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Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
Her First Auto Experience.

Dear Uncle Jed: Last night when l was reading the Wide-Awake Circle stories I became very interested, so thought I would write. This is my first story.
 One Sunday my aunt and uncle were coming to see us. They were in an automobile. As they drove toward the barn my little sister and brother were coming out of the barn. My uncle would do, so he drove lip in front of him. He looked up. My little sister stood still and watched. Her name is Helen, and my little brothers name is Allyn. In a minute Helen stood in front of Allyn, with her hands spread out so if the auto should run over any body it should run oyer her.
 LAURA ELEVEN. Age 10.
 Norwich Town,
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PoETRM
our crandma,s House

 By Emma A. Lente. We go to grandma's house Thanksgiv-
 ing day, And sometimes New Years and
 along In spring When maple sugar comes. and eat our
 fill, And oh. we love to go like any
 thing! Our grandma's easy. and she laughs
 with us, And says she surely knows that
 boys are boys; She doesn't mind at all how much we
 eat And never scolds bit about our
 noise! And oh. the cookies that our grandma
 makes, All sugary and big; she fries pink
 ham, Makes gingerbread and cruilers, cus-
 tard pie, And has roast chickens with cram berry jam. And pa says when he goes to that old home, . He leaves his years behind, and seems a boy: He jogs around just like he used to do And shares in all, our frolics and our joy.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
The Falls. of Niagara.

Dear Uncle Jeaa A great body of water coming down from a height over rocks is called a waterfall. There are many waterfalls in this country; some are large, others small and beautiful
 But the grandest of them all are the Falls Of Niagara Looking in short distance at the water, as it pours down upon the rocks, 1t seems to be a solid mass. Then it spreads out in a sheet that glitters in the st,n,z till it strikes the rocks below, when it shoots up in clouds of mist and foam, on which the sun throws a beautiful rainbow.
 There are two waterfalls at Mag ara, separated by an island. One called the Canadian falls, CT the Horseshoe, so called because of it's shape. The other is, the American falls, which is not so wide as the Canadian falls. Both are grand ard beautiful
 MARY LORETTA McAYOY, Age 13.
 Plainfield
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Moosup.
A Very Nice Baby.

Dear Uncle Jed: I want to tell sou about my little nephew James. I think he is the sweetest little boy in the world. He came to my house and stayed a week with his papa and mamma.
 His mamma bought him a pair of little overalls and ne looks cute in them with his little white head. He looks like a little farmer boy with his little blue overalls on-
 He likes mo very well. did not like to go to school when he was here, for he wanted to play with me all the time When ea:ne home from school he would laugh and hold out his hands Cor me to take him. He would not go to anyone but me. He would not go to his papa and mamma even. He is a very nice bahy.
 DORIS I. CARPENTER, Age g.
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
He cauaht a Ria Turtle

Dear Uncle Jed: I have been fisf1- ing four or five times this, year at Beach pond
 One day I went down there and something kept biting my hook, but I couldn't hook him. By and by I got Tt is a big fish," kept pulling at him.
 Pretty soon my father said: Tt is a big mud turtle' I pulled him up to the top of the water and then he grabbed him by the tail and pulled him in the boat
 My father said wa had better take him ashore ard cut his head off, so we took him ashore and put stic in his mouth and cut his head of. We were going to take the head home, but my father threw 1t at my
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.Went to the Anuariurn.

Dear UIlcle Jed: My grandma lives down in New York Most every year I go down there. Once when was down there para took me to the aquarium.
 Before went in the aquarium pa- pa and I looked out on New York bay and saw the Statue of Liberty. Then we went in the aquarium and saw all the fish. We saw the big sea lion, too. He splashed water on me and wet my coat. Then we saw the alli- gator. He was lying in a pool sun ming himself. Then we saw some lit- tie alligators in glass cases.
 When we came out of the aquarium napa took me up Broadway and we went down in the World building. There we saw the New York World being printed.
 Then we came out of the World building and sgot some apples and retrned home.
 PHYIIs GILcHRIsT. Age g.
 Norwich
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STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAkES.
How Sewers Are Made

They dig a long trench about two feet wide and fourteen feet deep. h the trench they use eight-inch pipe; zach pipe is laid an inch higher than the one in front of it. The pipe that goes to the house is six-inch pipe. They have a connection where the people want it.
 There is manhole every five hunJ dred yards.
 It takes six hundred pipes two and a half feet long to go between two nnan-holes. .sc@ f7ss
 The workmen struck 9 ledge in front of our house. They drill holes from four inches to four feet deep and use 40 per cent. dynamite. Each stick is eight inches long and weighs a pound. Then man takes a stick of dyna- mite and crumbles it up and puts it in the hole and pounds 1t down to the bottom of the hole,
 Then they put a dynamite eXploder In the dynamite. The wire on the ex- ploder is connected to the main wire and the main Wire is connected to the electricity battery. The handle on the box is pulled up and then pressed down and the electric current runs through the main wire, then through
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The Nuremberg Stove.

There once lived in Germany a lit- tie boy named August. August was about eight or nine years of age His mother died when he was a baby and his father was poor. He had four of five brothers and sisters, and one large sister about sixteen years old, whose name was Dorothea. -p-,r They had nice stove in the old kitchen to keep them warm. They called the stove Hirschvogel
 One night their father came in and said he had sold Hirschvogel to the king.
 When August heard that, he flew at his father and said:
 How dare you sell our Hirschvo- gel! How will we keep warm all the cold nights? ?''
 August lay on the cold floor that night and cried bitterly, instead of going to bed.
 The men came the next morning after the stove, but August told them they couldn't have i. After a while started for the railroad station. Au- gust watched it until it reached the station and then it stopped.
 Then August thought suppose go with Hirschvoge1. He ran after the wagon. When he got there he crawled upon it and then made a hole through the straw and hay which the steve was done up in and there found the oven door. He fixed the straw and hay back in place so that no one would ever know that little mouse had crawled through it. He opened the oven door and crawled Inside and stayed there.
 All of a sudden the wagon started on it's way. After a good many hours had passed August began to feel hun gry. He had a good sized piece of bread and sausage with him and he ate some. He after. a while began to get thirsty, but there was no wa ter around.
 After the wagon had rolled on for three or four days and nights 1t stopped. The stove was lifted out of the wagon by men who were grunb- ling because it was so heavy, but never expected there was strange
 The men put the stove in lattice and lifted it there and walked away. August walked out of the door and saw some snow outside. He crawled out and stuffed his mouth full, bring ing back with him some icicles
 That night August went to sleep and slept very sound.
 The next morning the king came and looked at the stove thinking 1t a very fine one. He opened the door and exclaimed, Whats this!" live childi''
 L | kings feet and begged him to let him stay with Hirschvogel.
 The king said he would let him stay and asked him when he had eat en last and August said he ate yes terday afternoon.
 The king had water. wine and cake brought for him.
 August drank the wine and water but could not eat the cake
 The king asked him how he hap pened to be in the stove, and August told the story.
 The king also asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, and August said he would like to bc a painter.
 The king said alright. I will bring you up to be painter and so he did, and August went home every once in a while to see his father, brothers, and sisters. .
 ALICE WILLIAMS. Age 1o.S Norwich.
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A pax at Reach Pond.gI

Dear Uncle Jed: One day lsst sum- mer six of us went down to Beach pond for a picnic. My father and brother went out in boat fishing, and they got one pick erel, two bass and about fifty other fish. They came 10 the shore and cleaned some of them and. we built a fire in a little stone stove we made and put the frying pan over the fire and fried some for. our dinner, with some lunch from home. We stopped at the Beach poad store and bought some small beer to take with us Sc we had a, nice dinner on the sandy shores.
 We started home at o'clock in an auto and reached there about half past 5.
 Hope we can go next summer and have such a good time.
 JOEL BARBER.
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rAE mNNERs oF pRlze BOOKS.

1-Joel Barber, of Moosup-The Boy Allies With the Cossacks.
 2-JuIia. Rodnan, of North Franklin Try Again.
 3--Roy Consdon. of Moosup-The Boy Allies at Leige.
 4-Constance Ridgeway of Baltic - The Red Cross Girls on French Firing Line.
 5-PhyIIis Gilctrist, of Norwich = The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach.
 6-Richard Wheeler. of Stonington- Now rer Never.
 Harry Sweet, of Danielson-The Boy Allies in .he Balkan Carrpaign.
 S-Eveiyn Butler, of Norwich-The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach.
 The winners of prize books living in the city may call at The Bulletin bus mess office for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
How the Indian Boy Got His Name

Dear Uncle Jed: thought I would write and tell you the story of the In- dians. On the eastern edge of a. large mountain a band of Indians camped one warm September morning and considering everything it was for lorn looking place. There were In dian squaws and boys and g1rls 10 be seen. They found the grass all parch- ed and dry by a long draught, so there was nothing for any wild ami ma1s to feed on. Their own ponies could hardly get enough 50 the Indians were nearly starving
 Among the Indians was boy of fifteen, who had his bow and arrow, and was out hunting for game In those days the Indian had to do some great deed to get name. While out hunting he shot two buffaloes. In one they gave him the name of Two Ar
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
Ruls. far Youna writsr..

1. Write plainly ,on one side of the paper only. and number the pages. 2. Use pen; and ink. not pencil. 8. Short and pointed articles will 250 words.
 {. Original stories or letters only will be used. s.4 ttss.s s. Write your name. age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story.
 Address all conamunications to uncle Jed. Bulletin Ofnce. whatever you are-Be that!
 Whatever you gay-Be true!
 Straightforwardly act,
 Be honest--in fact,
 Be nobody else bus you"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
Taftyllle
Playing School.

One day I was playing school with another girl. I had some little chil- dren and she had some. We were learning them their 4, B, C's and the numbers.
 After we had played a little while I heard somebody crying. I looked across the street and saw q little girl. She was crying because she wanted to climb the fence to see what we were doing. Her mother spanked her be- cause she wouldn't get dowll She then got spanked and was sent in the house.
 The little girl was very cross to her mother and tried to slap her. After she had gone into the house I went and asked her mother if she could play with me.
 She said "Yes.." so I took her with me and tried to learn her something, but she was too small. She soon for got her croSsness and played very nicely. We played nearly all the af- ternoon.
 CONSTANCE RIDGEwAY.
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Tom Lanedon and The counterfeits.

Tom Langdon and The counterfeits.
 In small village in Maine, there lived boy who's name was Tom Langdon. He is tall for his age, clever. attractive, and physically strong. Tom had grown up subject to the hardships of farm life There was another village two miles away. To make a short cut to this village one had to go through stretch of woods.
 One day Tom had to go to the sun was setting as he started home ward. He preferred the short cut to the dusty road
 Through the quietness of the woods he heard some one talking. Being of curious nature he stole noiselessly up to where the sound came from. Of q sudden he came to a cave, in which two men were making counterfelt coins by the light of a candle. He recognized them as from the neigh boring village. He turned to go rock, making him fall heavily to the ground. Tom arose quickly and turn ed around to sse one of the men raise a revolver and shoot. The bullet went wild. He could see the men running after him. He escaped his pursuers and came home safely.
 That night he lay in bed thinking of what he should do. He fell asleep after making plan. The next day he placed a letter in the cave, telling them to clear out quickly or he would tell the authorities. A few days later they cleared out and he never heard
 JACOB MASTER. Age 12.
 Rozrahyille
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
Our Twin Calves.

My father has a thorough bred Ayrshire COW four years old and she has twin heifer calves born on Hal lowe'en. They are red and white. sOne looks like her father and the Papa was away the day they were born and when he got llomey and we told him that we had twin calves, he would not believe us. until showed them to him. Then, of eourse he had to believe it.
 them as he found out that they were both nice calves. Tkey are very cum ning now.
 RICHARD WHEELER, Age Il
 Stoninsten.
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Thankssivina.

Now the leaves are red and gold, Kissed by Jack, so very bold, Now's the ting for schooln1ate's fun Till Thanksgiving has begun. How the boys and girls do shout, When they find the chestnEt's out, When the nights are frosted cold, And Jack Frost is very bold; When the pumpkin vines are dead, And the acorn's in its bed, When the flowers no more are living Then's the time for sweet Thanks
 giving.
 AGNES M. BROWN. Ya0tic
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THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
BOYS AND GIRLS DEpARTMENT

and was used in China centuries be- fore 1t was known in Europe or the western world.
 | P. T. Barnum used to say the peo- pie liked to be humbugged. and he made millions exhibiting woody horses that never were woody: and other monstrosities that he made up to fit the menagerie. They would have been misfit anpwhere else.
 In human schemes the name that takes is more profitable than the name that fits very often; hence for busi- ness reasons many things are paraded as things they are not.
 LETTERS or ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
 June Johnson of Springfield: I thank you for the lovely prize book you sent me. Little by Little. It is very inter esting and has a good moral. I am thinking of writing another story, as am very much interested in the Wide Awake Circle.
 Alvin LachapelIe of Canterbury: I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. liked 1t very much and hope to win some more good ones.
 Lola Ladd of Canterbury: Il re- ceived, the prize book and have all ready read a few pages and find it very interesting. Thank you a thou ssbd times for the book.
 Ruth Costello of Storrs: I thank you for the prize book you sent me.
 Gladys Young of AIoosup: I thank you very much for my prize book, The Blue Grass Seminary Girls in the Mountains. I have read It through and like it very much.
 Gladys Thompson, of. Mansfield De- pot: I thank you for my nice prize book. I was so surprised to get it. have started to read it and have found it very interesting. It pleased me very much.
 Ivy Fisk, of Springfield, Mass.I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. I have read it through and found it very interesting. Its name is, Phil Bradley,s Mountain Boys"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
The Rabbit.

Once upon time there lived in a burrow on the hill two rabbits
 One day Mrs. Rabbit went out walk ing through the woods until she came to brook where she got a drink. But as she was turning away she heard a great snap and she was held fast by the leg. She was caught in a trap some boy had set there for her.
 She stayed there until the next day when she heard a man come whistiing down the path to the brook. He was surprised when he saw the rabbit there. He felt sorry and let her go again.
 When Mrs. Rabbit reached home she found her husband very angry. After she had told him what had happened to her it made him still angrler than ever. He sent her to bed without any dinner or supper.
 The next morning they were going to the field to gather carrots. They were gathering carrots when some big beast came up and ate them up. It was a fox. And that was the end of Mrs. Rabbit and her husband.
 PAUL DENISON DEWEY, Age 13.
 StODiDptOD
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rows He became a great hero as he saved the tribe from istaTving
 HOWARD E. MES. Age H. South Canterbury
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edge of the two countries"
 If the people of North America would hold out helping hand to Mex ico. 14exico would be grateful and a number of prejudices would die out, he said
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Cousin Lloyd and lost it in the water. guess the turtle weighed about forty pounds.
 ROY coNGDoN, Age Il. Moosup.
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Its easy to smile when the sun
 shines, too,
 And life is merry song, But the man worth while, Is the one
 who will smile,
 When everything goes dead wrong" he said: q guess I'll understand that better when am older."s
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23
Our Guineas.


 Last spring we bought one and a half dozen guinea eggs and my mother set fifteen of them under a hen. The old hen set on them for four weeks and matched fourteen lit- tie baby guineas.
 They were brown with light spots on their heads. The damp, cold wea- ther killed them all but six.
 The mother hen took good care of them until they were six weeks old. Then she ran off and left them all alone. They were very lonely and chirped all the time.
 One day we let them run with the other chickens. There tkAy found an- other mother to look after them. This was a big red rooster. The rooster dug worms for them and shared his oorn with them every day. When they had enough to eat they found a place in the sun. Then the guineas picked the specks off the roosterss Feathers. Sometimes they put their heads close to his head and talked to him.
 They are grown up now; but the big red rooster still takes care of them, and every night they follow him to bed.
 Don't you think the little orphan guineas found good mother after all ?
 EVELYN BUTLER, Age Il. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-23

ploder ana that fires the dynamite. They fill the trench partly full and then turn on the water to settle 1t. Then they finish filling in. E. After the sewer is done the steam roller rolls the street down.
 HARRY SWEET, Age F. DanieIson
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-12-12
WHO PRODUCES THE METALS?
Some Figures That Are interesting in
View of the Present Great World
Conflagration.

The national advantage of holding
premier rank among the worlds metal
producing countries has been accentu-
ated by the war. To both belliger-
ent and neutral nations the control of
the output of any metal has become
an important asset, either through sup
plying domestic needs or by increasing
revenue through sales to neighbors less
fortunately situated. The international
scramble for metals has directed at
tention most forcibly to the sources
of the worlds metal supply and has
brought into prominence some of those
that hitherto have been obscure or
relatively unimportant
Among precious metals 60 per cent
of the worlds production of gold is
controlled by Great Britain. The
United States holds second rank with
30 per cent. In pig iron and steel the
United States easily holds first rank
with an average production of about
40 per cent of the total. Germany
follows with about % per cent. Great
Britain is third and France and Rus
STA divide fourth place. The United
States stands pre-eminently in the pro-
duction of "copper" lead and zinc. OF
late years we have produced about So
per cent of the worlds output of cop
per. We produce about sone-t third of
the total lead and about 80 per cent
of the zinc in normal times.-Metal-
lurgical and Chemical Engineering.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-12-12

II order me-" cried Vandervyn,
and again he bent forward as if to
leap at his rival. Hardy stood cold
and motionless in the dim starlight.
The younger man checked himself.
His voice shook with suppressed an
ger: You've got the drop on me now.
Wait till we hear From Washington"
Until / am relieved from my pres
ent detail, / shall consider myself the
guardian of everyone and everything
belonging TO the tribe" stated Hardy
There followed a silence of several
moments duration, in which Wander
vyn must have found time to reflect.
He drew back a step or two, lit his
pipe. and at last remarked in a some
what forced tone of Cancellation AZ
see you're like an army mule-no use
trying to bulge you when you balk l
give you my word to act as gentle
man in this affair"
Every wel," replied Hardy.
Vandervyn started off, sucking at
his pipe. Hardy turned about, and
locked the door on the outside with
the heavy paddock that hung loose in
the jamb staple. He put the key in his
pocket, and walked around the cabin
TO make certain that there were no
other openings larger than the narrow
crevices of the loopholes.
When he returned to the tree, he
found Vandervyn already outstretched.
He picked up his blankets and moved
down the slope. to spend the night in
the more congenial company of the
two remaining Indian. policemen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-12-12

voices through the loophole above
Vandervyns head.
When Hardy returned from his ex-
animation of the upper works of the
mine, Vandervyn sealed in his pres
ence the two letters that he had writ
ten. They appeared decidedly thin, in
view of the time that Vandervyn had
spent in his writing and the number
of sheets of paper gone from the pad.
But Hardy did not observe this. His
attention had been diverted by large
party of Indians that had appeared
on the velvety green meadows of the
valley bottom.
The tribal council had begun to as
semble. This time the chiefs and
headmen did not come alone. From
far camps as well as near, the men
of the tribe were bringing their fami-
lies to see the Longknife chief whom
they had first hated but now believed
to be their friend and father. By
noon their numbers had grown from
scores to hundreds.
Shortly after the midday meal one
of the Indian policemen brought word
up to the cabin that the head chief
had arrived and the council was
ready to talk with the agent. Hardy
at once gave command to mount. AS