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Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
AIphahet of Memory Gems.

A-Attempt the end and never stand to doubt, nothing's so hard but search will find 1t out.
 B-Be not simply good-be good for something.
 Count that day lost whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done.
 D-Do thy duty; that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
 E-Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
 F-Fortune is a lazy goddess. She will never come to you.
 G-Gold is good in It's place, but liv- ing, brave and patriotic men are bet ter than gold.
 H-He that is good at making ex. cuses is seldom good for anything elsl
 Its a good thing to be a great man, but it's great thing to be a good man. J1Just being happy is a fine thing
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
My First SIeighride.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am nine years old Taftville.
 The fourth and fifth grades had a sleighride Thursday m I thought T would tell you about 1t. It was the first sleighride ever had. We started from school at half past three and went to Occum and Baltic and back again. We returned at six D. m.
 The boys at Baltic snOwballed us. We were saying and spelling Difficulty. This is how they spelled it: Mrs. D. Mrs. I, Mrs. F. F. I, Mrs. c, Mrs. U, Mrs. L.. T. '.
 It was a very delightful sleighride.
 Don't you wish you had been with us2
 HELEN EVELYN CAMPBELL, Age g.
 Taftville.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE
 ANAkES.
An Old Locomotive.


 A writer in St. Nicholas tells us that one of George Stephenson's first engines is still in operation at Hetton Collery, In England, where 1t was hrst put into use, and where it has been in constant service since 1922, the year in which it was built. Although the English government has offered to purchase it for preser- vation in one of the museums the de- sire to keep it in operation until its wonderful career has passed the hum dred year mark and thus rounded out a full century.
 Here is bit of historical reminis- cence regarding this queer, little old ancestor of locomotives:
 A certain writer named Galloway published a treatise in 1880, critizing Stephenson's invention thus:
 These locomotive engines have been in use for some time at Killing worth Colliery, near Newcastle, and at Hetton Colliery on the Wier, so that their advantages and defects have been disclosed; and it appears that notwithstanding the great erec- tions on the part of the inventor, MT Stephenson, to bring them into use on the various railroads now either in construction or in agitation, it has been the opinion of several able engi- neers that they do not possess those advantages which the inventor had
  better proof of the doubt entertained regarding their utility than the fact that it has been determined that horses, and not locomotive engines shall be used on the projected rail- road between Newcastle and Car lisle."
 We can imagine how Galloway would feel today If he could see the same locomotive which was so un- derrated and sneered at still at work but If the rugged old engineer, George Stephenson, could now witness his en- zine "'tugging away on the job" as it has done for 93 years since he first turned it's steam valve, and could be- hold the magnificent developments of which it was merely the prophecy he would chuckle at his vindicat tion which is perhaps the greatest ever re- ceiVed by an inventor.
 MISS GLADYS MINER.
 HadlYne
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Winter Sports,
Yantic.

Winter is the happiest and health fest time of the year. I like winter because there is lots of fun playing games on the snow, sliding down hill, skating and making snowmen.
 I go sliding on a large hill near our house. When I came down it three times went up again and came down the fourth time with two more chill dren on besides myself. We came down very fast and our coats were flying in the air. I thought every moment we would soon fall off from the sled, but we held on the best we could.
 Sometimes, when father goes to the woods I hitch my sled to his sleigh and have a ride to the woods with him.
 One time went skating with some of my girl friends and some boys also came. We had great fun skating and we made many things on the ice. Soon our feet were cold and the boys built fire so we could warm them. We all seated ourselves around the fire and then We began to tell stories
 The games I like to play are fox and geese and cross tag. and such games. In playing fox and geese two large rings are made on the snow In the middle of these rings is made small ring called nome" From this small ring are made many paths leading to the larger rings which will take you all around the circle. In playing cross tag one must TUT after another, and if any one crossed he must run after the one that cross ed, and so on until he catches some one.
 think that winter is the happiest time of year.
 ANNA BUCKS, Age 12. WilIimantic
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
HaroId's Pets.

Dear Uncle Jed: am five years old and go to school every day.
 go to the Hobart avenue school and I am in the second grade. We have a black and white kitten and a gray cat.
 The black and white one is about a year old; but the other one is nine years old.
 The black one's name Is Trixey and he is very playful.
 Last year when we went away on our vacation we left him here and he would go to the neighbors' all the time and everybody liked him and they fed him.
 Since we have come back he keeps this up, and so we have him only part of the time, as he got in the habit of staying for days at a time at some of our neighbors', so we are all glad to see him when he comes
 Sometimes he climbs way up in our pear trees and then he Is afraid to come down again, and we have quite a time getting him down.
 When he was quite young I used to put him in my sisters dolls bed and cover him up and put his two front
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Our Canary Bird.

One day in October, during the Stafford fair, my mother and I went to the fair and I wanted a bird.
 My mother said she would get one going home. About o'clock we were going home and a man said: Say, madam, do you want to buy a bird 7' My mother said: I've only 45 cents" He said: You may have it for that price"
 About one month after he started to sing, and he sang beautifully. We named him Joe.
 One day he got his neck caught in a bar of his cage and my mother got on a chair and very gently took his neck out of the bars and he was so scared he never sang again.
 EARL WHITE, Age 10. Stafford Springs.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Eagleville.
A Snowflake.

It was a very cold day and I be- gan to fall down, down, down from the sky with other snowfakes to the ground.
 I stayed there for a little while, till some boys came home from school and 1 heard them say. Let's throw snowballs."
 Then one boy gathered me up with some other snowf1akes in his hand and pressed us close together. The boys called this a snowfall.
 Then I was sent whirlinS through the air and hit another boy on the head. heard the boy shout "StoI it!"
 1 fell to the ground again. That night it rained and I melted to water, and that was the end of me BLANCHE STARKWBATHER, Age
 II.
 Plainfiald.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Willimantic
Potatoes,

Walter Raleigh brought the first potato plant to America. That is the first we heard of the potato plant.
 The potato is made up of starch, water and minerals.
 In planting the potato We should have shallow eyes, medium in size
 The potatoes should be cut and soaked about two hours in a solution to stop blight and scabs. Ready to plant the next day.
 In planting the potatoes we first blow the ground, then harrow them and mark out rows about three feet apart. Then drop the fertilizer and cover with two inches of dirt. Then drop the potatoes about IS inches apart Then cover with dirt four or five inches. Before the potatoes come up the ground should be run over with a weeder to kill all small weeds.
 When the potatoes get up so that you can see the rows they should be cultivated, then hoed. Potatoes should be hoed twice.
 When harvesting potatoes we potatoes out of the dirt Then let them dry in the sun.
 My brother, who is eight years old, raised SS pounds of potatoes from four pounds of seed last summer
 When harvesting potatoes we should pull the vines up and dig the potatoes out of the dirt Then let them dry in the sun. Then pick them up.
 There are still potatoes called Wal ter Raleigh.
 GLADYS THOMPSON, Age 1s.
 Mansfield Depot.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
EIizabeth's Cake,

Dear Uncle Jed: Last Saturday q made angel cake. It was delicious, 60 I thought that maybe some of the Wfde-Awakes might like to try it, too.
 This Is the recipe: Whites of five eggs. one teaspoon of vanilla, one-ha1f teaspoon Of cream of tartar. two-thirds of a cup of sugar and one-half of a cup of four
 I got everything ready before broke the eggs, greased the tin. sifted the flour and sugar several times, then I broke the eggs, or rather put tho whites in a bowl and beat them a It, tie, then I put the cream of tartar in the eggs. Then I beat the whites of the eggs very stiff; after they were stiff put tha flour and sugar in (only little at the time1. It is best to stir as little as possible. Next I favored it and put into the greased tin, and then baked for about one-halr hour in | a rather slow oven. have tried this recipe several timer and it is always good. The yolks can be used for . dark spice cake or a custard. I often make ginger cookies on Sat- urday. toe.
 Maybe I shall send the recipe noE them. Mine are good. | Don't you Wide-Awakes like to | cook?
 | F. ELIZABETH PARKER, Age 1l.
 Mansfield Four Corners. ..
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02

to me:
 Hello, old crooked" I, not liking to be jeered at, crossed the street where I thought because of it's being a little darker than the other side people would not take so much notice of me. Suddenly I stum- bled over something and looking down, I saw this little babe asleep near the frozen body of its dead mother"
 EVA SANDUsKY. Norwich, Conn.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
 BOYS AND GIRLS DEPARTMENT
Rule. fer Young Writers.

1. Write plainly on one side of the paper only, and number the pages. 3. Use pen and ink, not pencil. 8. Short and pointed articles will be given preference. Do not use over 250 words.
 {. Original stories or letters only will be used.
 5. Write your name, age and ad- dress plainly at the bottom of the story.
 Address all communications to Uncle Jed, Bulletin Off1oe.
 "whatever you are-Be thati
 Whatever you say-Be true!
 Straightforwardly act,
 Be honest-in fact,
 Be nobody else but you"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Norwich
chieks That Had Never seen Rain.


 Dear Uncle Jed: A year ago last summer my father gave me a hen and thirteen eggs. I set them under a large Plymouth Rock hen. She hatch ed ten Rhode Island Red chicks. Six of them were cockerels, four bullets.
 I sold the cockerels at Christmas. The next sumgner I sold the bullets eggs to a friend. I purchased a good many articles for myself. This fall sold the four bullets and my aunt will put the money in the Dime Savings bank.
 Once I had some pheasants. There were several of them. We matched them under too heavy a hen and one by one they died. I was very sorry, for the chickens were very cute. southern California where the dry sea- son lasts from six to eight months. There were some good sized chicks in the coop that had never seen rain.
 Suddenly one morning a little cloud began to send down some big drops on the dry soil The chicks thought some one was throwing grain to them. They flew at the drOps-tl1is way and that. trying to pick them up. Peck as fast as they would, they could not get a bite of anything. They heard the pat tering. they saw the spots on the ground. they jumped about as if crazy. They pushed each other about and looked slIyward in their peculiar way. When the shower became heavy they flew to shelter, huddled together cheep- ing pitifully. How every one wished they could understand what the chicks said.
 Yantic.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Campfire Girls on the March.

Campfire Girls on the March.
 4-Elizabeth E. Parker of Mans field Four Corners: Campfire Girls on the Farm.
 5-Ruth Bartlett, of Norwich Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp.
 6-Ray HoIdrldge of Ledyard: The Circus Boys Across the Continent.
 7-Gladys Miner of Hadlyme: Miss Pat at School.
 s-Helen E. Campbell of Taftville: Miss Pat in the Old World.
 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.- Thursday.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
POETRY.
My Best Chum


 By Stuart Tabe- I'm ehums with all tn fellers around this end O town; There's only one among 'em that ever put me down. I'm fond O Bill an Lefty, an Toots, But that don't make no dinfrence; I like my dog tn best. He never steals my marbles like other fellers do, An when I get liclin' he allus feels bad too. An when we go a-swimmin' he don't throw mud at me, An never hides my jacket inside CT hollow tree. I'm friends with all tn fellers; they're fine fer playin' ball But when 1t comes to chummin', my dogs tn best of all.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02

times she fights with them, and my
 father gets mad at her. My father Is trying to get a mate for her. Besides the goat, have a dog named Nellie, and a cat named Tiger.
 I also have 12 pigeons. MARGARET E. GRADY, Age IS. Scotland.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Trin te the countrY.

Dear Uncle Jed: I thought I would write and tell you of my trip to the country.
 One Sunday last autumn my father and l took the Westerly trolley. We got off at Preston Plains and walked about a mile until we came to the ruins of the house where Chief Justice Park of Connecticut used to live.
 When he was a boy, father B13d. there was a nice homestead ther0, but 1t was destroyed by fire.
 About a half a mile from Thers We came to what used to be Cooks mill. but now it is a ruin. At one time they used to make cloth there called Ken lucky jean"
 In front of the mill there is a pond and we sat on the wall and ate our lunch and fshed a while. We caught few bulIheads and one pickerel
 We did not fetch the fish home, but threw them back in the water again
 We got up and walked a little far ther until we came to the old school house where my father went to schoel when he was a boy. From there we walked back tr Preston Plains and took the trolley fol home. I was very well pleased with my trip, and if any boy or girl wai1tl to have a nice days outing 1t is good place to go-
 enoyed ft so much am goiu1 again this spring.
 JAMES RYAN, Age II.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02

Dear Uncle Jed:-Two years ago my uncle sent me two goats. named them Daisy and Jerry. Jerry was about one month old when he died.
 Daisy IS still living and Is very cute. She stays with the COWS. Some-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02

would stay there a long time, and he looked very cunning. can't make him do that now. He likes to play too well.
 HAROLD DISCO, Age s
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
Child sonq-Sunset Bay.

Sydney, Australia, Bulletin. Little wave1ets, curly-Wet, sipping at This is pretty Sunset Bay, as every body knows. White foot, brown foot, little fishes tails Oh, there's lots of laughing water where the big ship sails! Little wavelets, curly-wet, do you go to school? Do you like the sands to shear all your pinly wool? Red light, gold light, little nibb1ed moon All the worlds a cherry tart and no one has a spoon. Little wavelets, curly-wet, turn and run away, Thank you for merry splash, come another day! Brown head, gold head, little fishes fins Oh, the sky is catching bed time upon small star pins!
 David Mckee Wright. UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKEs. ' Suppose we talk today about little things: a drop of water and a grain of sand were once the smallest things thought of or spoken of. It is not so long ago all the primary readers con- tained this:
 Little drops of water,
 Little grains of sand
Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-02
My Pets.

Stafford Springs.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-05
PRESIDENT CHAS. A. WALKER
BUYS A 1917 CADILLAC.

The popular and efficient President
of the Big Bend Cooperage Company
Mr.. Chas. A. Walker, has just pur.
chased Of the Kimbrough Auto Com
pany a special four-passenger 1917
Cadillac. This car is the very latest
creation in a motor car, being up-to-
date in every detail. The car is close
coupled, and has the unique distinc-
ton of being painted that unusual
gray color sometimes termed at "Lon-
don Smoke" which in connection with
its swallow-like movements, has the
appearance of actually disappearing
into space after passing at a resona-
bic distance from the spectator. This
is the first a Of this type purchased
IN Mississippi. The car is several
hundred pounds lighter than the STAN
dard Cadillac Touring car, and is gen.
orally conceded to have the most SYM
metrical lines Of any of the 1917 pro-
duction in motor cars. The 1917 spec.
ial four-passenger Cadillac will be,
without doubt, the aristocrat of the
road for the 1917 season.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-05
100, OOO, 900 BUSHEL CORN CROP IN 1917
Is SLOGAN.

"One hundred million bushels of corn in 1917
to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary OF
Mississippi" is the slogan adopted by the state
demonstration forces and corn club workers IN
their lall campaign.
According to assistant state agent, G.. A. Cobb,
the prospects are that the 1917 corn acreage will
be greatly increased and if properly selected seed
is planted a one hundred million bushel crop can
easily be realized. with good seed" he cOntin-
ues, IAN increase in yield of from 3 to 5 bushels
to the acre may be expected the first year.
In this connection Mr.. Cobb is sending out the
following helpful suggestions on selecting seed
corn in the field this fall:
|. The seed stalk should be from 8 to 10 feet
tall.
2. The base of the stalk should be large and
somewhat fiat.
+. 3. The blades of the seed stalk should be
broad and long.
4. The seed stalk s.. ould taper gently from
the base to the tassel.
5. In all prolific var ties there should be at
least two fully developed cars to each tassel.
6. The ears on the 6 ed stalk should be well
placed, one on each side Of the stalk, about four
lect from the ground.
7. The seed ears should be borne upon short
stout shanks four to five inches long that permit
the ears to hang down.
s. The stalk from which seed ears are to be
selected should not occupy more than normal
room, should not stand at the end of skips nor at
the end of a row. Select a stalk that has fought
its way and won.
8. Every stalk in the vicinity of the seed
stalk should be we'll fruited. If barren or weak
stalks stand near a normal stalk, the ears from
the normal stalk will not be suitable for seed.
10. Be careful to select stalks that are free
from disease and that do not stand near diseased
stalks.
II. It will be noticed in going through the
field that those stalks that clay by" last, or that
remain growing despite wet or dry spells, are the
ones that bear the heaviest ears. This persistent
quality is certainly to be desired.
u. Every seed ear should be snugly covered
by the shuck.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-05
PRESIDENT WILSON'S RECORD.

Whether he knew it all before, OF whether ne
learned some Of it since he took ONCE Whethe[ II
came from books, advisers, OF was aug OUT OF MS
inner consciousness, the wisdom Oh wilson mas
brought US progress and prosperity. Inc people
made no mistake when they elected the school
master president. Either, teacher knew, or teach
er knew how to find out, and he got results.
Since President Wilson took office the bank de-
posits of the United States increased "A per cent ;
our trade balance 227 per cent; agricultural eN-
ports AL per cent; manufactured exports loo per
cent our farm lands are 1877 per cent more valu-
able; our industries have increased the value of
their output over nine billion dollars or 4l.2 per
cent, and carry on their pay rolls 23.2 per cent
more employees. All this in the past four years.
And it is not mainly the prosperity OF the first
two years of the Wilson administration because
in the past two years the wealth Of the United
States has increased Sal 900, 000, 900.
When the Democrats point to an increase of
$4,000, 000, 900 in manufactured products let the
Republicans be careful about advancing the argu-
ment that the munitions business has been large
and that what Democratic good times we have had
is war prosperity. The munitions exports have
been only l per cent of our manufactured prod
ucts, leaving the splendid total of an increase in
manufactured products, without including NUM-
tons, of $500, 900, 900.
The Federal Reserve Act stops panics, the Ru-
raj Credits Act gives the farmer government back
ing, the Income Tax Law makes the rich pay their
fair share of the expenses of the government
which protects them and their property, the Fed
eral Trade Commission Act protects the public
and the business men, and the Clayton Act makes
plain, certain and just, the obscure Sherman Anti
Trust Law. Then there are the Good Roads Law,
the Smith-Lever Agricultural Education Act and
the Child Labor Act, whose benefits are explained
by their titles. And we now have legisla-
ton as to labor disputes which will, it is hoped,
remove the threat of the greatest strike of his
tory, and end the railroad trouble.
Constructive legislation of greater amount and
value in three years and a half than the Republi-
can administration gave US in twenty years, pre-
paredness, peace with foreign nations and pros
perity at home-that's the Wilson record. Resi-
dent Wilson has in his policies kept the ten COM
Inandments and observed the golden rule, at the
same time enabling his fellow citizens to accumu-
late the Almighty Dollar honestly; he has estab-
lished justice between the rich and the poor, in
spired more good, new laws than anybody ever
thought of before and has enforced existing laws
without fear or favor.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-05
SHOULD BE IN EVERY HOME.
editor Daily Commonwealth:

Editor Daily Commonwealth:
am a subscriber to "The Daily
Commonwealth" and expect to be as
long as | can get it.
This is a bright, clean, newsy paper,
and it should be in every home in
Greenwood and Lefore county.
For your information I wish to say
l have just returned from my three
months vacation on the coast, and
most of the time was spent in the
city of G%ulfport, which is about the
same size as Greenwood, and while
there I was a subscriber to "The Daily
Herald" and the daily circulation was
about three thousand. Now, Green
wood is known far and neal to be the
Queen City of the Delta" and the
largest cotton receiving town in the
State; hence, your paper should have
a larger circulation than the Gulfport
paper within a short time, if our en-
terprising citizens will do their duty.
Sept. S, 1916. T. P. PRICE.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-05
POSSuM AND TATERS,

'Possum and 'Taters! I'm! Doesn't
that listen delightful? A rather ne
cullar thing happened in Greenwood
last night, something that has put the
mouth of every fellow in town whose
pleasure it has been to tase the SUNNI.
tuous dish above mentioned, to water.
ing.
"Spot" Taylor, connected with the
Office force of the Avent Cotton Co..
whose place Of business is on the river
front, was quietly working in the Of
flee Of that company last night about
nine o'clock, when he heard a noise
behind him. investigation proved
that the intruder was a big, slick
opossum. MI. Taylor called in the
assistance of Mr.. Johnnie Mccain, who
between them, captured the "eats."
1t has not been decided just who will
be called upon to furnish the pota.
toes necessary for feast-to-be.