Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-15
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Ledger Carrier ON the Pacific sIoDt
Something for the Boys 20 Read.

Ledger Carrier ON the Pacific sIope
something for the Boys TO Read.
To the Editor Of the Ledger:
DEAR SIR-Some few years ago. YOU
will remember, | came in the Ledger
Office, when | saw so many little boys
getting the Ledger to sell, and having
no check or nickels to get the papers
with, you seeing how bad / felt, sold me
four on credit, and / can feel yet what
happy boy you had made of me, for
although / was only four years old, | felt
that that was a start for me, and l went
out and sold the four Ledgers and re.
turned TO your office as Happy as any
successful enterprise could make boy.
and paid you for the four Ledgers, and
with the profit | had made | bought four
more Ledgers, and kept it up that way
the first day in business until / made
twenty cents clear profit. This gave me
start, and every day after that bought
and sold the evening Ledger around the
corner of Madison and Main streets and
in the vestibule of the Peabody Hotel.
all the time under the watchful eye and
care Of my pa, until made thirty-three
dollars, mostly in nickels. Many of nv
friends will remember hearing me, in my
odd way, trying to call out, Here's the
evening LEDGER" as | would run, as if
for dear life, for the Peabody to sell nv
papers before the larger boys got there.
thought great deal Of nickel, and |
thought pa might let me spend them all
with Charlie Howard for soda water and
other sweet things he had, but he watched
over me, and would let me spend some
Of his nickels, but those / made when 40
young he would take care Of to invest
for me in something that would pay me
we'll when grew to be q man. thought
it very hard for him to keep me from
spending my nickels with Charlie How
ard, but if he had | would not have them
now to invest Many Of the little Led
ger boys that knew me then will read
this letter and use it as a means of a
quick sale to sell the Ledger to nv
friends that knew me then, and saw:
Willie Toler has turned up on the
plains of California. One will ask
" What has he done with his nickels he
made selling the Ledger2" will tell
you. When pa was first coming to Cali
fornia was afraid if / kept my nickels
out at our residence the robbers would
come and steal them while he was zone
to California, and | got stocking from
my poor ma, who told me not to lose any
Of them; that pa would invest them for
me in California. SO tied them up Sc.
curely and told pa to give them to Ger.
tain friend there TO keep for ne in his
safe. He took them and gave them to
my friend and he has them now in his
safe keeping for me and l have sent an
order for them to be sent to me, and as soon
as they come and invest them will |
write you aud tell you who the friend is
there that has kept them so we'll for me
that the other Ledger boys may leave
their nickels with him to keep for them.
and also tell you what / invest my nick.
els in and make an annual report.for the |
Ledger until am tweuty.pne years old |
of the progress make toward the for, |
tune that | have started out to make |
with nickels made when four years old |
selling the evening Ledger. t
Yours truly,
WILLIE H, TOLER,
Los Tunas de Santiago, California,
September l., 1876 |