Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-01

win slad hearts the people prepared
for the first Thanksgiving dinner.
Nellie Steele, aged IL.
Batavia, Iowa.
| Dear Juniors: AS it is getting near
| Thanksgiving and we nearly always
have cranberry sauce I am going to
,. write about a cranberry.
My home is in the Dogs of Cape Cod.
One day some men were picing Der
ries and one of them picked me. Then
was put in barrel with many other
cranberrles. | was on my road many
days before reached my stopping
place. was at the freight Office with
lots of barrels and other things. was
about noon one day when rough look
ing man drove up with wagon and
was loaded in. didn't get to ride
very far this time until was unloaded
at store.
lay in the store for about three
days this time One day a woman
came in and asked for quart of cram
berries. The first time the grocery.
man dipped down I felt him pick me
up. knew would be cooked into
sauce then. Then was put in sack
all tied up at the top and | nearly
smothered to death.
When the woman got home she
washed me and put me in some cold
water and set me over q hot place. II
was not long till the water got very
hot and the last thing | knew was
dancing.
Grace Miner. aged 10.
1902 Railroad ST., Ottumwa
will start my first story about
Thanksgiving in 1915.
In the morning one of my friends
and | went to Packwood to a Thanks.
giving dinner.
We had dinner and supper and had
a good time. For dinner they had
chicken, peaches, pumpkin pies and
cake. 1t cost rs cents.
We. spent most of the afternoon in
walking over town. In the evening we
went to revival meeting. We reach
ed home at 10 o'clock.
} Kenzie Williams, age 13.
+. l. Packwood, Iowa.
Dear Courier Junior:
l am going to, write a composition
as have not written for long time.
am going to- school and can not
find much time to write. am in the
eighth grade and my teachers name il
Dorothy Rosa. / like her very much.
Well, must start my composition.
! will write about why we celebrate
Thanksgiving.
The king of England made all the
people believe as he did. The Pilgrims
did lilo N Ia,
so they came to America. The May
flower was the name of the ship on
which they came to America
The waves tossed the ship about and
there were great storms upon the sea.
When the Pilgrims first set foot on
this land at Cape Cod harbor they
knelt and prayed to God that he had
so carefully saved their lives They
had now come to land Of free wor.
ship.
Marvel Gookin. Age Is.
X. ). Charlton. Iowa
Long, long. ago in England there
lived king and queen who ruled the
and the people wished to wor-
ship God in their own way, but the
queen wouldn't let them So they
made up their minds to come to
and worship God in their own
way and they got on the Speedwell
and came as far as Holland. They
stayed there so long that their chill.
dren began to talk Dutch and they
didn't want their children to talk
Dutch. So they got back on the Speed
we'll and when they got out in the
middle of the ocean the Speedwell got
broke and some thought God didn't
want them to come to American and
some went back to Holland. And the
'est came over here on the Maynower.
little boy was born on the ocean
md they named him Oceanus. They
anded here in 1920 at Plymouth Rock
IN the Atlantic coast. They had
very hard time that winter and some
lied. There was boy born and they
named him Samuel. He was full of
mischief and one day when he was
playing with his fathers gun it went
of and frightened him so he never
bothered a gun anymore.
There was boy named Billy who
vent out in the woods one day to gath
n flowers. He thought he was going
tut of the woods and was getting far
her in and the Indians found him and
ook him back home and the Indians
aught the Pilgrims how TO plant corn
md make bows and arrows.
In the spring the Pilgrims planted
'orn and wheat and in November they
invited the Indians to feast of the
rain they had harvested. The Indians
lad dances and told Indian stories and
hot at marks on the trees and they
allied 1t the first Thanksgiving day.
Every year in November we celebrate
day and have all our
riends and relatives to feast with US
n our homes.
Vccla Allen. Age IL.