Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 28, 13 December 1919 — Page 11

THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM WEEKLY SECTION OF RICHMOND PALLADIUM ; RICHMOND, INDIANA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, - . ' - i ' t

Odette's Box Starts on Long Journey Last Saturday a rather big box all filled with the most mysterious and Interesting looking packages began Its long trip to a little town near Paris, to the home of our little friend, Odette Negre, the Junior Palladium's French Orphan. There were gloves and stockings in the box to keep her warm and games games and candy to make her happy and to keep busy. There were peppermint candy canes tied with red ribbon and fairy sticks (which in French would be called "batons de fee") which Odette has probably never seen before as they do not have that kind of candy in France. And there were many merry little greeting cards with pictures of Santa on them which the French call "Pere Noel,, to Odette from The Junior Palladium. It is hoped that the letter will arrive at Odette's house in time for Christmas. Then about February 1920 we will probably receive another letter from Odette, and when It comes we will publish it so that all the boys and girls of the Junior Palladium will hear how

their little friend in France spent the greatest festival of all the year,

Christmas Day.

Bring Them In Christmas Stories (good ones too!) are coming in now for the Junior's Christmas number which will appear on the 20th of December. You Juniors, whose heads are buzzing with making up a story about a visit to Santa Claus, or why we have Christmas or how children in other countries celebrate Christmas or how you caught Santa on the roof top (or thought you did) or any other story about Christmas write It up just well as you can and bring H into the Junior office by Wednesday evening, December 17.

Star Gazing Again!1 Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock the boys who are members of the Junior High School Astronomy Club met in front of the Garfield building and then went on a search for stars.

Are Yon a T Member? Two very "interesting-sounding" parties are being planned for the Boys' Division of the Y. M. C. A. in the near future. But more of that, later. BjT the way are you a member of the "Y"? If not, why not ask father and mother for it as a Christmas present? It means fun all the year round and lots of it The Boys' room at the "Y" were closed at 5 o'clock several afternoons last week on account of the coal strike.

Camp Is Sewing Fast and Furiously "Of course we are going to get it done and by Christmas, too, so that we can deliver it before Christmas.

And the sentence above, "it" means the comfort that is being pieced together'for Wernle Home,, and "we" means the girls of the Tatapochon Camp Fire who are doing the piecing. Wednesday

evening after school the girls met

at the home of Louise Pierce, on

South Fourteenth street where they spent the afternoon sewing.

We're Busy Too! The Fifth grade of Joseph Moore

School also has an active Junior

Red Cross committee. It is headed by Tracy Evans, president, and Benjamin Bentley, Secretary.

Junior High School

Trims Baxter

To the tune of 8-2 In favor of

Garfield, the boys of Junior High School defeated the Baxter team In a .closely fought pme. Each team secured one field throw and Garfield scored a foul. On the

Garfield team were: Beeson, Wood

man, Wilson, Hutt and White; and

on the Baxter team were; Cart-

wrigbt. Porter, Howells, Koontz,

Pegg and Knapp (substitutes).

The Story of the -

Good Samaritan

Once upon a time a man was traveling along a road. He was on his way from one city to another. This road was not a safe road like our roads. It was very lonely, and beside it there were rocks with dark hiding places. Often bad men, called robbers, hid among the rocks, and watched for men passing by, so that they might steal their money. Robbers were hiding there this day I am telling you about They sprang out upon the man and struck him, too, and hurt him terribly; then they ran away. The poor man lay by the way-side, and he was hurt and very badly bruised. The robbers bad nearly killed him. (To be continued.) Mary Schideler, Warner School, 3A Grade.

JULY! Blue flags, yellow flags, flags all speckled, Which will you take? Yellow, Blue or speckled? Take which you will, speckled, blue, yellow, Each in its way has not a fellow. I've brought you one curvedpyramid of bloom, Not flowers, but peaches- hut get you In, A storm is at my heels; The whirlwind whistles and wheels, Lightning flashes and thunder peals, Flying and following hard upon my heels, Sent in by Laura Marlow Age 11 years, Grade 4A Warner School

Teddy Roosevelt

A long time ago there was a littel he was hollow chested and had the asthma. This little boys' name was Roosevelt. One day Teddy Roosevelt was out riding his little pony, and he was fond of

bugs and butterflies. So he stoped his pony and tied It to a bush and he took off his hat and coat and

dove right In the little stream and got thoes bugs and took them home. This little boy grew to be a man and he became a rough rider in the Spanish - American War. Then he was president-

he was the twenty-sixth president

He had four sons and a Bon-in-law

in the World War and one of his sons was killed in an alrplaln and one was crippled and one was shot in the hand and the other was alright One day Teddy died-he died on January 6th, 919. They burried him at Oyster Bay as that was his home. I forgot to tell you where he was borned and when Roosevelt was borned at New York City in 1885. Then they moved to Oyster Bay. Thelma Mackey, 5th Grade, Sevastopol school

Have You Written A Letter to Santa? Two letters have come into the Palladium addressed to Santa Claus As they could not be sent direct to Santa Claus, we decided to publish them in the Junior, so that Santa can look down from his airplane

as he is scouring over the country

next Saturday night and can read them very easily. Here is one of the letters: Dear Santa:

I want a sled, a saw mill, a bank, some nuts, some candy, and a gun, Ardine Eugene Minnick. And here is the other. Dear Santa: Well, Santa, it is getting near Christmas, and I am wondering what I will get for Christmas. Well, I would like to have a new suit and a set of Erector, shirt, handkerchieves, transformer, and a pair of gloves and a tie, candy and nuts and bring the rest something nice, too. I can not think of anything else for this year. From Paul Nicklaa

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; .Christmas Pretest Mrs. Jones and her daughter Mary were out Christmas shopping.

They passed a toy shop a good many times. The last time, Mary fell off the sidewalk, her mother

asked what made her fall.

She had her eyes closed and her

mother asked her why. So she took Mary away from In front of

the toy shop and asked her to tell

how she did it Mary said, "Mother,

I can't bear to look at those beautiful dolls, and so I looked across the street and fell. I would like to have a doll but there are other children who would like to have a doll as well as I do." Her mother was surprised to hear this. That night, Mrs. Jones told Mary's father. So, after Mary had gone to bed, Mrs. Jones wrote a letter to Mary's uncle- John who was In Belgium, telling him what had happened down town that day, and that Mary had given up her Christmas doll. Three days before Christmas there came an answer from Mary's uncle saying, "Hurrah! I will be home for Christmas. Tell Mary I will bring her a Belgian dolL" George, "Mary's brother, was there, and heard what her mother read in the letter. So, he began to tease Mary, and said N that she thought she said the Belgian children didn't have any dolls. "I guess it's a Canadian doll. Some one

has sent it to a poor Belgian child and they are taking this doll away

from her and sending it to you,

Of course, George said this for

fun, to tease Mary. But all of this

worried her. At last, Christmas day came, and the whole family went to the station to wait for the train to come. Soon a train came up the track

and stopped. The first person to

get off was Mary's uncle John, and following him was a little . girl. When be reached Mary, he said, "Mary; here is your Belgian doll, and I hope you will treat her like a sister." Mary was very surprised to see

this little girl from Belgium. Uncle

John said she had no relations or

parents to care for her; they had

all died during the war. The three children bad a very nice time to

gether that day, and they all said it was the best Christmas they had ever had. Leora Johanning, grade 5A. Vaile fichool.

Girls Reed Scezss From Pepdsr Stcry inDrczziicGzb The Girl's Dramatic club of Jun

ior high school Is planning as Its

Christmas program, the reading of several scenes from that favorite story, The Birds' Christmas Carol." This will he given at the regular . meeting which will be held next Tuesday afternoon after school. The girls who will take part In the play and the characters they will represent follow: Mrs. Ruggles, Ruth Stauber; Sarah Maud, Verda King; Peora, Madelene Branson; Peter, Rath Brady; Larry, Christine Dunn; Elfrida, Elizabeth Kenny; Clement, Margaret Von Carleson; Kitty, Martha Smith; Cornelius, Dorothea Haiemeler. .

BLACK WE ARE Black we are but much admired, Men seek for us till they are tired .We tire the horses tut comfort men Tell me this riddle if you can. Dustin Knuchel, ! ' Grade 2A

IT: Vane SchooV,

L 1 ALL FOR YOU Here blows the warm, red clover. There peeps the violet blue; O, happy little children, God made them all for you. Sent in by Kathleen D., age 8 years, Sevastopol School.

Why is There a Christmas f For boys and girls Christmas is the happiest time of the year. It is a time of planning and scheming and guessing; a time when bundles nppear which we cannot open; a time when we have great secrets which we must not, tell. It is a time when we are full of joy, first because we know we shall find something in our stocking on Christmas day and second because we have secured a present for father and mother, for brother and sister, and we can hardly wait until the moment comes when we shall have the great fun of giving it to them. Have we ever asked ourselves how it happens that we have Christmas? Why is the day so different from every other day in the year? Let me tell you. Hundreds of years ago the Great God our Father in Heaven gave a wonderful gift to the world, the most wonderful gift the world has ever received. That gift was a little baby boy. This gift was so appreciated that when he was born the shepherds near the village heard a wonderful heavenly chorus singing, and they came to the village to see the baby and to stand in silent wonder in the stable before the manger which was used for a crib. And from a land far away rich and wise, men travelled on their camels for days and weeks following a wonderful star so that they might give to this little child the best presents they had. God had given to the world His greatest gift, and immediately people in appreciation began to give to Him the best they had. They found so much pleasure in this giving that they have kept on giving ever since; and once a year in celebration of this little baby's birthday his name was Jesus we all give gifts to everyone we can, not forgetful of the very poor. And we find because we give we are happier on Chirstmas than on any other day of the year. CHARLES M. WOODMAN.

Sctzrday is Gcla Hight for Tatohekiya Girls, On Saturday evening, the thirteenth of December, the girls of the Tatohekiya Camp Fire will find their ways to the house of Irene

uisnop, jsorin Tnineema street, where they enjoy a six o'clock din- . ner. It is not the dinner alone that makes it such a festive affair but it is the fact that by that evening all the girls of this camp will have won for themselves the honor of. Fire Makers. Dancing and

music will furnish the entertain ment of the evening. And. we hear that after that evening each member of the camp will know exactly how she looks for sometime daring the evening she will be given a picture of herself. The members of the committee who are plan nihg the party are: Dorothy Churchell, Georgia Heely, Betty Price, Helen Reese, Clara Huber and Bernona Mohler.

St Mary's Players Send Challenge Having organised a baseball and indoor baseball this fall that have been "winners", St. Mary's has her hopes high on her basketball team which was organised last Thursday. Many of the boys that played on the other teams are members of this new team. Their names are: Gerard Harrington, Organiser, forward; Joe Barton, forward; Fred Foley, Back guard; Richard Harrington, forward guard and Frank Ryan, center. Substitutes have also been chosen for the team but not announced as yet. ' This team wishes to announce through the Junior that it is open: for games and will meet any teaml Now for some excitement ;

Garfield Pickups

The Red Cross Stamps arrived at the Garfield office Wednesday afternoon and they are prettier this year than they have ever been before. They cost a penny a piece and every one you buy means that one penny more has been added to the sum of money that" goes to provide fresh air and sunshine and caro for boys and girls that somehow are not very strong so that they woll become strong and well. Council did not meet as usual thi3 week because Mr. Heironimus was called out of the city. LAST BUT NOT LEAST! VACATION TIME IS ALMOST HERB IT BEGINS ON DECEMBER THE NINETEENTH AND LASTS TWO WHOLE WEEKS!

NOTICE When you send your riddles in, boys and girls, always send the answers with them. We cannot publish any riddles whose answers ' are not in the Junior Palladium, office. We have riddles now in the office sent in by Melva Hoffman 5B grade, Sevastopol, and Lloyd Snyder, 2B grade, Baxter, which we will be glad to publish if the answers are brought to the office. If you have forgotten which riddles you sent , in, Melva ' and: Lloyd, come and see Aunt Polly,' and she will show them to you And please, all you other Juniors; remember to always send in -4h answers with your rlddlesr-AnmV PoUy. . - ; j

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