Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 143, 28 April 1917 — Page 13

THE JUNIOR

PALLADIUM

BE LOYAL AND WEAR TOUR FLAG BE LOYAL AND PLANT A GARDEN, WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM "AMERICA FIRST" RICHMOND, IND., APRIL 28, 1917 BE A PATRIOT

HIBBERD CHILDREN SEE BIS CIRCUS UNLOADING Ilibberd school children had a rather exciting time yesterday morning. As they came to school they were greeted with the rumble of heavy "snow wagons drawn by eight powerful horses going down Eighth street. It was all they could do to turn their backs on the bright orange colored wagons which went past every few minutes, and to march into the school rooms, but they did. Then whenever they would try to get their minds onto dry old arithmetic problems or "something, a new wagon or a troop of horses would go by. But all at once the children heard the gong ring. They thought it was a fire drill, so all jumped up ready to obey orders, but it rang twice, and then twice more. It wasn't a real fire-drill, but they started out anyhow. Then someone called out "Hore come the elephant!" And such squealing you never heard. One boy paid he was so excited he slid all the way down stairs on his heels, and another girl fell through the bushes after she got out doors. School was dismissed at pgsfc ten, and in spite Ttie pouring rain almost aii 6f the boys and girls Tent up town to see the parade. They all agreed that it was one of the biggest shows that had come to Richmond for some time, and since there was so much to tell that we could not begin to get it in this week, you can look for the part about the baby elephants, and baby kangaroos next week.

(JAttFlELD STUDENTS GIVE GOOD PROGRAMS Once a week each room at Garfield school has a program which is given almost entirely by the students themselves. The following Is a report from room 13: The meeting was called to order and the minutes of the last meeting were read by the secretary. The program followed: Bible reading T. Brehm. , Story R. Appleton. i Violin solo Lyell Beam. ! Current events E. Atkinson. 1 Poem P. Blossom. ! Poem L. Benge. ! Riddles C. Bradley, t Story H. Bloemke. I Council report M. Ball. ' Vfolin solo Joy Bailey. . German poem A. Baker. Talk Mr. Wilson.

Tells About His Life Oh Wayne County Farm , I, like the Junior fine. I finished making garden yesterday and this 'is what is in it: Radishes, lettuce, cucumbers, beets, crfess, spinach, tomatoes and cabbage.

I have a bantam hen and did have a rooster but he died. I bought and feet six bantam eggs, but the hen is off so long when she eats that ,1 don't think they will hatch. There were so many, muskrats along the creek last fall that 1 started trapping and caught twenty, and made $4.50. Now since the trapping season is river I am catching moles, barn rats, mice and weasels. Papa gives me ten cents for every mole, five cents for every rat, fifteen cents for every weasel and five cents a dozen for mice. There are many ground hogs out here too. But they are very hard to catch they are so sharp. But last summer I caught two. . I haven't succeeded in catching any yet this year. . . , 1 have a nice "old. gray" cat named Molly, and two others, Tom and Fluff. Well that's all now. Tour friend, Raymond Augspurger, Age 12. Dear Raymond: your letter Is Trerv Interesting, hiit there is one i

thing i'J like to ask about. Is that "nice, old "gTay W.t" Supposed to be a name-sake? Aunt. M. - -

WHAT IS A HARBOR? ; Srar teacher- put eoroe geography fcri the board. , She asked t what J iarbor was. And Harry said. "A harbor, ia a place near the land where they park ships.' When our teacher told , what Harry said, we laughed. Don't you" think that is a good way to tell it. Elizabeth bodd, 4B, Warner.

NEW BOYS LEARN TO SWIM NEXT WEEK

Y. M.,C. A. Pool Open to Any Boy. Boys! Want to learn to swim? Now is your chance. All this next week there will be a swimming campaign at the Y. M. C A. when Mr. Schwan will teach any boy how to dive, float, and swim with most any stroke he wants to use. And best of all Mr. Schwan does not use the old method of taking you out and ducking you, but instead he uses the nicer way of Just playing games in the water until you get used to the water and begin to swim naturally. This is the first swimming campaign be has had here in Richmond, but those he had held in other cities has been most successful, especially when the grand climax comes on Saturday morning, because then he will hold a big water carnival, given entirely by the new swimmers who have learned their art within the week, coys, that carnival is a event" of a lifetime. Next Sntufaay morning at 0 O'clock. Better be there.

LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE COMES TO RICHMOND Next Wednesday, May 2, the real "'Little Orphant Annie" is coming i.0 Richmond. There will be a Riley entertainment at the High School, at which a lecture will be given by a talented speaker, and Mrs. Mary Gray, the original "story-teller of scary witch tales, will accompany him. Also there probably will be music by local school children, and perhaps a few recitations. This entertainment is given under the auspices of the Boys' Department of the Y. M. C. A. and many of the boys are selling tickets. A small admission of picture show prices Is being asked. .Twehly-five tickets will be given to children of the North 14th Street Mission, and the Boy Scouts are planning to attend in a body. All school children are bo interested in Riley and enjoy those Gob-bluns-that'll-git-you -ef-you-don't-Watch-out so much that when the real Little Orphant Annie is coming, there thould not fail to be a good crowd at the High School auditorium on Wednesday evening to hear the Riley lecture, and see her.

Dragged American Flag in "Parade There was a, child in a certain school who dragged the American flag. I am quite store; that the people that saw this felt very badly about it Leona EiUihs, 6B grade, Warner school.

Big Plans To Celebrate First Birthday of the Junior

May the sixth is the first birthday anniversary of the Junior Palladium. And of all the things that could be done to celebrate, the very best is going to happen. Can you guess? It is something that every boy and girl in Richmond can enjoy, from children too small to walk, to boys and girls old enough to be tennis champions. The long wished-for playground in Glen Miller park will be first opened on that day. The Board of Works has ordered the equipment already, and sked that it bo rushed through so that it will be here and ready for use by that date. This playground will be south east of the band-' stand, close to the pavilion, so that in case of rain the children will find easy shelter. The ground first spoken of for the playground is where the old elk park used to be, and has been plowed up for gardens to help out during the' war times. This grouud still is held for the good of the boys and girls, however, and after the present situation of our country has cleared up, the ground probably will be turned Into a base ball diamond as was first planned. But there will be three tennis courts iii the playground even now; and the other equipment, together with the cost of setting up the apparatus, probably will amount to over four hundred dollars. In order that the boys and girls may appreciate what this playground will mean, and use it accordingly, the list of articles which have been ordered, together with their cost, follows:

See-saw $ 45.00 - 2 Swing-sets (6 swings in each) 168.00 Complete slide , . . . . sd.oo Baby Hammocks i ........ . 36.00 Juvenile Swings ... 36.00 8-ladder Giant Stride 3G.75 ' Total ;$;56 ) 75 Our Glen Miller park is one of the most beautiful parks in the whole United States, and is noted throughout the country for its natural beauty. This generous act by the Board of Works has made the park doubly valuable for the boys and girls, and it is fitting that on this first anniversary of your first newspaper, you should also celebrate your new part of our greatest public park.

Left Pet Dog to Catch Train I had a dog and his name was Spot. He would do a:l kinds of tricks. Whenever he wanted scme more to eat he would ' park and whenever he. wanted in and could not get in he would go bow-bow. If we would take a piece of meat

and hold it up over his head he

would jump for it and do all sorts

of tricks. When we moved he got away Some now. if I had tried to catch him we would have missed the train. Now I miss him very much. A irue story. Everett, Age ,9, 4A Warner School.

Little Eight-Year Old Boy Writes Real "Busmess-Like" Letter

. Have you ever written on a typewriter? If you have, you can imagine how hard U must have been for 8-year-old .Robert McCoy of Elkhart, Indiana, to write this letter.., It was written to the Palladium man who. makes up the Junior for you every week, arranging the articles so they fit iii the right Spaces and putting the right headlines dyer your stories, placing the cuts and pictures so they will look nice, and fixing up all kinds of. borders! every once in a while, bo that you will like the Junior better. You haven't any idea how much he does for you, or else you would like him as well as this little Robert does, and maybe you would writ$ him a letter yourself.

, One, reason that Robert likes him so well is that this "Mr. Mac" always saves all the funny papers for him, and sends them to him each week. And so, when he had this chance to write a letter on the typewriter he sat right down and did it. And it was almost perfectly written, too. The- question mark was a little blurred, and the "r" in "summer" was blurred with a "4" besides one or two words being run close together, but that was all, and we think that was pretty good. The exact copy of the letter, as nearly as print could make it, follows:

.. ' ' . . April 23, 1917 Dear Mac : . . - ' i have hot written -you for a long-time. -How are you?. We are all .well . 'Anna and Mac were over for dinner yesterday. Fred-was -fishing:; Caught ' 13 fish. Howard went to Dubuque la. to see the girl he is going to marry this summer. "'' . v. ' ; Good-bye, ' -( . ' : . Robert . ' : P.S. I wrote this myself on Howard's typewriter. Bob."

SOLDIERS TALK TO THE BOY SCOUTS

The Boy Seouta of America, Troop 2, held their weekly .meeting on Wednesday night, April 25, anil had an Immensely Interesting time. Mr. Kinley said he had a surprise, for us and we all wondered what it was. So about In the middle of the meeting, Mr. Brammer and two soldiers, who are guarding the public buildings, bridges and waterworks, came in. Their names were Mr. Miller and Mr. Shoemaker. Mr. Brammer said that since Mr. Shoemaker was very bashful ha had to be a bodyguard for hi? gun ; hut. Mr. Miller was a college nan and so L wasn't" a bit bashful. He told us that for nine months they had been on constant duty, everywhere from Mexico to jtichmond, He told us that a soldier's life wasn't a cinch and that from seven in the morning to twelve at noon they were drilled, and that from one to four in the afternoon they were taught different ; army tactics. , On Christinas day they were along the border in Mexico and a severe sandstorm arose, in fact it was the worst , one . tbey had the whole time they were there," Tbey had turkey for dinner with all tnlj trimmings that go with turkey, but there was sand in everything, sand in coffee, sand injoup, sand in tur key, sand in mouth, eyes, nose and. ears. , . . . M :-. .. .., ; ,.-, , , After talking a while longer and telling many things; they- went away since they had to go on duty. They brought five boxes of hardtack up with them, and Mr. Brammer distributed three of them among us.. The hardtack is made out of bean flour and Is very nourishing. It has a peculiar taste. Tho Boldiers said that a man can live two weeks on hardtack and water. After thia Mr. Brammer' an

nounced mat mere would he a Dike on- Saturday, May 12, and that all the scouts arc to meet at the Y; M. C. A. at 12 o'clock. Reported by Earl Keisker.. : ...

My

Grandfather's Share in the Civil War

. My Grandfather Wilson was with Sherman in the War of the Rebel!Ion. "He; marched through rain and mud. The roads were so bad they could not get supplies from headquarters and they had to live on parched corn for about three weeks.. He was in the battle of MorJelta. Resaca, Lonsemon Mountains,. Jonesville, Ttenn,, Columbus 5 and; Franklin. They were defeated and' fell back to Nashville. They ctayed there one month. They got reinforcements arid drove the rebels cut of Tennessee, Then he went to. Washington, from there to North Carolina and was In the battle of Kingston, Springfield and then "went; to Greensborough and Btayed thereuntil the war over then they caniehome. That marching was very hard on my grandfather and badesores on his feet that caused him much pain still. - His name is James, T. Wilson. . He was 74 years old the 24th of last July, lie lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. ,1 am sure that, if he was hot so old he would fight for the United States now.-Alva Wjlson, Grade Five, St. Mary'a, School

THE BOOTBLACK'S DOG Once upori a time an officer wartraveilng in Paris. One day he wri' standing near a bridge and a litth dirty poodle dog ran up and begat rubbing against his hew boots. The dog got the officer'a boots alt dirty. The officer walked across, the bridge and saw a bootblack standing nearby so he got his boots cleaned. -The officer came again another day and the little dirty poodle dog got his boots dirty again so he got them cleaned again. The bootblack had the dog trained 'ta. get their boots dirty. He trained him trt wallow in the mud and get all dirty. So" he spoiled every gentleman's boots that crossed the bridge. Martha Smith, grade ; 4 A;.. Whitewater school.

All is not gold that glitter Never too late to mend.