The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-09-17
AGAIN HEARD FROM.
"Tommie" Writes Another Very Inter.
esting Letter to His Grandma.

esting Letter to His Grandpa
Dear Grardpa l ann done started to |
school now and 1 don't have no time
hardly to do anything but play a little |
and dive our COW and get my lessons
when l come home. | have got new
teacher and sometimes I don't know
whether like her or not she is so strict.
don't go to Commerce street now for
they has divided it this year, AMI have
TO go to the High..School, but our room
is over top of the grown ones and we
have principal all to ourselves and papa
says she is just as good .one as any of
them, and papa says ours is just the odds
and ends department, nit
We had II whole lot Of things here this
summer and ] went to everything most
hut the circus and 1 would heap rather
been there than all the others put to-
gether. hate old parades, for you just
want to go bRder than ever Papa said
tc me you can't go sir, do you hear me?
and know they amt no use to think any
more when The says it that Il way. He
said them kind of things was disrepute or
something of that sort, and they didn't
wear any clothes hardly and said ugly
words and always made people feel bad
and the more you go the more you want
to go, but.if that is. the way he feels l
recond must take after you, grandpa, or
somebody else, for the more l didn't 20
the more l wanted to went to it, and l
just set an thunked and thunked all day
about it, cause L was afraid they never
would any more shows come to Roanoke
any more DO you think they ever will
any more come, grandpa?
went to the picnics, the one papas
church had ard the one mana's church
had. They is IL whole lot of boys who
didn't get to but one and they says they
wishes they parents was separated so
they could 20 to two picnics like do
Mama'S was the best one cause they
was a heap more watermelon to eat ut
hers
wish winter would come so I could
get shoes and cap and coast on Word
street for they is fixed it just as nice now
and it is just steep enough to coast good
and they amt no stepping stones nor any
thing to bother now, and the new lectric
| light they put where the old one was
makes it just as light as day all the time
The police comes by here now some
times on they bicycles at night cause the
light is so good they Amt afraid They
is patching the sidewalks and the doctor
is done built II new stable for his horse
and everything is getting fixed up. but
the air is terrible foul out ON our front
porch after supper caus Uncle Henry
pigs amt dead yet.
Everybody likes to live up here cause
they is good people and nice neighbors
and they is never no empty house on
| Word street and they is not too close to-
| getheI either.
They is more people stays In the Terry
building and Peach and Honey then any
where else. One is settled horizontal and
the other perpendicular and they is Just
| full of people. They is the first ones to
know if anything happens and if any
thing starts up they know all about it fore
it starts and they runs everything that is
run in the city. 1t is the biggest place
you ever did see grandpa but can't tell
you any more now. Mama gave two cents
to mail this letter and am going to do
like our cook does, just put one cent Oh
and send it and buy chewing gum
with the other cent cause dom t care who
sees this do you grandpa?
Save all your tobacco tags for me; got
nearly five hundred now
Your grand son,
TOMMIE.
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