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Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
The Important Corporal.

During the American war, the lead CT of a little band of soldiers was giving orders to those under him about a heavy beam that they were endeavoring to raise, to the top of some military works which they were repairing. The weight was .a1- most beyond their power to raise, and the voice of the superintendent was often heard shouting:
 ''Heave away! There it goes. Hcave ho!"
 An officer not in military costume was passing. and asked the superin- tendent why he did not render lit tie aid.
 The officer astonished, turned around with all the pomp of an emperor, and said, Sir, I am corporal"
 T ask your pardon, Mir. Cor poral,' answered the stranger, and taking off his hat he bowed, saying, T was not aware of that"
 Upon this he dismounted, and pull ed till the sweat stood in drops on his forehead, and when the beam was raised, turning to the little, great man, he said,
 MT. Corporal when you have an- other such job, and have not men enough, send for your commander in- chief, and VIII gladly come and help yod."'
 The corporal was thunder struck, if was George Washington.
 NOLIA JODOIN, Age 1e.
 Taftville.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Taftville.
Paper.


 The paper which most of us read every morning has probably been han dled by one hundred men at least. The paper for newspapers and wrapping paper is made of wood pulp The paper that we write our letters on is made of cotton or linen rags. The paper for printing books is made from rags or wood.
 When making paper out of rags, they are first put in a machine called the rag cutter. This cuts them in small pieces. They are then passed through a machine that gets all the dust and dirt off the rags. The men then sort the rags. taking the cotton from the linen and the colored cloth from the white. They then boil the rags in soda and lime. This takes out the color and grease.
 This pulp is then put into another machine which is in three parts. First it bleaches them white; then it washes them; and last of all it beats them into a fine pulp; when this gets hard it is made into paper.
 When paper is made of straw the straw is cut into small pieces and made the same as the rags
 ERIC GILBERT. Age Il. DanielSon
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
A Kind Girl.

Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would tell you about kind girl.
 One day a little girl was out in the fields watching a man with his sheep.
 Why have you left your dog at homer" she asked. >@ .-s The man said: My dog can never help me with the sheep again. A cruel boy threw stone at him and broke one of his legs. I shall kill him tonight to put him out of pain
 The little girl was very sad when she heard this. She did not say any thing to the man but went to his house. There she found the dog lying on the floor. as
 At first the dog would not let the girl come near hirp. But she was kind and gentle. and at last he let her look at his leg.
 She found that 1t was much hurt, but not broken. She bathed it with hot water and bound 1t up.
 After while she saw the man conn ing home to shoot it. He loved the dog, but he knew it was better to kill it than leave it in pain. The little girl ran to him and told him not to kill the dog. that it would be better in a few days.
 The next morning she came to see it again. This time he let her come near him. ~ : e In a few days he was out in the field, watching the sheep.
 MARGARET BURNS.
 Norwich Town. m
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Columbus.

Christopher Columbus was born more than four hundred and fifty years ago in Genoa. a seaport of Italy. His father was wool -comber But Columbus wanted to be a sailor. So his father sent him to a school where he could learn all a sailor should know. When he was fourteen he went to sea.
 In Columbus time the people did not know about America, They believed that the earth was fiat. But Colum- bus said that it was round like ball and he thought that by sailing west from Europe he could reach Asia. He wanted to find a way to India which was shorter than the old way so that jewels, spices and drugs could be brought to Europe without such a great expense. lie was too poor to tbuy ships to carry. out his plans. Af- ter he had waited seven long years to get help Queen Isabella of Spain for the voyage.
 On Aug. 3. 14s2. he sailed out of the harbor of Palos, Spain. He sailed to the Canary Islands. After repairing two of Fis vessels he set sail across the Sea of Darkness as the Atlantic ocean was then called, on Sept. 6, 1492.
 After very exciting voyage, at dawn on Oct F. 1492. land was sight ed. It was not as Columbus supposed @ part of Asia. It was a country richer than the land he sought: it was America.
 He landed with his men and they gave thanks to God. He called the copper-colored natives Indians, and they still bear that name.
 He made three more voyages, but as he didn't bring back much gold the people were disappointed. He died broken-hearted and in poverty.
 ALICE M. GORMAN, Age 10
 Versailles
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS

1-Arlene Pearl of Augusta, Me, The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Ship.
 2-EIeanor Heinrich of Taftville, M2dge Morton's Victory.
 9-Esther Shershevsky of Norwich, The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods.
 4-Erie Gilbert of Danielson, Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp.
 5--Mary Rybie of Mansfield, The Mo tor Maids School Days.
 6-Asnes Nj. Brown of Yaneic. Motor Maids in Fair Japan.
 7--Eianche Lucier of Taftyile, The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle.
 S-lrene Mccarthy of Norwich, The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings.
 The winners of prize books living in the city may call at The Bulletin busi- ness office for them at any hour after 10 a. m. on Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Mansfield.
Pope.

Alexander Pope, the most eminent poet of his time, was born in 1888, and died in 1744. He was blessed with a fair share of wealth. and l>ved in luxurious retirement in his villa at Twichenham.
 Afflicted with a bodily deformity, touching which he was keenly sensi- tive, he mingled but little in the great world. but contented himself with the society which sought him in his home He was emphatical1y a literary man. giving his whole time and thought to literary pursuits.
 His greatest work was the transla- tion of Homer, which in most re- spects remains unsurpassed by any previous or subsequent version.
 Of his original compositions the Essay on Man. Is that by which he is best known.
 IRENE MCCARTHY, Age P.
 Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
My Trip to Fishers Island.

Dear Uncle Jed: I read the Wide Awakes' letters every week and I thought I would like to write one about my trip to Fishers Island.
 My mother. brother, aunt and I left home by trolley at 7.45 for New Lon- don. We took the steamer Restless for the island. which is a very nice sail The weather was lovely. and we had a delightful time.
 We ate our lunchyon the beach and then my brother and I spent the day in padding and gathering pretty shells and pebbles.
 We reached home at o'clock. tired but happy.
 ELEANOR HEINRICH. Age g.
 Taftville.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
By MRS. PETER.


 Two little girls sat side by side upon battered old washboiler, in a dirty and filtered back yard. Tn front of them, futtering her dainty skirts rest lessly, stood a third.
 And then we are going to Atlantic City. Mother hopes to get rooms at the Marlborough Blenheirn,' she was saying. And, later, we are going to Old Orchard or to the country. If you could come out on some excursion day, I'd go round with you" she added.
 We aren't to have any outing at all this year." sighed Lona. There is d strike in the shop
 ''Nor we either" said Susan "NIy father lost his job long in the winter, and the baby has been sick so long we can't afford even to go to grandmas s"
 Eva whirled herself around and her bronze boots glowed beneath her pretty skirts
 'I don't see how you can stand it. So awfully hot and stuffy in the city in the summer. My mother says we have not spent an August in town since l was born."
 We stand it because we have to. spose, muttered Susan grossly, kick ing her heels against the cid boiler until it rang out tunefui1y. Poor folks can't so to Atlantic City and OlG Orchard"
 '.Is this all the place you have to p1clE dSFNSsl lINc q, pSGI4li5 clDORL CuIl- ously and swinging her school books by their strap from one side to the other. She looked rather contemptu- ously at the unattractive space where the rear of the two houses occupied by the families of Lona and Susan corner ed together. Broken bottles huddled by the ash heap and numerous tin c1::-.ss and pails lay near the bottomless old boiler Punches of sweet clover, springing from some charce seed, were making brave struggle with the weeds.
 Well it's too bad,' went on Eva, carelessiy. Goodbye, girls. I must get home. The dressmaker is coming to fit my new embroidered voile after school"
 q don't see why it is," broke out Susan, impetuously, that some girls have everything and others nothing at all and go everywhere and wear pretty dresses and live in hotels mad the band plays and nobody has to work"
 She sadly mixed her English in her excitement. T have to wash dishes and dust and tend baby every minute, most, when I'm out of school, and my best dress is nothing but an eight cent lawn"
 You mustn't talk like that" said Lona, earnestly. You have a good ia : ther and mother who are doing all they can for you.'
 50 DdS SHe a SOOQ LdLIlST dIlu I1OlIl- CT who are doing all they can for her. She doesn't even dust her own room and she's quick to learn and I have to study hard. Nothing but good ever happens to her and nothing but bad to me. Father can't get work and baby is so fussy and only this morning mother said she was 'fraid she was coming down sic-'' Susan wept in earnest. Tn heaping Ifp her. troubles for Lona's in spection they grew enormously. Tt isn't according to Sunday school sto- des,"
 Lona unconsciously ground her heels
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
Esther's Potato Crop.

Dear Uncle Jed: Monday being a pleasant day I went up to my garden to dig up the potatoes as they were ready for use and were beginning to rot. % bs
 | took a hoe and dug up quite a few. but the hoe damaged them so badly that I took a pitchforR and dug them up. How many bushels do you think I got?
 | don'f think you could guess for am sure you have TO idea how big a space I took for potatoessz@s
 After washing them I put them into barrels and packed=them away in the cellar for the coming Wfnter.as sas
 You can't imagine how proud I felt
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28

city Springing up, he went and told a head officer, but he was laughed at; but he begged that the matter be look ed into, and it was found that he was right. Then mine was started to meet that of the Turks, and the city was saved. < After the war the emperor sent for the baker, thanked him for his service to the country, and bade him name his reward.
 The baker was as modest as lie was patriotic. He only asked that he and his family should be allowed to make bread roll in the shape of a crescent. so that the people might remember how God had saved the city from the Turks.
 This of course he was allowed to do, and to this day the Vienna roll is made in the shape of crescent
 BLANCHE ITCIER. TaftviIla
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28

soon I shall have money enough to buy me a new dress
 No. you don't" Kim said to him self. Catch mother buying you a dress.."
 To avoid a whipping it was neces- sary to study. Kim saw chance to trip up boy and to put cherry into a sleeping boys mouth, but he resisted these allurements, and fifty more, and got his lesson so good he went to the head of the class.
 He never got another whipping
 When he grew to be a man he wanted the quarter. but the teacher wouldn't part with it, so he cut it ir two and each had a half. | You see, studying is as easy as play ing, and both are a habit. AGNES M. BROWN. Yantic.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Two Brand Bows.

Henry and John were errand boys in a large New York department store running hither and thither, carrying purchases throughout the entire city
 The difference between. theme was that Genry was a bright hustling sort of boy. who had been compelled to leave school, and earn a living to sup port himself and his invalid mother She had taught him to be honest and truthful.
 John, had an entirely different dis position. He had never been taught the word "Industrious,' and was in- clined to laugh at Henry's hustle and business like air in doing his work. As nobody paid attention to mere errand boys |. and as the salary was
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 AWAkES.
The Shape of the Vienna Roll

The Shape of the Vienna Roll.
 When Austria was at war with the Turks the enemy lay siege to the city of Vienna. So closely was St sur rounded that nothing could be brought in, and the people began to fear of starvation.
 One night as a poor baker was at work in his cellar he heard a rumbling noise. Stopping to listen, he found that it was caused by some marbles rolling upon a drum belonging to his son. Curious to kFfow what made the marbles roll the baker put his ear to the drum, and he heard sound like hammering. He listened again, and the sound was like that of a pick, and a thought came to him that perhaps the Turks were digging a mine under the
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Rules for Young Writers.

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 be given preference. Do not use over 25e words.
 4. Original stories or letters only will be used.
 s. Write your name. age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story.
 Address all communications to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Office.
 'fWhatever you are-Be that!
 Whatever you Say--Be true!
 StraightforwardlS act,
 Be honest-in fact,
 Be nobody else buS you.'
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
LETTERS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Josephine Borovicke of Norwich; thank you very much for my prize book The Motor Maids School Days. It is very nice and interesting book, just like all Uncle Jed's books. Mary E. Murphy of Taftvilie; Please accept my sincere thanks for the prize book you sent me entitled The Motor Maids in Fair Japan.
 Frances Baker, of Norwich; I re- ceived my book and I thank you very much indeed. I have read the first two chapters and found it very in teresting.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28

small, John decided that he wasn' t going to work for a measley four dol lars a week This condition continu- ed for a year.
 One wintry day vacancy appeared in the office. The foreman had been attracted by Henry's industrious ways. and so he was placed in the office. Slowly he climbed the ladder of sue- cess until now he is at the head of the firm.
 John at present is only clerk, and still grumbles at his work
 SARAH LYMAN. Age 12. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
T. A. Walk in the Woods.

Dear Uncle Jed: One beautiful spring day, my friend and I went to take a stroll through the woods.
 The sun was bright and warm and the cool breeze made it very pleasant.
 We saw different kinds of birds, hut did not know the names of all of them.
 We walked on till we came to a brook. that ran through the woods. Then we sat on 8 rock that was on the bank of the brook, watching the water run by.
 My friend began to tell a story about a haunted brook which made both of us shudder, and we left the place in 8 hurry. y tas.
 We started for home bringing with us a few early spring flowers.
 I think there is nothing more inter- esting than a walk in the woods on a spring day. el
 ManSfnId
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Aqrippa.

I remember a kitten who once liv- ed at a farm house He was such a pretty little cat as to be made 9 great pet, and he would trot about aft CT the people like little dog. His name was Agrippa. and he knew it quite well.
 To this farm house came a boy and a girl. named Ned. and Laura, to spend the summer. Both were fond of pets, and both played so much with Agrippa, that he grew rather lazy, and did not try to catch many mice.
 Ned and Laura were very good friends, but it happened now and then, that both wanted the Sarno thing, and then they would quarrel Ned would say. Give me Agrippa,' and
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
A True Story,
Yantic.

One day a little girl named Elsie went to the country to live with her aunt and uncle.
 She was six years old when she went to live in the country. Elsie's mother had died when she was a little baby. Elsie had a big sister and brother and her father was living. They did not stay together long after Elsi,e's mother died, so Elsie went to live wilh her aunt and uncle.
 Although Elsie did not live with her father, brother or sister she had a good and happy home in the country.
 LOLA M. BUTTON, Age 12. GrisWold.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Taftville
Birds.


 A bird will often build a nest in fruit bearing shrubs and thickets.
 great many people now-a days are removing cavities from tho trees which means fewer birds. zy When locating bird house 1t should be in shady place and well sur- rounded by twigs.
 Martens like theirS houses built away from others.
 The entrance of the house depends on the size of the bird. The house should be well sheltered. The roof should project out to keep out the rain. The house should face away from the prevailing wind and rain storms. The interior should be so made that 1t may be cleaned out.
 The grass should not be cut until the birds which live on the ground are through breeding.
 EMMA GERGLER, Age 1s. Mansfield Depot,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
Richie,s Dollar.

Richie used to wear a silver dol lar. It hung from his neck by , blue ribbon. He used to bite it to make his teeth grow.
 One day he broke the ribbon and down fell the dollar. A rooster, thinking it was food pecked it. He jumped into baby's carriage tried to swallow it, but twas too big. He knocked it on the ground and it rolled away.
 Nobody could find it for no one knew where it had rolled
 One day Richie was big enough to walk and he found it. He was dig ging in the sand and dug it up. He put it in the bank till he grew to be a man as his mother told him to oio
 s BLANCHE LUCIER-
 TaftyilIe.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
A Mothers Love.

A little while ago a fox attacked a lamb on one of the farms near Scar borough and killed it,
 The lambs mother was so angry that she turned upon the fox, not only defeating it. but killed it. So fierce was the encounter that the sheep broke off one of her horns in goring the fox.
 GERALD SULLIVAN. Age 10. Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28

Laura would answer, No, you shan t have AgrippaI' and Ned would say again, T will have Agrippa." and 50 it would go on till sometimes poor Agrippa would run away. But they always made up and were friends again.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28

when I measured them to find three bushels of fine potatoes.
 ESTHER SHERSHEVSKY,A Age 12
 NOPwiph
Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
POWilDER R

tsI am sending you a picture of my little niece, Edith White. When only
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-13

trim the wedding bell are exactly like
a bridal bouquet.
But whether it presages wedding
bells or not the new bell hat is so
charming that it will hardly be left to
the exclusive possession of the Leap
Year Girl
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-01-13
BY BETTY BROWN

There may be no romantic sig.
nificance in this at all, but anyway
the first hat designed for. the Leap
Year Girl is shaped exactly like a
wedding bell and the flowers that
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1916-11-08
No Chance for G. O. P.
to Control Next Senate

New York, Nov. 8.-With seventy-six congress-
ona districts to be cleared up, the Republicans have
gained 19 seats their quota in the present
house, while the Democrats gained 10, net gain of
for the Republicans, which reduces the present Dem
ocratic majority of % to 5. Two Democratic districts
in New Jersey, now reported doubtful, may reduce
this majority to one, Il.
The practically complete returns showed the
Democrats certainly have lost four United States
senator's one each in Maine New York. New Jersey
and Maryland, while they gained one each in Rhode
Island, Delaware and Utah. Indications pointed
strongly to further Democratic loss of two senators
in Indiana one in West Virginia and Arizona and pos
sibly one in Ohio and Montana.
To offset this in possibilities, the election of Re-
publican senators in Wyoming and New Mexico had
not been assured IF the Republicans and Democrats
should lose all these as Indicated the senate will still
remain Democratic by two, 40 Democrats to AZ Re
publicans The Democratic nlajority IN the present
senate was TO- ~: r.: .E=s".- $"
Late returns from Ohio, indicating the re-elec-
tion Of Senator Atee Pomerene, Democrat, over My
ron T. Herrick Republican, virtually ended the pos
sibity of the Republicans ascendancy in the senate
With Democratic leaders insisting Hitchcock In
Nebraska and Pttman in Nevada are reelected, and
with Kendrick probably elected in Wyoming, the po
litical status of the new senate will be thus Dem
ocrats 81 Republicans AZ, with the result in Arizona
and New Mexico still in doubt Should the Republic
ans carry both the Democratic majority in the senate
would be 8.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1916-11-08

HUGHES, LEAD IN NEW JERSEY sLUMPs.
j., plurality 22634 Will
reduced TO 1876 with
of retur mis-
462 missing districts 10 e4660
Hughes 1886. F
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1916-11-08

New York Nov 8-With decided drift toward
the reelection of Wilson, the result of the election Is
still officially in doubt today. Upon dozen doubtful
states from which returns coming slowly depL H.
whether Wilson has been reelected or Hug hes will be
the next president of the United States.
The chairman of both national committees claim
ed handsome maortes in the electoral college but the
actual figures made good the claims of neither They
did, however, show a steady trend toward Wilson all
through the west.
Aside from the uncertainty of the result the most
remarkable thing the sudden wiping out of
Hughes majorites, piled up in the east by returns
from the west.
Not since the next days revision of returns
seated Grover Cleveland in the contest of 1892 has the
country been compelled to wait so long to know the
result
Over twelve hours after the polls closed, Wilson
and Hughes were running neck and neck race In the
doubtful states.
Wilson is reasonably certain of 232 votes in the
electoral college and the returns pointed to 219
for Hughes
With 81 votes doubtful, 266 being needed for cleo
ton, the states in doubt are being watched closely
These states with 81 votes, include California Idaho,
Indiana Kansas, New Hampshire New Mexico Ore
gon, Washington and West Virginia.
The Democrats made net gain of eight members
in the house, with 100 congressional districts unre-
ported but late returns from New York Indicated two
of these might be reversed
Democratic losses from New York, New Jersey,
and Maryland in the senate are shown.
STATES CLAIMED BY REPUBLICANS.
York, s-chairman Republican
national Committee issued the following statement During the night
have in . | h. s state: a
ing him total Of s2s electoral Voss
Iowa 49, Idaho kan.: TO- Maine Ma.saohu:stt. 49, Michigan IS
YGr 80 H. vs. M:o ss Ts s - s
vania 80 Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont Wisconsin n
Hughes. h. .s.sss ts." ".s::
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1916-11-08
p. m. Summary of National Situation

WHO IS ELECTED THE UNITED STATES?
LATE SITUATION
RATHER
NOON NORTH
THE ACTUAL RETURNS
THIS MORNING MINNESOTA SAFELY IN WILSON
MAY FINALLY
CARRY
WESTERN STATES THE DOUBTFUL, COLUMN.
MEXICO
IT'S DGPOssIBLET FORECAsTHOw THESE
THE
TION VOTES IN
LAST RETURNS INDICATE GONE FOR HUGHES.