The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 84

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR'- SUNDAY MORNING JULY 21 1 935 SPECIAL PAGE FOR JUNIOR JUNIORS Ralph Likes pioneers Who Settled Here Paee Eight Bears Enjoy Celebration On Gala Day Our Junior Junior artists win many points this week with their fine drawings We are glad to notice that more boys and girls in the younger group are submitting drawings While we can use but one two each week the development is worth a lot and we arelsiire you will all profit by trying Page Ralph Riser 8 again won first place with Page Ralph Barrachyghr7Tyinning honorable mention for his work Indmpfeotterv Worth Studying I likehe pioneers because they were the people who founded Salt Lake City where I liye If it fdr them I might not be living here now The pioneers lived in a way far different from our modern way of living They had to eat the weeds that grew in the fields Many times the Indians bothered them Sometimes they scalped the pioneers When the pioneers crossed the they traveled in covered a wagons Sometimes the'jSeople got sick and died They tVould bury them on the plaitts storms canie tod The suffered a lot On July 24 they came to Salt? Lake valley Brigham Young said is the sp they stopped here That is why we celebrate the 24th oi July why people shoot firecrackers on Pioneer day It seems to me that this is a day for honoring the pioneers and jjaot for shooting firecrackers PAGE'RALPH BARRACLOUGH 7 Salt Lake City AkSTORY My story' about two little tugirls Bfetfw'-arid Jane were their names yhey traveled in a covered wagon Across thfe'tireary plains One night they wandered away from camp Some fuel for' the fire to Vv bring A narrow shot from an Indian V' bow Close past them did sing They turned and started on the run' Back to camp they did flee AnAas they ldoked around in fear Several Indians they did see They freaclieclthe campcall out of breath And told of their great fright And every man with gun in hand Guarded the camp that night JEAN SCORUP 9 1 Covered Wagon asked Dicky Bear covered wagons are big things with four wheels and people ride in explained Father Bear said Dicky heard Someone say it would soon be Covered Wagon Days nd there would be a big Just then Ted came to the door and asked Dicky to come out and play Dicky told Ted what he had heard and the two little bears decided to go and see the parade when it came The next morning Dicky and Ted hid themselves behind some bushes in the park They jumped for joy when they saw the band and the covered wagons pass along the road By and by the people began going into a big building across the rpad from the parkA? soon everyone was inside Dicky1 and Ted crawled out of their hiding 4lace and began to look around At last they came to a merry-go-round wonder what this said Ted as he climbed onto one of the horses Dicky began snooping around At last he pushed on something and the merry-go-round started going Dicky tried to stop it but it only went faster and faster Poor little Ted was holding on with all his might and screaming for Dicky to stop the merry-go-round The man who owned the merry-go-round came running and shouting but the merry-go-round was going around so fast he get near it Just then Dicky jerked on something and the merry-go-round stopped so quickly that Ted was thrown from the horse and went rolling on the ground Both bears started to run with the crowd at their heels At last they came to a turn in the road and saw some bushes They hid behind these and the people ran right past As soon as the crowd had passed the two little bears crawled out and ran as fast as their legs could carry them They did not stop until they reached home JEAN SCORUP Age 9 Salina JULY July is the month for firecrackers They pop they pop they pop pop pop! We have cake and candy and ice We eat and eat and hate to 1 stop NELDA CRAPO 9 Roosevelt Arleen Writes of Her ISraifSbarents ki ln 1847 my great-grandparents Were converted to Mormonism They were living in England at this time dnd get to America they saved ait (heir money so they could come hete Onthe-way over my great-grand- mother took sick and died She was buried at sea This left my grand- father who was only 6 years old motherless When they arrived in the east my grandfather had to work in a tobacco mill for 'living He worked 12 hours a day and got very small wages In 1852 they left for Nauvoo and when they arrived there they had only enoughmoney to buy one wagon and ox team- When all the provisions weref jlkcked in there was no room for the children so my grandfatheryalked across the -i plains when hmWSSonly 8 years old When they got to the Platte river the melting snow had swelled the waters so that when the oxen got into the stream- they were turned around and floated down stream bn- tU they got lodged on a sandbar With much effort the family finally reached the other shore -s Elpally they arrived in Salt Lake Valley They stayed for a few years and then moved on to Clover a small town In Tobele county They were jivlng there when the Indians went on the warpath and were Jsr dangerous the white people hadj ttf'! move to Salt Lake City until they i quieted down When grandfather was 14 yeardrw old he took the wagon and team and went with a company to bring i emigrants from Mlsaouri to Salt Lake City He went again In 1860 thus having made the whole trip thri timM three times Layton ARLEEN TANNER THE HAND CART COMPANY Some must push and some must pull-Some must tyalk and some -must ride For their loadi were very full And all the others had to stride Across the plains they had to go Across the hills high and low And over the icy Then all would shiver Many many miles to go We who live here in the west have an excellent opportunity to study aboutt he Indians who roamed this country many years ago We have found many Interesting things that'jtejl us something about how they lived -My cousin has a strip of farm land In 'the southern part of Arizona This 'land has been under cultivation for many years Every time he plows this land various kinds of Indian relics are uncovered He finds stones such as they used for grindlng corn-' Indian axes and little animals carved from stone One day while he was plowing he bet -the plow so it would plow Very ddep(4l the earth turned over he sawp dark object He knew it a rock because It was hollow at one end He got off the plow and went back to see what it was He picked it up and carefully brushed off the soil To his surprise he was hold- ing a piece of Indian pottery which the Indians called an ouja To us it is a large vase This vase Is made of red clay -The' Indians' baked it so It 'would hold water The' baking turned It to a dark brown! It is large enough to bold twogallonsof water Its base 1b two Inches In diameter growing wider to about 10 inches It Is very symmetrical in form This adds much to its beauty The Tn-dians decorated the outside by wrapping bark around it end up over it before baking it With the crude tools the Indians had-16 work with we wonder how they could make a vase so beautiful andaymetrlcAL Mother admired hls yaaa pa much that my cousin fcaVe'lt to her We have it now with other Indian relics we have found EAGER 11 Mammoth 4 More than 6000 men and women entered the recent cross-country run from Potsdam to Berlin The Central government of China has assumed practically complete control of bank-note issues Americans have discovered an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine In Sinai Before they reached the valley So many of them suffered so But think of it they still were chappy MARIE BORGESON 9 Santaquin Salina Tn thousand children opened postoffice bank accounts in England in May electrical exhibition In the fall will be the largest ever held In Australia jj 1 Is -to be produced in a large factory at Adelaide Australia from salt recovered from sea water.