Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 307, 11 November 1916 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

NEW8 OF THE BOYS AND . GIRLS OF WAYNE COUNTY IN THE JUNIOR BOYS AND GIRLS WRITE MANY INTERESTING LET. TERS TOMUNIOR" RICHMOND, IND., SATURDAY. NOV. 11, 1916

An Imaginary Story Once long, long ago there were trees that could talk. This tree lived In a great forest. . One day a man came to the tree and said, I think you would make good fire wood. The tree said get out of my sight

quick or i win nave you Deaten. The man said I will not go away. All right said the tree.. So he took his limbs and gave the man such a blow it sent the man tumbling. The man screamed with pain and started to run. Then the tree said, "No, you are not going yet.' The tree picked the man up and gave him a hard ehaking and then told him to go home and stay. The man went home and told his wife what had happened. . - The woman said, I'll go get the wood if you will mind the house. "All right," said the man. ' So the woman started and she said: There are the cows to milk, yarn to spin, butter to make. The woman went to get wood. The man started to milk and he did not know how and the cow kicked him. - This made his afraid and he ran to the house. He started to spin the loom would not work. Then he started to churn and didn't know how. At first he was puzzled then he said. I'll buy the things. She will .never know the difference. The man could not buy any of the things he wanted. He said, what do I care. At noon his wife came home for her dinner. She had got three loads of wood. When she came home with the wood the man was surprised and he said, "Where did you get it? The woman said, "Out in the woods where did you suppose? I want my dinner. I forgot it," said the man. "Give me some milk," said the woman. I haven't milked yet Baid the man. Give me some butter said the woman. I have not churned yet," said the man. Let me see the cloth you have been spinning. I have not been spinning," said the man. I'll stay at home myself this afternoon and you can go cut wood yourself," said the woman. The man went to his work and the worn- " an stayed at home and they never traded work again. R. OLER. GIRLS DO SEWING Last week while the girls of Starr school were sewing the boys fixed up postcards by pasting the backs together, and gave them to the Day Nursery and the Margaret Smith Home.

Boys Enjoy Visit Out On The Farm

Tom Reed and Ned Brown lived . close together in a large city and had never been in the country very much. Tom was eight years old and Ned was five months older. Tom's grandpa and grandma Jones lived on a farm ten miles from where he lived. One summer Tom's grandpa wanted him to come and stay a - week or two with them. As Tom had not been on a farm very much he was very anxious to go. lie wanted his little friend to go with him. On Sunday evening Tom and Ned started home with Mr. and Mrs. Jones. On Monday Tom's grandma was going to wash and the boys helped her which was fun for both, for their mothers hired their washing done. After the washing was finished they played with the dog and had some more fun. On Tuesday they carried water to Mr. Jones and the hired men while they made hay. They also got to ride on the wagon and play In the hay. . Wednesday was another nice warm day, so the boys took the dog and their lunch which was fixed for them and went to the woods to play. There was a small creek

Joseph Swearinger Elected Mayor of Boytown

Joseph Swearinger has been elected mayor by a good majority in the vote of Boy City held Tuesday afternoon. Since he is a High School sophomore and very enthusiastic over Boytown affairs, the indications are that he will make an admirable leader. Elmer Bescher of Garfield, whose father is city clerk, was elected clerk of Boytown, with Louis Weidner of High School a close second. Greatest interest was taken

Father Fools Two Sons Who Tried to Fool Him

Joe and Tom had Just been scolded by their father and were out behind the woodshed sulking. Suddenly Joe jumped up excitedly and cried out, "Tonight is Halloween! Le's dress up like Aunt Mandie and Uncle Jake's ghosts and go into town. Come on, I'm goin in and ask dad to let us go to town tonight. But don'tvyou dare whisper a word about dressin' up, or he wouldn't let us go. Their father gave them permission to go, "Bern's they was boys, and boys is boys, an' well enough I liked to do such things when I was their size." About dusk Joe quietly went up stairs and picked up a bundle they had already packed, and they threw it out the window to the Other side of the fence where Tom was waiting to catch it. He then went down stairs and Informed his parents he guessed they might as well be starting toward town. When Joe and Tom came to the turn in the road they got behind a bunch of trees and dressed up. When they were all ready they went on into town. After wandering around all over town until half past ten they startIn the woods which the boys played in most of the forenoon. They both soon began to get hungry and ate their lunch. For lunch they had bread and butter sandwiches, cold chicken, cake and an apple each. In the afternoon they played some games and about five o'clock went home. On their way . home they took the cows along. It was about five o'clock when Mrs. Jones saw them coming into the yard. They said they had had more fun that day than they had had for a long time. Thursday and Friday were rainy days and the boys had to play around the house and barn. They played marbles, hide and-go-seek and other games. On Saturday forenoon they played around most of the time because they knew Tom's grandma was going to bake cookies and they would get some. When they were baked Mrs. Jones called them in and gave them each two. In the afternoon they played and tried to help Mr. Jones do some work around the yard. .. . On Sunday Tom and Ned's fathers and mothers came after them. They said they had had a lot of fun all week but they had had the most fun on Wednesday. EVA GLUNT.

in this first election at all the schools and in many places it was used as a civic3 lesson, each room being a precinct and the boys voting so that all the girls could see how voting was carried on. The only disappointing part of the election to any large division was that Vaile school failed to send in their votes soon enough to be counted, and they were lost. The list of new councilmen are: Robert Kelsey, high

ed home. There was a short cut by, which they could go, but it led through two very thick woods. But Joe and Tom thought themselves very brave and started through. About half way through was a place that had weird stories attached to it. Here Josiah Catea had hung himself by a rope on one of the oak trees, and for all the years since, the big grey rope hung there, swaying back and forth, and flapping against the other trees on windy nights. A deep creek ran through the woods and here old widow Moore had drowned thirteen cats because they always meowed so at night. But despite all these things, Joe and Tom passed safely through the thickets,' yet - not without imagining large yellow cat eyes were glowering at them from all sides. When they reached home everything was quiet and Tom suggested they stretch a barb wire across the road in front of , the house. This done, they took down the clothes line, pulled a few boards off the wark and porch, intending to give the impression that other boys had done the mischief. At the breakfast table the next morning, the boys' father Baid he had to get out in the field early the next morning and he saw that someone had cluttered things up pretty badly around the house. And as company was coming the next day, he thought the boys would have time to straighten things up. The boys looked at each other In surprise, and then went to work to straighten up what their own hands had torn . down. MYRTLE GIBSON Economy, Ind. PRIZE COMPOSITION A Good Watch Dog My aunt has a large black dog. His hair is long, black and curly, His name is Niger.' Wherever my aunt went the dog followed her. One day she started to the garden across the field from the house. It was very hot and so she was going to take a bucket of water to water some plants. When' she got about half way across the field she heard someone call her and sat the bucket down and went to see who it was. When she got up she saw it was her sister and she was there all day. The next day she started to the garden and saw her bucket and her dog at the side of it. - This is a true story. WESLEY McCOY 6 B Whiteatcr School TAKE WOODWORK The boys of Starr School took wood work Wednesday afternoon.

school councilman at large ; Francis Gable and Richard Fienning, Garfield councilman at large; Herman Tietz, Finley councilman; Everett Weaver, Warner councilman ; John Rizio, Whitewater councilman; Rudolph Weidner, Hibberd councilman; Roy Hawekotte, Vaile councilman ; Lewis Davis, Baxter councilman; John Cook, Sevastopol councilman. Candidates Miner and Warner tied in the race for councilman from Starr school.

A POOR TRICK Last Halloween there was a boy whose name was John, and he said he was going to play a trick on the automobiles that passed, and so he got some bottles and rocks and broke the bottles out In the street ' And soon an automobile came by and he ran over the glass and had a hole In his tires, and John began tto laugh and this man heard him, and was looking around. And .then came a gang of people singing a song. John had a police man suit and so he said he was going to dress up. And then when they went by his house, he took his pistol and shot up In the air, and these men Btopped their singing. And when John came up they said, "Come to Jail. I am going to lock you up." JOESEPPE DI FEDERICO

Mary's Happy Day

"It just wont look nice," Mary was saying, while standing before a little mirror In the corner of a long dormitory which 'had a row of very neat beds on each side of the room. Mary had been found on the steps of a church when she was Just a little baby and had never known of anything but the long rows of neat beds and the matron coming in to I make them each morning. Just as two large tears were falling down her cheeks, because her straight red hair would not look nice. The matron, Miss White, who was very strict sometimes came in the room and said, "Mary, what are you doing up here now. You should have been down stairs half and hour ago." At this she went out slamming the door behind. Mary went down stairs in a hur ry and found a great many people there adopting the children. Mary wondered how it would feel to have a nice mother to come and kiss her of a night when she would go to bed. Just then an elderlr lady came up to her and said. "Would you like to be my little girl?" Mary was so overcome that she Just gasped, "Yes," and that was all. "You can help my husband and me work. What is your name?" "Mary Church. I was found on the church steps and I have named myself that," said Mary. . "Well, well, that is very nice; come on and we will go." They went out to a buggy with a fat pony which Mary went up to give it a friendly pat on the head. Then she Jumped in the buggy and rode to a pretty cottage. They were Just going to turn in the gate when she saw a man running up to open it and a dog barking, after him. They went in the gate and the man put the horse away. They then went in the little cottage that had vines all over it. The supper was all ready and they sat down and oh! what a good supper it was cold chicken, good cream

Brave Boy Rescues Imprisoned Princess Once upon a time there was a glass mountain. On top was s golden apple tree and a beautiful

palace, and in the tower at the top of the paVace was a beautiful princess who had been shut up by witch. She could not be free until some prince would climb the mount aln and )et her out. ' The king had offered half hia kingdom to the man who could do this. All the princes came from far and near and tried to climb the mountain, but it was so slick that they fell and were killed. At last a shepherd boy came. He cut the feet off of a fox and tied them on his feet and hands, then started up the mountain, digging the claws into the glass. He got half way up the mountain when night overtook him. He hung there for a long time. Then he saw a black bird flying over him. The boy caught hold of the bird's feet and the bird flew over the apple tree. Then the boy let go and fell into the tree. He climbed down the tree and went to the tower and let, mo yiiuviCDD wub The first thing the princess asked was, "Have you Been the black bird?" When the boy told her, she said it was a beautiful fairy who had been turned into a bird until someone climbed the mountain. Then they heard the palace gates close, and there was the beautiful fairy. : ' ' The fairy thanked the boy very much. Then the boy and the princess were married and lived happily ever after, j. Contributed by' FLORENCETLAWSON .', Vaile School KEEPING SUNDAY A scholar at Starr school said a hen never laid eggs on Sunday. RAYMOND GENTRY and home made bread. When they had finished, Uncle Joe and Aunt Alice (that is what they told Mary to call them) got up and went in the other room to read the evening paper. It seemed to Mary as if she was dreaming. , Pretty soon Aunt Alice came nut and said, "Mary, I think it is nearly bed time." She took Mary up stairs to a pretty bed room with a bed in Just to fit her. She went to bed and Aunt Alice kissed her and she was soon to sleep dreaming of what a happy day it had been. And as all stories end she lived happily ever after. mini .ottus rnT.vrv 6 A Grade Starr School 12 years. FROM OLD MAYOR OF THE BOYTOWN "There are several things I would like to see put across," Baid the former Mayor of Boytown, Benjamin Harris. "There's that Boy Pageant which for various reasons was not given during the Centennial, and a - playground in Starr park, and then some kind of a swimming pool that's sanitary out at the playgrounds or down by Morton lake or somewhere. I think we need that, and I'd like to see those things put through.. "Boytown is a great thing. The interest sort of died down for a while, but it's got started up again and I hope it stays. . "But it just amounts to this. One boy can't do the whole thing and make it a go. It takes every boy in the city back of the movement to put it through, and I 'hope the new mayor and other officers have all the boys back of them." MUSICIAN "Is he a finished musician?" asked a man of his neighbor. ' "Not yet," was the answer, "but ho will be if the neighbors have their way about tt." '.: GLENN MOTE i Starr School.