.
able night He appeared be considerably resher
) still weak today.
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B u L L E T N s.
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TRY TO DeRAiL PORTLAND EXPRESS
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RED BLUFF CAL April 1sAn attempt
Portland
hundreds OF jeopardy when
three baggage
placed the tracks switch The
high
track powed by the overturned engine
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GRANGEVlLLE. Idaho. April 10
The gold rush here is still on
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-05
WHAT A JUNIOR CAN DO WITH A
PAIR OF SCISSORS.

g A junior can get pleasure in the use
OF pair Of scissors in q great many
ways. Junior girls can cut out doll
clothes and paper dolls and paper
dresses for them and they can cut out
pictures and paste in a book. Also they
can cut out good short stories.s Junior
boys can cut the paper for, their kites.
They can cut the palmer pictures OF
people from the papers and arrange
them in a book, president, vice presi-
dent, and governor and 50 on.
Girls and boys. too. can cut out quilt
blocks forumamma.; sout of the scraps
Of calico and sew them together on tho
machine. They can out pretty scallops
on papers for. the cupboard and. pantry
shelves. They can cut out stars and
cover them with tin foil. They can cut
out and make pretty flowers. out Of
bright colored tissue paper. And best
OF all, they can cut out the stories and
letters from the Junior page of the
Ottumwa Courier and paste them in q
book, allowing two or more pages to
each Junior for future letters. is the
way I am arranging my book. Then
you will have quite collection OF
stories and addresses Of the juniors
Charles Dodge,
Il ~. Academy. 8. D.
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WHAT WOULD LIKE TO BE WHEN
GROW UP.

/ am only little boy now but |
think would like to be store keeper
when grow to be q man. would
like to run grocery store.
You get to see lots of people and
the farmers when they come to town
with their things to SELL Get up
early, open up your store sweep out
and dust and keep every thing in fine
shape, for people like to trade where
every thing looks clean, and fresh.
like to weigh out different things.
j had little scale about a yeor ago
and we played grocery store and then
! have been helping in grocery store
this summer and / like It.
If had a grocery store then mama
wouldn't have to pay any grocery bill
end, at Christmas time there is SO
many nice things q person can get.
y like to put things on the shelves.
received so cents last Saturday night
for work had done and / got it
changed into dimes and put it in my
good luck bank. Now have 8 dimes
In It, can any Of the other Juniors beat
that for the first week? thank you
for my bank. I wear mine for
watch charm.
Forest Weber, age, 10
1905 East Main st,
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cided to have q Halloween party.
There was eighteen Of us altogether.

cided to have q Halloween party.
There was eighteen OF us altogether.
We each had 4 pumpkin and q small
bag of corn. The first place we Went
to we got out OF our lumber wagon
and went to the window. We first
threw corn at the window and then
put our Jack4o-lanterns up to the win
dow. The next place we went to we
took the horses and cows and tied
them all around the house, took the
shaves of the buggie and put them
on the barn. When we were getting
ready to get In the wagon we saw
some one coming. down the road. one
OF the boys ran to meet him, thinking
he was one Of the crowd, but was
much mistaken when he found 1t was
one OF the farmers where we had been
doing mischief. We visited several
other places. Then we heard the
roosters growing and thought it was
about time to start for home. me
next morning for few miles away
you could tell the farmers were mao.
Anna Palfreyman, age ~, I.
r. II. D. No. /. Lucas, Iowa. IL 4
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GATHERING AUTUMN LEAVES.

Dear Editor: We children are all
planning on a grand time gathering
some autumn leaves to decorate the
school room.
We will bring our dinner in baskets
and we all meet at the cross roads
about nine a. m. and from there start
for the beautiful colored woods. We
will hunt and gather the prettiest ones
We can find and when it is drawing
noon and all are getting hungry we
will open our baskets and eat our
lunch. When all are through and we'll
rested we will start out for another
hunt. When we have all the pretty
ones we can find and think it. is time
to be starting homeward we get all the
leaves and put them in our lunch
baskets and start.
When we get to the school house we
will take out the leaves and begin
decorating the school room with the
beautiful red, yellow and all colored
leaves.
The teacher will help US and it will
not take long to decorate the room so
as to look very nice.
Agatha Wallace, age II.
Melrose, Iowa, r. F. D. No. 5.
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MY PET KITE.

MY pet, kittie is very cute. 1t is
white and yellow. When I go any
where around the house It follows me.
It can do many tricks. It is very
playful. It will run around and try to
It and some more kittens were under
our barn. They were very wild.
Ny sister and I saw them playing
on the fence by the barn one evening
and crept up and caught one. We put
1t in the coal house with the rest Of
the kittens which we had.
Flora Mary McSweyn, age 9
Ottumwa, Iowa, +. ID. No. 3.
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A PICTURE OF A TRAIN.

Well, as, my post card this week was
a picture Of train, will write few
lines about it. It Is a passenger train
called the Sheffield and Manchester
Express. It seems to be going at q good
rate Of speed. about 40 miles an hour.
Steam engines were first successfully
adapted by Robert Fulton Of the Unit
ed States. Locomotives were first used
In the United States IN 1890, but the
first engine was constructed in 1927.
The first one was called the John Bull,
imported for the Camden and Amboy
railroad. The largest engine ever built
is at Friedensville. Pa, driving wheels
about 36 feet in diameter, the cylinder
is ITO inches and It raises 1880 gallon
Of water per minute. People at first
called engines iron horses and the first
one that run every body stood out to
see It. They thought 1t was the most
wonderful thing that ever was.
Forest Weber, age 10,
1205 East Main ST.,
Ottrmwa. Iowa.
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Bobby And His
Kite Adventure

Well, Bobby, what do you think Papa
mas promised us? asked Mrs. King Of
her young son, Robert.
Robert shook his touseled head and
said In the boy slang Of the day:
Search me, Mamma dear"
In spite Of her amusement at her
sons words, Mrs. King held up warn
ing finger and tried to look serious.
seWhat did l tell you yesterday about
using slang?" she asked in stern
tone.
4 "Oh, forgot" explained Robert
'But say, Mamma, It's SO hard to break
! habit, you know. But-I'm doing
my best. I'll not say search me- again
If lean help it,
well, to assist You in keeping your
pledge shall tell you Of great pleas
ure In store for you. But-you must
bear In mind that my boy Is to forever
quit using slang. It's SO ugly, and we'll
prevent your learning how to express
yourself In proper language. But
here's to the point; Papa has promised
that shall take you to-listen, now
to Chicago for nice visit"
Bobby dropped his work-which was
the building Of a huge kite-and looked
NO at his mother. "Oh, Mamma, is that
true?" he cried. And broad smile Of
anticipation spread over his manly
face. ooh, It's almost too good to be
true. Shall we stop long time with
Uucle Dick.
Yes, an you shall 60 to school dur.
ing our visit there. You Will be in the
same grade with Cousin Harry and
Cousin Gladys"
"Oh, I'll enjoy going to school for
awhile In the great city of Chicago.
rye always wanted to 60 there, and
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COAL.

Coal lie found IN many states ~ I he
union, hut is not mined extensively in
the state Of Iowa. @
/ Most Of the coal in Iowa is in the
southern part Of the state.
There are a number Of small Goa.
banks in this part Of the state. a
large, eresi 10 operated near Douds, forr
miles from where live and small
one on my papats farm. s II. Err 49, "
b A few years ego a great quantity Of
wood. MAS, hauled to this town and sold
for fuel and also shipped, but now
there is much more coal used for fuel
than there was q few years ago.
There are two kinds Of coal, hard
and soft coal, the soft coal being the
kind mined in this part Of the coun-
try.
Men dig the coal with picks but
sometimes 1t is in such hard solid
mass that they have to loosen 1t with
dynamite.
!. 1t is then wheeled out in. little cars
to a. large dump, where 1t Is weighed
and loaded Into wagons.
/: Men Gomez from long distances TO
getftheir winters supply Of coal.
It Is so dark In the mines that the
men have to wear little lamps fasten-
ed to the front Of their caps,
We like to visit the coal mine occas-
ionally.
Edna Michael, age II,
Selma a. r. No. 2.
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Dear Editor and Juniors:
q On my joprney to California will
leave Ottumwa and go to Kansas City.
I travel through some nice farming
country. Then go on to Colorado where
there are lots of mountains. / see
Pixies Peak and the Colorado Springs.
On to Wyoming. 1t is a great ranch
ing country. There is lots of very fine
stock there 1t is q very hilly country.
I travel on to Utah. It is quite level: It
is a Mormon state. go to Salt Lake
City and see the great. Mormon tenn
pie. It is q very beautiful sight. Go on:
through more mountain country. I
soon come to some great orange
groves and know i am In California.
It is q very pretty country. The most
flowers and fruit 1 ever seen. ! see the
Pacific coast. It Is a grand sight to see
the big blue ocean. will come back
across the Arizona desert. I don't see
any thing but the sandy desert and
cactus. Come through Texas and New
Mexico. on through Oklahoma and on
back Ito Ottumwa.
Nellie Lynn. age 8,
4 ia ROemer ST Ottunwa. Ia. r.
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THE CAT CONTEST.

we have many interesting stories
IN the "Cat Contest" but as We want
more We will publish the rules again.
This contest closes November (.
IA YOU want to win a cat prize
either woody cat or picture OF q
cat, write not more than 200 Woros on
one 3of, the followil :; subjects:
AN ANGoRA CAT.
"a MALTESE CAT.
* MANx CAT.
n WHITE CAT.
"A YELLOW CA
A5BLAcK CAT.
AsWILD CAT.
~ FlRESlDE CAT.
ssMY CAT"
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.FLoY WANTS TO EXCHANGE
CARDS, TOO.

Dear Juniors:
4 anna little girl II years old. have
a brother years old His name is
Pletus. He goes to school every day.
He is in the first. room. go to the
Washington School. 1T is q very nice
school house. am in the 9Th grade.
My studies are arithmetic, reading,
geography, language, spelling. MY
papa takes the Tri- Weekly Courier.
like to read the letters in it. I think
they are all very nice. For pets | have
two little chickens and baby goat. It
is white and brown. He name is Lady
I, am teaching her to do
several little tricks. When hold up a
hoop she will jump through 1t and
when go hide she will come and find
me. When go to feed her / tell her to
jump upon the box and she will do 1t.
My birthday is November Is.
/. i would like to exchange post cards
with the Juniors friends
F1oy Hughes. age II, I'LL.
407 N. 9Th ST., Abba, Ia.
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The Courier Junior
Published BY
THE .couRlEE PRINTING CO.
oTTuMWA, IOWA.
MATILDA pEvEREAux.
EDiToR.
AN AUTHORS CONTEST.

Dear Juniors: We think that TINS
WIN be . good time to have real marc
contest, one that will require plenty OF
careful work. The prize will be the
fayortte book Of the winner. We VII!
not Hmit tho writer's in the number OF
the words in their stories but We do
not want them to make their ESSAYS
too, lonK. write on one OF the follow,
fnx SUBJECTS for the 4Authors' contest
which opens today and closes Mon
day Nov. IA:
CHARLES DICKENS.
y SIR WALTER SCOTT.
WILLIAM sHAkEsPEARE.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
John a. WHITTIER.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
WILLIAM MAKEPIEcE THAck'
FRAY
HENRY WADsWoRTH LONG
FELLOW.
MARK TWAIN.
LOUIS ALcoTT. q
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
any FAvoRITE AUTHOR"
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in our room we played games. We
lived in town, had to walk about
two blocks to school. Papa worked
on farm and came home on Satur-
day evening. could see the Rocky
mountains every morning. / was
within q mile Of the mountains on the
train. When we started home we got
on the street car to go to the depot
and the street car ran of the track
and we had to walk the rest Of the
way.
have been home Ave years next
July and want to say I would like to
exchange postal cards with any OF the
Juniors.
will close for this time.
Yours truly
Florence Latta, age 10
Agency, Iowa.
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DIAMONDS.

Most. all OF the diamonds come from
the southern part OF Africa Many la
borers are hired to work In the mines.
The laborers take a compass and II It
points to the south there are minerals
in the. earth.
After the diamonds are brought
from Africa they are sent to Amster-
dam, Holland. Here the diamonds are
rubbed together and the golddust 10
used to polish them with. Some OF the
diamonds are used for toolss.to take
flaws out Of other diamonds. The
incest diamonds are. used In jewelry.
They are very costly. You can see "a
genuine diamond sparkle long before
you get to it.
Nellie Hadden, age -.
1910 Orchard ST., Ottumwa, Ia.
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ANTolNETTE" AND 1AL
ExANDRA" MARGARET'S KIT :
TENS.

Dear Juniors: ala.ef
MY grandfather has taken the Cour-
Ter for several years and II have cen
joyed the letters very much. s -
This Is my first letter.
have one brother years old. His
name is Michael. He started to school
this fall
go to school. am in the second
room, in third, grade.
I have Maltese cat. Her name is
Bluebell She has two. little maltese
kittens and their names are Mary An
toinette and Alexandra
We have dog named Bob. MY
brother has cat named Teddy.
Margaret Russell, age 7,
EldOn Iowa.
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/ 90 to the Plympton school north
east Of Lucas. My teachers name Is
Miss Tenant. l like her fine. am in
the eighth grade. My studies are his
tory arithmetic, grammar. writing,
spelling, geography and physiology.
There are twenty-five pupils In our
school At recess we play ball, house
and other games. ! like to 90 to school
pretty we'll but am always glad when
Saturday comes, My fay6rite study
il history. l like to- read the Junior
stories and letters. / know several Of
the juniors. They are Mary and Anna
Palfreyman, Fern Scott, Pearl and
Duggan, Josephine and Frances Nor
ton.
Louise Hickey, age IS,
Lucas, Iowa, r. No. i.
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shoreward he saw his mother and
Harry awaiting him.
When Robert stepped ashore, his
mother and Harry asked In the same
breath: Where have you been?" And
his mother added; I've been 80 worried
about you, son. You've been away
from home for more than two hours,
and couldn't think what had become
OF you. How on earth did you get IN
that boat?"
Then Robert did some explaining,
after which Harry told him how he
had waited inSvain for him at the lake
for nearly an hour, after which he had
returned home and made inquiry for
him at the house.
"And when found that you had
mysteriously disappeared" broke In
Mrs King, II became SO uneasy de-
cided to start out In quest Of you.
Harry and ! have gone up and down
the lake here for mile each way, and
I was about to notify the police that
you were lost when, 10! here you come,
riding across the lake toward me. It
was almost as surprising as though you
had dropped from the clouds
Then the three hurried home and
Robert, full OF the excitement Of the
afternoon, related the amusing and
thrilling stories told him by the old
captain OF the Prairie Queen"
We'll have to ask your captain to
dine with us some evening" said
Roberts uncle, when he had heard OF
the interesting old ex-seaman. And
they did invite him, too. 1t happened
one Saturday afternoon when Robert
and Harry were out on the lake shore,
flying the huge kite. The old captain
was coming into port, as he termed it,
and seeing the boys, invited them to
have ride on his "watery-wave."
And after the ride was over the boys
asked him to dine with them, which he
very gladly did, and never was a
brighter or more happy evening spent
in the Kings home than was spent
that evening with the ex-seaman and
present captain of the prairie Queen"
as guest of honor. And, although.
Robert was never again lost in Chi
cago- although he went about doing
much exploring he often made a
trip to the shanty of the captain, and
there spent many pleasant hour Lists
ening to the. old mans merry talk.
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A DOLL

I'm Just the neatest little girl!
See how my hair is kept in curl!
I never soil my frocks, oh, no!
And I'm admired where'er 60.
Ny shoes are always kept 80 neat;
No dirt or mud gets on my feet.
i ride In carriage every day,
When My Lady takes me out to play.
I'm made of wax and kid, you see,
And ne'er must rough hands handle
me;
For should I break-Oh, lack-o-day!
surely would be thrown away!
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FLoRENcE's WESTERN TRIP.

Dear Junior: AS have not written to
the Junior for q long time will write
now. am going to tell you about
my trip out west.
X Once upon q time we all went out
west for our health. We saw cows,
horses, corn and many other things
We stayed out there about three
months and went to school every day
/ went to two schools, Hinsdale and
Toutain schools.
! But we did not have much school
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PRUoENcE q NEW JUNIOR,

Dear Junior Friends: Ell
X AS have never written to the Jun
Tor before thought would write q
letter tonight ] am little girl ~
years old and live seven miles south
west of Winfield. go to school and
am In the fifth grade. My teachers
name is Miss Johnson. like her fine
am taking my second term Of music
lessons.
MY papa takes the Daily Courier and
always reads the Junior page
Prudence Abrahamson, age 8,
R. F. d. No. 1, Winfield, Ia.
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IRON.

Iron is hard, silyer-gray metal,
capable of being worked into many
different forms The United States now
produces more iron than any other
country, and in 1890 more than one
fourth of the iron manufactured in the
whole world came from the mines Of
the United States. i
For many years Great Britain was
the chief iron-makfng nation on the
earth, but the United States is now
ahead. It is our iron and coal which
makes us the chief manufacturing ma
ton In the world
North America also has more extern
sive beds Of iron ore than any other
continent.
Iron is found almost everywhere in
the United States. It is mined In
twenty-six different states and terri
tories The Lake Superior mines pro-
duce more than half the iron Of the
United States. Many Of the large man
ufacturing cities get all OF their iron
from there.
It is said that pig discovered the
largest iron mines of Lake Superior.
It is the most important metal It
Ills never found pure. When in the earth
1t Is between the rocks and you cannot
dig out piece OF iron that is perfectly
pure. 1t has to be smelted in order to
get the pure iron.
The most important iron producing
states are Minnesota, Michigan, Ala
bama, Pennsylvania, New York, Vir-
ginia, Wisconsin, Tennessee, New Jer-.
sey. Georgia, Colorado, Missouri and
Ohio.
Iron, is used for many different
thingsI Stoves, the rails of railroad
tracks, all kinds Of machines and
farming implements. bedsteads, pumps
and numerous other useful things are
made from iron.
A Junior friend,
Beatrice Hickey, age 10.
Lucas, Iowa, r. r. No. l.
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SEVEN RULES FOR THE JUNIORS.

1. use one side Of the paper only.
2. Write neatly and legibly, using
ink or sharp lead pencile.
3. Always sign your name in full
and state your age.
4. Number your pages.
s.. DO not copy stories or poetry and
send to us as your own work.
# s. Always state choice of prize on
separate piece OF paper, with name
and address in full.
Z. Address the envelope to Editor,
Courier Junior, Ottumwa, Iowa.