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Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
My Exp.ri.nee with . suroIar.

One day my mother and father had been called away from home by the sickness of my aunt. so I was left alone. When evening came I ate my supper and then sat down in a big arm chair by the south window.
 Suddenly I saw a shadow outside and upon getting a better view I saw it was the shadow of 8 man holding something in his hand which gIisten- ed in the moonlight Most surely it was a revolver, I thought.
 I watched his motions very closely. and soon he came nearer. At last he came to the window and lay or rather stood the thing upon the window sill outside.
 What was the meaning of this man. oeuvre? Had he gone to summon an accomplice to help him break in? But why should he leave his weapon? I could stand it no longer, so summon ing all my courage I arose and walked out on the piazza.
 Then I laughed out loud and went and got that dreadful weapon. And what do you suppose it was? It was an old-fashioned britannia teapot which mother had loaned to a kind neighbor who came to return and upon finding nobody home had left it on the window sill outside.
 MARIAN M. WHEELER, Age if.
 Stonington
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
GurIeyviIIe School Fair,

S0TisyNtlle SChoot faIr.
 September 18th we had our school fair. We had entered there a Bel gfan hare with eight little ones, three rabbits rats, a dove and chickens.
 There was an ox-team made of crook -necked squashes with wooden legs and faces. made of paper with a yoke and cart made of wood.
 There was a cabbage there that weighed ten pounds or more; also, pumpkins, squashes, corn, apples. po- tatoes, cucuTnbers, beets, Chinese walnuts and flowers of all kinds.
 There was a potato woodchuck, po- tato men, cucumber sailboats, and a cucumber pig, which were made by the children.
 Among the fancy articles were em- broidered aprons, pillow cases, towels and dust-caps.
 Some of the girls made German cake and wheat bread.
 There was canned fruit and canned tomatoes.
 Among the things I entered and took the blue ribbon on were canned tomatoes, both yellow and red. a dolls middy blouse, a dust-cap and a hemstitched towel.
 There was a stalk of corn that was twelve and one-half feet tall.
 There were about forty visitors there.
 After the inspection the girls cut their cake and passed it around.
 Next week we will send some veg etables and flowers to Berlin State Fair.
 Perhaps some Wide-Awake will write about that.
 This is our first fair, but we are
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
Our Twin Colts,

My brothers, sister and I were very much pleased a few weeks ago when we heard of the arrival of twin colts. We got up very early in the morning and went up to the barn to see them. There stood the mother. Lying peslae her were twin colts.
 They were very small. Although one was much bigger than the other. The biggest one was black with clear white spot in his face, and the smallest one was a very light chestnut with white face and two white legs.
 They were very weak. The biggest one was able to stand up the day it was born and take few steps, but the small one was not able to stand for several days. She soon began to get stronger and we thought she would live.
 The next thing to do was to find names for them. We named the black one Prince and the little one was named Centennial, as it was the year of the Stonington centennial, but for short we called her Tenny-
 There came one very sad morning when my youngest brother came into my room and told me about the death of Tenny. How bad all of us felt when we heard she was dead; but we were glad that we had Prince. Tenny had lived to be nearly a week old.
 Prince grew very fast and now is a nice colt about three months old. We hope we can raise him.
 c. MARIE WHEELER, Age il.
 StOningtOn,
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UNCLE JEp's TALK TO WIDE r .AWAkEs.

This is the moving season of tiie birds, and they are getting together to escape cold weather. You have seen the swallows standing in rows on the telegraph poles, and the robins in the birches and the sparrows in the bushes and the goldfinches wherever seeds are to be obtained. The swallows have gone south and the robins will go soon.
 Perhaps after dark lately you have heard a "tweeti" "tweet!" in the air and have wondered what it meant. All the birds which fly south go in the night, perhaps because it is safer than to,4fiy in such great numbers in the daytime. The policemen and men wiio are out nights can tell you of hearing
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
A Stranqe Bird,

There is a bird that knews how to sew so we'll it is called the Tailor bird This queer nest which Is hidden in the leaves is all sewed together. Per haps you wonder where it gets its thread. Even that it makes from fine cotton on the back of the cotton plant with it's delicate bill and lit- tie feet. When it is all ready to sew it makes holes through the leaves and then sews them nicely together.
 MARY GORMAN. Age 2.
 Versailles
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
NORWICH BULLETIN; THURSDAY, OCTOBER I, 1914

the automobile to the village, for the mail I went with him.
 While I was waiting outside the postot1ice I saw a girl pass by driving a horse and carriage. A black and white dog sat in the seat by her side. As she drove she was reading 8 book. The horse walked along and kept on his own side of the road.
 I thought the horse must have been very fond of his mistress to see him go along so nicely.
 Once in awhile the dog would move nearer his mistress in order to at- tract her attention, but she was to busy reading to notice him.
 LILLIAN BREHAUT. East Norwich, New York
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
Do Something for Somebody, Quick!

A little girl named Grace had a parrot. Among the things which the parrot could say Is the name of my story. She had heard Grace say it over and over as she learned it in a piece to recite at school.
 Grace did not know about this, and one morning she woke up very cross. She crawled out Of bed slowly, and began to put on her shoes and stock ings. She pulled so hard at the but tonhook that the first button popped off. Very soon off went another. This made poor Grace so angry that she pulled off the shoe. flung 1t across the room, and screamed out:
 "Everythins is so hatefIll What shall I do7''
 Polly, who was on her stand by ths window. was very much excited by all this noise. and screamed back:
 Bad girl! Do something for some body, quick!"
 This made Grace laugh. but it made her think, too. She made up her mind that all that day she would try to do something for somebody, and see if that would not keep her from feeling cross.
 Suppose you try this cure for cross ness.
 FRANK PARDY, Age 13. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
The Pilgrims.


 There once lived in England some people who did not like to obey the rules of the kings church, so they went to Holland and when they were in Holland they heard of America They went to Holland in 1897 and stayed there 13 years. They did not like it there because their children were learning to talk Dutch. They wanted them to learn to talk their own language. So they decided to come to America
 They engaged two ships, the May flower and the SpeedwelL They found that the Speedweil was not fit to cross the ocean and so they did not come over in her. They could not leave the harbor for three or four days pe- cause the wind was SO strong. They took with them tools, clothing, and food.
 When they got over here 1t was winter. They thought they would not be so long coming, but there were so many storms. When they got here they built one large house sa they all could live in it till they built sep arate houses. The women stayed on the boat until the men had the houses done.
 EVA S. PARTRIDGE. Age 10.
 Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
A Golden Fish.

There was once a poor man who was a fisherman. One day when he was out fishing he had not caught any fish, and it was time to go home, but he saw a fish in the water, so he put his hook into the water.
 While he was looking in the water the sun went in, and 1t grew dark. When he looked up he heard it thunder. Then he fet pull on his line, and when he got the fish in the boat he saw the fish had gold on his back.
 He took the fish home, and just as he got home it began to rain. It rained harder and harder. The next morning it was wet outdoors, but the sun came out. He took his fish to market and they paid him ten dollars for the fish, then he went home feeling rich.
 Although he caught good many more flsh' he never caught one with gold on its back.
 MARION BLACK, Age 10.
 Springfield.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
Rule. for Yeuna Writers.

Rules for Young Writera
 l. Write oainly on one side or tise paper only. and number the pages
 8, Short and pointed articles Wni be given preference Do not use ovef e50 words {. Original stories or letters only will be used.
 - s. Write your name, age and ad- di,ss plainly ot the bottom or sne story. a Address all communications :, Un- ele Jed, Bulletin Omce.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01

whatever ycu are-Be thats Whatever you say--Be true! Straightforwardly act , Be honest--in fact
 Be nobody else but you.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
THE WIDE AW AXE CIRCLE
BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT

this "tweet!" 'ttweet!" for hours of an evening and you would be sur prised if you should see the thousands of birds which change their abodes in the night time.
 The swallows start in their real flight for the tropics from some island ir Long Island sound or elsewhere and at sundown on some nid-September day the beach Is black with them, and the next morning they are gone. It was this habit of the swallows gath ering by the water at night and not being seen afterwards that made the bird students of past age think they lived through the winter in the mud like the frogs and turtles. for they used to see them first near the water in the spring; but now they are known to- fly 1000 miles away for the winter, hence 1t Is also known they travel 14,0o0 miles year in pursuit of con- ditions suited to their life and comfort The ducks and the geese make their flights south in the early evening as we'll as after dark and they keep a little ahead of the ice-malzing weather. hence they make short flights and
  move farther and farther south at in tervals.
 The robins are with us all winter, but they are not our summer robins but the robins which summer more than 1000 miles north of Connecticut in sub-Arctic regions. The robins of Connecticut summers spend the win- ter in Delaware and as far south as l the Carolina mountains.
 | The I1umnling birds have gone and these little midgets always hover around T1ora's throne, so they have to
 go 1000 or 5000 miles south to keep 1 up with the floral procession the year round. They have to go where the
 flowers constantly bloom to live. How we miss them when they are
 gone. and how glad we are to welcome
 them all back in the spring.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01

thank you a thousand times for the book. I am very much pleased with it. I just commenced to read it. l found it very interesting
 Myron RineIand of Norwich Town: I received the prize book yesterday entitled The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch, for which I thank you kindly.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01

planning to hold them every year now.
 MT. Brundage, our agricultural teacher, said we had fine display and it was the best school exhibit in the town Of Mansfield.
 BERTHA FULLER, Aga II. EagieVille
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS

1--c. Marie Wheeler of Stonington, The Girls of Castle Rocco.
 2--Naney Tstrault of Versailles, Dumps, Plain Girl.
 3-Marian M. Wheeler of Stonington, Merry Girls of England.
 4-Rertha Fuller of Eagleville, Girls of the True Blue.
 5-Flcssie Meyer of Taftviile. The Boy Scouts on Surgeon Island.
 6-Harriet Graham of Taftvil1e, The Missing Tenderfoot.
 7-Mary German of Versailles, Tie Pride of the Khaki Troup.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
The Squirrel.

 Innocent in all his ways, harmless in his food. playful as a kitten. but without cruelty, and sunpassing the fantastic dexterity of the monkey, with the grace and brightness of a bird, the little dark-eyed miracle of the forest glances from branch to branch more like a sunbeam than a living creature. It leaps and darts and twines where it will; a chamois is slow to it and a panther clumsy. Grotesque as a gncme, gentle as a fairy. delicate as the silken plumes of the rush, beautiful and strong like the spiral of a fern, it haunts you, listens for you. hides from you, looks for you, loves you. as if the angel that walks with your children had made it himself for a heavenly play thing.
 JESSIE BREHAUT, East Norwich, N. Y.
 A Kind Mistress.
 This morning when n,v father drove
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
The Name of the Winter Bird.

The Name cf the Winter Bird. Dear Uncle Jed: think the bird Miss Brehaut refers to is the happy little chickadee,
 RICHARD W. TOBIN. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01

about them. He liked the Esquimos very much and finally died among them in 1881.
 MYRON JOSEPH ENGLAND. Norwich Town.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

L. Elliott Holm Of Westerly, R. l.: received the prize book Thursday. It is very interesting and I want to thank you for it.
 Luccy Henstow of Colchester: I
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01

King Business Unprofitable. Cotton is king" but the king busi- ness is not profitable at present. Wall Street Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01
Exists No Icnoer,

Exists No Longer. What has become of the old-fash- toned man who went around saying that there would never be another war of conquest ?--Richmond Times-Dis- patch.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-01

A Kind Mistress. This morning when my father drove
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22

last companies of the battalion who
were not so greatly exposed to the
fire as the rest Of the battalion,
were retreating toward the Custom
House and the rest of the battalion
who couldn't retreat without undu-
ly exposing itself to the fire of the
enemy, dropped out along the wa
ter front, distance of about seven
ty yards from the Academy in the
line of skirmishers forming semi
circle from the building and laying
flat on the ground. The Mexicans
had also opened from many nearby
buildings. All of this took but a
few seconds. We got the word to
fire as soon as we were ready.
When our after five inch spoke you
could see parts of the roof OF the
Navel Academy and mingled Greas-
ers going up in the air. 1t is need
less TO Say that this followed up by
many more just like it soon stopped
all the firing from this section OIL
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22

certain about where it was coming
from and it did not look reasonable
that it could be coming from under
the Chilian or Red Cross flag.
About this time a battalion of
our men marched out from the
Custom House to clear out these
seemingly few and scattered Mexl-
can sharp shooters which had been
giving us so much trouble. They
went out in the form of columns,
three companies of marines and
two of blue Jackets. Just as they
got opposite the Mexican Naval
Academy with the Red Cross flag
over it, rain of fire poured down
on us from the windows. Of the
Acacemy. 1t looked to us watching
from the ship here that the Whole
battalion would be murdered be-
fore anything could be done. we
began to get our guns ready to lire
This took us but few seconds and
while we were doing this the two
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22
NOTICE To TEACHERS.

There will be a Summer School
held at Cullowhee this year BEGIN
ming June 18th, and continuing for
six weeks. All teachers Of the
county are urged to attend the en-
tire session if they can possibly do
so and all teachers who did not. at
tend an Institute or Summer School
last year are required to attend this
year for at least two weeks.
An opportunity will be given for
those who desire to do so to take
the regular examination for teach
er's certificate at the Summer
School.
The Theory and Practice exami-
nation will this year be based on
O'Shea's Everyday Problems in
Teaching"
Ali teachers holding First Grade
certificate who have kept up the
entire Reading Course work are en-
titled to have their certificates re-
newed without examination.
No Second Grade Certificate or
any grade on a Second Grade Ger
tifcate can be renewed, but all
Second Grade teachers who this
year took and passed successfully
the entire Reading Course will not
be required to take the examination
OH Theory and Practice.
| Respectfully yours,
DAVID H. Brown,
County Superintendent of Public In
struction.
Napolean Crisp has gone to
Proctor where he will spend the
next few months.
! j. L. Ballard of Willets was iIs
town yesterday.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22
ODD FELLOWS CELE-
BRATION At SYLVIA

Black Rock Lodge TO. 247, of
Sylvia, will hold an annual cele-
bration on the Fifth Sunday in May.
Immediately after the Asheviile
train passes, the Odd Fellows will
march in a body to the Fair Grounds
where they will be addressed by
Prof. O. S. Dean of CulIowhee.
After dinner is served, they will
be addressed by Hons. Tom Green
of Waynesuille, and Zeb F. Curtis
of Asheville.
The community knows something
of the ability of Prof Dean and Hon.
MIR. Green as speakers. The COM
mittee will vouch for the ability of
Mr.. Curtis He is prominent lawyer
of Asheville. We request the ladies
of the community to bring baskets.
this will be highly appreciated by
the order.
Signed.
j. j. Gray, R. A. Painter,
T. F. billiard, C. w. Warren,
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22
INJURED By
FALLING TREE

Ance Parker, was seriously injur-
ed last Thursday while peeling bark
in the Moses Creek section. He had
fallen one tree which lodged against
another and thinking it safe was
peeling the bark when the second
tree became uprOoted and fell, a
large limb striking Mr.. Parker. While
he is seriously injured it is not
thought that it will prove fatal.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22
THE VERA CRUZ
FIGHT TOLD BY
RANSOM COW Ard
u. S. Chester, Vera Cruz, Mexico
A nril 30 1914

Dear Buf-We arrived here on
the morning of the 21, at 400
o'clock from Tampico and landed
all available men at once. l didn't
land, owing to the fact that elec-
tricians are not numbered among
the available.
The Mexicans began a rifle fire
at us as soon as we enter, d the
harbor but didn't bother us on ac-
count Of the darkness and the fact
that we were showing no lights.
They could hear ship coming in
bit could not see us. However,
they knew it must be one of our
ships and began firing at random
and wasting ammunition.
The Florida's battalion was al
ready ashore md was holding the
the custom house when we got in.
The other ships landed men as soon
as we did. The real trouble began
at daylight, about $50 a. m
| was called about $50 to 60 on
the quarter deck and take down the
stern light so that the flag staff
could be taken down in order to
make clear gangway for our after
five inch in case we should have to
use it. Mexican sharp-shooters had
already begun firing at our men
working OH the quarter deck when
| got Up there. When we began
working on the flag staff we made
good targets for the sharp-shooters
stationed in vac b e kois lumbe,
piles, buildings and tug boats. They
be6an continual picking" as they
caIIao ii: that is trying to pick off
Our me4 when they showed them
selves, ley were either very poor
m..1smeu or else could not get the
raTo1, IS We were anchored at Just
a nice rifle range from the beach
As soon as the GTeaserS in the tug
boat began to fire we began to
worry though for they began to fire
through sealch-light screen just
over our heads. When they started
that our captain ordered us to make
up gun ere and give the guns a
couple OF shots. AS most of the
regular guns crews were ashore, we
had to use any one we could get
mold Of. AS a result we had guns
crews composed of coal passers
carpenters mates, electricians anC
seannen' They did good work just
the same. At Captain Moffett'
orders we put two three inch shells
through the tug that had been Civ
Ing us the most trouble. She hoiste(
aWhlte flag and got out of the way
50 did the rest OF the tugs wheI
they saw what they would get i
hey continued firing at us.
After the tugs were cleared ou
ol the way we turned our attention
10 the sharp shooters ashore. The.
equlpppd about twelve of us mel
VINO had had training with tn
Naval rife, with rifles and ammu
hltlon and ordered us to stop til
Afln8 from the beach. 1t did no
take us long to stop a part of tn
lflng and to drive them all to cove
out they continued to fire from tn
windows of buildings and as the
were using smokeless powder W
could not locate them. Two of ou
nieh men were Wounde
from either the building of the Chi
iah Consulate or the Mexican Nav;
aacademy which had Red Cros
nde hying over it. We couldn
'e'ufh the fire because we were n,
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1914-05-22

OF the city. 1t was about like mur-
derlng rats in trap but it had to
pe done. Their act of ambushing
our men from under the Red Cross
Tag was not an act of civilized war
fare and deserved more than the
treatment it got. The dead from
guns of this was estimated at more
than two hundred.
The loss of the battalion ashore
was not nearly so great as we
thought. They only had four killed
and seventeen wounded. 1t was
only their GOODNESS and quick wits
that made the casualties so small
in such heavy fire.
1t was only the work of this ships
guns that saved from complete de-
struction the whole battalion of
men. We have been compliment
ed on our quick work and accuracy
Of fire by all of the higher Naval
officers.
The only thing that has got us
guessing now is: how in the thunder
did the Prairie, San Francisco and
Florida ring III on the honor of ,av-
ing that bunch IF men from de-
structlon? We and the Prairie
were the only two ships inside of
the harbor where we could fire.
The Prairie did good work but her
position was behind the Custom
House from this trouble so that she
could not fire shot into this dis
trict. All of her firing was further
up in the city and occurred later
in the day. The Frisco hadn't
reached this port from Tampico at
this time. So you see it has got us
puzzled.
We can understand how the news
papers gave the Florida part of the
credit, zor most of it in, fact. with
her firing a shot. She brought a
bunch of newspaper reporters down
from the States.
WhatI have told you is only the
part the Chester played in the bat
tie. I wont attempt to detail the
the rest OF the fighting, as I pre-
sUme you know about as much
it rs | do. from the the newspapes
! have just gotten my last pro-
motion for this enlistment. | signed
my last second class petty officers
appointment yesterday. 1t is now
waiting for the Captains signature
He has probably signed it by this
time. | successfully passed the ex
animation for second class cleo
trician. AS a second class on herr
was just promoted to first class; i
left second class vacancy, and a
my year as third class was up, am
my marks were good, | was recon
nlended to fill it. 1t pays $40
dollas per month.
We are all praying to be sen
back to the States soon. We ar
getting very tired and disguste
y with this country. Just when the
'e gave us something interesting to d
n, down here, they had to spoil it a
N by starting up some kind of
N peace conference. 1t makes thing
u quieter down here than they wer
le before. They gave us taste {
a. excitement and now the only the
d leave us to fight is the heat. Tn
he Lord knows we have enough hea
IL to put up a good fight, too.
lg NJ. r. COWARD, Elec. u, S. N.
rs ---------
~ J. N. Reed of Beta was here yes
a terday and advanced his sui
to scription to the Journal.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-07-23

A photograph is bad enough with
out having it enlarged.
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This is the season of the year when
the town man abandons his garden to
the weeds.