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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

Prominent suffragists from this
State and New York city will act as
patronesses to the reception and
dance to be given Wednesday eve
ming at the Palace Ballroom by the
members of the Junior Newark Equal
Suffrage League.
The program will include solo
dancing by Miss Grace Robinson and
Miss Irene Connolly: monologue by
Miss Esther V. Troop; musical selec-
lions by Miss Anna e. Horn and a
pageant.
Those on the various committees in
charge are: Miss Ethel Went, Miss
Cullen and Miss Stella C. Beck. ar,
rangement committee: Miss Elizabeth
Coningsby, Miss Carolyn Foehl, Miss
Sarah Kaufman. Miss Natalie Van
Hest and Miss May Mueller, of the
entertainment COMMITTEES; Miss Mary
Hellman, Miss Pauline Foehl and
Miss Esther V Tropp; Miss Maude
e. Culver, Miss Carolyn Foehl, Miss
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

Compound has done
more for me than
anything else, and I
had the best physi-
clan here. / was so
weak and nervous
that / could not do
my work and suf-
fered with pains low
down in my right
side for a year or
more. I took Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Correct List of Answers


s. Ballet Dancer, The.
Q. Failing Leaves.
10. Beneath the Banner.
IL. Fog Bell, The.
IL. Cabbages and Kings.
10. Grandfather's Clock.
IA. Canal Boy to President.
Is. Fencing Master.
16. Candle and the Cat, The.
II. Are You Sincere?
IS. Count of Monte Cristo.
10. Anchored.
20. Devil Worshippers, The.
Il. Home Again.
20, In Bad Company.
%. In the Good Old Summertime
"a. Index Finger, The.
%. l Wish l Had a Girl.
26. First Violin, The.
81. If I But Knew.
2S. Four Feet, Two Feet and No Feet.
90. Maiden's Prayer, The.
30. Flower of the Family.
81. Inconsistency.
80. Female Offender, The.
3S. Never Homes.
"a. Hard Master, A.
80. Jolly Comrades.
SO. Wanderer.
81. Home. Sweet Home.
80. Late Returning, The.
80. Sailing.
40. Terrible Secret, A.
Al. Too Late.
AZ. Way.
43. Some Boy.
"A. Warning Word.
40. Sweet Italian Love.
46. Paleface and Redskin.
A. Whistling Jim.
as. Last Day of the Week. The.
40. sweetest Story Ever Told.
so. Schoolmaster and His Son, The.
We shall, no doubt, have something
to say from day to day as the worl
progresses, and the announcement OF
| the final result will be made at the
very earliest moment possible.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
Brakeman Hurt in Fall
Ispecial to the Evening star.I

SUMMIT, April 21.-John Cara
brant. of 80 Fairmount avenue, New
ark. a brakeman on the freight train
known as the Orange Drill" fell
from the top of a car at Chatham last
night and broke three ribs. He is in
overlook Hospital here.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
POLICE BAN BASEBALL POOLS

TRENTON, April 21.-Following a
conference with Chief of Police
Cleary Prosecutor Devlin announced
that he would seek indictments of all
persons in any way connected with
baseball pools.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
CORRECT ANSWERS
IN SONG AND BOOK
CONTEST ANNOUNCED

Work is rapidly going forward in
the examination of the answers re-
ceived in the Evening Stars Song and
Book contest.
The task of numbering and listing
the thousands of sets of answers re-
ceived has been completed.
The work of checking the answers
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

in the Song and Book contest will
be prosecuted as rapidly as accuracy
will permit.
In the meantime contestants may
form some conclusion as to their
standing in the contest by comparing
the answers submitted by them with
the following:
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21
FARMERS Wife.
TOO ILLT0 WORK
A Weak, Nervous Sufferer
Restored to Health by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Kasota, MINI. -"I am glad to say
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

1. Alexander's Ragtime Band.
2. Around the Campfire.
3. Anvil Chorus.
A. April Fools.
5. Asleep in the Deep.
6. Arrested!
T. Bridge, The.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

Boys Stockings at 25c
Boys Onyx" medium weight Socks,
"Dub-l Wear" ribbed cotton, in black and
tan; sizes to 10. The best boys hose of
its kind in America. Pair. 25c
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF EXCISE
COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF NEWARK
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-21

-. = a. d SWAIN,
apr17-6t Acting Clerk of the Board
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
George Washington :
Ada McCreery

When George Washington was lit
tie boy he said he wanted to go to sea.
But his father did not agree with him
and George was fitted to be a surveyor.
He lived in Virginia.
At sixteen years Of age Washington
plunged into the wilderness and began
his work. He did SO well that Lord
Fairfax, an English nobleman VINO
owned a vast estate on the frontier,
procured for Washington the office or
public surveyor and the rank OF major
in the militia. and thus started him
on his career.
Washington went over the swollen
streams and through the dense, I'M
broken forests, found the French and
delivered the governors letter. ON
his way home, in the dead of winter,
the Indians attacked him. He was
nearly drowned and almost frozen to
death, but he got through.
Washington became president OF the
United States. He lived in the big
white house.
One autumn day when he was out
driving with his wife, Martha Washing
ton, he became i'll. He died of that
illness.
Washington was born in Virginia
February %. That is also my birth
day.
| ada did not give her address,
: Ada McCreery, Age IL
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
Des Moines Sends Story of q
Weeks Events

May Is. In the afternoon we had
no school. We had the play in the
evening
May 49, AS this was Saturday did
not have to go to school. In the morn
ing 1 took care of little boy eighteen
months old. In the afternoon | took
care of the same child. In the even
ing went to the depot to meet papa.
May II. In the morning went to
church. In the Afternoon went to
Sunday school. In the evening l went
to the depot with papa.
May IS. l went to school in the
morning and afternoon.
May 10. 1 went to school in the
morning and afternoon. In the morn
ing the boys practiced for their play
at IL o'clock. They went to the sixth
grade room and the girls from that
room came into our room.
May 20. In the afternoon the boys
went to practice from three O'Clock un-
til three thirty. Our sister read a
story to the girls and then school was
out.
May 81. We had no school, 1t was
a holy day. We went down town in
the afternoon.
Catherine Stevens, Age, 10.
Des Moines, Ia
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
The Ant - BY Dorothy
Clausen
Master Manuel del Campo.

The ant is very Industrious little
creature and very skillful workman.
There are many different kinds of
ants. Some of them make their homes
above the ground on grass and wheat
stalks, sand, ETC., and others burrow
in wood or clay, making galleries and
chambers.
Among the ants there are the males,
females and workers, just like among
the bees. The males and females have
wings for short time. The workers
take good care of the eggs and carry
them from one chamber to another,
according to the amount of heat de-
sired.
When the little white grubs are
Matched they are as helpless as the
bee grubs and have to be fed and TAX
en- care of until they are old enough
to spin cocoons. At the proper time
the workers cut open these cocoons
with their jaws and let the little ants
out.
Some species of ants have a strange
way of going out in great swarms to
capture the eggs and cocoons of other
tribes of ants. These eggs and cocoons
they carry to their own colonies to
hatch and then make lifelong slaves
of them.
Dorothy Clausen, Age II.
Russell, Ia
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
A Queer. Postman B,
Helen Funk
BY

!, VIII had smart dog named Rover.
Rover often carried a basket or pail
home from the store for Will.
One day bought valentine for his
mother. He tied AIRED ribbon on Row
er's neck and put a pointed cap on his
head. Rover said, "Bow-wow," which
meant II understand"
Will gave Rover the valentine and
pointed to his mother who was sitting
by table sewing. Rover trotted over
to Willis mother with the valentine.
Mother took it and Rover said.
Wool"
What a nice valentine and what q
nice postman you are, Rover" And she
gave him piece of candy.
like to read the letters and stories
the children write for the Junior page.
Helen Funk, Age 9.
913 Russell. Ottu1mwa, La;
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
THE COURIER JUNIOR
Published by
THE COURIER PRINTING co.
Ottumwa, Iowa
MATILDA DEVEREAUx
EDITOR
RELATIVES AND FRIENDS CON-
TEST.

Dear Juniors:
We are receiving number of inter
esting stories in the Relatives OF
Friends" contest. AS it does not close
until Tuesday, June 2, we will reprint
the rules again:
We think the readers of the Courier
Junior would enjoy reading about the
relatives and friends of the Juniors,
consequently we will have Relative
or Friends" contest. The Juniors can
write on some of the following sub.
tects: my Father" my Mother,
"My Grandparents, my Sister MY
Brother" my Aunt" my Uncle,
envy Cousin" "My Friend" my Teach.
or"
The prize wanted may be selected
from among the following: Ball, bat,
roller skates, knife, hammock, book,
beads doll, music roll, souvenir spoon
lavalliere or box of candy.
Here IL what one Junior writes
about her aunt:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
Two Nice Orchards at Verna
Pyatt's Home

Dear Editor:
l live on a farm six miles southwest
of Moulton and three miles northwest
of Coatsville. Our farm isn't very
large, only eighty acres.
We have two nice orchards. have
twelve young geese and mamma has
about 275 little chickens. We. have
the Rhode Island Red chickens. 4s
l go to church nearly every Sunday
night. VI
l am taking music lessons now. My
music teacher is Mrs. Emma Noonan.
She lives in Coatsville, Mo-,
Our school was out Feb. ~. It was
a six months term. We don't have
spring school. l 60 to the Grant
school and will finish the eighth grade
work next year and then will go to
high school,
Papa takes the .Tri-weekly. The
Junior page is always in Saturdays
paper. Is.
verna Juanita Pyatt, Age II. @
r. r. 8. Moulton, la.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
Jim and Bill Jones' Run
away-By Waldo Beck

Jim and Bill Jones had purchased a
pair Of fine goats. They had saved
their money and finally had enough
one day. They paid $40 for the pair.
Spring was beginning but the air
thought they would take ride. Their
way for she had some eggs, butter AM!
chickens to sell.
They hitched the goats up to the
cart and took the eggs. butter and
chickens and started for town.
Hurry home, boys said the their
mother.
The goats travelled slowly on the
way to town. When they reached
town the goats became scared at a
threshing machine. The boys Gained
them down and tied them at the hitch
rack.
Say, Bill said Jim, you take the
chickens to the produce house and I'll
take the eggs and butter to the store
and get the groceries,"
So Bill took the chickens and sold
them. He received SIS for five. Then
he went back to the cart.
After a while Jim came with the
groceries. The boys started toward
home and for a ride.
Lets go round by old man Grey's
pond?"
''All right said jim.
When they reached the pond the
goats saw another goat and started
after him. They broke through the
fence and kept on going.
my, this is hard riding said Bill
to Jim.
When the goat saw the other goats
coming he began to run This made
the boys goats run all the faster. The
one goat was on the opposite side Of
the pond and the two goats started
through the water.
my, this is wet" said Bill.
Pretty cold, too," said Jim.
At last, after quite run and after
having several accidents, the boys got
the goats back on the road and start
ed home. When they reached home
the sugar had dissolved and their hats
we're gone They caught very bad
cold and had to have the DOCTOR They
were sick for many days.
Waldo Beck, Age 6.
Hedrick, Ia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
LeOra Mae Dawson Writes
to Her Junior Friends

Misses Maude and Mable Skirvin,
Agency, la.
Dear Junior Friends:
This beautiful morning and am
so happy for papa brought me three
little kittens yesterday.
He took Mr.. Gorham to the train and
Mr.. Evans, store keeper in Valley
Falls, gave him three little kittens to
bring home to me. ran down the
road to meet him and was very much
surprised to see the kittens. have
named them Fluff, Tim and Topsy.
received your letters Saturday and
enjoyed reading them very much.
/ wish l could see baby Veona for
Just dearly love little babies, Yes,
surely would be glad to receive her
picture. Send one, if you can. l will
send you girls picture of myself just
as soon as can and you do the same
You said the trees were all in bloom
there. They have been in bloom here
but that was almost two weeks ago
They are all forming the fruit now and
there will be just lots of every kind
if it doesn't get too dry.
You know, everyone says Kansas
isn't any good but here where we are
now we have nice garden and our pc
tatoes are looking nice. Oats, wheat
and pastures are all fine.
Fine prospects now for good crops
but it may be different before the sum
mer is over, but hope not. We like
it out here, so far.
We used to live north of Batavia
about seven miles. Yes, we have
passed your place but of course were
unaware that you lived there or
might have stopped for chat with 70,
girls.
l would love to go flower hunting
with you. Papa, mamma and tool
a drive last Sunday afternoon ant
found some flowers. We picked a grea
many Sweet Williams.
I must go and see after my kitten!
so goodbye for this time. Write wheI
you can.
Your little Junior friend,
Leora Mae Dawson, Age 6
r. /. Valley Falls, Kaa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
Elsie, An Orphan Heiress ~
School Composition BY
Ruth Dean

Dear Juniors:
Once upon time a little girl named
Elsie was an orphan and an heiress
OF large amount of money. She was
not strong child and after her par.
ents died no one seemed to notice her.
Elsie was beautiful child and kind
to everyone and was loved very much.
She had an uncle who was very cruel.
II he could only get poor little Elsie
out OF the way all of her money would
be his. So he decided he would send
her to the west for her health.
| The cruel uncle reported that Elsie
had died on the way He had a grand
,, funeral and then went to live III
luxury. While he was enjoying her
money Elsie and her nurse were
speeding as fast as the train could
carry them.
When the train stopped Elsie and
her nurse alighted and were whisked
away in an auto. They travelled and
Travelled until at last the auto stop
ped and they alighted They were
taken to a castle nearby. They went
into the castle and the auto went away
as 1t had come.
! Elsie and her nurse were now all
alone far away from any one else and (
Elsie often wondered why she lived
apart from everybody else.
| Her nurse would say, BE patient,
my dear, and will tell you when you
are grown up" 3
| Elsie never complained and was al.
ways patient as her nurse had hidden
her but she often got so lonesome
she did not know what to do
She had reached her ninth birthday
and had 1ivod n fhio 70 1f,,1
just four weeks when she became Ill,
1t was not long, however, before she
was well again for her nurse took very
good care of her.
This nurse had committed a small
crime but the people thought it was
large one and had sent her to this
lonely castle with Elsie. And when
Elsie died the poor old nurse would
have to die, too.
One day the man came in his auto |
with provisions for them and told them
the uncle was dead. He said that IL
they would come with him he would
take them back to the city. They glad.
| ly went
Elsie became an heiress again ard
would not let her nurse be put to
death. She took the nurse to live with
her the rest of her days.
! Elsie was always happy after that
Her funeral had been Just pretense
The cruel uncle had had wax agure
made to look like her and everybody.
was deceived and were much grieyed
But when they heard she had come
back to be an5hefress' they were over.
Joyed. ~
Ruth Dean, Age IL.
R.a2. Eldop. Ia,
P. S. This is school composition.
! will exchange cards with any Of the
Juniors.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
The Story of a Beaver

A beaver is small animal about
three feet in length. 1t Is covered with
fine, glossy, dark brown fur.
A beaver cannot bear to live alone.
He is never SO happy as when he has
two or three hundred friends close at
hand with whom he can visit every day
and all day, for the beavers are the
best and kindliest neighbors on earth
always ready to help one another IN
building new houses or in repairing old
ones.
! OF course, the first thing to be done
when one is going to build house or
village is to find suitable site. The
spot which every beaver Of sense
thinks is most desirable is either a
large pond or if no pond is to be had
low plain with stream running
through it. Out Of such plain a pond
can be made. The beavers first find
out which way the dam or pond runs
so they will not make mistake. They
gather sticks about five feet long
which they fix in a row tight in the
ground on each side of the stream
While the older beavers are doing tbs
for the safety of the village depends
on the strength of the foundation, the
younger one are bringing branches and
sticks. These sticks are woven in and
out among the rows of stakes which
| by this time reach across the stream
Thus dam is formed, perhaps hun
i dred feet In length.
! A beavers tail is about one foot
| long. There is no hair on the tail, but
scales. This tail is of great use to the
beaver for it serves as trowel, an
alarm bell and many other things
When something goes wrong one OF
the beavers will give four loud blows
with it's tail to let all beavers in the
village know. Then when the house is
fixed again the oldest and wisest beav
,er of all will give two loud blows will
his tail to let all the beavers know
it Is fixed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
A School Composition on
Tea-By Florence Foster
Dear Courier Junior:

Dear Courier Junior:
Tea is grown in China and japan
The tea grows to height OF twenty
and thirty feet but it's development IS
limited to five or six feet when cult
waited for it's leaves. ess:a2t 500
x This plant has leaves two to SIX
inches long and produces large White
flowers and fine fragrance ana is a
hardy evergreen species.
The young plants are not ready for
picking until the leaves are three years
old. They yield best when eight to
ten years old.
Tea can be grown successfully and
with profit in portions of North Amerl'
ca. A number of tea farms have prov
en- successful under Japanese manage
ment in California and in many sec
lions of the southern states.
Vast tea plantations are maintained
in China and Japan where the 1ndus-
try of growing tea for the market mas
been established for centuries.
The leaves are picked by hand. the
first crop is gathered in April and
second crop is harvested month later
This second crop is the most valuable
of the season. There are two succeed
ing crops.
Native names are applied to the dir:
ferent grades of tea. Both green and
black tea are produced from the same
plant. Green tea is made by drying
the leaves quickly in pans soon after
being gathered. Black tea Is obtained
by driving the leaves in shallow baskets
in the sun and air.
Tea culture was carried from China
to japan in the thirteenth century
These were the only tea producing
countries until the early part of the
nineteenth century.
The principal constituents OF tea
are volatile oil, them, tannin and all
luminous compounds.
Florence Foster, Age 9.
Kirkville, la
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
Rurh's AUNT.

Dear Editor:
/ have an aunt who Is about thirty.
four years old. Her name is Mae Mel
son.
She lived In Iowa until four years
ago whom she went to Nebraska.
She has one little boy. His name Is
Clyde. He is about eight years old
and goes to school in Nebraska We
get letters from her.
They have big sand storms there and
sometimes they have cyclones.
She sent me handkerchief and a
post card for my birthday.
Ruth Matthias, Age IL.
@s<.z. Birmingham, la.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
SCHOOL COMPOSITIONS AND
LETTERS.

We hope that many more OF the
Juniors will write letters. We will
offer a surprise prize for the best let
ter and all the Juniors may work for
It
Florence Foster is awarded the
composition and Helena Larson the
letter prize this week.
We want more of the Juniors to SEND
In some of their school compositions.
We will give beautiful doll, knife,
book. roller skates, letter paper or
beads for the best composition
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
SEVEN RULES FOR THE JUNIORS

1. Use one side of the paper only.
2. Write neatly and legibly, using
ink or sharp lead pencil. !.
3. Always sign your name in full
and state your age.
4. Do not copy stories or poetry
and send as your own work.
s. Number your pages.
6. Always state choice of prize on
q separate piece of paper, with name
and address In full.
Z. Address the envelope to Editor
Courier Junior.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
ABOUT PRIZES.

II the Courier Juniors have ever
failed to receive prizes when the win
ners names were published we want
to be told about it right away. We
also want all of our prizes acknowl-
edged. We send out prizes within
two weeks after the winners names
are announced.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
My Teacher, Miss Emma
Helen Peterson BY
Anna l.. Palfreyman

My teachers name is Emma Helen
Peterson. She has light hair and
black She has been my teacher for
two years and like her very much.
She has four sisters and three
brothers.
NY teacher has gone to WOODBURY.
on visit We are going to stay all
night with her some time. She lives
four miles from our place.
Anna L. Palfreyman,
r., Lucas, IL.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
A Dog and a Cat, Gertrude
McMahan's Pets

Dear Juniors:
am in the third room and fourth
grade. My teachers name is MISS
Roberts. like her very much.
l am ten years old.
There are fifty pupils in our room
I am to be in a drill the last day OF
school.
I have two sisters and two brothers
For pets have a dog and cat.
like to read the Courier Junior.
Gertrude McMahan, Age 10
Eddyville, la
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-30
Villa Latta's Mamma Has
Sixteen Little Chicks
I 20 to school in Batavia.
stav at my Grandma's.

I 90 to school in Batavia.
I stay at my Grandma's.
love my teacher and schoolmates
NV teachers name is Myrtle Dun
ming.
There are thirteen children in my
class.
I have a little sister. Her name is
Marjorie.
I live four and one-half miles from
Birmingham.
Mamma has $50 little chickens and
her incubator is set again. Papa has
166 little pigs and one little colt.
had a pet dog. His name was Shep'
Some one killed him.
Villa Latta, Age Z.
Batavia, la,