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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1906
Page
9
The Roll of Honor lists Marietta Marsh Harold Rummells Naomi Evans Everette Frye Gertude Gartenbach Verna Auten Irene Frambers Mansfield Rankin George Earl Gertie Allen Viola Auten Hazel Barnes Nelle Duncan Gertrude Fuller Hazel Bohnsack Fred Lindsey Lucile Powell Reo N Pickens Lulu Oepping.
A lighthearted 1906 correspondence page from young readers in Iowa. Mable Henderson and Zella Stephens share notes on joining the roll of honor and submitting stories such as How Mary Helped Clean House while MacFarland Hale requests a prize knife for his kite history.
Irene Woods writes from Muscatine to Miss Raymond in Columbus Junction to announce winning a prize for the titled story A Trip to the Sea Shore. Nelle Duncan from Columbus Junction notes many names dropped from rolls and reports a school entertainment as they hope for print.
A six year old from Muscatine Iowa writes from Burr Oak Grove describing life in the country and school progress. She lists household items and five dolls in a brief personal note dated March 13 1906.
Two young writers from Iowa share letters to Miss Raymond. Lulu Depping from Atalissa hopes for a prize bracelet and a place on the honor roll after submitting a story. Ruth Henderson from Keota notes her first story attempt and mentions pigeons and Swanee birds with birthday dates.
A letter from Wilton dated March 11 1906 describes writing a story titled A Trip to the Seashore to Miss Raymond and notes a missed week. The writer mentions satisfactory subjects for this week’s stories and explains the long overdue letter.
A set of letters from Iowa youths ages 11 to 14 appeal to the paper editor to include their stories on the junior roll of honor. Contributors from Muscatine West Liberty and Wilton share school, ages, addresses, and birthday notes, hoping for prizes or books and bracelets.
Three letters from young readers dated March 1906 express desire to have their stories printed in the Muscatine Journal junior page. Sylvia Powell and Lucile Powell seek marbles or a bracelet as prizes for their tales about How Mary Helped a Clean House. Edna Dutton from Letts hopes to join the roll of honor and prefers a doll if she wins.
Ethel Crees of Atalissa Iowa age eight writes to the editor of the junior page expressing her love of reading and a wish to win a book. She signs with full name and rural route.
A 10 year old Hazel Bohnsack of Stockton Iowa writes to the editor, expresses pride in making the honor roll, notes one week of school left before vacation, explains a half mile walk to school, and offers to write a story about Japanese children with a book as prize preference.
Alice McMahon, 8, West Liberty, Iowa, recalls Helen Baits who befriended an old man, earned three dollars, and used it to buy seeds for flowers and vegetables. She tended front yard blooms and back yard crops, delivering bouquets and surplus produce to her friend while neighbors admired her garden.
A poor mother helps her daughter Helen age 11 in Haskins Iowa start a garden. They plant flowers and vegetables including tomatoes cabbage onions radishes lettuce and potatoes. Helen sells the harvest and saves money to expand next spring praising her as a good girl Reg N Pickens.
A first river trip at nearly ten, down the Mississippi with father, brother, and a raft with a cabin. They carried early spring vegetables to market, added steering oars, and shared lettuce with a hungry rabbit beside a drifting straw bed. Lewis Brunn, 11, Nichols, Iowa.
A ten year old girl from Muscatine recalls a boat trip to Davenport with her mother and two companions. They pass time by tearing and tossing paper into the river while watching the water. A bridge opening near Davenport drew curious crowds before reunions with two aunts. Francis E. W. Robison, Muscatine Iowa.
Nine year old Helen lives in New York with a widowed mother who washes for a living. Poor and unable to afford a garden, Helen yearns for flowers and a small plot of soil for her dream.
Eight year old Harry delivers a package to Van Gent's grocery store and is invited by a man to Davenport. After the delivery, Mr Johnson buys tickets and the pair proceed to the boat landing to board the steamboat.
The letter outlines submission tips for a junior readers page, urging one-side writing, clear name and address, ink use, and Thursday deadlines. It explains Honor Roll eligibility, prize topics, and notes many readable stories will appear later due to space, with readers invited to contribute more.
A boy named Harry overcomes fear on his first Mississippi boat trip. He describes a moving water view giving him a headache, notes folding chairs, and observes a lunch and hotel dinner during travel to Davenport. They return home by six. Carl Husen, Muscatine Iowa.
Helen, a thoughtful girl, tends a garden by herself after earning permission from her mother. She plants lettuce cabbage radish and celery and shares a fun afternoon with a friend while hoeing weeds. She promises not to tell and then confesses the whole truth to her mother. Edna McIntire 10 R. R 3 West Liberty Iowa.
A country family travels to Davenport to visit an aunt. They stay in town overnight start early, sail by boat with others, find water scarce, and pause at several stops. A baby carriage joins the voyage and two girls near the end join the journey.
Leona May Towler recounts a summer outing to a river near home with grandma and Uncle Frank. A boat ride ends with Vina frightened, then rocks and shells are gathered before returning home for supper and organ singing. The narrator plans another steamboat trip in summer.
A girl named Helen in Muscatine shares a garden with her brother Carl. She plans to give flowers to a lame elderly neighbor across the street, but delays cause the blooms to wilt. Helen vows not to wait again.
Helen, a ten year old, nurtured a spring garden planting peas beans corn and tomatoes. Her parents and friends praise the effort and she dreams of hosting a party when grown and to have a large garden as an adult. Bessie Hutchison, age 14, 1346 Sherman Street.
Ten year old Helen Rhode, eager to assist her mother, offers to help plant the garden as April 13, a Good Friday, approaches. Her mother, tired from hard work, agrees to welcome the helping hand and teach her tasks that day.
Helen asks for a garden and receives a plot under an old apple tree. She plants onions, radishes, lettuce, then flowers. She tends blooms for sick neighbors but shrugs daily weed pulling, and the garden becomes overgrown and dies. Naomi Evans, 11, West Liberty, Iowa.
John age 15 and his brother Tom age 23 built a 10 by 20 foot raft with a small cabin and set off from a family farm toward New Orleans 200 miles away. They paddled through the night, faced a near collision, and arrived at 4 PM completing John’s first river journey reported by Ingrahm of Muscatine Iowa.
Mr Brown invites Mrs Smith and their children on a trip to Fairport by boat. The party bakes provisions, rides to the town, enjoys candy lunch on board, visits an aunt, has dinner, and spends two weeks at the park before returning home. Alma Blakeslee, Fulham Ave Muscatine Iowa.
Eight year old twins Willie and Madge from a rich urban family visit the seashore with their father. They enjoy warm water, colorful swim suits, and sand castles before a large wave drenches Willie. The outing ends as the father must return for business.
Eight year old Wilma Croxen of Atalissa Iowa recounts Helen a dark eyed girl who asks for a personal garden. Friends provide seeds including pansies pop pies and pinks. Helen tends the blooms for two to three months and shares them with friends and her grandmother while passing through the woods to deliver baskets.
Four year old Helen asks to start a garden this spring and her mother approves. She buys seeds with money given, plants them, waters, and waits as buds appear next month. By summer the garden is full of flowers showing Helen earned her own garden.
Harold Rummells aged 11 from Nichols Iowa tells how on a sunny day the Red Clover drifted from its moorings and ran aground on rocks. He escaped by swimming ashore but lost his beloved boat in the wreck.
A young girl named Helen plans and plants a twenty by ten foot garden dubbed Helen's garden. With forty cents she buys eight seed packets four flower and four vegetable and has her papa prepare the soil. She plants carnations pinks pansies sweet peas onions radishes peas and lettuce in neat rows and monitors the sprouts daily until cousins visit.
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