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The Tupelo journal., 1914-11-27
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The Tupelo journal., 1914-11-27
Phone 257 for German Cot.
fee Cake. Baked Saturday.
The ouinine That Does Not Affect The Iisa

Because of its tonic and laxative effect, L.AXA-
TIVE BROMO DUMMIES better than ordinary
Ouinine and does not cause. nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of 4. W. GROVE. Csc.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13

IT IS IIldUt OF U-OZ
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13

''BUL Bull"
Play Given by the High School
Was a Great Success.
Last Friday evening The high school
gave a delightful comic %operetta at
the Kennedy theatre, The name OF
the operetta was "Bul Bul" and the
work Of the members Of the cast Is to
be highly complimented, both for act
Ing and general Interpretation of the
characters.
Lorraine Isakson as King was good,
his idea of love was most correct. His
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13
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and Canonism, recorded him
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teen roll calls always with
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13

In the face Of t~he,facts IL is amaz-
ing TO read the falsehood put out by
the Pierre Committee and the reac-
tionary press. Senator La Toilette
in his magazine says:
"Burke stands for everything
in government and legislation
that the great body of repub-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13
N, was perhaps the real star of

play. Her acting, singing and gener
al carriage was fine. She should have
a fut ure on the stage with proper
training.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13

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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-03-13

nc ans III SUutH dIG
against"
.'Burke stood faithfully by,
dav and night, and in that
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Alma Muldoon Writes In
terestingly of Whales

Dear Editor: will send to the Jun
for page my composition on the Whale.
There are two kinds of whales, the
Greenland and the Sperm. The Green
land whale Is most valuable for it's
whalebone, and the sperm for it's Oil
and spermaceti.
The people go in ship to catch the
whales. AS soon as they see whale
blow, as they can for quite a distance,
they lower a boat and men get into it,
and row near enough to the whale to
throw harpoon or large hook into
1t. They draw the whale through the
water after the boat to the ship. If it
is a Greenland whale they take out the
whale bone and put it away but If it
Is a sperm whale they cut large hole
in it's head and dip out the oil by buck
cts. They have men in boats by
the ship and when they get the oil dip.
ped out they lower the body Of the
whale over the side of the ship. and
men in the boats fasten a rope to the
fat on the whales body near the head
and by means Of a pulley strip off the
fat. They boil this fat in large ket,
ties, Sometimes there are twenty-four
barrels of spermaceti in whales
body and five or six in its tongue. The
oil is used for burning and for mach
inery and the spermaceti is used for
making candles.
Your Junior friend.
Alma Muldoon, age 10.
Agency, Iowa, Route 2
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Mildred's First Attempt at
Baking a Cake

Dear Editor:--I see in the Courier
Junior that you want school compost.
tons, so | am sending you one called
MY First Attempt at Cooking"
| shall never forget my first attempt
at cooking. My mother and father
were away, so I thought that I would
make a cake, to have when they re-
turned. l had often seen mamma
make cake and thought that knew all
about 1T.
found cook book and after much
hunting found a cake recipe. This
recipe only called for two cups of
sugar, but I thought that it would be
much better if / put in some more, SO
l put in five cupfuls instead of two.
When l got ready for the davoring I
did not think that the amount stated
was enough so I put in about half a
bottle of vanilla-at least I supposed
it was, but l found out afterward that
it was some kind of medicine.
At last it was ready to bake. Just
as l got it in the oven a little friend
doors with her and never thought
about my cake until she left, about an
hour later. l went in to see about 1t
Ctuu IL Uu1uL
This did not trouble me very much
as I thought that when had iced it
the black would not show. So went
to the pantry to get the powdered
sugar, but by mistake got the corn
starch, this mixed in the usual way
and spread it on the cake.
Mother and father did not get home
until nearly supper time. They were
very much surprised to find that I had
made cake.
When mamma went to cut 1t for
supper she found it to be nearly as
hard as stone. This was caused by
putting in so much sugar. Mamma
finally managed to get it cut but when
we took our first bite we found that
something was very much the matter.
Then l showed mamma what I had
put in it. She said that it was no
wonder we could not eat it.
Now they are always Joking me
about my first cake and I don't think
that l will try another soon.
Mildred E. Irwin, Age II.
Charlton, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Ruth Christy of Wyoming
Wants Juniors to Write

Dear Juniors:
AS I haven't written for a long time
I thought I would write. The snow
has been quite deep here, though it is
melting now.
Thousands of range stock have dled
from starvation around here.
The snow has covered the grass up
since the first day of December. The
sleighing is fine now and it Is not at
all cold.
go to the Iowa Center school. MY
teachers name is Ida Wells.
I wonder if the Juniors have as
much fun in Iowa as do in Wyoming.
The coyotes are coming up to the
farms from the canyons. guess they
had to come upon the flats to get rab'
bits.
The jack rabbits are PLENTIFUL we
shot nine in two or three days.
People have been travelling on
skees around here and we have had
two or three skeeing parties. One
evening just at dusk I was GONG
across the canyons by myself and
can tell you felt pretty lonely.
I I would like to correspond with
some of the Juniors.
| Ruth Christy. age Il.
! Chugwater, Wyo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Winona Ruth Gro0ms on
Different Kinds of Bees

There are three kinds of bees, the
queen, the drones and the workers.
There is only one queen bee in a hive.
She is longer than the workers.
The queen bee never stings any
thing.
There are hundreds of workers in
a hive and are smaller than the queens.
There are not, many drones. The
drones are short and thick. The queen
bee is the mother bee and does moth
ing but lay eggs. Some queens lay as
many as thousand eggs day. Each
egg is put in little cell. These cells
are made Of wax.
The workers do all the work of the
hive. The young workers as a rule
feed the baby grubs. and build the
cells.
The older ones go out in the fields
to gather honey and pollin from the
flowers. Either old or young may
watch the hive so that other bees
would not come and steal their honey.
The drones never do any work. We
call them the papa bees. When honey
stops coming in from the fields. the
workers push the drones out and lei
them starve to death.
Wild bees live in hollow trees far
out in the woods. When bees are first
matched they look all alike. They
are called grubs.
If the workers want one to be queen
they feed and care for it better than
the other bees.
The queen matches when she is six
teap dave old The drOnes when he is
twenty-four days old and the work
ers when they are twenty-one. This
is one of my school compositions.
Winona Ruth Grooms, age 9.
Charles City. Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Journey to South America
BY Daphen Wilson

Dear Editor: I am sending you a
composition on a trip through South
America.
We started from San Francisco on
May 8. From there we went to Sala-
pages Islands west of Guayaquil, Peru.
We stayed at the Galapagos Islands for
a couple of days. We then boarded
the steamer for Peru We reached
Guayaquil late one evening The
people of the lowlands of South Ameri-
ca are savages but the Incas on the
Bolivia plateau have reached low
stage of civilization.
Much sugar and cotton are grown
in Peru. The chief exports of Peru
are sugar rubber, cotton, copper ore,
and wool Lima is the largest city.
The Arequipa and Volcano Misti, in
Peru are very pretty.
In Bolivia the eastern range of the
Andes Is wide and rugged. Some of
it's volcanic cones are nearly as high
as Mt Uconcaqua.
Silver and tin are mined in these
mountains. La Paz is the largest town
and the seat of government.
Argentina. the soil Of the pampas
Is fertile and the rainfall is sufficient
for farming Great quantities Of wool,
hides, tallow, live stock and meat
both fresh and cured and other cattle
products are exported.
Buenos Aires the largest city of
South America. 1t is handsome city
with fine buildings electric lights and
railways and large foreign popula
ton, chiefly Italian.
Brazil is larger than the U. S. with
out Alaska. Indians inhabit this coun
try. In the northern part negros are
numerous and sugar cane, cotton, and
tobacco are extensively cultivated, the
chief food crops are corn, beans and
cassawa. Rio de Janerio is a very
large city. The second in size.
Guiana: Sugar raising and gold min
| ing are the chief occupations, both be
ing exported. Colombia. On the tenn
perate elevations are corn. potatoes
tobacco and cocoa. Colombia is rich If
minerals. Then we went'to Guayaqui
! and came back to San Francisco.
! | remain a Junior.
Daphen Wilson age IS
Clay Center, Neb.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Kristina's Composition, 81
Trip Through Colorado

Dear Editor: This is my composition
My trip to Colorado.
NV little sister, Florence and | went
to Colorado with my mother and grand
father. l was only years old and |
remember all about the mountains and
the beautiful scenery.
We went to Pueblo and Colorado
Springs. But I like Colorado Springs
the best because it is so near the
mountains.
Every morning l would go to the
door and look out at Pixies Peak which
is 14,14O feet high but as I was turned
around thought Pixies Peak was in
the north. We walked part way up the
cog road on Pixies Peak. And we
drove through the Garden of the Gods
and Glen Eyrie Then we walked up
South Cheyenne canon to Seven Falls
I climbed the steps along the falls.
There are $40 steps built in the rock
| wish all the Juniors could see the
mountains for no. one can tell how
beautiful they are.
Kristina Johnson, age 8
Fairfield, Iowa, R. R. s
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
HOW SPENT NY VACATION.

Dear Juniors II will write and tell
you how I spent my vacation.
My first visit was with my cousins
at Keystone, Iowa.
I stayed there two weeks and spent
Fourth of July there. We had fire
works in the evening which we enjoy
ed very much.
Then we went to lake near Ninton
where we enjoyed the boating. bathing
and fishing along with other Gotta ges.
From there to Harlan, to see some
more cousins and went to chautauqua
every day for a week.
My uncle met auntie, sister and l at
Des Moines and we have fine ride
to MOultOn.
We also went in the auto to keokuk
to see the dam over the Mississippi
river. and to Centerville to play call
ed "Freckles.'
enjoy the letters from the Juniors
Mildred Gates. Age II.
Moulton, Iowa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Rose Etta's Sister Goes to
the Academy

Dear Editor: w..
AS I have not written to the Junior
page for a long time l thought I would
write a letter. see by the Junior page
that they want school compositions. I
will write about my school.
I 90 to Pleasant Grove. My teachers
name is Gertie Chow. I like her fine.
There are twentyfour scholars that
attend our school. My studies are read
ing. physiology, arithmetic, grammar,
history, geography and spelling. My
schoolmates are Hildred Warder, Alma
and Claudina Muldoon, Edith Cloudy,
Ruth Reinear and Belle Logan. We all
have a good time together. I live about
a quarter of mile from my school, We
walk to school. l like to go to school.
We have a good time going to school
and coming home There are nine of
the school children that pass our house,
six girls and three boys. I have only
missed one day Of school since school
commenced and l don't want to miss
any more if l can help it. We play
penny, blackman and many other
games.
I have three sisters and three broth
ers that go to school. Three of them at
tend the same school that. L do and one
goes to Ottumwa to st. Joseph's acad-
envy and one goes to Bundle Bee school,
Rose Eta Roberts, age 10.
Agency, Iowa, r. 4
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
The Legend of the Madonna
of the Chair-Frances
Chamberlain 5,5i
This is one Of my school compositions

This is one Of my school compositions
and hope it will be all right.
One Of Raphaers most heautitul
madonnas is what is known as the Ma
donna Of the Chair. This is a beautiful
legend which has been handed down
from father to son for great many
years.
There was a hermit who lived in Italy
who was known as Father Bernardo.
| The peasants went to him for advice.
He was not lonely for he had Two
daughters, one was dumb and the other
was not. One was the daughter OF a
vine dresser and the other was an oak
| tree Mary was one Of his parishioners.
Many people wanted to cut down the
oak. but he would not let them. The
birds in the tree sang for him and the
| tree protected his hut from the hot
sun and storms.
One year they had severe winter
and freshets flowed down the mountain
side and everything was washed away.
Father Bernardo climbed up on the top
of the roof but he saw that it was not
safe there. The oak seemed to beckon
| him to her. He took few crusts OF
bread and climbed up into the top OF
the tree. He was there three days.
Mary and her father were afraid Father
Bernard had persisted.
When they, found him he was very
| weak. Mary took him home and cared
| for him.
| Father Bernardo was very thankful
and prayed that the oak tree and Mary
might be distinguished together. Time
passed and the hermit died, Mary mar
ried and the old oak tree was cut down
and made into wine casks.
One day Mary was in the arbor with
her smallest child on her lap and her
other boy ran to her with stick into
a cross. She was telling the children OF
Father Bernardo. Just at this time a
man passed by; he had rowing eyes and
a weary disposition for he saw a dim
picture in his mind, not clear enough
for him to paint. He was very much
surprised when he saw before him the
very picture he wanted to paint.
He had only a pencil so he drew tho
picture of Mary and her two sons on the
wine cask. When he went away he
took the cover with him and was not
content until he had painted a beaut1-
/ full picture. This man was Raphael.
This picture has been made famous
and in this way the hermit's prayer has
been answered. ~.e.a..
i Frances Chamberlain. age IL,
i sal S. Miner ST.. Ottumwa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
The Wonderful Toy
By Sarah e. Burton.

My grandmamma gave me a toy
The prettiest in the world;
It looked just like our furry cat
When on the sofa curled.
And. when l shook it, it would me"
AS if it were in pain;
But. when l Rugged it in my arms,
It curled up close again.
And grandma showed little door
Close to the kittys heart,
And, when I opened tor, my!
1t gave me such a start!
Three candy kittens in a row,
One white, one red, one blue,
A ribbon from each mouth that said,
Love me, for love you
And grandma says each little girl
Should be so sweet and true
That all will see upon her face,
Love me, for love YOU
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Johnny and Mabel Send
Squirrel Home

Dear Editor:
This is my school composition.
One pleasant day last fall Mabel and
her little brother Johnny took walk
in the woods. They were too small to
go alone so their papa and mamma
them.
After short walk they came to a
road that crossed a river. They stopped
on the bridge to look into the clear
water and rest a while in the shade of
the trees that hung over the river.
Then they all went into the woods,
where the children had a nice time
climbing the high rocks. while the older
people sat in the shade or wandered
about among the trees.
When it was time to go home. they
all started together AS they were going
along, one of the children saw little
squirrel on small birch tree that
grew by the side of the road. 1t was a
striped squirrel, or ground squirrel, as
it is sometimes called, which does not
live in trees, but in the ground.
The tree was close to the path; and
the little fellow sat so still that all had
good look at him. He did not seem to
be afraid: and it was proposed to catch
him and carry him home.
Now, how do you suppose this was
done? They had no cage or trap to put
him in, but the children's papa took out
his knife. cut off the tree. put it on his
shoulder and started for home, with
Master Squirrel sitting quietly on one
of the branches.
He sat very still, and seemed to en-
10Y his ride very much: but I really
believe it was fear that kept him sc
quiet. AS they drew near home, papa
/ put the question. what should be done
with the little captive. After some talk
the verdict was to let him go free. Sc
the tree was carefully lowered and be
| fore it touched the ground off jumped
! Master Squirrel and ran away as fas
as he could.
He was no doubt, very glad to be free
once more and | am sure that Johnny
and Mabel were much happier in seein&
| him run back to the woods than t he!
would have been to shut him in cage
! Ethel Parsons,
Douds -Leando, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
Anna Palfreyman Writes of
Abraham Lincoln

| Abraham Lincoln was born In Ken.
lucky on the 18th Of February, 1909.
His parents were very poor. the
home in which he was born was or the
humble sort. He grew to be very
strong boy, able when quite young to
| do the work of a man.
He learned to read when small
child, his mother being his best teach
! er, and all his school days put to-
gether would not make twelve
month.
| When he was about eight years old
| his parents moved to Spencer county
Indiana. It was then scarcely year
since Indiana had become a state. me
| family lived as did most pioneer tam-
lilies in the lakewood OF Indiana.
Their bread was made Of corn meal,
their meat was chiefly the flesh of
wild game from the woods.
| Young Abraham dressed like other
boys of his age in the backwoOds. He
studied books when ever he could get
chance to read one. A farmer had
book. the Life of Washington, and
so he borrowed it and one night ne
laid it between the logs in the house
and it stormed that night and got all
wet: but he did not try to hide 1t.
He told the farmer about it and he
said, "if you will work for me three
days you can have it." So he worked
and read the book over and over.
When he was twenty-five years old
they moved to Illinois. He did not
hesitate to do any kind Of work. He
split rails and built fences; he piloted
f1atboat down the Mississippl; he
served as clerk and manager OF a lit
tie store in the village Of New Salem
near Springfield.
| In 1892 under the leadership or a
warrior called Black Hauk number
of Indians came and said they wanted
to plant corn in their old hunting
grounds. but they soon began killing
the white settlers.
One day Abraham was out riding
and he saw a little bird on the ground
but he stopped and picked it up and
put it back in its nest, and the same
thing with a pig. AS he was gong
along the road he saw pig in ditch
and could not get out. He kept on go
ing till he got a mile or so and he
could not get it off his mind so he
went back and got it out but he never
got to 60 to town because his CLONES
were all over mud.
While he was in town one day ne
saw a little girl with veil over her
face and she could not get across the
street, so Lincoln went and took hel
across and when he got her across ne
kissed her and then lifted up her vel
and saw it was negro girl.
About everybody wanted him FOL
president and he got elected one even
ing in the pear 1865. On good Friday
he was at theater in Washington
He was shot by an assassin. KIND
arms carried him to house but nc
skill could save his life.
Wishing the Courier Junior success
II remain.
Anna l.. Palfreyman, age IA
Rucas, Ia, r. r. No. !.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24

changed into a bendable doll Then
they went down to breakfast, and
there was nice new dress for Claribel
and little chair just large enough for
her to sit in. chair that Uncle Lester
had made with that sharp jack-knife.
Nancy gave happy laugh, and set
Claribel in the chair
ooh, Uncle Lester" she said. I'm
so glad you thought to doctor Claribel
and make her bendable. | couldn t
love any other doll as l do Claribel,
and, now that she is bendable, she
can love me as much as do her."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
THE GRUMBLlNG MERCHANT.

Dear Juniors:
am a new Junior and l thought |
would write a composition. This is a
story Of The Grumbling Merchant.
In the early days the people had no
railroads and had to travel overland.
A rich man was going along narrow
road. The man was accOsted by rob-
Der who said Halt" The rich merchant
said Let me take a chance. and he put
his head on the horses neck and the
horse began to run. The robber pulled
the trigger and was going to fire at the
man but the rain fell down in torrents
and the powder got wet and would not
ignite. And the rich merchant said how
wrong he was to grumble about rain
for it saved his life.
(This Junior also forgot to sign her
nancy
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
THE COURIER JUNIOR
Published by
THE COURIER PRINTING co.
Ottumwa, Iowa
MATILDA OEVEREAUx
EDITOR
ALMA GETS THE PRIZE.

Dear Juniors: The prize this week is
awarded to Alma Muldoon.
We are so pleased with the compo'
sitions that we will continue them a
little longer. :.
We want more Juniors to send III
some of their school compositions.
We will give beautiful doll, knlfe
book, skates (roller or ice) for the nest
composition sent in by next TUESDAY
evening. 49,
We hope that many more OF the
Juniors will write letters. we VIII
Offer a surprise prize for the best let
ter and all the Juniors can work for IT,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24
EVERETT LIVED IN OTTUMWA

Dear Juniors:
AS | have never written before l.
thought l would write to some OF my
OttumWa friends to let them know that
am well and have a good home with
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed F'inney at EldOn.
| go to school in Eldon. Miss Bull IS
my teacher.
| lived in Ottumwa till I was seven
wears old. If any of the Juniors know
Mr.. Morris address l wish they would
please send it to me. "
7 visited Mr. and Mrs. Ed Finney all
last week. .-.- -..... ...... s.. -
Everett GROCER, age s,
Eldon, Iowa.
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SEVEN RULES FOR THE JUNIORS

/. Use one side Of the paper only
., Write neatly and legibly, using
ink OF sharp lead pencil. su
2 Always sign your name in full
and state your age.
4. Nrmber your pages.
Torot copv stories or poetry and
SEN. Us as your own WORK.
s. Always state choice OF prize on
separate piece Of paper, with name
and address in full
{. Address the envelope 10 Edi'oi
Courier Junior.