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Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10

 part of the musical club of East Hamp- ton. s-Arrangements are, being made for conveyance of the chorus by autos.
 Saturday, AprA s22, at the Grange hall, the students of Bacon Academy will hold a public meeting under the auspices of the Academy Debating society, an event of unusual importance to all townspeo- pie and citizens interested in the wei fare of the Academy. The programme will consist of a debate between two teams each on the Immigration Cues ton, a small prize being awarded to the winning tea; school paper, Full oS Spice" read by the four class editors, also competitive Eyrnnastic drill by two teams, A small prize will be award ed the winning team. There will be nu- sica1 numbers by the Glee clubs.
 A special Palm Sunday service was held by the Episcopal church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Baptist church, Rev. T D. Martin officiating. Nathan Livevant and party motored to Norwich Friday.
 It is reported that Arthur H. Chap man, has purchased what is known as Curtis corner on. Main street and will erect a large garage on the site. Wooster lodge, F. and A. M., held a meeting in Masonic hall, Friday even ing.
 William F. Curry and Edward Jones, of Lebanon, were in town Friday
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The Warning Bell
Versailles

Dear Uncle Jed It was in the early spring of 1888, the pioneers were in the cornfeld, the children were playing by the river bany not far of the women and the older girl were doing the houseworl6 and nobody dreamed of an attack from the Indians, but suddenly a blood-curdling yell rent the air. At the sound the chil- dren ran pell-mell into the bloci1house and barred the door
 70 mother" gasped Hanna we for got to strike the bell. The Indians will kill us all.
 But only for moment did the girl give way toSterror. Cleaning in the sun few rods away, hung the old bell Hannahs s eyes fell upon it. Suddenly her fourteen year old face grew stern and set. She would yet send out call for help Seizing a gun the young girl with nerves strong and steady, aimed directly at the bell and fired.
 Far away in the cornheld the men rsis- cd their heads at the sound of the bell and with straining ears and bated breath stood motionless. Then came 2 ssconi peal and third At the last stroke the pioneers as one man started for the block house
 When they reached 1t the Indians were just trying to set fire To the block house but the pioneers who were always armed opened fire on the Indians and they with many cries of fear ran back into the woods and Hannah was greatly praised for her thoughtful reed.
 EUNICE SEEMS. Age. 13.
 Amston,
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Rubber.
Clark's Corner.

Dear Uncle Jed: I should like to tell you and others of the Wide-Awake circle what I have learned about rubber The chief rubber region is around the Amazon river. It is made from the sap of tree. The rubber region is as large as the United States east of the Mississippi river.
 The tree needs land that can be flooded part of the year. It grows wild. Its fruit is somewhat like the florse-chestnut Inside of this nut there are three seeds. When the nut is ripe it bursts with a loud noise and throws the seeds quite a distance. When the tree is about 15 or 20 years old it produces the sap. Some trees are quite close together, and others grow about a mile apart.
 The trunk is as large as your waist It has leaves like that of an English ash. It's bark is wlr1tish gray. It is very smooth
 When they tap the tree they make a gash in the tree and put a little cup un- der it to catch the sap. The sap is white. which would remind you of milk. It oozes cut in large drops.
 The sap flows best in the morning and is collected at noon. When man gels two or three quarts he thinks he has done we'll
  cured or smoked. They have a little chimney about one foot high. They use palm nuts to make fire. This makes a dense smoke. They dip paddle into the milk and then hold it over the smoke. Soon it is streaked with brown, then it becomes a polished brown. They di5 it In again and again until it becomes the size of g, six-pound ham. Then they cut the rubber from the paddle. After this process it is shipped to other parts of the world. 4 good shipping port is Para. A good rubber ball is worth about one dollar.
 We use rubber for ties, raincoats. hats. rubber shoes heels and solee, not for getting the rubber ban.
 It IS very conical to see the men run ming along the wharves trying to catch the balls of rubber while unloading. be- cause they bounce very high if one is dropped.
 EVA ERICKSON Age il.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
When sister Fell I-

Dear Uncle Jed and Wide-Awakes: wish 10 tell you of an exciting experience which haeioened after we arrived home from school.
 Ruth who is the daughter of one Of our neighbors lives a little way below us. We always walk home from school togethe-, and have many jolly good times.
 Tonight when we got out of school we found my mother and also Ruth's mother visiting at one of the neighbors
 We did not finger inside very long be- cause we wanted to go outside to play. which We did
 First we went down to the brook and began to thrown stones in making the water splash but this did not satisfy us. So we jumped across in many different places
 Finally I said, "Come oa girls. let's play follow master and those that fail to do the feats are dismised from inc game. will be the leader"
 My youngest sister who is only seven did not join the game.
 First jumped across the brook in one place then in another. Soon I jumpe1 al a place which was rather wide. Ruth fol lowed. While we were waiting for my sister to cross we looked at something else.
 we were Starued al SpldSn. VI tUrn- ed and looked and what do you think we saw Why, thore in the middle of ths stream was my sister. Kicking and i si5lashing and trying to get out T. and pulled her out Then we ran home as fast as We could My sister had tt change all her clothes. I hope none of the Wide-Awakes ever l had or will have such a mishap.
 ARLENE FRIES, Age F. 1 Amston.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
My rrin to New roriL

Dear Unoie Jed: am going 70 ten yos about how l spent my vacation ! wers with one of my uncles who war going ff New TUr6. l went on the Fourth of Iuis and it was very hot. On the way d0Er the automobile wouldn't run good and we had to stop in East Hartford Go zs t fixed. l didn't get 10 New York unfd g o'clock that night Next door Co nF sunt's there were some fireworks. and went over to see them They were beau. tiful I had Q very nice time a mJ aunt's 1 learned how 10 Ez1n- ouf day when I vas down there. there Ts1 another little girl who came from Brook, lyn to say with my aunt a few weeks. liked her very much. One day ps went to a lawn fets. My uncle gave each of us dollar 10 spend. but re di5 not spend t all We spent some Of it f0f the grab bag. and we got many tsinFr. Virginia got two strinEs Of beads a string of steel ones and a strinr of yei- low ones. and I got a iit-ie dish. and could you guess what wss in ft7 Why. there was a little rubber ball wth ar elastic Besides that I got a bunch of black shoe laces. I think we did pTsliy we'll. don't you? We had some fee cream and cake. There was an Indian making rings out of beads and I got one. and everywhere I went had good luck. wish you could have seen the nice auto mobile l came up in. We had no ulis- haps.
 wish you had been with me
 PATRICIA HARRIS. Age 70. AshaWay. R I
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Winter Time

Dear Uncle Jed: We have some fund with out sleds every winter, particularly those who live in the country where there are plent of hills 10 coast down.
 I have some little friends in Chicago who had a new sled given them for Christ mas, and they 9lanned to have many good times with them. But Chicago is a sadly flat city for coasting so after few days of fun, the sleds were tn a fair way to be forgotten untH one of the children. Elizabeth, thought of fine idea and said {: Let's make a hill" So they all set to work Robert. Mary. Lindsey and Fliz- abeth and even the baby helped. They rolled snowballs large and small, The largest one they rolled until 1t could be pushed no further. Then Robert piled all the snow he could upon it with the snow shovel. Then the next one in size was rolled up against t and the next and next and the places between the ball were filled in and packed hard and water pour ed all over the pile 10 make 1t smooth and slipper. Mother watched them from the window, cutting some steps at the back of the largest ball and saw them help Elizabeth up to try it. She saw them coast all the way across the yard and feared that they would bump into the back yard fence They steered through the gateway every time and out into the open lot. Such good times as the had
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
My Lama Cat.


 Dear Uncle Jed; On our farm we have q maltese. cat that. is lame. Some time during the winter he got in a steel trap. set by some of the neighbors' boys, who were trapping skunks.
 When he came home we were all sur prised te see that he had a broken leg. We let him take care of it hirnself. He did so and it healed up quite rapidly. His leg Is 50 he uses 1t some now. He Gan walk on 1t a very little. At first he used to limp around, and we all had much pity for him.
 He comes early in the morning to my fathers bedroom window and calls to be let in. When my father does not hear him he calls louder and louder un- til we let him in.. When he comes in he stays a while In the arm chair.
 He goes to the door and when he calls We notice him and let him out Some times, after we let him out, 8 dog chases him up a tree. When he gets up he has a hard time getting down since he has a sane leg. We call him 'rMaulty,". be- cause he Is gray. HAROLD s. SCOTT, Age Il.
 Flark's Garner
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UNCLE JED's TALK TO WIDE
 AWAKEs.

You have all been watching the. return of the birds You have probably seen the bluebirds, the robins, the juncoes and possibly you have caught sight of some brown thrushes. but the number and va riety will greatly increase as the warm weather comes along.
 Tn North America there are over. 800 kinds of birds. You don't have a chance to see or to know them all, but what do you think an expert on birds says is the most useful bird citizen in the entire list? Of course you will make all sorts of guesses. and soma Of you may pick the right kind, but this student of bird life insists that the most helpful bird to mankind is the downy wood becker You all know that attractive bird which goes about tapping. the bark of trees with trip hammer effect from morning till night He is constantly a: work and he has to work hard to get the grubs and insects he is looking for.
 The woodpecker destroys destructive forest insects. Long ago nature select ed him as the chief caretaker of the for est world and when you stop to think of the number of trees you can under stand he must keep busy if he is going to do what is expected of him.
 The job of the woodpecker isn't tc trim trees but to get the insects. that in fest them. They do it for food, and though you might think so their meals are not all alike. This can be under stood when it is found that there are something like 800 different kinds of in, sects that are found on the oak and as they breed rapidly the woodpecker must be constantly at work. It is easy for him when he finds them on the surface but he is not stumped when he finds they are under the bark. Then he starts his drill and it is not long before he has pen. etrated to the spot where the insect is engaged in destructive work and des. patches him.
 Great is the good that Is done by the Woodpecker in destroying the insects. He is not the only bird that likes insects foi there are many others that give him val uable aid but he concentrates on those and particularly on those that are hid. den. Trees would suffer much more thar they do if it were not for the busy wood. becker.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
our Valentine Party

Dear Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about a valetine party we had at our school house in February.
 The club I am in, the J. c. T. C.'s gave it
 Everybody was there at half past six in the evening. We played lot of games. Another girl and myself chose sides and her side only won one game, while my side won all the rest.
 My teacher passed out paPer bags to all the children on both sides and we had to blow them up and see which side got them all blowed up first
 After all our games were over, Mar garet Main. Patricia Harris. Irene Maine, Gladys Palmer and mysef passed out strawberry jell-o with whipped cream on top of it with piece of cake.
 We had a very nice time. At niAe o'clock we all went home. Your friend
 EDITH c. JONES, Age E.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Ny H.lfer.

Dear Uncle led: have a very pizyfuf heifer. She Is red and white. Her facs and two CUTS in her tail are white She has red and whs1e ears and legs. She has two white sP0ts on her back HeS horns are very snort btt sharp
 I have a comb to comb her with. 1i makes her hair shine. I make bangs on her forehead l combed her back and made her white spots stand up. When comb her neck she holds e up very high.
 l feed and water her mose Of the time and will milk her when she gives mstik
 One night when papa fed her she zzs standing on the stzirs. He opensd tis barn door and she was looking right on the barn floor. Some day I expect 10 see her way up the stairs
 When the days are pleasant VIC ict her out in a field to play and eat She kicka her heels up and puts her head down. Sometimes she bunis the brusl psies. sLs is very cute
 FAUN F. JEwETT. Age II.
 Clark's Corner
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10

Forty members of the boys depart- tnent of the T-M. c A.. with several ' utacials, enjoyed the first banauet of the nepzrment held at the associ alton build Ing Saturday night.
 Tho hanouet which Is to be made an annual event. marked the closing of the gymnasium season and the awarding of some thirty prizes, emblems buttons and medals. for proficiency in athletic events took place
 The awarding Of prizes followed the Earving Of a delicious roast beef supper by the V ouan's Auxiliary. and brief Epeeches by c. B. Gilman. industrial sec retar5r; Frank R. Custard. general sec retary, and A. R Brown, physical direc- tor.
 The prizs contests wers divided into four classes. Y. IT. c. A. emblems for those who complsted the 2O-mile indoor run; bronze hexathlon buttons for those making over 400 points in the six cents medals of gold, silver and bronze for -tnners in the athletic contests of 25 groups. prizes for winners of various games. and a shield to the winning team tn the athletic events ran off during the Eeason
 The winners and prizes as listed are:
 Tweuty-rnile indoor run. prize ''Y" em- bienE: I. Ostrich. I. kruE. J. Abernathy-
 
 Uicki. + Foss. C. Simmons, R. kono- I1aslla- H. Higgins. L. White.
 He1athlon-Prize. six sides bronze but1ons for those scoring 400 points or over. Claude Simmons. S5 pound class Edward Nichols. 95 10 class, Reuben Giusidn. unlimited class.
 Al round contest of 25 gymnasium events: Prize medals. ofg runner making hurdle over @Y" triangle: gold medals James Ahernathy. Edward Cross. and William Jackson: silver medals. Edward Taylor. ID. Russo A. Rosen, I. Ostrich bronze medals. g. Sawicki, J. Simmons q. Simmons
 Games. Prize embie1ns. chess Edward Gross; pool. Arthur Coutu; shuttle board Abraham Bosen; baseball, Edward Nich- pls
 Indoor teams meet---prsze. shield: win hing team. Giants, Captain Edward Gross.
 40 the meeting of the ". C. T. o.. held Friday it was reported that the Wind ham County convention would be held in This city tn May or early June. The meeting voiced the view that splendid vvo-S has been done in Willhmantic and vicinity by some of the local officials and that the union has only words of praise for these who have done therr part to uphold the law.
 During the Sunday morning service st fha First Congregational church, the ded- tcsfiou exercises of the bronze tablet in honor of those members of the church vro ssrved during the World war took rlace.
 Fiftv-siEht young men Of the church entered the service Of their country and four Of these paid the supreme sscri- fec.
 The address was made by Rev. Will Ham S. Beard of New York. a former pastor Of the church. who paid a fittine tribute to the man who So cheerfully an Ewered the call to protect their nation from foreign foa-
 The tablet bearing the following in- s--lptlon lists the me min the service as follows
 Elzyu L, Abbott. Clifton S Adams Ashley F. Bzrrows Hudson H. Barrows Charles F. Bill, Frederick II. Bipbarie Lesser IT. BIIsh. Homer C. Bradbury Leonard e. Bradbury. William H. Burns Fusssu B. Chapel. F. A Cote. Donald A Crane. Roy ". DOwner, Charles P
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Not What He Wanted.

Dear Uncle Jed Once an Arab lost his way in the desert and was in danger of dying of hunger and thirst. After stray ing about for long time he came to a fountain of water where the travellers in the desert were in the habit of stopping with their horses and and camels to drink.
 He saw lying upon the bank small leather bag. God be praised" said he as he took it up there may be dates or nuts inside and I shall have something to eat as we'll as water to drink" IT this hope he quickly opened the bag but. as soon as he saw what was inside he said with sad countenance, Alas They are only pearls!'
 LILY GLADUE. Taftyii1e.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
4 Visit to Friends.

Dear Uncle Jed: While visiting frien1f a curious incident took place. Ths story is as fellows:
 4 small baby was thought 10 bs .u its carriage. On further inspection nofhi.g was 10 be seen. Eyeryous stsrte5 to look for him We an knew. as fhe baby was small, he couldn't have gotten very far; in fact. it was mystery ss fo hoE he got out The search for the baby went on for two hours and stin nothing was found to show whidh way he had gone. The friends I was visiting had a large St Bernari dog and slspeofed he had something to do in EpiritinE away the baby
 I forgot to mention that a large shed stood a little way from the house. AE luck would have it. went towards the shed. There the baby szA Three or 70 ar newborn kittens were in hs lap and or his face was a happy smile.
 After returning the baby to his mother I decided it was time to go home. 60 1 left the remainder Of the v1sf for sn- other time.
 VERNON wARHURsT Aes "a
 Plairfeid
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Yautia
My Trip to Hartforn

Dear Uncle Jed: This is my first let ter to the Wide-Awake Circle and I am going to tell your about my trla to Hart ford One pleasant morning last sum mer my aunt and l started for Hartford On arriving there we went out to lunch and during that time we made cur plans for the afternoon, first taking in the sights of the Capitol and then Capitol park which was very wonderful. with plenty Of alnusements for the children. which I thought was very grand. Later tired out from the afternoons pleasures we started for home.
 MILDRED A PHILLIPS, Age Il. Versailles.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Taftviile
rhs For.est Tlre.


 Dear Uncle Jed While on my vacation last summer, up in the -Rangely Lake re- zion, Maine, I was there. at the time they had a very bad forest fire which started in a lumber mill nine miles from the hotel which we were staying at. The fire broke out about midnight, but We did not pay much attention to it be- cause we felt sure we were out of dan ger. But we were not. Late the next afternoon the manager at the hotel re- ceived a. telephone message saying that the hotel and surroundings were in dan ger because the wind had shifted to the east, in the direction of the hotel.
 How scared we were! But we were all. very much more so when at s o'clock that evening we could smell the smoke all around and, now and thenesee a flame rise up in tke direction of the fire. Many of the people were so scared that they left All of the hotel help (the mem had to go and help fight the fire. After three days the fire was under control. They were surely three exciting days. but it was week before it had all died down.
 A few days later we motored down to the lumber mill where the fire started There the loss amounted to many dol lars.
 To us It was the worst fire we had ever seen. But to residents of that sec ton. it was not an unusual event, as they have one every year.
 It was the first forest fire had ever seen and shall never forget it. GENEVIEVE METERS, Age 15. South Windhan.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
,fr rrln to W.bst.r Ist.-

Dear Uncle Jed Ths is the Arrt ttnt have written 10 the Wids-Awzkss and I am going to tell you about my trip 10 Webster lake. One day in July iast sum mer the Iarert-TeacherS zEsccatiol head their second annual outing at Weo- ster fake and l went with them We went in the ccmnanys bus We Etsrtef about 10 o'clock in the morning and arr rived there about II. As soon as We sr- rived we went in bathing and had mUct fun. We came oUt about o'clock 70 have our lunch. After we had eaten our lunch we went in a mctorbcat and had a ride around the lake After we cane back we went in bathing again and a little girl vas almozt drowned. But for the quick action of one of the tzd1es che would have drowned We cams tscs about o'clock in the evening.
 ] was very tired. bur I had lots oi fun during the day.
 VALMOEE FORC1ER, Age f1.
 Goodyear.
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Ths YaIentine pnrtr


 Dear Uncle Jed: I-haEe just finished reading the, letters some of the other Wade-Awales have written and found them very interesting. This is the sec ond time have written lately and am going to write about a valentine party I went to.
 Every Saturday morning go to a meeting up at Christ church called Junior Auxiliary. The Saturday before Valen- tines day they had valentine party. We started with prayers and hymns. We then had half hour of sewing. After that we had some more prayers and hymns We played games. Some of the games we played were fruit basket, drop the handkerchief and farmer in the dell After that the valentines were given out received four and my sister rece.v- ed seven. An eskimo pie was given to each person there. had a very nice time ISABEL KENNEDY, Age g. Norwich
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Ny Cais

have written -o the W1de-Auakl- thought you would ike to know zioul my cats. Last summer I had % eats { have a name for ali of them I havf two tom ca1S-one Is named Jack and one is Pete. One day Jack and Pefe TO to fighting. and Pete chased Jack up . tree. I called Jack, brt he would no come but at last he came. and Pefe rad away. Another cat named Ben came ug in my bed and scratched me. am sizs she does. for l would be lste for rcho5 If she did not.
 DOROTHY TURSBULL Age ..
 Norwich Town
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
Tho New Leaeon

Dear Uncle Jed: Johnny was a ltff boy not more than tix years old Aithssef his teacher taught him 10 co right hs was always naughty al home.
 At breakfast time one rnoruin- aeforf Johnny went 10 school his usother Eze< him glass of milk IL was large Eiaaf and he could not drink it all His rnotief told him not 10 put t back in the botii4 but he wanted 10 do soue'hine naughty so on purpose he put if h1cs- li t1f morning when Johnny went to scnool nc teacher told his clsss about the s1-cac' ing of germs in milk and other foocs- Jchn- ny was very sorry for whs- he had oors and after telling his mother about it 7Trfn- issd never 10 do it again
 JACOB DEUTsCH Age i1f Baltic
Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-10
COLCHESTER

Saturday next at 7.S0 p. m. in Tip Top hall Mrs. Rubina Ravi-Brooks. assisted by the Bacon Academy Boys and Girls Glee clubs and by her music pupils, is to give the winter term public recital Mrs. Brooks will sing a group of songs, English, French and Italian, including among others, songs composed by her former teacher in Rome, signor Coto- gin.
 Sunday, April 30. the "olivet to Cal vary chorus is to be repeated at East Hampton in response to invitation on the