Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 275, 29 September 1917 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM

Do Your Bit For America 8lacker Forget To Save RICHMOND, IND., SEPT. 29, 1917.

THE MAN FROM THE GREAT WILD WEST Once upon a time in the wild west when they were breaking in horses a man named Buffalo Bill was captain of them all in the gang. They broke in all of the horses. He stayed with the cowboys till he was very old. Then he joined the circus. He became very wealthy and he bought the circus. The end. Roland N. Worth, Finley school.

Thelmabell and the Girl Flower Once upon a time there was a poor family and they were very poor. The old lady had five children and it was a very cold day. They did not have anything to eat or any fire. They did not have any father. He had been killed at a fair or else a race. Poor little Thelmabell was sick in bed and hadn't had anything to eat for three days. And they did not have a nice bed to sleep on, either. "Oil," said poor Thelmabell, "if I only had a bite to eat." And at (hat moment, in came a lit lo flower girl and said "Good morning, my friend." As she said this, she set her basket down and opened it. "You look weak, my friend," she said. No one was at home but Thelmabell and this strange girl. So the flower girl went to the cupboard and got a plate and ffxed her a good breakfast. Then she came back and gave it to Thelmabell. While the little sick girl was eating, the strange girl looked at her hard and she said, "I am a fairy. Since your sisters cannot take care of you any longer, I am now your fairy god-mother." And they lived happy ever after. -T. B. W., Finley School. A FAIRY STORY There was once a little boy and girl that lived next door to each other. And one day the little boy said to the little girl, "Let's take a walk in the woods." "All right," said the girl. While they were in the woods the little girl said, "I am tired." And the boy said, "So am I, let's lie down." So they did and after while they went to sleep. And while they were asleep they dreamt. They saw a fairy come up to them and she said, "Will you come and have dinner with me?" "Yes," said the children. The children followed her until they came to a bare space in the woods and they ate dinner with the fairy there. And just then they awoke and there was a little squirrel. Frances Pratt, Finley school. THE TWO WISHES One day as I was walking in the woods I met a fairy. I said "Hello." She asked me if I wanted to visit her home. I said, "Yes." So Bhe took me to a tree. Then she took a little golden key and unlocked a door in it. She told me to follow her and bo I did. We walked down a narrow hall about a square long. Then she said, "Open," and a door opened and we walked in. There were fairies dancing and playing music. Then she took me into a room and gave me a stone and said, "Rub this stone and ev ery thing you wish will come true So I went home and wished for a Maxwell and a bike. In a minute there they both stood in front of me. Gilbert Snider, Finley school. THE MAGIC PAINTS (A Fairy Story.) One day I was painting in the woods. I saw a fairy. She had pretty clothes. I was trying to paint a picture. It was not a very good picture. She said, "My child do you want to paint better? Go home and on your door step there will be a key. Take that and go to the first pine. There is a key hole. Unlock the door and you will find some magic paints. Take these and paint for a year. Then you will be the greatest painter in the world." 1 did this and I became the greatest painter in the world. Howard Hosbrook, Finley school. The planet Mercury is 36,000,000 Miles away from the sun.

MABLE AND THE WISHES

Once there was a little .girl her name was Mable. She was out playing one day, and had wandered off from home. She was picking flowers, then she heard, a little sound and it became louder and louder. She looked all around to see where it was but she couldn't see where it came from. She walked around a little bush and there she saw an elf and a spider fighting, the spider had broke the elf's sword and the spidei was beating him of course. So Mable saw a big stone. She picked it up and walked over to them and dropped the big spider and you heard a noise. And that was all. The elf gave Mable five wishes and Mable went home and never said a word about it. As she grew older she. had 3 left and when she was 20- years old, she got married to a prince and she gave them to him for a present. And she was happy all her life. Leota Hosbrook, 5A grade, Finley school. My Two Vacation Trips This summer we went to Indianapolis in a machine. We started about half past four one Saturday afternoon and we arrived in IndianaDolis about half past nine. We stopped on the road to eat our sup-! per and we had to detour nine miles where they are fixing the National road. When we got on Central Ave, we had ridden seventy-nine miles. We started for Richmond Monday morning. One Sunday some friends from Dayton came over to see us. In about a week we went over to see them. We took canoe rides and auto rides and had a lovely time. We stayed about three weeks. We went out to the Soldier's Home. I saw the largest gold fish there. And I saw how bananas grow. I went to two picnics out to the place where the soldiers were camping. There is a firm in Dayton that owns the park that the soldiers are camping in. They 1 have built little three-sided build ings with cupboards with knives and fork plates and cups in them and a little oven made out of stones. The employees of this firm can invite their friends and have a picnic Alice Palmer, Finley school. THE FAIRY GUARDIAN Once upon a time my brother and I were out walking in the woods. 1 started to climb a tree when I saw a little fairy standing there. Kne said, "Do not climb the tree or you I will fall and break your leg because it is so old." When I looked around again she was not there. I went towards an old oak tree. I threw a rock to get an acorn. Just then the fairy was standing there. This time she said, "Do not eat the nuts which are on the tree because who ever eats them will die." This time I did not go to another tree, but I went on until I came to a little house. I knocked. Nobody came to the door. I went around the house and looked in e.i the window. I did not see anybody so I walked in. When I started to go out the lit tle fairy was standing in the door way. She said, "You did as I told you. ,So wish what you want. "I wish I was home," I said. Then I looked up agala and I was home. Floyd Williams, Finley school. A Few Weeks of My Vacation Dear Aunt Molly: I stayed at home this summer I mean I did not go to any other city. I worked at home, washed dislips, cleaned house and ever so many things. 1 went out to my Uncle George's and stayed three days. I helped with the work there too. Then Marie and I went to get the cows every morning and night. When Sunday camo we were out under the tree eating apples and two of our friends came to spend the day. Wo helped get dinner. We had corn, home-grown butterbeans and lots of other thinga. After dinner wo got the horse named Shalk and we rode him all, afternoon, not on the road, out in the pasture. We had a fine time that day. Elsie Baker, Finley school.

LITTLE DICK'S EXPERIENCE IN FAIRYLAND

Dick was a very small uuy of about five years old. He lived with bJsJjnarK. HetooK him home and cu father and mother in a beautiful little cottage, near the sea shore. EveryT"rPen he found his boy

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night his mother would take him upon her lap, and tell him fairy stories until he would fall asleep. One night his mother told him a Btory about a beautiful fairy queen, who came to little children when they were good and gave them many beautiful presents and wishes. She rocked him until he fell asleep. Then she laid him in his little white bed while he dreamed of the fairies. After his mother had gone out of his room and closed the door, Dick was awakened by a light touch upon his forehead. He sat straight up in his bed, rubbing his eyes, forfthere upon his bed sat a tiny fairy queen waving her wand and smiling at him. Dick was so surprised that he could do nothing but stare. Finally she spoke to him in a small voice, "Come with me, Dick, and I will show you many pretty things, for you have been a good boy today." Then the fairy took him by the hand and as she waved her wand

over him he became smaller and smaller until he was only as large as the queen. She took him by the hand and flew to a beautiful city where the fairies lived. Then she took him to her own palace, where Bhe showed him many beautiful rooms and jewels. -After that she took him in a small room where there was a beautiful little table loaded down with good things to eat. When he had eaten all he wanted, she took him back to his own room. After that he made many more visits to the fairy queen. Margaret Graham, Finley School.

How Dorothy Escaped Gypsies. the Once upon a time there was a girl by the name of Dorothy and her friend Rose was staying at her house. There was a camp of bad gypsies who stole every thing in sight near them. So one night, when every body was in bed and asleep all but Dorothy who had the toothache and could not sleep, a great crash was heard. Dorothy jumped up out of bed and turned on the light down stairs which could be turned on up! stairs by a switch. The gypsies got in and broke the lamp and stole Dorothy's birds. The next day when Dorothy and her friend Rose went out walking they decided to have the gypsies arrested. Rose went one way and Dorothy the other way. They were supposed to meet each other on the path. Rose got there before Dorothy. Rose kept on waiting for her, but she did not come because the gypsies had stolen Dorothy. Rose went home and told Dorothy's mother. They got Dorothy back and drove the gypsies out of town. Charlotte Dingley, Finley School. Seigfried, Stage Coach Robber Once there lived in the western plains, a man named Seigfried. And he had a partner named Jim. So one day they heard that the bank was going to send gold on the stage coach. They planned a plot for a hold up. SO they got the gold and hid it and went to the fair and got all the money there, and they chased them but the two got away. They went to Australia and two spies came on th' same boat they did and caught them but they got away and came west again. , So one day they were having dinner and some cowboys came and put hand-cuffs on them and took them to tho court and sent them away for U. S. Mail Robbers. Ralph Anderson, Finley school. .

A FAIRY TALE Once upon a time a little girl

wished she had a little playmate to play with her. She went to her mother and said, "I wish I had some one to play with." And her mother said, "You can go and play in the woods for a while." So she went to the woods to play. After while she sat down to rest, and while she sat there a little fairy came and the little girl liked tl-ir, fairv an wt.ll flha WATltpfl the f , t " and , wlth h and stay with her all the time. But the fairy said, it could not be so, so the fairy had the little girl come and live with her, and she did Violet Parish, age 10, Finley School FINLEY SCHOOL EDITS JUNIOR This week the boys and girls of Finley school have been editing the Junior through their editorial staff which was composed of representatives for the upper grades, Alice Palmer, Clarlotte Dingley, Pauline Butler and Gilbert Snider, and they have been working very hard to make it the best Junior which ever has been published. Red Cross Work in Schools. In Indianapolis the girls from the 4A grade to the 6B take sewing every Thursday afternoon. .Every other week they have a special .sewing teacher and other weeks their regular teacher. - They learn how to patch and they make Christmas presents, learn how to make fancy fititches and last term they hemmed handkerchiefs for the soldi rs. They were going to help make wash rags and things for the base hospitals. While the girls are taking sewing the boys take woodwork. Alice Palmer. The earth is 93,000,000 away from the sun. miles

HE TRIED HIS BEST TO FIND IT. One day a lady, here in Richmond, who had heart disease, was playing with a little boy four years old named Arthur when she lost her breath. She said, "Oh! I've lost my breath." Then little -Arthur said, "Boy, go find breath." So he went in the house to hunt for the breath. His mother could not understand him and came out to know what he wanted. The lady Bald, 'lie's trying to find my breath." "Well," said little Arthur, "I'll go get Daddy. He'll find It." His father was a doctor. Alice Palmer.

A SHARK STORY Once upon a time there was a boy by the name of Jack. He lived with his father and mother near the seashore. His father was a great fisherman. Jack's father taught him to swim. There were a great many sharks in the sea. One time when little Jack was swimming he saw a great black thing coming towards him. He did not pay any attention to it. It was a shark. He ate the boy up. When it was evening the1 boy3 mother went put to call him. No answer came. That evening they called him and called him, but no answer came. Years past. One day his father was fishing when he caught a big shark. He took him home and cut We was still alive and his father and mother were bo glad. They gave him clean clothes and lived happy ever after. Charlotte Dingley, Finley school. THE TWO WICKED GIANTS Once upon a time I wentout into the woods and I saw a bear. I shot at him but did not kill him. I found a log cabin where two giants, lived. They had been after me for more than a year. That is why I came into the woods. One came to the door. I had to dodge h.'m. I pulled out my little gun and shot him and got away. The other one came to the door and found the body of the first giant. He got his long gun and went out hunting for me. I was hiding behind a tree. I pulled out my gun and shot him also. Then I got the cabin myself. Then I met a fairy. She told me to go to town and there they would give me wonderful things for killing the giants. Donald Hoffman, 4B Grade, Finley School. The Fairy and the Flowers One day my sister and I were walking through the woods and were gathering wild flowers. While we were gathering the wild flowers e met a fairy. The fairy told us that if we would give her our flowers she would giant us three wishes. We gave the fairy our flowers, but we did not take the three wishes, and ran home and told our story. Mother asked us why we "didn't take the three wishes and we told , her we were happy enough. Violet Ruby, Finley school. A THANK YOU LIST Since more articles were sent in from Finley school than the editors felt they could use, several had to beJeft out, but we wish to thank the following authors for their contributions just the same: Mary Pitsenbarger, Georgia Vertrees, Freida Deubner, Pauline Staley, Charlotte Ruby, Henry Bass, Lucile Howe, Elisabeth Byrket, Leroy Mustard, Charles Stephens, Lucile Watkins, and several others who forgot to sign their names. FINLEY SCHOOL BOYS ARE VERY POLITE This morning on the way to school I found a ball glove. I soon found the owner. He said he had been hunting for it. I found it in. the alley. He said, "Thank you." Gilbert Snider, Finley school. ' A FEW DONTS Don't waste paper. . Don't put your feet in the aisle. Don't lounge in your seat Don't act like you hadn't enough life to move, as some people do in school although they're full of life after school. Alice Palmer, Finley

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