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Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
\ CHOOL closed Friday and the
J Busy Bees have ten long weeks

NC CHOOL closed Friday and the
- Busy Bees have ten long weeks
OF freedom from school duties
stretching before them.
What will you do with this time,
Busy Bees?
Will you idle it away, or will you
arrange to spend it in useful fashion,
plentifully distributed with good,
wholesome funs
So much more can always be accom-
plished if one would spend little
time at first in planning just what you
wish to do.
Devotion to the summer sports
swimming, boating tennis and base
ball, of course, come uppermost in
your mind, and perhaps some of you
will tend to your gardens. Anything
that will keep you out in the sunshine
and open air is heartily to be recon-
mended after the months of devotion
to school books.
Remember the prize contest, Busy
Bees. There are still several weeks
in which to send in stories on my
Experiences in Gardening" Luella
Gibson of the Blue side won the prize
book this week Grace Dickey OF the
Blue side and Emma Gillespie OF the
Red side won honorable mention.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18

ahead of my mothers. So it came up
first. Ny garden is six feet by two
and half feet. planted radishes,
lettuce, parsnips and onions at first.
They came up fast and l soon had to
weed them. One rainy day l went to
the cupboard and found some seeds.
| asked mother if she wanted them.
She said mo" I then went to my
garden and planted them. planted
radishes, lettuce, cucumbers and
onions. planted some peas not so
very long ago. Ny garden is all up
and it doing fine. l have lots to weed,
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18

Upper Picture, Lower Row, Left to Right
Harriet Rosewater, Helen Turpin, Esther
Tittensir, Evelyn Cole, Portia BigeIow,
Standing: Emily Mitzlafr. Margaret Peters,
katharine Davis, Helen Rogers, Louise Ri
ley, Ruth Week, Wyne Fairfield, Eleanor
Scott.
Lower Picture, Left to Right-seated;
William Beindorff, Ethel Brinkman, Cor
nelia Baum, Helen Paulsen. Standing;
Virginia Pearce, Tony Leermakers, Ethel
GlandstOne, Francis Martin, Sam Carlisle,
Richard Young.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18

but l guess I can do 1t. l picked
some lettuce and radishes for dinner
yesterday. / wish all the Busy Bees
would raise a garden of their own,
or else have part with your moth
er's garden. l will soon write and tell
you of my flower garden. l received
my prize book a long time ago and
have read it through. 1t was very in
teresting and much nicer than I ex-
pected it to be for such a story.
Wants to Get Acquainted.
By Mary Dawson. Aged 9 Years.
Fairbury, Neb. Red Side.
This is the first time that / have
written to you, and will have to get
acquainted with you before can
write about anything.
My name is Mary Dawson. I am 9
years old and in the fifth A at
school. The name Of my school is
Longfellow school, and 1t Is in the
west ward of this town, so 1t Is really
called the West Ward.
| would like to join the Red side. If
my story is in print will write again
telling about my trip 10 Colorado.
My Garden.
By lone Jewell, Aged 10 Years, Cres-
cent, Ia, Route |. Blue Side.
One day papa was planting the
garden and l asked if I could have
some seeds. He said yes. I planted
some lettuce and radishes. hoed my
garden last week. have radishes big
enough to use. My lettuce is almost
big enough to use. l have a baby
brother who will be S months old the
10th of June. His name Is Frederick
Eugene Jewell
The Nuthatch.
By Katherine Underwood, Aged 9
Years, Dumfries, Ia. Blue Side.
The bird might easily be mistaken
for woodpecker, but it climbs down
ward as we'll as upward.
The name was suggested by hiding
nuts under the bark Of trees. It has
a white breast, gray back, a very
long bill and black head. II creeps
all over in daylight and in search of
insects and spiders. It breaks nuts
with its bill.
Blue Birds Club.
By Eunice Stanley, Fullerton, Neb.
Aged IL Years. Blue Side.
We went to the leap year party
and had a good time. We played tea
party and then we went home and
most of us had a good time. Hope
the Mr.. Waste Basket is not there.
A Robins Nest.
By Elsie Strodtman, Aged 10 Years,
Bclvidere, Neb, Blue Side.
Once upon time robin built a |
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
About Cyclones,
By Cecilia Thielfoldt, Aged II Years
(,rafno Nah

By Cecilia Thielfoldt, Aged II Years,
Gretna, Neb., Route 2. Red Side.
AS l am reader of the children's
Busy Bee page | thought | would
write real story, which hope to
see in print We used to live at
Kearney, Neb., a year ago in January.
SO one day in March, the 23d, / think
it was, a big black cloud came up.
1t got to looking awfully bad. We
saw all the people go to the caves
and cellars, and so papa said that
he thought that we were going to
have a cyclone. He watched the
cloud for little while, and all at
once black cloud shot out of the
clouds, just as if a stove pipe would
shoot out. 1t looked awfully funny.
and when it came to the ground it
started small cyclone. 1t took
roofs of barns and blew hog houses
over, chickens, chicken houses, gran
aries and wind mills. On our place
it blew our granary over and chick
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18

man. when l was your age I had
this very corner for a stand, but
sold 200 papers a night and l did it
by carefully saying Thank you to
everyone who bought paper. l said
it loudly so they would be sure to
hear it."
Three evenings later the man came
by again and bought a paper of the
little chap on the corner.
Thank you" said Tim, not rec
ognizing him.
"How's business?" said the man.
Then Tim knew him I'm selling
over seventy-five papers every night,
sir" he said. amt going to forget
to say Thank you any more either.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
Stories of Nebraska History {: {: By a. T. Sheldon

(By special permission of the author The
Bee will publish chapters from the History
OF Nebraska. by A. z. Sheldon. from week
to week.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18

My Experience In Gardening.
By Katherine Jensen, Aged IL Years,
Valley, Neb., R. F. D. |. Blue Side.
Have any of you Busy Bees gar
den of your own3 Well, l have. !
am going to tell you about it.
planted my garden about a week
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
Our School Picnic.

By Mamie Berck, Aged ii Years, Us
ceola, Neb. Red Side.
This is the third time have writ
ten to you. I will tell you about our
picnic.
We started about $50. 1t was a
rainy morning. The place where we
were going was two and one-half
miles from town.
My sister took two Of our horses
and went to the schoolhouse. The
horses acted alright at first, but when
we went down hill they began to
get scared of the children. One
horse stumbled and the other horse
got scared. She kicked up against
the tongue and broke it. Then the
tugs flew off. So the horses were
entirely loose. My sister let go of the
lines and let them run. They ran
almost two miles when one Of the
school boys caught them.
Then car came by and took US
there, but just as we got out
it started to rain. We went back
to the schoolhouse. Then we had
our lunch and went home.
! hope to see my letter in the pa
per.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18

en- house, and we had big barn. 1t
almost blew the roof off of the barn.
That big black cloud had a point like
a stick. Well, this is the story of
the cyclone, and would like to see the
prize.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
(Honorable Mention.)
My Experience in Gardening.

By Emma GILLESPIE, Aged TO Years,
Greeley, Neb. Red Side.
One day the girls at our school de-
cided to plant a garden. So we got
our spades and rakes and everything
necessary. Then we dug up the
ground. We got it nearly all fin
ished that day. Then we raked it
good and the next day we brought
our seeds. There were radishes, on
ions and lettuce. They all came up
just fine, but the radishes froze.
We had our picnic Tuesday and
that morning l went over to the
schoolhouse and pulled them all up
and mamma took them to the picnic.
Mamma said that they were just
fine.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
Reward for Courtesy.

By Francis Tomjack, Aged II Years,
Ewing, Neb., Route 2. Blue Side.
A prosperous-looking citizen on a
downtown corner in Boston bought a
newspaper from an alert little news
boy, who made change instantly
without speaking "a word. But the
man fingered At last he said, How
many newspapers do you sell here a
nighti" About fifty" said the news
boy. What is your manner" Tim
Manning" Listen, Tim,' said the
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
(Honorable Mention)
Wants Busy Bees to Write.

= Wants Busy Bees to Write.
By Grace Dickey, Aged 10 Years,
Snyder, Neb. Blue Side.
"Oh, dear, I am so tired" said Mrs.
Robin.
$50 am l." said Mr.. Robin. THAT
surely was a long way to fly. Now
I wonder where we will build our
nest"
81 see nice tree over there" said
Mrs. Robin. 81 think we will fly
over there and see. We want it
where we can get everything for our
nest"
"Yes," said Mrs. Robin, land we
can reach the cherries so easily"
II think this will make fine home,
don't your" said Mrs. Robin. yes,
I think this a good place, because the
children are so kind to US. They al
ways keep the dogs and cats away
from this tree"
Maybe they will make US a house,
and when they feed the chickens !
will fly down and get some crumbs"
said Mr.. Robin.
This is my first story to the Busy
Bee page. l wish that some of the
Busy Bees would write me letter.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
Little Stories
By Little Folks
prize Story
Bob and Rob.
By Luella Gibson, Aged II Years,
Dodge Neb Rlue Side

DOp dllu SOU.
By Luella Gibson, Aged II Years,
Dodge, Neb. Blue Side
As | have not written to this page
for some time, | hope to see my letter
in print.
There are some birds that built
their nest in one of our apple trees.
One day l watched them. The
mother bird was trying to get her
robins to play but they would not
even try to- There are two birds. |
called one Bob" and the other
Rob" l call one Rob because he al
ways tries to take "Bob's" feed away
from him. One day when Mrs. Robin
started out to find some worms for
her little birds she babe them stay in
the nest. While she was gone they
were trying to see who could take up
the most room in the nest. Rob
pushed and pushed, but he could not
push Bob out OF the nest. Just as he
began to peck Bob" his mother came
up. She told Rob" to look her in
the eyes and tell her what he had
been doing. He would not do that,
SO she began by questioning him.
First she asked, "Were you pecking
'BobF" He answered, "Ye-ye-
yes"
why did you do it3" was the next
question. Rob did not answer, so
she repeated her question. "Why did
you do it,"
"I-I-I wanted all the worms" he
answered. 81 did not want Bob to
get any of the worms, SO l was going
to push him out of the nest"
Mrs. Robin would not let Rob"
have any worms. This taught him
lesson and he grew up to be an I'M
selfish bird.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-18
A Robins Nest.

By Elsie Strodtman, Aged 10 Years,
Bclvidere, Neb., Blue Side.
Once upon time a robin built a
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-01
JAKE .DAUBERT
AND. SPEAKER
LEAD HITTERS
Ty Cobb in Select Circle Ahead
of Benny Kauff of Giants;
Look at Burns Family

CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 20.-Jake Dau
bert, Brooklyn's first. baseman, is
leading the batters of the National
League, according to averages publish
ed here today and including games
age is 1884. Fred Williams, Chicago,
though batting under 300, leads in
home runs with six, is tied with ,Zim-
norman, Chicago, in total bags at 60,
and is tied with Groh, Cincinnati, in
runs scored at 20. Carey, Pittsburg,
continues to lead the base stealers,
having IS to his credit. Boston has
taken first place in club batting with
272. National League batters hitting
800 or better in at least half of the
games are: +~
Daubert Brooklyn, 1884; thinner
man, Chicago, 1858; Robertson, New
York, .357; Rariden, New York, 1886;
Schultz, Chicago, 1874; chase, Cincin.
natl, 1888; Hinchman, Pittsburg, 1923;
Gowdy, Boston, 1923; E. Burns, Phila-
uelphia, 1927; G. Burns, New York,
.323; Kauff, New York, .309; Cravath.
Philadelphia, :306; Stool. eehiladeI-
phfa, 800; Doyle. New York, .301;
Cutshaw, Brooklyn, .301; Snyder, St.
Louis, .301.
! Iris Speaker, Cleveland, leads the
American League in batting with 1898.
Cobb is again doing better than 800.
Speaker also is ahead in total bases
with 81. His teammate, Graney. leads
in runs scored with 81 anG is tied with
Fournier, Chicago, for first place
among home run batters with three.
Judge. Washington, maintains the
lead among the base-stealers with 8.
Detroit, with .261, leads in club bat
ting The 800 hitteTs of the Ameri-
can League, counting only those who
have played in half or more of the
games, are:
Speaker, Cleveland. $685.. Burns, De.
troit, 1864; Smith. Cleveland. .344; MI
namaker. New York. 1888; Strunk,
Philadelphia, 1888; Milan Washing
ton, 333:, Cobb. Detroit, 1928; McMui-
len, Chicago, 321; Shanks. Washing
ton, 81; =. Johnson, st. Louis. 81;
Hoblitzel. Boston. 300.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-01

AxBowling at the armory will receive
royal send-off June Is, when the
first games of big tournament viii
be rolled Since the alleys were in
stalled in the basement there has been
an unusual interest In the maple slide
pastime, and hundreds of bowlers are
taking advantage OF the opportunity to
stage q tournament
There will be 10 teams entered in
the tourney, consisting of team from
each of the following companies: A.
B, c, d. E. Fl. Signal Corps, Engineers
Naval Militia and Machine Gun Com.
pany. There will be matches played
three times q week until the end OF
the season.
Cup 10 Winner.
The winning team viii be awarded
the Office Supply Company Cup, and
$40 merchandise order win be given
70 the bowler having the highest av.
erage for the season, The alleys are
now open for practise, and many of
the pin disturbers are taking advan.
tage Of the opportunity to topple the
head pin for a strike.
A number OF the teams will have
some of the best bowling talent in the
city, and the Signal Corps five is GER
tain to be up around the top at all
times. Mills, Scott Gear and the
Whites will give the wigwaggers a
strong aggregation to send into the
fray. Company H also has a number
Of star bowlers ready for the opening
OF the season, and d Company should
figure well up with the other thumb.
STEERS The Machine Gun Company
Will have strong five in the tourney.
Officers Tourney.
A tournament for the officers is ex.
pected to be on the way soon, and If
the present scores are taken as cri.
terion of what is to come then the
spectators may look for some unusu.
ally good scores. Brig. gen. Samuel
johnson, although spending much
time at target practise, has been show
ing up well on the alleys, while Col.
Charles S. Lincoln hovers around the
200 mark in nearly every game. Mai.
Laurence Redington is also an ardent
pin disturber. and in practise games
has made an excellent average. j.
The presence of bowling and pocket
billiards at the armory has been big
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-01
PUNAHOU SWIMS
FOR THURSION
MEDALS TODAY
Natators Will Start competi-
ton in Penthathlon at $50
T.. This Afternoon in Pool
Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence

Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence
OAHU COLLEGE, June 1.-The
aquatic contest for the Lorrin Thurs
ton medals will be held in the Oahu
College tank today and tomorrow at
3 80 o'clock. >..::s H.. -. -
The contest is a pentathlon, the five
events being: Fifty-yard swim, plunge
for distance, 50-yard back stroke, loo
yard dash, diving, four required dives
and two optional. The first three OF
the events will be held this afternoon,
the last two tomorrow afternoon.
There are two groups sof swimmers
among the boys and two groups
among the girls. The girls contests
are held this week. The first group
of swimmers is all those boys or girls
. who have competed in an inter-
scholastic or A. A. IT, meet. The sec.
on group is all those swimmers who
have net competed in such meets pre-
yiously. There will be medals award
ed as follows: Properly inscribed sill
yer and bronze medals for first and
second place of boys open" meet and
bronze medals for the novice meets;
properly inscribed medals, silver and
second place for boys open" meet and
bronze medals for novice meets-in
all eight handsome medals.
Much Practise. -
The swimmers nave been working
hard for the past month and half.
There will be about 25 boys compel,
ing and large number of girls. The
competitors are from the academy
only, though the meet will doubtless
become an annual affair and embrace
the preparatory school next year.
The officials for the boys meets
are:
Clerk of Course Carl E. Sager.
Judges of Finish-W. j.. MacNeil, O.
p Gump, L. C. Rowland.
Judge of Diving--C Clair Tait..
Timers-C. F. Schmutzler, Clair
TAFT, j. B. Meinecke.
Starter-C. e. Sager.
Announcer-David Wilmington.
- s
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-01
Tinker Will Make Fight
With Many Stars on Team
Archer Brown, Vaughn, Safer, Yerkes, Seaton Zimmerman
and Schultz Look Mighty Good on Paper-The Combined
Strength Of Whales and Cubs Should Give Chicago Good
Teanl-FanS in Windy City Predict Pennant for Cubs

When Charley Weeghman. the
champion feeder OF the world, secured
the Chicago Cubs after he had spent
much of the money which was made
by selling coffee an, the fans In
Chicago said. ',Ho, no, hee. hee." and
then for good measure let loose few
more no, hees Joe Tinker of the
Whales was named rs manager. Bres-
nahan went to Toledo and the crowd
waited
Tinker looked over the Cubs and
then took glance at the Whales and
figured that he ought to have mate
rial enough to make q real ball team.
but after he had finished his tour OF
inspection found that he was minus a
second-saeker, and Immediately went
out after Steve Yerkes.
Good Catching STAFF.
As catching staff Tinker had Art
Wilson, Jimmy Archer and other play
ers, but Pittsburg wanted catcher
and Joe let Wilson go. Archer and
Fischer will de most OF the receiving
this year In this respect the Cubs
will be strong. as Archer Is one OF
the leading backstops of the circuit,
while Fischer only needs more devel-
oping to become star
When the teams were combined
Tinker had a host Of pitchers, but
many Of them have been sent to other
teams. Cheney has gone to Brooklyn,
Adams to Philadelphia, but he still
has left pretty fair staff with Hend-
rix, Seaton. Brown, Vaughn, Packard,
Standrige. Lavender and others.
Seaton and Hendrix.
Claude Hendrix was a star last year
in the Feds, and Tom Seator, the for
mer coaster, has been q good pitcher,
and as he is not an oldtimer should
make good with the Cubs. Seaton
was the life of the Quakers only a
short time ago, and the Windy City
fans look to him to make good.
Mordecaf Brown is along in years.
but his record of II games won With
eight lost last year did not show that
ne should be Oslerized. With the ex-
'ceptioh Of Mcconnell, the three
fingered HEAVIER was the best on The
club In 1915.
Star Southpaw.
Jim Vaughn Is a mighty hard pitch.
er to beat when he Is right and the
big southpaw has still lot OF gUod
pitching left. Lavender has seen
good years in the National League, J.
though last year he failed to win q
majority of his games. zabsl also
finished under the 500 mark. but Nc
Connell, with the Feds, was a big
winner, being entitled to the credit
Of landing more games than any 9TH
er twirler in the Gilmore circuit.
Sluager at First.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-01
LOCAL GIRL TO
MAKE TRIP FOR
lOO.YARD SWIM
One of Honolulu Feminine Stars
Will Go to Frisco on July 4
for Championship Race

For the first time In the history
of swimming a Honolulu girl will be
sent to the mainland to compete
against the leading stars. One OF the
fast feminine swimmers will go to
San Francisco July 4, and special
race will decide the one who will be
the choice Whether or not one race
will give a good line on the best swim
mer is a question, and it would be
much more satisfactory to all con-
cerned if a thorough test was given
should the. trial contests be close.
Among those who are expected to
enter the events are Lucille Legros,
Helen Rosa, Bernicia Lane and others.
In the past the girls events have
not attracted many entries and il is
hoped that more entries will be book
ed for the coming competition. There
are a number of fast swimmers in the
city who have made, the so yards I'M
der 80 who have not as yet entered
the A. A. U. meets. T..
Meeting Today. : .....~t~.
Plans for special ~100-yard race
for Honolulu girls will be discussed at
the meeting of the board of managers
of the Hawaiian Association of the A.
A. U. at the office of W.T.. Rawlins
this afternoon at o'clock.
One of the local feminine natators
will be sent to San Francisco on July
4 to compete in the 100-yard national
championship. In this race are en-
tered all of the leading swimmers of
America, including Olga Dorfner.
Claire Galligan, Frances Cowells, Dor
othy Becker and others.
Arrangements will also be made for,
setting the date for the 100-yard ma
tional championship here and the
question Of who will come here to
meet Duke, Kelii, Lane, Kruger and
others will be discussed. McGillivray
Is the logical man to be invited and
Herbert Vollmer, the great furlong
swimmer of Columbia University, is
another swimmer who may be called
here. i
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boost for athletics, and when the gym
nasiun is in readiness the members
Of the National Guard will not want
for indoor sports. The tournament
this month is one step in advance for
sport at the armory.
The following teams have been en-.
tered for the June tournament:
Company A-Sgt. Evans, Cpl. Cush.
ingham, Cpl. Akana, Pvt Brash, Pvt.
Male.
Company BE Methven, W. Noble,
Fred Carter, Sam Carter, Paul Lemke,
Buster Carter, r. Whitcomb.
Company CA. G.. Silva, j. Alues,
E. Silva. ]. Kananui, H. Martin, M.
Garcia.
Company DIP. Hall, II. Evensen,
A. r. Tulloch. H. E. Wescott, o. E.
Bearss.
Company benjamin Kukapu, Ce.
ell Kulehua, Dan McGregor, Dick
Lane, E. johnson. "
Company H-Jacob Ching, James
Ho. X. G. Zane, Henry zap, Arthur
Chong. .4
Signal Corpse. Mills, c. White, H.
White, L. Scott, II. Gear.
Engineer Corps-Sgt. Mullens, Sgt.
Morgan. CPL Cain, Austen. Fennill.
Naval Militia-R. n. Linn, Smith,
Higgins, Austen, Benny.
Machine Gun Company-Jackson
White, Hoffman. Clark, Warren.