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Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
A Story About Alaska and is P.ooI.


 Alaska is a very cold region. The people are mainly Eskimos. The houses are made out of snow and skins of animals.
 Their only lamp consists of a hole dug out of stone. It also serves fot a stove to keep themselves warm. The oil is obtained from the seal
 When boy is born in Alaska there is 8 dark spot on his back. Tn time this grew, and spread over the boys entire body and makes him yellow. They are dressed very different from us. The jacket is made of rheindeer skin. They have no pins or buttons on their clothes There is a hole on the top of their dress and they slip it over their head
 When the boys get big they love to fish and hunt. They have about fif- teen dogs to drag their sleigh.
 The people of Alaska do not grow very tall because it. is too cold. They do not feel the cold because they are dressed all in fur. FLORENCE DISCO, Age 12. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
An Arber Day Tree.

Dear little tree that we plant today, What will you be when we're old and gray? The savings bank of the squirrel and mouse, For robin and wren an apartment house, The dressing-room of the butterf1y's ball. The locust's and katydid's concert hall, The schoolboys' ladder in pleasant June, The schoolgirls tent in the July noon. And my leaves shall whisper them merrily A tale of the children who planted me.
 %,.-Selected
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store for my neighbors
 1 would like very much to do some thing to get some more.
 I will work hard to get them and will use all my money for stamps.
 We salute the flag every day in school We love it and we should be true to the Red, White and Blue.
 We can do lots of things to help win the war.
 In school we have joined the Red Cross, and we do Red Cross work for the soldiers; and we are helping in the thrift stamp campaign. We have over $100 worth of thrift stamps now. to send to the soldiers.
 I hope we can win this war quick. iy.
 GERTRUDE WILCOX, Age g.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Hopes We Win the War.

Dear Uncle Jed:. All the children in school in my class are writing to you; we want you to know how hard we are working to get thrift stamps. have one war stamp and ten thrift stamps of my own. We have s1o575 ill my room. I feed and water the hens every morning and go up to my uncles for milk before I go to school I go home and chop wood nights for the fire. That is how earned my money. My sister, Alice, is buying thrift stamps, too. She is in the Grammar room.
 1 hope we will win this war.
 CHARLES FLYNN, Age 8.
 Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
CuIiClRa Heals Itching Pimples AifOverFace and Arms. Large, Hard and Red. Face WasDis- figored. Troubled Months. Nothing Prrer, Sweater Fce All Skin Troubles Thaa
 Cuticura.

"When working hadtouseoil, and it got into my flesh all over my face and arms. After while pimples czrne and caused lot of itching. The pmples were large, hard, and dark red. They itched every minute causing ne to scratch. Every part of my face was dishgured.
 "This trouble lasted six rnohshs when saw Cuticura advertisement, and I made up my mind to try then. After three weeks was comple1eiy healed" (Signed) Joseph Pello, zis Wallace St, New Haven, Conn.,, Au- gust 25, 1917.
 How often such distressing, disng- uring akin troubles might be preveu1ea by everyday use of cuticura Sospano Ointment for all toilet purposes.
 Sample Each Free by Mail. AddreNe 2. card: "Cutieura. Dept. R, Boston," Ssd everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment s znds6c.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
A Welcone Sian of snrinu.

Dear Uncle Jed; Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the ;ylint of the first bluebird, unless it is his softly whistled song?
 Before the farmers began to plough the wet earth, often while the snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is makinng himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for mate to arrive from the south. Now is the time to have ready on top of the grape arbors, Or under the caves of the barn, or nailed up in the apple tree, a little one room house. which these birds are only too glad to occupy.
 GRACE GEER, Age 1s.
 Norwich Town.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
RuI.s for Young Writers.

paper only, and number the pagea 2. Use pen and ina, not pencil. {. Short and pointed articles will ne given preference. Do not use ever 2s0 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 tc Uncle Jed, Bulletin once.
 Whatever you are-Be that!
 Whatever you Say-Be true!
 Straightforwardly act,
 Be honest--in fact,
 Bs nobody else buI you."
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Why You Should Buy Liberty Bonds.

Dear Uncle Jed: We should buy Liberty bonds because our sons and our neighbours sons are making our light abroad. Victory depends largely on whether they are supplied with suf- ficent guns, ammunition and other necessaries to win; and their condi- dition upon returning depends upon the care which is taken of them in and behind the lines.
 It is up to us to supply money for the sinews of war and every com fort that can be given to our fight ing men. They offer their lives for us and our country-could we do less and remain true to ourselves, our country. and our flag.
 Let us try and all buy Liberty bonds
 BERTHA MATHEWSON, Age B.
 VoluntoWn.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Why We ouaht to sux Thrift stamps

We ought to buy thrift stamps to help stamp out the kaiser and lick him. If we all buy thrift stamps we will win this war
 I have bought four thrift stamps and and I am going. to buy some more.
 Thrift stamps will buy most of the things that the soldiers need, but if we don't buy thrift stamps we won't be helping Uncle Sam, but the. kaiser whom most of us hate.
 Now let us all start right in and win this war. I am doing my bit and most of my friends are doing theirs.
 One of my friends who has been sick for six or seven weeks has started right in on thrift stamps. She would sooner stamp out Kaiser Bill than stamp him in. Wouldn't you? DORIS OLDHAM, Age IS.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.
 AWAkES.
The American Flag.

The American flag represents a na- ton, one of the leading nations of the world. It represents all the deeds of the men of America; therefore we ought to keep our flag clean and bright mot in color, but in our actions.
 Our flag was made by Betsey Ross She lived in Philadelphia. The flag of the United States was made at the beginning of the Revolutionary war; It then had thirteen stripes of red and white and thirteen stars, while the latter were arranged in a circle the stars being white and the field blue. We now have forty eight stars and thirteen stripes. .1
 The stripes stand for the original states, the stars for. the present states.
 The colors stand for "red for cour- age, blue for truth, and white for puri- ty and for youth
 DOROTHY. PASNIK, Age Ii.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
SaiIina Boats,

Dear Uncle Jed: am going to ten you of an adventure of a friend Of miner had. We were playing around my house. Presently a thought came to me. was very fond of sailing boats, and especially up in a dam by my house I then asked my companion to join me. So we went up to the dam near my house and we were playing when my friend saw his boat going over the dam. He reached out, getting hold of branch, the branch broke, and he fell into the water.
 Fortunately it was not deep. Then he pulled himself out of the water. Then he started to run home, but he was awful wet. He hasn't been sail ing boats with me since.
 NORMAN McFALL-
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
LETTERS OF AcKNoWLEpeMENT,

Emma F. White of North Stonington --I thank you very much for the prize book you sent me. have read it and found it very interesting.
 Helen NJ. Babbitt of HanoverI re- ceived a Thrift Stamp. for which ] thank you very much.
 Grace Mahoney of Colchester Thanks very much for the Thrift Stamp which came 50 unexpected. I am saving all my pennies to get Thrift Stamps and was so glad to get this one as it makes another one in my book. I will try again.
 Bertha Mathewson of Vofuntown-I thank you for the prize book, Doro- thy's Triumph. As far as have read it is very interesting. I was very much pleased with it.
 Mildred E. Grandy of Yantic-I wish to thank Uncle Jed for my latest book, Comrades at Winton Hall. have read it and found it very inter- esting.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
h God's Out of Doors.

Beautiful things in the heart of the
 woods,
 Silence and sweetness and songs of
 birds, A gentle breeze in the leafy trees, And thoughts of peace too deep for
 words. Out of the clamor, and dust, and din, Into the woods as one enters in, Leaving the crowded, travelled way, Who will, may muse of heaven today.
 Margaret Sangster.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25

line. with the most modern apparatus, to catch fish; but the wild men in South America still shoot fish with arrows and in some parts of China they have trained birds to go into the water and bring the fish out to them.
 Boys who go to the brooks learn something more than how to fish, for they learn the habits of the birds and flowers and insects and beget a love for Nature which endures, and which is a joy to them as long as thcy live.
 When you go to the brooks, boys, wake up to the age of that pretty little stream which gives you sport.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
My French Deli.

When I make tea for my Mam'se1Ie, She only wants pinch, The wee-est slice of wartime bread No bigger than an inch. She never takes one little cake, Nor sugar in her tea, For Nam selle says that she must fast With dolls across the sea. My Mam'selle takes her knitting bag, No longer will she dance, But knits and lnits and knits, all day, For soldier dolls in France. Bessie Cshoone Newton, in the
 Rochester Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Grandma's Angel.

Bettie's grandmother Was very old and used to always take nap in the afternoon.
 One day Bettie's mother said:
 Go and see if grandma is ready to cornegto tea, Betty" Betty ran off to get grandma and found her fast asleep in her high arm chair. Betty knew that it was time for her to wake, but she looked so sweet, sitting there, that she hadn't the heart t. wake her, so she went up softly and kissed her on the cheek.
 Just then grandma opened her eyes and saw Betty standing there, and she said:
 Why, Pet, I just dreamed that q little angel came and kissed me on the check
 She pointed right to the place where Betty had kissed her.
 Betty smiled but said nothing. Then she took her hand and they went to tea.
 ELIZABETH SHAW, Age F.
 GlaSgo
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Thrift stannn Club.

Dear Uncle Jed: We have Thrift Stanp club in our school.
 I had 8 five dollar war saving stamp from grandma and grandpa Christ mas.
 have eleven thrift stamps I save all my pennies to lend to Uncle Sam. want to get my thrift card as soon as I can.
 I am learning to knit and am knit ting a scarf for my doll of pink yarn. have eighteen stitches on my needles. It is going to be twelve in- ches long. When I can knit good I am going to knit for the Red Cross.
 MARY. CHAPPELL. Age '.
 Chestnut Hill.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
The eIass Eactory School.

Dear Uncle Jed: I live in Williag- ton in the part of the town called Glass Factory. go to the Glass Fac tory school. A long time ago there was a glass factory in this place where people made different articles fGom glass. Some of the people have some of the bottles that were made in the factory live in the house on the spot where the glass factory used to stand
 Our school was named after that glass factory.
 MARY KOLAR, Age f.
 West Willington.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
POETRY.
Laughing Apnk

My name is April, sir; and I Often laugh, as often cry; And I cannot tell what makes me; Only as the fit o'ertakes me I must dimple, smile and frown. Laughing though the tears roll down. But 'tis nature, sir. not art! And I'm happy at my heart.
 Selected.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Everyone Should Buy a Thrift St

-NS' %Sh~ S'NGiO oGJ d HIlII OLSFnH.
 Dear Uncle Jed: I will tell you about the Thrift Stamps the government has asked the people of the United States to buy which are for sale at almost every hank and postoflce over the country.
 Tho Thrift Stamp is to teach all the hoys and girls of the United States to be thrifty and save their money, in stead of spending it for candy and other things they do not need. It also helps them to keep money saved up for future use.
 There isS one stamp that costs 25 cents, and sixteen must be purchased to complete book; There is also one that costs $4. and twenty must be bought to fiji book, which will hold $50 worth.
 When a s4 book is completed it is returned to 9 bank or postofice and q certificate given to the person who
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Bread and Butter.

T love little ones." said the moon especially the very little ones. Many times peep in the room between the curtains, when they are not thinking of me.
 ''This evening I looked through a window before the curtain was drawn. I saw many little sisters and brothers playing together.
 Among them was a sistei our years old. who had been taught to say Our Father, as well as the rest.
 "The mother sits by her bedside ev- cry night to hear her say her prayers. After she has said them her mother gives her a kiss, and waits till she is asleep.
 This evening the mother told them to be still as the little sister was go- ing to say her prayeis.
 T looked in over the lamp tc the little girls bed There she laid, under la white quilt, her white little hands were folded. and her face serious. Then she repeated the Lords Prayer out loud.
 "'What is that what you say? asked her mother as t;ie little one stopped for a moment in the middle of her prayer "'When you say Give Us this day our daily bread, you always add some thing I cannot hear
 "The little one laid still and looked at her mother
 Don't be angry, mother she wh:s- pered in her mothers ear. T only say and plenty of butter on it. 'The mother then kissed the little child and told her to go to sleep" LYDIA DUGAS, Age 10.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
BIissvilie Busy Beessers,

In our school we have all joined the Junior Home Economies club. The name of our club is Biissvilie Busy Boosters.
 We have pins that have the letter H on them, and this means the heart, the hand, the head. and the health.
 Our cooking lessons have been held four times. re first time the teacher came she made cereal; the second, cream potato soup; the third, Liberty bread, and the fourth, bread pudding. We all try these at home and keep a record
 MILDRED TUCKER, Age II.
 Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
She Has a War Savf Stamp.

Dear Uncle Jed. I will tell the Wile- Awales how I help Uncle Sam win the war I have filled one thrift stamp book and exchanged it for a war say ing stamp, and started to fill aroth- CT.
 I have made two scarfs and have started another. I made one wash cloth and a square for blanket
 Every Monday the children of my Sunday school go down to church and work for the Red Cross.
 I hope all the Wide-Aakes try to help Uncle Sam win the war.
 PHYLLIS BURDICK, Age TO- MiddIetown. NConn.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Thrift stamps.

Thrift Stamps.
 Dear Uncle Jed: I have Bought six : teen Thrift Stamps. hope a lot of boys and girls have bought Thrift Stamps ;5ecause everv quarter We loan to the government helps to clothe and feed the soldiers and sailors of Amer ica.. They are doing all they can for us, 'so we should do our best for them, and by Thrift Stamps help win the war.
 MT. Hoover has asked all the boys and girls of America to est less candy and that will save more sugar for our boys over there.
 BERTHA KONG, Age II. Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
Helping to Win the War.

Dear Uncle Jed: I am in the Prim. aTy room of the Poquetanucl school. I have five thrift stamps.
 earned my money by going to the
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Glass Factory school My teacher is Miss Maud J. Lynch.
 ANNIE BINOK. West Wilmington.
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contrasting tints produce strange effect as they rapidly succeed each oth- CT. The iris of the eye is yellow. MILDRED GRANDY, Age F.
 Yantic.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25
The Porpeise.

The porpolse is large animal
 sometimes called the sea hog. Por-
 poises herd together in large shoals. They sometimes swim in Indian file, shooting over the surface of the sea, just showing their black and glossy backs above the water.
 Porpoises have a great array of teeth These are so arranged that the upper and lower sets interlock when the animal closes it's mouth. The food of these animals consists mostly of 1 fish, of which they consume large 1 quantities. This greatly disgusts the human fishermen. All kinds of sale ! able fish are consumed by these great
 animals, sprats, pilchards and her ring
 | The porpoise drives it's prey to the vast shores. diving in among the large
 shoals in which the fish congregate
 and destroy immense quantities of i them. The fish fly before the por-
 poises sometimes right into the fisher
 mems nets. Not even the marvellous Humping powers of the salmon save
 him from this voracious animal 1 The porpoise keeps closely to the coast and it is seldom seen in mid | ocean. It appears to be a. migratory
 animal, as the season of it's disappear lance from one locality generally coin clues W1lH lndt OIslIS drrlVal on some
 other coast. It is very widely spread,
 appearing to inhabit with equal secur- lity the warm waters of the Mediterra-
 mean, the cool seas of our own coasts, or the icy region of the high latitudes.
 The length of a full grown porpoise l Is extremely variable, the average be- ling six feet to eight feet The color lis a blue black on the upper part of the body and a bright silvery white Ibelow, so that when the animal exe- cutes one of its favorite gyratioIls the
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-25

filled it. Every boy and girl should
 ELSIE MAIN. Mystic.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-26
Hot Weather Hits Us
Hardest in Stomach

EATONIC is the wonderful new
compound that absorbs the harm-
full gases and juices and almost
instantly drives away stomach
misery. !
Instead Of sudden and painful
attacks of indigestion, after You
begin using EATONIC you'll for
get you have q stomach. And there
will be no more heartburn, food
repeating, sour stomach. gas pains,
or that lumpy, bloated feeling you have
30 often experienced after eating. Then
your appetite-ycu know how hard 3
is to satisfy in hot weather-eat one or
two EATONIC Tablets q half hour be.
fore meals-and you will enjoy the 70.
suits and feel better In every Wy. -
These are q few reasons why you
should start using EATONIC today and
fortify your stomach against the chance
trouble this summer. II costs only 500
for . big package. Your druggist whom
you know and can trust, Will promptly
refund your money 4 you ase not
more than satis6ed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-26

Keep a ~closewatch on yourstom-
ach this summer. We need all our
fighting strength. War work
change Of diet-will make US all
easier prey to stomach and bowel
trouble than ever before. It is 50
easy to become overheated on a
blazing hot day, especially after
eating q hearty meal. And then
the excessive heat makes us food
our stomachs with all kinds Of
cold drinks. That's bad at any
time; much worse-even danger
ous-when there is the slightest
feeling of stomach trouble.
Keep the stomach sweet and
cool and free from too much acid
that's about all that is neces-
sary. It's not 80 much the diet
as to keep the poison from start
ing trouble. You can easily do
this il you will just take q tablet or
two Of EATONIC after your meals.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-26
Lemon Juice
For FreCkIeS
Girlsl Make beauty lotion q
home for q few cents. Try itl

Squeeze the juice Of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces Of
orchard white, shake well, and you
have a quarter pint Of the best freckle.
sunburn and tan lotion, and complex
lon whitener, at very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces Of orchard white
for a few cents Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands and see how freckles,
sunburn and tan disappear and how
clear, soft and white the skin becomes.
Yesl 1t Is harmless.-Adv.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-26
HARVESTING SOY
BEANS IN SOUTH
Mechanical Seed Pickers Now
Being Used Successfully in
Many Localities.
new Machines ARE BIG AID
Growers In Many Districts Now Con.
slider Il No More Trouble to Gather
Crop Than Oats or Wheat
Time for Work.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF A%griculture.)
The difficulty soy bean growers have
experienced In harvesting their crop
has been the greatest handicap in In
creased production, but the develop
ment of new machines and accumu-
lated experience with the crop have
overcome most OF the troubles previ-
Ously experienced. Growers in many
districts now consider 1t little II any
more trouble to harvest soy beans ex-
cept for hay than 1t is to harvest oats
or wheat.
Harvesting soy beans for hay Is
practically the same process as har.
vesting cowpeas for hay. Any differ
ence Is In favor Of the soy beans, for
the vines grow more erect and do not
become tangled like cow peas. Soy
bean hay is usually made by cutting
when the pods are half filled and par
TALLY curing In the swath before rak-
ing. Sometimes a tedder is used for
curing, but not often. After the soy
beans are raked into q windrow they
may be hauled directly to the stack or
barn, but the usual custom Is to shock
them on hollow racks made of poles.
When the soy beans are shocked on
these racks there is a hollow space on
the inside which allows a passage of
the air and causes more rapid and
thorough curing. The hay is SO thor
oughly cured on these racks that 1t
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-26
Large and Expensive Assortment Not
Necessary In Home Garden
Three Indispensable.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
In order to have a home vegetable
garden It Is not necessary to acquire
q large OF expensive assortment Of
tools. "A spade. hoe and rake are the
only tools that are Indispensable. A
garden line can be improvised from
pieces of Irvine, and two sharpened
sticks will serve as stakes. A trowel
can be fashioned from a piece Of thin
board Of from a shihgle, while q serv-
iceable scratcher or weeder a be
made by driving three slender nails
through the end Of a piece Of lath. An
other kind Of good weeder can be
made from . piece Of hoop iron bent
into q loop and edge sharpened.
A wheel hoe, or combination wheel
hoe and seed drill, Is a splendid tool,
and there are . number Of small hand
tools that are useful in the garden.
but these are not essential.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-07-26
Spurred to Activity.

You say you W your success In
life to the man you just snubbed!'
YES" replied the eminent capital
list. ito a large extent
"ISn't it-er-rather. unErateful to
treat him like that. considering what
he did for your"
"NOt at all. Some years ago, in re-
fusing TO let me marry his daughter,
he said I was an idle loafer, with the
brains Of q tadpole, and V would
amount to a hill of beans. Right then
and there l swore to prove him a liar"
Birmingham Age-Herald.