Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 113, 23 March 1918 — Page 12

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THE JUNIOR

Th Junior Palladium la the children's, section of the Richmond Palladium, founded May 6, 1916, and issued each Saturday afternoon. All boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News items, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local jokes and original poems are acceptable and wlil be published. Articles should be written plainly and on one side of the paper, with the author's name and age signed. Aunt Molly is always glad to meet the children per sonally au they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive letters addrcsscu to the Junior Editor. This is your littlo newspaper and we hope each ooy and girl will use it thoroughly.

Dear Boys and Girls: How many of you are going to have a garden ? Wouldn't each one of you like to have a garden all your own ? Why don't you Junior Folks, it wouldn't take much of your time to tend it, and I am sure all of you have some little plot of ground that you could use. It isn't too early to begin a garden. Get a little box and start the plants right now so that when it does get warm enough to plant things in the ground you will have had yours already started. Then of course your plants will mature much faster and before the summer is over you will be able to use the same ground for another plant.

- Juniors, you don't have to plant your vegetables in rows like the grown folks do. You can make all sorts of designs and little patterns and if you do that, you will probably take more interest in watching the things develop. Another thing, folks, let us plant foodstuffs in our garden instead of flowers because the government has asked that we raise all the food that we can and if every one would raise flowers initead of food why of course the result would be disasterous. In every nation the little folks are helping to raise foods and surely you American folk3 do not want to be behind them. So Juniors lets us show our patriotism in still another way and sach have a garden. Folks who have a plot of ground and do not use it as a garden this summer are slackers. They are as bad army deserters and folks who do not buy Liberty Bonds when they have the money. AUNT MOLLY.

A Sleep Destroyer Every soldier knows the call and hates it which this bugler Is blowing "over there." It is. reveille. The Sammy keeps In time with "I hate to get up, I hate to get up, I hate to get up In the :nor-r-r-nlng. ; MY DOG - We had a dog named "Brownie." One day he went over to a neighbor's and ate some rat poison. He lied that night and In the morning I - buried ' him. George Farmer, A'est Ward School. Columbia City.

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PLAYING I have a large cat at home that Is all the time lying around the house wanting to Bleep. I have a little black and white dog that always wants to flgnt. One day I gave . the cat some milk. Pretty soon the dog came along and wanted some too. I didn't have any more so the dog was going to get the cats milk. The cat jumped on the dogs back and began to scratch and the dog ran away. Gerald Souder, Columbia City. BUTTERMILK ACCIDENT One Saturday some friends of mine and myself went to the creamery after some, buttermilk. The icy sidewalk prevented good walking. A friend o mine who is very, daring took the chance to walk on the icy walk but slipped and fell and spilled her buttermilk. I don't think she wilj kalk on icy sidewalks again while carrying buttermilk. Frieda Luecke. BEING AWARE When I was little I would go with my mother to Fort Wayne; . she would caution me to stay with her and not lag behind. So one day we were passing an old tenement building; I saw a badly 6haven dirty-looking man coming down the stairs. I eyed him closely and then whispered to my mother after he had passed by us. "Mama, do you think that man is a kidnapper?" I noticed she blushed and said "Oh. I guess not." Mary Kessler, Columbia City. SNOWBALL One day as I was out in the yard I saw a dirty white kitten coming down the walk. It came to me and wanted me to take it. I did and saw that it was very hungry. I went r in the - house and warmed some milk for it and gave it a bath. ' While it was drying in the sun it looked so pretty and white I thought I would call it Snowball. Martha Johnson, Columbia City.

Horse Becomes Frightened

One day as I was playing with my playmate I saw a horse. It was brown. It was standing alone. After while some of the boy began to shoot thir cap guns. This frightened the horse and it broke its halter and ran away. It ran out to my house. My father was unloading oats in the barn; the horse began to run through the barn, but the buggy would not go through. The horse pulled with all his might to get the buggy to go with him. The horse broke the bugcy all to pieces and ran on through the barn, and out into the leld. The man caught the horse in one corner of the field. The horse had run off many times before it ran out to our house. But it never ran off any more. Josephine Shook, 12 years old, 5-A prade. West Ward School, Columbia City. A SAUCY SQUIRREL On my way to school one morning I saw a little squirrel. It seemed to be very friendly. It came right up to me and when I talked to it, it would hold its head to one side as if it knew what I was saying. As dogs are always spying for something to chase, one spied the squirrel and quicker than I could think the dog chased the squirrel up the tree but did not catch it. The squirrel sat in the tree and sassed the dog. Wilma Norri3, 8A grade, Columbia City. MY NEW PET No one owned the big brown collie dog that came into our back yard. My little rat terrier wiuld not let it come on the back porch. I saw the dog kept the different things that were not useful away, and that my dog would not do. So I brought the dog in and made it a pet. My dog and it became very good friends. They both stayed until they died. Hilda Russel, 8-A grade, Columbia City. MY CAT A cat came to our house about 5 o'clock one evening. We kept it for about one year. But as luck would have it. it was poisoned. I put it in a box and buried it. It seemed cruel to put it in the cold, cold ground. But I reconciled myself that the cold grave was better thai; being kicked around by our nighbors. Edith Smith, 8-A grade, Columbia City. A RACE One morning last summer my cousin asked me if I would like to row. I went to the cottage to get my hat but when I got back to the shore my cousin was out in the lake about eight yards with the boat. I found our canoe but the paddle was locned in the boat house. I finally got it and started in the canoe after my cousin. ' I soon caught up with her and we had a fine race around the lake. Marion Burn worth, Columbia City. STUCK IN THE MUD One Sunday my friend and I went out to have some fun. We had on boots so we waded in a mud puddle in the middle of a field. The mud went -over the top of our boots. My friend, got out all right, but my foot was stuck in the mud. We could not get it out so my friend got a pole and pried under my foot. -At last we got it out and you may believe we did not cross that field going home. We walked along the railroad. Ralph Stickler, Columbia City. A FIGHT One day our neighbor's two cats were at our house. One was in the cellar and the other was on the cellar Ueps. A dog came along and thought that be would chase the cat on the steps. He started after him but the cat In the cellar came out and the dog left the yard with two cats chasing him. Walter Welck. Columbia City. A FISHING STORY There was once a soldier. He would get a bucket of water and a stick, put a 6tring on it and then fish for hours in that water. The officers thought that he was crazy so they sent him home. When he got on the cars and the train had started, he said, "Good-bye, boys, this is what I have been fishing for for a long time." Elmer M. Roy, Columbia City.

UNCLE SAM IS PERFECTING DIRIGIBLES

Above Army aviator using new camera from plane. Below Tuning up engines on one of dirigible balloons at Pensacola.

WASHINGTON, March 23 So much has been said of the activity of the government in getting ready and transporting its battleplanes to France that the dirigible balloons have all but been lost sight of. But balloons are getting their share of attention. Down at Pensacola, Fla., at the naval aviation station an army of students Is being taught to fly and manipulate dirigibles of the "Blimp" type.. The balloons have an important part in warfare for all GIRL SKATES AND FRIGHTENS HORSE One day I was going on an errand for a woman. I was on my skates. There was a horse coming down the street. I did nott think of the noise scaring the horse. It was very warm " and it was a pretty day. The horse jumped upon his hind feet and the shaft became loose. The man was asleep and I called to him. He got out of the buggy and fixed the horse. I was badly scared for I thought that the horse would run away. Blanche Williams, 11 years. Grade 5-A, West Ward School, Columbia City. SNOWBALLS One morning last winter when I was starting to school, but did not get very far because the snow was falling fast and it was good packing snow and there was a bunch of boys standing on the corner with their arms full of snow balls. . The snowballs came at me from every direction but I went on unmindful of them. Finally the boys grew tired and stopped throwing them, but I have learned a lesson not to pay any attention to them instead of getting mad and holding my head up about it Mary Secrist, Columbia City. Our Investigation One day a neighbor boy and I set out for the woods. We were running over the woods when I spied a hornets nest We started to investigate, but the hornets beat us to it Our investigation was over. Earl Gates, West Ward School, Columbia City. MAY I As we were playing "May I" at school at noon, I was told to take two steps. So I did ; then I was told to take three more steps. But when I took my last step I slipped and wen', sliding on the floor. Bernice Keirn. West Ward School, Columbia City. Two Girls Going After Pussy Willows Two girls were talking about going after pussy willows when another girl overheard the conversation. She said: "May I go along?" "We don't care," said the girls; but when evening came the teacheer said to her that she would have to stay In. This made her very angry. Dorothy Brindle, 8-B Grade. Columbia City, West Ward School.

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that they are not much exploited. The photo shows students tuning up the engines for one of the Big sausages. In the other photo is 6hown a flier in a plane trying out one of the new aero graflex cameras. They will be used extensively in taking pictures from the comparativ esafety of the air of enemy trenches and gun batteries. The camera furnishes the exactness which the eye used to fail to carry. A RABBIT Last summer when I was in the country and was going after the cows it was raining. I saw a small rabbit huddled in the grass. I picked it up and proceeded after the cows. When I got to the house I wrapped the rabbit up in a warm cloth. When it got warm it was all right. I did not want to let it go, so I made a pen for it and put it in. I gave it some milk and fed it. In the morning when I went to feed it again, it was dead. Then I wished I had let it go because it might not have died. Blanche Pressler, 8-B grade, Columbia City. OUR NEW HORSE My father has just brought home a new horse. It is a western horse and its name is Betz. We drove her to town the other night and about ten oclock we started home. It was so dark we -could hardly see to keep the horse in the road. We finally got home after very much trouble. When we got home I had to hold the lines til my brother got the lantern. All the time he was gone I was thinking about where I would jump if the horse ran away. Muriel Beard, Columbia City. IN THE ZOO One day when I was little I visited my aunt and uncle in Chicago. My aunt took me to Lincoln Park. I wanted to see the animals and so we went into the zoo. I was getting tired tod began to skate on the floor when a policeman came up to me and told me not to skate on the floor. I did not skate again for I was too frightened. Mary Frances Raber, 8-B Grade, Columbia City. WHEN I RAN AWAY One day when my father and I were planting potatoes he told me that I should drop them in the fur row. I told him I wouldnt do it, and began to run to th house. But he came after me and gave me a whipping and asked me if I thought I wouldnt drop the potatoes. But I told him I would so I wouldn't get another whipping; but I never ran away from him again. Edna C. Harris.

A THRIFT STORY. Hurrah! for the soldiers of the V. S. A. Hurrah! for the sailors, too. I am going to buy Thrift stamps one by one. To help the boys pull through. Mary Haas. 3-A Grade, Joseph Moore School. ,