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Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
A tlaltowe,en arty.

Dear Uncle Jed: My teacher had planned to have Halloween party on Saturday, and when Saturday came it pointed; but 1 made uD my mind to go, rain or shine. About l o'clock 1 started out with my dog Spring.
 had 10 walk mile through the lots, but didn't care.
 After l got there three other chil- dren came and we managed to have the party.
 First we talked, then we played hide the peanuts. Then we had a peanut hunt. and 1 found the most peanuts. got a black pasteboard eat for a prize.
 We got big pail of water and bob bed for apples. After that we tied apples on strings and tried to take a nice juicy bite without touching it.
 We were going to be blindfolded and see who could pin tail on black cat. but there were not enough chiI- dren so cur teacher will let us do 1t some other day.
 Then we had refreshments. vas the one who passed around things. I had black cat mask en- We had cakes frosted to look like pumpkin moonshines, peanut butter sandwiches, cookies, popcorn and candy.
 I wonder if the girls in the Wide Awake circle went to a HallCwe'en en party? If they did ! hope they will write and tell whether they had a good tune.
 BEATRICE M. STILES, Age 10.
 Leonard Bridge.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
LiIIian's Flower Garden.

Dear Uncle Jed: As we are studying agriculture, I thought l would tell you something about it. I will tell you about my flower garden. Mir. Brun- dage from the agricultural college gave our school flower seeds. All the girls had twelve kinds of flower seeds. Some were asters, phlox, sunflower, pansy, marigold. nasturtiums and pinks.
 l planted my seeds in my flower bed near the house. First I dug up my garden with a hoe and then picked out all the stones. I did all I could to make it the very best. 1 planted my seeds in rings.
 One day my brother and I went out to visit the flower garden, hut T9 :, had come up. I thought I planted |, too late, but one day my brother ts me to go and look at my flowers. [ went to my bed and found them .ui. g high.
 I pulled all the weeds out and va tered my flowers every day. and toe. good care of them, My flowers weTe as high as the garden wall
 Mir. BrUndage came to visit IT. flower bed during the summer and (; ! they were very nice. He told me tl.t he would take them to Berlin fair iut the frost came and killed my bcat flowers. I sent some to the fair, but most of them were killed by the frost.
 LILLIAN POLLOCK, Age 13
 GurleyViIle,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
The Dolls Hammock

The dolls hammock is easy to make and gives a great deal of pleasure. All that you need is some string, the com- mon white cotton string will do. A half yard of unbleached duck drilling. or any other stout white cotton stuff, and four thin pieces of wood.
 The size of the hammock depends upon the size of the doll. If she is IS inches long. the hammock should be at least twenty inches.
 Take two narrow. thin sticks of the length of the hammock and two others half as long as the first sticks. Make an ohlong frame with them by taking them together or flashing them with string or fine wire. Then stretch the string between the two longer pieces as bed cord is stretched That is for the mattress to lie on.
 Lay the frame on the unbleached material, and with a pencn mark down on the material Then cut it out from the cloth.
 Next turn the laDs and stitch them down. Take a large darains needle and thread 1t with string. make holes and lace the sides together.
 Leave he ends so that they can be tied and united
 In the ends make holes. Get brass ring an inch in diameter. and fasten it Measure the strings of even length so the hammock will hang evenly and the hammock is doGe.
 The mattress can oe made out of any bright cloth. Put the hammock in a lilac bush or shady corner of the piazza
 SOPHIE THONA, Age F.
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THE FIELD TWINS AT THE CIRCUS

The eight-yeaT- old twins, Henrietta and Henry Field, had never been to a circus, although they had seen marry posters pasted on an old fence near their home, and bad played and acted out the horses, clowns, and animal ls with the other children. But they hhd never yet visited a. real show.
 Mamma had often told them tiI at she would take them to 8 circus, Egtlt something always happened, either it was rainy, or else there was too nal1eh up.
 One day Henry came running hJone from school, and exclaimed, % moaher, there are some more animal bills down on the fence, and the boys say lthat it is going to be the best circus 8hat has ever Come to town! Oh. can't iyou go and take Henrietta and me iYou know you have promised us many times, but something has hindered you7
 Mrs Field leaned her head qp her elbows. It was true what the beT had said. and, indeed, they had been prom ised so many times that it didnit seem right to hold back any longer slo she perhaps I can find time to go%
 bf- course, Henry reJoic4ngty ran and told Henrietta. consgsauently sprea ding tue news over the tdvtn. un- I'll every child knew that the Field twins were finally going to tlIe} circus.
 For a week, everything seegnRd astif in the neighbor{ood. All the thi4dren " ere playing circus, while the parents were so wild that they said they'd be glad when the thing was ove5i.
 But the circus day finally farrived
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Henrietta and Henry awoi1e early and started into their mothers room call ing:
 % mother! Circus today! Circus today4as
 At the door they were met by their father, who hastily told them te stop their noise and go downstairs, saying that their mother had a bad headache
 Then came the tears. Their father $ words meant no circus for them. The long days of rejoicing had turned into grief They went into the kitchen, threw themselves on the couch and Sobbed themselves to sleep. They slept fer one hour, then waking up, they say grandpa, with the old white horse coming up the long road. Oh, they were So glad! They jumped up and ran eut to meet him, and then how glad they were when they knew that he had come to take them to the cir GUS.
 It did npte take them long to arrive at the grounds, as 1t was only two miles east of the little town, What a good time they had. They saw the bear, lion, giraffe, tiger and other fierce animals
 Henrietta was so afraid of the ele- phant that she just cried out; but girls were always afraid of some thing that wouldn't harm them.
 After Henry had given the monkeys a bag Of peanuts and both twins had a bag Of candy and popcorn, they started homeMard, two happy, but tired children. who for the first time had been to the circus.
 RUTH E. AECOLLUM.
 Mansfield Depot.
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1 was exchanged for money that was called salt money, or salarium. And it was in those days that some men salt.'' And from the Latin salaium came our common wage word salary.
 I told you how wonderful a ton of coal was, but a bag of salt is of many uses besides table use. Salt in water will relieve a sore throat, or check a fever, or give relief to acute dyspep- sia and as a tooth wash will keep the teeth white and the gums hard when used once a day.
 Salt will take stains from tea. cups and spoons. Keep soot from staining the carpet upon which it has fallen and beneath a tin baking pan will keep the food from scorching, and it will set colors in cloth when properly used. It has so many practical uses it seems to. be something to juggle with-a bag of salt seems like magic bag when one comes to know it's worth.
 And when one comes to the proverbs salt has left it's trail there. The l worthless ones are compared to salt that has lost it's savor. while good people are spoken of as the salt of the earth. Then we are warned to take with some talk grain of salt. and to trust no one until we have eaten a peck of sal1. To catch a bird we have been told to put salt upon it's tail- and sah mixed with cooking soda will ease | bee sting or relieve neu- ralgia.
 Uncle Jed hopes the Wide Awakes will Eve such good lives that they will l9e spoken of as being the salt of the earth
 It is an ill-omen to upset salt at the fable and those who know the pale spectrum of the salt are afraid of it.
 Resolve always to. be worth your salt and all will be we'll
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
Saved by a St. Bernard Dog.

One day an English family were crossing the Alps. When they were going down the other side a snow storm came up and the horse that a boy and servant were on blew into a gulf beneath.
 The father gave up all hope of ever seeing his son again. when they saw a convent little ways down the path. When they got to the convent they Id the monks that they had lost a horse, son and d servant
 The monks told the father to be che erful that they would get the son end servant if they could. so they took the biggest St. Bernard dog in the bunch and tied a bottle Of brandy and some bread around the dogs neck; then the monks went to the place where the people had fallen over,
 Suddenly they heard the cries of the boy That was enough. The monks said< "Hark. Your son and servant still live"
 The monks pointed down to the place where the cries came from and the dog plunged down into the dark ness. Soon the dog found the servant and drink and then the servant placed the boy upon the dogs back and the dog started for the convent. The dog reached it and then the monks in the convent went with other dogs and 8, sled. When the servant was drawn up to the convent he was almost frozen to death but he soon revived.
 The horse pefished, because 1 think they did not know where it was.
 JAMES STEWART. Age 12.
 Baltic.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
Norwich.
A Visit to the Soldiers Camp.

While the soldiers from Forts Wright and Terry were out on. some of their hikes theX canped about a r%Ge away from nay home They campeG there for three days and one afternoon some of my folks and went up to see the camp
 There were 200 soldiers. so you can imagine how many tents there were. Some of the tents four slept in and some only two could sleep in.
 They were just getting supper when we arrived. When it was cooked each company lined up and went to their cook tent and got their dishes filled up and then they sat down anywhere to eat. Their dishes were q frying pan, q cover to go over it. a cup, 8 knife, fork and spoon.
 After they were through with their supper they had the rollcau Each company lined up in front of each other with quite a space between them A few names were called in each com pany and then everything was quiet while the band played The Star Span gled Banner After that they went anywhere they wanted to until 9 o'clock, and then they were supposed to be in camp
 MILDRED PECkHA AM, Age 14.
 Old Mystic
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My rrin to starIinn.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about my trip to Sterling, Mass, this summer. We started Tuesday, July 22. We took the 9.25 train for Worcester There we changed and took the train for Sterling. We reach ed there about ] o'clock
 A team was waiting for us The house was on a high hill. From there we could see Wachuset mountain.
 Every morning my sister and I went on the milk team with MT. Wood. Some days l went on the hay wagon and once l drove the cows home.
 Tuesday night the boarders gave a card party and Wednesday night a dance.
 There was croquet and lawn tennis, also swings and hammocl5s for the uss of the boarders One morning my mother and I took a. trolley ride to Leominster, a pretty city ten miles away.
 The day before we came home we started for Quinsigamond lake; hard thunder shower came up and we only got as far as Worcester, and took the next car back.
 RAYMOND ROYCE, Age 2.
 Norwich.
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SiORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE,
 AWANES.
The AceIe pun1pIinn PuzzIe.

HS ft4~SiS OuFlpiIHq Puzzle. lady once owned pet monkey when she called Lena he oldest lit tle creature that ever was Lena was full of fun and was constantly getting into acrapes.
 en one occasion she went a little too Tar With her fun, and as a consequence Was chained up to a post in the yard Tor some time after
 Grandfather Jones had been invited to dInner that day, and though he was 2, man who enjoyed a good joke and a Jolly laugh, he did not care to have the joke or the laugh at his own ex- pense- So the mick that Miss Lena played him at the dinner table that daE was not very much relished by Gra7ldfather Jones.
 Dinner was nearly over and the des- sert had been brought in which hap pened to be apple ddmplings a dish f9f which Grandfarther Jones had a special liking
 In his jolly. good-na tured manner Grandfather Jones had picked one of the apples out of his dumping. lie was holding it un on his fork while he retafed to the little folks at the ta- bae the story of how a man in England was once puzzled to know how the apples were put into the dumpling
 Just at tha1 moment the monkey suddenly appeared 1la the room, Ieaped onto the back of Grandfather chair and as quick ajs lightning grabbed the apple off his fork and skipped out of the door witfa it. Did Grandfather Jones laugh2 you wonder. He smiled Ia little and remarked: It would puz- gle king, or any one else who did not see it go. to tell how that apple got out of the piet"f
 Lena enjoyed the apple in sweet se- clusion, buf 1t cost her her liberty for at least a month
 ADELE DENiUTH. Age 13
 Baltic
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A Story of tne West.

In a little cottage in Idaho long ago there lived a happy family, the father, mother and one child. who was four years old
 One day the child was captured by an Indian. He thought that her fath- CT and mother would give him some thing to get the child back. When he was taking her to his wigwam he met his sweetheart He let her take the child and keep it in her wigwam She liked the child and that night when all the rest of the tribe were asleep she started to take the child home. She did not know where it lived. So she went in the first house she came to and asked where it lived. The people in this house told her and she took it home.
 The parents were glad to see their child again. They thought that she was lost in the woods. They had sent a man to look for her.
 While the Indian girl was telling how she saved her the man that was sent to look for her came in. He was glad that she was found.
 Her parents gave the Indian girl a string of beads. They knew that In- dians liked beads.
 ALICE GORMAN, Age 10.
 Versa files
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LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Wa1te~ f5eaty of South windhazn: I thank you very much for my prize hook. Ii is very pretty. It was a big surprise for me to get it.
 Nathan Cook Of Ba11ouvafis: I re- eeiyed the prize book you sent me this morning l wish to thank you very much for i$
 LiIiaar BrehaAt of East Norwich, N. T.: l received the prize book you sent xnes entStJed On the Misasissippi and l thank you very mulch for it. l have read part &Sf 1t and found 1t very inter Co sstis1g.
 Martha LaaSevJ4a of LedyaEd: Last Monday the mail man brought me the prize book y1oH sent me It is fine, and ] thank yaH very much for it It is the first book I have ever won.
 Eva AJpeF+a of Mansfield Four Cor neFs: 1 received the prize book you sent me, l thank you very much for it, I have read it all through, This is the foBEth book you have sent l like them all YeET much.
 Frank Pardy of Norwich: I thank you very much foF the nice prize book yoH gave me. l have read it and found it very interesting,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
ALL THE THINGS.

Seems when l axn tucked away, SnBg and tight in bed, All the things that ever were
 Pop inLo my head How We won the snowbau fight, All our gang that day. How We chased the Percy bunch I'll thes turned al bay; Member how 1 carried home
 E1elen,s books for her; How she stopped to pet the cat Running out to p1uTs How ] snlckeTed out in school
 Al that dummy Jones When he told our teacher that There were forty ZOnesl All the things that ever were Pop into Iny head When I'm tucked up safe and warm Snug and tight in bed
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
Baltic.
A Sailor Story.

A few wears ago 6 ship was return ing from 2 voyage in the Arctic Ocean. The captain and crew one day saw a rock 1atter into the rigging in ex- haAsti&n As land was two hundred miles away, such visitor was unex- p6c6ed,
 The bird was caught and treated kindly. When restored to health it re- fused to leave the ship. When they reached the Channel Islands the cap- tain pat his feathered passenger on shor@s thinking ij would stay. When the ship was forty miles out at sea, the captain scanned the horizon with his glass and saw a black dot com~ ing swiftly nearer, which proved to the sall9Fs' delight to be the rock.
 After that there was no more thought of parting. While at Liverpool the poor rock was set upon by a party of bCA7s and killed.
 ANDREW BELL LEF>LEUR.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
Euiidina a Site,

One week while l was visiting in the country the men came to build a silo. Before putting ii up they had to make a foundation of stone and put cement on top. Then the man got the center of it and made a circle 14 feet in diameter.
 There were three piles of wood in the yard, one of B's, Ms and ITS, which meant bottom, middle and top. They then put up a staging with four parts to it.
 To build 8 silo no nails are used. To hold the boards together between the ends they put on galvanized iron strips. To hold the boards from falling in they tack barrel slaves on the side.
 When they got all the boards up they put iron hoops around it and frightened them up. After this was done they pulled the slaves off.
 Now they had to put q coat Of oil on the inside to ill up the cracks. It was then ready to put the top on The size of this silo was fourteen by thirty.
 A silo is used to hold corn for the cows during the winter. The corn that is put in it is cut by a machine in lengths of about one or two inches.
 JOSEPH KEENAN,
 Norwich
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WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS.

1-AdeIe Den1gth of BaIic, A Little Girl in Old St. L01liE
 2-S~hPEsia Thoma of Norwich, A Little CTirl in Old San F'rancfGco-
 3-Madrer Pecl<iaana of Old Mystic, A Little Girl in Old Chicago
 AJeseph keenansof Norwich, Po1y Rider Boys in Montana
 @A9nos Locn1s of Lebanon, Pony Rider Bogs in New Mexico.
 6-8eT15aa Fuller of Eaglevi11e, A Little GiS1 in Old Detroit
 7-LIIs5e Marsc1aaf of Mansfield Gen. ter. Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard s-Nayroa Parker of Mansfield. High School Boys Training Hike
 Winners Of baoks living in Norwich may esaa at the business office of The Bulletin f0E them at any hoar after 10 s- m ThaassdaF,
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Has Moi Missed 2 Day.

Dear Uncle Jed: ] have not missed one day at school since I started in September. Our high school is large and our room is the largest room down stairs We have new large desks with two inkwells in each, Sometimes when I am walking to school an automobile comes along and gives me a ride. or sometimes a wagon gives me a ride.
 We have some honeysuci<1e and chrysanthenurns in bloom. The honey suckle is pink.
 Yesterday a little kitten came over to our house. When I found him he was eating some food out of my kit tens dish, l think he will stay with us all the time now. He is grey and white.
 We have some pretty wild purple flowers in our fields, They look like daisies.
 LILLIAN BREHAUT, Age 15. :.
 East NafMich. N '
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which was built out of doors an6

which was built out of doors and in a very good place. It was beautiful sight There was a picture of Jesus and His mother and many other holy pictures. On each side of it were large candles. It was decorated with ferns and many beautiful flowers. Among them were electric lights of different colors. The path leading to it was a narrow strip of green grass. On each side of it were bushes of many roses. that looked as if they were wax. At this place the Italians prayed some part of the day.
 After seeing the altar we went to see the fireworks. which were must bet ter than those a the Fourth They were owned by two men. They had sky rockets and many other things. Last of all there was an altar set off. It was first red and then blue. While it was going off the band played a na- tional hymn. I had a very good time that day
 AMELIA ERWIN, Age IA.
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tell his mother that he had been at

tell his mother that he had been at school.
 One morning after his mother had sent him to school, he went to the next town three miles from where he lived.
 In this town there was large dock where there were plenty of idle boys.
 He hired a boat and went for a row with the other boys But little did he think of danger.
 They were gone only a little while when a gale of wind came up and overturned the boat and threw them into the wattr.
 But fortunately some men arrived in time to take them out and thus saved them from a watery grave.
 He was taken home to his parents, who were very sorry of the-conduct of their child. He was never guilty of that same thing again; but always attended school and above all was obedient to his parents
 VERONICA ROCHELEAU, Age 12.
 North Franklin
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GENTLE JANE.

I had a nice netg apron;
 The color of IT was pink: But 1 have beeIl d naughty gi1l
 And spiashed it all with ink  Indeed, l could moi help it,
 So 1 am not to blame, l Just climbed up upon the chair f0 try 10 WFiIE my name l got 7S far as J-A-N-
 and then colzld WriIe no more, Because 1he char. me ink and 1 N enL spTaw1ing on The floor, My nurse says l am Tn disgrace, And calls Ine willIaI Jane; I'm Qui1e sure l shall never try
 To WTite my name again.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
She Sam Six Deer.

Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would H'testl4 you about one of the sights I saw Monday night as l came home from school.
 saw six deer. I knew one was the father because of his long horns The other was the mother and her four young ones
 They were in my fathers apple or chard eating the apples off the trees My cousin thought of shooting them, but my mother did not let him. My sister frightened them away. They jumped over the fence and their white tails looked so pretty as they dashed through the bushes.
 have seen deer before, but never so close to the barn.
 MARY PUBIC, Age 12. Mansfield Four Corners.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
A New usa for Grass Seeds.

Dear Uncle Jed: This week 1 have learned of a new use for grass seed and it is so funny I thought I would write and tell the Wide Awakes about it.
 They say that millions of little grass seeds are sown on a strip of carpet in a greenhouse and let spr0Ht and grow
 When the grass has taken root the carpet can be handled like rug. They are sometimes used for table spreads and coats, and can be used for covering lawns
 This is an English industry.
 JAMES s. MORAN, Age 12. oh
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Lillia Took a Priza-

Dear Uncle Jed: got twelve kinds of flower seeds at school. I planted them too late, but they were very nicc. l sent them to Berlin fair. MT. BrIn- dage took them there MT. Brundasc said I got the third prize. am goinG to write you more when get the prize. l don't know what 1t Is yet.
 There were six girls in my school who took the seeds Some of them had very pretty flowers We take nice bouquets to our teacher Miss Bliss.
 LILLE MARSCIfAT, Age 10
 Mansfield Center,
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He Took First Premium.

Dear Uncle, Jed: I live in square old fashioned house. There are six frepla ces and an old brick oven.
 1 am the oldest of six children. My brother Mason is ten years old. He is raising half an acre of corn. Every night it is pleasant he husks bushel. He got first premium at Berlin fair for best ten ears
 This year l had a large flower gar den. had peanuts in it, too. I raised flowers for Berlin fair but didn't get anything. My playmate got first prize on her flowers. She is eleven years old.
 ELIZA BETH PARKER, Age F.
 Mansfield
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UNCLE JEDS TALK TO WIDE
 AANA<ES.

wonder whether the Wide &wakes know that if there had never been any salt there might never have been such a word as salary in the English 1anguage2 And yet, thousands of grewa-Hps who earn a salary do not know it has any relation to salt what ever.
 Centuries ago the Roman soldiers used to be paid part of their earnings each day in sa1t, aaad when the salt