The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-16

Your happy band OF boys and girls. Re.
rin ana sas o5 hug store. a dry, goods store,
school at Richland Springs. WAS so sorry
s ial the school was out ! was In the
s Stse'G s,s aud Ssm eighth b grades; have
our next contest Will be; why Could Such
thee eT e, Texans w Whip 50 Many Mexlcans N
ing q question: What law ala the south.
ern states rebel against In the civil wari
hopihg TO be enrolled as new Hap,
A. j. Lindsey
Victoria, Texas Dear Haphammer: VIII
vow your ebn nnny (. Mttle boy years oil Into
Post Tor humber o. y Years nS and pf mamma nn
reads the Hans page 10 me I'm ALWAYS
sbsI for Sunday TO come so | can hear
tncm' Will tell you about my pets
have three white rabbits, one little black
Mother aud Bass o Si 6lscS pS E Sst nv
My soRoo 'y Win me Re d Mfr n, PsnS last + y N0 E.
month and win he glad. as It's too hot
TO 50 to school now Some Of you dreamers
aleam again plesse luclosed md 10 cents
Hap, wocdson Fearing Heath.
| have written three times before and have
! never seen any Of my letter In print, so !
thought | would write again, The contest
their fisSt psme aus' think 0f tbey shout
| Sign their own names II they are not
ashamed of their letters or their names;
enjoy reading the Haps' page very much
| and hnd II very Interesting. | am glad
! that May won In the last contest We'll.
TOO too My age age is s" Il With love to ali tbs
Haps and to Mrs Foster ! VIII close,
Gall Texas. Dear Haphammer; Good
morning, Haps, have come to chat Win
you for few minutes, as have never
Mfttep before. ! read a letter IN The
Post from q little girl by. the name o.
Grace kincatd aud AZ that is my name,
objections, l would like very much TO o, r
respond with her. although am not mueh
Of a letter writer have not heen TO-
y years Old and that Is the time ought
20 be IN school ! guess will go TINS
year We I've eight miles from Gall
don't 60 to Gail very often, but my big
sisters 20 pretty often, and my little
sister and / have to stay at home and
milk Well, ! had better, close new
Sealy, Texas,-Dear Hnphammer' could
never pick up courage enough to write 10
the dear old Post. we have been taking
IL ever since ! can remember. II Is always
| great pleasure TO me IN vacation; MY
little brother wants. 10 Join your HAPPY
band Of boys and girls. He Ia years old
His name Is Wick Boyd. | wish some of
the old members of the club would write
often. While visiting In Brookshire Christ,
mss week | went 20 a woman's house ana
there sat q little boy who was paralyzed
ne can move nothing but his arms aud can
hardly eat I wish when we get the other
crppies chaos we could get him one. His
name Is Milan Benus, So let us make our
! helping fund grow faster. SO come on.
Haps, and send In, your cents, nlckels ana
dimes. agree with Roe Holleman, Your
true Hap, Addle Boyd.
Madsonvine Texas-Dear Haphammer;
Tap, Tap Here comes another little
for some time, but could never get up
courage enough TO write Well, as have
viii try to describe It. We have q fine
court house and high graded school,
and about two dozen stores In all, tour
churches, two blacksmith shops, two gins.
The population Is about 5000. Flossie Wal
ston, what is your papas nAmef is your
grandpnpa's name Allen Walstonj II so,
your papa and my mama are nrst
cousins Mamma was a Walston before
she was married. ilaps don't you az
think ! have written enOughf | do, 80
- Wv Lizzie orrick.
o'oulnn, Texas; Dear Haphammer; Here
TO Join your happy band OF boys and girls
! have been watching the. Haps' page for
over year, but never had courage enough
and have plenty Of work to do ! have
been chopplng cotton since school stopped
we nave plebn ry 81 po1l weeyi mere. I itaif
We have plenty OF boil weevil here, There
two weeks and i Is raining little righI
the oil wells In Beaumont is n pretty one
Everybody up here has the oil craze, too
OH is all the go now. have i've brothers
ing this letter. ] am II years old ant
have gone, to school four years ! vii
close, as this Is the first letter | wrote
, With love to all the Haps and Mrs. Eos
ter. Thomas Melcher.
Buhnrde, Texas--near Haphsmmer,; VII
! you 9dmlt another another, l4oyear,oli FIJI Int,
father has been reading The Houston
Pest about, year and | enjoy the Hap
eoSnry rf the 80 nearest city being New Braun
, feis about eighteen miles from here the
next is San Antonio Twenty-Five miles OF
al my studies Our school Is very uea
our house. for my father is the teacher
! tho he fields looked when iookei down
One Is Hight green, another a little darke
J and a third not plowed and these all lai
makes them look most beautiful from .
high a point Of view Well Haps, as thl
is nv hrst letter | viii bring II IN
3; close. With love 10 all the Haps. ] remain
$ a new Hap, Henrietta Juergens
q Dryer, Texas.-Dear Haphammer ] sur
= ! nose o great many Of YOU older member
= saw a short notice In The Post ~
: thar read thus. Child Accidentally Killed
= sinner. Texas, May 14.-Bv the Academia
il discharge Of a shotgun, Mary, the O.Eeal
cid daughter Of Alfred Richardson. Twin
near Dryer, Gonzales county. was shot nm
fatally wounded last night, dying I'M
morning at S o'clock" That was enc {
9 ~onr Happyhsmmers. She Joined last yea
e when Won were casting your votes-"shoul
u NVnt,1en Vote" She was known In you
?, hand as Dulcy; that Inns been her ~
! Daine nil through her life. but her re-
). name Ig Mary Vida Richardson. She va
e i,,,ried Wednesday morDiug. May 70.
!, Tfochheim. Her little grave was surroun'
Y 81 hv mnny friends and loved ones, and e
y Ds,datlv her Schoolmntes. All came wit
hcnJs and baskets OF choiccsS Hover
which she priced so much while alive
shn has some very dear friends living
inuston AZ her parents moved from thei
II feN wears ago back 70 their nrst non
y near Sbiner Nrl''en W f'"u
q snlvey. Texas.-Dear Hapnammer; Art
y a., absence OF some time J VIII call aga
1, Tor short chat. Yes. ! think that eve
% | Han should sign their true names 10 the
J. | istfers II would be much better IN eve
Z 80 r very one would know then ~
"a Ns'sf uTQ reading. aQO