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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-23
MRS e. M. ESPY GOES
TO AUGUSTA TO RESIDE.

Mrs. E. M. Espy, who has made
Macon her home for the past few
months, left this city several days
ago for North Carolina, where she
will visit for several weeks, later
joining her husband at Augusta,
where they will reside.
Mrs. Espy has been prominent
figure in public works since she has
been in Macon and it is with regret
that her friends receive the know
ledge of her departure. Mrs. Espy
was appointed by Mrs. H. M. Wort
ham, who is county chairman of the
Women's Committee of the Council
Of National Defense, to take charge
of the campaign for student nurses
recently made. She has been equally
active in the D. A. R. and other
organizations. Macon Telegraph.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-08-23

If YOU ARE-Looking Tor something
and can't find it. ask Frank f. Will
liams. S-S-26t
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
The Foster TMins.

It was the day before Dorothy was going away to teach school in Mill town, and was just packing her trunk. when Lisa and Polly came rushing in.
 Dorothy was the oldest in a family of seven. Polly and Lisa were her twin sisters, each seven. years old The twins never had their picture talk en that Dorothy could take with her and look at when she was lonesome
 So father decided to take them to a photographer.
 They were promised to have curls but Dorothy was too busy to make them So they rode away Tn the sur rey disappointed. \t At last they arrived and were seated in the chair in the photographer studio.
 Lisa remembered the water waves she was promised, while Polly smooth ed her hair fiat to her head. Just as the man said look at the 1 birdie. Lisa pushed her hand through l one side Of the hair while Polly twist ed her eyes to see.
 l The next day when the pictures were 1 brought home Dorothy and mother and John laughed till tears rolled dowr
 their cheeks.
 John said, Polly looked like z 1 drowned rat" and Lisa. "I.ike a wili puppy half chewed up.r
 Dorothy said she would hang then
 on the foot of the bed to make hel
 smile when she felt lonesome | The next time Polly and Lisa has
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
THE WIDE AWAKE CIRCLE
 BCYS ARD GIRLS DEpARTMENT :

you very. very much for the prize
 book entitled, '"The Motor Maids in Fair Japan" I have read it and think 1t is fine You will hear from me again when ] have something that will in- terest the Wide-Awakes Stanley A. Skraha, of versailies-1
 have received my prize book and like 1t very much. I thank you for it, and
 a thousand times again. Faith Curtis, of Norwich-..I thank
 you very much for the prize which
 received for the picture entitled, "A Future Lieutenant" I bought thrift stamp with it.
 Mary PeIechatz, of Wiiliraantic-l received my prize book. ID >rothy Al Oak Knowe.' and l thank you very much for it. I have res3 it all and
 find it very interesting. Albert Phillips, of Versailles = thank you very much for the prize
 book you sent me. It is very interest ing
 Albert Phillips, of Versailles-I re- 1 ceived the prize book you sent me and
 l thank you for it. I have read it and l found it very interesting.
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their pictures taken they mad their promised curls.
 LOUISE wELTIN, Age 14. Norwich
The Sod sehoolhouse.
Norwich.


 One day after school Eva came in almost in tears./ Her mother in- quired the cause.
 wasn't going to like her new school.
 "I'm sure I'm not going to like this school Our school in the city had such nice, shiny desks. The desks in this one are not so pretty and the win dow panes are so small"
 Why" exclaimed her mother, When was there the other day I thought it was very pretty little school" She said, Let me tell you about a little school once visited"
 'I had great friend. Mrs. Nettle- ton, who was the superintendent of the schools in that county. I sometimes visited the schools with her. One day we went to a little school in the woods.
 This school was not made of wood, or stone, or brick. It was made of great, brown sods. cut ont of the earth, and the roof was made of three great cottonwood trees out of which the life was not gone and the twigs were still sprouting. And how bright the children's faces were when their pretty little teacher told. them to arrange their books nice ]y in their desks before going out tc recess. > And what do you suppose their desks were made of? Boxes nailed to four smooth boards, just big enough to hold their books and slate were the new desks. that had jus' been put in the day before. "At recess we went out and picked flowers and found ground nuts Ina sort of school would look very queel today; but those children certainly were proud of it"
 Well" said Eva slowly, perhaps am going to like this school after all fras wei sas T did my old one'' MILDRED GRANDY, Age IF. 1 Tantic
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A lit&Je Kindness.

One night as boy was minding\ a herd of sheep he heard a groan in back of a bush The boy went to see and he saw a giant there, and he be- gan to run away.
 The giant called him and said he would do him no harm. So the boy went to see.
 The giant said: Will you. please F take this thorn out of my foot ?''-
 The boy looked under his foot and saw the thorn and he took it out Then he took off his slip and wrapped his foot up with it. When he was done the giant said: Come with me to my cave and we l will eat" When they were done eating the giant gave the boy loaf of bread, SC would he be hungry he would eat it The next morning came. He felt hungry and he put his hand in his l bag and he began to bite it. He said This is hard bread" He took the piece out of his mouth and he saw | that it was gold. ! When the boy saw that it was golG
 he ran down town to buy soSaethins | to eat WheE he was through the i people asked him how he got the gold
 and he said: T got this gold by kind. 1 ness"
 The boy went out and he said: e I ana rich and he was no more shep.
 herd. 1 HOMER FONTAINE. Jewett City.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
STORIES BY THE WIoS.AwAKEs
How to Make Valentines.


 As St. Valentines day will soon be here, I thought I would tell the Wide Awakes how to make some home made valentines.
 You should have all the tinfoil and goldfoil from bonbons. yeast cakes, etc. Also the lace from candy boxes and pretty colored pictures. First, take a piece of water colored paper CT a double sheet of unruled writing paper will do just as well. Double the paper, but if writing pa per is used, leave as if is. On the inside write neatly pretty verse ill red ink or water colors. If you wish, you may add heart or two cut out of foil or painted. For the outside, paste directly in the center a pretty colored picture. Now lake some of the lace from the candy boxes. Cut it in four lengths. two as wide and two as long as the valentine Cut four one inch lengths of plain white paper about a quarter of an inch wide. Fold these each four times, SC ns to make sort of a spring | Now paste each piece of lace end to end to form the shape of the valentine On the center underside of each striI 1 of lace paste one of each spring and on the other end af the springs to the valentine. Now you have lace frame Tor your picture. At each corner of the lace place a heart. | After you have made one you car | easily think of various ways to make them different.
 Wallpaper makes pretty valentines i too
 l. F any Wide Awakes try this, won they please write and say how the, 1 liked them?
 | HELENA MAGEL, Age 13. Jewett City.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
Joe On Horseback.

Joe was not quite seventeen years old. He could ride anything that happened to possess back. He there fore had great love for his horse.
 the noblest one in the battery.
 During the preliminary skirmish in
 advance of Pocotaligo. on that terri
 ble 22nd of October. 1862, his gun de-
 tachment was cut to,pieces in a fearful
 way, until he had to work fis piece
 with three men serving as cannoneer
 himself. When we retired frcu1 the
 skirmish line at Yemassee to Pocota
 iigo proper. and it was obvious that
 we must fight enormous odds in order
 to prevent the enemy from. crossing the causway we were defending,
 suggested to Joe that he disraount. as
 the rest had done. and take 10 a tree Joe resented the suggestion with the
 remark:
 My place Is on horseback. Pm q sergeant" Two minutes later a cannon ball carried away his horses tail. Five seconds afterwards another cannon ball carried off the beasts left fore. foot. Feeling that the horse wa. sinking under him, Joe dismounted tt see. what the damage had been. A he stopped to look at the disfnemberet foot, still another cannon ball pass. ed just over his head, split his sad dle, and broke the poor animal. | back. Thereupon Joe turned, present ede- his, pistol at the horsc's head averted his head and fred
 Then he took a horse out Of the bat ltefy and mounted him remarting: 's still contend that ns a sergeant m, place is on horseback.
 Joe was mentioned in general or ders for his gallantry that day, but tn fact had no reference tp this matte
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
A Mexican School.

Dear Uncle Jed: A traveller in Mex
 ico some years ago, tells this curious
 and characteristic story. He was jour
 neying along with several Mexicans in
 a public conveyance. Thes were go-
 ing at leisurely rate. but presently
 the bus. stopped. the driver got down,
 disappeared into a house. Minutes
 passed and he did not return. The
 Mexicans sat there serenely, as if they
 had forever to get. to their destina- tions. But the American grew impa- tient, and presently got down, and went into the house to see what had become of the driver.
 He found that he had entered a schoolreom. Several children were sitting about studying or reciting from one of their religious books. But the school was also barber shop, and the teacher was shaving the driver. Besides these combined utilities ii was also shelter for livestock. Sev- eral goats and chickens wandered about among the scholars. and seemed quite at home.
 How would you like to go to q schoo like that? As you think of your fine I buildings with pictures, pianos, books
 your flower gardens and playground outside?
 |, fancy hear American childrer
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
A Trip to New Jersey.

A year ago last summer, after school was. let out thought I would like to spend my vacation in New Jersey at my cousins.
 So one night my mother and I left on the half-past ten train. We ar rived in New London after Il o'clock Then we took the midnight boat.
 It was such lovely night on the boat l did not sleep much.
 Just before we landed in New York I saw The Statue of Liberty which was beautiful sight.
 We got off the boat and took the trolley and then we took the ferry te Jersey City and then we took a trair to my cousins home in Patterson.
 I spent two weeks there and had {: lovely time. I visited very many in. teresting things there, among thes' was the Newark Museum.
 There I saw them making disheI with clay and saw lot of fanc! dishes which school children had mad around there.
 I saw many other things there to numerous to mention. We came back by train and wken got home I had lots to tell. FLORENCE HALL, Age 10. Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
KindIinq a Fire.

One day I was left home to make dinner. Mother and father had gone away to spend the day in Hartford.
 It was necessary to make the fire, as it was cold in the kitchen and the gas did not give enough heat
 It was the first time I ever had to make the fire in the kitchen stove; but l. thought I could try it anyway l started it two or three times and it all proved a failure.
 I called up my aunt and told hcr to come over and help me-
 She came. This is the way she ma dc the fire in the stove: First she lcck ] few newspapers and poked them down so they stuck out On the bottom oi the grate. Then she put in some pieces of wood which were not very big. She opened the dampers to allow air and opened the drafts. She lit the papers where the ashes fall When the wood started to burn she put some bigger pieces of wood on and then some coal.
 Alter she put the coal on she told me to put some more on when the eoals were all red.
 did as she told me and the fire was all right.
 MIRIAM, sHERSHENSKY, Age 3. Norwich, 'i
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
WESTRfI.S;;SsI TER
Annual Church Meeting - Brief Oil Famine-Furerai of Oscar Peck

4 second sermon on Matt. 1924, was preached by the pastor. To live, life must feed on life. Two great laws Of action. selfishness and self denial. instances illustrating the beaTty of the latter and our Master, "if any man will follow Me, let him deny himself were cited.
 Considering the snow of the early morning, and the continued abomina- ble walking, fair sized audience was present in the morning. All but one of the audience stayed in the church. school, this one having to leave for
 Supervisor Bliss was here Friday. Thrift Stamp Clubs. Thrift stamp clubs are being formed bv pupils to include grownups as. well as themselves. All are invited to be- long.
 Faith. Adequate True, Sufficient, is the topic for the mid-week home prayer services.
 Saturday evening Fred Green had surprise party to mark his birth day.. Annual Meeting. At the deferred annual meeting .ot the Westminster Ecclesiastical Society | H1OnQSy, JdU. A1, SSNCI al ACW bers were admitted and routine bus mess transacted. Columbus Smitt was elected auditor for the ensuing year, and sexton of Smith cemetery. Frank Einnell, employed at Eagle. ! vile, was a weekend visitor in his home. 1 Louise Raymond has returned iron | a trip to New. York. Hulin Senior froze his feet lately and is making good recovery. l Out of oil. Recently, residents Nof the hill, il some cases, had to keep good hours berause they and both stores wer, I out of oil; oilmen not delivering ol l account of roads.
 l Funeral of Oscar Peck.
 The funeral of Oscar Peck tool place last Saturday. Jan. 26, Buria
 was at Smith cemetery.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
His Three Ducks.

Dear Uncle Jed: Last spring my mother gave me some ducks eggs. She told me to find setting hen. So I went to the shed and found one. Then l got a box and put some straw in it and put the hen on the nest After awhile sine matched nine little ducks The rats caught four and the rain kill ed two. I fed the others and they grew to big ducks.
 Papa sold them and gave me there dollars RAYMOND M. YoJJNG Age 6.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
Paths.

If Harold had gone straight to the
 barn, the path his feet made in the
 snow would have been straight. But
 he wanted to see what Jim Hammond
 was doing, so he stepped aside to look
 ever the fence and that made his path
 crooked.
 Then when Mary went to the barn to feed the hens because it was easier to take Haro;d's path then to make one for herself sine followed his steps Tom went out to look after his rab- bits and he took the same way and as everyone who went that way did the same the path was soon beaten hard but it was still crooked path.
 One day Uncle John came over and
 he asked what made that path SC
 crooked. Harold had not thought about it be- fore, but now he said it must be be- cause he had not gone straight the
 morning after the snow storm. Uncle John looked out at the crook: ed path and Nsaid, Next time wall straight, my boy; those who fellow you will walk straight
 It may not always be evident tha' | if you go a little crooked others fol. low you. Keep straight path. Watci your steps. ALBERT PHILLIPS.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
Gods Girls.

 think God took s patch of blue To make your baby eyes: hey are So much ahks. the two Gods babies and Gods skies. tAsnk Cod took | robins call To make your baby words: cannot tel your SORE al all From music of the birds think Cod took a woodland rose TO make yo1r baby lips:.<.,.e '.ey 1ts pink petals jiise to those The honey-rnerchant sips. think God took a bit of sun . To make your baby .curls-.. ,t all Ills treasures. ev'ry one, God makes Ills baby girls!
 Douglas Malloch.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31

he was a sensible boy, he could not help getting the truth of the situation. He was the only one who was having an unpleasant time.r
 I'm not going to. be a silly. and have no fun,'' said Ward "Hi, fel- lows, will you let me in the game?''
 Why, of course. if you %anI to play Prisoners, Base" sslid the leader
 T want to play what the crowd does" said Ward. $
 r He had learned that in play or work the game does not fall to pieces because the pouters drop out. No one really misses them. There gre plen- ty of cheerful ones to take their plae- es, and the work or fun goes on. The pouter, himself. is the only loser ALBERT PHILLIPS, Age 12. [ Versailles 4
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The Little old schooIhouse.

A few years ago my grandfather, who lives in Nova Scotia, was taken suddenly ill so with my mother I took hurried trip to see him. As I look back, the one thing which stands out in my memory is the little old red schoolhouse. It stands on the brow of a small hill in the midst of a grove of pine trees. Leading to it's only door is small winding path made of pab- bles taken from the river which flows near by. Within the school there are but two rooms. As you step into the door you enter the smaller of these, which is used as the chiidrens' coat room. This in turn leads into the larger room, which like our modern echooirooms has blackboard walls. However. instead of our polished desks of wood and ircn, found rustic benches marred and cut up by the jack knives of the boys In this one room most of the village children re ceive their only education. They ente, here at kindergarten and here remain
 through the primary and gramma, I grades.
 Sometimes when look out over my bare city schoolyard I wish I went t(
 this pretty little piLe- scented countr,
 school
 | RUTH. GLOVER, Age 12. | Providence R. l.
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The Real Loser.

want to play Duck on a Rock" answered Ward in g. loud voice.
 "But everyone else wants to play Prisoners. Base pointed out John. You ought not ask all the rest to give up to you.'
 "I don't care! I won't play at all, if you don't play Duck on Rock" "Oh. weli,'' said John, then you can go and play with someone else. Wed rather play Prisoners, Base" Tho way his threat was received rather took away Wards breath He staIl1ed over near the fence in gloomy soiicitude. and watched the rest play They were having a lovely time with out him. They were running and shouting wholeheartediy. In fact you would not have noticed that he had dropped out. He watched for a while, and since
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good sliding. Along with several
 friends I slsated to school, having
 much fun. We also skated back; homo
 Afterwards we decided to slide. We
 glided along at 8 great rate of speed and three other girls wanted to see how we would fare going back
 wards. We chained our sleds together
 and slid down a hill. but we never had a good turn; we either tipped oyer or went into the gutter. At last we went farther than usual, but we could not see what was going on be- cause we were going backwards. The next thing we knew we were under a team. It was a mystery how we pass ed the horse without being hurt. We erept from under the team very
 much excited, having had enough slid | ing. for that day. I don't think I shall slide back wards any more.
 KATHLEEN JOHNSON, Age 1s. Baltic
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POETRY.
A pamrsr on Discipline.

where's that chi;ds'' said, an went
 An cut a long beech gad. an trur1 Branches or. an' really meant
 T. tan his Jacket when he come Tan R risht-an' learn him not T. gaiiiVant through all outdoors, Speedily when he knows he's got z T. get the COWS an do the chores. swheres that boy L says an .ast [ The nayboT's folks. a-thinkin' they Glgnt O seen him Zoin' past, . An hailed him when he f0n away: Nary hide ner hair they'd seen 2 No more'n me. an law, I stretched Fingers round that Timber green. : Beech sad O mine :, urtweil they . etchedl
 swhere's that .child,r asst, anf got. ! \ lsetle trembly. I e1peck. -s,s rhInkin' mebbe like as not He'd fell some'eres- aEs.. tJ-ek hie
 neck!
 Hunted through the loft an out z Behind the barn an down the run, Places young 'uns think about 2 An head for when they look for fun where's my boy?' whiaed. an t:aer : As R in answer there he come Down the patstcher lane again
 An ssss ssaain straight, for us an steppin' high an straight an sta'ncf An proud aE Grant. as ike as not An drSggin' from a wiIler branch
 The first horned bouts be eve, caught
 yWhere you been 7'' I says an, loolcE
 Rtsht in his eyes an there saw Pitchers of the fields an brooks [ An things a young 'un. loves. MJ law.
 An my temper left my head, I throwed the beech gad good an stronKl-- .,.s-.-..-,.- stead O what I'd planned. ] said: Why don't y take your pa along 2 John D. Wells.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
Versailles.
Snowbcund.


 When the Christmas vacation came a chum and went camping. We went up in the Maine woods. We hired a cabin there for a week.
 When we were going there we had to walk through three inches of snow. The next morning we got up and Armond, my chum, trying to open the door. so as to get something to eat. We couldn't open the door, so we had to eat some hard biscuits.
 The next morning we got out by a window and started to shovel snow around the cabin. When we got to the door we could see tracks of animals. We followed these until we came upon three rabbits We shot two and took them to- our cabin.
 We spent the Christmas vacation very good, with lots of adventures of which I shall write in my next story.
 DANIEL LEONE, Age d3. Norwich,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
RsIss for Young wtIters.

l. Write plainly on opes side o6ithe taper only. ana 7bhseer the pnses
 Use pen and ink, not pencil q Short ana pointed articles Fill se given nreference., Do not. use Ovsr ske words.
 G Original stories or letters oaiy viii be rsed.
 6 Wf.ie yorr name. age ard ad- dreSs plainly et the bottom. of the etory. .'--s-sss y q ss Address all couizfunieat tipns tl Jncie ted Bulletin once. S,4 & -Nnatever ycp a-s-Ss that,
 Whatever you sAy--Be trueI
 Ssraightforwardiy Aet. &
 Ss honest--in fact
 De nobody else brsi yotLr
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Where He Thought He Was.

It was a warm spring day and the teacher had been reading to the chil- dren. One of the boys named Will liam had fallen asleep. All of a sud den he tumbled to the floor. Of course everyone had to laugh.
 "Where did you think you were, Will liam?" asked the teacher.
 T thought I was in bed" answered William, and when rolled over tum. bled to the f1oor"
 It was the first and last time that William fell asleep in scheoL |,
 DORIS WEAVER, Age 12 Providence. ss-'
Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-31
MISERABLE FROM STOMACH TROUBLE
Felt Wretched Until He Started
 To Take "Fruit-a-tiyes"

5S4 CHAMpLAIN ST., MONTREAL.
 ''For two years, I was a miserable sufferer from Pbesmatism and Nomatk Trouble. had frequent Dizzy sbslks, and when I took food, felt wretched and sleepy. I suffered from Rheu- matism dreadfuIly, with pains in my back and joints, and my hands swollen.
 A friend advised ssFruit-a-tives'' and from the outset, they did me good. -Atfev Ms .eyss 6ox, IfeN z a'us getting nell and I can truthfully say that 'Fruit,a-tives" is the only medicine thathelpedme". LOUIS LABRIE.
 50c. a box, 6for g. 2.5o, trial. size, ,.25c. Atall desiersorsent postpaidb Fruit a.tives Limited, Ogdensburg, NY.
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of the horse.
 HAROLD OLSEN. Age Il. Hn1k
A Good Fu+ure citizen.

The educators of our country have right to expect that when they are gone we can carry on the affairs of the government which they are doing now. In order to grow up and be good man. that America can be proud of, we must be loyal strong and form good habits when we are young. In or- der to be strong and healthy we must work hard and play hard. It is only on these conditions that we shall be clean minded and clean lived.
 We must set good examples for oth- CTS to follow. We should lead our lives as in a football game. Hit the line hard, don't foul and don't shirk.
 LOLA LADD, Age 1S. North Franklin,