Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 93, Number 30, 3 February 1923 — Page 20

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il Writes Note of Appreciation to 1 Professor -Markle Richmond, I ml., ' Jan. 3. 1923. Dear Mr. Markle: . , , . We appreciated your articles in the Junior very, very much. Many of your articles have been placed on the bulletin board, in the nature room of Starr school, and many of the children who do not take the paper, read them here. By reading your fine articles the children have been interested, ana many of them have made book3 on birds and leaves. " We hope ..you -will -write many more articles for ve hav enjoyed them very much, and we' thank you lor them. . Sincerely Loretta Kittle, pupil of Starr. Limerick Lines By Edward Ulrich There was a man from Kilpeacon Whose nose was as red as a beacon, But by saying, "It's white" Twenty times, day and night, " lie cured it and died an archr deacon. Mwy had a little lamb, Her father shot it dead; And now it goes to school with her Between two hunks" of bread. NUSBAUM TROPHY (Continued From Page One) the music room where every child and teacher can seit. - We are to have the cup for one year and try for it again. Also we are going to have our school name engraved on the cup. Europe Interests 6B's. , The 6D girls and boys are studying the people and the central plains of Europe. They found out that the central plains of Europe are a great producing area. Boys Take Up Woodwork. The 6AB boys are taking woodwork this term. They are just beginning to make wooden things. The boys are working very hard on bird houses now and are enjoying their woodwork. Fifth Grade Have ' Home Study. The fifth grade have changed their spelling. Now they take their spellers home at night. Instead of having their epelling in the afternoon they have fifteen words to learn to spell at night, then Miss Phelps, the teacher, gives them out to us. By Keith Taylor, grade reporter. Grade Have Contests Tile 5 AB's are having an attendance contest to eee whether the 5 As or 6B's win. That means that no one is absent at school. They are also having an arith metic contest to see which class gets the moat 100's. We have sev en problems every morning. The BA's are supposed to get 100 before they can go home of an eve ning after school. We have to bring the problems up and if they are all right we get to go home. By Keith Taylor, reporter for 5th grade. Starr Beats Valle. On Saturday, January 20th, Stanwon a basket ball game from Vaile. The final score wa3 13 to 10. The Starr players were Michall, center; Itelchter, forward; Brooks, for ward; Moriarity, guard; Baird, Guard; Harter, substitute; Taylor, substitute. Children Make Posters. All the children who made large posters for the corn show at Starr school have them finished. The names of the children who made the large posters are Melvin Harter, 5B; Keith Taylor, 5B; Ervon Seymore, 5B; Loretta Kittle, 5A; Margaret Nelson, 5A; Mary Mahan, 5A; David Campfield, 5A; Jeanette Noss, 5A; Katuryn Grace, FA; Ellen King. 5A; Murray Wood, 5A; Mary Elizabeth Sigler, 5A; Marion Sigler, 6B, Richard Reichter, 6B; James Lantz, CB; Gilbert Haxton, f.B; Richard Lawrence, 6B; Esther Haworth. 6B; Lois Lawrence, 6A; Gwendolyn Taylor, 6A; Doris Darland, 6A; lima Dittz, 6A; and Mary Ann Weaver. 6A By loretta Kittle Reporter for Starr School.

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What is that I hear? . It sounds like music clear. It must be sounds of harps That fill the air with cheer. Betty Rogers, age 9, 4A grade, New Madison school. Camping in a Storm Two boys and I were riding in a truck, going to camp when we noticed it was lightning all about us. By the .time we arrived and were ready to go to bed it was thundering and the wind began to blow, but we managed to go to sleep. We must have slept about an hour when wo were awakened faster than we went to eleep by three loud cracks. The first was thunder, the next was a large tree, the next was our tent. Looking up I saw a large noie in the tent with some branches sticking through and water pouring in. The next thing we did was to trv to Datch it. We all got a good soaking and didnt do any gooa either,, When we went outside the next morning we saw we had escaped death luckily. Lightning had struck a large tree and If it had fallen three feet farther north none of us would have known what had happened. We left the tmek on the opposite side of the river and the foot log had- been washed away. We put on our swimming suits and tried to wade, but it was too deep. We couldn't swim and carry our clothes without getting them wet. So we swam across and drove the truck about two miles to a bridge and came back on the other side. You can imagine how cold it was riding in our swimming suits early in the morning and after a rain. We got to town all right except for one puncture. Roy McAdams. NATIONS CAN RIDE There are enough motor vehicles in the United States to take the entire population of the country 1 for a ride at the same time, says the Bureau of Public Roads. At the beginning of 1922 there were 4.2 motor vehicles for each mile of road in the United States. One hundred and twenty vehicles per minute was the rate at which motor vehicles passed a bureau observing station on a trunk line highway in Massachusetts recently. In South America, Brazil has motor vehicle for every 1,497 persons; Argentine, one for every 296; Chile, one for every 455.

DAYS OF REAL SPORT

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One day while we were crossing the Rocky mountains we found two automobiles which had collided and were still fastened together on the mountainside. They had come from opposite directions and had met at a curve. We ; were all frightened because one more Inch would have meant destruction to the occupants for thy were at the edge of a precipice which made a sheer dfbp of 9.000 feet We all tried to unlock the ma-. chines, but could not; then one man tried to move over closer to the mountain, but could not. They could not remain there that way; somebody had to move. What would they do? The rocks that held the machines up were slipping and slipping away. Finally one man got into his machine and said: "It is life or death." and though he was rather afraid at first he 'gradually drove onto the road again safe and sound and we all went thankfully on our wav. Garnett B. Rothert, Garfield J. II. S. "SOLDIERS" FOUND IN EVERY AFRICAN WHITE ANTS' NEST Before the Biological society In London a naturalist described his studies of the African termites, or white ants. Certain individuals in every nest have no othr apparent function except that of fighters or soldiers. Some have a long beak, from which they eject an acrid, corrosive fluid; others inspire terror by making a loud clicking noise with their mandibles, but they neither shoot nor bite. One singular observation of the naturalist was that the soldier ants, which rush out to defend an attacked nest, do not return to the nest, but wander about and soon perish from exposure to the outside air. Crow Indians Ask Foch for Appropriate Park Memento The spot at Crow agency in Montana where the great French soldier, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, was initiated into the Crow Indian tribe, has been named Foch park by the Crow Indians, in general council. At the same session in which the naming was done a letter was written to Marshal Foch asking that Ah-Ba Ko-Ta-Ba-Tsa-Chish, or Chief of all warriors, as the Indians call him, send them some fitting memorial to place in the park in his honor.

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"Shall I pick some raspberries this afternoon?" asked Lucy as she arose from the dinner table." You may as soon as the dishes are finished," answered her mother. "Ellen and Nancy are going, too, so I will have to hurry," said Lucy. ' Lucy Thome lived near a shijUI town in New Hampshire. Her rather owned the farm and ' the little girl had often picked raspberries iu the meadow by the river. Her little friends, Nancy and Elleu Anderson, lived near by and the girls were close friends. "Here is a bucket and your sunbonnet," said her mother as Lucy iinisnea tne dishes. Lucy went over to Anderson's to find that Ellen and Nancy had already gone to the raspberry patch. Lucy ran to the place where the berries grew thickest and began to fill her bucket, expecting her friends any time. "My bucket is half full and they" she stopped short a3 she heard a noise back of her. Turning she saw a large brown bear. She was very frightened for she had thought it was Ellen and Nancy. Snatching her bucket from the ground she ran, not knowing in which direction. Looking around she foundthat she had come to the bank of the river. Noticing a large tree hanging over the river, she dropped the bucket and climbed out about half way. "Girls, girls, held, help!" she screamed. Turning to see if the girls were coming, she missed her footing and slipped off tho trunk of the tree. Only in time she caught hofil .ofia branch which began to creak and crack as the bear walked out upon it. i "Girls, Help!" she Ecreamed once more. The girls appeared just in time to see Lucy, bear and branch disappear under the water. "Run for Father," cried Nancy, pointing to a nearby field where her father was at work. Ellen ran and looked back to see Lucy swimming bravely for the shore, where Nancy was waiting. Nancy got down on the hank overhanging the river to help Lucy up. Of a sudden the earth gave away and Nancy fell in just as her father and sister reached the bank. Mr. Anderson always carried a gun and soon killed the bear. Nancy and Lucy were good swimmers and reached the shore unharmed except for wet clothfs. "Now we can have bear meat and raspberries for dinner tomorrow," said Lucy as she led the little proI cession home. Delia Thurston.

Mary Writes of " Beautiful Italy

Italy is more like California than any oilier part of our country. But it. is only about -half as large. The fertile valley of the River l'o, along the foot of the Alps, has wheat and other grainfields. Southern Italy Is a land of oranges, lemons and other fruits. Olives and grapes also gror in many parts of the country. Tha mulberry thrivese iu Italy. This country, like France, Is noted for silk cities. All large cities of Italy are famous for their galleriese of art, and marble statues. Anion,? these cities is Florence. The trad center of the Po is Milan. It is a famous silk market like Lyons in, the valley of the Rhome. The city of Venice is not far from where tho Po enters tho Asiatic sea. This was a leading city in ohlen times. A new city has been built over the ruins of the ancient Rome, but many of the ruins of temples and other buildings can still be seen. This city is tile home of the pope, and here is St. Peter's church, the largest church in the world. And one of the most beautiful in all the world. Most of the Italians now living in the United States came through the port of Naples and Genoa. Italy is best known lor its paintings, marble statues, aud silk. Italy pays us for cotton several times as much as we pay back to that country for silk. From Josoph Moore, Mary Mariano. Riddles Red without, black within, and has four corners round about? Chimney. A barrel weighed 36 pounds, they put something in it that made it weigh 26 pounds. They bored holes in it. What has 36 coats without a seam? Onion. What goes all round the room and catches all it can find? A broom. I.ois Hughes, 5A, grade. Starr school. When a dog comes in the kitchen why does he first look one way and then another? Because he can't look both ways at once. There is a frog at the bottom of of a 30-foot well; he jumps 3 feet feet and falls back two feet. How many feet does it take for the frog to get out. It takes 28 feet more for the frog to get out By Lena Reddington, 5U grade Starr school. By Briggs