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Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-28
Baltic.
The First R. F. D. Route Marked.

The town of Climax, Michigan, re- gently unveiled very interesting monument which stands on the spot where the first rural free delivery driver in the state of Michigan start ed out.
 This town was one of the first in the United States to have rural mail service and the first drivers left the post office on Dee. 3, 1896.
 One of the most interesting features about this monument is that it con- tains stone from every farm cov- cred by the rural free deliveries going out from Climax There are two hum dred and forty of these stones in the monument and they are set on a pe- destal of concrete and topped by a slab of this same material
 Above, the monument is cluster of four big arc lights surmounted by a fagpole.
 The first rural free delivery inau- gurated in this country was put into operation on October 1, 1896. and went from Charlestowl West Virginia, so that the Climax delivery was only two months later.
 MILDRED GRANDY, Age F.
 Yantic
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A Hsppx polIar siII.

"A happy little Dollar Bill Went laughing on to town, End stEzightway bought for Mother dear
 Some gingham, blue and brown. uhe ginghzm cost just sixty cents, And 80 that Dollar Bill Went shooting mp chute -the-c chute Ltke coasttng up a hill Then all day long that happy Bill
 Went elfding round the store; tt bought just every sort of. thing
 From every single floor. V bought doh. pair of gloves,
 Some clotlfesfine and mop; A box of soap and a padding dish,
 A necktie and e top. At six o'clock it had to stop;
 it couldn't buy some more, Because, you see, the folks in charge
 Were closing up the store. And so 1t let the cashier take
 And tuck it in a stall; And there it lay and laughed, because It wasn't spent at all. {. Christian Science Monitor.
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MJaek.U

Jack is a great. big heavy horse. He weighs sixteen hundred pounds. He is of a rat color, but he looks very nice.
 Jack has very nice mane whicl, flies all around his neck when he runs.
 One day as was hooking him of from the sleigh shafts he began to jump little bit because he. saw a dog come running down & hill by the side of our house. 1 could hardly hook him off. but managed to get Jack out of the shafts some, way. I took him into the barn and took the harness off him and as took the last piece of harness off, which was the saddle, told Jack to get Up into his stall like always used to do: but instead of going in his stall he turned around and ran outside and rolled iE the wet snow. After he had good roll he leaped up and started to run up and down the field on the sids of the house. I tried to get him bi.t it was of no use. went into the barn and4gst measure full of oats and aft CT long time I coaxed, him to me. If I hadn't got the oats wouldn't have gotten him.
 RALPH OLSEN, Age IA.
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STORIES WRITTEN BY. WIDE
 AWAkES. r
Winning Her Way.

It was the morning of May the first that Evelyn Carroirs mother passed away. Evelyn was her only child and as she grieved about the death of her mother <her mind began to wonder how she would get along. She was only fifteen, but she decided to try to get position in some factory. Her mother had left her with about ten dollars in her pocket
 AS Evelyn was a neat and good,look- ing girl she was hired at once with wages of six dollars per week She was promised more if she would prove capable of it.
 A year had passed since the death or her mother and Evelyn began to think about higher things. "This fac tory life wouldn't do" thought she.
 By dint of hard work and by saving noney she took course in steno- graphy school. In two years she had finished her course and was ready for a position. Of course, she began with a smaller position but soon her em- ployers finding her accurate, fond of work and trustworthy, gave her still higher place.
 Evelyn Carol is now the secretary of a famous lawyer in the United States and is earning her five thous- and year. In time the world will hear of her who, when but child raised herself TO higher duties. SADIE PHILLIPS, Age 15
 Norwich
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My First Fishina Trip,


 Dear Uncle Jed: It was a cloudy day. just the day for fishing. As I had neve. gone fishing before, and having fishing tackle good enough for the first try-out, I thought I would go fishing in the afternoon.
 I did my chores rapidly so that I could start out just after dinner. I dug some worms, got my pole ana basket and started out for the pond.
 When reached the pond, baited my hook, and swung it out in the wa ter. I waited for about three or four minutes when I felt my line jerking, and, like all beginners, swung my line out so hard that the fish came out, swinging high in the air, and get ting entangled in some bushes. I tried to get the line and fish from the bush, but in the end, had to cut the line. The fish I caught was a perch, about five inches long. l After batting my hook again and swinging it out in the water I began to wonder what kind of fish I would catch next, when I felt the line jerk 1 pulled in this time without getting my line tangled in the bushes l for I did not want to hare the same 1 troublesome time as when caught the other fish. This time I caught g | pickerel about six inches long. IT getting it off my hook, I was stuck by its sharp fins. I let out anG "Ouch!" as it pained me.
 After putting it in my basket witt the other fish. started fishing again I caught six fisIS in one hour, three perch, one pickerel, and two pumpkin seeds.
 | When I. got home and weighed ths | fish, T found they weighed two anc one-haH pounds. I had good supper that night, after enjoying good | days fishing. :. ts -s
 HARRY sCHATZ, Age F. I Yaptin
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LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
Working for Uncle Sam.

Dear Uncle Jed; Every Friday after noon we have War Program" First we Salute the Flag and sing Patrio- tic Songs. Next we recite on topics that we find about the war during the week. Then we talk about Thrift Stamps, Soldiers and Red Cross Soc ieties.
 The rest of the afternoon we spend cutting rags for comfort pillows. So that our heroes who fall on the bat tie field or battle ships shall be prop ped up comfortably.
 We are getting up Junior Red Cross Societyfin our school room. We are doing all we can to get 9 quarter apiece. Then we will belong to the auxiliary, and each will receive Red Cross Pin and Red Cross Banner for the school. We began doing this only two weeks ago and have already two dollars and a half picked up. l think this is good beginning. Don't you?
 hope many other schools are doing as much as we are, or even more ii they can.
 JENNIE KEEL. Age g.
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!. BRIEF STATE NEWS


 Farninston.-At it's meeting Tues day night the Pennington grange or ganized a war savings association. NorwaIk.-F,ire Chief George ". Bogardus is recovering from His ill., ness and was able to be down street yesterday for short time.
 Bristol.-A wrist watch was pre- sented Esteemed Leading Knight Earl T. White, who left Wednesday for Camp Devens, by Bristol lodge, B. P. O. Elks. -
 E Essex.-The members of Company I, Sixth regiment, C., H. G., were inspect ed by Adjutant General George M Cole of Hartford at the public hall Wednes- day evening.
 Bridgeport.-Among the. passengers sailing Tuesday on the steamer Arapa- hoe of the Clyde line for Jacksonville Fla, were MT. and Mrs. Hugh E. Wagoner of Bridgeport. New Britain.-E. Birmingham schurr curator at the New Britain institute will give a course of weekly nature talks before the class of normal stu l dents at the Academic High school. Westport.-Winiam S. Hart, tht movie picture man with the extremely bad bad face and large heart, is figuring on retiring from the screer and making his home in Westport. Hartford.-A city service flag witt four stars will soon fly from the home of Louis Udolfsky at No 3e1 From street, signifying that he has giver 1 four sons in the service of the United States.
 CromweIl-Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mey. CTS have received word from their son Corporal Frank R. Meyers, that he has 1 arrived safely in France. He report: B fine voyage, all well, and a beautiful 1 country. MiddletoWn.-George A. Tierney C. the war savings committee of the loca I war bureau has secured Prof. William | Lyon Phelps of Yale to speak at thu Chamber of Commerce dinner tonigh (Thursday).
 ! NorfoIk.-By the use of dynamite the ice blockade in the Blackberr. river, between West Norfolk and Eas Canaan. was broken up, thus maixins the highway, which was badly flooded passable' for traffic.
 Southinston.-The members of tn, Good Will club of the First Baptis church at their meeting this week dis 1 played a regulation size quilt wficl was knitted by the members with
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much as they can in washing the bright ktnonos, and sashRs which the entirely family wear.
 The water for washing has to, be brought from the well, usually in an odd pail. bound with bamboo. thongs, and having a clumsy bar handle. A good many pals of water have 10 be
 brought in frpra the garden for one Mondays washing, and 1t seems as If itsmust be very harl work to wash and rinse; bending over a low tub set on the floor; with fine baby on ones
 back. a
 E But one of the charming things about Japan is that everybody would
 rather laugh than frown: and any sort of work is done more easily when we try to get some fun out of 1t. Monday in Japan is a day for laugh tug, as well as washing.
 EDITH PHILLIPS Age 1S. Versailles
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Monday Morning in Japan.

There are no children in all the world that have such good time as the boys and girls of Japan Their playthinss are the most delightful; doilc dressed to represent all the dif- fesent classes of people in this fairy lfkea land; kites. ami tops of all sizes and shapes; toy animals that are vtry like real ones. and every possible kind of ball.
 Work. ton, seems like play in Ja- pan bccnuse it- Is done on a toy scale. The houses are small. Tho whole family sits on the floor for meals, eat ing from low tables that nre no high CT than oiool. and the Japanese stove To filled with charcoal and is only tho size to At c good sized dolls house.
 Monday morning .s wash day in Ja- pan just as 1t is here: but the wash- tubs are small and stand on the floor. and the ch1dron put on queer bright 3S colored oprp14. ssd -shllp int sss
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knitted American flag in the center of the quilt. Those who worked on the
 quilt knitted their initials into the
 work also. It will be sent across to
 the soldier boys in France.
 Avon.-This (Thursday) evening will
 be Thrift night at Avon grange. A
 thrift program has been arranged and
 silver collection will be taken for
 the purpose of adding a war savings
 stamp to the grange building fund. Hartford.-The jury term in the court of common pleas. which will last for eight weeks, will be opened on Tuesday morning. Twenty three cleo tors of the county from fifteen towns have been drawn to report for jury duty.
 Ncrwalk.-Thomas A. O'Keefe, inter nal revenue officer, will be at the city
 hall Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings of this week until g o'clock
 for the purpose of assisting local peo- | pie to make out their income tax 1 blanks.
 Winsted-John H. Slocum has been appointed by the selectmen superin- tendent of police to succeed the late 1 Stephen c. Wheeler, who held that of- 1 flee for 30 years. Wheeler. who died about week ago, was also health of ficer for IS years. Dr. $. G. How'd was
 appointed to that vacancy. The new superintendent has been member of l the police force for nine years. Bridgeport.-Burglars blew open the large safe in Lee Brothers Furniture
 company and got away with $1, 200 in cash and a $50 Liberty bond. Burglar
 tools were left behind, although there was no evidence of haste on the part of the safe blowers, who used blankets from the store to deaden the noise of the explosion. Entrance was made
 through a second story window and escape was made without observation
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OH! THAT AWFUL BACKACHE
 IT'S YOUR KIDNEYS

discomfort when urinating, bloody. cloudy and stTingy urine. too frequent or suppressed passages. All these are natures signals to warn you of dis eased kidneys or bladder, which may lead to fatal Bright's disease
 Don't wait until the danger is upon you. Go to your druggist at once. Get a trial box of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. They are made of the pure, original. imported Haar- lem Oil, the kind your great-grand- father used. About two capsules each day will keep you toned up and fecl- ing fine. Money refunded if they do not help you. But remember to osk for the imported GOLD MEDAL brand. In sealed packages.
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AIda's Dream,

Dear Uncle Jed:-One night dream ed that while riding On trainacross the prairies, the grass caught fire. It was in autumn and I was going from Colorado Springs to Salt Lake City, accompanied by my parents and sister, to attend my aunt's funeral.
 I was very tired at the end of a two days ride so I retired to my berth very early this night, just 3, nine o'clock. My head had hardly touched the pillow when heard the cry Fire! Fire! Firei" I looked out of the win dow and what met my gaze? The prairies were blazing A farmhouse was in danger of being burned. Quick ly the passengers and train crew gath cred shovels and brooms to fight the flames. I gazed, horror stricken at the sight. But hark! Rain bitter ratters against my window. A storm arose which quickly extinguished the fire.
 Ding! dong! ding! dong! It was the school bell. Aida. Aida. get up!' Then knew that had been dreaming.
 AIDA BONVILILE Age II
 TAFTVILLE
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bod. fer Yeu,a Wrlter,.

1. WrkS plainly cn one side okiths papsr only, 1~ud number the pages. q Uss pen and ink. not pelcll e Short and pointed articles vin Do givec iureference, Do not use ever eFo wortsl .. Original stories or letters only viii be ueed.
 & Write your. name, age and ad- leress plainly at the bottom of the story.
 Address all communications t. Uncle Jed. Bulletin Ofiee.
 Whatever, you are-Be thati
 Whenever you Esy>-Be trusi StratEhtfoSwardly act, :
 Be holiz11--tH fact. z
 Be raboty else bus you" S.
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Voluntown.
A Little Helper.

Dear Uncle Jed:-I am little girl of seven and have heard of your wide awake friends, and I too would like to tell them how I pass my time.
 Of course, I go to school and when my school hours are over go home and help mamma.
 You know mamma has a great deal of work and little brother Carl to tend to, so you see she needs my help very much.
 I am little, they say, to do the work have to do, I hang up mammals clothes, I take care of brother Johny and brother Frank They are both smaller than I am; and I do help mamma in lots of other things.
 They say in school, it makes one happier, who helps, than the one you are doing it for.
 Dear Uncle Jed, I hope you can read my writing, It is the first time ever wrote with pen and ink, and know it is poor. but some day I will be able to do better. I shall try very hard anyway.
 LOTTIE WOHLLEBEN,
 sTIo P+xyiJIe
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yo1untow
His Dou Wennie,

Dear Uncle Jed: My dogs name is Wennie. He Is g small dog and very funny looking. have lots Of fun with Wennie.
 I throw stick and 1t sinks into tie snow and Wennie tries to find it. He Is colored brown but his ears are black and he has shprt tail and everybody laughs at it.
 Sometimes I hide myself and then my dog Wsnnie rms and tries to find me.
 [ have q little house for .hin and I put lot of straw in his house 50 he won't he cold.
 When he is cold at night he begins 10 cry like a little puppie- So I try to keep hlm warm.
 I got Wennie from my cousin. He said could have him for a Christ mas present
 take good care of my dog and al so give him good focd,
 SARAH scHATz. Age 10. Yantic
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UNCLE JEDss TALK WITH WIDE. 1. AWAKEs.

' In She war zone over in Belgium and France where the American soldier o0y4 are go.n- in the trenches there hre not only l.s but stray pets whc are looking f5r protection and frieadc. Now here ig story that came right Etraleat from Belgium about a cat, and told in Our Dumb Animals:
 Imagine an English encampment of Doadsers somewnere in Belgium-in front artillery lookouts, behind them tnfartry trenches. ir the background artillery officers dugcuts.
 . Tn lookout men saw a cat emerge From ;.c German trenches in front of them, make her way calmly to their trenches, pass through. and proceed to Ehe rear, where sine carefully inspected the officers billets- Then she retraced her steps to the German lines and the Engiishnen supposed that they had Been the t1st of her. To their amaze fnent, she reappeared with a kitten in Der mouth, passed by'them to the zone of comparative safety in the rear eroSUSd her kitten in a dugout went back Co the German trenches, and got pussy number two.
 Finally she had three kittens safe tn the English lines.~ and speculation Rs to her reason for the removal oi Ehe .dttens was in vain. She never tolG why silv deserted the Germans.
 ''The English officers, amused by hei trust Tn them. wrote the story home Ind q mother sent red ribbons for tn, pussies. Her son, in writing, sait Es,st they had named tho three, kittens Bnipe tsie Bomb -throwe-. wheezer ant Ginger. and thst they looked yer! letehins as they eat beside him as h. wrote his letter. dsccTaAed as they wer with their red neck ribbons.
 If the cat did not ten the reason wh. yhs deserted it mag be surmised tha bhe was Isoiirg for better treatmen 1cr heTself and fIfnily.
 Cstr lave winning ways. and 1t
 he etrsy sa. that has grown poor fo nant of fr.d md shelter that c:ter lrrvss most dependable and useful an brvatle as pets
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An unhealthy body, and the unhap- piness and misery which follow. may be prevented by ordinary judgment and care. Keep your stomach / and kidneys in shape and you will have good health. The kidneys work is to throw off the poisonous matters which enter the body. If they perform this work regularly and automatically the other organs will take care of them selves.
 Diseased conditions of the bladder or kidneys are indicated by nervous ness, sleeplessness, that tired. worn out feeling, dizziness nausea, back ache, lumbago, rheumatism, pain in the lower abdomen, many so-called female troubles" severe pain and
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NORTH LYME

Giles Reynolds and Mrs. lFosdick were guests at J. L. Raymond's Satur- day.
 Mrs. Fosdick has a new car.
 ". H. Sisson, IT,. is able to be out after an attack of grip.
 Miss Dorothy Simon was week end visitor at NJ. J. Stark.
 Miss Gladys Miner was home from Lyme Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. Francis Purvis were
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All Can Learn to Go Without Sweets

All Can Learn to Go Without Sweets
 One afternoon Anna Sheldon and her friends. or, "the crowd" as they called themselves, planned to help their country. They would each btiy a thrift stamp every week until they had filled their card. Each girl went to school so their parents couldn't all low them much a week. But this crowd had certain rules, they were:
 l. Never to ride in a street car for home, for they could easily walk.
 g. Never to spend their money for candy, ice cream and soda.
 3. They could do without going to parties and concerts.
 These rules were hard to follow at first, but they began to find it pleas ant to assemble nights. with their knitting and sewing.
 l. One night as they were assembled knitting for the Red Cross, one of the girls burst out that there was to be a basketball game on the morrow. There was to be different crowds there, and two of these would be picked put foI the game. -, The next day when they all met to- gether. the professor tried two crowds after the. other to play against eaci othar. When he came to this bunch or girls who had been saving he was very much surprised at their light running and regular deep breathing
 He selected them at once and said How on earth do you girls manage this after summer of feeding on ict cream, candy and sodaT'
 l Then they told their story how the, had lived correctly all summer. | It was an easy victory for them l and fhaV r1adA IL
 Red Cross with this one game tha,
 all the others. and only because the,
 had kept the rule. All can learn to go without sweets l FLORIDA REEL, Age 12. Voluntown.
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odr Valentine Social.

One Sunday. in Sunday school our superintendent told us that on the thirteenth of February, we would hold a Valentine Social.
 The night arrived and the hall where we held the social was pretty decorated. Three booths decorated with hearts stood in the middle of the hall. The program was carried out by two girls from the town of Daniel son.
 One girl recited Conversation at the Butchers" and "Mr Brown Get ting His Hair Cut" The other girl sang two solos.
 They both were talented and did extra we'll. Then a quartet of women sang song, and the men sang, Way Down Upon The Swanee River" We then played games. ate ice cream and at a quarter to eleven went home after having had a good time. HAROLD WILDE.
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Daina Ihinas Backward.

Dear Uncle Jed: It seems sometimes as though the people of other coun- tries do things in a very topsy -turvy manner though suppose it all seems quite natural to them.
 Our manners would doubtless strike them as being just as queer.
 Tor instance, in our country, men take off their hats when they come into the house: but in India they keep On their turbans, but take off their shoes.
 We beckon with the palms of our hands turned inward; they beckon with them turned outward. They read their books beginning from the last page and reading towarG the front, and they write their accounts
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My Trip to Canada.


 Last Fourth of July my mother, my brother and I started on a trip to Canada. D We went on the General Vermont railroad through Brattleborp. We started at four in the afternoon and arrived at my grandmother s house at 11so'clock the next night. We visited Quebec and Lewis which is on the other side of the St. Law renee river.
 We saw the Quebec bridge, although the. central part was not in place.
 At my uncle's farm we had "a good time.
 We used to get up early in the morning to go and milk the COWS and feed the other animals.
 There were eight calves. two horses and one colt. The cows were not fed as they stayed in the pasture all sum mer.
 They gave the cows salt once in a while as they like it very much We spent five weeks there and had lots of fun.
 PHILIPPE MAURI, Age 10.
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4 Junior R.d cro.,.


 Dear Unnie Jed: We ars going to have q Junior Red Gross. We arc go- Ing to sell pop corn. Our teacher fs going to buy 1t and we are going to pop 1t. We are all beinsfng | peH- ay, then if We can raise twenty five cents for each of tis ts the room we VIII get q Red Cross Banner. Then they will send us all the pins and we will belong to the Junior Red croas.
 We hays a war programme every Friday Aftsrnoon. We. are also say ing up our tf1onsy to buy t11rift stamps. Our teacher Is going to get some knitting needles. We ha*a sonls yarn. 50 that we are going to make face clothes. We save all the money we con get.
 LILLE BEBo. Age is. yolunfowss