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A Scare (GRADE 5)

Louis Schroeder

One night last week about midnight, when we were all in bed, there came a rap on the door. My father got up to see what it was. He opened the door and looked all around but couldn't see anything. My sister's pocketbook lay on the table.

All of a sudden the rap came on the back door. My father went to see who it was. When he got there nobody was there. So he closed and locked the door. He went in to lock the front door. To his horror he found the door wide open and my sister's purse gone.

The next morning we heard about three other robberies around the town. About a month later they found the men who did it. They were arrested and sent to prison.

A Fishing Trip(GRADE 6)

Douglas Schnorr

One nice day last summer my father and I decided to go fishing. We left early in the morning, crossing over Niagara River on the ferry.

We stopped at a fisherman's shanty on the river and bought a pail of minnows. With these, our fishing tackle and lunch, we started up the river to an old ship yard. The docks and ships were falling apart. The fish like to stay around the old piling and sunken ships. We fished for a while but caught nothing. Then I wandered around into different spots. Finally I dropped my line right into a school of perch. I called my father and he came running. Between us we caught over thirty perch in less than a half hour. Of course my father caught the most. In the excitement the lunch blew into the river, as we had just about started to eat when I found the school of fish. The sea gulls happened to be very plentiful at this point. Soon they ate the lunch, we ate the fish and everybody was happy.

Sulphur (FIRST YEAR)

Lily Drewitt

Sulphur is a very important mineral product of the south. Louisiana and Texas are the leading states for sulphur. It is important in making things white. Sulphur makes pages of books pure what and also makes sugar white. The farmer also uses it in fertilizer. It is used in liguids for the sparying of the trees and plants to kill the insects on them. There are many rubber thanks made from sulphur too. In order to get the sulphur to the surface men bore deep wells into whcih they force hot water. This melts the fulphur. Then they use compressed air to drive the melted sulphur up throught pipes to the surface. When it cools it forms into hard yellow rocks. Workmen will then blast the sulphur rock. Then the big steam shovel will pick up the pieces and drop them in freight cars which are waiting for loads. These will carry them to manufacturing cities in differnt parts of the United States.