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Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-05
STORIES WRITTEN BY WIDE.
 AWAkES
My Trip to carrollton.

Jack it's time to get up.
 q was going from Vermont far away to Maine when my cousins Tom Alex and Bess lived. I had been giy- en permission to visit them. I quick ly dressed. What boy would stay in bed when he was going on such a journey. I was soon ready and kissing mother goodbye I swung aboard the train.
 Across the aisle from me in the car sat family. They occupied four seats with three children, cat in a basket, a parrot and in the boys pock- ct a puppy, besides the father and mother. This family caused much laughter. First the parrot escaped and flew on to the lamp. The boy and girl called, but to no avail. The baby h0wled; the cat mewed; Ehe ptv,ryy parked, but that parrot was up to stay until the brakeman took him dewn.
 Then the cat escaped. In the ex- citement the baby tried to swallow the several womenss laps the cat came several womerfs laps the cat came back. It was then discovered that the
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CHRISTMAS VACATION.

School closed December 19, 1919, for our Christmas vacation.
 Monday and Tuesday I brought in wood for my mother.
 They had an entertainment in the Gurleyvi1le church Christmas eve. I spoke a piece. The name of it was Good cheer" Santa Claus came and gave out the presents. l had quite a lot of presents-candy, new suit, a pair of gloves, stockings and many other things.
 The Sunday after Christmas I went to South Manchester with my father and sister to see my sister. I went in an automobile and I enjoyed my ride very much. On my way I saw many sheep. We arrived at sisters house at 3 o'clock. We had very good time while we were there.
 We started from sisters house about 6 o'clock. We went over to uncle's, who lives in Manchester Green.
 During the rest of my vacation l helped my mother.
 School began again Jan. 5, 1920.
 I am glad to get back to school again.
 There are 36 scholars in our school. am in the Third grade.
 RICHARD LANEGER, Age. g.
 Gurleyville.
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Playing School.

Some children do not like to ptav school they say, 'T have enough of school ia school" But I say different. Every night when I come home from school go sliding down hill or skat- Ing, and when I come back I play
 1 have blackboard and many other things to play school. And in the summer l have play school out doors Tn shed, and in the winter in the house.
 have had c very nice time this winter, and hope to have the same in the summer. ---
 DOROTHY L1LLIBRIDGE, Age g,
 VoluntoWn,
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How IEarneJ a poliar

I am a little girl eight years old. I go to school and am in the third grade. I have been to my grandmoth- CTS and was very sick with the measles. When I got better so I was able to do a little work I picked over beans for my grandmother to sell, and she paid me four cents a quart for doing it. I picked over 25 quarts. bank, as I have a bank book; also one war saving stamp.
 BESSIE CoNGDON. Age 8.
 Plainfie1d
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North Stoningtor
A NICE FIsHINle TRIP.

One morning. when gE father was in the barn milking he said to us: Would you boys like to go fishing?"
 We said "Yes."
 After breakfast my brother and dug a canfull of worms and then me started. The lake is about five miles from my home and we walked all the way. When we got there we took the boat for the middle of the lake. We baited our hooks and went to fishing.
 We had good luck until noon, when thunder storm came up. Then we started for home. Very soon the rain began to come down and we got soak ed through to the skin.
 When we got home we changed our clothes and found a hot supper wait ing for us. I think it was a very nice fishing trip, don't you?
 GEORGE STEDMAN. Age 12.
 hYortI, Stnr, ir,rrt,r,
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MY PETs.

have many pets. My cats names are White, B1ackie, Mickie. and Tykie. I like Tyi1ie very much. He is a. great big cat. had another named Little bit-a- -kittie, and she drank out of 8 bottle. She would lie down on a pil- low and take the bottle in her paws and drink out of it.
 My brother has many rabbits, and sometimes feed them, and once my cousin was here and had a little rab- bit and she carried it around so much that she broke it's leg. and then it died.
 My sister was writing to the Wide awake and I aske1 her if I could write and she said Yes"
 I am seven years old and my birth- day is next month.
 MAYBELLE c. L. BURGESS.
 Lebanon
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Thrift.

It was bright autumn day. The beaver was busily working on his home, gathering wood and mud. Along came Peter Rabbit. Peter said to the beaver:
 What are you doing? Let's have chat"
 The beaver answered, q can't; I belong to Happy Jacks Thrift cluib." I"
 Peter Rabbit said What! Has Happy Jack got new club and left me out? Why can't I belong?" The beaver replied: You are not thrifty"
 All the time he was talking he was working.
 Peter asked, sfWhat is thrift? ?' The beaver told him. He said, Thrift means to save things, or get ready, like I am. am getting ready for the winter; building a house and getting food for the winter. Do you get food during summer for the win ter? Do you ever store food to last a dayT'
 Peter tried to be thrifty, but all in vain.
 One day he found some nuts and gave them to a striped chip1nunk, and and another time to Happy Jack. He helped his friends a few hours each day, so he was admitted as a social member.
 Boys and girls, you can belong to this club by buying thrift stamps and Happy Jacks Thrift Club. Every that tells everyone he or she belongs to Happy Jacks Thrift club. BESSIE GITIIN, Age il. New London.
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MY 1Rlp To MY sIsTER,s.

I went on the train to Wood River Junction. We got off the train and took another train. The next thing [ knew I was in Hope Valley. I got oft the train into m automobile, and in few minutes we were up to my sisters.
 She has little girl and boy. The girls name is Elizabeth, and the boys name is Lloyd. I stayed there a week, and every night I had some candy. would be asleep and my uncle would wake me up and give me some candy Every day would have ice cream. After I was there a week I got homesick and went home on the next train.
 My mother was glad to see me back again, and I was glad to get back, too.
 LOUISA COREY. North Stonington.
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Is a Prompt Relief For Coughs and and Colds

It clears the membranes of catarrhal collections a n d causes the mucous. to flow naturally, relieving the born chial passages of tickles and irTitations.
 The whole membraneous system is purified an q strengthened an d natural healthy conditions are speed fly brought about by Linonine, lung food.
 Linonine at all drug stores-soe, s1.2o.
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Citizenship
BY CHARLOTTE G. ElJ5 FrsDnis ", Parker Scaet

How do you expect to be 4 gasd citizen if you don't know how the gov eFnment works?
 There is nothing that is interesting to do that does not require preparation and training. You can't play basket ball or football, Of bake a pie, without knowing how. If you fail in your knowledge and practice of citizenship you hurt more people than you would by a poor play ill baseball or basket ball. Besides yourself and your team, your failures in citizenship harm the entire community.
 There are two ways to learn thing. One way is to read about t. You can
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-05

School closed December 18th for a two weeks vacation. During my va cation I chopped and split wood and carried it into the house and wood shed. I fed and milked the cows, wip- ed dishes and set the table.
 On the night before Christmas went to a Christmas tree in Ehe church, where some of the children spoke pieces. At about o'clock Santa Claus came to take the presents of the tree.
 I arrived home about II o'clock. On Christmas day some of m! friends came and played games. I hai many Christmas presents. had a very good time during my vacation My school began on Jan uary 9th
 ROBERT E. WALKER. Age F. Eagleyille
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ve might as well eat them.

we might as well eat them.
 Days before Thanksgiving came his mother. would get ready for the good time. She would make a fire in the great brick oven. When the fire had burned to coals she raked the coals out and filled the oven up with pies mine pies. squash pies, pumpkin pies, and every other kind of a good pie. When they were done she put them in the milk room to wait for Thanksgiv- ing. This is the way she did all of her baking.
 When Thanksgiving came all the rel ativeS came, from far and near, to make it one of the happiest, merriest days of the year.
 We still have this old oven that has cooked so many dinners, and we also have the old fireplace with its swing ing crane and great andirons; but 1t is many, many years since either have been used.
 Ono day his mother saw her pies were disappearing very fast. And she said to my father and his four broth CTS: T don't want vou ta rrt another
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POETRY. LITTLE GIRLS. By Edgar Guest.

God made the little boys for fun; for rough and tumble times of play, He made them strong from climbing trees, He suited them for horns and drums,
 And filled. them full of revelries so they could be their fathers chums But then He saw that gentle ways must also travel from above, And so, through all our troubled days, He sent us little girls to love. He knew that earth would never do
 unless a bit of heaven it had. :. Men needed eyes, diyinely blue to toll
 by day and still be glad; A world where only men and boys
 made merry would in time grow stale,
 And so He shared His heavenly joys that faith in Him should never fail He sent us down thousand charms He decked our ways with golden curls
 And laughing eyes and dimpled arms He let us have His little girls. They are the tenderest Of His Bow CTS, the little angels of His hoca, And we may keep and call them ours until Gods messenger shall knock. They Bring to Us the gentleness and beauty that we soreIy need. They sootl1e us with each fond caress and strengthens us for every deed,
 beauty that we sorely need. And happy should thai mortal be whom God has trusted through the years
 To guard a little girl and see that she is kept from pain and. tears.
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WINTER EVENING sToRIgs.

Nights after supper my father tells us stories of when he was a boy. They are very interesting, and I thought that the Wide -Awakes would like to hear some of them.
 One time his mother went to town with his aunt. It came toward night and his father came home from the field and said: Isn't mother home yet?" ,s
 No said my father, but if you and the men are hungry can get you something to eat"
 His father said: "An right. go
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ahead.~
 So he-weut trto the milk room where about a dozen and A half of eggs, which his mother had been carefully saving to set He then pat them in a. htg iron kettle in the drepaace to boil. When they were done he put them en tho table with some other food.
 Pretty soon his father sat down to the table. He asked him where he got the eggH- My father told him.
 'sNezls my son, he said, it seems to me that tIrkey eggs are pretty high 11v4ne hut as fnn~ they are hoiJad
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1 For Boys to Make IS HandicrAn El|
 SS N
A sand-P ewer Motor
BY c. N. HYDE

BE c. M. HYDE
 Show IS how to make a motor, Uncle Bob to run these toys and make tlie wheels go 'round.
 { " All right sonny, veil make sand watef-wf1eel. It wiii be ike water wheel, but vii be tlraed bv q stream cf sand gatser than Q stream of water.
 AssE..rls the Erl1eeI
 10 TIiai, tza wheel {D), get three pieces of z6-iu pine board. each 4 by 12 ii1., and fasisn them together, edge to edge. with cIcats. Then draw CT this bXilf-up board a circle 12-in. in diameter and saw 1t out with a keyfole or jig saw.>>Siits to hold the paddles are needed next; for these, space of twelve marks on the wheels edge and
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Home Made Picture Fraznes
BY CAROLYN sHERWIS BAILEY

? ! tet@hsesA< ~ 4t9&1 As1@i it@ @<t As<Al-@-@A
 As winter begins to go, you think of the fun you had out of doors last year. Yon have I whole box of photo- graphs of. country walks and fricnds5 who took tramps with you. Why not frame these pictures yourself? !?
 Box Cover Frames.
 The stiff cover of note paper box makes q gcod frame. Lay the picture inside 1t, draw around it, and cut or this line with 2 sharp pen knife. Cover the cardboard frame with silk in } soft green or brown if 1t is an outdoor phetograph, stretching the silk smoothly and tightly, and gluing the edges to the inside of the box cover
 Mount the picture on light weight cardboard and paste it inside the frame.
 Rafia Framing.
 A bunch of raffia in green or scarlet makes the foundation for a number of attractive frames. Darnpen the rafia in ialzewarm water and dry 1t slightly between towels. Using sev- eral. strands, make even, wide braids, hattsning them between heavy weights as you finish them. Gut backing for the picture frame of cardboard, ard glue the braided rafia to this, turning square corRers, and using long braided strands 50 that there will not be a join ing to show.
 Paste the picture to the back of the frame and hang it by a length of raffia.
 Your Best Friends Picture.
 You want her picture on your bureau, and in the prettiest frame of all. A circular frame is always best for this. Using small saucer for pattern, draw circle on a piece of cardboard. Inside this draw smaller circle. Gu: two of the larger circles, ono of them with the round hole in the centre. Glue lining of cotton batting to the latter, and cover this with pink or biue silk caught on the wrong side. Cover the other circle with silk also, as this is the back of the frame. Over sew the
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-05

pie unless I say you can" Well, it wasn't long arterward that one of the boys said to the other, let's have a piece of pie!"
 Mother said mot to cut pie"
 I've could break one" and so they did. But after that their mother changed the rule and said not to eat one unless she knew it.
 CORINNE E. BURdESS, Age 13. Lebanon.
Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-05
WHAT PROHIBITION DID FoE
 FRANK"

Many years ago two lads heard there was going to be a tempeFaaoe meeting. This was a new thing to them.
 :sF]ais-sis new religion" said the lads; let us go and hear all about it :, So they went off to the meeting. .S The speaker was a plain. honnely, but persuasive man. The lads were convinced finder his words and signed the pledge. My young hero went he1M
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UNCLE JEp's TALK TO WIDE.
 AWAkES,

There are many important words which are in the spelling book that are never properly valued in the hn- man mind
 Here is a word the value of which many people are never made aware of from the cradle to the grave: BECOMING!
 This word expresses what every thing God has created is doing, for everything first is becoming mature; then becoming old; and then becom- ing worthless
 This word becoming applies to ev- cry creature every instant of life. They are. becoming strong, or weak. good or bad, capable or incapable. no account, becoming par or zero, something or nothing In life we become first infants, then youth, then men or women. We be- come pupils, then graduates, then
 masters. We become apprentices master worlmen then .superintend- ents. We are BECOMING what makes man useful in all the caHings of life, the masters of small things
 that we may .s become. masters of greater things.
 Nature allows nothing to remain at standstfil. Even the sun and the moon and the stars are, BECOMING older, and dinner, and the scientfs tell us will finally come to an end.
 Some Of us who have ears and eyes and reason are BECOMING blind because we do r1Dt exercise correctly the faculties God has given us.s Every minute that we live we are
 becoming good or bad, useful or l worthless. f-''s rtt
 Nature never says to us Get a . move oni" But she keeps Us mev-
 what we please.
 It is up to us all "to mind our
 step!" To see what we are BEcOMi- ING, for it is what we are becoming
 which will afford us pleasure or pain | later in life.
 THE WINNERS OF PRIZE BOOKS:
 1-Gertrtsde M. Soale, of Jewett | CIty-The Auto Boys Outing. 2-Ftorence Hall, of Norwieh-The Struggle for a Fortune. 3-Alfred Dueas, of Versailles
 Boy Volunteers with the French Air | men.
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 s-Lena |. Maine, of North ston- l ington-The Boy Land Boomers, S-Derothy LiIiibriase, of volun- town-The Auto Boys Big Six. 7-Bessie GetIin, of New London The Fall of Warsaw. i s-Haroid Neil, of Norwich-Boy Volunteers with the American Army. The winners of prize books living in Norwich may call for them at The Bulletin business office at any hour after 10 a. m. Thursday.
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WORK po oN rHE EARM.

have a pet COW. Her name is Dinkey. She had little calf and her name is Beaut. Every night and morn ing I milk Dinkey and another COW whose name is Betty. We have two calves, Charlie and Susie. feed them all.
 We have two horses. Their names are Maggie and Dick. feed them hay. They are very gentle. I can drive them single or double.
 We have three pigs. Their names are George Helen and Betty. I feed them, too.
 We have one hundred hens and one half of them are mine. ] have two roOsters and the rest are hens.
 We have ten geese. Five of them are mine. I have not got any eggs yet, but I will in March and April, and then l will set the eggs and have some more geese. -esE--s s-s ss- @zsss5- . l have a. pet dog His name is Ring. He goes with me to get the COWS and horses in the summer time. l have three pet cats. One is black and the other two yellow and white. Their names are Nigger, Goldies and Jack.
 I have four rabbits. Their names are White Cap, Brown Ears, and Brownie. l had rather live on a farm than in the city, .--------------
 LENA IRENE MAINE, Age 10.
 North Stonington.
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The Lighthouse of the slsy
BY AnELIA BELLE BEARn


 When you want to find the poiDts of the compass other signs may some times faA, but high up in the sky, ai- most directly above the North PoIe hangs lantern, beacon light that is an uaerring guide sIt-neverEvaries or leads astray. It is always there, always in the same place, and its shining rays are saying now, and will ever continue to say: TrhiS is the WoYth!
 The Light-House of the Sky is called the NORTH STAR All sailors know t, all outdoor boys and girls sboaid know 1t. Look for it tonight A clear night in winter is the best time to study the stars. they are very brilliant in the cold, rarihed atmosphere and can be easily seen. q
 The Great Dipper
 Seemingly that there may be no mis- take in identifying this most important star, there are two easily found stars that point to it. These are called "ths bofnteYs" and they form the front sifi9 [ of the bowl of the GREAT DIPPss or Big Dipper as it is usually calico Stand where you have a good view c the sky, look toward She north ard you will see the Big DFper plainly. It will appear like the illustration. but the dotted line will not be in the sky, 1t is on the paper only to show you how your eye must go straight from the pointers to the North Star.
 The Little Dippcr
 There is LITTLE DIFFER as well as Big Dipper and the North Star is at the extreme end of the Lit 1 tie Dipper's handle. While this Light house of the sky stands steadfast the other stars move in circle around ] it, so the two Dippers will not be found
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;n the same position at all times; bus ths pointers will always point to the Nnrfh Star as if to magnet and shcugh the Listie Dipper swings around. it is as if the end of its handle were pinned down and held steadily m plara kr sae North Ssxr.
 seady the twc Dippers until you can .,atoantxe them Wsiateser their poss-
 ns. then you wiA be able to loc1Es Sg esr and the North ae any hpdr e
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OLD Mir. Jay.

OLD Mir. Jay. or Mir. Jay was single man; He lived by himself, kinder ketch-
 What-you- -can. One day when he bin home all by he
 self. An not vittles lef' on his pantry
 shelf; Here come de news by Miss Rumble
 bee, How dat Miss Yallerhammer comin'
 round to tea. MT. Jay was sur in fix dat day; But he happen to look across de way TO op Mir. Butcher-bird house. an see Mir. Butcher bird meat hengin' up in
 de tree; All he good meat he had lef' out to
 dry, For he own little chillen to eat bime-
 by. Oar was de meat. an dar was MT. Jay; You got de hint? Mir. Butcher bird say MT. Jay oughter member de Golden
 Rule: MT. Jay say de Butcher-bird sure is a
 fool
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The total value of Canada's field crops in 1918 is estimated at about ST. 3S0,000, 900, as compared with 31,i4S- oeo oao in 1917. aYd ssse. .5ef. coo in 1s1e
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A Neiuhbor Woman

We hadn't noticed the name of the person who invented this device by which 10 people can talk on a tele- phone line at once, but we'll bet 1t was a woman-Akron Times.
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two together, leaving an opening 3: the bottom to slip in the snap shos. The frame may be finished with a card board standard, and wreath of tin. silk roses such as come by the yard for trimming.
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THE WIDE-AWAKE CIRCLE
Boys and Girls Department.

dog was chewing mans silk hat They rescued it.
 The people settled down to rest. Not for long. ater beautifully dressed lady entered and took a seat near me. She had a poodle dog considered very stylish. We boys call them window
 washers. When the dog in Mikes pocket discovered there was another dog in the car, he jumped out, walked over to the windowwasher and
 growled. The little poodle put up her nose and stalked proudly around. Very
 soon this lady got off and took her poodle.
 The night passed uneventfully. In the morning I reached Carrolton, and as I went into the station with my cousins I heard Mike cry: "The baby
 swallowed some gum"
 GERTRUDE MAUD sOULE, Age 1S. Jewett City.
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Maybe the democrats hope that by holding their convention on the west coast it will be more Pacific than their meetings usually are.-Boston Transcript. c
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or Mir. Jay was single man; He lived by himself, kinder ketch
 what-you-can.
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HOW | SPENT NY vAcArloN.

North Stonington
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A aostnn Pleasantrx.

LENA IRENE MAINE, Age 10. Worth stonington..
Arizona republican., 1920-02-01
they attend"


 The plan provides for no age limit. Essays will be written in class rooms Friday, February 20, from notes if de- sired. No essay will be more than 400 words in length. Pencil, or pen and ink. may be used, but the essay must be written only on one side of the sheet. The essays will be judged strictly on the basis of originality, expression and sincerity.
 Each school will be the judge of it's own product. The principal of the school will appoint a board Of three judges to select one essay as the entry Of the school. He will then forward tke essay to 221 San Fernando building- Los Angeles, the headquarters of this recruiting division. The district re- cruiting officer will appoint three judges to pass upon essays submitted by schools in his district One will be selected as the best and sent to Wash iEgton as the entry from this district There are e56 districts in tho United States. From the entries Of the 56 dis tFicts Secretary Baker. General Per shing and General March will pick