THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 18, 1918.
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The Busy Bees
Their Own Page
CHOOL closed Friday and the
Busy Bees have ten long weeks
of freedom from school duties
stretching before them.
What will you do with this time,
Busy Bees?
Will you idle it away, or will you
arrange to spend it in a useful fashion, j
plentifully distributed with good,
wholesome fun?
So much more can always be accom
plished if one would spend a little
time at first in planning just what you
wish to do.
Devotion to the summer sports
swimming, boating, tennis and base
ball, of course, come uppermost in
your mind, and perhaps some of you
will tend to your gardens. Anything
that will keep you out in the sunshine
and open air is heartily to be recom
mended after the months of devotion
to school books.
Remember the prize contest, Busy
Bees. There are still several weeks
in which to send in stories on "My
Experiences in Gardening." Luella
Gibson of the Blue side won the prize
book this week. Grace Dickey of the
Blue side and Emma Gillespie of the
Red side won honorable mention.
COLUMBIAN SCHOOL STUDENTS PRESENT CINDERELLA IN GERMAN Students in the German clse. make tuch
a decided hit that they are to repeat the production tomorrow afternoon to satisfy the demand of those who did not see
them the first time.
Little Stories
By Little Folks
(Prize Story)
Bob and Rob.
By Luella Gibson, Aged 12 Years,
Dodge, Neb. Blue Side.
As I have not written to this page
for some time, I hope to see my letter
in print.
There are some birds that built
their nest in one of our apple trees.
One day I watched them. The
mother bird was trying to get her
robins to play, but they would not
even try to. There are two birds. I
called one "Bob" and the other
' "Rob." I call one "Rob" because he al
ways tries to take "Bob's" feed away
from him. One day when Mrs. Robin
started out to find some worms for
her little birds she bade them stay in
the nest. While she was gone they
were trying to see who could take up
the most room in the nest. Rob
pushed and pushed, but he could not
push Bob out of the nest. Just as he
began to peck "Bob" his mother came
up. She told "Rob" to look her in
the eyes and tell her what he had
been doing. He would not do that,
so she began by questioning him.
First she asked, "Were you pecking
'Bob?'" He answered, "Ye ye
yes."
"Why did you do it?" was the next
question. "Rob! did not answer, so
.he repeated her question. "Why did
you do it?"
"I I I wanted all the worms," he
answered. "I did not want Bob to
get any of the worms, so I was going
to push him out of the nest.".
Mrs. Robin would not let "Rob"
have any worms. This taught him a
lesson and he grew up to be an un
selfish bird.
r"j (Honorable Mention) :t '.
f Want. Busy Bee. to Write.
By Grace Dickey. Aged 10 Years,
Snyder, Neb. Blue Side.
"Oh, dear, I am so tired," .aid Mrs.
Robin.
"So am I," .aid Mr. Robin. "That
surely was a long way to fly. Now
I wonder where we will build our
nest."
''I see a nice tree over there," said
Mrs. Robin. "I think we will fly
over there and ee. We want it
where we can get everything for our
nest."
"Ye.." said Mrs. Robin, "and we
can reach the cherries so easily."
"I think this will make a fine home,
don't you?" said Mrs. Robin. "Yes,
I think this a good place, because the
children are so kind to us. Ihey at
ways keep the dogs and cat. away
from this tree."
"Maybe they will make, us a house,
and when they feed thev chickens I
will fly down and get some crumbs,"
said Mr. Robin.
This is mv first storv to the Busy
Bee page. I wish that some of the
Busy Bee. would write me a letter.
(Honorable Mention.)
My Experience in Gardening.
By Emma Gillespie, Aged 10 Years,
Greeley, Neb. Red Side.
One day the girls at our school de
cided to plant a garden. So we got
- our spades and rake, and everything
necessary. Then we dug up the
ground. We got it nearly all fin
ished that day. Then we raked it
good and the next day we brought
our seeds. There were radishes, on
ions and lettuce. They all came up
just fine, but the radishes froze.
We had our picnic Tuesday and
that morning I went over to the
schoolhouse and pulled them all up
and mamma took them to the picnic
Mamma said that they were just
fine.
Our School Picnic
By Mamie Berck, Aged 11 Year., Os
ceola, Neb. Red Side.
This is the third time I have writ
ten to you. I will tell you about our
picnic.
We started about" 9:30. It was a
rainy morning. The place where we
were going was two and one-half
miles from town.
My sister took two of our horse,
and went to the schoolhouse. The
horse, acted alright at first, but when
we went down a hill they began to
get scared of the children. One
horse stumbled and the other horse
got .cared. She kicked up against
the tongue and broke it. Then the
tug. flew off. So the horses were
entirely loose. My sister let go of the
line, and let them run. They ran
almost two mile, .when one of the
arhnnl bovs causht them.
Then a car came by and took a.
there, but just a. we got out
it started to rain. We went back
to the schoolhouse. Then we had
our lunch and went home.
I hope to see my letter in the pa
per. Reward for Courtesy.
By Francis Tomjack, Aged 11 Years,
Ewing, Neb., Route 2. Blue Side.
A proaperous-looking citizen on a
downtown corner in Boston bought a
newspaper from an alert little news
boy, who made change instantly
without speaking ,a word. But the
man lingered. At last he said, "How
many newspapers do you sell here a
night?" About fifty," .aid the new.
boy. "What i. your name?" "Tim
Manning." - "Li.ten, Tim," said the
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L1 Wi f ViS f-i)
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ITpper Picture, Lower Row, Tft to Right
Harriet Rostwatsr, Helen Turpln, Esther
Tlttenslr, Evelyn Cole, Portia Blgelow.
Standing: Emily) Mltslaff. Margaret Peters,
Katharine Davis, Helen' Roger. Louise Rl
lej, Buth Wlook, Wyne Fairfield, Eleanor
Soott.
Lower Picture, Left to Right Seated i
William Belndorff, Kthel Brlnkman, Cor
nelia Baum, Helen Paulsen, standing:
Virginia Pearce, Tony Leermakere, Ethel
Glandetone, Francis Martin, Ham Carlisle,
Richard Young.
man. "When I was your age I had
this very corner for a stand, but I
old 200 paper, a night and I did it
by carefully saying 'Thank you' to
everyone who bought a paper. I said
it loudly so they would be sure to
hear It
Three evenings later the man came
by again and bought a paper of the -little
chap on the corner.
"Thank you," said Tim, not rec
ognizing mm.
"How's business?" said the man.
Then Tim knew him . "I'm selling
oyer- seventy-five papers every night,
sir," he said. I ain't going to forget
to say 'Thank you' any more either.
About Cyclones. ;
By Cecilia Thielfoldt, Aged 11 Years,
Gretna, Neb., Route 2. Red Side.
As I am a reader of the children's
Busy Bee page I thought I would
write a real story, which I hope to
see in print. We used to live at
Kearney, Neb., a year ago in January.
So one day in March, the 23d, I think
it was, a big black cloud came up.
n got to iooKing awtuny pad. We
saw all the people go to the caves
and cellars, and so papa said that
he thought that we were going to
have a cyclone. He watched the
cloud for a little while, and all at
once a black cloud shot out of the
clouds, just as if a stove pipe would
shoot out. It looked awfully funny,
and when it came to the ground it
started a small cyclone. It took
roofs of barn, and blew hog houses
over, chickens, chicken houses, grarr
aries and wind mills. On our place
it blew our granary oyer and chick
en house, and we had a big barn. It
almost blew the roof off of the barn.
That big black cloud had a point like
a stick. Well, this is the story of
the cyclone, and would like to see the
prize.
My Experience In Gardening.
By Katherine Jensen, Aged 12 Year.,
Valley, Neb., R. F. D. 1. Blue Side.
Have any of you Busy Bee. a gar
den of your own? Well, I have. I
am going to tell you about it. I
planted my garden about a week
ahead of my mother's. So it came up
first. My garden is six feet by two
and a half feet. I planted radishes,
lettuce, parsnips and onions at first
They came up fast and I soon had to
weed them. One rainy day I went to
the cupboard and found some seeds,
I asked mother if she wanted them.
She said "No." I then went to my
garden and planted them. I planted
radishes, lettuce, cucumbers and
onions. I planted some peas not so
very long ago. My garden is all up
and it doing fine. I have lots to weed,
Stories of Nebraska History :
(By special permission of the author The
Bee will publish chapters from the History
of Nebraska, by a. IS. Sheldon, from week
NEBRASKA AS A TERRITORY
(Continued from Last Sunday.)
Slavery and the Political Parties-
Moat ot the people in Nebraska were
opposed to slavery. As the democrat
ic party was divided on the question
there was a call to organize the re
publican party and on January 18,
1858, the first meeting for that pur
pose wa. held in Omaha. Only a
few were present They were called
"black republicans" and not looked
upon a. quite respectable. In some
countie. they combined with demo
crat, and called their ticket "people',
ticket" to avoid using the unpopular
name "republican."
Prohibition Repealed The fifth
session of the legislature wa. called
by Governor Richard.on to meet on
September 21, 1858. It. most noted
act was to repeal the prohibition law
and in it. stead provide a license for
the sale of liquor. Republican, were
the leader, in making this change
The First Surplus Crop and First
Territorial Fair The year 1859 was
an eventual year in Nebraska history,
ror in tnat year tne tirsl corn was
shipped to market Through all the
season steamboats were carrying the
golden grain from the towns along
the Missouri river, where it had been
hauled in wagons by the settlers.
From that vear there mi nn nnanr
doubt that Nebraska wss a farming
country. In September of that year
the settlers' victory over the great
American desert was celebrated at
Nebraska City bby the first territo
rial fair. Robert W. Furnas was nrea-
.dent. J. Sterling Morton, the orator
of the occasion, made tfn historic
speech recounttnn the hardshina
which the settlers had endured and
foretellinir Nebraska', jrreat future.
Gold in Nebraska Gold wa. found
in Nebraska in 1859 a( the foot of
the Rocky mountain, in the .and. of
tne streams at the headwater, of the
South Platte. Soon after there was
of thousands acros. the plains eager
to dig tor this gold in Nebraska
sands. The new gold mine, were in
sight of Pike'. Peak and the gold
seeker, painted "Pike's Peak or bust"
on the canvas covers of their wagons.
The Steam Wagon Road Ne
braska City laid out a new .hort road
to the gold mines, crossing the prai
ries along the Blue rivers. It was
sometime, called "The Steam Wagon
Koaa because a .team wagon, which
soon broke down, was made to travel
it This new road was very popular
and helped to develop Nebraska City
and the South Platte very much. The
new territory of Colorado was or
ganized, in 1861. taking away from Ne
braska its gold mines at the foot of
the mountains, but never, either then
or since, has so much wealth been dug
from the Rocky mountains a. has
been produced from the prairie, of
our state.
Governor Black The fourth gover
nor of the territory, Samuel W. Black,
democrat, of Pennsylvania arrived at
Omaha May 2. 1859. The feud be
tween the North and South Platte re
gions had now become so bitter the
South Platte people resolved that
they would no longer live in Ne
braska. The South Platte Tries to Secede
They determined to secede and join
Kansas, taking the entire South Platte
country with them. To this end they
sent delegates to Kansas snd to
Washington asking congress to sepa
rate the South Platte region from Ne
braska and to join it to Kansas. This
attempt failed, but the quarrel be
tween the North and South Platte re
gions went on
The Pawnee War of 1859 What is
known as the Pawnee war occurred in
1859. For a great manv vear. a larire
Pawnee village was upon the bluff
above the Platte where General Thay-
V. -1 J . 1 T i : i
i iicu iiiai luuiaii council in
1855. White settlers were coming in
and the Indians had agreed to give
up their land there and move to the
valley of the Loup. In July they
gathered their ponies, packed their
good, upon them and started up the
valley of the Elkhorn, under their
great chief, Petalesharu. But they
had a "bad heart," a. Indians say
when they are angry. On their way
tney roDDea tne settlers and shot and
wounded a man near West Point.
When the news resched Omaha Sec
retary Morton ordered General John
M. Thaver to aret together aa manv
soldiers a. possible, follow the Paw
nee, and punish them. About 200 men
with gun. and horse, and one cannon
joined General Thayer. They came
from Omaha, Fontanelle, Fremont
and Columbus. Governor Black over
took and joined the command. For
four days they followed the wide trail
of the Pawnees up the Elkhorn river
At daybreak on the morning of July
12 they surprised the Pawnee, in
camp on a little creek ten miles west
of where Norfolk now is. General
Thayer, at the head of hi. 200 sol
dier., charged upon the camp at once.
The Pawnee., men, women and chil
dren, came rushing out of their te
pees in great terror. Their chief
seized an American flaa- and rushed
toward General Thayer calling out,
"Good Indian! No shoot" General
Thayer halted his soldiers and after
a parley agreed that the Pawnees
should surrender six men who had at
tacked the settlers, should pay for
all damage they had done and should
march overland with the soldier, to
their future home upon the Loup.
(To Be Continued Next Sunday.)
but I guess I can do it I picked
some lettuce and radishes for dinner
yesterday. I wish all the Busy Bees
would raise a garden of their own,
or else have a part with your moth
er's garden. I will soon write and tell
you of my flower garden. I received
my prize book a long time ago and
have read it through. It was very in
teresting and much nicer than I ex
pected it to be for such a story.
Wants to Get Acquainted.
By Mary Dawson, Aged 9 Years,
Fairbury, Neb. Red Side.
This is the first time that I have
written to you, and I will have to get
acquainted with you before I can
write about anything.
My name is Mary Dawson. I am 9
years old and in the fifth A at
school. The name of my school is
Longfellow school, and it is in the
west ward of this town, so it is really
called the West Ward.
I would like to join the Red side. If
my story is in print I will write again
telling about my trip to Colorado.
My Garden.
By lone Jewell, Aged 10 Year., Cre
cent, la., Route 1. Blue Side.
One day papa wa. planting the
garden and I asked if I could have
some seeds. He said yes. I planted
some lettuce and radishes. I hoed my
garden last week. I have radishes big
enough to use. My lettuce is almost
big enough to use. I have a baby
brother who will be 5 months old the
10th of June. His name is Frederick
Eugene JewelL
The Nuthatch.
By Katherine Underwood, Aged 9
Years, Dumfries, la. Blue Side.
The bird misht easilv be mistaken
for a woodpecker, but it climbs down
ward as well as uoward.
The name was suggested by hiding
nuts under the bark of tree.. It has
a white breast, a gray back, a verv
long bill and a black head. It creep,
all over in daylight and in search of
insects ana spider.. It breaks nuts
with its bin.
Blue Birds' Club.
By Eunice Stanley, Fullerton, Neb.
Agea u vear.. Blue Side.
We went to the lean vear nortv
and had a good time. We played tea
party and then we went home and
most of u. had ay good time. Hope
the Mr. Waste Basket i. not there.
A Robin's Nest.
By Elsie Strodtman, Aged 10 Years,
ficmaere, ixeD., mue side.
Once upon a time a robin built a
j nest in an evergreen tree and there
! were four little eggs in it.
j One day when I went to look and
j see if the robin was on the nest one
of the little eggs was broken. I was
very sorry that one of the little eggs
was broken. When the eggs were
hatched and the birds were gone I
took the nest and put it in a tree, and
one day a bird took some green grass
and made it a little better. Soon a
hard wind came one day and tore it
down. It made me very sorry again.
Busy Bee Breaks Arm.
By Leona Walter, Aged II Years,
Wahoo, Neb. Blue Side.
La.t Thursday one of my girl
friend, was over, a. some of the cher
ries were ripe. We climbed up ths
tree for some. First I went way up
in the top of the tree, but could find
none there that were ripe enough.
On getting down I noticed on the
limb that my friend was sitting on
there were three red cherries. I pull
ed them off and sst on the limb to
eat. When I was through I went to
get off, when the limb broke. I came
down on my left arm and broke it I
was taken to the doctor, where my
arm wa. put in a .ling. I had to
lay down for a day because it made
me sick to wstk or stand up. It will
be a long time before my arm gets
well. .
American Union of
SWEDISH
SINGERS
Festival Concerts
Omaha
Auditorium
Monday and Tuesday
Evenings
June 19 and 20
At 8:15
Mass Male Chorus
Five Hundred Voices
Joel Mossberg,
Director
SOLOISTS
Mme. Marie Sandelius
Soprano
Albert Linquist
Tenor
Miss Corinne Paulson
Piano ,
Carl Norrbom
Baritone
Incidental Soloists
Festival Orchestra of Fifty
Directed by
Ernest Nordin
Reserved Seats on sale
at box office of Audi
torium. -u :
PRICES
$1.50. $1, 75c, 50c
