The Atlanta constitution., 1900-07-09
JUNIOR CORRESPONDENCE.


Clarence Martin. Septus. s. C.-Deir
Junior: I am seven years old. have two
brothers and one sister. 1 nave TWO pcs.
a shepherd dog and a colt MY papa Is
a merchant some times l help in the
| store.
Young b. olive. Camden. Miss.-Dear
Junior: Mamma read me your letters
about the baby cottage. i send cents
| for IL / have been TO school Tour
! months 1 am I'm the third reader. loth
my grandpas and one grandma came from
! Georgia ] am eight years Ola.
Travis Harrison. Glover. Ala--Here
come a little boy eleven years old. MY
papa is a subscriber to The Constitution.
/ love very much to read the little cous-
| ins' letters VIII say that Uncle Bill Arp 5
/ wife is esi, years old. Uncle Bill was =
| when she was IL. times Ia Is =, ana ne
! Is Il. the oldest IL he be a.. AS nave
never written letter 10 any paper be-
| fore Will close.
Clara B. Minis, Caledonia Ala-Dear
Junior: | think your society is very nlce'
and hope Il will stop the people from
/ killing the dear little birds Oh. how l
| dislike to see the boys going round Win
| their pop guis killing birds. YES L
want TO join this society and pledge to
Il am a little fatherless girl, thirteen
I wears old / have three brothers and one
sister. all younger than myself. we h'e
in the country with our grandpapa.
Lillian Bissett. Goliad. Tex-Dear Ju-
nior: L am twelve years old. live ten
| miles from Goliad. the place where Fan
min and his army were murdered oy the
| Mexicans The old town where they were
| murdered IS on the west bank OF the san
Antonio river, and is called La Bahi. some
| MeNicans live there yet. They have dark
| complexion, black straight hair; they are
I a thieving filthy race of people Ihis as
I a farming and stock raising country.
Alice McLeroy. Eros. La--Dear Junior:
As l have never seen any letters from
! this portion of our country. l Will be
| the first to write. l am eight years o'd
! and have never been To but one school'
but l am going 20 he smart ana Iedr.
/ fast 50 l can be usetnl ana lhteileenl
like Aunt Susie. am VISITING my COUSIN,
/ send : cents for you to use for the lit
tie girl that got stung by the kissing Dug
| John I. S,mms.-Dear Junior: Please
rut mine and mamma's names In your
I Bird Lovers Society. II you could just
hear our lovely mocking birds singing IN
I Ia trees YOU would not wonder that We
I love them so we'll. Mamma thinks they
I sing for her nearly all day. and IL reaiy
I seems that they come 10 me wherever ]
go. II 1 go TO the orchard. they s.hs
/ there: II | go to the ginhouse. they sing
there. ANA last year tod mamma that
they met me at the well on top OF thS
I hin when 1 came from plOwing. VIII SEND
long list this summer.
Pattse V. Butcher. Ruthville. Tenn
Dear Junior: VIII Aunt Susie please
make room for a little blue-eyed Tennessee
girl? I live I'm the country. Father is
farmer. He sold dry goods twenty years
4 and became tired and bought farm.
We take The Constitution. ! like 10 read
.sE.~ tfsa al "a nnf
I their pets. I have three little kittens and
Z our old cat and little sorrel horse.
L Father gave him 20 me. His name is
Bill.
Adele Clayton. Peacock. Fla.-Dcar
I Junior: ! am a little girl eleven years of
age. NV papa is farmer. He takes The
T Constitution and ! enjoy reading Il very
much Grandmother has clock that mas
been keeping good time siXtyfive years ana
! she has an oven that she baked bread
Z in fifty years ago. Both are good yet.
I Can any OF the cousins tell OF such good
old things? Ny papa bought ia nice
E parlor organ. My sister. Pearl. and can
T play right well. We are very fond OF
I music and papa will get us teacher be-
I fore long We have twenty pretty sos-
f linEs and thov look 50 cute and tired COM
I ing uD every evening.
! Birdie Houston and Nina Kelley. Pha-
/ lia- Miss-Dear Junior: Here comes two
] l-itle country cou-ins rapping for admis-
I sion into this happy band. There is
railroad being built from Roscdale. the
4 county seat Of Bolivar. 10 the main line
I at Boyies, passes near our home. runs
I through Phalia. our country pOstoftice.
Z which promises to be a city in the near
I future. Birdie is eleven years old and
Nina ten. We each have pet cat Inc
Junior letters are always read first, with
E the exception Of Aunt Susie's. As this is
Z our first attempt wS will close for fear of
the waste basket.
Richard. Edward and Maud Lamb.
Berkeley. Ala.-Dear Junior: Here comes
three little strangers TO join your happy
band of cousins. Papa is 4 farmer. We
raise cotton. corn. potatoes and all kinds
4 of vegetables. Have no pets but two
( l'tile kittens. Our ages are thirteen.
eleven ami six. We are not going to
. school now. We 'ove 10 go to school very
I much. As this Is our first attempt TO
write. we hope Aunt Susie Will think IL
. worthy OF printing. With love to Aunt
Susie and the cousins.
Louis Lindsey. Texanna, l. T.-Dear
Junior: 4 have been reading so many
nice letters / thought I would write one.
I I live with my grandma. i have five
brothers and two sisters. / have little
/ brother named after Henry W. Grady.
I lie was great man OF the south ana
( well known bV everybody. | Ike horse
T back riding very much. Don't you cousins
think II is nice for US 10 have a corner In
/ what you wrote last week about the Bird
/ Lovers Society. I think IL is wrong to
{ Kill the little innocent creatures. 1 would
Ike to have Aunt Susie's picture. We
! have good Sunday school down here.
| 7 would like few correspondents about
I my age-thlrteen.
Ross L Moore, Fannville. n. C.-Dear
Junior: I have just been reading the nice
letters from the juniors. and thought l
would write one. / am little girl four
teen years of age. go To school at home.
/ sIy school closed the 9Th. We had COM
I nencemeaf on the 9Th and an address by
Professor Joseph Kinsey. principal of kin-
I sey seminary. Wilson, y. c., on the 1tn.
I My father died when / was six years Old.
4 Ny mother Is living. She is postmstress
I and a seamstress. My sister is telephone
operator and assistant postmaster. | help
J them with the office and telephone. /
have a beautiful mocl<ing bird; he sings
. beautifully.
/ Edna Jacobs. Culiasaga, Macon County,
y. C.-Dear Junior; l am an Alabama girl
nine years old. My home is I'm Admission.
l left home May 2oth and came by Rome
and Chattanooga. Knoxville and Morris
/ town. Tenn. At the latter place visited
! my only great aunt. who is most blind:
! then / came to Ashevi,le and Weaverville.
~. C.A-I visited some relatives there: then