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Told by the Pupils Publiahtd Wltkly by tht 1th0ol chtldrtn ol W ilmtttt untltt tuptrviaion of W ilmtttt Plaul]round and Rtcrtation Board. VOL. I, NO 26 Thinks Barthelmess Picture Is Best of the Current Season For myself, I think this is the best play 'of the year. I think all the children should see it. It is mo-e than educational because it shows self-deni:tl and poverty. The opening scene the mother and fatber are buried. They were the parents of "Chad," played by Richard Barthelmess. A man, to whom Chad's father had owed some money, has· taken Chad and his dog and the cattle. He tells Chad to pack his trunk and Chad takes his dog, jack, and runs away to the Valley of Kingdom Come. He meets this little shepherd Melissa, played by Molly O'Day. She is frightened and rqns away. In the Valley of Kingdom Come there are tw.o families-the Dillons and the Turners; the Turners befriended Chad and he finds out that they are the parents of Melissa. Chad stays with them till the winter's over and then the school master comes and gives Chad some ideas of the world beyond the mountains. Finally he goes away to his world beyond the mountains. Mr. Turner gives him $5 and Chad goes to Ken· tucky. He buys a horse, and this man, t~e mayor of th~ town, takes pity on h1m and takes htm and sends him to college. Then in 1861 he comes home an~ tetls the mayor 'he is going to enlist and the mayor thinks in the Southern army but when the mayor hea~s, he sends him away. After aw~le C~ad receives a letter in camp tellmg him that he is the mayor's grandson. Then he forgives him. .Then he is made captain. Then one n~ght Melissa ~omes to him and tells h1m. that the Dtllons are wrecking their c~bm. He goes and they beat the Dtllons. · Then he marries Melissa_ Mary Nash, Laurel Playground · l . \v 1~MhTTE·. ILLINOIS, JULY 13, 1928 Rosa .Bonheur was born in Bordeaux, France in 1822. Her father was an artist and her mother a musician. The family moved to Paris and little Rosa became very homesick for the familiar scenes in the quaint old home at Bordeaux. There was a school for boys near by and th~ master seeing the loneliness of the child asked her father to send the child to school with her brothers. In 1835 her mother died. Soon after that Rosa · was put in a boardi~ school. She did not like this kind of living so made a rush for freedom. The authorities of the school gave her up in despair and she went joyously home to her father. Her father was too busy to teach her -so she amused her-: self by drawing and painting. One day her father noticed how welt she sketched a bunch of cherries. She progressed rapidly in her work and soon began to copy famous masterpieces. She spent the last of her life in the village of By in the very heart of the grand forest, Fountainbleau. She died May 15, 1899.-Nancy Butler, Laurel playground '----------..J Biography I Our Big .4dventure Scouts Enjoy Day at Cabin-in· Woods Over 4th Holiday The Scouts of troop 8 reserved the "Cabin in the Woods" for the Fourth of July. We arrived at the cabin Tuesday afternoon to find the river over its banks. But that did not bother us for we got the tents up in time for dinner. But that night the mosquitoes almost ate us up so we did not go to sleep till 5 o'clock the next morning. In the morning we started shooting fireworks which lasted all day till about 8 o'clock; then the night fireworks started. They lasted till 11 o'clock. We were· tired so we retired for t~e night. It seemed to me I had just got to sleep before Mr. Palmer, our Scoutmaster, came in and called us for summer school. The ones going to summer school had breakfast before the others so we could get to school in time. Ed Kunz was nice enough to bring us back in his car so we arrived on time.- Philip Osborn, 7A, Stolp. (An Original Story) White traveling on a mail train bound for California we were suddenly stopped by a big tree lying across the rails. The train stopped with a suddtn jerk. The people stuck their heads out of the windows as if there had been <!_n accident. As the train pulled backwards several men rushed up with leveled guns telling us to open the mail car door. As we could do nothing else we let them in only to save our lives. When they were about to leave a few of us had gone out of the back door of the car and had loaded rifles ready for the bandits. One by one stepped out of the car and made their way to their horses. VVhen they were about to get on their horses a shot came from my brother's rifle and the chief bandit fell to the ground. The other bandits gave us the mail back. Our guns were still loaded and we took them prisoners. At our arrival to the city the sheriff had been notified to have the patrol wagon ready. The bandits were found out to haye robbed other trains. They were finaJly taken to the state penitentiary where they were to stay. -Charles Taylor, Howard school Charles Watches Wilmette-Winnetka Nines Split Bill The Wilmette baseball team played Winnetka, July 4, in the morning and also play~d a return game in the afternoon. The game in the morning was very interesting. Winnetka defeated our team and Wilmette went back at them for another game after being beaten in the morning by a score of J .to 2. In the afternoon they met at the Village Green. Winnetka had several players from Northwestern. One player made a home run for Wilmette. The game ended with the score 5 to 2 in Wilmette's favor. The two teams went home each having won a game. -Charles Taylor, Howard school Pet Show Brings Out . . Tells Story of First Variety of Animals Thursday, July 5, we had our Pet Playground Casualty Show with quite a number of entries from dogs and cat.s to rabbits, pigeons and goldfish. One of the most interesting was the cat family, a mother Cat and one baby kitty. Our judges were Dr. Erwin, Mrs. Stecker, a!!_d Mrs. Goelz. They surely had a hard time deciding on the blue, gold and white ribboned pets. Our playgro~nd is going strong. There is something doing all the time. Our posters are in and we're hoping for some prizes. The girls have finished a number of pot holders and bean bags.-Gertrude Goelz, Village Green playground. In the first week of the playgrounds when there were so many children, young and old, at Laurel playground, !here was a little boy whom I should JUdge WaS about three years old. This little boy, somehow or other, hurt his finger just a little but enough to make it bleed. When Dorothea took him in the school and washed his finger he asked in a wailing tone and with a funny face, if his finger would have to be cut off. Ever since the children have been asking him when his finger would be cut off.-Grete vonReinsperg, Laurel playground Views Film in Which Wife Gets a Fur ·Coat We had a picture show in our room Mrs. Wilson gave it. The first thre~ films were about ] a pan and then came. ~bou.t our field day. And then came Febx goes a Hunting." It was a funny comedy. .First .came a man and his wife, the wde said she wanted a fur coat but the man pulls out his pockets ' arid there is nothing in them. She said sh~ would not see him again till he bnngs her a fur coat. So he took his gun and target and went out to practice up a bit. But he always missed it so at last he gave up. Then Felix comes along and says, "What is the matter?" Then the man tells him the whole story. But after the show is over she gets her fur. ~oat.-Albert Carpenter, Miss Srnrth s room. WINS LUCKY TICKET On the Fourth of July we shot fireworks. Last night we went to the Northwestern stadium and saw the fireworks and we got a popcorn ball and In It was a ticket to Rivetview. Lionel Toeppen, Miss Smith's room S I e ec t V Wins at. Horseshoe Game; Suggests Howard School Challenged by Girl Star as Sightseers Paradise The boys of the Laurel playground have been playing horeshoes. Today Paul Dempsey and Bill Melchior played a game and Paul seemed to be winning, but Bill beat him 21 to 19. Else von Reinsperg said she would play the winner and she got beaten also. Else asked Miss Mulholand to play with her and beat her 20 to 9. We are sorry that Paul is going on his vacation before the contest because he has practiced a iot and can play well. · Josephine Tracey Lattr~l EAGER TO WIN The children at the Laurel playground have not been able to practice kickball for about two weeks because the kickball has been broken. Friday morning Mr. Stone brought us a new kickball. Saturday we are going to play Vattman. Miss Mulholand said we will have to practice hard if we want to win, and of couse, we want to win.-Eileen Butler Laurel Playground ' If any one likes riding and seeing beautiful things why not take a ride up to Howard school? There are some beautiful roses and peonies in the front of the. school. The grass Is as green as can be and the flowers almost in bloom. Do you want to take a ride up there? Howard is the place to go. It is locatt!d at Seventeenth and Spencer streets. -Virginia Fitz Hugh, Howard Summer school attman ar s Girls' Kickball Team p k' MOVIES AT SCHOOL PICNIC TODAY Yesterday we had a picture show In Tbe third and fourth grades are go- the school room. It was about .Japan Inc for a picnic on Friday 13. We are and there was a comedy called "Felix COlD« to the beach. Goes a Hunting." And about Indians, ~lmmle Chronis, Fourth grade, Miss too. - Richard Jones, Summer school 'mlth'· room Miss Smith's room ' BUDDY THE DOG (An Original Story) Once there was a dog whose name was Buddy. He was .Jean's dog. Jean had never had a better pet than Buddy. One day Jean could not find Buddy anywhere. Jean called her mother. Her mother had not seen him either. .Jean took a long walk to see if she could find him. Then she saw a dog fighting with another dog. She called "Buddy." Buddy ran to .Tean and they both ran home. When Jean got in the house she called, "I found him, I found him." Her mother was so glad she dropped her broom and ran downstairs to get a bone. -Betty Rosen, Miss Smith's room STJlll\IER HER SEASON I like to have summer come because we get a lot of fun. I like to pick the The girls' kick ball team of Vattman park has been chosen. Lucille Hoffman is the captain, Jane Brandt the catcher, Lucille Hoffman pitcher, Olive Davis, shortstop, and Kathlyn· Hollaway, Dorothy Hollaway and Virginia Green are the fielders. · The basemen are Claire Stewart first, Loretta Steffens second, and Edit.h Brandt third. The substitutes are Geraldine Hoffman and Betty Todd. These will be the positions the players wilt use when they play the Beach team Saturday.-Eleanor Ricks, Vattman Park. DESCRIBES SCOlJT MEETING We have a lot of fun at Scout meeting. We come in to Scout meeting in our meeting place. over by the theater. Then we give· some yells. After that we do some dri,lling on the parking space. Then we go in and go through the flag ceremony and then through the other things and then we go home.-Fred Miller, Miss Smith's room ENJOYS FIREWORKS Yesterday night I got up on my uncles' roof and we watched the fireworks at Northwestern stadium. There was a funny elephant that walked around and there was a war. Near the end there was a pretty water fall. And I hope everybody liked t t. · -Frederick Strauss, Miss Smith's room flowers and hear the birds go tweet, tweet, tweet, because It sounds so nice and sweet.-Estella Brenner, Grade -t