The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 191, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1956 Page: 66 of 70
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Edited by MARJORIE BARROWS. Editor of The Children’s Hour
What book will tell the hour
of morn, and when the farmer
should plant his NORC, and
guess at rains and storms for
folks, and even include some
funny SKOJE? Benjamin
FLINKRAN, born you know,
just two hundred and fifty
years ago supplied each co-
lonial Jill and Jack with this
— POOR RICHARD’S AC-
LAMAN!
eueuy ‘umque
‘saqof ‘uoo :SHZMSNV
Junior Journalists
Ruth Dixon
This Australian bird (his scientific name is
MENURA SUPERBA) has a Summertime
tail shaped like an ancient musical instru-
ment. He lives with his wife in an odd woven
nest with a dome-like doorway. He can run
fast sing sweetly, and mimic all sorts of
animal cries. And how he loves a dinner of
beetles and snails!
What's his everyday name?
Ninth Color Contest October 2, 1955
Solution: Alpaca
Color: Generally black, brown, gray, or gray r
shading to yellowish.
Age 14
Age 11
some change. She asked my in the lid. I puta stick in the
when I’ll have a
Age 6
ZONE STATE
numbers, the, larger one
counts. Largest score wins!
start games
person who
points when
town wins.
Sincerely,
Bradley Fox
Lincoln, Ill.
I wonder
butterfly ?
at towns. The
has the most
you come to a
My brother and sister and
I often play this on trips.___
jar and it made a good jungle
gym. Then he spun a cocoon.
Your friend.
Thomas P. Boyle
Endicott, N.Y.
Love.
Laura Wilson
Hamden, Conn.
Your friend,
Joyce White
Marianna, Flas
Sincerely,
Gloria Adams
Fouke, Ark.
Dear Miss Barrows:
ten feet back for a starting spots on his shell. He lives in
point. Use bottle caps or a box on our back porch. My
coins, toss them on the date sister helped me make his
numbers, and count your house. We made it with dirt,
score. If a cap touches two grass, and small flowers. The
Age 12
colors. Send within one week to
MY NAME
STREET
Age 8
Family Weekly Magazine January t. 1956
Chest, Family Weekly, 153
North Michigan ~
your lack! It’s fun!
CITY
Christianna Hileman, Upland, Ind.
Michael Hutson, Tallahassee, Fla.
Betty Lou Wheeler, Sidney, N. Y.
Blair Stratford, Spencer, N. C.
IKIS BIRD IS A
A&L__
MY NEWSPAPER
Dear Miss Barrows:
Do you know this game?
Place a large calendar on the
floor. Draw a line eight to
Dear Miss Barrows:
Here is an interesting game
to play while traveling in an
auto. It’s called color cars.
The way it’s played is that
everyone that's playing picks
a color, for instance, blue. For
every blue car that comes by
the person who has blue gets
one point. You can end and
Dear Miss Barrows:
My mother and daddy took
my sister, my brother, and
me to New York City. We
went to the Empire State
Building. My mother wanted
brother to get a nickel at the
souvenir counter and she
gave him five pennies We
waited and waited. We could
not find him anywhere. After
15 minutes we were all sad.
Just as my mother was going
to tell one of the guides, he
came out of the elevator smil-
ing. He went down 84 stories
to the newsstand to get the
nickel my mother wanted.
We were all so happy to see
him he did not get a scolding.
Dear Miss Barrows:
I have a pet turtle. His
name is Spotty. I named him
that because he has brown
flowers are used for beautifi-
cation. We water it every
day and it is beginning to
grow. We put in a little
swimming pool, too.
The turtle's favorite food is
celery. He likes it very much.
I think he is a cute little
fellow for a pet
Dear Miss Barrows:
I went to kindergarten to-
day. I was Mr Sandman and
I pretended to sprinkle sand
in the children’s eyes so they
could rest. We sawed and
hammered and our teacher
read us a story. We sang a
song about a pony and jx>de
stick-ponies. Oh, it sure was
wonderful.
Sincerely,
David Gene Cecil
Age 5 Rapid City, S. Dak.
One day I found 8 pretty
orange caterpillar. I put it in
a glass jar and made holes
LETTERS. HOBBIES-STORIES
Children! Send in your ORIGINAL
ones to Miss Marjorie Barrows, JUN-
IOR JOURNALISTS, IM N. Michi-
gan Avenue, Chicago I, Illinois, with
your name, AGE and address. The
writers of Iba best contributions re-
ceive $5. All contributors will receive
Iha JUNIOR JOURNALISTS' button:
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