Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-29
Stories by Our Little Folks

But when she lifted the napkin.
there was piece Of cake, an orange,
and some candy. and hers was the
only good April fool.
/ Williams Enemies.
Abraham Lincoln Katletnan. Age :. 40
Oakland Avenue. Council Bluffs
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
letter to this page. Today l have I
chance to write On the typewriter ~
my father lets me and I can write on
it fine. will write a wonderful
story about Williams Enemies
or The Spirit Of l4-l8:
Who are Williams enemies?
Answer: Serbia, Russia. France,
Great Britain, Roumania, United
States and other small countries. In
June, 1914, William wanted to have
war on account of he had some
mustaches that could be put on Of
ficers. At first he did not know
why to declare war, because there
has to be reason. At last he
thought that he would look in the
papers. So he looked and one of
the high commanders found some
thing in tile papers. 1t was that they
found the bomb that killed the crown
prince of Austria. This was a Ser
bian who killed him. That said it
ought to have been German bomb.
So they declared war. Then France,
Russia and Great Britain went for /!
Serbia. Germany helped Austria.
Turkey went for the Germans. Also
Bulgaria went for the Germans, but
Roumania went for the allies. Things
were going along until 1915, in April. |
The Lusitania was sunk by a Ger
man U-boat. America should have
gone in war then, but we didn't want
to be in any mlxups. Germany was
losing. but they put in the papers,
they were winning, to encourage the
people. In February, 1917, the allies
asked the United States if they
wouldn't help them. America at,
last, decided on April 6. 1917, that
she would declare war against au-
tocracy. She wanted to have free
dom.
America was successful but not
as it was later Early in spring,
1918, the allies won the first battle
in the war since United States Ger
man war started, In July, America
and the allies were winning. Ger
many wanted separate peace, but
we would not O. K. it. We won the
battle Of Marine on the river. We
were winning until In October the
kaiser was about to surrender, but
he didn' t. About a month. before
this Bulgaria surrendered. In the |
last of October Turkey surrendered.
Austria did the same a week later.
Six days later some of the head men
signed the terms and there was =
report In this country, Germany sur
but 1t was false. About 70
hours later the kaiser signed the
terms (November II, 1879 He abb
Dictated November 9. Great cele-
bration was all over the world. Now
the kaiser sawed down over 1000
trees in Holland since he started az
ter the war ended.
A Wienie Roast.
BY vada AckernIan. Age 10. Herman, Nsb.
Dear Busy Bees: I will tell you
about our wienie roast. 1t was last
autumn. Our teacher went with US.
We each took some wienies with us.
We had to walk a mile. We played
games for a little while, then we
gathered some brush and made
tire. We roasted our wienies and
ate them, but we did not have
enough. After we were through eat
ing we played some more games
and the teacher took our pictures.
When we were about ready to go t
home our teacher gave us some '
sandy. Our teachers name is Miss i
Hanson. We were all tired when r
we got home. =
Well, my letter is getting long so
will close. if
My First Letter.
BY Ferdinand ,I ps,'sise,, Age II. Blue
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first
letter to you. | am in the Fifth
grade at school Last year had
a garden and raised lots of vege-
tooiSo dHu Cdtucu pSJ, dliu DOuSHt
war savings stamps with the money. I
l have two pet squirrels. | keep ;
them in big box. One day they
got out and we had to chase them, :.
but we could not catch them. 1
Then when papa came home they I
followed him to the box and then
they went in alone. Then we shut v
the door and had them again.
| have a pair of pigeons, too. | I
have a pen for them. ! think this I
letters is long enough for my first
one. | enjoy reading the Busy Bees c
letters ever so much. T
A New Bee. ..
BY Harry Madsen, Hampton, Nsb
Route /, Box 80.
Dear Busy Bees: This is my first il
etter to the Busy Bees. ] have o
Two pet rabbits. They have pink c
Eyes. They are very tame. | have h
lad them a year They have been
loose, but now they are in b
he pen. 81
go to school every day. am 7
n the Fourth grade Our teachers n
lame is Edith Nelson. ] have three n
listers. The oldest is going to al