Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-10-13

BY MARGUERITE EINEFRocK

BY MARGUERITE EINEFRocK
Hiys Neighbor-Got little
matter to take care of this morn.
ing, one that should have beer
seen to a couple of weeks ago, ii
we want to keep in the good
graces of high school girls club.
A group of sixteen girls organized
the Sedecum Oatin word for 16)
club year ago, when they we're
freshmen. It's purely a friend
ship club and for the most part
the meetings are social ones. But
they do get down to business once
in while and right now the girls
are interested in earning some
money. They have a project in
mind which won't materialize un-
til they are seniors but neverthe-
less they are concerned will.
building their treasury to a size
able amount. Therefor they're at
your service for a slight fee of
course) to baby sit, NOW lawns,
rake leaves, wash your party
dishes, run drrands or any other
chores you might want done. If
you're interested call It'll and
Joan Vargo will make the neces-
sary arrangements.
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Right There in fine print it
says, "Sir Walter Scott, swampeo
under a debt of $6OO,OOO at the.
age of SIS, swore to pay off every
cent although he was broken in
health. At his death, six years
later, not one penny of the debt
remained" AS long as someone
preserved this bit of news fer
posterity, why didn't they go one
better and tell us how he man.
aged to pay the debt. That kind
of information we could use!
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Maybe Yes, Maybe No! It all
depends on the weather, whether
or not the Rakoche Indians, who
are scheduled to appear at the
joint meeting of the Cub Scouts
and PIT. A., Monday evening, will
bring basket of snakes to use
when they give their interpreta-
ton of the Rain Dance. You see
the snakes are "bedded down" for
the winter at the Toledo Zoo and
won't be allowed to leave unless
the weather is mild.
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Thought For a minute there
Sunday afternoon that that sec
ond cup of coffee had thrown us
for loop and we were seeing
things. After all it is something
unusual to see blue flowers peek
ing out from the branches of an
evergreen tree. We spotted 'em
first while walking along the
street in the 800 block of East
Fourth Street and then stopped
to take a second look. But VIC
weren't seeing things, the flowers
were real. A Heavenly Blue
morning glory vine had grown up
from the ground and twined itself
through the branches of the ever
green tree in a most unusual
manner.
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II Would seem the younger gen
Grafton is being exposed to cul-
ture, maybe by accident but ney.
erthelesS it must be Catching. g.
We passed a group of boys, the
other day, playing with bows and
arrows and couldn't believe our
ears when we heard the littlest
one, not yet in school, recitin9,
81 shot a narrow into the air, It
came down | know not where"
He kept saying it over and over
again as he ran around tossing
an arrow in the air. And while
the words weren't exactly as
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wrote them in The Arrow and the
Song, they were close enough to
convince us that the youngster
had sometime or oiner come face
to face with good poetry.
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Some Twenty Years ago when
Mary Lambert was a little girl
in grade school she handed in
spelling paper, received a nice
big 100 for her efforts and then,
without a doubt, promptly forgot
all about it. Last week that spell
ing paper came to light between