Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 92, Hammond, Lake County, 6 October 1922 — Page 14

VERY child in Daysville was thrilled to the marrow almost all the time, and no wonder! The school had been moved to

Knox Place, ar.d the Knox Place

meant just one thing to Daysville peo- ;.!?. and that one thing was Spooks! The school had to be used by the I torse: children a well as the Days1ile onei, and that is why It was moved to the spot mid-way between

the two small villages. The Knox Place had been closed and For Sale ever 50 long and the location was Just right. "But it Is a kind of a spooky place."

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to her mother. "I hate to stay there after school hours. The woods behind it look so dark and matted, different from any other wood3 about here, and the brook is all filled up with branches and brush and stuff, and I wish somebody'd clean it out and make the place more attractive." If Miss Williams felt the spell of the place, the children certainly felt it more! The story of the Knox ghost had to do with a child, you see. And this is how the story ran: Once, years ago, when the Knoxes lived there, they had a little adopted child with them and one day, when nobody was looking, the child tumbled down the well. When the well was dragged a large black cat was found in It Instead of a child. The rescuers put the cat on the ground, and it came to, and dashed into the woods screaming and crying like a young child. A spook, as sure as you're born! The Knoxes had evidently done something to peeve the child, for the ghost began to haunt the place In the most disagreeable manner. It went screaming and crying around the house on dark nights; it set fire to the barn and tore a big hole in the roof and scared the family so that they all moved away. "My opinion is, and always will be. that Marlon's own mother came and kidnapped her," said Mrs. Williams. "That's what I'd do if somebody was to go and adopt one of my children. You can't tell me that a child could turn into a black cat, so there!" Miss Williams laughed and agreed with her mother, but, even so, there was something creepy about the new schoolhouse. She decided that the underbrush In the brook which ran close to the house must be cleaned away. Everybody In the school was very fond of the teacher, so it was not long before three of the biggest boys and two biggest girls decided to give their teacher a surprise. "She never hangs around after school," said Joe Russell. "We can put in several hours Saturday afternoon and clean out the brook and the brush back of the woodshed."

"I'll be there," promised Harry Lynds. "and so will my brother Andy." Grace Healy was sure she wouldn't be afraid with these three stalwart boys along, and her chum, Sylvia Torry, was the kind who liked to be thrilled and scared. That Saturday afternoon on which the five had agreed to meet at the schoolhouse, was a smoky, gray day, with falling leaves and a sighing breeze that somehow chilled one's bones. Harry Lynds and his brother

Harry came hurrying Up, and looked at what Andy was staring at. The boardwalk between the schoolhouse and the woodshed, which had been perfectly all right the day before, was all torn up. There were long marks on the upturned soil, like rake -narks. The new turned earth showed tracks, big round tracks. Harry burst out laughing. "I bet some of the others are here and trying to scare us!" he exclaimed. "Well," said Andy, "I shouldn't think they'd have gone as far as tearing up the boardwalk and the grass." Harry bent over the tracks. "It's a joke, I'm sure," he muttered. Just then they heard voices and

Harry Suddenly Remembered the Ghost.

got there first and instead of sitting around, they decided to start work at once. They cleared quite a lot of brush, dragging it to a place near the road where later they would burn it. Then Harry got a bright idea. "Let's hide in the woods and give the others a scare," he said, and, of courss. Andy agreed. He went to the woodshed to hide a hatchet he had brought, when suddenly he stopped and called: "Harry!"

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saw Grace and Sylvia coming

beside them walked Joe. "Quick, let's hide!" Harry whispered, and the two boys hasten! Into the dense woods along the brook. "I bet they saw us!" said Andy. They seemed to hear somebody following them, so they ran still further into the woods, keeping close to the brook, so as not to lose their way. They had gone even further than they meant to when all of a sudden

they heard a baby crying. "Gee!" exclaimed Harry, looking back, at his brother. "That's queer. There isn't a house inside a mile of here and still I hear a kid bawling, don't you?" Andy did not reply, but he looked scared and Harry suddenly remembered the ghost. The cry sounded again not far off. Andy caught hold of his brother' arm but Harry shook him off. "I want to see a ghost, honest I do," Harry whispered. "You go back. If you like. But maybe you'll wish you'd come along." Andy decided at once to stick to his brother, and looking around he found a good stout club. Somehow it made him feel safer. They began moving slowly in the direction of the cry. As they moved they heard another cry, further off, and Andy said: "It's luring us deeper and deeper in." They suddenly came to a verystrange place which they had never seen before. The brook made a sudden turn there and near the bend was a tall rock, pointed at the top like a crag, only it wasn't as large as a mountain crag. Just as they came in sight of it. Harry said: "Woof!" Then he turned around, looking a little white, but grinning. "I saw it," he said. They hastened back to the schoolhouse, but when they got there their friends had cleared off. Andy ran out in the road and shouted after them. "Come back!" he called. "It's all right. Harry saw the ghost!" Back hastened the two girls and Joe, full of questions. Harry was grinning broadly. "You saw the ghost, Hafry!" exclaimed Grace. "What was It like?" asked Joe. "Oh, do tell us!" cried Sylvia. "Yep," said Harry, "I saw the ghost. It's a cat and it cries like a baby. It's a panther!" You should have seen them all Jump then! The brush wasn't cleaned out that day, but soon the men took hold and cleaned it, and went on a wildcat chase, too. But the animal had gone away, leaving tracks which convinced everybody that he was a giant of his kind. "I'm glad the mystery Is cleared," said Miss Williams to her mother. "I suppose lightning set fire to the barn. Anyhow, now that the brook Is cleaned out and a part of the woods fenced off, the schoolhouse isn't spooky at all."

The HANDY BOY AT HONE BT CHARLES A. KING. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. PLYMOUTH.N.H.

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HAT housekeeper has not longed for a place In which the school books and other daily used books and corre

spondence may be placed in an orderly manner, and where envelopes and note paper may be kept ready for a hurried note? This case provides more than seven feet of shelves including the space occupied on the table top. The project may be made of any desired wood, even of the wood of a discarded packing case, for often pieces of board suitable for painted work may be found, and we must all practice "Safety First". The material needed is, 2 ends, " x IVz x 21 long: shelf a. x 6" x 23" long; shelf b, Vi" x 61,4" x 23" long; shelf c, Vz" x 5" x 23" long. Back d. Va" x x 23" long; back e, x 5" x 23" long; 2 partitions f. x 64"

wide and 2 long. Note that the partitions are wider than long; the length of a piece of wood is always parallel with its grain. The lengths of the shelves, the backs and the partitions considers grooving$or housing them In 3-16" on each end, as shown In the section g. In every case where a shelf is fitted, the front edge must be set back from the edge of the end about " as shown at h, and the partition set back of the edge of the shelf as shown at k. First prepare the pieces, work the ends, shelves and backs to the desired size and form. Cut the shoulders 1 by putting the shelves together and marking and cutting them as one shelf; keep the front edges flush and ends even, mark with a knife point, and saw accurately beside and outside of the knife mark to be sure the

THE JUNIOR COOK

GRAPE JELLY FOR A BEGINNER Lift out the nicest bunches of grapes from a basket. Wash carefully and when drained, put them in a cool place for eating. About half the basketful will be less attractive looking bunches and those can be used at once for Jelly. Strip the grapes from the stems.

wash and put into a saucepan with Two apples cut. Into quarters. Pour on cold water till you can see the water at the side of the grapes. Boll for fifteen minutes. Pour Into a Jelly bas and drain till cool. Press out all the Juice. Put a pint of Juice and a pint of

sugar into a good sized saucepan. Stir till the sugar Is dissolved and then boil till five drops hang together when the liquid ia dripped off the spoon. Pour into glasses. No matter how much Juice there may be, never boil more than one pint in one pan. The apple makes the Jelly nicer and is much easier for a beginner.

shoulders are exactly the same distance apart on all the shelves. Plane the shelves until they are their final thickness and make the grooves on the inside of the ends to receive them, measuring their width by the thickness of the shelf itself, not with a rule. Locate the height distance of the grooves by marking both ends at the same time; make the grooves a strong 3-16" deep and fit the shoulders carefully at h. Mark the grooves with a knife point and work accurately. Cut the grooves in the shelves to receive the partitions by the same method. If It Is decided to nail the case together with butt Joints only, the allowance for the grooving, on each shelf and partition may be dispensed with and the pieces cut exactly their right length. The grooved construction makes so much better Job that the square or butted case Is not advised, unless the grooved Joint is beyond the skill of the worker. The stiffness of the. case depends entirely upon the backs d and e, so these pieces must be fitted carefully and nailed strongly. After the fitting Is completed each piece may be smoothed and sandpapered, and the case nailed together, and finished by staining or painting as desired.

IT SERVES HIM RIGHT

(To be colored with paints or crayons. Whenever you come to a word spelled in CAPITAL letters use that color.)

ERE'S a BLUE sky with plenty of fleecy white clouds peeping over the GREEN hills. Bobby is on the GRAY stone top of the

RED brick school wall, eating a RED apple. Bobby wears a YELLOW suit with a large white Peter Pan collar and butons and a bright RED necktie. He has YELLOW hair and his cheeks are PINK like all his little school mates' cheeks. His stockings and shoes are TAN (YELLOW and RED will make this color). There's a YELLOW house- with a RED roof and chimney and there are BLUE-GREEN trees In the d.stance at the top of a dusty BROWN path. Friend Robin sits in a GREEN leaved bush. His proud RED chest poked out till one can scarcely see his cute GRAY coat and his YELLOW bill wide open singing to the light PURPLE flowers with YELLOW centers that bloom on the bush. Raj ia playing marbles with Teddy.

Ray wears a sailor suit which has BLUE collar, cuffs and pants. It also has a RED star on the collar and a P.ED emblem on the sleeve. His socks are a GREEN-BROWN tweed

I color 'with RED and GREEN plaid at

the tops. "Your hair is Just the color of Bobby's stockings." Teddy says to Ray. "Mine's BROWN." "Mine's called RED. I guess its got a bit more RED in it than Bobby's shoes have. How do you fancy my marble bag? It's RED enough" replies Ray. "I like it, says Teddy. "Mother made this one I have here out of a piece of my light GREEN suit My tie Is a darker GREEN and the collar and cuffs are white." Teddy's socks are GREEN and his shoes are BROWN like Ray's are. The marbles are GREEN, RED, YELLOW, PURPLE and BLUE. That Is Teddy's YELLOW sailor hat lying on the GRAY (to get this use

BLACK thinned out) cement walk. Molly is playing tag on the GREEN grass plot with Fannie. Molly's dress is PINK and her hair is YELLOW. Her sash, shoes and socks are white. Fannie's dress is ORANGE color with big white dots and a white belt. Her hair is BROWN, like Teddy's. Little Sally and Mary find Sally's RED reader very Interesting. Sally has her cute little BLUE cape dress on with a BLUE hat to match it. The lining of her cape is REr. So is the feather in her hat. Mary has a lavender dress on (light PURPLE can be used for this) and there are flowers and ribbons on her hat of the same color. Her hat is BROWN straw, faced with LAVENDER. The collar, cuffs and sash of her dress are white. Sally's hair is YELLOW while Mary's is, like her brother Ray's. The border can be BROWN and the lettering in the BLUE sky Is YELLOW.

JTl OOH wouldn't you hate to be a H II little old tack-puller, all shut up H U in the stuffy tool chest for life! jr But It serves the tack-puller exactly right, yes sir, because once upon a time the tack-puller wasn't a tackpuller at all but the meanest, the very meanest little dwarf! Ugh! Here's the truth about him. He was a scroogy-faced little nothing-at all who spent his time rushing about and pulling all sorts of things that he had no business to pull, such as little girls' curls and the cat's tail and his neighbor's watermelons. Then when folks scolded him he would fly into a rage and stamp and stamp, and jump up and down and stamp some more, until his nosewas blue, and his hair stood on end, and everybody for miles around hurried down town lor a pair of ear-muffs to protect themselves from the racket. Of course they all knew that sooner or later that plaguey little dwarf would carry his naughtiness too far, and sure enough one beautiful moon-

j light night he did. Just as the loveI liest little fairy-girl slipped out from

the heart of a rose to dance on the grass in the moonlight, he reached for one of her curls and pulled it hard. The fairy-girl was both hurt and frightened and she screamed. The wretched dwarf pulled harder and the lovely fairy curl came oft In his hand! Then there was an uproar. The fairy-girl not only screamed; she SHRIEKED! The dwarf began to stamp with fury, and he stamped and yelled and stamped and stamped until suddenly he had the queerest feeling in his right side. He looked down and bless you his right side wasn't there. Then he had the queerest feeling in his left side.

and he looked down and would you believe it there was neither hide nor hair of a left side either. The very next moment he had a queer feeling in his head and after that he didn't have another single feeling In the

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HSJRGT PRACTICE

Little Tommy Tucker's Dog Bow, Wow, Wow!

Bobbie Is trying out his new bow and arrow. He wants to make 100 count In four shots If possible, and have each shot land in a different ring. Can he do it? What four numbers does he hit?

PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? OU'VE heard about that cat that said to London she had been And scared a timid little mouse while visiting the queen?" Asked little Tommy Tucker's Dog in quite a serious way ;

"1 thought you had most everyone has heard the tale but, say. To swallow that account would be a very great mistake. For, after having talked with her, I think that cat's a fake. She took the greatest pains to tell exactly what occurred But J just sat aad iooked and looked and never said a word."

world, for his head was gone and all the rest of him was gone and all that was left of him was one wicked stampy foot which had turned to metal while the leg above it had turned to wood. In fact that little dwarf was nothing under the sun but a little tackpuller, and I'm sure that under the circumstances he didn't deserve to live in any better place than the family tool chest, aren't you?

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STATE INITIALS 1. Place 6 birds, one under the other, so that their Initials spell the name of one of th Northern States. 2. Place 5 flowers, one under the other, so the Initials spell the name of one of the Northwest States. FOUND IN CALIFORXH 2 Animals 3 Girl's names A grain A continent A healing liquid A tree Den Of A Wild Animal Easily broken A bird AKSWERS STATE IXITIALS 1 D weft A uk K ito 0 wl T utkey A Ibatross 2 1 ris D aisy A rbutus H yacinth O r chid FOUND IK CALIFORNIA LionCalf; Alicia-Flora-Clara; Corn; Africa; Arnica; Fir; Lair; Frail; Falcon. Answer; 9 In center. 1 in ring next to center; 51 in third ring, and 33 in outer ring. j

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