The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23
PUPILS SAVE FOR
THRIFT STAMPS
Those in Upper Grades Tell
How Their Object Is
Accomplished
INTERESTING AND
VARIED STORIES
Mending Stockings, Raising Poultry,
Washing Dishes, Self-Denial as to
I.uxuries and Other Means Used to
Provide the Money.

All the children in the upper grades /
Of the village schools have been asked
to write brief accounts of how they
saved or earned money to buy thrift
stamps. The stories are decidedly va
ried and interesting, and in a great
u purpose to do without luXuries like |
ice cream and candy A few of the /
stories follow:
Philip II. Wheeler, Grade 81
earned quite lot of money for ny
nine thrift stamps by shoveling our
walk However, ! do not expect to
shovel our walk much more. l have %
hens, % Plymouth Rocks, one White !
Wyandot. one Buff Wyandot and one
Buttercup. the last three being old hens
which have as yet survived the AK.
They did not begin to lay until the mid
die OF January, but now | am getting
from Il to IS eggs a day and they are
paying pretty well. After my bills
are paid l expect TO buy some war say
| ings stamps unless the hens are slack
ers
Ruth Darling. Grade ST have been
saving money for thrift stamps for
quite little while. | helped my moth
cr III taking the baby ont TO ride and
doing dishes, making my bed aud other
useful things around the house and
mother gives me money. ! have denied
myself OF pleasure as the movies and
Iof candy. gum and ice cream. ! have
not had as many new things as | would
have had otherwise. ! have only ole
Thrift stamp bought yet. but have
enough money to fill out my card and
| will deposit it soon for a war savings
stamp.
kester Shaw. Grade II am working
Tor Mr. A. T. Kirkwood on the milk
Icart | Get two dollars a week. If
I work in the afternoon | get more.
get up at ) o'clock in the morning.
work four hours day. When / get
home | am pretty tired, but ! stand it.
Mr.. Kirkwood is good man TO work
for 20 to bed at clock every
might, so | get up very carly | am
Boy !Se0ut and we are selling STAMPS
l have sold fiftv-two dollars worth of
STAMPS.
Julia Park, Grade For Christmas
received one dollar in money and i'll
!
| had given to mo fifty cents for thrift
stamps, and l earned twenty-five cents
two different times, making a total Of
fifty cents. have three thrift stamps
on nv thrift card, and one dollar and
twenty five cents home, and | hope
that my little money will help 10 win
the war for Uncle Sam and his allies.
| Marjorie Pier, Grade THE way |
earn my thrift stamps is by darning
: stoc kings. | earn cent a stocking
t unless the holes are small, and then
: do an extra big one to make up. But
= USUALLY they are big ones and take 4
+ long time to get one done Sometimes
il seems as if when l get one done
a lot OF others appear. My mother
{ usually reads to me while | darn, which
is mucA nicer than when | am not read
%. When Howe s moving picture,
came She let US take our choice between
!. going and having the money for {
/ stamp. ] took the money and with {
few cents | had saved l had enough fo1
a another one. now have six and viii
4 soon have enough for some more.
,e Frank &. Shumway, Grade 81 havt
:, earned money for thrift stamps by do
J. ing errands, working Saturdays, bu
d. chiefly from m hens. In the earl
| part OF the winter my hens laid yer,
le well, bat about the first OF March on
II hen broke an cog, tasted Of it, though
is il was good and soon All the other hen
4 got the haha 50 | have been KILN
= ard selling tAcm latcly, As that is til
N surest way to cure them. | hay
Killed II and sold them at an avera9
n of $50 apiece now have cigh
i thrift stamps aud $50 to put int
IL stamps and expect more but have bee
ie told MOI 10 count M chickens unit
~ they hatch / have paid all bills MY
-. self and nave recently paid Tor III
- hens
-. Ethel NJ. Irish, Grade 81 hay
liz twenty five cents week given me If
o. doing dishes. making my bed and hell
90 ing mother in other ways about Il
ed house used to spend it for cand.
ed moving pictures and other thing
nd which were very unnecessary and t,
al n. own pleasure. When thrift staml
or first came out | didn t take them yel
he seriously. but afterwards | save
lot twentv-fve cents every two weeks II
'es bought a thrift stamp. Now | save (!
st monev everv week and buy one.
Ter my birthday ] received money for foj
an stamps ! now have one certifca
and a book with one stamp on il. La
year | had war garden and | hol
to have another this year and ca,
some money.
Doris Eddy. Grade S.-Ever since L
thrift and war savings stamps came
!. :. Brattleboro, instead Of spending Il
na5 money for ices, movies, and candy
ND have been saving my spending allo
ra, ance for thrift stamps. It was rath
bar hard at first to see tle other girls E
Who ing in for ice cream and to think th
,ear you had to save your money. But M
in nearly all of the boys and girls are a
he saving and, we are all going witho
,ery things that we have usually had.
will have now two wax savings stamps a
two thrift stamps.